Had some fun in a Bounty Hunter tournament the other night - plenty of scalps and a couple of lucky coups. First, I found my K4 up against KK, and two fours came on the flop! Then I won with KJ against AK.

Tonight in the 5OO I blame my dinnertime beer for the fact I went all in with a straight draw when I knew the short stack probably had a full house. He didn't pass... Later on I pushed with KQ suited; 99 called, K on 4th, 9 on the river... Night night.

I'm going to pop over to Walsall now to see how they're getting on at the GUKPT. The main event starts tomorrow.

Primo

Paul, Jason, Trevor and Richard line up ahead of tonight's tourney.

I started well but I've been betting too often, whittling my stack down to 1,000 chips. Still in though! And when I get bored I can follow the live updates on the big tournament at the Vic in London.

9.47 pm update: out, A7 beating my AJ. :-(

It's been dormant for a while, but Sky have started posting to their poker blog again, and it's a good place to keep up-to-date.

Jeff Kimber wins in Walsall

The Walsall leg of the GUKPT is over, and Jeff is a worthy winner. There was an interesting incident in a hand between D Buttar and Graham Clarkson yesterday.

Meanwhile, my resolution to work on my tourney game after my outs at Walsall, well, it's come to nowt so far. Luckily I've been well in profit on my last six cash tables, so I'm :-)

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.