Heading to the beach and keeping perspective…

Tomorrow morning I'm taking a little flight up to Costa Rica to a nice all inclusive resort in Puntarenas, that is going to become even more beautiful when it inhabits a 30+ scandinavian travel group that apparently wanted to include a poker tournament on their Costa Rica itinerary. So, the good folks at PokerHispano.com organized a $1,500 event with a good structure to accommodate the vacationing Norsemen, and posted a $135K guarantee to attract the locals. I hope business and pleasure converge. In any case, I have a lot of friends in CR and it's always good to go back.
Incoming destination:

Last night I decided to play the ultimate donkament for the first time... the $110 Turbo KO on Full Tilt that runs shortly after midnight, where everyone starts with 10 big blinds. The lack of commitment required for this tournament can be very appealing if you have already put in some hours during the day (the tournament gets > 500 runners and takes about 2 hours in total). I was amazed to see how bad some of the folds/shoves/calls were. Despite the structure, or I guess because of it, a person who has a decent understanding of ICM/math/ranges can really have an advantage. Anyways, I must have run gooooot to get to heads up with a 2:1 chip lead. Then I lost a PF All in with AQ vs 33. Then lost the tournament with 99 vs 55 AI PF. I was feeling bitter to have to settle for 2nd place and lose 4K that SHOULD have been mine! (1st ~11K and 2nd ~7K). I got screwed! What can I break!! Hahahahahahaha..... then I came out of my poker battle haze and realized that is absurd to think that I was entitled to 1st prize. How many times in how many ways must I have gotten lucky to get into the endgame of a tournament with this structure. So, I remembered to keep things in perspective... be happy about the way I played and the nice up-tick in profit, and with more volume the wins will come.
Speaking of wins... congrats to my buddy Bolivar "Ramux" Palacios who won the Sunday Warmup. The Panamanians are bringing it