Live Action!

Over to the Grosvenor to play in the £100 freezeout. It's day 1b of the main event, so there were some well-known faces in the room, among them Carlo Citrone, Neil Channing, Marc Goodwin, Tony Cascarino, Jen Mason and poker giant Ed Giddins, who I spotted towering over everyone else in the dinner queue.



And Maria Demetriou is there working for Blonde Poker. The atmosphere is great - literally. Even though I don't smoke I never really minded very much that pubs, etc. were smoky, but when the casino is packed like it is tonight, it's much better that smoking's no longer allowed.


Although I enjoyed my evening, I wish I'd lasted a bit longer in the tournament. I called most of my remaining chips with a straight when the other guy had caught a flush on the river. My head was telling me to fold, but I thunk and thunk and my heart overrruled.