Quarterly Review - hmph
A pretty dire quarter comes to a close, with me registering my first losing 3 month period in over a year. $5,300 was the damage, and results in a disappointing end to a good year on the poker front. Consequently,…
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Year End Fast Approaching
December is never the best for poker, as players have other family commitments to worry about, so I guess I am entering the last 4 weeks of playing time for the year, before taking a couple of weeks off and…
Bits and Pieces
The Main Event is underway at the Rio, the 4th opening day having just been completed. From my brief review of the action, it seems that not a lot has changed from last year. Poor deep stacked play is the…
Quarterly Review
I was bitten by a donkey on Sunday. This being a poker blog, I imagine you think I am talking about a poker analogy, but no, I was actually bitten by a real donkey. I was at a donkey sanctuary…
Frustrating Day - Newcastle UKPT Main Event
Yesterday was an extremely frustrating tournament in Newcastle, involving a tough table and tough laydowns. My table included two former UKPT winners (Jerome Bradpiece and Jeff Kimber) and last year's UKPT Grand Final winner (Michael Ellis). Add to that two…
Online Weekend + Upcoming Live Events
Played a number of tournaments on Friday night, and it didn't go too well. I think I cashed once quite deep in the PokerStars 25k guaranteed, but this was not enough to prevent me being USD 800 down for the…
Quarterly Review
Well, I guess to keep on top of your game you need to consistently evaluate how you've done, and set yourself goals for the future, so I thought this would be a good point to review progress. The Labour government…
2008 off and running
Blog is back folks. 2008 should be a promising year as a few of my non poker related issues should be resolved in the next month. My poker year will pretty much run from March 2008 to February 2009, as…