Can I Kill Him?
I was surprised when over 4400 people turned up to play the WSOP Seniors event as having observed buffet queues in this country for nearly twenty years here, I have …
View ArticleBarny Boatman, The Heart of a Champion
Barny Boatman rarely fails to make me laugh. Even when he’s not trying to. Years ago, he did a Late Night Poker preview on the Hendon Mob site in one …
View ArticleQUITTING? I AIN’T QUITTING!
At last year’s WSOP, Mike Sexton was telling us about a game that used to run years ago in Carolina or someplace like that. Every now and again, it would …
View ArticleNero fiddles. Rome burns.
Vegas is very quiet .So quiet if you listen real hard you can hear the poker Gods laughing. They’ve kicked ass again. The road to the airport is littered with …
View ArticleA Waste of Good Coffee
I haven’t been on death row yet, but I know how it feels. Spending a rest day in the WSOP main event knowing you’re going back with a third of …
View ArticleOnly in Galway
If you like gambling, the craic and the company of people whose sanity is at best questionable, you’d love the endurance test that is The Galway Races. Just to complicate …
View ArticleKill Gus
It’s not too difficult to look like a class act at a two week poker festival that coincides with the Galway races. Being able to stand upright some of the …
View ArticleThe Devilfish predicts the future and RIP Tom Sexton, one of the good guys
I recently met some old poker friends at the 888 VIP event in London, and inevitably the conversation came around to the good old days of the made for TV …
View ArticleTales From Two Cities
The circus came to Paris last month. The WSOP Europe was first up. It was either a Ryanair production and was staged miles away from anywhere, or just a 20 …
View ArticleUnderwear Poker and Bobby Hoff's Poker Face
Most people credit the internet with starting the play poker in your underwear fashion, a movement which has taken on a popularity the likes of which the world hasn’t witnessed …
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