Autumnal weather, more poker...

Hey, its been a while. Hardly played any poker in August, and havent played all that much this month either, only bout 12k hands - see swingy graph below. Ive been climbing lots in the sunny (but not too hot - no fun climbing in 25 degrees whilst sporting inch thick kevlar trousers) weather - its been a lot of fun, and helped a bit to get me fit for the footy season, which is now well underway, and we - Reffley Royals f.c - are sitting pretty at the top of the league - played 2, won 2, GD +10 :-). 


Thought id post a few pics of the climbing jobs I've been doing, just for suffen different other than boring graphs and bad beats. They arent particularly exciting mind you, just a little insight...

The first picture is just a corner of a back garden belonging to 2 top London barristers (its their holiday home as well ffs...), felling a long corridor of leylandii, and the 2 smaller pics are that of nice oak tree right on the entrance of their driveway, which i had to take some dead wood out of, and generally faff around taking some weight out of the branches - can just about see my anchor point in the left hand pic. I'll try to get some better ones on here, but my groundsman is fucking useless with an iphone, plus i dont trust him with it anyway :-/

Here's what happens when your chainsaw kicks back at you...

Health and safety FTW! Right, little bit about poker...

Like i said, i hardly played over August, I'd often be tired from climbing or playing golf and my heart just wasnt in it. I still dont know whether its a good idea to try and force yourself to play poker if you dont really want to, but you obviously have to put the volume in, hmm... Anyway, my serious lack of volume may have accounted for me playing so bad at the beginning of September. Well, i say playing bad, i dont think that was really the case, but its surprising how after taking only a month out, you can definitely become rusty, so im not going to say that i was running really bad or just kept getting coolered (although of course, i did ;-),  its how it goes sometimes - im just happy that i managed to turn it around, and can hopefully finish with another 15-20k hands (guaranteeing a decent bit of RB)  and a nice profit, but we'll see...

Im off to the GUKPT Coventry next month to play in the £200 and £300 buy-in events on the Tuesday and Thursday, and gonna try to qualify for the £1k buy-in main event whilst there, but will just see how the week goes i spose.