Ben is a top notch bloke as any of his close friends will tell you...As one of his closest mates he has asked me to apologise to the people who he has upset (not sure who exactly). Some of you may or may not know that he has had it difficult recently and for the time being is taking a wee break from all poker related stuff while he takes a holiday. He loves poker so fingers crossed he will be back soon and winning (i have a little makeup,lol). He is fine though and is in good spirits.

thanks

Coca

In this offer you have to make at least 100 bets in the hour, and what they don't make obvious to you is that the MAXIMUM profit you can keep is £200. So Ifm there was no need to carry on gambling when at £1600, although of course you weren't to know this as they don't tell you. Luckily I knew about this and put small bets on once I had reached £800 to ensure I got the maximum £200 profit.

The next catch is that you must deposit at least £20 before they release the £200 bonus into your account. Then finally you must wager 30 times your bonus before you are able to withdraw it!

So all in all, it's yet another offer that is far from what it first appears to be. Luckily I did manage to make £400 off it for what turned out to be a risk of just £20 though, so can't complain

Very well done to ChipRich and Coca919 for their performances. 

Cheers, same to you mate!

My    outdrew Coca's , im so sick!

Yep what he said. Sick sick beat!

Yep just as has already been said, it was a fantastic weekend and met some great people! Very well organised too.

Only downside to the whole weekend was just missing seeing the one and only Liberty X at Chicago's!! Gutted of course. 

Bit late I know, but I've only recently found out about this through Ben (Sunday8pm) and decided to come along.

Is there still spaces to play? If so could you count me in please, and if not could you put me on the reserve list?

Cheers.

I don't mean to hijack this thread but I notice that the Fantasy World Cup you've selected is only for Premiership players.

If anyone would also like to enter one that has all the players that will be at the world cup I've managed to find one. I've already entered myself.

It's also free to enter and has £20,000 in prizes to give away. The link is below ...

http://fantasyfootball.metro.co.uk/

This squad has to be whittled down to 23 doesn't it?  So what 4 does he drop.

I thought he was naming a 27 man squad today, to be cut down to 23 on May 15th.

Turns out he's named his 23 squad today, with 5 stand-by players.

Yup, we need another striker in there. We don't need carrick, jenas AND hargreaves.

When questioned about his strikers in the interview, Sven said "joe cole can be counted as another striker". So maybe he's planning to put joe cole just behind who-ever our lone striker turns out to be.

The more I look at the squad the worse it gets every time.

I think our reserves list is pretty shocking too.

I'm pretty suprised by this squad. Not too sure what to make of it. Gambling on too many unexperienced players I think.

Lennon over SWP? Sven keeps saying in his interview he wants pace. Is SWP not pacey enough for him? Fair enough he hasn't played much this season, but until the end of the season Lennon wasn't even a starter himself at Tottenham. I think you have to take SWP over Lennon for his experience.

Walcott I could maybe understand as a gamble in normal circumstances. But with our 2 star strikers as doubts, surely you need a proven goalscorer in there as back-up. If Rooney and Owen aren't fit, I don't fancy our chances if we're forced to start Peter "couldn't score for most the season" Crouch and Theo "never played a premiership game" Walcott up-front. Defoe or Bent it has to be for me.

What about the back-up list too? Reo-Coker instead of SWP and no Bent? 3rd top scorer in the premiership and top english goalscorer and he couldn't even make the first 6 strikers. I don't understand that one.

Finally, I don't see the need for both Hargreaves and Carrick in the squad? Too similar players who are both back-ups. So I don't think we need both. I wouldn't take Hargreaves and would rather have SWP or another striker in the squad.

Sven's definately picked an "interesting" squad here.

With Rooney and Owen both doubts for the World Cup, there's been a lot of talk about who Sven will take as cover.

He needs to name his initial 27-man squad at 2pm today (to be cut down to 23 on May 15th). It looks like both Rooney and Owen will both go, but who's Sven going to take as back-up if owen and rooney aren't fit to play? Defoe/Bent/Johnson/Ashton?!!

Well it looks like there could be a suprise addition to the squad. Never played a premiership game. Yet to get a single minute for his new club. Theo Walcott to be our secret weapon for the world cup? I can't say I saw this one coming.

http://home.skysports.com/list.asp?hlid=385281&clid=114&channel=skysports_home_page&title=Sven+ready+to+turn+to+Walcott

With the blinds at 60k-120k with 15k, I'm suprised none of the final 8 have gone yet, or at least any big all ins occurred. Despite the fact its just 2 more to go till the televised final table, I would have thought the fact that the payout structure is so steep for the top places would have meant more action.

So rumour has it, with 8 remaining Edge has gained a few chips and has moved out of 8th place and into 7th, with 1.3mill to his name.

Men 'The Master' Nguyen down to 600k.

James Van Alstyne I believe is still the chip leader on 6.5mill.

Been playing online for over 3 years. In my first 6months of playing I was dealt 3 royal flushes. There was me thinking they were easy to get and lapping up the 300 quid crypto was giving me each time.

Never had one since .....