Into The Light

There is little to report on the poker front, although I am off work tomorrow and Friday and should get both some tournament and HU cash time in then. I’m up to 9,000 hands of cash played for the month now, so I should comfortable exceed the 10,000 hand monthly target that I have set myself.



After many months of doom and gloom, West Ham (well at least half of it) has been sold. The new owner (pictured above in the fetching Ron Burgundyesque jacket) is porn merchant David Sullivan. Sullivan, Gold and Brady made a pretty good job of sorting out Birmingham City, and whilst I don’t agree with the proposed move to the Olympic Stadium, I am not unhappy with the buy-out, particularly given the staggering amount of debt that the club is in.

By all accounts the new boys will waste no time in booting current CEO/spin merchant Scott Duxbury and Director of Football Gianluca Nani out. They had a good record of backing their managers at Birmingham, hopefully that will continue here as I am overall not too unhappy at the Zola/Clarke team.

Here, Sullivan can be seen handling (reasonably well) some questioning from Chris Morris. It is worth watching, mainly because Morris is superb.

Work has slowed to a crawl and basically we’re all sitting around here waiting to be made redundant. With the wedding coming up I am basically using the time to sort out a ton of administrative stuff, go to the gym and try and lose some weight and generally take it easy, as opportunities to do so are few and far between.

We finished booking the honeymoon the other day. We have a pretty cool trip lined up, starting in San Francisco, driving to Lake Tahoe, then back past San Francisco and down the coast for a few hundred miles, stopping along the way. From there we roll onto Palm Springs, before finishing up with three days in Las Vegas (how romantic). It is a pretty cool trip and I am really looking forward to it, and obviously it is better than being at work.

Good luck at the tables.