For a number of years now I have played a bit of poker for fun and have a posative ROI. This helps when I write articles for UK Poker Review. We have been doing it as a bit of a hobby, but we are currently looking at a re-design of the site. To help us, we thought we would pop along to the London Affiliate Conference to meet some of the affiliate managers from the different poker rooms and see what they can offer and see what seems to work for other sites. We spoke to a number of people and have some really exciting ideas for the new site once we manage to get the coding done and can put the new content on the site.

888 have rebranded their site which we really like the look of. With a simular logo but different colours for the poker, bingo and betting etc.
Saturday we stayed over in London at the Tower hotel. Was a nice hotel with nice views.
After booking in to the hotel we wandered over to Leicester Square for some dinner. After dinner we then went to meet the Everest Poker guys at their VIP party in the Ruby Room at Jewel. It was really nice to finally put a face to some of the names we have been in contact with and meet some of the team that work in different offices. You all rock and were a good laugh. The party was fab and we had a really good time. Hope to see you all again soon.

Before the night was over, we then headed over to another club for a quick dance and a few more drinks, before walking back to the hotel. Had a really fab weekend. Just a shame every weekend isn’t the same I’d do it all again tomorrow if I could

So it’s been a few weeks since my last update to this might be a long one. A few main things going on at the moment: new puppy called bailey, geocaching and London Affiliate Conference.

The main thing at the moment is the new addition to the house. We have bought a puppy that is a cross Labrador and Malamute. I have attached a picture below. He was 8 weeks old when we picked him up and has been really good. He is loving the snow, but so far we have only been able to let him out the back. Next weekend though we are taking him out for his first ever walk in a country park. Still trying to teach him to fetch – He runs after the ball a bit, but doesn’t yet bring it back. I’m sure he will soon pick up the idea.

I have only been geocaching once so far. This is mainly because I’ve been full of a cold (which I can cope with), but it has also been snowing a lot. While I’m not too fussed by the snow, it is now turning to ice and don’t really want to drive in it of I don’t have too. It’s been enough fun walking to work. Only missed 1 hour of work because of the snow and that wasn’t really needed. So next weekend Saturday we are walking with Bailey (might grab a few caches) and then Sunday I’m out with Dubzie86 to finish off havering park.

The other thing I have coming up is the London affiliate conference. My brother is coming down to go and I’m tagging along. Plenty of freebys? Partys and a bit of netwoking. Should be a good few days. As we have been invited to the Everest Poker party on the Saturday evening.

Yesterday I took another step in to the world of geocaching. I have bought myself a few trackable tags and also a trackable London bus.
So far I have activated the London bus and will set it free at some point over the weekend. It is a trackable coin in the shape of a bus. Mission is to travel the UK and pop back to London for re-fuel every now and then.

The other trackable is Roast Duck. A Welsh flag trolley coin attached to a nasty duck lanyard. It’s mission is to travel round Wales in 2010 and to then have a holiday abroad somewhere.

The 3rd one I have set up is a personal tracker. He will travel with me to caching events and hope to meet other geocachers on on his route.

I hope that they get to complete their mission.