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