bubblin dublin

What is up and so forth…

Just got back from a really fun weekend in Dublin at the Boyles Irish Poker Open.

These weekends are awesome – like the Virgin Poker Festival and APAT events they’re the present and future … we need more.

Mass participation tournaments with affordable buy ins and a good prize that can change a casual players bankroll are great for poker. And if they have a top atmosphere around them like this one they make an aw

This tournament is huge and if you weren’t there this year you need to get involved next time. I think there were 1300 plus runners which meant that for jus a $250 buy in you could win a $60k plus first prize.

Obviously I came really close but got bad beated near the big money….. That or I lasted a grand total of 28 minutes. Which is … you know….. shit but wahddayagonnado

My Kings ran into Aces and that was me all done. I did this in a Teddy KGB accent ‘Eiy Feel So UnSchatisfied

I retired to my room to play online before the cash games and fun started in the evening where I watched my beloved LFC lose to a goal scored by a beach ball…that’s proper running bad!

Actually I ran bad all weekend live and made up for it online. My friends – a lot of the on the rail bloggers…you know who they are – also ran bad. However that did very little to dampen the weekend. We had a good ‘craic’ – which I’m told is a real thing.

Dublin was a lot of fun but weekends like this one remind me it’s really who you’re with that’s important we could have been in a 5 star exclusive beach club or a caravan park in a rainy Paignton it wouldn’t have mattered.

I’ve eaten and drunk a bit too much of good stuff lately (ie things that are bad for you) – so I’m going on a health kick until December and the Christmas onslaught. It’s actually fun doing this after a lot of abuse – also good for your poker! At least that’s what I’m telling myself…. Got to have some compensation for giving up the good stuff.

Out at the top

So I want to update my blog but I can’t think of anything I want to write about….so this is going to be riveting. Built it up haven’t I…can’t wait to read more can you….

Okay so my new theory is that when someone is completely magnificently brilliant at something we need to wait until their powers ever so slightly then have them killed. I mean nicely and quietly and in a manner of their choosing but basically they’re not allowed to continue living and tarnish the beautiful image of them we have in our heads. Maybe that’s harsh maybe there’s a get out – they can do a Bobby Fischer the maverick genius chess player that became a hermit near the height of his powers.

I’ve just hear Michael Jackson’s “new” song and it’s utter rubbish. Not that that’s a surprise I mean he only produced rubbish for about 15 odd years. Around 1989 he should have been quietly ushered off the scene and we wouldn’t have to had endure any of the um…..tricky stuff…..

Same applies to pudge ball Maradonna, Woody Allen and on and on – the great ones need to be frozen in time.

It’s because of this that I’ve decided to retire from poker at the peak of my powers……or not – though maybe if Hellmuth or Johnny Chan had in 1990 it would have been good

I’ve just finished a really busy period of work and I’m mercifully quieter over the next two months. So I’m gonna work on some stuff I love like writing my book and so on but also setting some goals for poker play in terms of number of hands to play and so on. I’ll blog them and fill you in on my progress.

In the meantime I’m off to Dublin this weekend for the IPO – should be fun hope to see some of you there.