Wednesday, 28 September 2011

I'd love to be a guest blogger on the final day of EPT London because...

....I love Poker. I'm only a micro donk, but I eat, sleep, and occasionally get shafted by poker (you know what I mean, when your bullets get cracked by a Russian holding 74 offsuit. That's poker shafting you).

Last year, David Vamplew won his 1st major event at EPT London, he's since gone on to great things. He won the UKIPT Champion of Champions, Came 3rd in WPT Venice, 8th at EPT Copenhagen, 4th in the WSOP $1500 6-Max NLHE and won the €1000 side event at Tallinn this year, not to mention numerous other cashes including the Main Event at this year's WSOP.

I want to be at EPT London to see who wins this year, and may become the next breakout star from the Poker scene. Obviously, I have a bias, I'd like it to be one of the new breed of UK Players. Maybe one of these guys?

Max Silver:
Max Came to people's notice through the UKIPT last year, coming 6th in Edinburgh, and winning the Dublin Leg. He also managed to win the £1500 side event at last year's EPT London, and has recently been on a roll, going deep in the WPT in Paris, and coming 4th in the UKIPT in Dublin. Max has proved his chops, now may be time for him to explode onto the worldwide scene.

Samad (Sam) Razavi:



Sam has been on the edge of the worldwide poker scene for a while, and to top it all, comes from my home town (I think I may have actually played a few tournies with the man). Sam has been a regular casher at the UKIPT events this year (he also tops the UKIPT points board) winning UKIPT Cork, and has had success further afield at the Aussie Millions (6th), Some Vegas deep stacks, and cashing at the EPT in Barcalona this August.





Nick Abou Risk:
While Nick is technically not from the UK (he is from canadia-land) he has been part of the UK and Ireland poker scene for a while. He was the 1st person to win 2 UKIPT titles (Edinburgh Season 1 and Galway Season 2). He also has no shame (and now no hair as well): Video






Andrew Ferguson:

While Andrew hasn't had many live cashes, his game is solid, and the cashes he has are pretty impressive. A deep cash into this years Main Event at the WSOP, a 2nd place at last years EPT Barcalona €1000 side event, and 2 other WSOP cashes in the past few years.
Andrew is long overdue a big event win, and maybe this EPT season will bring him one?







So as you can see, I love poker, I love poker players, I love the game. I may have a bias to the UK poker scene, but it's producing the best new players in the world right now in my opinion.

So, can I come? Please?

I've decided to post a personal blog...

....for a couple of reasons. One is, I need a personal blog to enter the odd competition (I'm talking about you here Pokerstars, look at all the effort I'm going to!) and the other reason is, not everything I want to talk about is Poker related. While the forum I have at Quadjacks is great, I don't think the guys would want me writing about how I fell about certain political issues, or my issues running my business, or how I feel wearing ladies underwear. (Damn, how'd that slip out? where's the delete key?)

So, if you want my cutting blogs on the status of the Poker World, please go to Quadjacks and if you're lucky, I might even be on the show talking life, the universe and everything (42) with Marco, Zac and Srsly.

If, however, you want to read what's going on in my twisted mind, or value my political opinions, or just fancy a laugh reading my competition entries, this is the place for you.

Up next: my 1st competition entry