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The Vegas Undercircuit - or - Shoestring Tablehopping

I think I might have just coined two phrases (I hope so, at least) but what they signify is the travel of a small-bankrolled player under the radar of the big poker circuit over here - a hunting out of the $1/$2 NLHE cash games, $4/$8ish PLO hilo, the $100- $300 tournaments and the overflowing satellite and side-event action which one hopes will br...

Return To Helsinki

The most fun of all the Unusual Suspects competitions, The Grand Casino Helsinki's 20,000 starting chipped, hour clocked, superbly run tournament was the only thing I actually wanted to play this year, so much so that instead of playing other events in the preceding months, I simply added to the €2,000 kitty so that I could have another go at ...

The Scandinavian Adventure

The Norwegian Championships I always feel a bit odd writing my own personal experiences of a comp up as a ‘Tournament Report,’ because as an updater I am used to getting a nice overview of the ups and downs of the leaders and losers, so I reckon that my tales from the Norwegian Championships (held in Sweden for legal reasons) fit ni...

Djinn

Having never written a blog of any sort before, I am somewhat hesitant given the shiny new grey and yellowness of the frest blonde site to fill it with my own wittering.  Then again, if snoopy can do it, so can I.  I have to start by thanking him for taking control for the most part of the words and their new homes - while swanning around...