BUSY WEEK

BUSY WEEK

Been all go this week. Really busy with the launch of the forum and really pleased with the initial reaction it had had. Plenty more to come on that with a few surprises up our sleeves. Membership is growing at steady pace and we havnt even promoted it yet properley. Be trying to get around venues over next week or so and dish out some PR stuff and cards etc. The word spreads fast though and at least its up and running. Got to say special well done to S2C whos worked so hard to get this off the ground and has some great things planned if all goes well. Well done m8y.

In the build up to this weekend and the Virgin Festival at Aspers it was final week of the Poker in the Pub League (link at right hand side) at my local the Fellsider in Whickham. Dependant on the amount of players that play at your venue then a determined number of seats were available to the Regional Finals at Stanley Circus on 19th April. Our pub is a well attended venue and as such at least 4 seats would be allocated to us with 5 if there was more than 25 attend on Tuesday. As such only 19 made it which meant 4 seats and I need a top 3 or 4 finish to definately book my place.
To be honest the standard has improved to a really good level in general and Tuesday proved to be a really tuff night with so many there in with a chance of qualification and as such it made for a very exciting a tough game.
Grind it to final table with alot of the same faces and then pick up AA in good position to a decent raise and when I push its fold to Dreamdobb who hums n hars before finally folding (QQ gr8 fold) and initial raiser calls with 66. Nice double up and soon after my limp into unraised pot with K10 brings the beautiful site of AQJ to which guy bets his Ace all the way and another nice pot comes my way. Cruise in from here with alot of players just tryimng to make up their points and eventually I take it down in heads up when my 10 10 holds to KQ I think.
Played some late night cash at the micros and doing very steady now chugging away in the right direction.
Wednesday and Im in the WSOP final on Virgin and early doors I get the nice present of a call with my decent raised KK to a AK4 flop. He bets the flop and pushes in on the re raise showing A4 for 2 pair and a nice double up for me. To be honest after that it was total torture. Shit after shit after shit and only steals kept me there with 1/2 a chance. Dont know how but make final table 10 and 2nd or 3rd hand of final table I push my now low stack with 99 in 1st but the button and BB make it a 3 way all in showing KK & 10 10. Dont improve and gone with not much to remember at the end of the day. Congrats to player called Eck who takes down the nice 12k package and Viva Viva.
Gonna play Aspers Friday night and expecting a full house there with the Virgin event the following 2 days so players from around the UK will be hitting town. Really looking forward to weekend and meeting alot of players you go up against each week in forum games etc so be nice to actually meet them and put faces to their names.
Right must get some shut eye cos Im having far too many late ones and at my age thats nee good!
Ill give ya update on share sales for GUKPT soon but they going very well and Ill put up full list of shareholders with their shares who have already bought in the next 2 or 3 days. Thanks to them already and also for some really nice comments.