Always the bridesmaid....

I have been so incredibly busy lately that I havent had time to write for this blog. I run a charity at xmas and it takes up a lot of my spare time. Add to this the inordinate number of tournies to be played around xmas and the fact that I have to move house and I'm starting a business and you can imagine that for someone as lazy as I am, thats a lot of work!

Poker is being a bitch to me again. My tournament play is back and I'm playing "ok". Thats as far as it goes because I've made a few really poor calls that I shouldnt have to exit a few tournies.

On the plus side, I got heads up with Len for the ticket to the Grand Slam event in Jan. I powered through the tournie picking my points and finding slightly worse hands then mine. I made it to heads up and then made some bad blunders to lose the ticket to Len. I did secure 30% of the winners winnings in a deal we made but frankly nothing will erase the sting of not being there to represent my country on TV with the best. I thought I was gutted before but a few days later it really sank in that I blew it.

I organised a charity game in the Fitz recently too (for the charity I mentioned earlier). What a fantastic game and turnout, we raised nearly 1800 notes for the kids and what more I got heads up for the finale. My AJ got rivered by J7.

I take back everything I said about Mr Flood, he put on a dissertation on the correct way to play poker at the Paddy Power Xmas Cracker and even though I finally caught him on a draw, he hit it. :( To be fair, Mr Flood played the rest of us off the table and my hat is off to him. I played about as poorly as you can with a big tank.

Couple that with the close call on the MCM ticket and its just not my *life* really is it. Well I have 30% of Len and the Grand Slam Irish Team and a ticket to the 1000 Boyle Sports finals so I can't really complain, January could yet come good for me!