Decisions Decisions!

Been back from Australia for just over a week now. Spent a bit of time playing poker, but mainly been having fun with friends, family and Charissa. I read Pot-Limit Omaha Poker by Jeff Hwang and Secrets of Professional Pot-Limit Omaha by Rolf Slotboom while on my travels. PLOP gives a firm grounding in solid Omaha play and certainly gave me a greater knowledge of starting hands and enforced the advantage of position. From this book i learnt which starting hands are playable and why and the fact i should really tighten by in early position. These things i did know, but i dont feel i was putting them into practice. This is something i wish to correct. PPLO was less useful. It has great information on short stacked play and even though i had a quick go using it and lost $30 i can see why this approach would work in the long run. I feel my ability calls for a big stacked approach and this play will improve my play rather than a simple push/fold short stack play. I will however, use it to great effect in tournaments I'm sure. So now im a bit more clued up on Omaha strategy, what now?

I signed up for lucky ace poker to get 6 months free at Stox Poker for their Omaha videos, which i should get in the next few days. I want to finish making notes on PLOP the book and from the 2+2 discussions. I think my main need is to play some poker! When playing NLHE 5/10 cents cash i felt my game had improved from the knowledge i'd gained over the last few months, but i simply need to play more hands. I was planning to buy PT Omaha and PAH to monitor my play, so will be doing that shortly and was going to play on Party Poker. I have now been distracked by BadBeat Poker who provide bankrolls for winning players. This requires you to play on the iPoker network and a minimum of 3000 hands. With that you can get a maximum loss limit of $50 or up to $500 per day, depending on limits/ability etc. So i may in fact play on this network rather than party and see how it goes. Having this extra roll would allow me to maybe move up limits with less restricitons. There is also the Virign Poker festival coming my in London at the end of September, so i am thinking of trying to qualify for that.

So things to do:

Finish my studying of PLOP.
Get access to Stox and start studying the material.
Buy PTO and PAH and get these setup.
Play 3000 hands and apply to Badbeat.
Qualify for Virign Festival.