just need paddy or skybet to offer 25/1 a british women's winner of wimbledon now to suck all the mugs in!

And they'd still only lay you 80p.

It looks like we are very likely to have at least one British girl in the final of the Nottingham Open on Sunday.  Dart, Boulter and Watson are all in to the quarter finals in the bottom half of the draw together with Golubic (who was beaten by Boulter in Surbiton).

So we are likely to see somebody in the top 100, and a possible first WTA title for Dart or Boulter.  If Burrage can win now, all the seeds will be out, and the whole tournament has opened up.

And Jodie Burrage wins too.

We are the greatest tennis nation in the World all of a sudden...  Mad that none of them were good enough to get in the main draw (might be wrong with Burrage, as she seemed to get in without a wild card, so it was probably calculated on her points before she lost last year's Surbiton results).

And 3 out of 4 in the semis, and chances of an all British final with all the really dangerous players gone. 

There is going to be a British pair in the women's doubles final too.

Horrid news. Puts things in perspective.

Good luck today Rob, we need some thread run good.

guess who?

"Lots of reasons I feel I should be in the poker HOF! Besides my poker accomplishments im the only poker player who's ever had a 5min segment on my life on sportscenter, & im only person on the 2023 ballot who signs & takes 100 pic and autograph a day with so many saying I only got into poker because of you! I've got 4 bracelets 0 since my injury but have made 11 final tables since my injury at wsop, 5 wpt finals nbc hu in 2013? I play from my heart in awful pain everyday yet still crush the cash games! I know ill get in if not this yr but my mom is 85 so I hope it's this yr!"

It looks like we are very likely to have at least one British girl in the final of the Nottingham Open on Sunday.  Dart, Boulter and Watson are all in to the quarter finals in the bottom half of the draw together with Golubic (who was beaten by Boulter in Surbiton).

So we are likely to see somebody in the top 100, and a possible first WTA title for Dart or Boulter.  If Burrage can win now, all the seeds will be out, and the whole tournament has opened up.

And Jodie Burrage wins too.

We are the greatest tennis nation in the World all of a sudden...  Mad that none of them were good enough to get in the main draw (might be wrong with Burrage, as she seemed to get in without a wild card, so it was probably calculated on her points before she lost last year's Surbiton results).

Yeh he was allin 7.5k .  Sorry my tired write up could have been clearer !
I watch his vlogs all time for wsop, they are so bad it’s just too good to miss for entertainment purposes.
Basically just him moaning about run bad the whole time with him crashing his scooter into a person or a door almost every other vlog. 
He literally just spent hours just moaning to Robert Williamson 3rd ( I think ) who was sat next to him. 

So todays draw includes a certain Victor Blom sat next to me.   Also Eoghan O’Dea who funny enough i had never spoken to until I had a friendly conversation for 5 minutes 3 way with Rob Sherwood the first night. 

Literally half left so aren’t really deep in the mtt at all.  But in with a shot and really looking for forward to it.  Managed 5.5 hours sleep but might try for some more when I get back after my eggs Benedict and fresh fruit .  Should be 3-5mins to room today for breaks as over in horseshoe .

Eoghan O'Dea is really solid at Omaha, played with him before.  Played with Isildur before and he isn't that special at mixed games.   Maybe he was just card dead though.  Sample size probably too low for conclusions. 

Think Matusow hasn't stopped moaning in years.  Could you hear him from 5 tables away?  I saw Phil Helmuth bigging him up for the hall of fame the other day, and was thinking a random would be better.  Think it gets voted by other old farts that used to be good at poker, so maybe he is a shoe-in?

There are plenty of old farts who are really pleasant at the table, and I am well and truly an old fart too, so it isn't just an anti old fart thing.  Given a choice I would definitely remove the over 40 requirement and put in someone like Shaun Deeb or Benny Glaser (even if he runs so golden Vs me).

Good luck Rob and sounds an above average stack.  Shame you didn't felt Matusow.

First day, for the last 2 or 3 hours I was really struggling.  Found I was OK after, but didn't finish late on day 2 and still kept waking at 4/5 every day bar a couple.

You are quite welcome to all the run good I am owed. 

Definitely wish I had come up this week with the 8/9 game and triple draw. 

I read it that he did felt The Mouth?

Ha, you are right. One of my favourite fellas to bust. Top 3 at least.

It looks like we are very likely to have at least one British girl in the final of the Nottingham Open on Sunday.  Dart, Boulter and Watson are all in to the quarter finals in the bottom half of the draw together with Golubic (who was beaten by Boulter in Surbiton).

So we are likely to see somebody in the top 100, and a possible first WTA title for Dart or Boulter.  If Burrage can win now, all the seeds will be out, and the whole tournament has opened up.

Good luck Rob and sounds an above average stack.  Shame you didn't felt Matusow.

First day, for the last 2 or 3 hours I was really struggling.  Found I was OK after, but didn't finish late on day 2 and still kept waking at 4/5 every day bar a couple.

You are quite welcome to all the run good I am owed. 

Definitely wish I had come up this week with the 8/9 game and triple draw. 

Unlucky Doobs.  My turn next. 
Not the best start after doing my back in 12 hours ago at the airport hotel but I’ve crawled onto the plane and current at gate ready to go .  Seriously thought 50/50 I’d be cancelling or postponing last night so feels like first flip of the trip won for sure .

I swerved a bad back earlier; be careful with emotional poker players and their flying chairs.

Were you badly delayed by the storm? we got back 3 hours late because of a late Virgin flight from London.

I was going to suggest you went to the Wynn gym.  They knew my name after 3 visits, so you would be a good test of their observation.

Anyway, good luck, hope you smash it.

One last note from Vegas. 

Travelling Wynn to Paris has been fine.  Airport took an hour.  He tried to go down Koval.  Just sat there for ages, pulled a uey in the end.  Don't be aiming to arrive last minute.

Did look at some Wynn packages on the F1.  Can do a 4 day one for $150k.  Sure it will be fantastic.   

This week is Nottingham.  Don't know what has happened to Dan Evans, but Murray seems to have replaced him as top seed.  Hopefully he'll still be around on Sunday, but even a win isn't enough for a seeding at Wimbledon.

The British girls seemed to do as well in qualifying for a WTA event as I can remember with 4 of them making it through. 

Boulter is current UK number 1, but may only last a week. 6 players could finish the week as UK number 1, including the much maligned Heather Watson.  Watson has already won in the first round, having come through qualifying.  Even Raducanu could be back at number 1, as Boulter loses points this week.   

Barring Raducanu, the others could all earn direct entry to Wimbledon, though think all 5 plays Kartal (over Miyazaki?) get wildcards to round 1.  It would obviously be helpful to Miyazaki and Jones if one or two of the others qualify for Wimbledon.  Presumably one wildcard goes to Venus Williams and I don't know who else is lurking and hoping for one.

Looks like Dart and Watson are (hoping to be) playing doubles at Wimbledon too, as they are playing together at Nottingham.  Maybe Watson isn't planning on dropping out from tennis quite so soon?

Congrats Tony.  Think you had a better time than me.

On to that final hand.

We are at 4000/8000 with 8000 big blind ante. So there is 20k in the pot.  I have 133k behind after paying the blinds.  The bubble went at 10k/20k which is 50k a circuit, so I still need to be taking spots.  It went to 5k/10k whilst this hand was dealt.

One fella at the table has just busted the players on my direct left and right AA>KK and AA>KQ in consecutive hands (KQ was a 60k shove in to him).  This was reported on poker news.  Table is a bit shell shocked so it is folded round to new player in SB for first time whilst I am sat there.  There are several bullying type big stacks at the table and two smaller stacks on my right (AA guy has many stacks of chips).

Obv no reads on new person.  He has about 200k at start of hand, I have 150k.

He raises to 24k.  Don't really like raising so near bubble.  Think he should be shove or limping.  I think I fold if he shoves, so he gets way more chips his way so may be wrong.  Either way at this stage, neither of us wants to be having to call off for all our chips/most of our chips right now with ICM disasters possible.

Am kind of putting him on a standard opening range to steal my BB which is behind A8.

I need to still be taking spots.  He takes an age to call, maybe 2 minutes with AT suited, which makes me think I was right here, but interested in thoughts.  Flop came Q43.  I call for a 4 or 3 to give me more outs.  We get a ten.

Annoying I busted so close to the money 3 days in a row, but don't think I should play any of my exit hands differently. 

BB Vs SB A8 <A10.  15 bbs.  100 from cash. Raise, shove.  Meh

Made the dinner break.  Got 137,500.  Think average is close to 200k.  Was pretty card dead for the last 2 hours. 

Wazuzu for dinner?

GLGL!

Would love to, but am in Paris and not sure I have the time.  2 trips down the strip on a weekend and was a 90 minute wait yesterday.

Dusted $150 there the other day after 2xWynn bust outs.  Was very good. 

Ah, WSOP today. My bad.

It's definitely my preferred choice of the 2 casual asian restaurants at Wynncore.

Wanted to do Mizumi this year, but they've closed it for a renovation. FML!

Hopefully see the stack has swelled when I wake up, mate. GL!

Did that years ago.  I remember it was very good, but can't remember much about it.  Will happily do Red 8 too.  Dim Sum and Noodles in soup is a pretty solid choice.