Holiday : Costa Del Sol – September 2008

Went to our Timeshare apartment for a lovely relaxing week.  

Pretty much the same pattern as last years holiday, apart from the weather which was cooler (around 25 degrees) and we had cloudy mornings three days and a complete cloudy day on the Thursday.  As we had planned to go to Torremolinos market on Thursday it was good that it was cooler, although the market itself was a lot smaller than we had seen in previous years (maybe we are out of season this time!)

I always find this holiday a complete relax whenever we go, although will probably revert back to the normal June time of the year next time we go.

Holiday : UK leg of holiday

This year we couldn’t decide where to go for our main holiday, so decided to take a week in the Sun (next week, so check back for update!)  and also do some things around England for a week.

The weather hasn’t been fantastic, but had a great time at Aldeburgh over the weekend.    Had a couple of walks around town, but wanted to show off the car and see everyone again. 

On Monday we went to Norwich and stayed in a Premier Inn.  The hotel was clean, big enough and functional but was good location and good service.  We arrived around 11am and was able to check-in to the room and had rest of the day to explore Norwich City

After a long day hammering the shops, we had a nice meal and surprisingly good sleep to be refreshed and recuperated for our journey home.  

We took the long route home, which was very relaxing and pleasant, with a long lunch stop in Chelmsford.  Wasn’t my favorite place but had good choice of eating places.

We are now having a couple of relaxing days at home (although just spend loads of money in B&Q and MFI!) and am looking forward to our Sunny holiday next week

Poker: Home Tournament – September 2008

I only have vague memories of the event this month, partly down to the fact that I had a couple of beers, but mainly as I am writing this nearly a week later after a particularly hectic week

We managed to get back into the normal room this month, so was happy about that and also had both Colin and Martin join us for the first time this year… good to see some of the old faces back :-)

I seem to remember having some good luck early on, then letting it dribble away towards the end.   At one point I was worried about making the final table even but luckily for me, Sean and Alex were busy on the other table taking people out and with Karen's cautious play seeing her taken out and Andy’s over aggression getting him taken out in quick succession on my table, we had only 7 for the final table

Martin was pretty short stacked, so I thought I might squeeze into 6th place, but although Martin was first to fall I managed to win a couple of pots and got it up to average stack.   With Roger going out, then Lee and Bill both being taken out by a very aggressive Alex, I suddenly find myself falling into a cash paying position (albeit massive short stack)!

With time running out and being so low on chips, I pushed the panic button and did get quite lucky and crept into 2nd place just above Sean at one point….. unfortunately it didn’t last and got done by Sean.

With three hands to play, there was only 100 chips between the last two… so all to play for.     A very tense last few hands saw Sean win by a tiny margin, but was well fought to the end

The £10 special always sees a very different style of play and today was no different, with solid play throughout.  Back to manic shoving and rebuying next month :-)