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 39 days 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 68 days 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...

Tuesday Apr 01, 2008

published 98 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 4

Fish and Poker Chips in Oz

Katharine and I were so excited to be going back to Melbourne for the Aussie Millions. We'd had such a fantastic time last year and would have done nearly anything to return. My preparations for the tournament were basically reliant on recovery, after sitting next to a woman on the plane who...

Saturday Mar 01, 2008

published 129 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 3

New Year's Day in Galway Bay

By the time this story reaches you, we will be well into the new year. But I must mention my New Year's Eve trip to Galway. Galway is on the west coast of Ireland. Having never been there before, I was excited about the prospect of visiting a new venue. Inasmuch as I was going to be running a...

Friday Feb 01, 2008

published 158 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 2

Blackpool Lights

Twenty years ago, whenever I was broke, I could always get a few quid if I headed up to Blackpool. I'd stay in the Whitten Hotel for £5 a night and play in all the £10 competitions, building my tank back up against some of the great players who are still about today, such as...

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