Whaddup

I keep intending to write a blog but have nothing particularly insightful to say so it's gonna be a standard 'update and upcoming plans blog'.  Readers must be excited.

After my 3rd place score in London I have struggled with motivation to play online but grinded out 20k odd hands and made a small profit.  No particularly exciting sessions or hands spring to mind.  It was mostly grinding 2/4 with some 5/10 mixed in.  Again, the games seemed good when they ran though it's annoying to see 'action tables' running at 2/4 and people playing there instead of the regular tables.  I didn't play many online tournaments either.  I continually try the WPT Dublin satellite on Monday nights and never manage to accumulate a stack (except for the time I bubbled it I suppose) so just seem to slowly bleed chips then shove my short stack in a standard spot and lose.  The same can't be said for the monthly PKR 500 where I can't seem to not at least final table it.  I came 5th this month for 3k or so.

In non-poker news I went to Amsterdam last weekend with a few people who don't play poker for a living which was a lot of fun.  The weekend mostly involved eating, drinking and some smoking, with a few touristy activities mixed in.  Amsterdam is a really interesting place, definitely worth visiting.  One negative of the trip was the hotel.  It's hard to describe it without including the words 'shit' and 'hole'.   I was responsible for booking the hotel and chose this one because the location was great and it wasn't very expensive (80 euro a night is pretty cheap in central Amsterdam).  I probably should have paid more attention to the Trip Advisor reviews which mentioned the various things wrong with the hotel.  I'm probably just a bit spoiled from being forunate enough to be able to afford to stay in nicer places (by nicer I mean Travelodge which is a palace compared to this joint)  on poker trips and alike.  I don't know why I'm moaning this much about the hotel as it made little or no difference to the enjoyment of the trip as we spent hardly any time there.

Some stuff coming up is: PKR party this Thursday as a welcome type thing for their new pro, Jake Cody. This involves a free bar but unfortunately I probably shouldn't take full advantage of it as I have to get the train home the same night and be up for a 9am Journalism class on the Friday.  Then on Saturday going to see Spurs v Bolton at White Hart Lane.  We're on a ridiculous run at the moment of nine wins and a draw in last ten Premier League games so hopefully we can keep that going.  Might stay out in London after that as well as it's JJBird's birthday.  Also in a couple of weeks time going to play the £1k event at Dusk till Dawn in Nottingham.  Winning that would be a nice end to the year.

One other thing I want to achieve early in December is doing another 12k hands so that I have a million hands in my HEM database to make a good sample for a long term graph.  So I think when I've achieved that I'll post the graph and add some thoughts about whats happened over that time-span.

Here's a funny video with segments from a DVD commentary by Arnie on Total Recall.  He gives some deep insights into the film.  You got to love Arnie!