Sorry for missing a week of blogging guys, quite frankly I’ve just been really super busy out here in London playing tournaments and doing other “work”. I’m going to recap the past two weeks. (I love you Lance B.! No, not Lance Bass…Lance Bradley, editor of Bluff, lol)

I had some free time and decided to go to a british”football” match with Viffer, Peter Jetten and his girlfriend, and Anita. We went to the West Ham United vs. Chelsea match. I bet Peter the cost of our tickets that the game would go over 3 goals and it did…ship the pounds! Thanks for paying for a game and the face of agony as I scored two goals in the last 15 minutes of the match if I recall correctly! After that day of fun, I was back to work. I played the English Poker open and quickly got knocked out. I was very disappointed how I went out. At least the World Series of Poker Europe was right around the corner. I played Event #1, the Six-Handed 2500 Pound buy-in NLHE event, the 1k pound buy-in free-for-all tournament, then the 5k Pound Buy-in Pot Limit Omaha event. The PLO tournament is sort of special to me because it was my very first live tournament cash back in 2008 at this same tournament coming in 14′th place. I got very deep in this one again and probably made one of my biggest tournament folds ever. I folded a Aspades, Jspades, Kclubs, Khearts on a AhTs9s8s3h board getting over 6-1 on the river after betting 33,900 and getting raised aline for only 26,000 more from Jeff Madsen. I deliberated for about 7 minutes or so and decided to fold, thinking he had 67s. Fortunately, Jeff was kind enough to show his 67s immediately after I folded. This made me happy. I went on to cash in 17′th place after losing a huge 3-way pot to Erik Friberg and Jeff Lisandro. I really do love PLO tournaments. I seem to have great success in them, I’m probably just lucky. Most of all, they are pretty fun though.

I went out with a large group of poker players(Viffer, Tom, Erica, Peter, Sorel, Harry, Felipe, and Dan) to Hakkasan. This Chinese restaurant is amazing! I rarely get to eat Chinese due to my soy allergy, but they had some soy free dishes available for me. The dessert was pretty amazing too, I hope I get to go back here again before I leave London this year.

I’m glad to say my sister’s two brain surgeries seem to have went smooth and she’s recovering very well for now. She still has a lot of pain at the surgery sites, since they cut open her head and all. I think she’s already started seeing the positive effects though. Thanks to all the wonderful people sending their best wishes our way, it’s very nice and well-received.

I got knocked out of the WSOPE 5k Pound Heads Up Event quite quickly n the first round and decided to play the charity tournament over at Crockfords Casino. Even as I tried going all in every hand (trying to get to bed early to play the main event the following day), I kept doubling up!

WSOPE Main event – I had big hopes for this one, but sadly got knocked out late on the first day. I ran into top pair or better pretty much every hand, which is tough to play against. After seven back to back hands of this nature, they finally got me out.

After all these tournaments, I needed a nice night out with my wife. We went to see the comedian Russell Peters at the O2 Arena. The place was completely packed (mostly with brown people)! They probably were selling curry and naan bread at the concession stand! (haha, I doubt it, but they probably should’ve!) The show was hilarious and I could not stop laughing the entire time! I forgot the name of the opener, but he was a pretty great comedian from L.A. as well. If you’ve never heard of Russell Peters, just YouTube him, and get ready to laugh!

I caught up with my friend Adam who is an on-set photographer in L.A. working on the movie Detention. He was in London on some other business, so I’m happy we got to hang out a bit. Dude is trippy funny…always makes me laugh in good spirits!

Yesterday Rick Salomon and I walked all around London and had some lunch and dinner at various places. Rick is a pretty awesome and genuine guy and there is never a dull moment when he’s around!

I’ve heard L.A. had 113 degree weather the other day! Crazy! Summer came late I guess, and I really am starting to itch to get back home, even as much as I enjoy this city.