I haven’t updated in a while as there hasn’t been much going on, so I thought I’d share some of the tediousness anyway.

Life is pretty enjoyable for me at the moment, it’s my final year of uni and there is ridiculous amounts of work to be done and sadly that has taken priority over poker. My social life is good and having fun everyday.

I have managed to keep up a healthy lifestyle with plenty exercise which is one achievement I can be proud of for 2012

However poker has been quiet, I haven’t had any results yet and I’m currently on a downswing.

This hasn’t got me down too much though because I have been playing alot of PLO cash games and made astounding progress with the help of Jerry, Wrighty and Milo (snort4eva).

The PLO winnings have cushioned my MTT downswing somewhat and kept me positive going in to MTT sessions.

In my last post I suggested the possibility of attaining supernova. This will be put on hold because I never play more than 6 tables of PLO and the highest stakes I play is 25c/50c.

I am either a god at PLO or running golden (probably the latter) because running 23bb/100 is unlikely to be sustainable.

For MTTs I will be leaving stars for a while to recoup the losses from lower variance MTTs.

The sites I will be playing on are Stars.fr, 888.com, party, PKR, Carbon and iPoker.

This may cause complications regarding keeping track of my bankroll so I will have to keep accurate records throughout.

Hopefully I will get plenty of results on the easier sites at the expense of the possible glory of winning a monstrous Stars.com tourney.

Sorry it wasn’t a very fun post but hopefully it will be a mere introduction to my next post which will report how I fared at the smaller euro sites.

GL all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KISf2eNYOHM

Appropriate motivation song

Alex

Hey everyone,

So we had a few comments about us only singing when we are winning. I guess that has been somewhat true. But, as im sure many of you know, its alot more difficult to motivate yourself to play when you are losing at the tables…nevermind blog! Spare time is simply used to get away from the tables and get poker out of your head. This has definately been the case for me. I’d much rather go to the cinema, play pool or go to nandos than spend an hour talking about losing.

Anyway.

I started 2012 really well and was up $8k within the first few weeks. Since then though im back to square one with 2012…breakeven. I find myself in the guts of 8k makeup which i personally don’t believe i deserve to be in but the ‘Poker Gods’ don’t have a complaints department to appeal too!

As Jambeyang pointed out to me, one of the most difficult things to do in poker is play good when you are running bad. I am playing almost exactly the same as I was when i started the year. Im going into every session motivated and excited about the prospect of making final tables but im just experiencing variance. Something that hasn’t hit me until now. The most makeup I’ve been in previous to this was $4k which I won back fairly quickly.

I’ve had something like 10 top 18 finishes this week and only three final tables. Losing very crucial hands in the final two tables is a large part of the reason I’m in this downswing. There’s a fairly big difference in this downswing than my previous $4k one. I was playing really really bad the first time and this was quickly resolved with a few hand history sessions with Jambe and Wrighty. This time however its just a bad run of the mill

Im really happy with how im playing. My instinct is pretty good(not at its best but not far away).  So all I can do is get my head down and grind my way out of it

I’ve moved up to $320s now so my session outlays are anywhere between $400-$1200 depending on the time and day. Ive been playing a max of $109 in my past couple of sessions to lighten the blow a bit during this bad run.

I visited Newcastle for the team game in January and it was great to see all the people from the NPF. Im going to try and come play the next team game(if selected of-course) because its always a brilliant weekend.

Congrats to Mulhuzz on getting his job in London! Cheeky Duck was definitely the preparation you needed for the interview!

Anyway I’m off to nandos then playing the late sesh if im not too tired.

If anyone has any questions leave me a comment or get in touch on skype: andy_carlin

Thanks for reading

Click here

Andy

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Back at the start of October, I hadn’t played much poker for months and I was pretty content with that until I realised with £7k debt due to university fees and an overdraft, I had to start playing again to make some money. Before the year was out I had paid off all that debt and I had been winning for two months straight and a lot of the team around me were crushing as well. Easy game, right?

Poker is easy as Connect 2

I’ve been pretty fortunate in that I’ve never had a heavy losing month but 2012 has been brutal thus far. I had forgotten how easy it is to lose and I’m now in the most make up I’ve ever been in.
That isn’t what annoys me though. What is annoying is that I have let it get to me. I never tilt but after losing another chipleader pot the other day, I was out the next hand by just tilting my chips away. When I woke up the next morning, that hand was the first thing I thought of.
Now honestly, is it worth it? How dare I let losing for 1 month get to me when I sat at a computer, clicked some buttons and paid off £7k of debt with plenty of change to spare in 2months. I’m a 22 year old postgraduate student who still lives at home and would have to work 600 hours as a waiter at pizza hut before that debt was clear. I am never going to play poker as a career and therefore any money I make from it is a bonus and that is how I should see it.
It makes you question the affect playing poker has had on me and whether if I could go back in time, whether I would ever want to discover the game in the first place. I asked this to a good friend of mine who has won a very considerable amount of money who said he would make sure he never discovered poker. I was shocked at this answer because it is such an easy way to make money but then when I think about it I can see his point. If I had never discovered poker, I might not have been as well off financially but I would no doubt have more respect for money and possibly be fitter, have got a better grade at uni and still playing football.
However, poker can give you so much other than just money, pain and frustration. The same friend in the same conversation as above said that he now handled difficult news or situations better. Poker had trained him to deal with his emotions better. I hadn’t really thought about these sort of benefits from poker before but all I know is that is that the girls at the bar love it when you are so balling out of control that you can roll a £2 coin through your knuckles whilst slicking your hair back.
Without poker I wouldn’t have so many great friends. I talk nearly every day with all the lads and unless it’s with JambeWright we very rarely talk about poker. We even play football once a week together and that’s the whole reason that Buzz is looking so ‘reem’ these days. Also, it is pretty uncommon for a 22 year old to be mates with really old people like Mr and Mrs Stumpy but they love me like the tall son they never had. Seeing them and other NPFers is the reason I have ventured out to the local live tournaments recently and I had the most fun I have had playing poker in a long time on Friday night at Circus. Getting drunk on Japanese beer called ItchyFanny with Scoop, SamJ and Stumpy (until he decided to be gay and stop so he could concentrate on winning…which he did). Also, I learnt the art of “Scooping” which is to have 3 beers with you at all times.

A "scoop" of a random beer

For example SamJ will tell you every round its your round and tell me to just get a “scoop” of ItchyFanny in.
I even turned down a scoop of hopefullynotItchyFanny just so I could play poker, a decision which did not go down well with all the lads. But I came 4th for £700 and she picked me up from the Casino anyways.
My return to live poker has had a positive impact on my online game for sure. With 2 nice scores back to back, I felt more confident about my game and more optimistic and I think I played very well today but unfortunately my run good online hasn’t kicked in for 2012 yet.
So is playing poker worth it…. 100%

Not been much in the way of blogging so far in 2012 for JambeWright. Think we’re having a bit of a rough month as a stable in January and we’ll be quite glad to see the end of it!! Two of the group have moved on and id like to wish them both the best of luck with life/poker in the future!! (I make it sound like im never gonna speak to them again, which is far from the truth considerring i actually live with one of them, unfortunatly).

My January hasnt actually been too bad so far and i am currently in the coming toward the end of my first profitable month since september i think!! Volume has been pretty decent for me to be honest after not starting to play again till the 10th. Think iv played around 90-100 MTT’s, in which iv made a few hundred $$ profit. Managed to come 4th in a turbo for 800 bucks, which was a very fun tourney after being left with 300 chips when the blinds were 1250/2500/250a with 200 players left. 10 minutes later i was chip leader!! Iv also been grinding a few 18 man turbo sit and goes where iv been on a bit of a heater the last couple of sessions and made a pretty decent profit playing them. So i am finally out of make up for the first time in 3 months, and im looking forward to pressing on and winning some money.

On the none poker related note, many of you will know i share a flat with Dave Mount, Aryan Virabi and Milo Mckenzie (very ethinically diverse bunch) and we are currently living in the shithole that is Byker. The flat itself is nice enough for what we need, but its not nice when you walk out of the door and right infront of you is somebody who has more limbs than teeth down on his knee proposing to his Sister. So a bit of searching online, and we’ve found a pretty decent 4 bedroom gaff in South Gosforth. If your not from Newcastle then South Gosforth is a pretty nice area, posh houses, well spoken, well educated, quite middle class – fuck knows how im gonna fit in there. Also, the flat is accross the road to a school, so there’s a fair chance one of us will end up on the register within the next 12 months.

People seem to end their blog posts with a link to a track theyre currently listening too. Well i am quite well known for my love of power ballads/love songs and iv been listening to a lot of Tina Turner the last couple of days and have been running pretty well, so maybe you should try it!

Good evening one and all.
This Sunday saw The JambeWright stable and myself part company and i just want to go on record by saying good luck to all still involved and a thank you to the coaches.
When i joined the stable i said to Jerry that i would try and grind as much as i could, never set an amount as ive never been a ‘grinder’ before and hopefully learn from him. Ive never been one to multi table huge amounts and like i said previous, put in a huge grind day after day, but i thought i’d give it ago.
I started slow and hardly played after the initial 2 weeks of grinding. Had a chat to Jerry to apologize and promised i would play more. The next day after 6 weeks off i win an mtt, one of the 4 i played for a lil over $1.1k and i truly thought this would be the start for me and i would go from strength to strength. Around this time things changed in my personal life, things that i wouldn’t change and again i stopped playing poker, i just didn’t have any time.
Some may see that i have wasted a brilliant opportunity, and they could be right. I should have made more of the chance i was given but as i have stated i would change anything, seriously.
I have enjoyed my time in the stable and its been great watching players go forward very quickly. The amount of money made is great and its proving to be such a success. Everyone in the stable is a great player, a player who at any time can crush a tourney and i seriously wish all the horses and coaches the very best in the future.
Finally i would like to thank Jerry and Wrighty for the chance to play and learn. They are both fantastic guys who are epic players and will get this stable to big heights. I am truly grateful for the chance and hey, $175 profit each for you from my play over 4 months…..WOW mbn to be you guys hahaha.

Best of luck for 2012 and beyond to everyone

Much Love to you all

X

Hey there everyone,

Firstly i’d like to apologize for our lack of blog updates over the holiday period. We didn’t play too much poker over the holidays and therefore weren’t online as much etcetc.

For those of you that don’t know, I am playing full time now and this is my plan for the foreseeable future. I’ve been playing professionally for about 6 months now. I have enjoyed some early success in my MTT career but believe me, I am not naive. I’m aware that without continued volume and study I will fall behind. This is why I treat poker as a job. A job that requires continuous study and a lot of commitment. But that’s what I’ve signed up for so wish me luck

I would ideally like to play for the next few years whilst investing some of my profits in various business ventures outside of poker, ventures that unsurprisingly require a lot less time and effort than poker

However the new year has begun and its basically like Christmas for a poker player…a fresh start with everything. A clear mind helps enormously when i am grinding so this was a particular boost when starting the grind. Alongside having a fresh start with all our online stats its the best time to have some year long goals ahead before you start your year. You’ll be sick of reading goals soon but here we go..

• $100,000 profit
• 3600 scheduled mtts across various sites
• Win 5 figures in one tournament
• Continue to improve my game through being coached and coaching others
• Spend some time in Thailand and within that some time at a Muay-Thai and MMA camp
• Pass my driving test
• Help JambeWright become one of the most successful stables in online poker

I believe these are some extremely achievable goals and I intend on giving 100% commitment to achieving them all. Failure is not an option.

At JambeWright, our coaches aim to stay several steps ahead of the regulars and in-turn many steps ahead of the fish. This makes things a lot easier for both them and their wolves at the tables. It has had an extremely positive impact on my game to date and I hope with us all continuing to study relentlessly that this stays the same. I believe that everyone in JambeWright has the potential to be extremely successful in poker. But I also believe ‘you get out what you put in.’ So hopefully everyone knuckles down this year and we fulfill our potential.

I’ve had some success over the past week or two despite my lowered volume. The main scores are:

• 2nd place for $2689 in the Daily €50 6-max on stars.fr
• 3rd place for $1269 in the Big Ten €10+r 6-max on stars.fr
• 1st place for $1478 in the $54 Russian Daily on bwin
• 1st place for $2120 in the $44 6-max on pokerstars.com

This has got the ball rolling for 2012 and hopefully the momentum continues throughout this month and further.

Outside of poker:

I passed my driving theory test today woohoo! I’m such a tard for only getting around to learning how to drive at 23 :/ Better late than never though! Im going to an Ice hockey game this Friday for the first time, so that should be awesome(Gooooo Belfast Giants!!!). I’m playing the CGK in Newcastle on the 28th of January. A perfect opportunity to visit my friends too . Oh and I went on a date on Monday which went well but its early days, so heres to hoping she up doesn’t stand me up on date #2 (Y)!

I’ll end this here as it’s far too long already and I don’t get paid for this shit.

Song of the day: You’ll never love Nandos as much as me

Peace and Love

Andy

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Short Review of 2011

2011 was a poor year poker wise for me, I had a deep run in UKIPT Edinburgh but that was my only success live. I took the worst bad beat of my life in the £500 Monte Carlo sidey and that took me a long time to recover.

I also decided to give up MTTs and pursue a cash game career. That did not go well either, I got coached and staked by one of the best cash players in the UK, sadly cash just wasn’t for me and I soon gave it up just before I went to Vegas.

In Vegas I played a few tourneys including a WSOP event, sadly the poker in Vegas did not go well at all and it was a losing trip. Despite it being one of the best holidays of my life.

If I were to go to Vegas again it would either be for purely poker or for a holiday. I tried to do both and it really just didn’t work.

After Vegas we met Jambeyang and later Thawright. This occurred when Jambeyang posted on the NPF asking if anyone wanted to get together and grind, Andy “mfkn” Carlin being his curious self PM’d Jambeyang and got to know him, he was then later introduced to everyone else. We were all amazed by Jambeyang’s results and poker ability we just had to extend our involvement, this opportunity arose when Jambeyang offered to start a stable where he would coach and stake us, needless to say this offer was snapped up.

Thawright was later announced as the 2nd coach of the stable and so far their partnership has proven to be very successful as backers.

From July onwards I played MTT’s, I got off to a great start but then the downswing soon hit and I was back struggling, nevertheless I battled on and have shown a steady profit, my most profitable month being December, finishing 2011 with a $7k month.

So this brings me to my aims for this year:

• I would like to play around 3000 MTTs total
• Either a further 5500 SNGs or stick to cash games as a lower variance option (this is all dependent on the which area I think I can improve the most, I will have chosen which games to play by February)
• If I am on course for Supernova I will put in that extra volume to achieve it. Supernova will earn me $5200 over the year which I’d like to use for Sunday Million tickets
• I would like to finish the year with $50k profit

As mentioned in previous posts volume and hours may be an issue up until June this year because of Uni studies and assignments.

So why have I chosen to pursue these aims with Jambewright?

Well why wouldn’t I?

I have been backed by both organisations and individual backers, and I am confident to say that nothing has come close to the standard of coaching and procedures that this stable has to offer.

Alot of stables have a “you get out what you put in” attitude towards them, and this is no exception.

So what is different about Jambewright?

Both coaches are available almost all day everyday, they are very keen to get involved with our game and encourage us to send tournament HH’s for them to review entire tournaments that you have played in order to identify where you can improve, or possible leaks in your game.

The coaches are very forgiving if it goes wrong too, because that is how we improve, we try new things and unfortunately sometimes they fail. But so long as we learn from our mistakes we can only improve.

There are regular incentives for us to play more and to try to improve our game to maximize profit. The last one being a free seat in to the big Sunday Million, which bomber managed to convert in to $23k.

This result has taken the stable into huge profit overall.

Of course downswings will occur too but hopefully our standard of play will help us ride it out.

The horses are also given alot of freedom in regards to the sites they play on and the tournaments they play.

I get the impression, the coaches almost ‘guide’ us rather than instruct us, if someone is maybe playing too many tournaments at one time or maybe too many turbos in a session, they are there just to steer us back towards our most profitable ways.

We have been introduced to new techniques and styles of play that had never even been contemplated,  Jambeyang and Thawright have created their own unique style of play which is inevitably going to be successful. It is up to us as horses to learn their techniques then interpret and incorporate these in to our own game.

The Jambewright coaches are exactly what you want in a poker mentor, they don’t only beat the games, they crush them, they don’t look to compete with the other MTT regs, they look to destroy them. Together we are always discussing new ways to give MTT regs as difficult time as possible, that is our aim and that is what makes us Werewolves.

What makes us Werewolf worthy?

In my opinion we have formed a good group of horses because we all share similar characteristics;

• Very creative in the way we play
• Willing to listen and take onboard advice
• Very critical about our game and seek advice
• Play every session with the mentality to crush every tournament we play
• Have good initiatives and experience
• Great people and personalities
• Do a damn good blog

2012 is going to be a good year, we’ve all started strong and we all know where we are aiming and what we have to do to achieve it.

We are improving and profiting at a rapid rate and we can only get stronger.

I will leave you with a Wolf themed choon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQSBDiEgEs

Good Luck All

Alex

Iv had a pretty decent year pokerwise considerring the massive lack of volume iv put in compared to previous years. As iv actually started working, moved out, and have a pretty decent social life these days!! Poker took a big step back for me and im more than happy with that. The year started for me pretty well as in January I won the $8 $12k GTD on pokerstars for around $3k. Had a couple of little 1k and 500+ scores, and managed to make a total profit for myself of $2675 (i have been staked for the majority of my online play this year).

Live poker i think i have only played 3 live MTT’s this year. The highlight of that being the NPF Forum Team Game which i managed to beat 200 players and take it down which was very satisfying . And i think i have played around 6 or 7 sessions of live cash games from 50nl – 200nl. I have made myself a total profit of £1208 from live play.

The money iv earned from poker in 2011 has been pretty nice considerring the tiny volume iv played, and im pretty sure iv earned more than minimum wage per hour so im actually pretty chuffed.

2012 i hope will be quite similair. I have a great deal with JambeWright but as always im being too lasy to take advantage, i think iv played around 10 MTT’s in the last 6 weeks. A lot of this is down to working a few extra hours and Christmas etc etc Id like to think id be able to put in a decent MTT session atleast twice per week this year and get making some decent $$ like the rest of the stable is!!

Im also looking to play a few decent live tournies this year, DTD deepstacks and hopefully a couple of UKIPT’s. Starting with the £500 DTD deepstack tomorow which i am feeling pretty damn excited about. There’s just something about playing live tournies with lots of chips and ante’s which excite me. Also, theres a nando’s about 200 yards from DTD, which im more than happy to drive accross to twice per day

Thanks for reading.

Buzzzzz

Sorry fans for the lack of updates from the team recently. We have all taken our foot off the grinding gas since my Sunday Million run as we were all pretty devastated at what could have been.

Also, with Christmas and New Year we have been eating and drinking far too much. But it’s 2012 now and the hard work has started already and I haven’t missed one day of grinding yet this year but it has been brutal so far. Before I talk about 2012, let’s have a quick look back on 2011 in poker and in life.

Review of 2011

The first half of the year was pretty bad for me as I eventually broke up with my girlfriend after months of struggling and this came the week after the family’s closest friend died which just destroyed my parents and it was very difficult to deal with. I had a poor social life because of the time I spent on my Dissertation and because of the lack of time I spent on the rest of my uni work, I didn’t get the grade I wanted in my degree. In terms of poker, I had been make a solid income grinding the Rush on Demand Tournaments on Full Tilt so when Full Tilt closed down I had no source of income as I was down Leeds as a unemployed student.
However, 6 weeks after that horrible week I talked about, I had begun to come to terms with both things and I was lucky enough to win basically my first ever tournament on Stars for $9k just before jetting off on a road trip across America for 3 weeks. This trip was highlight of my year for sure and was my first trip to Vegas and it certainly wont be my last.

During, this trip I decided that I was going to try and go back to uni and do a Masters as I didn’t feel my degree was good enough to get me to where I want to be. I got on the course and I am now doing an Occupational Psychology Masters at Northumbria University. As I am paying for it myself and because I had a maxed out overdraft from my previous degree, I found myself in October in a huge amount of debt and it got me quite down. However, I got signed to Team JambeWright and an amazing last two months of the year saw me net $30k profit and I now start 2012 completely debt free.

Look ahead to 2012

2012 is a pretty big year for me and I think the main goal here is to become more independent and enter the adult world rather than the student world I am in now. This means graduate, get a proper full-time career, get a car and begin saving towards a deposit for a house. I really miss the independence and freedom of living away from my parents and as I am now debt free, any money I make from poker can be saved towards a car first and then a deposit on a house. Unfortunately this means I am unlikely to go on any extravagant trips to Vegas or anywhere else and I may just have to settle for a week in my parent’s apartment in Spain.

Poker
Well I know some of my friends have aspirations of reaching Supernova or Supernova elite on Stars but with my current lifestyle they are just never options and I don’t think they ever will be. I will therefore continue to grind MTTs on Pokerstars and as in 2011 I made $50k profit across Stars and Full Tilt, I guess that I will aim for that amount of profit again this year. Contract talks are currently ongoing as to whether I move up stakes or whether I just stay at the $55s and under for now. Up until May my volume isn’t going to be anything phenomenal so just got to hope I run good but also try and find the time to do as much studying with the other lads as possible.

People to look out for in 2012…

1. Andy Carlin “irishandy101” – Andy through a lot of hard work has improved his MTT game at a frightening rate. With him basically being pro now, his volume, dedication and skill will see him do great things this year.

2. Alex Joblin “J10BLN” – For years I have admired Alex’s game and his work rate. If he can sort out a way of balancing his busy life then he is definitely due a good run of results.

3. Milo McKenzie “Snort4Eva”- After promising SNE last year and failing to deliver, Milo seems highly motivated this year to succeed. Watching him play is the most insane thing ever as this sicko crushes 16-24 tabling PLO cash games.

4. Will Poulsen “DapperDan098”- Very much like Andy, Will is always involved in the studying side of the stable and has the dedication to putting in volume that will guarentee results.

5. Our Coaches- Jerry and Wrighty are phenomenal players and they have mentioned that they have even improved since beginning to coach us. They run a very professional stable and they deserve success.

Thanks for reading,

Only one thing to talk about this week I guess, The $10million Sunday Million and what a sick tournament it was. I joined the 62,000 other entrants after winning a seat for $11 regardless of the fact Jerry and Wrighty were putting myself, Andy, Dapper and Avkid in as a reward for last months TLB race.

I take my poker very seriously and as this was the biggest online poker tournament ever, I prepared for it in a very professional manner by going out drinking two nights in a row. I woke up on Sunday (not in my bed though yaknaawhatamean) feeling pretty ill and run down. A shower, two naps and several thousand calories later and I am ready to go. I was grinding at my sister’s boyfriend’s house, Rubes who was also playing the big one.  I played maybe 5 other tournaments aswell but bust them all pretty quickly. So from about midnight I was one tabling the SM, where I would be for the next 8 hours. The rest of JambeWright had busted it, so with them all having a % (2 coaches and 4 horses) they were all on the rail and it was all down to me. No pressure then.

I don’t think I have ever one tabled for so long and so this was good practise for the future but I was playing well and maintained deep focus throughout. I had 1 coffee to keep me going but it was all I needed as adrenaline kept me fully awake. As we got into the money, the realization of how sick this tournament was became very apparent.  I jumped from a guaranteed payout of $1k, to $2k to $5k and then $11k meaning I got my first ever 5 figure score. BOOM! Ok talked about poker for too long now, so here is a Christmas picture:

Selena Gomez, girlfriend of Justin Bieber. Think she chose the wrong JB to be with. (yknaawhatamean)

Ok back to poker. Two key hands will be mentioned in PokerPlayer Magazine in an article about the 10^th anniversary SM and the first one is this: http://www.pokerhand.org/?6279871

Still unsure on whether or not this is a shove. At the time I remember thinking that I had been blinding away for a while as I was card dead and that AQ with my stack was too good to give up and I just had to hope I was racing. However, when I got it in and UTG +1 calls and flips over AK and I though that was it. Obviously I get super lucky and make a full house and now I have a playable stack. It was at this point that I first began to think I could win the $2million. I had a huge rail of followers and they all began to get excited after this hand and it really spurred me on to focus. However, this then happened: http://www.pokerhand.org/?6279872

If I hold I am upto 38m and with a stack like that I can be very dangerous. However, I am crippled to 8m and within 6 hands I shove AQ on the button and the same villain from this hand calls me from SB with A3 and the window card is a 3 and I am out in 22nd place from 62,000 entrants.

I can’t really complain about losing these final two hands because as Hand 1 shows I ran very well for 14+ hours and $22k is a brilliant return for the $11 I used to win a seat from a satellite. I am still finding it hard to enjoy the win as I still see it as a huge missed opportunity of winning a life changing amount of money. I was devastated for Team JambeWright (my 2 coaches and fellow students) who had %’s of me as I was so close to huge sums of money for all of them as well. However, I really would like to thank them for their support throughout the tournament and after it. The support on Twitter, Facebook and the Newcastle Poker Forum has been overwhelming as well and this is why we play this game.

Hopefully blog again next week to talk about 2011 and plans for 2012. Merry Christmas everyone.