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WPT Marrakech..OMG !

John Tabatabai / 27 October 2009 / Leave a comment

I arrived at the airport in Marrakech yesterday, a day later than scheduled due to a brain meltdown that I suffered from the previous day. It hadn't occured to me that an integral part of flying, to a new continent...Read more »

PKR $10,000 HU Championships

John Tabatabai / 13 October 2009 / Leave a comment

A couple of days ago I played in the first ever UK televised Heads Up tournament. The buyin was $10,000 so it was going to attract top professionals and this indeed it did....Read more »

Better late than never...or is it?

John Tabatabai / 28 August 2009 / Leave a comment

I must apologise as I have done many times before for not updating my blog frequently enough. I don't know what else to do, my excuse this time is that I have been waiting for our new, super cool and...Read more »

War of Volition

John Tabatabai / 19 July 2009 / Leave a comment

During my recent WSOP 2009 trip I had many interesting and funny scenarios develop out of nowhere. The most notable of these was with the king of smart degeneracy - Phil Laak....Read more »

My WSOP 2009 - Cards Come Tumbling Down

John Tabatabai / 07 July 2009 / Leave a comment

The most anticipated poker series of the year, what people wait their whole lives to participate in, practice for, dream of and before you know it, with the blink of an eye it has come and gone....Read more »

Wynn some, lose something

John Tabatabai / 25 June 2009 / 8 Comments

When I jumped on the Virgin Atlantic plane to Vegas, the future looked bright. It has been one year since I had returned to London, my eyes darkened with fatigue, my liver choking from alcohol abuse, my wallet thinned by...Read more »

Bet Sizing Heads Up

John Tabatabai / 11 June 2009 / 1 Comments

One of the most fundamental mistakes players make in heads up games is making their bets either too big or too small. This has profound consequences on the likelihood of them winning over the long run, as betting too much...Read more »

EPT San Remo and Monte Carlo

John Tabatabai / 07 May 2009 / Leave a comment

Since the Irish Poker Open I have had the pleasure of playing some relatively local EPTs set in idyllic locations. Firstly, the EPT in San Remo which had an amazing 1156 entrants this year, each paying 5,000 Euros to enter...Read more »

The Paddy Power 'Not Very Good' Irish Open

John Tabatabai / 15 April 2009 / 4 Comments

The Paddy Power Irish Open in Dublin is supposed to be one of the most heavily anticipated tournaments of the year - in the past some of the biggest names in poker have turned up for this event such as...Read more »

Bits and Pieces

John Tabatabai / 23 March 2009 / 1 Comments

Since I last blogged I have continued to play mostly live and it has continued to be very interesting....Read more »

Funny Situations from Recent Live Games

John Tabatabai / 09 March 2009 / 5 Comments

Over the past couple of weeks, instead of just playing online, I've been playing more live cash poker...and I'm glad I've done so!...Read more »

Heads Up at Aussie Millions - Final

John Tabatabai / 06 March 2009 / 1 Comments

Wooooow, yet again I have been slipping and didn't post up the final v Alec in the HU champs in Australia....Read more »

Heads Up Aussie Millions Semi Final v David Gent

John Tabatabai / 04 March 2009 / Leave a comment

OK well last time I got so far as making it through to Day 2, the semi finals of the Aussie Millions $5,000 HU Event. My opponent on this glorious day was to be David Gent, a fellow UK online...Read more »

Heads Up on Aussie Experience

John Tabatabai / 05 February 2009 / 1 Comments

Seems only a few days ago that I was wishing everyone a Happy New Year and already one month has gone. Well, I have been pretty fortunate to have spent that last month in Australia partaking in the Aussie Millions...Read more »

Challenge Finale

John Tabatabai / 03 January 2009 / 6 Comments

About two months ago I struck a bet (while a little intoxicated) with Annette, a Portuguese friend of mine and a very good player called Diego that I couldn't turn $1000 into $100,000 in a couple of months. They all...Read more »

Challenge last few days to go...

John Tabatabai / 31 December 2008 / 1 Comments

Sorry for not updating in a while, I went back to Wales last week to spend some time with the family and play a little bit less online. Unfortunately, after hitting the halfway mark two weeks ago of $50,000 it's...Read more »

Mystery of the missing poker client

John Tabatabai / 15 December 2008 / Leave a comment

Well, it's been another week and to update on the Pacific/888 Poker front, somehow, mysteriously their poker client has been removed from my desktop and now it doesn't let me reinstall it....Read more »

Changing a password on 888.com

John Tabatabai / 09 December 2008 / 9 Comments

I know I only usually update my blog once a week and it is quite boring, however, today I have a treat in stall for all of you....Read more »

Cash challenge - less than a month to make it!

John Tabatabai / 08 December 2008 / Leave a comment

I am down to my last few weeks in this challenge of turning $1,000 into the targeted goal of $100,000....Read more »

Betfair, rakeback and the GUKPT

John Tabatabai / 02 December 2008 / 2 Comments

What a week! I'd been looking forward for a long while to the final of the GUKPT in my hometown London but it proved every bit as disappointing as last year....Read more »

Monkey grinding and some MTTs

John Tabatabai / 22 November 2008 / 1 Comments

The other day was the end of my first two weeks in the $1k to $100k challenge. Unfortunately I struggled the last week at 0.5-1 for some reason, I was doing great then went through a pretty bad stretch of...Read more »

Cash Challenge Update

John Tabatabai / 13 November 2008 / 6 Comments

Yesterday I put in some serious hours on Betfair Poker, as I must if I want any chance of completing this challenge. The day before I lost at 0.5-1, one of my first losing days there in a couple of...Read more »

Francesinhas, calling stations and the Betfair Poker Tour

John Tabatabai / 10 November 2008 / 3 Comments

It seems that the blogging utility software is back up and running so I have no more excuses for being so lax with my updates....Read more »

$500 challenge and the 888 Poker Open

John Tabatabai / 09 November 2008 / Leave a comment

I haven't updated my blog in a while and thought, well, time to put an update up! Ive spent the last month or so after WSOPE working hard on my cash game....Read more »

WSOPE updates from John Tabatabai

John Tabatabai / 22 September 2008 / Leave a comment

Check out John's updates from the World Series of Poker Europe on the Official WSOPE site. Check out John's first WSOPE blog now....Read more »

Portugal Part Two

John Tabatabai / 09 September 2008 / 4 Comments

On the Saturday was the second day of the Portuguese tournament....Read more »

Portugal

John Tabatabai / 28 August 2008 / 5 Comments

Landed in Portugal a couple days ago for the Portguese equivalent of the GUKPT to be held bimonthly. This leg is being held in Estoril about 30Km north of Lisbon, the capital....Read more »

Stax, Grinding and Portugal

John Tabatabai / 12 August 2008 / 1 Comments

Well, i finally get money into my betfair account and it transpires that someone won 2/3 tourneys the first day of august and claimed the $100,000 bouns ! How sick is that? First day loooool !!...Read more »

Johns Update

John Tabatabai / 06 August 2008 / Leave a comment

Hi all, Not updated for longer than I normally do, i like to update once every few days unfortunately I've had nothing time worthy to write for you guys....Read more »

PokerMillion

John Tabatabai / 01 August 2008 / Leave a comment

Today I had the honour of playing in my first pokermillion, a prestigious UK event with a first prize of $1,000,000....Read more »

Hanging Out With Antonio

John Tabatabai / 22 July 2008 / 5 Comments

Firstly I'd like to thank everybody for replying or making comments to my previous blogs. There is nothing worse than writing to seemingly nobody....Read more »

WSOP Main Event

John Tabatabai / 09 July 2008 / 6 Comments

Well, after 6 weeks of being abused, I genuinely believed that today would be a great day, and I would do well. I woke up early, had a 2 hour hot stone massage, followed by an awesome breakfast whilst watching...Read more »

Luxor

John Tabatabai / 04 July 2008 / 2 Comments

Last night was the betfair launch party at the Wynn. Open bar and good finger food. Fun to meet many of the people I have played against online in real person,...Read more »

WSOP Update

John Tabatabai / 03 July 2008 / 2 Comments

The last few weeks have been mentally tough. I thought it was going to be simple, fly to vegas, have fun, play some tournaments and some cash games. Collect a 6 figure cheque and fly back to UK. Things never...Read more »

More WSOP Action

John Tabatabai / 26 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Not much to update really, decided to take some good advice from friends.......Read more »

WSOP Progress

John Tabatabai / 25 June 2008 / 3 Comments

Well, after I got knocked out of the 6 handed I realised that I didn't know where our new house we were scheduled to move to that day was. Of course the scandies I was sharing with were unable to...Read more »

John's WSOP So Far

John Tabatabai / 19 June 2008 / Leave a comment

Sorry guys for not updating for a long time. I was going to write a detailed report of the $5kNL HE, however, I have been playing so much live lately that I haven't really had any time to talk about...Read more »

$5,000 NL HE Shootout

John Tabatabai / 10 June 2008 / 6 Comments

The $5,000 NL HE Shootout my first ever tournament representing Betfair, it was my first big WSOP tourney of the series and I couldn't wait for it to begin....Read more »

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All Africa Poker Tour

John Tabatabai / 22 May 2008 / Leave a comment

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888 UK Open IV Semi Final

nono / 22 May 2008 / Leave a comment

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WSOPE - Main Even

nono / 22 May 2008 / Leave a comment

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New Betfair Pro - John Tabatabai

Editor / 21 May 2008 / 6 Comments

Betfair are proud to announce the signing of John Tabatabai joining Sorel Mizzi and Annette Obrestad on Team Betfair....Read more »