Short & Sweet, Long & Ruthless

Hi Folks,

I'm going to keep this short & sweet because I have somewhere I need to be! I am playing the Premier event of the GSOP the £300 freezeout at The International - Where London plays poker!!!! A 3 day tournament where we get 22k starting chips with a fabulous 90 minute clock! I have already packed my blanket & pillow! lolol It a long tourney and I will be ruthless!

Since coming back from Vegas in July I have really not had any results and have been feeling a bit downhearted about this poker lark but I have always said to my detractors (of which there are many!) that I will be on form for the GSOP Festival and have worked on a couple of things in my game recently.......... I guess I must be doing something right, I won my £330 seat to this tourney for £70 in a satellite and then won a another very small comp on Friday! I'm feeling good have oodles of confidence but have a healthy measure of nervousness too.

Wish me luck & to follow the goings on, go to the Gutshot website to read the blog and you can even watch the feature table live!!!!

Wish me Luck!!!!!

As the world famous Johnny I would say; "You lucky People!"

Post New Year Hangover.....

So it's been a couple of weeks since my last post and the reason for this is that I am still getting over the hangover from the party!!!!!! Well...... ok that's not strictly true.

Anyway, it was a fantastic night & I really had oodles of fun! I must apologise to all that were there because I didn't manage to spend much time with anyone really..... Too many people and not enough of me!!! Now you won't hear me admit that very often! Ha ha ha!

Sadly it wasn't so much three worlds collide as three worlds bump into or squeeze past each other.

The Hotel Mafia had so much catching up to do (yes, we had a 10yr reunion!!! I'm still suffering from tinnitus from the scream!) that they didn't really want to hear how rubbish I was at poker..... They've all seen me play Blackjack, that's enough!

The Poker Degens were busy drinking all the shots under the sun, buying each other roses & ogling the pretty girls...... Shame that they couldn't capitalise on the opportunity to develop something more or in poker parlance 'they didn't maximise the value of the hand that they were playing'! I'll leave it at that....... Oh no! Wait, I have to mention my nomination for the chat up line of the year...... It ended in "You'll miss the first two levels of the 300!!!!!" Classic!

The Others were just the others, copious amounts of beer, vino, tequila, dancing, some kissing........ Yes, you heard me!

My evening culminated in a Chinese at 3am on Shaftsbury Ave. @ The Mayflower what a place.....! Some ended up in Strawberry Moons, opposite The Living Room, some ended up with a black eye, some pinched a rickshaw and some did both!!!!! Once again, no names mentioned but you know who you are!!!! Ha ha ha!

Thank you all for making the effort to come and celebrate with me & sorry again for not spending more time with you!

Old Man River!