Blackpool Fiasco

I went to the Grosvenor at Blackpool last night to take part in the £150 link game Grosvenor had planned across the North of England. What a disaster they simply haven't promoted it at all or run sats and the numbers were embarassing. 24 @ B'pool but none of the the other 7 casinos could manage more than 6!! EVENT CANCELLED

At almost 10pm, we eventually got a game going of £75 (+ 1 r-buy or add-on). I quite enjoyed the game and steadily built my stack inc. a large number (for me) of steals at pots people didn't want. Didn't bother with an add-on and when I got QQ twice and both times it managed to dodge an ace v AQ & AJ I was onto the final table in 3rd place. 8 handed though I managed to pick up AA and when I was re-popped by KK it looked like I would have almost half the chips in play. However the poker gods threw in a King on the turn, leaving me short and I donked out pushing with Ace-rag into a pair of 8s.

I picked up £200 in 6th place for a small profit , but came away really having enjoyed myself. I played well, the standard was good too for a change (cant really remember a play I thought was poor by anyone) and I spent a lot of the evening with Howard Plant on my table. The guy is one of those guys who just cant be quiet with non-stop jokes and one-liners all night, not everyones cup of tea, but I like him and he makes the evening entertaining. Thought about posting a few of his gags here, but its the sort of thing where "you need to be there".

Not played much online recently as I have fulfilled the months bonus requirements, although I have provisionally signed up at Badbeat.com. Not too sure about it, but will write more about that and the APAT forum challenge in the next post. Also a very boring Accounts for June post soon too.