Me and a couple of guys I know decided to hit up a very nice dinner the night before last. I met up with “ActionJeff“, 2007 WSOP Main Event Final Tablist “RainKhan“, 2007 Aussie Millions runner-up “gobboboy”, #1 UltimateBet blackjack leader board better Shaun *censored* Deeb, and Skier5. We went to some upscale Michelin star rated or whatever restaurant called “The Capital”. It was sort of funny going there because we had three waiters for our one table and we were by far the youngest and most underdressed people there. It wasn’t awkward at all, we just pretended we owned the place, lol! Shaun speaks rather loud and tells a lot of funny jokes followed up by a hilarious laugh that I can’t get enough of. RainKhan also threw in tons of fun and humor with one of the waitresses. Overall, all of those guys are great and we had loads of fun with tons of champagne, wine, and like 6 or 7 courses. Afterwards we hit a bar and I called it an early night and went home to the new wife.

Well, I honestly thought I had a shot at going real deep last night in WCOOP Event #19: The $530 PLO. I got like 130’th or somewhere around there out of a little over 1,000 players. I was absolutely card dead for the last 2 ½ hours I was in the tournament. I got really shortstacked and doubled up when I hit a set of aces. Five minutes after that I took a horrendous beat unfortunately to triple up my stack which would put me in excellent position to go very deep. Here’s the hand of death: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1530598 . So that was that and I look forward to the WCOOP Main Event tomorrow.

I decided to skip the $5k HORSE and the $1k LHE WCOOP Events tonight because Game 1 of the NHL Season kicked off today right here in London. The 2006-2007 Stanley Cup Champions, the Anaheim Ducks faced off against the L.A. Kings in a premier game to kick off the 2007-2008 Season. Depending on how long you have been following my blog, I became a very big NHL fan last year and is the only sport I bet on besides a rare NFL game. I absolutely love the action in ice hockey games and frequently go to Tampa Bay Lightning games which is about a 1 hour drive from Orlando. The tickets were sold out more than a few days in advance, so I had to look on Craigslist to find some for me and Anita. I arranged to meet a guy to buy the tickets right before the game. He wasn’t at our meeting place and when I called him he said he had already sold the tickets!?!?!? WTF!!! I was pissed so we had to find a scalper. Well, we go over to a couple scalpers and then this undercover agent guy pulls out a badge and makes the scalper that we were about to buy from to give them to us for free because he wasn’t allowed to sell them! SWEET! So we got seats to the sold out hockey game for free! LOL.

We leave London tomorrow afternoon on the train to Amsterdam tomorrow for three days. After that, we will be in Prague for three days. Then it will be time for EPT Baden in Austria. We plan on doing a lot of sightseeing in Amsterdam. I’ve heard it’s great there and we should definitely have a good time.