Hello readers (Mum)! Since Vegas I have mostly been pretty unproductive and fallen back into my usual schedule of not doing much at all. I have played some poker. Online has been going well, I've been running extremely good in allins in the last two months which is basically accounting for all my profits as my adjusted winnings are about breakeven. I played a £110 six max live event where I lasted approximately 20 minutes and didn't win a single pot and the £560 UKIPT main event where I lasted six levels or so, busting to a flush over flush with 68cc vs J9cc on 5c7sKcTc. Though this is obviously a cooler, I could have certainly taken a different line, which may or may not have been more optimal. I also played some live cash game sessions which was mostly £1/2 with some £2/5. I lost £200 the first session and £1000 the second session and just when my dislike for live poker was turning to disgust I actually won for once! I played a £1/2 session from 10pm until 9am and managed to ship a nice £2300 profit.
What else has been happening? Yesterday I went to a huge war and peace show at this farm land near Tunbridge Wells which was really interesting. They had battle reenactments and a bazillion different military vehicles on display. One thing I would have liked to see was more information on the different weapons. Although guns are obviously killing machines, many of them are also fantastic pieces of technology which should also be appreciated from that point of view. One funny thing at this show was the amount of Nazi memorabilia for sale. It was all over the place! I can understand the interest in the authentic stuff like the uniform and other kit but they also had nazi mugs and massive flags which swastikas and SS logos on them. Seriously who is buying this stuff except complete wronguns? This actually reminded me I wanted to watch Schindler's List again, which conveniently was on sky movies today.
Talking of movies I have seen a few recently. I'm getting so bored of super hero movies now and it's annoying how saturated the cinema schedules are with them. I saw the Green Lantarn which was fricking awful. One thing you would expect to be good about it was the special affects but even they looked very bad by today's standards. They seemed about ten years out of date. The new X-men film was decent, I really liked Magneto's character in this one. Anyone wanting to see more of the actor, Michael Fassbender, should check out the film Hunger which is very powerful, but you'll probably only want to see it once. The only super hero film I'm looking forward to is the Dark Knight Rises and there's a teaser trailer out for it now which manages to reveal almost nothing but still get you excited. I've also started watching Breaking Bad after few recommendations and so far it's awesome. There's new seasons of Curb and Entourage which are either just out or out soon so loads of good tv to watch.
While not watching films and tv I have decided to need to explore avenues outside of poker a bit and have decided to sign up to a part-time academic course. Now that I have been out of university for over two years I am interested in studying again and the course I have my eye on is journalism. It is 18 weeks and would amount of about one day a week including contact time and completing the required work which I think is good to ease myself into it and have plenty of time to play poker. If I enjoy it I could look to add further modules later on.
I was going to talk about twitter, which I was very sceptical about originally but now really like it but as this blog post is already quite long I will just say follow me @Ted_Maul6.
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