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Portugal

28 August 2008

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.

Stax, Grinding and Portugal

12 August 2008

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 !!

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Johns Update

6 August 2008

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.

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Hanging Out With Antonio

22 July 2008

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.

WSOP Main Event

9 July 2008

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 one of the best tennis matches ever, the wimbledon final, Federrer v Nadal. Classic.

Luxor

4 July 2008

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,

WSOP Update

3 July 2008

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 work out that simple!

More WSOP Action

26 June 2008

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

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WSOP Progress

25 June 2008

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 operate phones and therefore I was temporarily homeless

John's WSOP So Far

19 June 2008

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 anything in detail that I wanted.

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