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England kick off their last 16 match against Germany in just under 8 hours and I can’t wait to see how it pans out. I feel that England may have been partially discounted or at least haven’t had the chance to flourish against the lesser teams.

Coral are offerring evens on the Germans winning if it goes to penalities. Regardless of how much England have ‘trained’ for penalties I can;t see them winning a shootout that often. Its not like Lampard doesn’t practice at Chelsea so I’m not sure how much of a difference this extra world cup penalty training has made. Anyway that’s the one place where I’m quite sure of value.

Looking back on the last year I’m chuffed I’ve managed to save a bit, got a nice car and in general a business with some value. Hopefully things can diversify and become more robust over the next 12 months. Although I’m doing well financially I’ve let myself down in almost every other area or at least not achieved certain things I would have liked to. My body clock is shit and I need to play a sport or work out more. Especially if I begin to do this full time, I need to begin to take it more seriously, work proper hours and a sport would really help me keep it broken up.

Anyway I hope by the next time I post here to update I’ve gotten myself back into Squash or something. Its a shame and I feel like I owe it to myself. From the ages of 11 – 17 I played / trained at least 5 times a week and went to tournements all over the country. I was good and ranked within the top 5 for my age group in Scotland however, it sort of got packed in for a number of reasons. I guess socialising took a front seat, exams at school, parents wanting a life of their own at the weekend instead of driving me to tournements and the fact I most probably wasn;t going to become a pro.

So now I’m 20 and have the freedom to train as much as I like, with the need to get fit. Hopefully, I actually do this.

Peace

England game is about to start. Got my strip today which I’m quite happy with, opted for the red one but, England should really be sponsored by Adidas or Nike. I know Umbro are an English company but they don’t make the strips like the big 2 imo.

I had a policy not to bet on this world cup and that went down the shitter on the 1st day. Was at a friends and had some commission left online. About £500 and I noticed France were 2.3 before the match to win. It seemed pretty good so it all went on and as we know Govou made a horrific miss and France can’t finish their dinner.

I’m not gna lie it felt bad. Real low.

Its not like I was going to feel on top the world after winning but, I feel like a real degenerate losing so much money especially in context.

Other news: iPoker software still hasn’t changed although things keep getting better for iPokerVIP.

I’m looking into affiliating in other industries and setting up a site like: comparethepizza.com and allowing customers to compare the best pizza deals at the big 3 (accross the UK) ; Pizza Hut, Dominos and Papa Johns.

That’;s something I’ll be looking into next week although I’ve got the affiliate agreement worked out with most of them – then its just the site and marketing.

Go On England !

Tags: affiliate, iPoker News, Playtech, poker, software, Update, World Cup

Back from Gib now and had a really good time. It was nice to put a face to all the people I talk to day in and day out. It was actually a pretty awesome place; Beautiful weather, everything was pretty cheap and amazingly close to a ton of other places. A pretty good hub to have for sure.

On my last night I went over into Spain into a town/city ? called La Linea. Got a taxi to the border, get out and flash your passport and your in Spain (if its British they’re only interested in the cover – even when you go to airports it seems British passports are pretty much golden and don’t get scrutinized at all. I’m not complaining ofcourse – just saying.)

I went up the rock a few days before I left with a good friend who lives in one of the nicest apartments I’ve ever seen ! Anyway apart from taking a stupid route and not taking any water I really enjoyed the views. From the top you could see Morocco, all of Gib and Spain. It was pretty amazing when thinking of how geographically close these 3 places are but, how culturally different they are. I mean Gib is just sunny Britain (nothing wrong with that!).

I stayed a little longer in Gib hoping to meet Korn from PokerStrategy. I met a community manager in a bar one night and Korn seemed to have a big problem with me talking to him. I was accused of  soliciting him on 2+2 which is so LOL and I’d welcome any legal action. Its just complete unsubstantiated shit. I thought he was a great guy when talking to him and will admit to being on the hustle and trying to get him a VIP deal through iPokerVIP even although he was wearing a PS hoody but, unfortnatley the main thing that came accross in the conversation was how keen I was to meet Korn and learn in depth about him as a person and their business model.

Ofcourse it never happend and anyone wanting to discuss Korn’s warped view of the industry has to get their hands dirty in the threads which ultimatley resolves very little. People end up getting flamed and more entrenched in their original views. A face to face meeting would have been far more constructive.

Anyway it was the fact I was accused on 2+2 of doing a ton of illegal things and being dodgy which is just rubbish. I wire thousands to players every week and I’ve never heard anyone complain concerning the service I offer them.

Overall Gib was awesome and I was really pleased to meet people from Victor Chandler who are top guys. An affiliate or a player couldn’t ask for anymore.  I urge everyone to try and qualify for the beat victor challenge – you’ll have a great time.

As for iPoker – the network is still recovering and the software is being fixed. I really hope things turn around – I’d hate for the market to become even more top heavy. Although if it did and Stars and FTP got a slap on the wrist things would change so fast I could maybe establish myself as one of the big dogs. Playtech are a big company and I doubt they’ll let a market like this slip away.

Anyway that’s me for now

Tags: Gibraltar, iPoker News, online, Playtech, poker, Pokerstrategy, VC, vcpoker, victor chandler