Well, Galway was a bit a bit disappointing for a few reasons. First off, the numbers they got weren't great. The satellite and main event got 21 but it's a new event and hopefully it will kick on from here.

Haven't really gotten back to the grind since I got home. I've been trying to make a large withdrawal, but these things take time and I don't want to go to war with a large account behind me.

Well, the sick run has continued since my last blog. Kicked on with my online spin and had great success at $50/100 PLO.

Wow what a week! I went from nearly being on a flight home after a disastrous trip, to having my best week of poker ever.

Ok, well nothing has changed in Vegas. Myself and Dave played the $1k PLO with a bunch of spastics; it got only 18 runners.

Just arrived in Vegas, I loved the feeling of arriving here, especially at night.

Well thank Christ I'm leaving this place in the morning. Went down to give the cash games here one last spin. I decided to go in for $7k while playing $12k and then this hand developed.

Well next up was the the $5k PLO, we were losing about $35k for the trip so a cash was needed in this. It had only 23 runners but the field was still soft enough. I finished 12th after losing a pretty big flip. Butty (Dave Callaghan) marched on to the final table chip leader, but with only three getting paid he still had a lot to do.

Played the $500 PLO rebuy the last two days. Me and Dave (the Butt) decided to go 50/50 on it, fearing it could get messy as we are were both running very bad.

Well there has certainly been no improvement in my fortunes, in fact there have been further "dis-improvements". Ugh, where to start?

I arrived in Biloxi and have to say, I'm really enjoying it so far, even though I lost in my first poker session. The hotel is really nice and very reasonably priced and the chat at the poker table is absolutely hilarious!

Leaving the Bahamas and moving onto WPT Biloxi on the 13th. Poker wise, the Bahamas went well enough - despite not running too great. I cashed in the main event for $20k (1/10) which is a nice start to the year.

Arrived in the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas the other day. The size of the thing is ridiculous; not only does it have its own island, but also its own toll bridge going to the island.

Facing into my 5th year as a serious poker player. I ended the first three on the biggest upswings I've ever had, but this year November and December represent my biggest downswing so far.

Well, was no good in the high roller, didn't play well in it at all and ran QQ into AA. Won nearly $10k for the week, but $6k of that came from sports betting.

Well it's a bit of a mixed bag down here, I seem to be taking two steps forward then one back everyday. It kinda feels like I am going nowhere, but a small profit is being recorded.

Morocco has been a very welcome change for me. I've traded the hours of endless darkness in Ireland and doing my bollix in the cold, for winning and waking up to breakfast on the balcony in the morning sunshine.

Well, lost a fair bit last week. I was down $40k at one stage, but got out doing just under $30k, which in some ways feels like a result.

Well, still doing my bollix. Down $11.5k already this week in poker and won $2.5k from sports betting. When you're continuously losing, you do a lot of thinking - well it's more doubting yourself than thinking.

Well the Irish got the job done, but the French are being a right pain in the hole this weather. Still got out of the weekend with some profit from my sports betting efforts, but that didn't put much of a dent in my poker loses. I lost over $20k for the week.

Things are going shite over here. I'm out of the main and doing my testicles in online cash. To be honest, I'm not playing well at all but this is also coupled with not being dealt the best hand.

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I was playing live every day for the past week in Portugal. The hotel didn't have wireless in the rooms (just the lobby) and if truth be told, I couldn't be arsed getting up early to do a blog.

Yep, after a countless amount of attempts I eventually got a PCA package last week and then another one this week. I'm now going straight for the guzzler and a 3rd!

As the title suggests, I have to go play poker in the Bahamas in January. Won a package last night worth $16k, so instead of freezing my nuts off here in January, I shall be kicking it on some beach (well inside some casino that is near a beach).