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Dave Colclough?

Great post, please keep blogging here!

Laurence Houghton?

wrote a long post then delete it because of potential reaction

maybe next week..

DO IT

£666 buyin, one re-entry

Loads of action at Casino Gran Madrid, just outside the city centre.

Liking the look of this blog

Luke Patten

The banned players should upload their full hand histories from the satellite to the forum, now that DTD consider this matter closed.

Why are so many people against the ipoker collusion team? Seems that a lot of people think they would be better qualified to assess, than the team would.

Spoke to one of collusion guys earlier. He said half of the team have cried themselves to sleep past couple of nights, sad state of affairs.

Blonde seems to be a magnet for these scumbags, shame people take advantage of a friendly forum like this one.

I'd like to know how he comes to the conclusion that 'poker is dying'? Yeah numbers might be down in the 10k+ events but they were artificially inflated anyway by FTP and Stars splashing out on sponsorship. You just can't use attendances at huge buyin tournaments as a good indicator for the overall health of the game when these tournaments account for a minuscule amount of poker going on all over the world.

Small and mid stakes live tournaments are doing great and a quick look at pokerscout shows that 18 of the top 20 poker networks showed growth in players numbers in the past 6 months. iPoker was stagnant and FTP recorded a tiny decline.

I just don't really get why everyone on blonde seems to think that they sky is falling just because there isn't enough liquidity in Nottingham to withstand a whole bunch of good regs and hefty rake compared to the same size online games.

excellent post.

+1

Great blog by Dara O'Kearney on the matter - http://dokearney.blogspot.ie/2014/02/old-school-new-school-or-back-to-school.html

You can tell from your posts that you have a great passion for the game, but with deadlines approaching etc, the best thing to do would be to take a break from poker.

The game will still be here whenever you come back to it, it isn't going anywhere.

Your university degree is worth so much more than grinding a few tournaments, even if it doesn't feel like it now.

Don't drop the course, you will regret it.

Good Luck!