I've been playing a lot more
Scrabble than poker lately, but I've only ever won £20 playing Scrabble so I've been trying to keep my hand in on the Sky Poker tables. I've made a few quid on the cash tables lately, so I had enough to have a punt on tonight's £50-buyin Primo tourney. And, thanks to a couple of enormous slices of luck (and some reasonable play most of the time), I survived into the money, coming 42nd.
Luck #1... After half-an-hour all in for 1900 with AQs, discover I'm up against AA and KK. Flop KJ3, turn 8, river T. Crazy.
Luck #2... Just before the break I'm all in for 3000 with A8, called by A9. Hit an 8 on the river...
The only hand of mine that got shown on the live TV show was the one that virtually sent me out of the tourney... Cameroony min-raised and then:
