2nd straight cash/ growing sick of vegas

I cashed in my 2nd straight wsop tournament to bring my total to 4 on the summer. I took 53rd in the 5k 6max. I was all the way down to 5k in chips from the starting 15k stacks in the first level but managed to make a come back and make the money. I was extremely happy with how I played the entire tournament overall, as I minimized mistakes and got max value out of almost every situation while remaining aggressive. Congrats to Matt hawrilenko on the victory. I played with him the entire day on day one, and watched him be all in 3 times with his tourney life on the line and winning all 3 and being short stacked still going into day 2 and coming out with victory. He played great the whole day I played with him, and he must have continued that trend on day 2 and 3.

My focus now shifts to the main event. I chose to play sunday because my mom and sister will be in town friday through sunday (leaving earlier in the day sunday) and I wanted them to be able to watch me play the main event atleast for a few hours.

As the summer wears on, I am growing increasingly sick of the city. I've said it before, I think its a great place to visit, but I really don't know if I could ever live here. Being in a casino constantly just wears a person's soul down because of the pure fact of what casinos are based on and how they make money. Barring poker players, it seems everyone is only out to get their own dime and doesn't really respect other people or worry about anyone else's fortunes. It's really tough to live in a city like that and find really good-hearted people to meet and talk to on a daily basis. (Again, I think most poker players are an exception and a lot of them are really nice, generous people) The grind of live poker is also starting to get to me because the last few summers I hadn't going deep in every event and I had been busting out early or making a deep run but this summer it feels like I plugged up some leaks in my early game and i've been playing extremely patient so I am lasting long into each day, which is good, but it also puts more stress and wear on you when you play for so long and don't see any rewards.

I'm going to ground up all of the mental energy I have left for the main event, hopefully make something happen, and then ship off to california to settle down and relax for awhile before thinking about poker again. My mind and my body definitely need a break from this lifestyle. I am becoming more and more stressed by the day, and I hate to see it also effect the people around me negatively as well. My girlfriend has been extremely supportive and I hate to see my stress taken out on her sometimes unnecessarily. Being irritable after a tournament bustout is never anything anyone close to a tournament regular wants to deal with, but they put up with us somehow, and probably don't deserve enough credit. I'm in store for a nice long vacation soon enough, and it can't come at a better time. Good luck everyone in the main event!
-TT