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The WSOP Europe was a bit of a disappointment for the Irish team. I led the charge by finishing a few spots off the bubble in the £1000 No Limit event. The good news was that I got knocked out in time to catch the last 20 minutes of the United v City match. The bad news was that if I'd known they were going to play 14 minutes injury time, I could have hung around and at least made the money. A couple of days later, Dave Callaghan and John O'Shea finished in a heap on the bubble in the £5000 Omaha which is a real dirty one because not alone did they do their dough, they finished within about 20 spots of a bracelet.

I played the TV thing on Friday and as I am sure you have seen from Reesy's blog he took me clean out by the roots. It was the same story as the last 6 weeks, I didn't run or play good. It's been like this for 6 weeks now and I am fully hating poker.

So I played on the 'Late Night Stars of Irish Poker' show thing on Friday night out in Citywest. For those of you that are not familiar with the tournament basically there are eight heats each comprising of two pro's, two celebrities and two internet qualifiers.

Each heat is shown then on RTE 2 I think on Sunday nights and the winner of each heat goes through to a final eight where they compete for the $50,000 prize pool. I'm not yet aware of the payout structure.

John Fox said something about how the best time to play was 3am on the last Friday of the month, and that playing just that hour every month wouldn't necessarily be what you wanted to do, but it would still be profitable!

Playing these $200 and $500 SNG's and running pretty bad in them. However its a good lol because you can basically lose fuck all in them compared to playing PLO. Think I am doing $1,5k in them after a litany of bads beats, usually just takes one bad beat to do that much.

I've been fairly busy since my last update, but still not much success on the tournament front. I travelled to Galway to play a bounty tournament and cash game in the 4 Aces Club, then stopped off in Dublin on my way home for a charity tournament, before flying over to Nottingham the next day for the $1 million guaranteed English Poker Open. From Nottingham, I got the train to London for the WSOPE and now I'm at home for a few days rest before I go back to London for another two week stint for the EPT.

Five straight losing weeks in poker hasn't happened in quite sometime, it's been at least a year anyway. I think I lost about $40k over the 5 weeks, which isn't really that bad and if I could have engineered a dogging or two in London, it could have been a different story - but we are where we are.

Well I busted 5 off the money in the £5k WSOPE PLO. Don't think I have ever been as gutted after a tourney than I was yesterday - not just because I didn't make the money but because there were several times in the tournament where I was simply out classed.

I am not sure if this refers to my life or my trip to London. I'm getting quite tempted to walk out in front of a bus. Got knocked out of the £2.5k round of each in a tourney that was pretty uneventful for me and exited in a pretty standard hand.

Hey guys, as usual it's been a while since my last post. So what's new? Well, since my last update the tennis season has come to a close, which is always welcome since I get quite sick of playing most days and am also liable to start picking up a few niggling injuries towards the end of the season.

My tournament earnings (from tennis) this season consisted of €75 for a quarter-final appearance in Bray and a €150 voucher for a relatively well known sports store in Dun Laoghaire. All in all a strong season for me, but the bank manager says keep at the poker...nit.