November 2008 Archives

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After snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in my heat in England, I moved swiftly onwards to Amsterdam where I'm told I wasted a lot of valuable Amsterdam time by finishing within a couple of tables of the bubble in both the Omaha and the main event. If this is indeed true, it will have to be put down as very careless.

On an early break I bumped into a good friend of the Irish, two time WSOP bracelet winner Jan Sorensen. The last time I'd seen Jan was in Galway last January where he was unusually bemoaning his luck and worse still, expressing doubts about whether he could ever win again in the modern game.

In Amsterdam he told me he hadn't played since then but then smiled broadly whilst he said that he'd been keeping very busy gambling on football. He burst out laughing when I asked him if he was winning, which I didn't take to be a very good sign. I lost all interest in the tournament when the last Ireland and Boyle's man, Alan Betson, got practically bubbled. A couple of days after I got home Jesse May told me Jan had won. I hope 600,000 is less than he lost on the soccer for the year!

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A few weeks ago I got a phone call at five in the morning from Stormin' Norman. For years, Norman drove a bus by day and played poker all night, which is why I always take taxis (they might all be at it).

I figured it couldn't be good news so I went on the attack with a "Do you know it's five o'clock in the morning?" "Sorry", said Norman "I forgot you were an hour ahead in France." Sometimes you just can't win.

A couple of weeks later, I was in Maidstone in Kent, playing in and doing what passes for a commentary on a TV poker tournament. During a break, Norman phoned me again to thank me for the small favour I'd done him after the last time we spoke. We had a laugh about this and that for a while before Norman got around to mentioning that he'd be available to play any tournament I couldn't attend myself but felt like sticking somebody into. I asked him if he'd mind travelling to Cork. "Why? Is there a tournament on down there?" asked Norman quite excitedly. "No", I replied. "But that's where the end of the queue is!" That'll teach him.

Over the last few weeks it feels like my luck is starting to change a bit. Nothing terrible, but I've lost some big hands at key moments and have been pretty card dead for prolonged periods in recent tournaments.

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You might have read Marty Smyth's recent blog from the 888.com UK Poker Open. I also played this event in the Boylepoker.com colours and while I didn't win the $250k first prize on offer, I did manage to make the semi-final and scrape back a few dollars!

I've played 2 tournaments since the last time of writing. I wish to god I had played three. I managed to turn a total freeroll into a 13k loss when I decided to skip the EPT 2k side event in favour of playing online for the day. I promptly lost 13k. I'd had a couple of small wins before that and I've been doing ok since, so I'm around level again for the last couple of weeks.

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