Monday 5th of October

It’s 8 am and a beautiful autumn day in Ireland. The sun is shining and the birds are singing. A slight frost stretches across the fields. In the distance is the majestic figure of Lee pope chasing someone across the car park before SLAP!!!! The silence is broken and he falls flat [...]

Saturday 3rd October.

The set-up in the hotel was fantastic. Between Ladbrokes and Big Slick they had certainly organised things well. As well as the poker Ladbrokes had organised a Bookmakers within the hotel.

With the dog tip, which seemed apparent most of the room was on, they must have taking a small bashing I turned up [...]

Friday 2nd October
It’s the day of the main event and after lunch we took our seats. With over 750 entries the room was packed to the rafters yet was still a very comfortable environment to play.
There was a 1hr clock and 15,000 starting stacks. With the blinds starting at 25/25 the structure was absolutely fantastic, [...]

Thursday 1st October

Woke up bright and early for Lunch and made our way over to the Card room. Marios and the rest of the Ladbrokes guys were running round erecting banners and stuff. I did my bit to help and stayed out of the way.

That night we had arranged a special tourney to be [...]

Wednesday 30th October

Unfortunately this was an event I missed last year due to playing the London EPT and I’d heard rave reviews from everyone who attended last year. So this year I was more than eager to attend. With just a 500euro buy in for the main event it would fit most bankrolls and so [...]

Saturday
Adam called me to meet for breakfast. Well lunch I suppose.
“Ooops, slept in. Quick shower, and I’ll be down”
The shower was fitted with a really handy seat, what I great Idea I thought. I might get one fitted at home. These handicapped rooms have everything.
I met Adam and his better half for lunch. He had [...]

Thursday

Rushed down Thursday afternoon to register, not just myself but for four Ladbrokes qualifiers too. I needn’t have worried. Only 49 players were playing and day 1 and at the time only 50 had registered [...]

“It’s Almost immpossible to get knocked out of this in the first day”

Skalie april 2009

COCK!

Aces 3 times in first 2 levels (and i was 20 mins late) lost all 3,

Flop 2 pair to a gut shot, crippled me.

A COUP. Double up QQ to KK, make a straight.

Push for last 15k with KK run into AK [...]

Don’t have time to do as long a post as I wanted as I am playing the satellite in half an hour.

Basically played cash yesterday. Got pocket aces twice back to back and lost both. Sigh.

Ran queens into aces and after flopping top set to pocket queens lost 2k pot when a queen hit the [...]

Ran out of chips and went to the bar. All the rest is very blurry.

Off to vegas for the Bellagio 5 stars, will be doing daily updates from friday Morning. Thats afternoons for the UK.