June 16th - 21st (Various Events)

Catchup time!

Played in last Fridays £20+£2 NL game at Luton and despite only having one rebuy and a top up I couldn't really get out of first gear and drifted aimlessly out of the comp in around 24th place.

On Sunday I played in the Pokerstars 'Bloggers' championship. There were 2247 entrants and I finished 58th...4 off the prizes!

It was 1am and I had just over 70k in chips when I get dealt A-A UTG. Now I know that Stars has a habit of giving you grief with Aces but UTG with them in hand I felt good about raising to 12k (antes were 2k/4k) knowing that with the prizes just around the corner it was hardly likely that anyone would want to get frisky. Of course I hadn't reckoned on the chip leader at my table, who was on the SB at the time, deciding that 10k, from his 100k+ stack, wasn't too bad a call to make.

The flop was 6s-9s-10d. Before I could move Mr Chip-Leader had gone all-in! Whilst not the greatest flop in the world the way he acted shouted that he had not got a VERY strong hand. I called and he flipped Qs-2s! Ok...so you know whats coming! The 4s fell next followed by the 8d. Boom!! and that was that!

Now onto last night at the Vic in London where I played in the £250+£25 Omaha Hi-Lo tournament!

The thing about playing at the Vic in festival tournaments is that I'm practically guaranteed to know most people at the table I'm at as they've been playing poker there practically as long as I have!

So I'm in seat 2. Geoff Duval is seat 3, Lally Khajuria is in seat 6. Vicky Coren in 7, Ashley Alterman in 8. All faces that have been around years!

Did it do me any good knowing this?? No! I won 1 pot before losing with A-3-3-5 to Lally and his 9-9-7-J on a flop of 2-6-J-Q-10.

I MAY play in the £500 FREEZEOUT there on Sunday other than that my next live poker will be at the Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, Florida on Tues July 4th as I'm off on hols to our sunny villa in Orlando (http://www.floridavilla.ie - available for family holidays etc etc) for 2 weeks on June 30th.

Entries -> --- - Place -> --- - Loss -> £337 ($623) Profit/Loss for 2006 -> +$12554