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280 runner live tournament up at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham, 10k starting chips 45 min blinds. Another 1st place within the week!… http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/resultplayers.php?id=861 This one was worth £22.5k after a heads-up deal (~even stacks) in which we chopped the £10k we were playing for into an additional £2.5k each with £5 to play for (~4.5 [...]

This week’s idiots are Protiprot, Kallekanin, 3napa, and gergong2. Same situation as last time: ZazaNuts is here for another afternoon of poker fun, and as soon as he’s bust these 4 sit straight out, making sure he knows that they think he’s a mark. Its not just that I think that a bit of faux-respect [...]

Here’s the post from 3 and a half weeks ago (http://www.alexbowler.com/events/killarney-2009/, last paragraphs) when I said that r0lfus’s tournament win in Ireland meant that I had to try to do better in tournaments! So I think I’ve entered 6 since then, with 2 small cashes and 3 losses. So I learnt how to suck out; [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post I’ve been away for a lot of this month so only played 10k hands and most of that was in the last week. All 3/6 and 5/10, and very successfully for that short sample. Still managed to come in slightly under EV for the month; I almost don’t [...]

I was asked for some advice on starting to play poker full time, and its something I have written bits about in the past, so rather than just replying individually by email I thought I’d put a page on here. This way I can edit in extra good pieces of advice over time, and we [...]