I’m flying out tomorrow at around noon. The trip’s been a failure on the poker front. I played two short sessions online and lost both times, and I didn’t cash in any of the tournaments. In the big tournament, I got all-in on day two with AsQc vs KhQd on a Qs9s4c flop (30k pot) and lost to a river Kc.

On the plus side, it’s been a lot of fun to be back in London. I’m staying in a hotel that I lived in for four months when I was a student in 1999. Some of my close friends are living here now and I’ve had time to hang with them.

London has become insanely expensive. This tournament is going to have a tough time making it. It’s just too costly for players to come here.

I ate at four nice restaurants while I was here, all of them Chinese. The best of these by far was Mr Chow. I drank too much last night for the first time in a long while (at China White with Craig Abrahams and Kenny Tran). Drinking just isn’t worth it. It really is stupid.

I’m headed to New York tomorrow and then Cambridge soon after.

Brandon