cards have been awful just lately,,so nice to have a decent game once in a while.
played the punters lounge exclusive on pokertrillion and finished 5th for €57,once again i am on the steal and come up against A/A,,amazing how many times just lately i have done that,,nice to see my mate spence (spannerjago) win tonight,,very well played............
also good to meet online the snowman (a legend in the poker blogs).
gonna have tuesday night off and play wednesday now...need some chill time.

Virgin Poker Festival

i am very happy tonight,after running bad with cards just lately a bit of good news at last,,,VirginPoker are having another festival in April in Newcastle and i have just qualified to play through The Daily Punt forum exclusive.
hit the final table with a very short stack and got lucky when i had to push with A/2 against J/J and hit the ace i needed,it kept me in the game and then i took out my mate Ed with A/K to his pocket pair and then from there went on to win,,my winning hand was style as well with a Full House.
it is going to be good to see some old and new friends while i am there

have been running quite bad this week until last night,finished 5th in the pokerutd matchday league and 6th in the virgin v-points sat.winning a place in the final and about $30 as well

my 1st sponsored cash out

went to the Grosvenor last night to play the £10 + £5 bounty,re-buy and found they had changed it to a £5 re-buy
i was thinking it was gonna be more of donk-fest than normal but was pleasantly surprised that it turned out otherwise.
we started off with 800 chips and blinds 25/50.
there were 50 runners.
i must admit i had won one hand up to about 10 minutes before the add-on and cogscoine from raisetheriver forum came and sat at my table,and then my luck changed.
starting after the break with 8k in chips and a prize fund of just over £1100 after about 150 re-buys and i cant remember how many add-ons (not all me i will have you know ).
the poker was good and banter very friendly on our table and was enjoying the evening emmensely.
eventually we got broken up and the field went down very quickly.
on the bubble i got my biggest slice of luck,now i hadnt hit any top pair all evening and didnt in this hand:
cant remember the blinds but something like 300/600.
we are down to 5 players on each table,
i am utg and limp in with 5/5 ,all fold round to the BB
flop is A/5/4 with 2 Diamonds and 1 Heart,
i check, he raises and i push all-in (i have him covered) thinking he has hit the Ace with either a 10 or J...he calls,
how wrong i was, he had 2/3 for the flopped straight
i was gutted to say the least...
anyway the turn brings out the last 5 woohoo
to see the change in facial expressions between us 2 must have been a sight..poor guy walks away with £10 from the prize fund as agreed by all the players and i think he went straight to the bar.
after that we all went to the F/table and my chip stack went up and down like a yo-yo,and eventually went out with A/J when the other called with K/9 and hit a 9 on the turn.
i finished 6th for £60 and a very enjoyable night out and got in about 2.30am