Riviera Life part 2

Right after arriving to Nice I went to search my hostel. It took for a while to find a place, but finally I ended up to find the correct place. The place is called Villa Saint Exupery Gardens, nice looking place about 3 kms away from Nice centrum. Hostel had gotten very good feedback from visitors, but it still surprised me positively! Common area was very big and nice, something like 10 computers free of charge, free coffee or choco or tea, free cereal breakfast, free shuttle bus from tram stop to hostel and best of all very warm welcome by roommates. People started to talk to me right after I stepped into the room. unfortunately I didn't have much time to chat to them since I wanted to go to see local casinos as soon as possible! ;)

First I went to biggest casino of Nice to find out that they don't have any tournament poker there. I was very disappointed. Luckily on my way to that place I saw also one smaller casino, so I headed there. They were just going to start a tournament of 120€ 30 minuites after I arrived there! I registered to the tournament and read french poker magazine without understanding any single word of it while waiting tournament to start. When it finally started I didn't have too much fun until I was already out. It took like 30 minutes from me to catch a top pair, top kicker with AQ against flopped set of villain. My tournament was over before it even really started. I was very disappointed, but that's poker.

After quick tournament I headed back to the hostel with a plan to go to sleep quite early. It didn't go like I planned since first of all when I arrived back to my room some American roommates of mine had been cooking and they offered food for me as well. I went to eat with them and they told about their plan to go out that night with small group of people sleeping in our room. I hesitated for a while, but ended up to go out with American, Japanese, Polish and two Mexicans. We went to some quite small bar what I didn't like very much since I prefer nightclubs much more. At least we were able to talk each other because music wasn't too loud. We had to head back to the hostel quite early, already 2 am since trams don't operate anymore later than that. That was fine to me, because I wanted to wake up early and go to Monte Carlo next morning.

I've always hated waking up early and it didn't work that morning either. Finally I got myself up from the bed between 9 and 10, because I didn't want to miss morning cereals! I ate big bowl of cereals before going to search bus number 100 from Nice to Monaco. I heard from some German travellers that bus is leaving from Port of Nice, so I went there and found the stop quite easily. The bus from Nice to Monaco is extremely cheap as it costs only 1€. Journey takes about 40 minutes and all the time bus is driving near coastline of Riviera, view is awesome! I felt like I really want to move to Riviera in future!
Part 3 later...


Sign from the hostel


Arriving to Monte Carlo

Riviera Life part 1

It's long time ago since I updated this blog last time!
But now I finally got reason to do it since I had holiday of 10 days from army!
I couldn't waste such a good opportunity and right after getting information of holiday I went to search flights somewhere. First I was thinking about Barcelona, but after finding return flight from Ryanair to Milan for 130€ I couldn't resist it. Not like I wanted to go to Milan, but it was close enough to Nice! And Nice is almost next to the place where I've always wanted to visit, Monte Carlo! So I ended up to book return flight to Milan.

I arrived to Milan on Sunday evening only to find out it was raining out there and of course I forgot my umbrella to home. Luckily there's always someone selling umbrellas on the streets in Italy, so I didn't need to walk more than 5 meters from bus without umbrella. I hadn't booked any accommodation for the night since I was going to leave the city 7 am. I thought that in such a big city like Milan there's always something going on 24/7. I was terribly wrong. The city was totally dead at the night, it was nothing compared to London. Not a single store was open at night and I didn't find any nightclubs either near by central station. Public transportation didn't work from midnight till 6 am etc.. I was freezing, bored and tired. I just wanted to steal a sleeping bag from a bum and go to sleep on the street! :D

After super boring night in Milan it was finally morning and my train was about to leave. I found Italian train seats brilliant since they were like sofas! 3 seats together without any armrest between seats. So I was able to lie on the seats and sleep whole journey from Milan to Ventimiglia.. Ventimiglia is small town near by border of Italy and France. I spent few hours there walknig around the place and eating some Italian pizza. From Ventimiglia I took another train to Nice. After 30 minutes I finally arrived to surprise surprise rainy Nice! More about Nice in part 2.


Bergamo airport, thunderstorm as usual...

Ventimiglia

Rainy beach of Nice

Military service

When I created this blog I named it as "Jani travelling" since I thought I might continue updating it sometimes from my upcoming trips after my on-the-job learning period. Unfortunately nowadays it's impossible for me to keep travelling, because goverment of Finland wants me to carry out military service.

I like everything international, so I applied and got chosen to Finnish Rapid Deployment Forces. Group of about 200 men who'll be trained to work on international operations. FRDF is supposed to be more physical than ordinary national army and all of the guys are pre-chosen, so motivation here is much higher than anywhere else. That's what I like very much. I hate watching lazy morons, who are not giving a shit about anything.

I started my service 9th July and now about 1/4 is behind. So far the time here has been okey, not so physical what I thought, but still hard enough. I'm proud to be the part of one of the best companies in Finland.

My plan is to get chosen to operation after this year and spend half a year in Afghanistan. After that I've got so much money that I can travel all around the world for a quite long time. Let's see what happens!

Poker summary

Okey, that's it.
I just got knocked out of my last poker tournament in London after playing my last hand totally terribly. I hope I at least learn something of it..

Anyway now it's time to post summary of games. During these two months I visited 7 casinos/poker clubs and played poker in 4 of them. Total 33 tournaments and 25 of them were played at Aspers. I've learnt a lot, got some new friends, made nice amount of cash and got rid of my big leak about being scared money.

Collection of my members cards

I've been keeping track of all of my games in Excel, because it's important to know where am I going. 150% ROI, that's huge and I think I ran little bit over EV, but I still believe that I could be able to have at least 100% ROI in long run!
Longest losing streak was 6 games and a bit over £300 I think, that's not too bad. Variance is huge in tournament poker, so I could easily have lost like 15 games without any single cash place. Luckily it didn't happen.

During my on-the-job learnin period I was working 36 days, 8 hours per day, total 288 hours, that's just a little bit more than half as much as I played poker, lol. Too bad they didn't pay for internship so I had to make all of the money at poker tables.

Tomorrow it's time to leave London and head to the Amsterdam! Hardstyle I'm coming! Make sure you won't disappoint me!





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Getting closer

Last days in London have been interesting!

On Tuesday's tournament I busted on bubble 12th, when top 10 paid. That's annoying.

On Wednesday I had a day-off from poker, so I went jogging. I ran 45 minutes continuously at Wanstead Park, actually surprised even myself with my stamina. . I didn't expect to be able to run that long time without walking at all. It was great feeling to be able to run wearing only t-shirt and shorts without freezing even it was 10pm. I like summer!

On Thursday I went to play one of my favourite poker tournaments of Aspers. £50 buy-in, £2500 prize pool guaranteed! Good for me it attached only 41 players, so there were a huge overlay! Casino had to add £450 extra! fortunately I was lucky enough to get my share of prize pool after disappointment of Tuesday. When there were three players left I had biggest stack and two another guys had pretty equal stacks, not very much less than me. They ended up to be all in A2 against TJ. Unfortunately it was my Vietnamese friend who lost his stack with A2. I would have liked to share top 2 prize money with him and I think he would have been willing to make the deal with me as well. Now I ended up to play heads-up against much weaker player. He would have liked to do 50%/50% deal, but I refused it, since I think I had a pretty big edge against him. Unfortunately I lost couple of big hands and finished 2nd.. I could have played better, need to study heads-up more. I got "only" £630 for my 2nd place when first place made £1000.. If I accepted the deal I would have gotten £190 more, but I really wanted to win my first 4-figs.. Still didn't get it.

The tournament finished something like 3:30 am, so after that I decided to go to Tesco to buy some cakes to not disappoint my co-workers next day when I finish my internship. I really hate traditions. After all I slept less than 4 hours.

In morning I started my last journey from Leytonstone to Deptford Bridge. I have to change the train twice, at Stratford and at Canary Wharf. When I arrived to Canary Wharf I noticed that my connection train is already there, so I had to run a bit. When I accelerated my speed I noticed something flying from my pocket, something small, shiit it's my mp3 player! I saw how it hit the ground, started sliding, kept sliding, hit the side of the train and dropped to the railway. That's it, I couldn't go to get it since there would be a risk of being hit by train. I really hate pockets of shorts! Luckily my mp3 was pretty old one and not very valuable anymore, but still it was working well and full of my playlists. Now I need to work out my playlists again and it takes way too much time!

So after all it's finally my last day at job! 3,5 hours to go and I can start my holiday, that's what I've been looking for a long time!

Almost as much as holiday I've been waiting for new episode of Headhunterz's radio show HARD WITH STYLE what was released today!
"Love it or hate it, this is hard with style!"

Shuffle up and deal

Sorry for not writing for a while. The reason is that I really haven't done anything else than slept, worked and played poker for last couple of weeks. My Oyster covers only zones 2-3 anymore, so I haven't even been in central London at all. I've totally seen it already, boring place. I've tried to play as much tournaments as possible since I'm still able to do it! Unfortunately in RAYland I can't continue playing like this. Thanks RAY and Finnish government for ruining everything funny! :(

Last week I played 6 tournaments and luckily finally cashed on Saturday to cover my losses of earlier weeks. I'm happy that I've been able to ignore influence of money when playing, that's very important when you seriously want to make profit. You don't want to be scared money at all. That has been my leak before, been playing too small games actually.

In casino I've met very much great people all around the world. There are some regular players like me who are playing almost every day, it's nice to chat with them during tournament breaks. Talking with them has also improved my language skills a lot, actually one English player told me that I'm speaking very good English. Poker players, always bluffing, haha.
People are much more open here compared to shy finns, not such a big surprise at all.. Totally strangers come to talk to me from time to time after playing once at the same table with me. Poker community is great!

6 days left in London, 4 tournaments to go! Shuffle up and deal!

Black Tuesday

My Tuesday didn't start very well when I found out that my regular sandwich artist had left the Subway in Leytonstone. Now it will take a bit more time to tell step by step what do I want since nobody there knows my typical order, how annoying!

But it's nothing compared to the fact that I went "broken". After busting in Tuesday's tournament I had only £15 left in my wallet and that won't cover Thursday's £50 tourney! I had to do a sad decision and go to get some more cash from ATM! :( I hadn't done that since I won my first poker money here. I've been living something like one and half months with money cash from poker alone.. Last weeks I haven't just cashed anything big and rent is eating my cash very quickly! £255 per week is lovely!

Anyway, last Saturday I was watching Scooter's live concert at HMV Forum and it was great! Totally better than Jeezy's performance. The guy is 46-years-old and still rocking! Must love the electro beats!

5/5

Mission Hardstyle

I finally booked a return flight for myself. I would have wanted to go to Spain or South France straight from here, but unfortunately I need to get back to the school on 31th May, so I don't have enough time to do what I want. I'm going to finish working 25th May and our rent is paid till 28th, so there are few days before I need to be back in Freezeland. Raindon is getting a bit boring and I want to see something else as well, so I decided to take a bus to Weedsterdam! The bus journey is going to take like 11 hours and I'm leaving on Sunday evening (27th), so I'll arrive to Dam on Monday morning. I could try to sleep on my way, if possible. If not possible it's not such a big problem either, I don't need that much sleep.. I've already booked hostel for two nights, total 36€. Located to Red Light District of course! ;)

Main reason I want to visit Netherlands is Hardstyle music. I don't give a damn about weed, tulips, windmills or wooden shoes. The country is full of great HS producers including Headhunterz, Brennan Heart, Noisecontrollers, Wildstylez etc, but unfortunately I just found out that Amsterdam sucks big time and there are not Hardstyle clubs at all! Unbelievable. It's supposed to be the #1 country of Hardstyle! I should have gone to Rotterdam, it's full of Hard music clubs.. Unfortunately it's too late to change plans now. I hope some clubs would have special hardstyle night during the time I'm going to stay there, but I guess it's pretty unlikely since it's going to be Monday and Tuesday nights.. At least there is a casino, if the nightlife doesn't satisfy me. Let's see.

The final question is when am I going to return? I took as late flight as possible. It means that I'm going to land to Helsinki 31th May 00:10, just 10 hours before I need to be back in the school! I picked the flight from Estonian Air because of short flight time and cheap price. Actually my flighs, bus journey and 2 hostel nights are still going to be cheaper than flights another guys booked from London to Helsinki! I'll have a stop-over of 25mins in Tallinn, so don't be too surprised if I don't appear to school in the morning, I just missed my connection flight. ;)

PS: I just found out an interesting video from youtube:

PPS: Tomorrow to listen Scooter's live set!

Eat, Sleep, Poker.

Last weekend I went to play to a new poker club (The Western Club), because they had interesting £48 special tournament with £4k guarantee. And best of all was free food buffet for all poker players! They know how to get my attention! The place was quite nice, not only because of many poker tables, but there were also lots of computers which could be used for playing online poker or just surfing in internet etc. Computers were especially nice during tournament breaks, didn't need to be bored, like I am always in Aspers during their way too long 20 min breaks.. Since it's casino, they probably hope tournament players to spend their breaks playing slots, table games or buying drinks. Unfotunately for them I basically never play -EV games. I'm not a gambler, I'm the investor.

Anyway back to the tournament. It finally got almost 200 players and the prize pool went up to impressive £9000, too bad I didn't get my share of those moneys.. I finished my night to a nasty setup with my pair of Kings against Aces just before the bubble. I ended up to be 22th when top 16 were paid. So my "free" buffet turned to be buffet of £48 after all! Not that cheap, but at least I didn't need to be pissed AND hungry! ;)

The biggest problem of The Western is it's poor location. It takes like 1 hour to get there from my job and getting back to the flat at night would be a nightmare. Riding buses with two or three exchanges, taking like 2 hours. Not good at all. Luckily this time the tournament took so long, like 6,5 hours, so it was already about 4:30 am when I busted. I decided to wait for a while since tubes start to operate something like 5:30. Computers turned to be useful again! :) I arrived to Leytonstone about 6:30 and decided to get some food from Tesco on my way back to the home. Never been in supermarket that early before! When I finally got back to home, it was funny to find out that Margo had already left for a job.

After all I ended up to go to sleep 8 am. Only 10 hours later I was back at the poker room playing one more successful tournament. I took down £235 profit from Aspers' £55 tourney. I'm running way too well! Still can't win the big one, but tbh this time I busted for a reason. I played my last hand like a donk. Worst of all, two of my opponents were completely donks as well, so I should have had a huge edge against them! :|
Better luck next time!

British Museum

Usually I hate all kind of museums, but this time I did something surprising and visited British Museum. I don't really care about history very much, but as being a big fan of TV shows Spartacus, Rome and movies like Gladiator, 300, Troy etc, I'm interested in the time of Ancient Rome and gladiator culture. I read from Internet that there are also some weapons from that time and since it's free entrance I thought why not give it a shot and take a look at them.

Luckily there were quite much war equipments like swords, shields, helmets and armours, but unfortunately most of them were in very poor condition. It's not very surprising at all since most of those items are more than 2000 years old. Rest of the museum was very boring like museums usually are. You need to be really interested in history, if you want to find those ancient piece of rocks somehow interesting...

I guarantee that pictures below are also super boring for the people who haven't watched any of those TV shows or movies and are nohow interested in Ancient Rome at all! ;)

Crossbow

Gladiator equipments

Hoplite helmet

That's all what's left from Roman soldier's equipments!

ancient swords

Armour for horse!

Samurai armour

Sea Life & London Eye

To do something else than just play poker I finally decided to visit London Aquarium and London Eye last weekend. Combined ticket was only £27 what is not that bad at all.
Aquarium was very nice, much more interesting than Sea Life in Helsinki. Especially penguins were brilliant! Never seen them before. In other hand London Eye wasn't really worth it.. London is quite boring looking city, nothing interesting to be seen. Very much boring old buildings, not much skyscrapers or anything.

Paul the Octopus!

Retarded fish

Young Jeezyyy

I was watching Young Jeezy in IndigO2 last week's Monday. O2 is very cool and big building and for unknown reason it was full of Asian people! I really don't know what was going on there, but it felt like being in Tokyo or something!

Jeezy's live performance itself was a small disappointment.. First we had to wait for him way too long, I hate it. Such a diva.. Also audio was set up poorly in my taste. Bass was so strong that it wasn't easy to hear the melody behind it. All you heard was huge bass boost and Jeezy's rapping. Also he didn't peform any track completely, but jumped from track to track without any breaks between them. After all the whole show was over pretty quicky. Audience was crazy, can't understand what's wrong with all of those black people who totally lost control when Jeezy showed up to the stage! People here in London have been very polite, but I can't say same about them.. Wild ones... :D

Anyway about 30€ is not bad price at all for seeing "The Real Nigga". One of the best rappers in the world for sure, worth it. My next move is to buy ticket's to Scooter's concert 12th May. Electro music this time, it's going to be great parties there!

Sports cars in Westfield, Stratford

I found a nice surprise from Westfield shopping mall when I was walking to casino last week! There was some kind of car theme week and the place was full of cars. Couple of Lamborghinis, Teslas, Caterhams, Honda S2000, BAR 99 F1 showcar and much more cheaper cars. F1 and S2000 were set up to work as "simulators" so I had to test them of course! Unfortunately simulator was very poor, since it was just based on rFactor with probably all of the driving aids on. Steering wheel didn't have any feedback and it wasn't possible to use the car with manual transmission, so not very realistic experience at all..

Caterham

Lamborghini Murciélago, one of the most beautiful cars ever made!

Gallardo & Murciélago

My Formula 1 debut! It was very interesting to test F1 seat, not very comfortable at all! Respect to the drivers who sit there two hours in heat of over 30 degrees!

Honda S2000, I love it!

N8 and fake tells

I love the feeling when your bus (N8) arrives exactly when you get yourself to the stop! Usually you see it accelerating furiously away straight under your eyes, but this time I was able to taste positive side of variance! Saved at least 15 mins of my expensive time, lovely!

Poker was fine, made profit of £60 from 6th place, covers exactly my lost buy-ins from last two tournaments. Funniest thing today was when one player came to talk to me during tournament break and revealed my "very bad tell". We played quite big pot together before break and I tried to steal the pot on river after showing a fake tell. Usually shaky hands mean strong hand, so I faked it and looks like my opponent also noticed my tell. This time it just didn't work like I hoped, since my opponent thought it was because of weakness and he pushed all in... Anyway I'm very surprised that he came to tell me that! I would never share such a valuable information, and especially not during the tournament when we both were still playing and waiting for final table!

Just bought new 20" suitcase from Sportdirect today with £11. It's perfect since it's cabin approved by most of the airlines, so I'll have some extra space for all of my stuff!

Bridge from casino to bus station at Stratford

Useless picture entry

I haven't anything to say right now, so I just post some pictures here this time.. I like this kind of working, haven't done anything today! Expect buying some stuff from Play.com and Sportdirect, uploaded pictures to facebook, search good poker tournaments, chat in facebook, read poker and F1 forums etc.. Now I don't need to use my own time doing that! ;)

Btw, I bought a ticket to Young Jeezy's concert in O2 23.4. He's bringing real rap to London!

View from Asper's terrace, Olympic stadium over there

Big Ben

London's Eye

Landscape

London Bridge

Happy Swedes

Since Margo and Tomi refused to come to nightclub with me I had to spend my evening/night playing poker at Fox once again. At least it's much more profitable way to use your time. I registered to the tournament a bit late, because I wasn't able to leave the job exactly 6pm and after that DLR got some problems and we had to wait like 20-30 minutes in underground tunnel. At that moment I was actually quite tired, so I kinda slept like 10 minutes. It was fine since after that I haven't felt any tired at all even it's 5 am already at the moment! I like my body, perfect for staying concentrated to playing poker all night long without feeling any tired or hungry.

Anyway about the tournament at first it was quite boring until new player came to our table. Straight after joining our table he asked from guy next to me if he was Finnish. No he wasn't. Then he asked if I am, and bingo! I was like "what the hell, how did you know that?" and he answered that he can smell Finns. That's quite scary! Himself he had moved from Stockholm to London couple of months ago and now he was playing some poker with his friends. Anyway he was very funny guy and a bit drunk as well like Nordics usually are. Not bad poker player either, one of the bests of the table straight after me ;)

Tournament didn't turn out to be bad either, 3rd position and £360 prize money. Anyway I'm still a bit disappointed about the way I lost my stack.. I could have played better without risking that much, because I was dominating the 3-handed. Two another players were very weak and myself I'm exactly specialized in playing with short stacks, since I've gained my experience from thousands of Sit and Go tournaments. Also the money difference between 3rd and 2nd was £160, quite much.. Now I have collected top 3 finish positions from all of the places I've been playing poker. Next I should start to look at the victories, they pay so much more!

Entire week has been quite boring, working is not very interesting and it takes way too much time from the day.. Also the weather is still very poor. Today I got my Subway clubcard what might be quite useful, since I'm taking a breakfast baguette to the job every morning. £2.28 is not a bad price at all for footlong baguette! Anyway you can choose just special breakfast meat and three salads into it, but it's not such a big problem. Jalapeños!

F1 qualifying starts 7am, I haven't yet decided if I should stay up or sleep couple of hours.. Maybe I'll try to sleep a bit and trick my brains to think I have slept all night long, so I won't feel tired tomorrow.. ;)

Btw just realized it was Friday 13th, and that's supposed to be the day of unlucky? lol. Superstitious people are crazy!

Easter

Luckily it's just once a year! We were supposed to go to nightclub in Sunday, but surprisingly it was closed because of Easter! I found almost everything else closed as well expect restaurants and casinos, so situation kinda pushed me to play if I wanted to do anything useful.. So I played two tournaments in Sunday and won one of them cashing £220. Made my total profit of first week £570 from 4 played tournament, good start!

I was asked to work in Monday as well as I was working in Friday when almost everybody else had a holiday. It wasn't a problem for me since I don't see any reasons to celebrate Easter and some places were closed anyway here in Lodon. Better to have couple of days off later when everything is open and weather might be a bit better. I spent those two days in job installing a program called SolidWorks to four computers and doing some rendering stuff. Quite interesting actually. Later this week we are going to stack back-up project which we have been planning last week.

Days here are quite busy when I gotta wake up 8:30 am, be in the work 10 am, leave the work 6 pm and something like every second day in casino or poker club 7 pm or 8 pm.. Most of the times I've been at home at 3 am or something, been running so well in tournaments. Unfortunately weather has been quite bad lately after couple of awesome days when we arrived. I also got flu already, just 3rd round this year! :D I shouldn't have hung out in casino's terrace with just wearing a t-shirt during a tournament break.. But it's just so hot inside sometimes when playing that you gotta cool you down somehow.

Next weekend we should try to go to the nightclub finally, probably it's not closed this time! It's also Formula 1 weekend, race is going to start 8 am, so it looks like I'm not ging to sleep much at all. There is a huge screen in Aspers Casino and they are showing also F1. I think I'll be watching the race there then!

Deptford Bridge station, closest station of my job.

Fish and Chips*

No, I'm not talking about food. I'm talking about last night in Aspers casino.
I started playing £40+5 tournament 8pm just an hour after quick visit in our flat. Spending 2 hours of day to moving from flat to job and back is really annoying. Anyway the casino is in Stratford only couple of kilometres away from our flat, so it takes only like 15 minutes to get back to there.

I started tournament very well and quickly doubled up my stack against very weak player (He was probably playing first time in casino). He still got some chips behind him and later I dropped him off, both times I had three of kind against his one pair. It's so enjoyable to play strong hands against players who you can read perfectly. Before first break I had one of the biggest stacks of the tournament and that place I kept until I dropped out, little bit too early to be completely satisfied..

I ended up to be 3rd what was a small disappointment. I had 2nd biggest stack when three players were left and 3rd guy had much less chips than two of us. So I had counted myself to top 2 and cashing out at least £700. Anyway now I had to take a coin flip against chipleader with my top pair against his flush draw. It was about 50/50% and with winning that flip I would have almost secured my victory and prize money of £1000. Unfortunately this time the chipleader hit his flush in turn and my game was over. 3 am, walking back to Leytonstone £445 in my pocket. At least it wasn't raining anymore, like it was earlier yesterday. It's funny that I had just exchanged £259, so now I have way too much pounds. I think I should pay rent of the apartment with cash for next couple of weeks... Or lose them all when I won't be this lucky in upcoming tournaments! ;)

*"a weak player, also known as fish"
*"Casino tokens also known as chips are small discs used in lieu of currency in casinos."

First day on job

So the first day on job is now behind and everything went very well. I found the place quite easily with using google maps in my Android device. I missed one tube change, but it wasn't a problem at all since next one was coming after 5 mins.

So far I haven't done much else than got myself familiar with the place and the people. People in Mo-Sys seem to be very nice and helpful and I already talked with many of them. There are something like 12 people working in the company.

My first task is to back up all of the computers, so I spent couple of hours searching for the best possible software to do it. I'm going to take the back ups to Western Digital My Book Live, so using their own WD Smartware software is probably the best idea. I still need to discuss about it with somebody who knows more about IT of this company.

Yesterday I was playing my first poker tournament here in Aspers Casino in Stratford, but it was just a freeroll. Because of Re-buy possibility it had prize pool of over £1000 and something like 100 players. I ended up to be about 50th after playing 3 hours. Very hard to make a good result without doing any re-buys... Today I'm thinking about playing £25 buy-in tournament in Fox poker club. It should have little bit less players, so not going to be such a lottery like last one! :)

Arriving in London

We arrived in London with Tomi yesterday. Weather was very nice and warm for couple of hours until the sun went down. Finding our apartment wasn't easiest thing to do, but we ended up to correct place finally after searching around for a moment. The flat is such a s**t-hole, but since the location and price are fine it's not a problem. It takes only 5 mins to walk to Leytonstone's underground station and £85pw/person is not really bad at all. 24/7 Tesco with some self-service check-outs is also very close, but I still prefer human check-outs even they are slow like (instert negative word here)...

Anyway London seems to be very nice city and here are very much thing to do. Tomorrow I'm most probably going to play my first poker tournament here. I just need to decide which casino/poker club should I choose.

Leaving Freezeland

Arriving to Gatwick