| 07 May | Combining work and playPosted by Masterplan79th on 7:06PM, 7th May 2006Permalink |  Send to a friend |  RSS feed |
Well, going into the final few weeks of my degree with high expectations hasn't served me too well. last week me and PB were in london for the maxim magazine king of poker final. PB was playing i just got to watch and play the free tables upstairs. but who did i end up sitting down with? Brandon Block and Michael Greco which turned out to be difficult because they wre all playing in their own celebrity only tournament later on that night. so after seeing several all ins with Q9o K5o and pocket 3's i found myself Under the Gun with pocket tens and thought, i'll move in and hope for a weak caller. i get 2 callers, yup you guessed it, both of them, 9 seater table and both the celebs call. they both had more chips than me from picking up smaller pots so when some betting came on the flop, which only had a king on it to worry me, i was still feeling pretty good. then brandon folds and greco turns over ... AA. great huh? i'm boned i tell myself, tap the table stand up and go to the free bar. now my dissertation was due in on friday, and maxim was wednesday night, having only started the 10,000 words on the monday, i wasnt feeling too confident of finishing, and after spending the whole day thrusday drinking in central london (it was the sunniest day of the year i wasnt going to waste it) and getting home at midnight. doing the remaining 6000 words of my dissertation didnt seem liek fun, so i slept in and am going to end up handing it in late. which would be fine if it wasnt for my EXAM TOMORROW, which i was revising for using my lecture notes on the university website until it CRASHED at about 3pm and hasnt come back up since, now we have 1 set of notes between all 3 of the computer scientists in this house, and tbh its not going to go well. hopefully, by handing my dissertation in on tuesday (losing 10% off my marks) and doing ok (60%+) in my exam tomorrow, a good performance (75%+) in my final 2 exams will still guarantee me my first. it will have been a fairly wasted effort for the last 3 years to only scrape a 2:1 and get my masters next year with only that... now if only i could stop playing poker and sit down and do my revision :p
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