Karmic Taxi Moments - Volcanic Ash and a trip to Monte Carlo!

by Phil

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Karmic Taxi Moments:

Last night had dinner with my favorite curmudgeon... Neil Channing.  He took me to a favorite haunt of his called Maguro on 5 Lanark Place.  (I am still in Lodon. Volcanic Ash.. that whole thing.. did I tell you about that?... not sure... can't remember... hmmm... well, if after I write this first bit I will tell you all about it.)

Dinnner.  Maguro.  Great little Japanese food place near where he lives.  Half way into the meal the taxi driver that got us there comes walking into the restaraunt.  I would not have recognized him except for the fact that he was walking straight towards me and had my phone and camera in hand!  Wow, 40 minutes had passed since we got out of that taxi.  How absent minded of me!  How could I just just leave these things behind like that?  (I would have been on uber sick tilt had I lost these things.)  And how could I have been so out of it that I had no idea either was missing? 

I think the answer is that I was just in a happy forgetful state of mind and it all just completely slipped my mind. 

Needless to say I was beyond myself with joy that not only were these things found and returned to me.  Wow, and how lucky to have never known that they were missing?  That is a bonus sliver of lucky that I had not even thought of til just this moment.

I got to skip over the inevitable grief that follows when someone realizes they have left something impt behind in a taxi!  

I would like to give a kind shout out to the cizilized people of England who for centuries before this moment have run their society with kindness and fairness.  Paying special attention to politeness and niceties the UK has emerged as an example that the rest of the world can look up to when it comes to all getting along as a big group (namely a country).  This one random taxi guy moment is just indicative of how all the people in this great country are kind and thoughtful and really go out of their way to do the right thing. 

Thank you England.

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Volcanic Ash:

After the televised cash game that Jennifer and I came over for we were scheduled to fly back to Vegas on the 15th (of this month).  But we had to miss that flight as a volcano errupted over Iceland and 40,000 Americans were trapped over night in London.  Jennifer and I were two of those people.  Our flight home was rescheduled for the 21st (wow... a 6 day delay, incredible).  Luckily Jennifer and I love London, but this meant that we would be missing the 25k Bellagio event.

With such a long delay, we actually got near to the start time for the Monte Carlo EPT.  I played it last year and it was a great event. (Lots of soft spots and well run.)  It was maybe the 3rd or 4th easiest field over the past year - world wide - 10k events and higher.  So it was sort of a no brainer.  And in 4 hrs we fly to Monte Land to battle it out with the others that are there.  Stoked.

John Taba will be there too and this is good.  I managed to get only about 20 mins of quality time with him on this 2 week trip to London.  And that is way under par for what I would hope for.  I will catch up in Monte Land for sure.

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Monte Carlo:

Going there in 4 hrs.  So stoked.  Wow!  Because of the Volcanic Ash situation many players wont be able to show.  This meant some room cancellations.  The turny is at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel.  I got very lucky (again!) and snatched up one of those rooms (hopefully sea side view) and that makes me happy.  Being in the same hotel as the event makes taking breaks and the like that much easier.  The option of shooting up to your room real fast is especially great for those one hour dinner breaks.  I love having that option.  

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Life is good...

Catch ya later.

Phil