It’s WSOP season and I’ll be flying out to Vegas on June 13th and I’m awesomely excited about it! Some other Eurodonks and I have rented a house for a full month and I’m pretty sure this is going to be the most fun period of any of our poker lives/careers so far. I’m playing [...]

PokerStars blog post about the final table and his win.
Also he final tabled SCOOP 1 and SCOOP 28 for $350k in cashes.
And he won a watch, probably this one:

After seeing the doctor on monday, we decided to continue ahead with the plan I discussed in my last blog and cut off the final drug I was on to control the ulcerative colitis.  It’s been years since a major episode, but going medication free is still a risk.  I’m obviously hoping to not fall [...]

November was pretty damn good to me.  A lot of aspects of life are “progressing nicely” at the moment – I’ve got a rekindled desire to play online MTTs again, I’ve been successful at cash games, my coaching group is plugging along nicely, I’ve spent a ton of time working on my own game, and [...]

A few weeks ago I found myself with my friend Chris still up and drinking at 7:30am in the Penny Black (one of Edinburgh’s more notorious drinking institutions which opens at 6am, conveniently exactly as casinos shut). One of the strangers we were chatting with mentioned that he quite liked chess. “Oh, Chess is a [...]

I’m not quite sure what it is exactly – maybe it’s the changing of seasons (winter is the best), maybe it’s the fact the super-draining WCOOP is finally in the rear-view mirror, maybe it’s the fact I’m actually training again and eating better than I have in a long time (more fish and plain chicken [...]