My 'Nan

In my last column, I was telling you about how July 7, 2005, changed my life. I had just walked up to the microphone for my first-ever after-dinner speech … What I was going to say, I had absolutely no idea. I paused for a while, and then said, "Hands up, who knows me?" All the...

Tuesday Sep 02, 2008

published about 1 month ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 9

The World Series of Poker ... and More

The World Series of Poker made it feel like back to normal in Downtown Las Vegas. With the Horseshoe - Binion's Horseshoe, that is - and the Golden Nugget both running mini festivals, poker interest downtown was running real high. Binion's was getting up to 400 runners per event, and the...

Friday Aug 01, 2008

published 2 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 8

The Month of May

The month of May was going to be something special to me, because Manchester United had made the European Cup final and everything was set for May 21. Moscow, here I come! My good friend Simon Zach had managed to get me executive tickets for the final, with accommodations and a first-class...

Tuesday Jul 01, 2008

published 3 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 7

PartyPoker World Open IV

What I know about cricket, you could write on a grain of rice and there would still be room for my name and address. I live in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, and when they told me Min Patel was in the celebrity heat of the PartyPoker.com World Open IV, I had absolutely no idea who he was, but I was...

Friday May 30, 2008

published 4 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 6

Spring Poker Festival Vienna

With the poker calendar in March promising a European Poker Tour, Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, and Irish Open, I was on my way once again to the Spring Poker Festival in Vienna, which is now better known as the PartyPoker.com European Challenge. For the second year, the day before the main event...

Thursday May 01, 2008

published 5 months ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 5

The European Open IV

February was going to be a long and exciting month, with three great poker tournaments being filmed back-to-back-to-back. Government scientists using a series of experiments would not get close to what was going to happen, and it was my job to keep everything under control. The first of the three...

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