In other news, full tilt poker have introduced the new rush poker games to low stakes, such an innovative idea, and pretty good fun too. So much so, ive been playing low stakes all week, donking around on the rush tables. Ive been averaging 1400 hands an hour which is pretty nuts. My average was about 600 when I was 8 tabling medium stakes. Anyway, the net result of playing at these low stakes is that ive decided to publish an ebook on how to beat these rush games, seriously, some of the plays ive seen are so so bad, so I thought I’d offer up the solution to these games in one easy package.

Anyway, as I said above, I’ve been running well lately, life is good…

Anyways, happy holidays to all you Americans out there, and for anyone else, I suggest you log-on. Hahahaha.

It will be interesting to see how all this pans out, so far, overall this month, isildur1 is up about $4m, but how long can this continue? Is this just a case of player’s egos getting in the way of disciplined bankroll management? Who knows. All I know is that is damn good fun to see these pots go down. In the words of Phil Mitchell, ‘I raise you the Vic’. Hahaha.

Talking of private poker games, Im trying to wrangle a seat at a private cash game running this Thurs. Its at some private members bar in Bank, and basically, it’s a bunch of traders in the city, with too much cash, and not enough ability. Im hoping to bag the last seat, although, my mate hasn’t fixed me up yet. If I play, it will be a £10/£20 cash game with a £2500 buy-in. Hopefully this should be rich pickings.

The WSOP is over for another year, unlucky for James, he busted out first, but still massive props for bagging the $1m. Havent watched it yet, but sounds like the winner Joe Cada just went on a massive heater on the final table, sick life.

As for me, I played the £80k guaranteed at DTD last weekend, busted half way through losing a flip, although was basically card dead for 8 hours, so meh. Decided to win my buy-in back on the cash games, within 10mins I was looking at a £750 pot with me being a 2to1 favourite versus some old dudes draw. Obv he gets there on the river. Standard. Drove home in a huff, and just grinded it all back online in half the time. I don’t know how you live players do it.

Hopefully will get some volume in this weekend, although, off to watch Harry Brown tonight, and playing golf Sunday, so probably unlikely. As always, GL at the tables.

Ive played this tournament once before, and went out to a guy who thought he had the nuts on a KT2 flop when he held KT. Fair enough he’s going to lose a few chips on that flop, but he was genuinely shocked to see my set of 2’s. Needless to say my set didn’t hold up, and I had a long motorway trip home wondering how quickly he’d lose his luckbox winnings.

Anyway, im looking forward to it, and hopefully there will be some juicy cash games on offer. If you’ve never been to Dust Till Dawn you should, it really is a well run club, and if any of you are planning on attending, drop me a bell here and we can meet up for a beer.

Good luck at the tables, Johnny.

Tonight, im doing some 1to1 poker coaching with a student of mine who lives up in Scotland, he’s already a pretty sound player, but with some guidance, im certain he can be beating much bigger games. Maybe I’ll get him to post a testamonial or something on here. I actually met him at a poker festival we both qualified into about 2 years ago. We got chatting and it turned out we both faced off against each other nightly back in the days when I used to mass multitable £10 Single Table Tournaments! We’ve both come a long way since. Its also pretty interesting in that he works as a Police Officer, whereas im in Banking, it just shows all backgrounds can compete at a good standard when it comes to poker. Its all about applying proven techniques – just follow this blog, and you’re more than half way there already…