DAVE "EL BLONDIE" COLCLOUGH - European Player of the Year

[bobby1]

gl Dave, this is a great read.

[boldie]

GL indeed!

[Stone]

may i recommend your next one...........

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Come on the Toffee's

[booder]

may i recommend your next one...........

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[elblondie]

Monday July 2nd
… well I have finally picked my chin up enough to finish this blog entry.
I never won a hand on day 2 and had a succession of bad situations. Eventually I busted just 3 from the money. The $22,000 would have made the bankroll a lot healthier to put it mildly. I wasn’t really playing for a minor placing though. I was much more interested in the serious money at the final table.
I am desperately disappointed to have built a good chip stack in so many competitions in this year’s WSOP. I feel somewhere I should converted one of this into a final table. My finishing is usually quite good given the opportunity, so in many ways it is a surprising disappointment.

Tuesday July 3rd
Well that’s about it for this years WSOP. I wont be playing again before the main event, where I am playing on day 1a. The $1000 mega satellites are tempting but I’m not really in the mood for the chaos of the Rio before the main event.
Another disappointment has been the loss of a friend in Brian Wilson who has fallen foul of the gambling sickness and taken advantage of the good nature of his friends.
However, on the bright side, it’s been sunny every day, no sign of floods. I have been working out every day and I am fitter and healthier than I’ve been since I left school. I can’t quite nail a date with a Lacey Jones or any other similarly attractive Vegas female but I guess there’s time yet! Despite all the trauma, I have enjoyed the trip. As I said earlier…this is Vegas baby!

[The_nun]

Once again a great read Dave, I shall be looking forward to following your progress in he main event.xx

[chrisbruce]

Nothing worse than being in pole position only to run out of fuel.

I was really hoping for a brit to do well in this event and the amount of strong names in the mix near the end was great to see.

Sadly the poker gods had other ideas!!!!



Good luck in the big one Dave

[fergus8]

Another disappointment has been the loss of a friend in Brian Wilson who has fallen foul of the gambling sickness and taken advantage of the good nature of his friends.

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[boldie]

Sorry to hear that on both counts Dave.

Best of luck to ya in the ME...12 mill would make the bankroll look quite nicely aswell, no?

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Another disappointment has been the loss of a friend in Brian Wilson who has fallen foul of the gambling sickness and taken advantage of the good nature of his friends.

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[Tonji]

Another disappointment has been the loss of a friend in Brian Wilson who has fallen foul of the gambling sickness and taken advantage of the good nature of his friends.

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[ifm]

I spotted that too, i thought it was self explanatory.

[elblondie]

Wednesday July 4th & Thursday July 5th
Ok, now we are chilling…some snippets from Vegas life.
·   I was surprised at how little ‘Independence Day’ is celebrated here… it gets in the way of the gambling I guess!
·   Mickey ‘The Legend’ Wernick chopped a Bellagio Cup competition. There were 3 orderly queues; a, those who had percentage savers, b, those he  owed c, those who wanted to borrow… and then all the midlanders ended up out on the town in a rather dodgy club.
·   Frankie Knight (another Brummie) is currently chauffeuring me around and we are eating in some of the smaller off-the-strip joints… where all the normal people hang out… wow, it feels like we are in America!
·   Carlo & Roberto both made lower positions in the following days Bellagio Cup Final
·   I spent two hours with big Barry Neville shopping!
·   Marc Goodwin got told off during his ESPN commentary stint. ‘You cant call the players Muppets! …err, What is a Muppet?’ … and I thought it was an American show?
·   Ram Vaswani is the first mobster to win a bracelet! Woo-hoo! Andy Ward, also from the UK, is second.

Ok, I’m just popping down to the Venetian for a bite to eat with The Ship & The Camel. After that, we have to visit Hugh Hefner’s Bunny Villa at The Palms for a Dusk Till Dawn party. Sounds good? … I can’t drink, I’m playing the main event tomorrow. Doh!

[kinboshi]

Dave.  One time, one time...

[boldie]

I spotted that too, i thought it was self explanatory.

that's what I thought...how can someone not understand?