Going to Westbrook, CT for the day (leaving shortly) but I have a ton of updates to make. My uncle has a beach house there so I'll be able to relax and have fun / all that stuff today. Anyway...

The main post I want to "get out" is that I still haven't gotten the deposit from my Boston apartment back. The security + last month was 5,200$, and technically I was supposed to get it within 30 days of leaving (I ended the lease early, June 1st) and that never happened. Dave Tufts (my roommate) and I had an issue with this. Anyway, a few days ago we got the check - or what was left of it. 1,000 dollars. Yes, it's sick. Basically, the landlord tried to (is trying, I should say) take advantage of us, as he deducted 2,600 for Realtor fee (when he was supposed to eat the realtor fee) and another 1,200 for carpet replacement (which was both exorbitant and unnecessary). We both were expecting ~4k+ back.

As it turns out, (the ongoing past few days) our landlord "Mark" (never go to Jet Realty, as they practice shoddy business) didn't exactly cross all his "t's" nor dot all his "i's". You see, Dave's mom is a lawyer and spotted the fact he never put our deposit in an interest bearing account. (Which by the letter of the law he's required to do) Anyway, we're entitled (or we believe) to 3x the amount + damages. (or something like this) We'll see how this all washes out, but since we were treated so poorly/they tried to take us through the ringer, it will feel good (I HOPE!) to enact some revenge. So, basic message of this blog post is: It's terrible when people take advantage of you, and sometimes you can't do anything about it (like we thought would be the case here) but we have a chance to enact justice so we're going to pursue it as much as we can. (We only wanted the ~4k we felt we should get back, but now we may be able to recover more, we'll see)

Note that I still am owed deposit from the Vegas people, but everytime I've called them, they've hid behind the shield of "30 days" to give me back deposit, which ends tomorrow. So, come the end of labor day, I hope to collect that too.

I've been visiting my mom in West Hartford, CT for the past 4 days. It's been pretty decent, I got the book release out (if you haven't gotten it yet, contact me via PM) which I'm eager to hear how it's accepted - not much is written about 3bet pots (playing as the caller) so hopefully it's a good learning platform... I think I'll be here for a few more days*

Mikech told me he played in a 50-100 game at the Bellagio 2 days ago, I'm a little bummed he didn't contact me about buying a piece (it was really late EST so he assumed I'd miss the call) and the lineup was Guy Laliberte, 2 friends of Guy's that were in town for the fashion week or whatever it was, Charles Oakley, an Indian businessman, another French guy not affiliated with Guy who was also there for French week, Mike, and only 1 other good pro. A lineup like this never happens online and is likely a once a year type game live. The hands Mike told me were just so unreal, it really goes to show poker is all about game selection. (It was playing like .1-.25, people were raising after limpers to 5k...) Would've been nice to have a % of that!

Moving on, there is a small life lesson I've been thinking about which is not saying everything on my mind (in public) that I could have said - I generally withhold alot, call it experience or wisdom I suppose, but the reasoning is most conflicts that could come up are not worth the positive functioning. Who knows. (This applies specifically to politics or religion)

While I've been here, I've visited my grandmother twice with my mom. My grandma has Alzheimer's and it's gotten pretty bad. Visits are pretty frustrating, but I do them for my mom. My grandmother ends up asking 5 or 6 questions again and again, and it's hard to keep answering them. (She broke her hip not too long ago, and constantly forgets that she can't walk right now) In highschool, one time I was playing omaha hi lo online with a few friends nearby, and she called me. I couldn't really focus on the phonecall since I was playing, and I got involved in a big pot. (At the time) I ended up scooping it, and in my exuberance, I yelled "Grandma, SCOOOOOOP!" which whenever "grandma" or "omaha8" is brought up, certain friends never miss the chance to yell that. My grandmother used to play poker regularly at foxwoods... (Low limit stuff obv) One time I played for 20$ 3handed stud against a cousin of mine named Yale and my grandmother. I won. Should i have lost on purpose? :/

So, plans to come: I want to go to Europe. I want to go to Europe for a long time. I'm pretty sure within a few weeks (deciding whether to go to the Borgata in 2 weeks or not for the WPT) I'm going to fly to London, then from there go to Sweden. I have it set in my mind that I just love that area. Not sure why, I suppose I've had great interactions with Scandis... The main thing I need to clear up though is the whole full book release, which I'm waiting on a certain person to finish up a certain forum. (hmmm) I think that's it for now, it certainly had been a while since my last update!