Morlspins Poker Blog

1st Live Win of the Year

2011-01-24T20:47:00.000Z

Friday gone I played the Monthly "NPower" private MTT at Aspers Casino in Newcastle, I went along with my good mate, Gary "Geordiegaz" Graham for a start at an early 5.45pm as the game must be finished by 8pm to allow room for the regular game that night, the buy in is a nice £15 with 4000 chips and 10 min blinds! yes, 10 mins! Gary also does a novelty book for this, and priced me at 50-1 to win....cheeky fcker!

22 players started the game and Gaz and I were the dealers amongst this pretty in-experienced crowd, I found myself doubled up pretty early on when my set of 7's beat 2 pairs and again later when my AA held up and i reached the final table as chipleader.

Pretty standard play ensured I made the final two after busting fellow PuntersLounge members Geordiegaz and ThePokerPad along the way which gave me a 3-1 chip advantage over 2nd place.

Gary continued to deal after being knocked out and he dealt me 88 on the 1st hand which propelled me to a 6-1 chip advantage after an 8 on the flop helped me out big style! It was pretty much game over from that moment on and my final hand of A3 beating Q9 sealed the deal.

Thanks to the lads at NPower for the good humour and the welcome they give, much appreciated. See you next month!

Result as follows:

1st: Graeme Morl - £120

2nd: Craig Wood - £80

3rd: Tony Weedy - £60

4th: Chris Allan - £30

1st Online Wins of the New Year

2011-01-24T20:31:00.000Z

Sky Poker Tour - Newcastle Leg 2

2011-01-24T20:28:00.000Z

Sky Poker Tour – Newcastle Leg 2011
Graeme Morl

After weeks of online qualifying, the players of Sky Poker descended upon Aspers Casino in Newcastle for the 2nd leg of this year’s Sky Poker Tour.
171 runners took part in another well ran event, including some notable names such as Carlo Citrone, Tony “Tikay” Kendall, Keith “The Camel” Hawkins and SNG pro Ray “Montadoo” Norton, who is currently ranked 3rd in the UK, who head up a strong field.
After being drawn to the left of Tikay, we have some banter and then he moves all in on me in the 1st hand on the big blind after a raise and 2 calls, one being mine. I look down at pocket 9’s and reluctantly let them go for Tikay to show the obligatory Ace, I’m sure he had a 2 to go with it, but the old man assures me he had a 2nd ace, so ill let him go this time! “Plenty of time left” I say to myself
Just 3 hands later, I look down at QQ and raise the pot to 200, two folds and then a raise, to 300…..has he seen my raise? Is he messing with me? What’s up with that I think to myself, the dealer makes him put in a min raise to 350 and the rest of the table folds, what do I do here, Tikay’s looking at me as if I’m daft, the raiser looks bewildered so I re-raise again to 1200. Expecting the fold, he turns away and announces all-in…..omg I’m lost, does he have the AA, does he have nothing but wants me to fold? You only start with 5000 chips, I can’t keep folding these hands, so decide to call…..yep, he had the rockets. An ace on the turn and its game over, good night, 4 hands, thanks for coming Morls, now I’m on valet duty for the lads. Sigh!
As ever in Sky Poker events, there was the presence of Team Sky Poker, their in house team of professionals and it was one of their own who emerged victorious after 13 hours of gruelling play, for me however, it was a tale of what could have been.
Wayne “GlitterBabe” Rideout, who has excelled through the ranks on Sky Poker and was a fans favourite in their “Total Player” competition, steered his way through the field to emerge as the new 2011 Sky Poker Tour Newcastle Leg Champion.
The heads up battle saw Wayne take on Jamie Louise Barrett, another Sky regular who it seems has a massive following and the rail was loud and lively, testament to the camaraderie between Sky Poker players. The final hand was a brutal end to the event, with both players seeing a cheap flop of 8-5-9 rainbow. Wayne shoves all in and is called by Jamie Lou and we have a showdown, Wayne shows J7o for a double gut shot and Jamie Lou shows 97 for top pair and a gut shot straight draw. The turn brings a 4 which also gives Jamie Lou the flush draw; however a brutal Jack on the river secures Wayne’s victory and a payday worth over £4000.
Many thanks to Sky Poker for their excellent hospitality yet again and Aspers Casino, in particular Tournament Director Gary Ramsey, who ran the event under a lot of pressure and with a stinking cold to boot, Well done all. See you in Luton!

Im Back!

2011-01-13T18:31:00.002Z

Hi All

Happy 2011 to all my mates and readers, hope its a good one for you and may we all be millionaires by this time next year!

Graeme

Online Wins/Live Wins in Aug/Sep

2008-10-05T17:31:00.003+01:00

A few live cashes and a few online games not previously reported saw a return of

Live: £220
Online: $415

Punterslounge.com WSOP at DTD

2008-10-05T17:26:00.003+01:00

Over 60 members and friends turned up at Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club in Nottingham for the 1st annual Punterslounge.com World Series of Poker

A great time was had by all and the winners were as follows:

Omaha
1st Place...Brian Martin,

Holdem
1st Place....Andy Fenwick

Well done lads

A full write up will appear later as will a magazine article in Flush Magazine

Dusk Till Dawn 26th Sept £85 freezeout win

2008-10-05T17:22:00.002+01:00

Entry: £75
Game: Hold Em
Registration: £10
Limit: No Limit
Starting Chips: 4000
Type: Freezeout
Total Entries: 61
Total Prizepool: £4,575

PLACE PLAYER PRIZE
1 Graeme Morl £1,693
2 James Ballantyne £1,052
3 Matt Russell £686
4 Steven Frew £412
5 Chris Ellinas £320
6 James Welch £229
7 Alan Steer £183

Dont remember much as i was steaming drunk by the end, but i dominated the heads up and the guy dealt when i was 3-1 chip leader.

Thoroughly enjoyed myself and would recommend DTD to everyone!

Brendan Hartnett R.I.P

2008-10-05T17:19:00.002+01:00

For any of the APAT'ers amongst us who may not have heard the sad news, Brendan Harnett has passed away this week.

Ive copied a post from the APAT forum: It's with a sad heart that I write this to tell everyone that Brendan passed away yesterday.He became ill on Sunday, was admitted to Hospital, but died suddenly.

A true gentleman, always played with a smile on his face - win or lose.He will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him, and no one else embodied the APAT spirit as well as Brendan.

RIP Brendan

Pokerplayer Championships Brighton Event

2008-10-05T17:15:00.001+01:00

I was up to 38k when i made the final table with blinds of 3k/6k

My demise came after a guy had pushed all in on my BB when i had A9 and i decided to fold, only for him to the exact same thing on my SB when i had KJ....i called this time after putting him on a much bigger range of hands than anything that premium! His QQ held up but luckilly i had him covered and im down to 2k

I wait for a full round til my BB and decide to go blind and only look once they other guys had acted and shown on the river...2 callers and im up against A8 and 34 who had hit the 3.....i get a come on, turn them over by the TD and everyone stands around to see if im in or out......1st card turned over an Ace.....a few oohs and arghhhs and then i whip over the 2nd one.....an Ace!!!! Cheers, photos and laughter later I get up to 6K and can now fold the SB lol

It all folds round to me in the SB and i go blind again for the bb to get a free shot at me....he turns over K9o and i think i have to be behind so i turn em over and i have KJ again lol....im now up to 12k and laughing my arse off with loads of the rail having a ball!

3 hands later it gets folded round to me and i look down and see AJ spades and decide to push, SB fold and BB makes up the extra 4k and turns over 69o.... 6 on the flop and im gone, but won £180 and had a laugh all the same

Scottish Championships Result

2008-10-05T17:07:00.002+01:00

Had one of the best poker experiences of my life this weekend and never once felt out of my depth, I played well and was only once behind when i made a call, which cost me a few chips after the cock called with A6 lol

Had Charalambos Xanthos http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=247 of late night poker fame on my table for 1st 3 hrs and took him out when he tried to make a play on me twice. 1st time i held 44 and on a flop of 246 i bet out, he insta pushed and i called, he had 55 and missed and he doubled me up.....3 hands later i get AKclubs and i pump it up the table raise of 4x the bb....he re-raises me and i call for an extra 4xbb...flop brings J7J and i know if i check he pushes and i cant call.....so i bet 10k into a 10k pot and he pushes for 16k total.....i have to call and he turns over Q10.......i look at him and he has the cheek to say....how did u call? lol

Before the A6 incident which cost me 24k i was sitting nicely on 55k with 2 hrs of play remaining and if my QQ had held up id have been massive chip leader with everything to play for, but, i made my target of reaching day 2 comfortably and I was playing well so I have no arguments!

Gaz explained the final hand which was a gutter.....Blinds 600/1200 ante 100Me UTG+2 on 25kHim UTG+3 on 62kI raise to 4100 with KQ and he calls, table foldsFlop was 382 and i check (any bet here he probably calls or re-raises and i lose half my stack was my reasoning), he also checksTurn was 10 and again i decide to check for same reasonsRiver brought the King which i was happy with as there was now 10700 in the pot so i make it 6k to play he anounces all in and im thinking that if he had AA , AK , KK he would have re-raised me preflop to protect his hand and thus I make the call.....he has AK clubs and im gone in 14th.

5 short of the money
73 runners with 9 getting paid from 1500 up to 28500 for winner

PL Scottish Championships win!

2008-08-22T14:47:00.004+01:00

This was the tourney that I had my number 1 game in play for, im getting good starting hands, hitting the flop and my hands are holding up, its a great feeling when you know your doing well and with a £1300 package up for grabs for the winner, I had to win!

The final hand was a crazy call by me, but i felt that Brian(mcfc/wasp) would be prepared to make moves early and try to dominate the heads up, that if i kept folding raggy aces heads up, he'd destroy me.

He pushes at quite low blind levels so i decide to call as i have chips behind me (15k in play, i have 9k) I have A4 suited and im thinking......whats he got......he turns over A2offsuit.....so i turn away and expect the chop chop to happen.....well i spike a 4 on the turn to take down the victory and im chuffed!!

Im now going to Edinburgh on 30th August to play my biggest buy in yet....the £1060 Scottish Championships held at the Gala Maybury in Edinburgh.....wish me luck!

August Misery

2008-08-22T14:43:00.002+01:00

I just cant do a thing right at the moment, im playing well, certainly reading players better than i ever have, and im getting frustrated.......going in ahead and being outdrawn or playing my hands too softly and allowing players in at a cheap price....change of tactics in order i feel and im going back to basics for a while!

14 tourneys, 1 cash, 1 win.....sick!!!!

£205 win in the grosvenor £25 freezeout

Sunday 10 August 2008£25 FreezeoutEntries: 23Prize Pool: £575
Place Name Prize
1 Graeme Morl £205
2Billy Hunnam £130
3 Dawn Wills £85
4 David Jonathan Garside £65
5 Mustapha Sliem £50
6 Garry Wilson snr £40

Blackpool APAT Team Challenge

2008-08-22T14:39:00.002+01:00

Not much to say about this one, as I played well but come up against a few monsters after hitting the flop and ended up busting out in a massive pot to the eventual winner Mary Martin whos KJ destroyed my AK on a King high flop.

Team Punterslounge ended up mid way down the table after a great 11th by Ross Wakenshaw, but we need to get some team tactics in order before our next challenge!

Planet Hollywood $80 live event

2008-08-22T14:28:00.003+01:00

Its July 4th, my final night in Vegas, and instead of lining the neon signed streets to watch the Independance Day firework shows, Im sat in a poker room, drunk and waiting for the $80 freezeout to start.

We had been on the drink most of the day and after a few games of beerpong, meeting up with the majority of Puntersloungers over in Vegas and sinking 1 or 2 too many beers im in the mood for a game of poker, so off we stumble (its 7pm lol) to Planet Hollywood at the south end of the strip. My game in Vegas this year has been good, just a lack of luck prevented me from making some great money in the tourneys id played in, fingers crossed for my last vegas game!

We end up just missing the start of the tourney and have to come in as alternates, and find that they create a new table for us, and im sat next to 4 of my good friends, which is never good cos you hope that we'll all meet at the final table instead, but im getting such good cards and i have to play to break my cashing jinx!

AA (3 times) KK (twice) QQ (4 times) and AK( too many to count) ensured i would get to the final table and make some well earned money!.....unfortunately taking 4 of my mates out along the way!

The majority of the tourney is a blur for me as we continued drinking on through the levels, however when i made the money, i let out a big cheer and had my mates in stitches cos i was over the bloody moon and making a tit out of myself lol.

We get 3 out and im sat with a mexican dude who dosent speak much english and James Eccles a scotchman who dosent speak much english either hahaha, who i know from back on the UK scene. I have 75% of the chips in play and its getting late....i cant be bothered to play it out and offer the deal to the other two lads as we approach a 20min break. They both agree and we all go home with $800...10x our buy in!

Then it sinks in......ive won in vegas and unfortunately i have to go home tomorrow!!!! noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Apat Regional Champion!!

2008-07-27T02:26:00.002+01:00

Had it confirmed on the http://www.apat.com/ website that I have won the Northern Regional rankings with 31 points in 5 games.

I win a seat at the World Amateur Championships at the Grosvenor Victoria on 31st Aug to compete against the 3 other regional champions and 200 other entrants. Best of luck all

How i got on in WSOP Event 52

2008-07-26T16:37:00.001+01:00

Hi all

Firstly, thanks for having faith in me and buying some shares, it means a lot to me that people will gamble their hard earned income on an idiot like me!

I lasted just over 3 hrs in my event, after being sat on a table with a WPT circuit winner (no idea of his name), a Bracelet Winner (william mckinnie) and a 2x 2008 wsop final tableist (larry wright) so i knew my chances of bossing a table of very experienced players was doomed.
3 hands in i pick up AJ in mid position and with the rest of the table folding i make a standard 3x bb raise, to be called by the wpt circuit winner. Flop of J 8 4 and he checks to me, i then fire off 1200 into a 1000 pot leaving myself 1500 behind. he insta re-raises me all in and i have a decision. But what makes it worse, is it came str8 into my head that i was playing with other players money and how could i explain that i went out after only 3 hands. I reluctantly fold and he turns over a bluff...AK and i have to rebuild.

I do well over the next few hours and build my stack from 1500 to 6.2k and am feeling comfortable. The 5th hand after the break i pick up 10 10 in my BB. all fold to the button who raises me to 2k, which is a massive overbet. I sense his weakness and re-raise all in, he takes an age, and eventually calls.

I have 1010 and he calls with 8 8.....a smile creeps on my face and im thinking of how i can comfortably play the next few hours with no problems!
However the gods again shat on me from a great height, and not even bothering with the good old river shafting, they give it the 1st card instead, a flop of 8 J A And im drawing slim. I forget the turn and the river cards now as i never hit the 10 and no str8 for me so im gone, gutted and cursing my bad luck.

Ill be there again next year tho, and hopefully do people proud!

Thanks again all

Graeme

Aspers Win Night Before Vegas!

2008-07-23T16:58:00.003+01:00

Its 7pm and we have 12hrs til we leave for vegas, im not packed, im feeling like shite and the last thing i want to do is play poker, well....thats til i get a phonecall from Geordigaz inviting me to play at aspers. I think for a few mins, and say nah, i need to pack and we wont have time....

Well 10 mins later were in the car and on our way up haha!!!

I end up dealing for 2 hrs and deal quads over a fh, a str8 flush 1 outer and then get myself up to 16k, which I keep and take with me to the final table which began just after 1am....feck i still aint packed my case and we need to be at airport at 6.15am!!

The final table begins with blinds at 2k/4k and i have 16k in chips, and immediately ask for a deal so the 9th and 10th players get £100 each for their troubles, this is agreed and its time to push with any picture card. I get some luck and get a walk in the BB so am up to 18k and fold my way around til my 2nd bb, which i look down and see i AJ hearts, bingo!! Im all in i announce to 1 caller, who calls my 16k bet, he then turns over KQ....I hit an Ace and double up to just over 34k!!! whoo hoooo

Well in almost no time at all were down to 5 players and im still the massive short stack and we have only 4hrs to be at the airport haha. So again i try and make a deal, now at this point, a 5 way deal would have meant around £650 each, which was a little under 2nd place, to which the 3 big chip leaders all said no....cant blame them but come on, guarantee of £650 for a £20 stake or maybe go home with £260?? easy one in my eyes but hey, each to their own!

Well lady luck shone on me and in turn i take out the remaining 4 players 1 by 1 starting with the big stacks who look decidedly sick at losing out on a bigger pay day!! Always deal ladies, always deal!....Heads up was the easiest heads up ive ever had....the kid didnt make a single bet against me, until the end where i had the str8 and he had called my re-raise all in with.....AK.....nowt!!

£1100 win and just under 2hrs til checkin haha

Fri, 27 Jun 2008
£20 No Limit Texas Holdem Freezeout Entries: 169 Prize Pool: £3380

1 G Morl £1160
2 C McGarr £680
3 A Young £340
4 C Simpson £270
5 J Harmer £240
6 J Gargan £200
7 S Reavley £170
8 A Carling £140
9 C Holmes £100
10 A Leung £80

June Winnings

2008-07-23T16:50:00.005+01:00

$55

$23 ............................................$33

$22...................................................$21

Poker Player Championships Bolton 2008

2008-06-11T19:56:00.004+01:00

Last Saturday saw the 1st Pokerplayer magazine Championships held at the Grosvenor Casino in Bolton. The event was a £50+4 freezeout capped at 100 players with a 5000 chip starting stack and 20 min blinds.

The prizepool which at £5000 isnt to be sniffed at also had the added value of a £1050 seat at a GUKPT Event next along with a seat at a 10 man final table for a £3000 package to the GUKPT Main Event in London.

The event started around 10 mins late at 2.10pm with all 100 players seated and in good spirits and it wasnt long before we heard the familiar cry of "man down ". 1st player gone after 2 hands, he travelled from london so it was one hell of a journey for just over 5 minutes of poker!

I was stuck on the outer tables for the majority of the game and was constantly being moved which made it very hard to get a feel for the players on the table, so I had to play gut instinct poker for the 1st time in a while and i felt back to the old Morls, fearless and not bothered what happened! Out of the 10 tables in play, I had been on 8 of them by the time we made the final table.

The bubble took an age to burst, over 40 mins and with the majority not having more than 10x the big blind it seemed that it was push or fold. One hand that stands out for me is the guy who was all in blind on his BB, getting called off 4 players (excellent tactics to remove a player) anyway, all it did was quad him up haha! one player had made 2 pair, one had a set and when he turned his cards over, he showed the flush.....and I alwys thought that just happened on the internet!

Well he may have had the luck there, but a few hands later he couldn't survive any longer, he picked up 99 and was all in, with an insta-call by the bigstack who showed JJ, they held up and we had all reached the final table of 9 and the money positions.

After a short break to allow the final table to be set up we sat down and re-started the level, which was a good thing, as with 27k to my name and blinds of 3000/6000 it was time to let lady luck take over. Well she was havin non of it, I won my blinds and watched a player bust before me, only to get nothing for the next 12 hands and find myself clinging on hoping for a hand or for another player to bust. I pick up K10 off-suit UTG+1 and decide this is it. Im all in I announce, the big stack to my left thinks hard as do a few others, with sighs coming from around the table I assume im beat. The big stack calls and the rest decide to get out the way. The T.D asks for them on their backs and we turn em over, im praying for 2 live cards, but it wasnt to be. I turn over K10 and he shows A10, im dominated! The flop brings a curious QQJ giving me the up and down but with two blanks to come im gone, 8th place and £180.

The remaining players played on and when down to the final 4, they decided to deal for the money and play on for the added seat, with the winner R Sudworth walking off with the Trophy, Cash and a £1050 seat to the GUKPT, well done mate, you played a blinder!

Although the blind structure was a little crazy towards the end, the tournament has to be hailed as a complete success, with 100 players, a small buy in and good banter, i'd advise anyone thinking of playing one of the series to come along and join in the fun.

Full results

Sat, 07 Jun 2008

Poker Player Magazine 2008 Championships £50 No Limit Texas Holdem Freezeout Entries: 100 Prize Pool: £5000

1 R Sudworth (GUKPT seat +) £1700
2 S Holden £950
3 M Kay £700
4 P Knoxx-Roberts £500
5 M Coleman £350
6 S Waddington £280
7 S Coope £220
8 G Morl £180
9 A Yates £120

Punterslounge.com May Live Event Win

2008-06-11T19:46:00.002+01:00

Saturday May 31st saw the 2nd Annual PL Barries Poker Event in Birmingham which attracted over 30 members into the £10 no limit holdem tournament.

All started well for me , vodka and cokes slipping down nicely, banter flowing and getting good cards, i managed to trebble my stack in the early phases and just went from strength to strength. 6 hours later its heads up Vs Heniek, a player we all respect and a player we know can mix it up with the best of us.

Heads up lasted for less than 5 hands tho, I had a 2-1 chip lead when my 23o destroyed his pocket Queens. With no raise from Heniek, i was given a free flop which came down 8 2 J. Heniek bet, i re-raised and Heniek instapushed! oops i thought after calling and he showed his monster......that was until the turn brought me the 2......tripped up and winner once more of the PL Barries do! 2 years running now!

and £110 for my troubles!

Another great night ensued and lots of drunken PLers made their way back to the hotel, with the last of us rolling back home at 6.30am!! Hammered but happy!

Final May Wins

2008-06-11T19:32:00.006+01:00

$16.50

$19 win ..........................................$47 win

$40 win......................................$38 win

A few more wins for May!

2008-05-27T19:28:00.006+01:00

1st for $40.................................$1st for $40

€22/$34 seat................................ 3rd for $18

$500 ticket ...............................1st for $40

Winnings for 2008 so far

2008-05-20T23:11:00.001+01:00

$7217 ish

E-sport Poker League Winnings

2008-05-20T22:57:00.002+01:00

Hello graeme,

Congratulation for the successful participation at the 2nd season of the eSport-Poker league

You and your team became 5th place at the 1st league. There for you have won with your team $760 prize money.

We wish you and your team lots of fun and success at the eSport-Poker league.Your eSport-Poker team.

WSOP Super Sat Entry

2008-05-20T22:54:00.001+01:00

After finishing 5th in the Punterslounge.com WSOP sat league i won a €27.50 seat in the daily satellite, which i managed to win, getting some amazing cards along the way!

Entry to the the main satellite is €275 so hopefully a main event seat for me if i play!

Virgin Festival 3 in Nottingham at Dusk til Dawn

2008-05-20T22:51:00.003+01:00

Qualified for the next Virgin Festival at Dusk Til Dawn in June, however with me travelling to vegas for the WSOP the same weekend, i cannot play. Virgin have been great as usual and have transfered my seat to another player and i have been given the cash off that player for the seat.

Total win $240

More May Wins total $781

2008-05-20T22:37:00.008+01:00

$55............................................... $121

$40................................................ $60

$15.............................................. $25

$400 ..........................................$65

Enjoying a great month this month, and especially as its so close to the WSOP as well!

Apat Edinburgh Trip Report

2008-05-06T17:48:00.002+01:00

Ok....it all went pear shaped from the moment i got on the train to Edinburgh!!

Well i didnt get on the train to Edinburgh as it happens, i got on the one to London!! EEK!! Just as the doors shut and i emerge from the trains toilets i realise were going the wrong way, and then i make my discovery, its the London train leaving late....bollox!!!

I get the next available train from Durham and eventually get to Edinburgh about 2 hrs later than planned....and ive missed my 1st three hands of the tourney. Not to worry it seems cos im doing well and by the 1st break, im up to 21k and chip leader. This is easy it seems!

Well my bad day was gonna get worse, a few bad plays and a few bad beats and im gone even before the 2nd break.....wish id stayed in bed

Collected my silver medal off Des and then decided not to stay over and just get the hell out of Scotland however there was no trains after 7pm (I think Scotland must be a 3rd world country or something). So i decide to get the Megabus....ffs! 3 hrs later i arrive in Newcastle just as the pubs were kicking out, mental people everywhere, no public transport and thank the lord my mate was awake to pick me up!

Apat organised another great tourney, shame the gods decided to piss on me before it started!

See ya in Dublin haha!

My First Royal!!

2008-05-06T17:46:00.001+01:00

3 Years of solid poker playing and finally ive hit my 1st royal flush....i lost the heads up tho lol

Pokerstars $100k gtd $10+1 entry Cash

2008-05-06T17:38:00.002+01:00

Played the Pokerstars $100k gtd on sunday and managed to work my way through a field of over 22000 runners to finish in 787th.....now normally id not brag about being 787th in an online event but i played pretty well and even layed down some monsters....10 10 twice and QQ in the later stages. However what was even more special about this was that after 1 min and 45 secs of this tourney starting, i was down to 60 chips.......yes thats right 60 chips!!

Well i managed to wait til my bb and quad up to 280 and then the next two hands i quadded up again....and again!!! wowsers, pushing is easier than playing it seems! At the break i was up to 7.5k and laughing.

Anyway, if anyones not tried playing this grind then i suggest you all do, its a good laugh and lasts for ages, and even tho the money isnt great til the final table, its a good test of stamina at the very least!

A few more cashes

2008-05-06T17:29:00.008+01:00

$54 $108

$31 from omaha haha $30

$10 $22

More April Wins

2008-04-23T22:22:00.005+01:00

$47.70

$44

$54

Helskini win

2008-04-23T22:17:00.003+01:00

Well from a small acorn (€2 sat) its now matured into a healthy cash tree! I won the 2nd Sat to the Helsinki Open final on Boss media. But im going to be away this weekend so ive decided to cash it in for a €215 win in tourney tokens. Cant grumble!!

100 MTT WINS!!!!!

2008-04-23T22:02:00.003+01:00

Well after much goading and many 2nd place finishes i eventually get my 100th win. It was the saturday of the Calzaghe vs Hopkins fight and im determined to play as many MTTs as i can to win my 100th.....no sleep for me it seemed til i entered the €2 rebuy Helsinki Daily!

WON IT .....HAHAHAHAHAHA WHOOOO HOOOOOOO....sorry haha!

Virgin Poker Festival Aspers Newcastle

2008-04-23T21:56:00.002+01:00

Well i lasted 80 mins in this one!

My AA raise, reraise and all in beaten by 99........9 High flop and im gone! Wont bother with much else haha.

So on i go to the STT Champions heats, where i manage to win 3 STT's and finish 2nd in another 2 of them, and make the final 20 which continues on the sunday.

Im playing well, picking up cards and make some ballsy moves and end up on the final table with over 50% of the chips in play, i decide to slow it down, which was to my downfall as i let other people into the game, and eventually finished 2nd when the blinds were too high to play to be honest and i walked away over £500 up for the day!!

Well done to JAG from EMS who beat me heads up

WSOP 2008, $1500 Bracelet Event Share Deal

2008-04-09T23:22:00.005+01:00

Ok, i wanna attempt a WSOP Staking, Im looking to get $1500 (£750) to play in a bracelet event in Vegas.

Im offering a 1% share in me for the $1500 event at £7.50 each, you can buy as many as you want up to a maximum of 100 shares.

Ill be giving back 80% of any winnings from this event to my shareholders so if you bought 50% of my shares for £375 you would then get back 40% of anything that i win.

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!

The event ill be playing will be one from the following:

Thu, Jun 19th No-Limit Hold'em (Event 36) Freezeout Structure Sheet $1,500

Sat, Jun 21st No-Limit Hold'em (Event 39) Freezeout Structure Sheet $1,500

Ill need to sell out all my shares in order to play, so come one guys n gals, anyone up for it? If i havent sold out 1 week before i travel, ill pay the cash back to you all in full before i go.

Click the Buy Now button in the sidebar to purchase

Aspers Tuesdays £5 rebuy

2008-04-09T23:06:00.002+01:00

Yesterday at Aspers they were offering a very good deal.

Simply turn up and the give you a free poker set...... so i went along for a look!

The set was ok, 50 chips, dealer button and 2 packs of cards, ok for nowt i suppose, and then i saw another deal, have a meal in Freya's restaurant and geta a fortune cookie and win a prize. I have a steak and win £5 bargain, half price meal!

Then comes the poker, £5 rebuy with a £2 reg fee, well we have 2 dealers to share between 101 runners and i end up on a table of 5 new player, 2 of which speak very little english...we self deal for a round and im fed up, i decide to take control and deal for the table, where a nice bloke bought me a drink for doing it and the table was finally getting some hands in!

I never pick up a hand all night and after £30 i bust out when my A4o is busted by 45 spades all in pre-flop and they hit a flush lol

Good laugh tho and lots of friendly banter!

APAT Regional Leg 4

2008-04-09T22:46:00.003+01:00

This weekend i played in the APAT regional Leg 4 in the Grosvenor Casino Newcastle, its a £20 freezeout and often attracts less than 20 players, with the top 3 getting medals, and top 10% get seats to the National final around 4 weeks later.

Today i had 3 objectives!
1. Make the points (top 10)
2. Beat Gordon MacArthur (gimac) who was Regional points leader after 3 legs
3. Get to heads up and at least win some money and a seat in Edinburgh

Well 15 players showed up for the 2.30pm start (60min alternates) and i managed to make the final table pretty easilly, with a few decent shoves to steal the blinds, not any hands of note in the 1st 2.5 hours! 1st objective reached tho, so onto number 2

Objective 2, knock Gordon MacArthur out early!! After being a short stack (again) for most of the final table, Gordon finally went all in with a raggy Ace, i called and 1 other did too, i had KJ and i was fortunate to flop my K and take a decent pot and cement my number 2 objective, Gordon had gone in 6th, which meant I had to win to take the lead, or 2nd to draw level

With 4 players left, im sat as the short stack, and need a double up pretty quickly, as although the blinds were pretty low still, they were hitting us very fast! I find myself with KQ hearts and i see a cheap flop, which brings 3d 10h Jh.....an open ended strait flush draw....1 bet and i push all in, 1 caller and the bettor folds... he shows AJ And i turn over my KQh. The turn is almost the card of my dreams , its the 9h....another strait flush to the king, but no royal yet for me!

I get heads up after Jo blinds out with no hands to call Ross who was constantly all in, i didnt need to get involved as i was 3/1 chip leader and only top 2 got paid/seats. Well it turned into an all in fest and i lost 4 big 50/50 shots and went home after doing a chop

I won £75, a seat in the Edinburgh National, A silver medal, 8 ranking points and now the Joint leadership of the Regional Rankings in the UK.

Leg 5 is in May....watch this space

Prague Poker Palooza Write Up

2008-04-02T17:30:00.003+01:00

A POKER DIARY, BY GRAEME MORL AGED 28 1/2

Monday 24th March

Set off from Newcastle International with my bags packed, my head full of hope and my mate Gary for company for 8 nights in the new party capital of europe Prague. We get there and by god its freezing, thats the last time i ever complain about the weather in Newcastle, -3 and its only 9pm!! We get checked into our hotel which is suprisingly decent and head off to meet the others from the Punters Lounge for a few beers, Pilsner Urquell.....lovely!

Tuesday 25th March

Its 3pm, we have just surfaced from our slumber and its time to get sorted for the 1st event, the €110 NLHE at the Spearmint Casino in Prague, which has been taken over for the week by VC poker. On arrival we are swiftly checked in and shown through into a nice upmarket but small casino, were given a glass of champagne, some nibbles and then we notice how many tables there are.....6! Before travelling to Prague, we were promised between 60 and 100 runners for the events, now we find its a maximum of 54 per event, which leaves the people who have travelled hundreds of miles a little bemused, the prizepools back home are more inviting than this!

The event starts and were all sitting nicely at the 1st break, then disaster hits us, 5 out of the 6 of us out before the final 2 tables. I had the best finish from the PL crew in 19th, when my K10 offsuit was destroyed by J10 offsuit, flop brings Q92 rainbow, the turn is 3 hearts and then the sucker punch, anything but a K or an 8 im praying, sods law has it and my King pairs the board, giving him the strait, nightmare end to a good days poker. We still have 1 player left tho, Amy Young, yes thats right, the Editors Mrs..........shes destroying all comers, taking down big pots and lands on the final table! Whoooo Hoooo we have a casher at last as Amy finishes 6th winning around £180 and the bragging rights in the Young household for months to come haha.

Wednesday 26th March

Today sees a step up in class, the €275 freezeout which brought a number of new faces into the casino, amongst others Dan Carter (UK Pro and recently 12th in EPT Dortmund) and even he cant beleive the event is 54 max!

Once again the poker starts and were having a good go at this one, 2 tables left and still 2 of us in, Ross Wakenshaw and Myself, we have a chance! I get a slice of luck when my 10's hold up against A9o to eliminate a player and im back in the hunt after being shortstack for quite some time, theres now 10 left and its looking good for a Brit to cash!

Im sat with 22k, Ross is sat with 25k and were in the top 6 chip wise, playing great poker, my reads are perfect and its all looking rosey! Thats until lady luck decides that the Brits aint getting anything, Im the next one out when my sweet all in from the SB with AJo gets called for 12xBB by a player with A8 clubs, im openly smiling and hoping for yet another hold up by the better hand but alas its not to be, two clubs on the flop, one on the turn and my dream is ended, Im sat there bemused, almost motionless, I cant beleive a guy with almost the same amount of chips has called me with that, gutting to say the least. I know my time is up when i hear from the rafters, Morls, you donk!

Ross follows next, with what can only be called the worst play of the tourney, the other table is now being broken and moved across for the start of the Final Table, so Ross sitting in good position pushes all in for 25k with pocket 2's hoping for a blinds steal of 4500 and give him almost 30k for the final 9. Its all looking good, fold, fold fold, etc until the BB, not wanting to give up 3000 chips calls, we wait in hope that its a race, we were right, then our jaws dropped in sheer disbeleif, the call was made with 10 8 offsuit, everyone is looking at each other with wry smiles, hoping that the 22 holds up, it dosen't and a very annoyed Ross has fallen in 9th. We do our best to console him, but what can you say. Alcohol helps a little and we all go out on the town knowing we have a day off tomorrow.

Thursday 27th March

Today sees the $25k student poker/vc qualifier championships, which one of our mates Dan Sims has qualified for after winning a seat via the online satellites. We let him play and concentrate on his own and we hit the town. Its just before midnight and I get a text, "morls, im on final table" . Well we couldnt miss this could we, so like drunken lunatics we race across prague to the casino to catch his final hand, will we get any luck this week? Dan pushes all in and is called instantly, the cards are on their backs and we see Dan punch the air, get in......he has AK vs AQ, what a great chance!!! The flop then sticks 2 fingers up to Dan by putting a Queen on the board and thats it, another good performance shot down in flames by lady luck herself.

Friday 28th March

This is the big one, the $550 main event, my mate Gary has flown home, im on my own and im listening to some tunes on my Ipod, im in the zone, I cant feel any better than I do about my game than I do right now and im hoping that some luck will grace me and I can take home some cash from the week. However, its not meant to be, im sat in the SB with JJ and make a 3xbb raise, 2 callers, the flop is a dream 10 high and as im first to act i fire out a pot sized 2k bet, hoping to take it down there and then, nope, 1 caller and I put him on AK or A10 instantly, a 7 on the turn keeps me thinking im ahead, and i make a massive bet 4500 which was my downfall, he then comes over the top and announces all in, I look down and see that I only have 2k left from my original 10k and have to call. He flips over QQ and im done for, i shake everyones hands, wish them luck and procede upstairs to the bar where i make use of the free beer.

The rest of the PL guys drop over the space of the next 3 hours until we have 1 left, Joe Geraghty, who has been on the drink all night and all day, is steaming and playing poker perfectly (we have no idea how either!) He gets to the final 4 and with the astronomical blinds compared to stacks , he pushes with A5 and get caled by AK and QQ, flop comes 5 8 A K 7, and Joe has gone, excellent perfomance and £3600 better off! Not only that, his performance in this event also places him 3rd in the leaderboard for another £1000, not bad at all!

I wanna end this by saying thanks to all the guys n gals we went over to prague with, your all cracking people and i couldnt have had a better time with anyone else. Good luck to you all and may lady luck smile on us all next time!

Morls

March Results

2008-04-02T17:18:00.008+01:00

Sorry all, been very busy of late, just gonna tally up my winnings then do a report on Prague!

= Online wins of $221

+ PL Live win of $150

+ Live Cash for $160

Total for month of $531

Shares all SOLD OUT

2008-02-19T23:49:00.002Z

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!

Buy a Share of my Winnings

2008-02-17T23:35:00.004Z

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

Another Poker Utd League Win!

2008-02-10T23:48:00.000Z

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!

2008-02-10T23:44:00.000Z

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!

2008-02-10T23:37:00.000Z

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!)

Pokerdeals Forum Challenge

2008-02-05T00:14:00.001Z

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!

APAT Cardiff National Report

2008-02-04T23:59:00.000Z

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

2008-02-04T23:57:00.000Z

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

2008-02-04T23:54:00.000Z

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

2008-02-04T23:53:00.000Z

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

2008-02-04T23:52:00.000Z

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

Virgin Festival Newcastle 2008

2008-02-02T17:34:00.000Z

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

2008-02-02T17:21:00.000Z

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

2007 FINAL FIGURES !

2008-01-01T22:20:00.000Z

Grand total after an amazing december is a mighty total of:

$12,334.13c

Not bad at all for a fat lad in newcastle!

December roundup

2008-01-01T22:06:00.000Z

I had a great december, and an excellent boost to the cash winnings for the year, so im over the moon. Thanks to everyone who has supported me and helped me through the bad times over the last 12 months, and i wish everyone a happy 2008

I won the Newcastle Regional APAT event in december for $450 (inc a seat to national final) i need a sponsor if anyones interested, ill be picking up my gold medal and a few pics on websites is assured

I won Aspers £20 freezeout in december for a cash of $1250!! and i treat myself to a new laptop!

I was 3rd in the Grosvenor for another $200 cash and thats just my live play!!

below are screenshots of my online winnings for the rest of december.

$17.63 in the 32red bounty tourney

$30 for vmiles sat and entry to the monthly final

Which i duly won for around $700 winnings!!!!!

Thanks for reading my shite and i hope i havent bored the tits off you over the last 12months!

Apat Newcastle Regionals

2007-12-16T01:24:00.000Z

So far ive played 3 out of 3

Final Tabled 3 out of 3

Scored 16 points

won £150

and now tonight i have won £100+seat to cardiff national and a gold medal!!!

Roll on the next one!

Virgin Poker Festival Results!

2007-12-16T01:22:00.000Z

Howdy,

All of us here just wanted to say thank you for coming to the very first Virgin Poker Festival this weekend. We had a fantastic weekend and now have the hangovers to prove it! It was great getting to meet so many of you in person and hopefully you had just as good a time as us.

If you didn’t manage to stay around to the end of the night here are all the details of who won what and you can watch highlights of the weekend on the Poker Week show on SkySports 1 at 11pm this Thursday (29th Nov).

We have lots of pictures of the Festival and these will be on our Facebook group, in the next 24 hours. If you’re not already signed up to the group find out how to see them here - http://www.virgingames.com/poker/loyalty/FriendsOfVirginPoker.aspx

Main Event

Congrats to David for a great showing and taking the top prize – we look forward to David defending his title at the next Festival.

Special mentions to Ted, who was so close, and Sandra who played some fantastic poker and entertained us all.

Place
Prize
Winner
1st
£6,800
David Young (IndigoGB)
2nd
£5,000
Ted Smith
(gnashers)
3rd
£3.500
Sandra Jolly
(Jadeem23)
4th
£2,000
Stephen Sass
(BlufferUK)
5th
£1,500
Tom Butlin
(billyboy88)
6th
£1,000
Mark Ryan
(markryan)
7th
£800
Derek Baber
(BCFC82)
8th
£700
Dorian Lane (Ziggy699)
9th
£600
Peter Hathaway
(SHADES11)
10th
£500
Chichao Tsang (SonicMan5)

Bad Beat
Morlspin’s got 50,000 Flying Club miles as a result of the travesty below.

Morlspin’s pocket 2’s hit a set on the flop, made a full house on the turn and was beaten by runner-runner quad 5’s on the turn.

STT Side Event

Congrats to Ian Evans (emsian8144) for taking the plaudits in Sunday’s STT Champs comp plus £475 and 50’000 Flying Club miles. Well done to all those who won an STT and sorry to all who had a wait for a table – it was our first bash at this and we’ll make sure there’s more on next time!!

PokerPlayer Sunday Side Event

We have a bit of a confession here! Once the main event was over we decided to let our hair down and this ultimately resulted in our drunken unconsciousness before the tourney ended. The Broadway is helping us track down the lucky winner so we can give him (or her) his prize and we apologise for missing his big moment.

Wii Bowling

I’m sure some of you will have sore arms today and the best of the slingers was Emile Foyster with a monster score of 251!

Once again thanks for helping to make it so much fun and we hope to see you at our next Festival in Spring 08 for an even bigger and better time (we’ll send you details just as soon as we have them).

Ollie
p.s. This was our first festival and while we thought it went really well we want to make the next one is even better so please let us know about the things you liked and any suggestions of what could be improved. We can’t promise to be able to do everything but will try our very best.

p.p.s Many of you also asked the guys and I lots of questions about the Virgin Poker room over the weekend. As sobriety wasn’t a state familiar to most of us for the 48 hours I’m sure some things will have slipped under the radar. So if you have got any feedback/issues/questions about anything then please drop them to me in an e-mail. Again we’ll try to get as many resolved as fast as possible.

32 Red Wins

2007-12-16T01:19:00.000Z

Not a bad little tourney series from 32red, 32 days of christmas, special tourneys, added value and great structures!

3rd for $210

117th for $6.50

Poker Utd Win and Heads Up Challenge

2007-12-16T01:14:00.000Z

I challenged a friend to a 10 game heads up challenge after a falling out of sorts, he accepted and we took our places for battle, so far in the game im 5-0 up with 5 to play, its been good and we have sorted our differences as well, all the best Alan.

I also won another matchday qualifier for a $92 win and even better, a 4-0 win over sunderland!!! howay the lads

More Virgin Poker wins

2007-12-16T01:09:00.000Z

Vroll Satellite 5th for $15

€100 win to the PLOPS Grand final

€47 entry to weekly final

Gotta say this is my favourite site, great players, great tourneys and a fantastic management team, cant say nothing bad about them!

Pokergod 2

2007-12-16T01:06:00.000Z

I came 5th in this double points tourney for £25 and entry to the Pokergod 2 grand final, where i came 13th and just missed out on the money, final was today, wonder who won?

Winnings so far this year

2007-10-14T00:10:00.003+01:00

Around $6700 from tournaments only

Cash has been a little so im looking at around........

$8000 this year ....long way to go !

Apat online wins

2007-10-14T00:01:00.001+01:00

won a $200 package to walsall

15th and gutted for $15

AQ beat my JJ

Apat Season 2 Regional 1

2007-10-13T23:56:00.000+01:00

23 Runners, 5hrs 45 to play and would have been longer if we hadnt have made a deal with 4 left

I took Mad Duke out when i made a bet with 88 and he pushed for double my bet, i called and he had K9....i made my trips on the turn and he was gone in around 15thSlick Mick went shortly after as he had no help on the flop and was out around 13/14th (cant remember the hand)

Got to final table fairly easilly after my Q10d shortstack shove was called by KJ and i made my flush on the turn again! 9 left and were all in the ranking points

Got to final 4 after about 2 hours on the final table where we made a deal where we would get £60 each and play on for the 3 seats and the ranking pointsI made a fatal error by checking my queens on the flop only for a king to come on the turn and i doubled Millbet up! Nice one lol

My demise came shortly after when i pushed 16k with 10 10 preflop to win 3200 blinds and my mate Barnes called instantly with QQ, 4th for £60, 6 points but no seat

Once the 3 had guaranteed their seats they loosened up with only points to play for and Barnes was heads up with Millbet, who despite being truley hammered managed to river a 4 card flush and take it down!

Well done Millbet and nice meeting the two of you!

See ya at the next one

Winnings in last month

2007-10-13T23:48:00.000+01:00

$320 win

$40 win and $100 in bounties

$5 Win

3rd for $15

3rd for $11

3rd for $110

11th for $46

More Pokerstars Sats wins

2007-09-18T18:55:00.001+01:00

Total amount won via these 6 sats in sept = $358

Sharkscope, good or bad? does it miss much?

2007-08-31T00:22:00.001+01:00

Current Sharkscope graph....sure its missing a ton of games!

PokerStars Satellite results!

2007-08-31T00:19:00.000+01:00

Played 3 and won 3!!!! Piece of piss lol!

1 buy in and 1 add on for 2

1 buy in and 1 rebuy 1 addon for the other!

Total cost $29

Prizes $149

Profit $120

My mate has just won $100,000 !!!!!!!

2007-08-26T22:59:00.000+01:00

As stated earlier in one of my older posts, i found a nice little $25 tourney which gave the winner a seat in a freeroll final where 42 players would battle it out for a $125,000 prizepool, with the winner of this receiving $100,000!!!

Well Unfortunately i was runner up in the weekly final so i never got through, but 4 of my friends did, 3 of them cashing for a grand total of $111,000!!!! wow!

Chess won the $100,000

RnR won $10,000

GaF won $1,000

Well done lads and enjoy your winnings, to say im jealous is an understatement but im so damn happy for you guys!

Virgin V* Rolls 3rd tonight

2007-08-26T22:56:00.000+01:00

Another success in what is sharp becomming my favourite tourney, good players, good spirit and and ive had a lot of success!

Finished 3rd today after being short stack most of the way and scraping onto the final table. Ended up winning another 3000 miles which equates to £30 or $60! Not a bad night considering i haven't had any sleep since friday! Rock n Roll and sleeping with a lesbian is great haha

Poker Utd Week 3 win!

2007-08-26T22:54:00.000+01:00

Had a 20 min heads up with an old friend Babysham today where each time i was ahead and all in, he called and rivered me!! 3 times i think it was haha. I prevailed in the end with a pair of Queens on the flop and won a nice $80 and got 4 valuable points for Newcastle!!!! Howay the lads.

Boss Media $1000 gtd $1 rebuy

2007-08-26T22:51:00.000+01:00

Just a couple of tries at this and cashed in both, gets around 600 players a time and is more fun than a serious tourney, but still has good prizes for final table. Finished 23rd and 28th in my 2 attempts for a grand total of....$16.37!!

Virgin V*Rolls

2007-08-12T22:52:00.000+01:00

Huge success this week in the freerolls that need 25 raked cash game hands to play

10th, 1st and now 2nd in the space of 5 days, winning myself 13000 v points which is the equivalent of £130 or $260!

Poker Utd wins!

2007-08-12T22:50:00.000+01:00

Won a daily satellite into the weekly final, where club vs club takes place and top 3 get "Goals" towards the league table

I was 3rd in the weekly final which is gutting as the guy who was 2nd at the time is a bolton player.......he gets a point for beating me :( (we won the match tho lmao)

Qualification to the virgin poker festival!!!!

2007-08-12T22:46:00.000+01:00

Ive just qualified for the Virgin Poker Festival in november at the Broadway casino in Birmingham by finishing 3rd today, 2nd cant make it so i take it instead and he has the cash id have won. This is a live festival where no cash buy ins can take place, with around 200 online qualifiers!

Virgin are adding 5k to the pot for us along with spot prizes and bounties of trips to vegas etc

Hopefully see you there!

Sky Poker Open

2007-08-12T22:44:00.000+01:00

62nd after my AA was cracked by 10 J for £16.20

Cash game success!

2007-08-02T00:01:00.000+01:00

heres my favorite hand of the evening, took at least $90 off this donk!

***** Hand 704982390 ***** 0.05/0.10 Texas Hold'em (No Limit ) - 01 August 2007 22:26:18 TH Mini 71 (Real /Cash Game )
Seat 1: drhaus (26.25)
Seat 2: dvojica (12.67)
Seat 3: abelt (6.80)
Seat 4: morlspin (40.26)
Seat 5: Carlo57 (10.18)
Carlo57 post SB 0.05 drhaus post BB 0.10
** Deal **
drhaus [N/A, N/A]
dvojica [N/A, N/A]
abelt [N/A, N/A]
morlspin [Ks, Kd]
Carlo57 [N/A, N/A]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
dvojica Call 0.10
abelt Fold
morlspin Raise to 0.40
Carlo57 Call 0.40
drhaus Raise to 1.00
dvojica Call 1.00
morlspin Raise to 8.40
Carlo57 Fold
drhaus Call 8.40
dvojica Fold
*** Flop(Board): *** : [2s, 7s, Ah]
*** Bet Round 2 ***
drhaus All-in 17.85
morlspin Call 17.85
*** Turn(Board): *** : [2s, 7s, Ah, Kc]
*** River(Board): *** : [2s, 7s, Ah, Kc, Kh]
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 2.69 Total Pot: 51.21
drhaus [Qc, 10c] Pair of kings Win: 0.00
morlspin [Ks, Kd] Four of a kind, kings Win: 51.21

UKGF Freeroll 1

2007-08-02T00:00:00.000+01:00

just placed 4th for $48 in tonights freeroll. easy money eh alex lol

PokerStars 100k gtd sat win

2007-07-28T18:44:00.000+01:00

Just satellited into the pokerstars 100k gtd on sunday at 8.30pm bst

The tournament usually attracts 17500 runners and lasts well into sunday morning, should be a good payout too, wih the winner getting around 19k!!!

wish me luck

Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (Newcastle Leg)

2007-07-21T16:24:00.000+01:00

Just met up with Matt Dale (poker.co.uk), Michael Grecco(won Cardiff GUKPT) and Alex Ross(the banned one) at the grosvenor casino in NewcastleBoth are playing the main event which has a £1050 buy in and start tomorrow, Poker.co.uk have taken over sponsoring Lucy Rokach who starts her day 1 on friday. Good Luck all

Matt and Alex bought me into a super satellite with them for £100, so i just wanted to say thanks very much it was much appreciated and not expected!

Matt went out in 7th when he pushed all in pre-flop for around 2500 i called then a local pro went all in for his last 2800, i again called the extra 300Matt showed J5o for a miss timed bluffI had pocket Jacks , only one left to come Local pro picked up AA Nothing on the flop, nothing on the turn and an Ace on the river knocked Matt out and left me back to starting stack of 4000( had previously doubled with AA and 99 in consecutive hands Dealers changed and so did my luck, blinding away i pushed for my last 3000 with blinds at 600/1200 with 10s 6s, 1 caller, he had 88 He hit his 8 on the turn and it was good night vienna, i finished a credible 4th,
Alex followed shortly after in 3rd when his 89s was called by pocket 2's i think and they held up

Had a great night and met up with some pretty good mates, thanks again lads, see ya Soon

Viva Las Vegas!!!!!!

2007-07-21T16:07:00.001+01:00

Well what can i say about Vegas that hasnt already been said a thousand times?

I flew to vegas on Sunday 1st July to play in a side event of the World Series of Poker with Virgin Atlantic (the best direct service for vegas from the UK) arriving at midday to a temperature of around 116f...madness, it was so hot i couldnt breathe for a few moments!

My WSOP experience lasted all of 4 hours which to me is bloody great as i was in the $1000 rebuy event, and i busted out when ahead pre-flop

I had 11k in chips and on the button, when i found myself with KK, 1 limper and i decided that with the rebuys being too expensive id play it aggressively and hope to take the blinds to avoid the inevative ace on the flop, i make my move and announce all in, BB calls, and so does the limper, who has me covered by a mile!

with two of us all in we all turn the cards over:

me: KK

BB: 10 10

limper: 8s9s

i had a big grin knowing i was ahead and no aces to worry about, til i see a flop of 5 6 7 rainbow.....destroying me in 1 foul swoop, no help on the turn and the ace comes on the river, and im out, gutted and tired, but with some great experience anyway.

Met up with Matt Dale of poker.co.uk fame, Jar Jar and Danarama, F-tipper and Michelle, Manbag and his missus, Dave Woods(pokerplayer editor) Hilly the Fish and a few others at the Playboy party at Hugh Heffners Villa at the palms, awesome evening and met a few star players, Mel Judah, Andreas Hoivuld, Simon "Aces" Trumper and partied the night away with the bunnies and the free booze haha!

Then the aftershow at Sapphires gentlemens club...well what can i say....i had my1st lapdance! wow! and then watched as pissed up celebs made fools of themselves over and over again, with Dave Woods brother Nick the star of the show doing breakdancing for us. Wicked time as usual and great seeing you all again!

Poker Utd again

2007-07-21T16:03:00.000+01:00

Had a great evening when finishing 2nd to my good mate Dave aka Col U Fc in the sunday freeroll. This is a great little tournament which usually attracts around 40-50 players, with $200 in prizes shared by top 10 its an easy way to build your bankroll.

The banter is awesome with us all knowing each other by now and all just having fun! Thats what its all about isnt it?

Paradise poker(boss) New world fast track

2007-07-21T16:00:00.000+01:00

This tournament costs $25+$2.50 to enter and usually attracts around 20 entrants which to me is crazy with an added seat to the grand final where the winner will walk away with $100,000!

Im gutted cos i was ahead in chips when i played this one, even having him all in 3 times when i was ahead only to lose a coin flip each time, c'est la vie!

7pm on a saturday evening, if you have nothing better to do, come along and say hello!

Virgin Cheapskates

2007-07-21T15:56:00.002+01:00

The virgin cheapskates is a great little tourney for those of us who like to let our hair down and go mental over 10c rebuys haha, i bubbled in the 1st ever game 2 weeks ago and this week i managed a win, with only 1 rebuy

You know those days where every bet/bluff/dodgy play you make hits the flop and you annoy other players....well today was my day!

Come along and try your luck on a monday, its on at 8.15pm and its good for a laugh, good banter and a decent 1st prize for next to no outlay

Stepping up to a higher level

2007-07-21T15:48:00.000+01:00

Ive been thinking about this for a while now after getting sick of being knocked out by bad players in the lower levels, and so far my attempts have been a sucess, i even ventured into a $50 stt which is double my previous maximum stake.

I won! FFS this is easy haha ill keep the updates coming with some more results soon!

Poker United Win!

2007-06-24T23:17:00.000+01:00

Just won the Poker United pre-season friendly for a nice small prize of $60

GG to all on the final table, played in good spirit and as usual, great banter!

Punterslounge.com live win 3!!!

2007-06-10T00:48:00.000+01:00

taken me a while to update but at the recent pl meet in birmigham i beat a field of 31 to win my 3rd pl tournament in just over a year, an achievement im really pleased with as i beat a lot of very good players

prize was £150, a trophy and a seat at the scottish poker champs 20 man tournament to represent pl in edinburgh

thanks again guys n gals for another great weekend

Poker Weekend in Birmingham

2007-05-30T22:35:00.000+01:00

Just had another great weekend with the lads n lasses of punterslounge.com

Played the MTT we had great again, hit when i needed to and took down the tournament for a £150 prize, a great trophy and entry to the scottish championships 20 seat final, where im gtd a share of any winnings.

Thanks to Paul and Pene for their hospitality and another great night!

$700 wsop sat seat!!!!!!!

2007-05-25T00:13:00.000+01:00

The Big Three - Route 3
15/05/2007

It's getting serious now with four players beating the 100 point mark in Week 3 and Adelita accumulating a seriously impressive 220 points to win!

We're already well in to Week 4 so just 2 chances left to make it to the Vegas final table.
Good luck,
Fishyhook

Virgin Poker WSOP Challenge Week3

2007-05-14T10:57:00.000+01:00

Re: VirginPoker STT Challenge to WSOP

my stats i think are as follows

$3 tourney wins = 2 which gives me 8 points
$5 tourney wins = 24 which gives me 78 points
$5 heads up wins = 15 which gives me 15 points

all towards the wsop challenge......101 in total im guestimatingand thats not bad considering it was all since midnight last night!!!!!

teddy sherringham freeroll

2007-04-15T23:28:00.000+01:00

Won this in my dads name, logged in as him by auto log in and didnt realise til i was playing

won a signed footie kit off the ex-england man himself

sunday is a good day, small wins

2007-04-15T23:26:00.002+01:00

3rd

2nd

more sat wins but no winnings :(

2007-04-15T23:21:00.000+01:00

got to the final for a $7k trip to south africa, was 18th of 32......shite i tell ya

WSOP FINAL SAT WIN

2007-03-18T22:27:00.000Z

Just won a satellite to the WSOP final on poker satellites for a $8500 buy in shot, which we have calculated is around a $475 buy in

18 players expected in the final and ive just booked my slot!

Well done to Mr V for qualifying too! A great night for PL

2 more good tourneys on Paradise

2007-03-13T22:54:00.000Z

cost $3 (buy in + 2 addons) to get entry to the best of british fast track final worth $25

Leg 6 of the Paradise poker league, 4 scores now on the board and another 3rd tonight with $20 for my troubles

Punters Lounge Bloggers Tourney

2007-03-13T20:11:00.000Z

Sponsored by www.Free-Money.co.uk

2K freeroll prizepool this time round and i cant wait, have a look at the tournament details on

www.punterslounge.com

25k gtd satellite win

2007-03-12T23:31:00.000Z

Just won the $18 satellite i qualified for earlier which now gives me entry to the $25k gtd $220 buy in on sunday, and all it cost me was $3.....good streak im having if i dont say so myself!

$500 freeroll on the link to uk gambling forums

2007-03-12T21:33:00.000Z

www.ukgamblingforums.co.uk/forums/mvnforum/listthreads?forum=3

post enough in the next few weeks to be entered in the $500 freeroll with only 13 runners, come on, its a freeroll

what you still reading this shite for? hurry up n get posting!

another satellite on paradise

2007-03-12T21:30:00.000Z

entry to tonights $18 sat on paradise to $25k 200buy in

golden palace freeroll wins

2007-03-12T21:26:00.000Z

2 cashes in 2 nights for a combined $550! cant grumble for nowt!