wonderful….wonderful

Another week another poker destination – this time EPT Copenhagen. As you know from my blog I love working the big poker events but there’s been so many in quick succession this year I’m suffering event blur!

One note of interest is that this trip was the first totally cashless trip I think I’ve ever had. I only visited the hotel and airport (a tragic but standard state of affairs for one of these working expeditions) and everything, including taxi, could be paid for by card and things in the hotel charged to the room. I expect in my lifetime cash will disappear altogether from our world. In fact it’s quite hard to get hold of and as a sometime live poker player can be a nightmare. Can someone please talk me through ‘daily withdrawal limits’ on my bank account??? It is ridiculous I can only take out a couple of hundred quid per day when it’s my money….

The EPT live broadcast was a blast as ever. Although the tournament final table featured some passive play bordering on the extreme including a very long (I think 3 and a half hours) heads up. James and I in the commentary booth struggled to keep it together and the chat became increasingly surreal and comedy based. I’d like to think it kept people watching during the ‘check down’ fest the play had become but it also might lead to us being sectioned as it was pretty random!

In other news its awards time in cinema and it looks like the Hurt Locker will sweep all before it. I think it’s a top notch film, very tense with amazing set pieces BUT it has a couple of problems in my eyes. First very few people have seen it furthering the disconnect between film establishment and the audience. Second I don’t think it will stand the test of time very well – it doesn’t have a ‘story’ as such and I don’t think really compels rewatching.

My films of the year were Avatar, UP and Inglorious Basterds – with a slight edge to Basterds. I actually think it’s a dark horse to win the Oscar as it’s a very actor and script driven film with an unusual take on a subject matter the academy loves. I found out yesterday it’s 16/1….lump on because it’s not the most likely to win but that is real value in my eyes.

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