I’m back. Sri Lanka is hot. Breaks are good.

I always like coming back after a break.

I haven’t played poker for nearly 2 weeks now. I did try to play from our hotel room on the second day — caught the end of their monsoon season and there was a mahoosive storm — but the internet connection was dire and it cut out constantly. (I think the people that power it weren’t peddling fast enough).

I kinda broke my break though — I couldn’t help myself playing for an hour in the airport on the way back. Long haul flight, 2 hours to kill, what else am I gonna do?

Paid ~£1.50 for the hour and I even managed to attract a small audience of brown people around me as I touchpadded my way through an epic baby-stakes profit session of $50 across 3xNL25 tables at Full Tilt.

When I say “audience”, I mean that there were 2 dudes who ran the hairport’s wi-fi zone and apparently they liked the look of my shiny Apple laptop and had nothing better to do than watch me play a game they didn’t even understand.

Oh and I’m not bragging about the Apple thing. I bought my 17″ Macbook pro — with poker money (<-- that was a brag) — about 2 years ago, and it was a crap decision.

Don’t believe the hype. There’s nothing special about Apples. An extra £200-300 for a pretty case and an Early Learning Centre OS? pfff, jokers.

Anyway, taking a break was supposed to be the important bit. I tend to autopilot when I play too much, like I did before the holiday. Now’s the perfect time to correct bad habits.

Off to the tables.

P.S. I met an elephant for the first time. That pic is of me standing next to “her”, and so are these. (The big grey thing in the middle is the elephant — I’m on the left).

That thing is BIG. I’m 6′3 so… yeah. The middle pic is me setting a hideously bad example to my little brother. Chair swinging with a cig. It’s really a great combo, and it’s especially effective since I don’t see him very often anymore. I blame the all-inclusive beer.