Wednesday 5 March 2014

Goodbye Nottingham!

This week marks my last few days as a resident in Nottingham. I moved here in 2008 to attend University and have lived here ever since, but it's time for a change so come Friday, I'll be officially homeless and just living out of a suitcase for the next 6 months! My rough plans for the next 6 months are Macau, Vegas, Barcelona, with various stoppages elsewhere depending on what I fancy. Where I live after that depends on how things go...

It seems right that my last few days have been spent hanging out with my friends and playing live cash games. It's been so much fun. The guys in Gala/ Alea really feel like my Nottingham family. I love going down there and catching up with all of them - they've been there since the start for me and I've shared some great times in cash games there over the past 5/6 years. Probably my favourite guy from there is Ali Ayub, he cracks me up no end and on Monday I had one of the funniest nights of poker I've ever had, getting drunk in a 50/1 cash game with a load of heroes, including Ali who had me in stitches all night.

Living in Nottingham has been a blast. I guess I don't really love it as a city, I'm not particularly attracted to any house / street / restaurant or anything like that. But I love the community in DTD, Gala and Alea that I feel part of and I've met all my closest friends here. I've lived with Stato, Thigh, PJ, Fred travelled all over the world with people I've met here and will certainly continue to do so and this isn't goodbye to any of them.

Last night Keith had us all round for pancakes and then watched / coached as we all grinded online. He decided to play himself and obviously got the lot and was the only winner! I went to Alea and made a bit playing DC. Unfortunately lost chunks tonight at DTD but I feel a good one is on the way in tonight's game...

It's just been a really fun time playing cash games these last couple of weeks, the games have picked up again and I'm definitely leaving hoping to be back soon, rather than leaving happily, which is a really nice feeling.

Not much else has been happening since the UKPC but I felt it'd be remiss of me to not blog about me leaving the country! So it's short and sweet today, I'll leave you with this one meme which just keeps making me chuckle.