Action at the cash tables...

Well, since recovering from my visit to the hospital with some serious gastritis, I've been playing poker full time.

I am looking for a job, but there isn't much around for me in my chosen field... shame.

The action at the cash tables has been pretty sick and I have managed to make a decent profit over the last two weeks.

Danny Paxton has been on fire recently at the cash tables and on Friday he just couldn't miss, hitting straight flushes, quads and full houses like they are common occurrences. In one hand, Phil Da Silva tried trapping Danny with Pocket Kings, but Danny had flopped quad 10s!

On Tuesday, I popped in for an hour before heading off to the flicks to watch Wolverine and when I came back to the club at about 12:30am, Lord Whipp was sitting on quite literally thousands of chips! It's the most I have seen anyone cashing-in at the local £2/£4 game!

Anyway, last Friday was HEAT ONE of the FHP SPRING SERIES and so far, the leaderboard looks like this:

Jason Harrison - 10 points

Will Picot - 9 points

Craig Le Boutillier - 8 points

Tania - 7 points

Warren - 6 points

Phil Da Silva - 5 points

Alan Mason - 4 points

Ashton - 3 points

Brad - 2 points

Gaz Campbell - 1 point

For the tournament schedule, see the side panel >>>>>>>>>>>

I am looking forward to attending the BLACK BELT POKER BOOT CAMP in London in a few weeks time. Two days of intensive poker workshops with Irish Open Champion and Vic regular, Neil Channing, and Poker after Dark nut job, Phil Laak!

Neil is probably my favourite UK player and I loved Phil's show with Antonio Esfandiari, I BET YOU... plus I always enjoy watching the duos antics on televised poker, so should be a blast learning from these two for a few days.

The camp is limited to 50 attendees and the highlight is a tournament on Saturday night to win a $5000 package to the World Series of Poker, including flights to Vegas, accommodation and entry into the $1500 tournament of the winner's choice... for me that would be either the Pot Limited Omaha or NLH tournament... BRING IT ON!

Not to mention some cash games in the Vic on the Friday and Sunday night, I am looking forward to it!

At the end of the month I have my trip to Turks and Caicos, where I hope to cover the cost of the trip at the cash tables...

jT

Quick Summary!

Biggest cash ever last week (£1605)

Smashed the French up in Dinard (€1100)

Quit my job

Got engaged

Went to hospital on Tuesday morning after passing out with Gastritus (spelling?)

£20 Re-Buy tournament Friday night

£50 with £50 Add-on or Re-buy (only one per player) Sunday

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jT

Leagues and stuff...

I've been running bad in the cash game at 72, but pretty good in the tournaments.

I usually win 2 out of 3 times playing cash on average, and pull-in a 30% return over the long term. Of course sometimes I can win 4 or 5 in a row, which is great, but I've been beaten up lately and have had 4 losing cash games on the bounce over the last few weeks. Last night looked as if I was going to hit 5 ducks in a row but I hit a set of 8s at just the right time and ended up cashing in over £1000 at the end of the night... phew!

I was also 3rd in the £20 Re-buy tournament, which is actually a bit disappointing as I was chip leader for the majority of the tournament. I never really picked-up a hand once the blinds were 1000/2000 and when I made a move, I usually walked into a hand that was worth calling with... and they usually won!

Ah well, I hope that is my luck changing for the better again and I can win a few more pots in the coming weeks.

I have some International action coming up - next week I am testing out the new poker room at the Dinard Casino in France and then at the end of May, I am off to Turks & Caicos in the Caribbean to play at the Player's Club, made famous for hosting the WPT Caribbean Classic last season... can't wait for that one!

I'm also looking forward to the FHP & CLUB 72 POKER CRUISE, which is looking like it will take place on 14 JUNE. £330 Buy-In to get a crack at the £10,000 prizepool. We'll set sail around 4pm and play it down then come back to eat dinner in the Club Restaurant to present the prizes. We will be running £20 Re-Buy Satellites every other Friday to win seats onto the cruise, so check back here for dates if £330 is a bit steep.

The team FHP ONLINE SERIES also starts next wednesday so let me know your team name and the nickname of the 3 players in the team... email me if you have any questions about how it works or check out the blog entry below.

Here's where we are with the FHP LEAGUE and the CLUB 72 SUNDAY LEAGUE:

FHP LEAGUE

Justin Thorne - 25 points

Craig Hartley - 14 points

Dave Elliott - 13 points

Glyn Ruthers - 13 points

Stuart Rowsell - 11 points

Kevin Hodkinson - 11 points

Soxy - 9 points

CLUB 72 SUNDAY LEAGUE

Kevin Hodkinson - 43 points

Soxy - 27 points

Karl Le Fevre - 20 points

Nick Atkins - 20 points

Danny Paxton - 20 points

Charles Butler - 19 points

Beast - 17 points

Andy McKnight - 17 points

Ewan Le Marquand - 16 points

Craig Hartley - 15 points

And I thought it would be interesting to post the CLUB 72 & FHP ALL-TIME MONEY LIST (AS AT END OF MARCH) based purely on TOURNAMENT cashes:

Kevin Hodkinson - £3750

Craig Hartley - £2277

Soxy - £2225

Justin Thorne - £1760

Ashton De Carteret - £1280

Ewan Le Marquand - £1275

Dave Elliott - £1225

(you have to break £1000 to make the list)

SUNDAY'S TOURNAMENT IS A £50 FREEZEOUT (WITH ONE OPTIONAL ADD-ON AT THE FIRST BREAK)

KICK OFF AT 5PM