Vegas to Luton...

So I’ve been back from Vegas for nearly a month and it’s been a bit of a rubbish time, back to reality after 3 weeks of being in Vegas always hits me hard. But after a month of moping about I decided I needed to snap the hell out of it and realise life outside of Vegas really isn’t that bad. :)

Not a huge amount has gone on Poker wise for me this month, I’ve only played 3 times live since my return and a couple of times online.  First live event was down the International for the £200 Freeze out, was still jetlagged, decided that sleeping from 3pm till 2am the night before wasn’t the best idea, not putting me in the right frame of mind so that obviously didn’t turn out well.

Was really looking forward to the GUKPT Luton, initially was going to play the Main event only but they’ve decided to have both starting times on the Friday and I would have only been able to play Thursday.  So thought i’d play the £500 side event only. Looking forward to playing, first time back in Luton since my victory and in the same starting seat... it’s a sign yeh?! Well, only if the sign was ‘don’t bother entering and go home’. I won only one hand the whole two hours I lasted. Ended up getting my 30bb stack in with Ah3h v the guy directly on my left with same stack. Third time he 3bet my open since i sat on the table, 1st time i let him have it and 2nd time he folded to a 4bet from the blinds. This time i shoved and he called with AJ. Pretty bad shove by me in hindsight as i don’t really have any fold equity but having seen him 3bet/fold with the stack previously i thought i could get it through. GG ME!! Always seems to be the case for me, every-time i look forward to playing i have the most miserable Poker Playing experience ever.

I won’t even go in to details of my Poker Playing escapades the day after, far too dull and short lived. Next event in the Poker diary is the English Deepstack in Birmingham but that’s not for another month so sure i’ll pop down to the International at some point for the weekly £100 Freezeout, may play a little online aswell.

An exciting time for me non-poker wise this month, catching up with friends and enjoyed a couple of night’s out. Went to my cousin’s 30th Birthday party the other night, we had to go as the name of a song. Karl and I came up with a good’un that didn’t require a huge amount of effort... take a guess!

Also unbelievably Karl has decided that living with me really isn’t too bad after all and we’re now house-hunting for a place of our own!  All pretty exciting, just in the midst of getting the mortgage sorted, started looking at some houses, found one we really like but unfortunately Karl had difficulty fitting in it. Still searching for that special place (with exceptionally high ceilings).

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