Upon entering the grocery store I spot a large yellow advertisement. Mushrooms, on sale! A sucker for a bargain I hastily bagged a couple dozen of the little fellas, nary a thought in mind for what would become of them. Fast forward to today. I remember my haul which has now well and truly made … Read more →

Recently there has been a spur of discussion over the possibility of adding additional PLO tournaments to the regular schedule on PokerStars. That makes this as good a time as any to chime in with my thoughts on the matter. Firstly, I am in full support of more tournaments with greater ranges of buyins and … Read more →

I want to talk a bit about the benefits of having an online presence. I use the term “online presence” extraordinarily loosely: I doubt I could properly define exactly what I mean by it. I imagine it encompasses anything and everything that is attached to “you” online. Whether it’s your real name, a screen name … Read more →

You’re tired, so you put it off until tomorrow. Oops. You forgot that you have a jam packed schedule and will be out of the house all day. It’s now the third day and having been postponed twice already another day doesn’t seem too bad. From there it gets increasingly easier to put it off. … Read more →

I intend to write a poker update within the next few days. That can wait. What can’t wait is the telling of my tantalising tale of the last 24 hours. Naturally it’s all about food. It actually began many months ago. My good friend Will and I had both watched the episode of Anthony Bourdain’s … Read more →

As I mentioned two posts ago, Puneet and I recently had our engagement party. Speaking for the two of us I can say that it was without a doubt one of the best nights of our lives. The event itself was almost a month ago but I’ve waited until now to write about it because … Read more →

I’m rounding the 700,000 VPP corner and the end is in sight. Well almost. Actually no not really. There’s still a long, uphill battle ahead. I’m on track to make it by the 20th of December assuming maintaining a 10k per day average. Yesterday Puneet and I booked our flights to India leaving on the … Read more →

I’m not going to lie, life is hectic at the moment. I haven’t given up trying to get SNE and I don’t intend to – but it has been a rough start (or re-start rather). I go back and forth between playing a max of 12-15 tables and attempting to play up to 21 tables … Read more →