Now that I've gotten tournaments out of the way for a few months, I can focus more on working on some of the leaks in my cash game.  My win rate this month is around 2ptbb, which is a little low.  I'm not sure if playing tournaments simultaneously is negatively affecting my game, or the table conditions have worsened, or it's just variance, or I suck, or some combination of all of the above.

We're trying to decide of we want to take G to Disney World for his Spring Break in April.  We would have to leave D with his grandmother and aunt - otherwise, everyone will be miserable.  How someone so cute can be so aggravatingly loud is just unbelievable - I was talking about D, not Mrs. Fly.  Two and a half years ago, we took G to Disney World when he was a little under 4 and that was the most miserable vacation I ever went on.  We went with the intention of buying a time share in Animal Kingdom, but after that horrific experience we decided not to.  To this day, I have no idea how a little kid could not like Disney World - all he wanted to do was stay in the hotel room.  Anyway, since then we decided to just take the kids on short road trips until they got to be like 5.  G is 6.5, so this has been long overdue.

The room rates seem pretty reasonable - a night at Animal Kingdom with a savannah view is only $250.  Some friends of ours are going as well, so that should make for a better time.  Mrs. Fly is giving me a day off, so maybe I'll play some poker outside with my glass of wine, watching the animals walk by the balcony.

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The subject of hand discussion has come up a few times recently. A bunch of regulars started a facebook hand discussion group. The mid-high stakes full ring forum has had problems getting good hand discussions going. I enjoy hand discussion as much as the next person, but I find them to be not as useful above small stakes (up to $1/$2 blinds). This is because the hands are so opponent and game flow dependent, and usually not enough information is presented about the hero and villain to make an adequate determination.  Small stakes and below, people still make fundamental errors, so hand analysis can be more useful.

Also, I'm a big believer of randomizing plays.  Frequently in hand discussions, people will say something like "that is never a bluff," or "villain's not representing anything, so it must be a bluff."  I would argue that those are the best situations to bluff or bet for value (respectively).  I vaguely remember some high stakes pro saying that there is always only one right play for a given situation.  This may be true, but you never want to be predictable - that just turns your hand face up, which is never a good thing.  Anyway, if people are balancing their ranges well, it makes hand discussion that much more difficult.