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Funny ol' game this poker malarky, couldn't win a hand in February then March rolls round and I pretty much haven't lost one. I ran scary good the last week or so and won back most of the losses of February, so happy days. Or as John O'Shea put it "you're on the 'March' ". A very appropriate title imo.

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 thank fuck February is over, I couldn't win a pot to save my life. As a result, it ended up being my worst month ever. Although I think I'm playing really well the last week-ish, so I'll just have to ride it out I reckon.

Marty brought a bandit to the K Club last week for the golf, but he didn't do it right. Kevin played off twenty and did what all good golf hustlers do, just scraped home for his team on day one. Then on day two when the stakes were up, he shot the lights out, hitting a magnificent 38 points on the Smurfit course to secure a 14 point victory for his team.

I said in my last blog that I was gonna be staying at home for a few weeks and grinding back the money I'd lost in my disaster of a night in Brisbane. It hasn't quite worked out like that, but it's not for the want of trying.

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

Well, I've had a nightmare down-swing over the last week or two, the last week in particular. I ran so badly, it seemed like I was dealt the second best hand for the whole week.

Following on from the deep stack festival, I was heading across the water for a week. Monday to Thursday was spent playing golf in Celtic Manor, then onto Manchester for leg two of the UKIPT.

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.

I'm just starting to settle back into things at home again. I had a couple of days back in Belfast last week, then went to Newport in Wales for a golfing trip with Paul Spillane, Nicky Power, Julian Gardner and a few of Paul's mates from England.

Another strange month; I had 2 1/2 weeks off in the middle where I barely played a hand, but still managed $24.6k in buyins, which I only topped in 5/12 months last year.

This week I scooped a package to the North American Poker Tour in the Venetian. It was great to win, as I was planning on going to the NAPT but it's never nice putting up a $5k buy-in!

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

Marty Smyth may be scuba diving on an island off Oz and John O'Shea at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but I think I drew the long straw getting to go to Clonmel for the coursing festival.

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

Shipped the High Roller $500 on Boylepoker.com the other night for a juicy $13k. Delighted to get the title; I was just saying last week how long it had been since I won a tournament, so I was more than happy to take her home.

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.

In the 1650NL event I had been playing very tight and re-raised from the BB with AK, after an opening raise from mid-position. The flop was Q63 and I made a normal sized continuation bet which he called after thinking for a while.

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.