At the moment with moving house, I haven’t had much chance to play much poker online.  So when a friend said he was having a poker night round his, I thought I would pop round and get in on the action.  It was a tournament, with last 2 people being paid out, with 10 people to start and £10 buy-in, it was looking like a nice pot of money to take home.  I didn’t win; I came 5^th, with no re-buys.  Which I thought was really good.  I went out when the flop was 666 and I was holding A9 suited.  Unlucky for me, the other guy was holding pocket 2’s and non of my over cards came out. 

Some poker news though is that one of the other sites I help run is using some of my poker reviews for their new launch.  Well it is my brother after all.  He has been sorting out getting the content together and putting it online (copying and pasting my reviews) what a cheek.  Pop over and have a look at www.ukpokerreview.co.uk let me know what you think.  The new site is much better and will also offer competitions in collaboration with some of the top poker rooms.  And don’t forget that the site also offers some of the best sign up bonus amounts you can find online; which we have been able to offer in conjunction with the poker rooms.  The final amounts and rules for the bonuses are all decided by the poker room you sign up to though and are not controlled by ukpoekrreview.co.uk

I finally escaped from the boring job that I started in April.  I was recently offered a new job working for another company based right by Liverpool Street train station in London.  I wasn’t supposed to start until July, but the current job decided that they will let me leave early (oh how kind).  Which at first I thought woo hoo, but then realised that I can’t afford to be out of a job for 2 weeks; so I called my new place up and they are now letting me start on Wednesday next week.  My current job also agreed to pay me up until then, which is fine by me.  It means that I will no longer have to go in to work and sit and stare at the wall. 

While in my old job last week, I was asking for work to do every day, but they were not giving me anything to do.  I thought fine, if they don’t have anything for me to do then I will just go online and wander the web for a while.  But oh no, I wasn’t allowed to do that as it wasn’t fair to other people who had lots of work to do.  So one of the Managers said to me, “I’ll find something for you, as we can’t have you sat online all day doing nothing”, my reply was “That’s fantastic, I would prefer to have some work than wander the web all day”.  She then had a go at me, telling me not to be so flippant and argumentative.  What an idiot she was, I hope never to have to work with her ever again.  If she ever became a manager of me again I would look at leaving, but it isn’t going to happen. 

My new place seems really cool and a really good bunch of people to work with.  The cool thing is on Wednesday, I don’t have to start until 10am, but after that it will be 8.30 start until 5.30, but I don’t mind as long as there is plenty of work to do and the people are nice. I will be back in a few days I hope telling you how fab it is.  Until then I will probably be decorating in the house a bit more.

I have decided this week that I am going to quit the Gym. I have not been for a few months now and as I have just bought a new house also, I have decided that I can spend my time working out in my house. The amount of times I have walked up and down ladders and also the stairs in the house to fetch things has is more of a workout that I would do down the Gym. I have decided also that I can spend the money each month on better things like TV and Poker, oh and maybe a bit on D.I.Y.

The gym progress is short lived I know, but hey, I don’t have to escape the out laws house and can now chill in my own place. That is when Carly isn’t getting me running up and down ladders and stairs…

Well a week ago today I picked up the Keys for our house.  I thought we would spend a few days sorting things out and getting moved in a little bit, but oh no, not Carly.  Carly has had us decorating every room in the house in the past week.  The kitchen, living room, Hall stairs and landing and now a bedroom is all done and decorated.  I am glad to come back to work for a rest.  We now only have 2 bedrooms to do and a bit of tinkering in the bathroom (replace fittings to the bath, sink and toilet), then our bedroom and the office (3^rd bedroom/box room).   

The week started off by realising that all the carpets stank of dog piss.  Upon pulling the carpet up, there were massive stains underneath.  We now have pulled up all the carpet in the living room, hall stairs and landing and the bedrooms.  Plenty of decorating done, which in the living room ended up with us hack sawing the radiator off.  We have a local plumber company coming out to fit it on Thursday, so we will then have hot water and should be able to move in to the property. The only thing left to do then will be to get the carpets down, sofas and dining table delivered.  I might actually then get down to sit and watch a bit of TV that I have recorded using my Virgin Media V+ box.