I am moving on the 4th of July into my new flat, it is situated in the Park area of Glasgow overlooking Kelvingrove Park. I was actually set to move into a new flat a couple of weeks ago but it was pulled at the last minute by the owner. It will be very nice during the summer period coming up as the top entrance to the Park is right on my doorstep. I might now actually get to use my mountain bike which has been gathering dust over the past year!
This is a picture of the flats main living room area. The living room area is huge and will be perfect for a Poker/Internet/Gaming set up. I will post better photos when I move in. It has 3 double bedrooms and one of my buddies Tom(IceGod) will be renting one of those rooms from me. He is moving from the USA to visit/stay in Scotland for a while. He is an ex-gamer and has been a professional poker player for the past two years grinding the $100 and $200 NL games. Hopefully I can get him up to the next level whilst he stays with me.
Poker has been going average for me over the past 3-4 months. I have been playing 80% of the time at $2000/$2500 NL short handed, 10% of the time at $2000 NL full ring and the other 10% at £2000 NL($3600) and $5000 NL levels. I keep pretty detailed session statistics and for the past 3 months I have earned $606 per hour multi tabling 4-6 tables. I am happy with this but it certainly isn't spectacular and there is room for improvement for sure. Once you play full time at the $3600 to $5000 level I think you can expect around $1000+ per hour on average if you are amongst the best players there or alternatively you can 10-12 table $2000 NL for probably roughly the same. That is cheating though and I consider it working nearly twice as hard anyway =). Hourly rate in my opinion is the most important statistic for a poker player to rate his play on over a prolonged period of time.
I got an XBOX 360 and five games for it :- Fight Night, Perfect Dark Zero, Project Gotham Racing, Burnout Revenge and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. My favorite so far is Project Gotham Racing which will look even more amazing on the HDTV I will be buying for my new flat. However, the game I have played the most is a game called
Geometry Wars which I am now kind of addicted too. It is like a really modern Asteroids type game which is simple but addictive. My highest score so far is 1.3 million and puts me in the top 7000 players in the world =). Better than being just in the top 250,000 which I was last week. XBOX Live is also surprisingly good and easy to use, all the games having online ladders where you can compare your scores with other gamers. You can also compete in multiplayer games which I tried briefly with Project Gotham Racing, it seemed very responsive and skillful.
The new season of High Stakes Poker has just aired on American TV and the first episode is already out on torrent. You can grab it over at
The Poker Bay.
I am still playing World of Warcraft and started a new character YET AGAIN. I must have played this game enough to have 4 Level 60's but alas the highest I have ever been is Level 42! This time I am 100% comitted to getting Level 60 and trying out some the high level instances and messing around with high level PVP. I am currently at Level 32 with a Tauren Warrior on the Chromaggus server on Europe under the nickname NealElias.
