Monday 20 April 2015

2015 so far...

It's been far too long since I updated this blog, due to an extremely hectic start to the year. I say hectic, I think if I ever got a real job then I'd find out what "hectic" actually means - a poker player's "hectic" is when they have to set an alarm for a midday tournament, and only have 1 hour sitting in bed browsing social media.

Some genuine excuses came from moving house (and country).

We left Barcelona in late January, and lived out of a suitcase until April 1st and am now fully settled in the London.

View from our new flat


I went to Deauville for the EPT which was pretty disastrous. I took a shot in my first EPT hiroller which was encouraging, but yielded no success. Played all side events and main events, and came away penniless.

That was rectified in Nottingham during the Sky UKPC festival. A good run at the cash games and cashes in all three events I played (main event, hiroller and second chance) meant I was out of the hole for the year.

March was all about finding a place to live in London, we stayed in an Air bnb place for that month whilst we got a place sorted. It was extremely stressful (again, poker player "stressful", I imagine) and made me dislike all estate agents, but we were finally sorted.

The new place
Just in time for a little trip to Malta. No good personally, but had a swap with roommate, Keith who won the 2k IPT hiroller for 140k so it was just about a profitable.

I had a period where I got pretty addicted to open face chinese again - playing 8 tables, first thing I did in the mornin, last thing I did before I went to sleep etc. Was pretty bad! I have since successfully gone cold turkey and quit completely and feel much the better for it!

We've settled nicely into the new place. Victoria has a job dealing in the Empire, which she's really enjoying. I've been playing plenty of cash games, and just had a week in Nottingham for the UKIPT, which was great fun as always. The highlight being the 5 a-side football tournament. 8 teams of poker players came from as far north as Scotland and as far south as London for this prestigious event. DTD formed a team and we made it to the final but lost to Tim Chung's Birmingham. Was great fun. Here's a brilliant (if I say so myself) video of the controversial semi final clash with Mad Turk's "Broadway".



Been going through my bi-annual personal crisis of whether poker is the right career for me, thinking about doing something else etc. Hoping this will trigger the same heater that the last one did!

Doubt I'll blog again until after Vegas, I have no trips planned for the next two months so will just be getting my head down and grinding cash, learning russian and getting fit.

Good luck at the tables everyone!