It's Loud

When I first started this blog, I always envisioned that I wouldn't be one of those bloggers that only updates once every 76 days. You gotta keep the millions happy after all...buuuut as I can't remember the last time I updated I'm already officially slacking. Well, here we go , a new update!!!! (my loyal 14 followers will think Xmas has come early). 

I'm writing this post amidst a scene not unlike Saigon circa 1969. There are 6-year-old kids screaming that they don't want to visit Windsor Castle AGAIN, Total Wipeout blaring in the background and a chaotic scene in the kitchen as three women frantically rush about preparing seemingly thousands of egg and cress sandwiches. We're here in Windsor for my girlfriend's father's 70th birthday party. It'll be fun. Its just a bit loud right now. 

I'm on my iPad writing this so I dont have any access to poker gimpiness I.e. graphs and hand histories. This makes me happy as it means this update will be far less effort than usual. So what's been going on?

- I got an iPad 2 with PKR points. It's awesome. 

- Poker was really good in August. I played 55k hands, won $8200 in cash games and about $3k in tournaments. I ran a little above EV but also feel like I'm playing really well at the minute much of the time. 

- Been watching a lot of aejones's training videos on LeggoPoker.com - great stuff. 

- Amazing UFC show in RIO. Big Nogs KO was an awesome upset while Anderson Silva again proved what a monster he is. Going to BAMMA courtesy of PKR next weekend which should be cool too. 

- Had a nice day in Margate recently visiting my uncle Tony Jarvis who was the main inspiration for me getting interested in poker in the place. From about 1975-2000 he was a professional poker player - well before the term was widely accepted - playing every day in the Vic in London. Back then, no limit Hold'em barely existed of course and so he made his living playing in the country's biggest 7-card Stud games. It was around a £1,000 buy-in back then which, with inflation and so on would obviously be a really big game in today's money terms. Tony always has some great stories about the characters from those days. He basically played with everyone (and was friends with) who has ever been 'famous' in UK poker, including Devilfish, Donnachea O'Dea, John Duthie, the Hendon Mob and so on. Apparently the best player by an absolute mile was Ben Roberts, who earned so much money from those games in the 80s that he was able to buy the newly built penthouse flat directly opposite the Vic itself. Nice commute to work. 

- Off on holiday to the Greek island of Symi in about two weeks. Very excited as it'll mainly involve drinking beer and eating great food in the sun.

I'm being summoned to help out with party planning now - presumably to blow up balloons or similar - so I'm off. 

Cheers for reading Starchites and I wont leave it as long between updates next time. 

Have a good one!