The British Empire

I have definitely noticed my postings are coming fewer and further between, and I'll be honest, I'm not happy about it. There are one or two rather feeble reasons, which don't do you readers any justice, so I'm not going to dwell on them. I think I am going to post smaller, more regular pieces as well as the longer more detailed accounts.
I have been playing, rather ALOT. It is tournament time here in the West, and the colourful city of Commerce has been sucking the life out of me, but there have been some amusing moments.
So I was sitting quietly, minding my own business (well, trying not to listen to the needless drivel one has to put up with at the table) when this chap across from me yells, 'I've got it!' and points his scrawny index finger at me. Well thinks I, I can't just ignore this fool, and so quip back, 'ahhhh, good sir, and what do you have?' and then mutter quietly, 'the clap?'
The greatest thing about the dry sense of humour we Brits have, is that a good deal of the people who live here, don't get it, added to which they never understand me anyway, but unabated he continued, 'you remind me of one of those English Lord's who colonised our country'. Cue a wry smile from Lord F, I tell you these whiskers are a jolly powerful tool.
'you just never know who might turn up at a poker table dear fellow, and which part of the empire do you happen to be from?' And as innocently as he had thrust his finger at me, he began telling me all about the British and our colonisation of Russia. Marvellous I thought, he's a stark raving loony because I'm pretty sure Russia looked far too much like hard work for us to colonise. I tell you what, he must be a fine judge of character all the same, but I switched off and went back to twiddling my moustache, with the occasional grunt.

I haven't been winning big, but I have been pretty much breaking even for the last month. It only takes one tournament to get that figure nicely up into profit, but for the time being, paying the bills and keeping a roof over the head is the priority, and that's what we're managing. I just busted one right now, and find these musings a great way to calm the nerves.
Tomorrow is another day - I wonder how many times a gambler says/thinks that in his lifetime when it doesn't quite go his way! Same thing again tomorrow, and I've got a feeling Lord F's time is coming.
'The more I practise the luckier I get' - Gary Player

Practise hard and be luckier!

Lord F