Nomad

Can't believe the last blog was 24th June! I work myself silly every day and by the evening I can't bring myself to write. I really need to start doing it more often as blogging is a great release.

So...

I've been keeping things pretty quiet, partying less and working more and trying to get fit. Work is going really well, I'm meeting some great new poker players and am excited about working with them all.

Have also played poker the last couple of weeks at the regular Rileys game. The structure is the best I've played at 'crapshoot' stakes and allows for quite a bit of play. I managed to bubble the money 2 weeks ago and came third this past Saturday. The play is SO bad and its fun to just pwn them. The only thing is the poker talk, as stated in my last blog. This time I took my Bose headphones and just shut them off, ignoring anything they said!

Here is the hand that knocked me out a couple of weeks ago. I raised KQo on the button and the SB, a total station, calls. Flop comes Kx 2s 4 and he insta ships over 2 times the pot having me just covered. I know I'm always good here and snap call. He has 9s5s and binks the spade on the turn.

Afterwards he tries to explain 'I had the flush draw, I had to go with it' (ARGH I HATE THIS BASIC POKER TALK) to which I said, fair enough, but the better play would be to CRAI (surely? I mean if you decide to commit with a FD there you might as well give me a chance to C-bet with air which I nearly always do and then shove. Stacks are deep enough I can fold. His play means I only call with a good hand?). He and a couple of the other players laugh saying if I play like that I'm always gonna lose.

This week was better. Players were spewing left and right but I never made a hand until about half way when I made quads and got paid of with top pair no kicker. I then pushed hard and got unlucky in one big pot (can't remember how) but still managed a third. Almost played cash with them afterwards as it's so tempting and I had no plans that evening, but I've never liked playing cash after winning money in a tournament. I feel good for winning and losing it feels even worse. Maybe next week I'll go play cash instead. I might go play the Deja Vu cash game this week at some point (maybe tonight?) but we'll see.

Things are taking shape for the PokerIdol Malta Madness. I'm in the process of picking an official media partner from the UK and have some great options. I went to London last Thursday to meet with GX and Bluff magazines. Both mags have great guys working for them and it was brilliant meeting with them. Now comes the hard part of choosing, which luckily isn't my choice.

After meeting the mags I hooked up with a music enthusiast I met on last.fm and we chatted about music and general life. Had a great time and the minutes flew. She is really talented and I'm certain she's going to be a huge creative success. Hope to see more of her in the future!

I then rushed back to Reading for a date which went well, albeit we got a little too drunk. She is beautiful and funny but as always time will tell.

My family have bought a 55inch 3D-LCD which will be fun when there is actually 3D to watch. Last night we watched '2012' on Blue Ray and I actually didn't like the quality, it was too good! It looked like a cheap TV movie it was so clear. I guess I'm a little sucker for analogue technology still.

Ok well tonight I will hit the gym again and then maybe play some poker. It's mostly an annoying bunch but I'll take the Bose again and cocoon myself.

Thanks again for reading.