July 2006 Summary

July was my least profitable month so far this year. I had 12 losing days and also went to Germany and Ibiza. I spent almost $1,000 in last minute WSOP qualifiers without success and overall played below par the whole month.

Despite this, it's been a great month due to Italy winning the World Cup for the 4th time. Been celebrating by partying a lot til 5ams and 6ams. Last Saturday I even went to Global Gathering and I wasn't satisfied with having to leave at 3am!

Need to work on some leaks in August otherwise I will be grinding til Xmas.

Miss Universe 2006

Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza

EPT Season 3 Schedule

PokerStars.com is proud to announce the dates for Season Three of the European Poker Tour (EPT).

EPT Season Two was a massive success with over 2,000 participants and a total prize pool of €9,824,000 ($12,300,000).

EPT Season Three promises to be even bigger and better.

The buy-ins have been raised from €4,000 to €5,000 (approximately $6,000), with the EPT Grand Final buy-in remaining at €10,000 ($12,000).

Barcelona Open (Casino Barcelona) 13-16 September 2006 €5,000
EPT London (Victoria Casino) 21-24 September 2006 €5,000
EPT Baden Classic (Grand Casino Baden) 7-10 October 2006 €5,000
Dublin Open (Merrion Casino Club) 26-29 October 2006 €5,000
Scandinavian Open (Casino Copenhagen) 17-20 January 2007 €5,000
French Open (Deauville Casino) 21-24 February 2007 €5,000
Monaco EPT Grand Final 28 March - 1 April 2007 €10,000

Goalpoker World Cup Final Party

Survivors Log Page 1

Survivors Log Page 2


Photo by Morlspin.

World Cup Semi: Germany 0 - 2 Italy

It cost me almost $900 and 60 hours of no poker for 120 minutes of brilliant football: Germany v Italy in Dortmund.

Leaving England for Germany, we were letting everyone know that we were going to do England a favour and knock the Germans out for a place in the World Cup final.

The road trip meant that we arrived in Dortmund via France, Belgium and Holland. A very long slog but Germany made very good hosts on arrival.

Talking football with German fans in a bar before the game, my prediction was that whoever scored first would win 2 - 0. It would also be "national take the flag down day" and it would be raining German tears!

Pre-Match build up to a classic semi final

Italian football legends Paolo Rossi and Gianluca Vialli

2nd Half: Kick Off

0-0 after 90 minutes: Extra Time awaits

Extra time was awesome as Italy played more aggresively and the Italian fans responded and willed them on to a 119th minute goal by #3 Fabio Grosso. My prediction was realised when #7 Del Piero scored also. Watch the goals:



The German fans took the defeat well and at the end of the game one Deutschland fan wanted to swap his baseball cap for my Italy cap. "A Time to Make Friends" indeed.

Good Game

DM and former Man Utd and England player Lee Sharpe

Germany
01 J Lehmann
03 A Friedrich
21 C Metzelder
17 P Mertesacker
16 P Lahm
18 T Borowski (72 B Schweinsteiger )
13 M Ballack
05 S Kehl
19 B Schneider (83 D Odonkor )
11 M Klose (111 O Neuville )
20 L Podolski


Italy
01 G Buffon
19 G Zambrotta
05 F Cannavaro
23 M Materazzi
03 F Grosso
16 M Camoranesi (90 V Iaquinta )
20 S Perrotta (104 A Del Piero )
08 G Gattuso
21 A Pirlo
10 F Totti
09 L Toni (74 A Gilardino )

Ref: Benito Archundia Tellez
Att: 65000


Veni, Vidi, Vici.

Next, off to the Goalpoker World Cup Final Party in Ibiza!

Blogger Poker Tour Grand Final

Poker.com's Blogger Poker Tour Grand Final with over $20,000 in prizes took place today. I was one of only 39 players that took part in the final.

I was multi-tabling 4-5 other tournaments at the same time as this and basically wasn't in the mood to take it seriously. In consecutive hands I lost my whole stack by running into QQ and AA to the same player! He didn't end up winning though, EgonOlsen became the first Poker.com Blogger Poker Tour Champion.

BPT Results