Greetings earthlings… I say that as everyone seems to be on a different planet but just don't know it! Recession or no recession poker continues to grow with tournaments offering bigger and bigger purses and often bigger and bigger entry fees. Is it madness? I know what is. One site...

Pay The Bills But Don't Share The Secrets You may know I don't have a love affair with the BBC and it goes without saying only their Top Gear programme excites me in any way. Still, after much hype and admittedly with anticipation, I found myself tuning into their Panorama show which was...

It's amazing to think that when the first adverts for online poker sites appeared in Card Player Magazine card room managers across the States banded together objecting to their inclusion in the magazine protesting they would cost their businesses customers. Subsequently online poker has, of...

Dates for the fifth series of the European Poker Tour have been released but not before, so I am reliably informed, much chopping and changing due to clashes with other events/event promoters. In horseracing, and my original love of greyhound racing, there are race planning committees in place to...

I'm on my way home from Vegas, not with my tail between my legs but with it firmly up in the air. My one and only tournament was a wash out, eliminated during the third level, but I got a chunk out of the cash Omaha from some very long sessions and cannot wait to return on June 24 for more....

Sometimes I ask myself simply why do I bother? The year is rapidly reaching its halfway mark and I've barely picked up two cards. Don't get me wrong, poker is great and I owe so much to this wonderful game but the truth is I've scarcely got two free days to play a tournament. Last...

This month's task was to write a 500 word story about the virtues of buying a healthy family meal for €5. It actually wasn't but it could have been. It was to write something, anything, about poker when completely brain-dead. Oh my, did you know in the introduction to his book,...

Bejaysus, we are in May already. Amazing, its like the year has not started yet 33% of it is already over. Irish Open apart, it's like I've not had chance to play cards this year. A family bereavement has stopped me participating in this week's televised World Open and the...