After being at my beach house in Connecticut for almost two weeks and a couple day stopovers in New York, I’m finally heading back to Florida for my wedding.  At the beach house Anita and I went sailing, played tennis, went wakeboarding, played online poker and hung out at the beach.  I had a nice time visiting my aunt, uncle, cousin and grandmother. After that, we left the beach cottage and went over to NYC. My intent was to play the cash games there in the private clubs but they ended up being too crowded with locals who get first priority because everyone is amped up to play poker since returning from the World Series.  So instead, I played some online poker and gaucho2121 showed me around the city.  We got a massage from this hidden Asian massage place that was pretty good and went shopping in a couple stores.  One of the nights whitelime, Ezra, ansky, krantz, a lady friend of krantz’s and I went out to a nice Italian restaurant in the city. It was one of the best Italian dishes I’ve ever had, but the service was sub par to average.  I’ve met ansky and whitelime before, but this was my first time meeting the other two.  Maybe now that I’ve had dinner with the two sickos who are up more than $3M over the past month and a half they can pass some run-good to me.

Lately Anita and I have been picking out wedding songs and finalizing the guest list, as well as planning for our bachelor/bachelorette parties and other miscellaneous wedding stuff.  That’s been keeping us very occupied.  The wedding will obviously have a good number of poker people at it. I am very excited and looking forward to it.

Poker has been a hassle lately.  My main problem has been getting all in on the turn with a set against an overpair, and each time they seem to spike their 2 outer on the river.  It seems like every time I’m in that situation and the river card appears, I end up blinking repeatedly in disbelief that the same thing could happen so many times in a row.  I also just can’t seem to find hands to extract quality value from, even though the games seem to have been good lately.  I do plan to be playing in some very big live games in the near future in Miami and Europe.  More details to come.