CARDRUNNERS

Following Vegas all I've done is worked and relaxed.  Last week I don't think I went out.  Rather I watched the entire first season of The Sopranos.  What a fuckin awesome show.  Because I'm Italian I definitely appreciate some of the family oriented scenes.  What I can't relate to is Tony's "other" family, although at times I wish I could, and looking back to family events when I was a child, some of my relatives probably could.  I'm not sure if it's the fantasy of living the mafia lifestyle, but I'm hooked.

I went shopping on Saturday which is something I rarely do.  I'm generally pretty frugal and I much prefer saving money to spending, but I had to scratch the itch last weekend.  I bought a pair of Von Zipper aviators, a Quicksilver jacket, Billabong board shorts, and some cologne.  Yes, I dress like I'm 17 the majority of the time.

September was a great poker month, as I didn't have a losing day playing HU sngs.  I cannot say the same thing about October.  I'm running/playing rather poorly so I might take a few days off and clear my head.

We're hosting our training course this week, which means.....free food!!  I've had pizza for lunch 3 straight days now.  Two nights ago we ate at Enterprise Fish Co.  The food was pretty good.  If I were to recommend a seafood type place in Santa Barbara though, it would be Brophy Bros.  Last night we ate at Lucky's steakhouse in Montecito.  This is the premier steakhouse of Santa Barbara and it didn't disappoint.  The NY strip steak I had was excellent, as was everything else.

Next week I'm going to the Jimmy Eat World casino night/show in Los Angeles.  Apparently instead of gambling for money, the prizes are concert tickets, guitars, and other band related things.  JEW is also going to play a small intimate show.  JEW + Gambling = a great great night.  The night after I'm seeing JEW at the Wiltern in LA.

Since I haven't done anything too exciting in over a week worth blogging about, Gold is going to send me a guest blog he wrote on a plane, about the night/morning I got kicked out of Scores in Las Vegas, to post here.  He was slightly less drunk than me and remembers things pretty vividly.  Reading a blog about myself via 3rd person will be kinda cool, so hopefully you readers will find it entertaining.

Hope everyone is doing well, doing whatever it is you do.

Peace.

So I'm in Berlin....and yea, that is very cool. Yesterday, we ate random assortments of Indian and Asian foods because, well, frankly, German food kinda blows a big one. I don't eat pork, so German food is effectively off limits for me. We walked around and did some sightseeing, and it was pretty sweet. The weather is awesome and our family friends who we're staying with (The Harts) have a monstrous loft, so it's a pretty good time for all.

I haven't really had the energy to grind out a 6 tabling session on my laptop. I normally play 10-12, but 6 is kinda the max on my laptop. Soooooo, I've been playing heads up cash games on a secret site :) and playing another 1 or 2 tables on Party of the best games I can find, between 2/4 and 5/10. I'm generally trying to start new tables there as well, and play heads up or 3 handed for as long as possible. When you're not playing a "grind" session, heads up poker is really enjoyable.

Anyways, in my first session here yesterday (while everyone else napped for 90 minutes) I cleared $1500. When they asked how I'd done, and I'd told them, they demanded I take the whole family out for dinner :)

My parents are finally starting to come around on the whole poker thing...ever since I called them at 730am EST right after the wpt tourney, they've actually started to realize that poker is a bit of an art form. Here in Berlin, they've been proud to tell the family that poker is how I support myself. And because most of my family is pretty young, they find it really engaging. Makes for a fun time :)

I'm off to shower and sightsee...

love,
Ezra