Disaster

My good friend Blake a.k.a the illest a.k.a Empiremaker2 was supposed to fly in to Toronto on wednesday night and party here for a few days before we both go to Munich on Monday and then on to London for some WSOPe and EPT events.

The Canadian Customs officials had other plans.

He flies in to Toronto and is stopped mere meters from the outside of the airport and held up for hours. They apparently saw his old underage drinking and evading arrest misdemeanors on his record, and even though he never did any jail time and has had them wiped off his record they decided to not let him into the country. They presented him with two pretty terrible options:

1. Go home on the next flight

2. Go to Toronto jail

Since Jail wasn't really what Blake wanted to do in Toronto (they don't serve booze there and there's no women) He had to go home.

Why you wouldn't want a full blown king of degen in your Country is beyond me but I for one know that Canada will be missing Blake this weekend.

We tried to get a hold of various lawyers and even considered trying some type of massive escape where Blake makes a run for it and I pick him and ride to freedom but nothing came to fruition.

We won't be letting this stop us of course as Germany and London are happy to let him in to their countries so we will just meet up there. We are also meeting up with Max and maybe skier and some other poker players. I'm really excited for my first Oktoberfest, I've heard so many insane things about it. Has anyone reading this been before? Any things that I must do or see? Advice?

-Peter