What’s happening people? I’ve had a very pleasant few days since I last wrote in this blog. I spent a few days playing poker online at more relaxed pace since being let out of the bet before Chris, Stevo and I planned to go down to the beach house for the weekend. A couple days ago I even had a large score in the Stars nightly for $18,509 when I took second, making me feel considerably better about planning to take the rest of the month off.

As it turns out, we had to cancel the trip to the beach house for a number of reasons. As a result, I’ve moved up my departure to Hawaii and am leaving on Sunday afternoon, about 36 hours from now. I’ll be staying in Hawaii for about two and a half weeks before coming over to the Sydney APPT, staying at my friend Cade’s place while on the island. Cade is the son of famous American/New Zealand poker player and personal friend Lee Nelson. We met in Auckland and hit it off instantly and I told him I’d swing by to visit Hawaii as soon as possible. As it turned out, it ended up being very soon.

To touch briefly on the last entry, Celina and I are in fact broken up. However, we’ve done so very amicably and peacefully, and we continue to remain close and are speaking casually daily. We’ll hang out regularly around the APPT stops and have no current resentment or hard feelings, we simply both feel we have different priorities in life right now. I wish her the best of luck going forward in poker and in life. I want to stress to people that I’m not in any sort of freak out or melt down stage as a result of the break up. Yes, I’ll be taking a vacation as any break up can leave a lot of things on your mind, but I’m feeling very level headed and positive about the future. I would also like to say a major thank you to everyone who reached out and offered an ear to listen, I’m sure you’re all thrilled I didn’t opt to complain directly into it.

I’ve even got some creative writing done during this break in the form of an article that will show up on the front page of pocketfives in the very near future. Even though I’ll be playing minimal poker in Hawaii I’ll likely still be updating my blog regularly, though I have a feeling it will be much more drunken shenanigans oriented during my period there.

Currently my plan going forward is to visit Hawaii until late November, then attend Sydney APPT. After that I’ll spend the rest of December in Melbourne and hang out until after the Aussie Millions finishes in late January. At that point I’ll likely move to Hawaii for a period of time, though I’m not sure how long term. For the first time in quite a while I’m kind of free to end up wherever I choose, but after I ran through all the logical options and pros and cons of each I decided Hawaii makes the most sense. So unless my visit there results in my completing hating it somehow, it looks like where I’m headed at the moment. After that, who knows? The world is my oyster as they say. Perhaps I’ll convince myself that going around the world in 90 days as a single man would make interesting reading…or maybe I’ll just stay home and grind to my hearts content. I’ll just play it as it comes.

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