played the €150 private tourney with gambling.co.uk forum on poker.co.uk and won it.
hopefully this is the start of a +ev time after a couple of months of -ev.
also finished 14th in the affiliates freeroll on poker trillion,didnt make one mistake throughout and the only thing that blighted me was being bluffed off a big hand but not hitting the flop so folded my A/Qo and he showed 3/4 clubs with 2 clubs on the flop

been a long since i wrote here

hadn`t realised just how long it has been since i wrote anything here,mind you not to much to mention anyway poker-wise.
got my 1st Royal Flush the other day and revenge in a way on the fish i did it to.he had earlier called my preflop raise of pocket 6`s,the flop came down and i hit my 6 for trips but 2 diamonds also on the board,i bet heavy and he goes all in with 10/3 Diamonds WTF???? anyway he hit and i am down a fair bit,on this particular hand though he minimum raised which i called,anyway what with hitting 2 spades on the flop i decide to gamble and pushed all-in and he turns over A/A DOH!!!!!!
anyway i have the last laugh










it is the PokerUtd Champions final tonight so time for some serious play as i really want to win this.
will also be playing on Pokerstars,the Boris Becker Wimbledon special

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

have the weekly Pokerutd league game on tonight,although i have no fixture i will be playing for the cash..
playing for Mad Duke(a punters lounge member)in Virgin VRoll Final,if i win anything get 60% of it..
also got the weekly Bloggerment game on Pokerstars (password donkament)ay 21.00pm.
also on Virgin i am in the EMS league game,although it may be as a sitout.depends how well i do for Mad Duke.

UKFF YUWIE GAME,


PokerStars Tournament #74835394, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
22 players
Total Prize Pool: $110.00
Tournament started - 2008/01/24 - 16:00:00 (ET)

Dear teaulc,

You finished the tournament in 3rd place.
A $22.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

finished 2nd in pokerutd league last night,had gone down to 400 chips at one time but fought my way back to chipleader and then played very aggressively, maybe too much so,but i was enjoying my game and just love playing dangerously at times,the result now puts me back as top goalscorer......
finished 6th (the bubble) in the ukff league game,happy enough though as i was playing good poker imo and felt so confident even with so many games being played at the same time

busy night tonight,i am beginning to dread sundays as they always seem to be the nights with the most games i like playing.
i recently joined another forum which is very eye-catching from the off,(Eat My Stack Poker) and they have a new league season starting tonight on Virgin,so going to give that a go,i have my regular Pokerutd Matchday league game which is by far my favourite and most profitable game.
on Betfair there is the Annette15 game which i am going to play a bit looser than normal and see how that works.
Also tonight is the new season league game on UK Football Fans forum,although i only started playing with them last October i am in the Premiership league for this year as i had some good results including winning the 1st one i played.
the other game for tonight is the Virgin v-points game,the best i have finished was 4th in the old format,nowadays not as many players so should suit my game as i play better with the less players there are.

not too bad a week so far this week,on sunday finished 4th in the pokerutd matchday league and last night won $150 playing for a seat into Betfair`s $100k tourney on this sunday by finishing 2nd.

not a lot to speak of in the last week,played on Mansion in the $1.10 with $20080 added.top 100 players got paid and over 3500 players.after what i have told was a bad call of 300 chips preflop (10% of my stack) with A/8 Diamonds and eventually winning the hand with a straight i go on to finish in 62nd place for $47,
also had my 1st live game of the year at the Grosvenor in Brighton,a £10 re-buy with £5 bounty,got through the re-buy period and was sitting with J/J and 11 BB`s so pushed and got called by Q/10 clubs and BB calls with A/A,i hit the Jack on the flop but the River brings out an Ace,was only my 4th re-buy game so getting to grips with the way people play.
also lost my lead on Pokerutd as Spannerjago finishes 2nd to get a 1 goal lead on the year so far
gonna be playing the Pokerutd league game tonight but as it is cup weekend it will be playing for cash only,also gonna play on Virgin tonight for the 1st time in ages,UK football fans has a new league starting tonight with a new structure,although i only started playing with them in September i will be playing in the Championship league due to the good results i have had.
the final game for tonight will be the Bloggerment on Pokerstars,open to anyone who has a Blog.the password is "donkament" and all are welcome

from little acorns,,back to cash winning ways if only a small amount..



PokerStars Tournament #65836912, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $1.00/$0.10
95 players
$50.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $145.00
Tournament started - 2008/01/01 - 15:00:00 (ET)

Dear teaulc,

You finished the tournament in 8th place.
A $6.52 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

not been a good couple of days for me,but that is poker...
went out 2nd on pokerutd league when i got rivered by spannerjago and it looks like he will be the new top goalscorer and i finished on the bubble in the blogger tourney on pokerstars ,,hence the picture..(see raisetheriver)

PokerStars Tournament #71292410, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $3.00/$0.25
6 players
Total Prize Pool: $18.00
Tournament started - 2007/12/23 - 08:44:02 (ET)

Dear teaulc,

You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $6.30 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

PokerStars Tournament #71225747, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
19 players
Total Prize Pool: $95.00
Tournament started - 2007/12/23 - 16:00:00 (ET)

Dear teaulc,

You finished the tournament in 3rd place.
A $19.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

played pokerutd matchday league and finished 3rd for $32 but got no goals as my team-mate finished 2nd,but it does put brighton back on top of the league,
also played on pokerstars,see result below,i went out with a/k and got done by runner runner flush






PokerStars Tournament #70560740, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $4.00/$0.40
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $720.00
Tournament started - 2007/12/16 - 13:00:47 (ET)

Dear teaulc,

You finished the tournament in 13th place.
A $8.64 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 60.59 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

just got back and only 14 players this time
think only 1 player went out before the 1st break,all very tight with most raises being folded,,was sitting in seat 5 with my mate ben in seat 3 and mcgin(another online colleague) in seat 6..
1st hand after the break i raise with a/q and mcgin is all in as he is fairly short stacked,,he turns over k/k ,flop doesnt help but turn gives me the ace ,sorry mate,,,
then fairly quickly we hit final table.....i am bb with j8 and manage to see the flop with 2 other players,board shows j/6/7 and i raise, caller folds and sb raises all in with a call for me of a couple of hundred and he turns over j6 turn is a 5 and i am praying for 4 or 9 but another 7 hits on flop.....
this leaves me with about 1800 chips with blinds now 400/800,
couple of hands later i have pocket 7`s and go all in ,,bb calls with k/10,,
flop is 8/8/8 .turn k and river doesnt help,,out in 7th...
was really pleased with my game today,made some good judgement raises and folds...

no poker tonight,it is my wifes works xmas dinner,so off to the chinese restuarant and the back to her bosses house for a few rums,,tomorrow off the grosvenor in brighton for the APAT regional qualifier,this is also a sponsored game for me for POKERUTD...

TONIGHT sees the start of the RaiseTheRiver Premier League! This 10 round fun-fest is just $5+50 per round and the league winner gets a fantastic prize - a $530 seat to a EPT Qualifier donated by LITTLEWOODS POKER! Awesome? YES SIR!

On top of that, Sign up through one of our links and you get up to 50% rakeback

0- 4999 MPPs will receive 38.71% net
5000-7999 MPPs will receive 40% net
8000-10999 MPPs will receive 45% net
11000+ MPPs will receive 50% net

So you get 38.71% automatically, that has to be one of the best rakeback deals out there!!

Thirdly there are also sign-up bonuses of upto $200.

Sign up for littlewoods using the link below:

http://www.littlewoodspoker.com/?03691832

or on our site @ www.raisetheriver using one of the Littlewoods banners.

What do I need to do?

Once you've got your Littlewoods account, note down your username, pop over to www.raisetheriver.com, go to the leagues tab and register your username for the password. Come back to this page just before the tournament on Friday and the password will be available to you.

If you don't do this - you will not get points allocated in the league. There will be no exceptions to this rule.

Please tell your friends to come and play - it'll make a better and more competitive league for everyone. Please do not pass the password around to your friends though- they will be ineligible for the prize unless they also register their poker room username with us for which they need to become members.

Round# 1 Details below:

Date: Friday 14th December 2007; 9.00pm UK Time
Where: LittleWoodsPoker.Com -> Real Money -> Tourney - > MPP/Restricted -> "RTR Premier League 2"
Tournament ID: 6047086
Buy-in: $5+0.50c



See you all at the tables hopefully - good luck to you all!

my a/a gets busted by j/j ....good game though

PokerStars Tournament #63758314, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
386 players
$2700.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $6560.00
Tournament started - 2007/12/11 - 15:00:00 (ET)

Dear teaulc,

You finished the tournament in 24th place.
A $45.92 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 80.64 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.