Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Shares all SOLD OUT

Thats right!! I sold out the 100 shares in me today, in less than 24 hours! Im honestly gobsmacked but delighted that people have put their faith in me to do well and make them some money.

www.free-money.co.uk bought 75 shares in me for £375

Team Dobbs bought 10 shares in me for £50

Chris Brown bought 10 shares in me for £50

www.pokerutd.com bought 5 shares in me for £25

Ill be playing my A-game for you and ill do my very best, thanks once again and i really appreciate it!

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Buy a Share of my Winnings

Ill be playing in the Prague Poker Palooza from 24th March til 30th March in the Spearmint Casino in Prague, there are 3 events

€110 freezeout
€250 freezeout
€550 freezeout with €10k added to the prizepool

and also a leaderboard challenge which is only open to players in all 3 events, added money at the end for top 5 in leaderboard

im offering a 1% share in me for the €550 event at £5 each, you can buy as many as you want up to a maximum of 100 shares.

Ill be giving back 75% of any winnings from this event to my shareholders so if you bought 50% of my shares for £250 you would then get back 37.5% of anything that i win.

The tournament is sponsored by Victor Chandler, and i will be travelling with a few of the Punterslounge poker players including Flush Europes Editor Jon Young, who ill be doing a blog and some photos for.

Thanks for reading and fingers crossed i win! The payment button is on the right hand side in my sidebar, once you have purchased ill post your name and % in my blog!

Morlspin

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Another Poker Utd League Win!


Just had win number 97 of my MTT poker career and what makes this one a lil sweeter is that i was down to 3x bb in the final 5 !! and that ive also just kept Newcastle on the top of the League! Howay the Lads!

Limit Holdem....im getting better!



I started off playing Limit SNG's back in 2004 when i started playin poker, had a lil success but when i first played No Limit i was hooked, so i put the limit tourneys on the back burner. This last week ive decided to play a few more Limit games and see how i do, well 2 played and 2 cashes.....cant grumble at all haha, 1st and a 2nd!! ok ok there only 6 man SNG's but i still cashed!

Aspers £33 Freezeout Cash!

Played the Aspers Newcastle £30+3 Freezeout last night along with 97 other players, great tourney atmosphere and a starting stack of 5k if your there at the start

Had some cracking hands and hit 5 full houses, 2 flushes and 3 sets in 6hrs, but when the luck was needed most it let me down.

Final table started at around 3am and with 10 players all on around equal chips, it was always gonna be hard. I look down and see AJ spades, make a 4x bb raise for a call and a shove......i think for a minute and call the shove, the odds were in my favour and my knowledge on the player all in was good, so i call.....he turns over A8o.....excellent! my read was right! It didnt matter tho as the 8 hit the flop and ive lost half of my stack :O

A few pocket pairs busted and im gone, with the last being 88 beaten by AJ......feck!!

I walked away after an english breakfast at 3.40am with £100 in my pocket and a sick feeling (from the way the final table was played, not the brekkie!)

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Pokerdeals Forum Challenge


Finished 3rd in this tonight and i have to say i thoroughly enjoyed myself, excellent players, excellent tournament structure and not a bad word throughout despite some bad beats by everyone!


Monday, February 04, 2008

APAT Cardiff National Report

Had a great weekend of poker after travelling down to Cardiff for the APAT Welsh Open at the Grosvenor Casino at the atlantic wharf, which for anyone who hasnt been there, is a great casino!
Saturday started very early when i had to get up for my lift to the airport at 5am, way way earlier than i usually surface, but with a 7.30am flight its gotta be done, easyjet were great, no problems or delays and we touch down an hour later in Bristol, with a little transfer and a 45min train to Cardiff Central we arrived at the ETAP Hotel around 11.00am.
As usual the hotels wont allow early check-ins so we decided to head strait over to the casino, so we could chuck our bags in and have a walk around and see the sites.....well the millenium stadium, which had a cracking caravan exhibition on this weekend
We head back to the casino where i find theres 190 players and im on the same table as an aggressive female player, who i recognised but didnt have the faintest idea who she was, it turned out i was watching her on channel 5 the day before in the ladies poker championships, it was the beautiful LIV BOEREE http://www.livboeree.com/, who eventually finished in 7th place for £600

Im getting no cards and on an aggressive table it takes me 64mins to win my 1st hand!! Again i go back to my usual rubbish cards and by the 2nd break im struggling on around 5k til a minor miracle happens and i pick up Ace 5 of hearts and i flop a flush, i check the hand, 2 other check, then a King is turned, again i check, followed by the 2 checking again, desparate to get some money i know i need to bet, but wanna make them pay me off to the max, so again, on a nothing river of 4c i check..... praying for a bet or two The 1st guy after me bets out 1500 chips and the 2nd guy re-raised all in for 6k and i have a quick think....i have the nuts! im all in too!! the 1st guy insta folds and im back up to just over 12k!! geet in!Soon after i get moved tables where after sitting almost dead for 4 hours and having very little action or chat, i get sat next to 3 people i have played against before, and a female player (Rhianydd Sandford) who is chatty and good looking at the same time lol, i get up to 23k by some decent play, conversation is good and im having a good day, it dosent get better than this at the poker tables!

Along comes the dinner break and ive made my sole target.....to not get knocked out before it and we head off to the local entertainment complex where i destroy my mate at crazy golf and have my customary burger and fries returning 10 mins early to collect my gold medal from the Newcastle Regional that i won!

After the lunch break i get moved tables and am sat on the same table as the eventual winner Tim Magnus , and a previous APAT nationals winner Daniel Phillips and again i get no cards and no luck.Its now 11.10pm, ive been playing poker for 9 hours and im tired, ive only got 17k left and i finally get a hand good enough for a small raise, its A10o so with blinds of 1k/2k and 3 mins before they go up, i decide to lead out UTG with a 6k bet, 3 folds and then an 18k bet......i decide that with 4 or 5 big blinds left i cannot really put it down so i call and await the outcome.He turns over KK and with only a single 10 on the flop im doomed, ive had a great time but its just not meant to be! i finally finished in 49th and in the top 25% so im happy!Ive been very negative about previous issues etc with APAT and if Des happens to read this, i'd just like to say thanks very much for all the hard work you guys do, it cant be easy and i'd like to congratulate you on another great event and i'd encourage anyone who has considered playing live poker for the 1st time, to get yourself along to one of the regional tournaments so you can learn the game and possibly qualify for a bigger game like this!

Poker Kings Super League games 1 and 2



I entered late and missed the 1st two games of the month but have made up for it with 2 final table finishes, 2nd and 7th giving me 50 points so far




Poker Kings Super League

Below is the information on the Pokerkings Super League on the Boss Media network, its 29 games of €3.30 but with a €1000 added for top 10 at the end its not a bad league, full of german players.

CASINO CLUB Poker is pleased to introduce its first online Poker League. The tournaments of the Poker League are held daily at 7:00 p.m. GMT (8:00 p.m. CET) at CASINO CLUB Poker. You can view the daily ranking of players here on our website. The buy-in for each tournament is only €3 + €0.30. At the end of each month, we award an additional €1,000! Every registered member of CASINO CLUB Poker can participate.
The top 10 players of the daily Poker League tournaments collect tournament points according to our point distribution scheme:
The Poker League top 20 ranking is updated after each tournament so you can view your competitors’ positions and where you stand at all times! At the end of each month, the top 10 players win prize money according to the table below:
1st place 50 points
2nd place 40 points
3rd place 30 points
4th place 20 points
5th place 15 points
6th place 12 points
7th place 10 points
8th place 9 points
9th place 8 points
10th place 7 points

1st place €500
2nd place €250
3rd place €100
4th place €60
5th place €30
6th place €20
7th place €15
8th place €12
9th place €8
10th place €5

Blue Square 30man Turbo's


Finished 3rd tonight after my KK ran into AA in final 3 and i was 2nd in chips......destroyed me and left just over $18 up....gutting really

Walsall GUKPT Sats


won a seat at the $22 rebuy, where i finished 8th, gutted, top 5 got seats to walsall GUKPT....next time baby!

Saturday, February 02, 2008

Virgin Festival Newcastle 2008


I recently won a seat to the Virgin Festival at Aspers casino in Newcastle via the Blonde poker forum (link on the side), Aspers is a great venue and with the last Virgin Festival being a massive success, this is gonna be another cracker! The info is below....what you waiting for? get playing and join me there!


When?12th - 13th April 2008What?Back by popular demand the Virgin Poker Festival heads to the Aspers Casino in Newcastle. Virgin are planning a fun filled poker weekend designed to appeal to live poker newbies as well as experienced players.

Virgin are able to guarantee:


£105 two day, deep stack main event.


£5,000 added to prize pool.


£1000 of value added bounties.


Bad beat prize of return flight to Vegas


Two added value, low stakes side events.


Wii Bowling, bar promos and heads up challenges


How?

There will be no direct buy-ins. All players must qualify online.There are 3 standard ways to qualify


Festival Weekly (€15 + 1.50) every Sunday evening at 6.30pm (GMT). The first runs 19th Jan.
Festival Super Rebuy (€5 + €0.50) every Thursday evening at 8.15pm (GMT)
Festival Satellite (to Festival Weekly) (€1.65 + €.15) every day at 7.30 (GMT)

January Winnings Updated

Total January Prize Winnings = $540.90c



8th in Satelite for $210 seat at virgin festival




17th for $14.40




11th for $20



1st for $55




9th for $87.50



Bronze winner for $50



4th for $104