PokerStars Festival London: Sea-lions, Judy Garland and Felipe Ramos; treading the boards at the Hippodrome
If you travel the world for business, you get accustomed to shrugging it off when friends tell you how jealous they are. They talk green-eyed about your lucky, jet-set lifestyle, imagining that you step off the plane and on to the beach.
Much like the travelling salesman who knows that the truth of it actually means trading one out-of-town business park and travel tavern for a foreign out-of-town business park and travel tavern, people on the international poker circuit know that this world isn't as glamorous as you might think. The one thing you learn quickly is that the inside of casinos tend to look remarkably similar regardless of country and even continent. You've seen one blackjack pit, you've seen them all.
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