Wow...I just realized how busy I've been lately without playing a single hand of poker.

Yesterday I finally picked up my car - 2008 Black Honda Civic. I'll put some pics up of it later, but don't have any at the moment. It's very nice though and it's great to finally have my own car.

On Tuesday I got an e-mail from CardPlayer asking to do an interview for CardPlayerTV. Well, I hardly ever turn down these kind of things - publicity can't hurt. So on Wednesday I did the interview, and literally 4 hours later it was already uploaded online.

Here's a link to it: CardPlayerTV

I thought I did a very good job. I think I'm finally gettin used to random interviews and publicity.

That's all for now...not sure what I'll be doing to celebrate my birthday...

Today Shawn Green contacted me asking if I'd be willing to do an interview for Cardplayer TV.

I see no reason to decline, so tomorrow I'll be on the phone with Shawn and the interview should be available on the Cardplayer website within a few days. If anyone's seen any of the cardplayer.com/tv video's you'll know what to expect. It's Shawn Green talking at a desk on video asking me questions over the phone. I feel very comfortable going into the interview, as I've done this about a dozen times now. I was kinda nervous during the p5's interview way back in June, but since then I've had a lot of media coverage/exposure and I'm not concerned or nervous about it at all.


Unfortunately I didn't get my car today. One of the parts was late, so I gotta wait until tomorrow. As you can imagine I'm chomping at the bit to pick it up. As I mentioned in my last post I'll take a few pictures of it when I get it in. I still haven't decided on what license plate to get...but I have some time.


Today I had dinner with my family celebrating my 20th birthday. My actual birthday is on October 18th - and boy it's somewhat depressing turning 20...I'm no longer a teenager and am getting old in poker years =(

Gah. I know I'm still a young man, but 20 is a pretty useless age, at least when I turned 19 I could play poker in Canada. 20 is just a demoralizing tease.

Sigh....

I finally got my car in and saw it today. Unfortunately it's not ready yet, I have to wait one more day for them to put the accessories on it, but Tuesday afternoon I should hopefully have it. I really don't want to be cliche and post a ton of pics of my car here, but I'll suck it up and post a few.

I'm still having the problem of deciding on a license plate. Here are just a few of the plates I've thought of or that people have suggested. Just click the links to see what they'd look like. If you wanna make your own then link them to me you can at this link


gg

hu4rolz

stndard

GIFAFI

heroc

afj

Pwns

4bet

I AM NLH

Spare Change

Today I went car shopping, and hung out with some friends.

I went to the Honda dealership to check out the Civic's. Turns out the 2007 models were basically the same price as the 08's so I test drove a 2008 2 door Civic Coupe EX. I pretty much immediately fell in love with it, and decided it was the car for me. So, I went back to the dealership and started the process of haggling. After adding a body kit, rear spoiler and some nicer interior lightning they offered 25k, which was very close to what most websites said it'd cost with the accessories I added.

Well, of course I'm not going to just let them run me over. I notified them that I would be paying in cash and offered to buy it for $22k. They counter offered $24k. I told them I was insulted by the offer and got up and left. I expected a phone call within a day or so telling me they'd offer $23k or something. Well, I ended up going straight from the dealership to Olive Garden to have dinner. About 30 minutes had past, and I got a call...ship it, Brand new Honda Civic for $22k w/accessories. Easiest $3k I've ever saved in my life.

Anyways, I don't have the car in my driveway yet. I wanted it in black, so they have to order it, then they have to add the custom accessories I requested. It'll take about 3-4 days until I have it, no biggie. I'm very excited about getting a new car. I absolutely loved it when I drove it, and I'm very confident in Honda's reliability. I'm thrilled that when I go to pick it up it'll have exactly zero miles on it =).

Now all I gotta do is come up with a cool custom license plate. I believe it's seven letters/numbers. So far I've had the suggestions:

"REBUY"
"IAM NLHE"
"PLUS EV"
"TY EPT"

Any suggestions are welcome, but for now that's all I got.

The last week I haven't played much poker, but have still been very busy.

I've been spending time with my family and doing some relaxing, but have also started working on my taxes and doing other chores. I bought a new Tempurpedic mattress, booked a suite in Niagara, scheduled a consultation for Lasik, and recently decided to buy a car.

Sorry, I'm not buying anything ridiculous - but it'll be nice and reliable. Currently looking at the 2007 Honda Civic Si as well as the 2007 Acura TL. I'm looking to spend around 20-30k for a new car, but again - I don't need a Porsche or anything. Some of my friends have spent over 100k and for a car and I kinda think that's silly and unpractical.

That's pretty much it for now. Thanks for reading