Winter's coming...

I have recently been playing a bit more online than live and funny enough online has been going ok, if you count the result, however it was all from one days grind almost, but it still feel like something I wish to keep playing, even though I know that as soon as I find it fun, the bad run comes.

Live poker has been a torture and the joy that I’ve had when playing live has totally gone out the window, I think it is mostly due to me playing only mtts live, and as we all know there is a fair bit of variance in mtts.

I have decided that my next visit to the casino will be a day where I will be playing cashgames, even if I play a small little mtt in the wait for cashgame tables opening up, as the goal will be to grind the cashgame.

What else is going on? Not much I must say, I’ve been back and forth in the question if I am to go back to Sweden for 1 week during Christmas or not, and as of yet I have not yet decided on what to do.

This is mainly due to the cost of traveling of course, however the idea of traveling to Munich or Frankfurt and spending a few hours on the airport there before switching flight is not exactly something that makes me jump and down of joy either.

I will however have to make up my mind as there is fewer flights that has seats available for each passing day.

Going home and meeting my family would be very nice though, especially as I have not been home for Christmas the last 2 years, as those has been spent down here in Malta, doing nothing at all.

We have the annual Christmas party with work on the 6^th of December, and hopefully this year it will better organized than last year, which in my opinion was something not to be proud of. 

Who knows, perhaps I might even drink some alcohol, even though I am working the day after the party.

I will try and make up my mind on the Christmas plans by the time the paycheck comes, and try getting my ass home and stuff my fat face with even more food, getting all that nice Christmas cooking as well as the awesome Swedish junk food, that is almost worth it by itself.

Until next time, enjoy life and have fun.

/Jinxen

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Hello again world.

Welcome to the jungle, we've got fun 'n' games...

Well that would be more in the line of what I like to say, but there is not that much fun and games at the moment.

Perhaps I should not say that there is not much going on, it’s the MLB playoffs going on as well as the NFL being in full bloom, so there is plenty of games to watch.

I have never before been a fan of baseball, but since I started working for a betting company this has changed, as I have had more interaction with the sport and the betting markets. 

I have to say that I really enjoy the game and I've become a big fan of the Boston Red Sox.

Having them in the in the American League series final versus Detroit is exciting and fun, however I am truly impressed by how Detroit has started, even though I have to say that the end of game 2 was so great in the way Boston turned it around for a tied series and wow, in what a fashion, go check it out if you have not seen it. 

No matter what, I admit that I have become a fan and I will be there from the start of next season to cheer and jinx bet when necessary, perhaps I need to place a few bucks on Detroit in the coming games as well just to help Boston even things out.

While talking about stuff that is not exactly going my way I can say that I am a NY Giants fan, which is NOT easy to admit a year like this.

Having Eli as the worst QB in the league and a defensive line that is stopping fewer approaches than the hookers close to Stratosphere in Las Vegas does not exactly help the cause.

And for me to have a bet with a friend, of which team to finish highest in the division of my Giants and his Cowboys… I think I’ll have to pay up.

Together with all this we have the Premier League, in which there has been an interesting start as a Liverpool supporter, now we just have to keep this up for a bit so that the players themselves start to believe it is possible to be up there and fight.

I have since my latest post here been writing a bit at 2 different places, however for some reason I still prefer to write in English in order to help improve my language skills, as well as I have more freedom in my writing as I am not only writing about poker, mostly because my poker has been lacking in both skill and the hours lately.

I will do a bit of thinking the coming week and make up my mind about where I would like to write, as it's just silly to move around like I've been doing. 

Until my next post, have a great time and take some time off and enjoy yourselves.

/Jinxen

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Monday BBQ

As mentioned several times before I mostly write in Swedish now, but once in a while I will surprise you with an entry here just for kicks, or for being bored, whatever makes more sense at the time.

After  long week at work I rounded it off yesterday with the biggest night of the year, the Super Bowl.

The company bought some Chinese food and some pizzas, nothing that was very impressive, but I appreciate the gesture of which is was intended and it got us through the night.

Sadly the result of the final was not in the favor of the team I wanted to win and instead we got to see Baltimore Ravens take it down, and even though I am not impressed by the team itself I must admit that they impressed me yesterday, now that’s all I’m gonna say about that, fuck Ravens...

Today and tomorrow night I am off from work and I have plans to do as little as possible, just relax and enjoy the time off, so I decided to treat Stubben, Scott and Fjuno to some food this nice relaxing Monday.

After all we need to show Scott how we dine in Sweden, so I ordered a lot of stuff from Maltasupermarket.com and planned on delivery around 15.30 on Monday.

I got to bet after my shift at around 7.30-7.45 and was not jumping with joy when the phone rang and woke me up at 11.00 and it was from Maltasupermarket and they wanted to inform me that they were all out of fresh fillet steak and asked if I wanted frozen instead, which I did not want of course.

Instead I got my fat ass out of bed after the entire 3 ½ hours of sleep and ordered a taxi to take me to San Gwann and Chef’s Choice since I’ve heard good things about it, Mattias was already up and joined me.

Well there we found bull fillet and bought 1.4 kilos for 28 euros which I must say was a good price, and on the way back we stopped off at Subway to buy breakfast of course.

Back at the apartment there was about 1 hour to relax and watch some tv before the groceries arrived and me and Mattias got started with peeling and cutting up potatoes for the potato gratin, and making all other preparations.

Around 17.30 we fired up the oven and the barbeque and got started, and Fjuno joined us around 18.20, and around the time the food was about to be done we kicked on Scotts door to wake him up from his beauty sleep to make sure he got some food before he was gonna take off for work.

I think we all enjoyed the dinner and had a nice time chatting about everything and nothing, I have posted some pictures from the evening below if you would like to have a look. 

/Jinxen

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