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We're Going to the Caribbean

 I won two 10k packages for the Caribbean which included a $5k Millions main event buy in, $2k in expenses and eight nights accommodation in a five star resort at the Level Melia Punta Cana  , I added an extra two nights to this and of course I brought my wonderful wife along.  One of my good friends Michael Quirke and his other half Jackie also went on the trip. Mike doesn't play poker that often and won this trip in amazing fashion.  Mike logged into his account on PartyPoker one day and found a click 'n' collect token worth $11, this is a promotion Party did, but most of the time it was a $1.10 or $2.20 token you would get. From his free $11 he won a  €55 GrandPrix Killarney phase one seat and from there won his day one seat worth €340 which he played live.  Mike managed to get himself to the Final table and as he qualified online he was given a 'Golden Chip' which meant if you qualified from online and reached the Final table you were guaranteed a $10k p
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Out In The Sticks In Rozadov WSOPE

 So I'm going to play a 10k in Kings Casino Rozadov Czech Republic, the WSOPE main event. It was my first ever 10k buy-in. I never thought much, if any, about playing the WSOPE main event but always imagined I would at some stage . It was always a dream to play the WSOP main event which I still haven't managed to do (next year hopefully), I got to play my first Ept in December 2016 in Prague (which didn't go so well, the Euerka did though as I've mentioned in my last blog) and is also my last as Pokerstars have done away with the EPT tour, or just re branded it. At least I'm doing it in the order you would expect, EPT, WSOPE and WSOP.   We were staying in the Park hotel in Pilsen, which was a 45min drive from Kings Casino and it was a pretty nice hotel. Even though the bar in the hotel only opened during the week, what the fck that was all about is beyond me.  A friend of mine travelled with me and I had also got in touch with Dara O Kearney as I knew he wa

My Poker career to date

 2001/2002 is when I started to play texas holdem, like most poker players I started off playing small games in pubs and soon after started to play cash games in the Macau sporting club in Cork city. I have always had a gamble in me, from horse racing to sports betting.  I met my wife Amanda in 2000, she was from Killarney where we would end up moving to in 2005. It was from there I got to meet up with other poker players from the Cueclub and we used to travel as a gang of 10-15 to most of the Irish events. As a gang of players we used to discuss a lot of poker, coming back from our trips we would discuss some of the hands we played where we learnt a lot from each other.  I can recall a hand I played in the Macau vs a player who I used to look up to and whom I would be good friends with today, Nicky Power. Can't remember sizing and stacks but its not really important for this, but its just to show that I used to just bluff way to much. I open utg AK, bb defends who is Nicky, flo