123rd & 124th MTT Wins

The most recent tournaments that I took down include:

123rd: 1/20 to win a Budapest Poker Open Package worth over $2,100 on BWIN and

124th: 1/31 in a league game at Betsafe to win the November Rain League and a €1,000 bonus.

Set of Sets

First hand of the first Gutshot Thanksgiving Day Freeroll:

Blinds 10/20, Clank Raises to 70 UTG, I call, BB calls. BB checks, Clank bets just under the pot, I reraise, BB goes all in, Clank goes all in and I call!

No miracle one outer though :(

Omaha@GUKPT&Party

FRIDAY PLO8B REPORT:

Only 47 runners. Top 9 paid though with 9th getting £500 and 1st £8,000. The tourney ended up being a double chance (4000 and 4000 chips). After all the players had added their extra chips I went down to 4k after my wheel wrap lost to top pair. Then with 14 players left, I had 7.1k with blinds 600/1200. UTG I raised the pot with A2h3h4. Paul Parker called on my left and McCool on the big blind. McCool checked the 35hJh flop and I shoved my remaining 2.9k. Both players called but the turn and river bricked out and I think Parker won with just a pair of Jacks lol. I had like 26 outs twice with 22 of them scooping a 21.9k pot with which I would have def made the final table grrrrrrrrrr

SATURDAY Party Poker Premier League Poker Launch Party

SUNDAY PLO REPORT:

80 players for a £40k prizepool, just under £14k for first. I was one of the early chip leaders thanks to a triple up with Aces and then a nearly a double up after I flopped quads on a QKQ flop and my unlucky opponent had KK. After that I was card dead all the way into the final table which I just made as the short stack. 9th place busted when his AAxx lost to TTxx so I was now guaranteed £1.5k.

With 23k I posted the BB of 3k and found AA98. Simon Trumper limped, Marc Goodwin limped and Robin Keston made up the SB. I raise the pot but only Goodwin folded. Flop T74 and I push in my remaining 8k after Keston checked, Trumper then goes all in for 18.5k total and Keaston folds. I think Trumper had 7653 and hit a 5 on the river. Still, £1500 for 8th for +36% ROI overall.

Party & Poker

In London next weekend for some GUKPT poker and partying after I won an invite to the Party Poker Premier League Poker III launch party. My caption(s) for the photo below proved funny enough to win the invite on the HendonMobForum.

'Annie reraises the maximum in Ante Up for the Deaf.'

'Annie asks, "How many fingers am I holding up?" in Ante Up for the Blind.'

Also went to the Party Poker Pro-Celebrity Darts last Friday thanks to the HendonMobForum again. The poker legend, Devilfish, didn't make it past the first round though!

Another funny caption by DaMatrix:

'The new waxworks at Madam Tussauds really fooled Roland as he tried in vain to organise a game of chinese poker.'

Peter Eastgate: 2008 World Champion

Peter Eastgate (22) today became the youngest ever WSOP main event winner beating Ivan Demidov heads-up to win the bracelet and over $9 million!

Power Hour Poker

The results of the BlueSquarePoker October Power Hour were announced today.

I became the first Poker Hour challenge winner (8 $30+ STT wins in 1 hour) to scoop a $3680 VIP Vegas trip. (I also picked up first place in the $1-$5 tier (12 STT wins) bagging $200 and just missed out on first place in the middle tier (8 $10-$20 STT wins), losing out to a better wins to games ratio, but still picking up $250).

To win the Vegas trip I played in 31x($30+$3) 6 handed STTs (that started within an hour) in total ($1023 investment) and during play at the start my roll was around -$700 (so I guess I had started/was playing 20 games) until the STTs started finishing and I managed to win 8 and come second 8 times for $417 profit in the session too (40%+ ROI).

I should be in Sin City again whilst the 2008 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic is in town!

122nd MTT Win

Playing as my latest alter ego, GigaBux, I came 1st out of 136 on Mansion Poker to win a VIP training ground trip for two to Tottenham Hotspur!

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