Hello friends,

Sorry for the lack of updates for all of my 2 readers, but I have been away for the last 3 weeks.

I went away to London for a weekend,but ended up staying 3 weeks because I was enjoying myself so much. I had to come back in the end, although I didn't want to so I could sort some things out.

So I will let you kmow where I was at before I went away.

I was on a WCOOP mission and I ended up getting qualified to all the tournaments my friend wanted to play including the $5200 HORSE event.

How did it go? Well, not as sucessful as we had hoped to be honest. We came away from the WCOOP with a tidy profit, but nothing of any huge significance. Oh well, there's always next year, we hope.

So while I was away this BS gambling law came into place. The site I play on has banned american players, but if I am honest it doesn't seem to have made much of a difference. In the stud games, most of the players were generally British or European anyway and I have played very little Holdem.

I do worry for the state of this law, but I did say at the time it wouldn't go through, now it has I really can't see it lasting. I can't really be bothered to go into my whole thoughts, as they pretty much echo every single online poker players.

I must say though I took great interest in reading the act itself and several articles from the 2+2 thread, very interesting.

So where am I at now? Well, my friend is here for another 2 weeks which is excellent news, because at some point we are going to get the chance to sit down and he will watch me play and give pointers. I am looking forward to that.

I still haven't read anymore of the 5 poker books sitting there staring me in the face, so I might get round to that.

My main game at the moment is 5/10 and 10/20 stud, which has been going very well for me, although I am sucking vad at NLH for now.

In other news, I let 2 people play my account and a tourney and within the 2 days they both finished 2nd, so I made a decent chunk from that, which was needed after my gambooling and drinking ways in London.

So where am I? Well, I am kind of looking into the posibility of getting a job. This is for 2 reasons;

1) I am finding myself getting increasingly bored during the day
2) I don't know how badly this US ban is going to affect me in the long run

Ok yeah I should be greatful i can at least still play, but this has defintly had a ripple affect across the whole world, with regards to game selection and the stability of the smaller poker sites.

Anyway, it is just an idea, an idea that will probably go down the drain, but at least I thought about it!

Rake4poker.com was down for a while due to a server issue. That's been resolved now and I have got it back up and running. We should have some of the poker tools up and running on that ASAP. I am particuarly looking forward to having our own hand converter on there.

Acigaming.com is still running fine.

And well that's about it. Nothing exciting has been happening really, so this was a nice and boring blog to give you all a catch up. I am thinking about possibly divulging into some Stud strategy for my lovely readers, but I will have to think about that.

Anyway,

TaTa for now.

xxxx