August 2010 Archives

I heard there was a big gambler in the sports on Sunday night, so I decide to head in Monday night and see what the craic is. He sat into the 2/5 NL Hold'em game and made it €50 to go pre every hand. He started off sitting about €15k deep. I couldn't make a hand and was down about €1k in the game.

When I play poker in Cork I'm generally more enthusiastic about the game. I've often wondered why this is the case. I usually get some kind of a result there, but I'm not that fickle about the game to be that result orientated.

Congratulations to Drew C on winning last week's caption competition with the following entry:

"The scene just before the car keys get thrown on the table and the swingers party gets under way!"

The boobie prize goes to: Gerry Bishop who loses 1 days holidays for his unfunny comment!

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The main event at Macau is a great tournament, with a pretty good value field and a great structure. I was intending to take it a bit more seriously than I did the PLO.

Well last weekend just went from bad to worse. On Friday, I was doing alright online until a disastrous period hit. I ran pretty bad, but certainly didn't minimise my losses and made some very poor decisions. I dropped $50k of the $60k I was up for the last 2 weeks.

I've finally gotten off the mark for the year, winning my first live tournament at the Castle Card Club in Castlebar. In fact, it's the first live tournament I've won since the Poker Million in 2008.

Congratulations to Robbie on winning last week's caption competition with the following entry:

"As the all-night party comes to a close,John does his "I'm a little tea-pot" party peice to clear the hangers on!"

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I'm currently in Cork for the seven-day Macau festival. This is one of my favourite festivals of the year and while I've had no luck in the shoot-out and short-handed events so far, I'm still very hopeful I can bag myself a decent result before the week's out.

I've had a nice week of poker, with last Friday being the highlight when I scooped about $10k. It was like the old days on Boylepoker, with a good few $5-10 and $10-20 PLO games running and plenty of fishys about.

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Well, as planned, I put another €10k on Boylepoker with the full intention of abandoning the grinding approach.

Congratulations to Gutshot Kidd on winning last week's caption competition with the following entry:

"MTV Cribs in Dundalk is a completely different show."

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Well, when I came back, I put about $7k on both Boylepoker and another site. The plan was to grind it up.

Well, I have started back slowly and haven't been really playing any long or grueling sessions. Played about 8 x 2/3 hours sessions so far, playing mainly 2/4, 3/6 and half stacking 5/10 PLO.

Congratulations to BC on winning last week's caption competition with the following entry:

"WSOP emergency planning in the event the table draw ever pits Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker, Jimmy Fricke, Doyle Brunsen, Todd Brunsen, Dusty Schmidt and Robert Williamson III at the same table."

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After Tramore, myself and Marty went to the Carton House for a couple of rounds of golf with Paul Spillane and then headed onto Galway.

Finally, I have some good news regarding poker. I feel like I'm kind of clutching at straws, when I'm reporting a couple of results in 1 table S'n'Gs as good news but after Vegas I'm happy to take any result I can get.

I'm back home and back to the grind. Got home Sunday morning and have just been running errands since then. I've also put in three sessions.