I arrived today at my Vegas house, and the cataylst for this blog post is that I'm awkwardly fidgetting with my laptop while the Mexican cleaners finish up whatever it is they've still got to do (I arrived 2 hours ago, it was spotless, it's still spotless, they're still cleaning). I hate sitting around while older people clean around me, it just feels wrong and I feel like I should be jumping around helping then, but I Just. Don't. Want. To.

That's why I got rid of my cleaner at home in fact.

A few things good and bad about the house. First the good- it actually exists! I don't know why, I just felt like sending $3k to a random guy 6000 miles away with no references and no clue about anything was a bad idea. Added to that hIs name, 'Byron Burns' and the street 'Nancy Margrite Lane' just sound soooooo made up. But hey, here I am.

Staying on the good- it's big, and the internet works. And even though I'm in 'Old' Vegas, Baltimore is kept separated from the entire neighbourhood by a giant fence the whole way around.

The bad- erm, leaves in the swimming pool. I know they're not going to kill me or anything, it's just..... less ideallic than the picture.

Oh and it's $40 taxi from the strip. I wanted to hire a car, but I couldn't find my licence, so now an $80 daily taxi toll looms large.

I've won money at poker again this month, around $15k from 400nl on the 15th, so looks like I'm still getting somewhere on that front.

I played some cash last night, 500nl in the MGM. I recorded all my hands in my phone bobbo-style, but they're probably tedious. Ok one hand, ~140bbs deep.

UTG young guy raises to 5x, folded to me OTB with AJo, I call blinds fold.

Flop J73r, he checks, I bet, he check raises small, I call.

Turn is an A. He looks pained, actually super pained. Then bets $130 into the $150 pot. Hmm, call.

River is an 8, albeit bringing in the backdoor flush. Now his exaggerated look of pain goes up a notch, then starts making a speech about how I've obviously hit the backdoor flush draw. He grabs his hair, furrows his brow, looks distinctly unhappy, then puts his remaining $450 into the $400 pot.

I'm trying to get better at live tells and incorporating them this year, and had I had AK or something here I might've found some fold given he was doing EVERYTHING in the textbook manner of having top set or whatever.

Why do I even think this much? I called, he showed KK.

World Cup wise, England are embarrassing themselves again. World beaters for their clubs, they put on an England shirt and play like me. Next match 7am Vegas time, all the (objective) evidence says we're going to lose, and I advise all of you, given the long odds, to make that bet.

dan