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17th - 20th May 07 was when the Grosvenor (UK) Poker Tour, Brighton Leg took place. I was playing on Thursday 17th May and Raj, my husband, was playing the next day.

All the players that get through on the first 2 days of play go on to the 3rd day and then onto the final day if successful.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get to that stage

I got knocked out with trip Kings to a Full House on the first day. Nevermind, it was a good experience (thats what I keep telling myself to stop myself crying lol).

Raj, however, did really well. He got through day one and on day 2 he was really low stacked all the way through, the lowest he got was 5K in chips when the average was over 100K!!!

He doubled up a few times, yeh, quite a few times and got to the final table where he was still low on chips, but manged get third place!!! I was so pleased for him, but he had his eye on the trophy so he was quite disappointed.

We are both off to Vegas soon, for the WSOP (World Series of Poker). Raj is playing in the main event, sponsored by Ladbrokes Poker, and I will be watching

Maybe I’ll play a few little tournaments, I’ll update you guys on what happens when I get back in Mid July.

Hope you are all enjoying these blogs, if you are then please leave a comment, and even if you don’t, I would love to know what you would like to hear about.

Anyways, bye for now, Stay Lucky guys,
Hx

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I played in the Poker ELC (European Ladies Championships) on Saturday 5th May 2007. I had a really good run all day. Out of 48 players, 39 had already gone out, after nearly ten hours !! I was still hanging in there.
It was tense, the average amount of chips was around 27000, but my stack was only 9000.
There were 2 tables left, one of 4 players and another of 5.

It had got to a stage where we were all waiting for one player to go out so there would be one final table of 8 left.

This is called the bubble in poker. That’s when there are prizes for the top x number of players and the player to go out just before is the one that goes out “on the bubble”. So, I suppose that is when your bubble is burst, LOL.

I had to double up as all the other players on my table had 20K+ and I was the low stack. On my small blind, the first 2 players had folded. I looked at my cards, I had a King & Jack off suit (not the same suit). I decided it was now or never. I pushed all my chips onto the table and announced “All In”. The big blind announced “Call” and showed a pair of Aces. Oh my God, I thought, took my shades off and signed.

The dealer showed the flop (the first 3 cards) I can’t remember the order now, but there was an Ace, Ten and something. I think to my self, I’m still in with a chance here, I am on an Ace high Straight draw, just need my gutshot Queen, the other lady has made trip Aces (three of a kind). The turn comes (the fourth card), wow, it’s a Queen, I have made my straight woo hooo, I’ve doubled up, I think to myself. But, there is still a 2% chance and one more Ace in the pack that will cause me a serious problem. The river come (the fifth card). I cannot believe it, its an ACE, my Ace high straight means nothing at all now, she has got Quad Aces (four of a kind).

That is honestly the worst beat I have ever had. I know I have only been playing for 3-4 months, but I hope I never see any thing like that again, unless I am behind and they get a bad beat from me

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I have been playing Online Poker for a while now. I play on LadbrokesPoker.com and I have been doing OK. The is called Texas Hold-em No Limit Poker.

I am off to play in the European Ladies Championships (ELC) on 5th May 2007 and hope to go through to the next day. Keeping fingers crossed, but will let you know how I get on

I have played a few online Multi Table Tournaments (MTTs) and have placed in a few - that means I have got to the stage where I get paid. I think I am about $300 up now!! They normally use dollars rather then pounds for most poker games.

I hope I place in the ELC. The winner gets £15,000 and a seat in the Poker Million VI tournament, wow, that would be a dream !!

Like I say, I will keep you posted

Stay Lucky
Hx

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