Rollercoasters - Poker and Real Estate

Rake is cheaper than Estate Agents and Solicitors fees; large bankroll fluctuations are less stressful than buying a flat.

This week my bankroll finally reached the $10K mark and then I promptly dropped the whole month's profit in three days of beats and tilt. I'll get over it and hopefully I'll end up a better player. It didn't help that as I lost my third buy-in of yesterday morning I got a phone call from the Estate Agent wondering where our deposit money was. A good question, I thought to myself, for I believed it was in the hands of our solicitor, who - when I telephoned a moment later - transpired to be away until after the weekend. Nice of him to make sure everything was sorted out before disappearing only 24 hours before we were set to exchange contracts.

Miraculously we have now successfully exchanged contracts, paid the deposit and set a completion date of 18th August. Hurrah.

Both Mrs. Pink and I are gagging for a holiday, but we're not likely to be able to take any time off until after the move. I'm also overdue some live poker, but that's probably going to have to wait a while too. Spare time seems to be at a premium recently, but nevertheless I've managed to squeeze in a bit of sport and fitness. I've joined a football team that's affiliated with the job. They play in the Essex league on Saturday afternoons with training on Wednesday evenings. The first training session was mostly fitness orientated and I almost died. A bit of work's needed in that department, perhaps. I'm also looking at signing up for a weekly Turkish class in the Autumn, as I was worried that I once the move is out of the way I might be sitting around twiddling my thumbs too much.

Right, you'll have to excuse me while I search under removal firms in the Yellow Pages.

House Buying Headaches

We're still trying to buy the same flat that I mentioned in the last post (almost a month ago). It's nearly fallen through several times and may still, but things are beggining to look up. One thing I would like to say is that Estate Agents are the scum of the earth. Please dont take offence if you're an estate agent. Actaully - fuck that - do take offence; you're probably an arsehole.

That's been taking up virtually all of our time outside of work and Mrs Pink and I seem to be seeing less and less of each other. Because of the shift nature of my work, I'll often find myself with a few hours to kill here and there while she's at work, which is allowing me to play a bit of poker, but other than that everything else seems to be taking a back seat, including this 'ere blog.

Poker continutes to go well and the bankroll continues to grow. I'm overdue a bad run though. I've recently added the $400 NL tables to my repertoire and so far things seem to be going well, although I'm definately noticing more good players. I've been playing the £200 tables on Crypto for a while now and although there's very little difference in the monetary value between that and the $400 tables, it's a big physcological leap when some of the pots are coming in at over a grand.

I'm concidering opening up a bit on here and talking about my work. I'm still undecided as to weather it's a good idea or not. I think I could probably keep it both interesting and anonymous. It might mean that I've actually got something worth writing, but it wont necessarily mean that I'll be able to make the time to write more often.

The WSOP continues to make me wish I was in Vegas as do the write-ups of the blogger gathering. Maybe in December.

Till next time then.