DaMatrix Reloaded

Index Reloaded

2007-01-01T13:00:00.003Z

DaMatrix Reloaded: Blog Index

Gala Casino Nottingham Xmas Special

APAT UK Amateur Poker Championship

Poker Player UK Open

$10,000 Loose Change

Skill Matrix Win

Paddy Power UK Poker Tour

DaMatrix Joins Team Full Tilt

$8,000 Bad Beat

Owen's Money

Blonde Bash 3

Mighty Indeed

Goal Poker World Cup Final Party

Almost Stan's Poker Poker

Mansion World Cup Getaway

Betfair City Aces Challenge 2006

Jonny Texas Poker Invitational

Maxim King of Poker 2006

Blonde Poker Bash

Champagne Bubbles

2006-12-31T14:57:00.000Z

Good end to the year as I won a Betway $1050 London Poker Weekend package. That ends my qualification efforts for the Aussie Millions, Venice's Sky Sport €1,100 tourney and the first GUKPT Channel 4 £1,050 Event in Bolton which all clash.

Nevertheless, I'm pleased as I have a live game lined up for my DaMatrix Live! phase and especially since, overall this year, I made over 160% of 2005's Poker Profit without actually improving much.

2006 though was marred by bubble finishes which not only prevented my first visit to the WSOP in Las Vegas but cost me over $40,000 in packages/profit. My last bubble of the year fortunately wasn't really the bubble as there were 5 seats guaranteed!

DaMatrix Live

2006-12-27T12:12:00.000Z

Played just 10 live games in 2006. That's not very good is it? Worse - I only cashed in 2 of them! These figures are what prompted the new DaMatrix Live! phase.

1. Blonde Bash 1, Broadway Casino, Birmingham £20
2. Maxim King of Poker 2006, Cafe de Paris, London £0
3. JonnyTexas Poker Invitational, Birmingham £2100
4. Betfair City Aces Challenge, Poker Bunker, London £0
5. Blonde Bash 3, Walsall Casino £20
6. PaddyPower UKPT, Broadway Casino, Birmingham £110
7. Poker Player UK Open, Loose Cannon Club, London £20
8. APAT UK APC, Aspers Casino, Newcastle £75
9. Gala Casino Xmas Special, Nottingham £525
10. Broadway Casino Boxing Day Freezeout, Birmingham £55

Merry Xmas!

2006-12-25T19:00:00.000Z

The new DaMatrix blog for 2007 is now live!

Click the picture above to go there.

DaMatrix

Gala Casino Nottingham Xmas Special

2006-12-17T23:33:00.000Z

Played in the £250 plus 1 Rebuy Xmas Special at Gala Casino, Nottingham today after winning a $1200 package online. With 10,000 chips and in good form I fancied my chances of taking it down. The event was a sell out with 100 players - amongst them Julian Thew and 2005 WSOP bracelet winner Laurence Gosney. 40% (£15,000) of the prizepool to 1st.

After a few early skirmishes where I layed down AA on an 8 high flop (to a set of 8s) and lost a few chips with AK v K8 on a K8x flop, I took my rebuy at 4,700 chips so that I had 14,700 during the last rebuy level.

With blinds of 200/400, and early position player makes it 2000, I reraise with AA and he goes all-in. I call. He turns over AK and someone says he folded KQ. I am in the best shape possible especially with an 8 high flop I think. Two clubs but I have Ac. My opponent needs to runner runner the remaining 2 Kings out of the 30 cards (9 handed at the time) in the dealer's hands. He gets his 435/1 shot!

Shortly after, I am out after gambling with my few remaining chips before the break

Road to Nottingham: Wish I hadn't bothered...
RESULT:

£250 No Limit (1 rebuy)
100 Entries
54 Rebuys

1 Richard Shepherd £11,300
2 Julian Thew £11,200
3 Chris Bruce £3,700
4 Nick Hicks £2,800
5 P Attridge £2,240
6 Dave Nisbet £1,850
7 A Jackson £1,450
8 Raj Kanabar £1,160
9 Dave Smith £1,000
10 P Kelley £800
11 Constantine Paparestis £250
12 John Harrison £250
13 Adem Omer £250
14 S Yau £250

Follow the White Rabbit

2006-12-16T23:44:00.000Z

Betfair Xmas Tree Climb Challenge Update:

9 Dec: +1600
10 Dec: +300 Failed
11 Dec: +1550 (run of 1-2-1-1-2-1-1-1 saw me make it from -450)
12 Dec: +1000/1500 (STT) and +916.25/1000 (MTT) Failed both
13 Dec: Donk Donation Day but won chip set at Nordic Poker!
14 Dec: No Play
15 Dec: No Play, considering ending the challenge.
16 Dec: No Play. Challenge stopped.

Special Announcement: Like the Connected to DaMatrix blog, DaMatrix Reloaded will end at the end of the month. A new name and home for 2007 has already been created...

Betfair Xmas Tree Climb Challenge

2006-12-11T14:08:00.000Z

Set myself a challenge to reach the top of the Betfair Xmas Tree climb. For the route I have chosen, I need to score at leat 1500 sit & go points on 6 different days. I achieved the target on my first attempt very easily by picking the lowest level ($2.5 and $5 s&gs) and I thought it would be a walk in the park to reach the top. The next day though I couldn't score in a brothel and the donx got the better of me. Normal service resumed today.

Results so far:

9 Dec: +1600
10 Dec: +300
11 Dec: +1550 (run of 1-2-1-1-2-1-1-1 saw me make it from -450)

APAT UK Amateur Poker Championship

2006-12-03T21:25:00.000Z

DaMatrix looking good before blowing it (Photo from APAT.com)

Finished 9th/211 in the APAT UK Amateur Poker Championship at Aspers Casino, Newcastle today.

Very disappointed that I didn't finish in the top 3 but I managed to blow a 212k FT stack - the last 87K by going all-in blind UTG like I did at the Poker Player Open. This time I had 59o instead of 52o!

Day 1

Day 2: My 83k starting stack

FT Stack: 212,000

9th/211

AMATEUR POKER ASSOCIATION AND TOUR

UK AMATEUR POKER CHAMPIONSHIP

2ND-3RD DECEMBER 2006

ASPERS CASINO NEWCASTLE

£75 FREEZEOUT

RESULT

UK Amateur Champ - Max Ward (Photo from APAT.com)

1 Max Ward - £3,750 and 2007 WSOP Main Event Package
2 Steve Lacey - £2,500
3 Thomas Hunter - £1,500
4 Adam Spratt - £750
5 Raymond Norton - £750
6 Steve Talbot - £750
7 Leon Rossiter - £750
8 David Groom - £750
9 DaMatrix - £750
10 Vicky Glynn - £750
11 Robert Ingoldby - £250
12 Gary Collins - £250
13 Scott Henderson - £250
14 Dan Brown - £250
15 Caroline Burgess - £250
16 Kevin Shutt - £250
17 Tom Phipps - £250
18 Richard Stevenson - £250
19 Geoff Keddy - £250
20 Matthew Milne - £250
21 Paul Taylor - £250
22 bubbleman £75

DaMatrix Chip Stack Progression and Key Pots

Day1
a) 10,000 - 8,100
b) 8,100 - 43,700 [AA v KK, QQ v KK]
c) 43,700 - 61,600 [KK v AA]
d) 61,500 - 83,000 [TT lost to AK, 63 v AK]

Day2
a) 83,000 - 212,000 [QQ lost to JJ v AK v 99 - AK raises, 99 calls all-in, I push all-in for over 100k, JJ calls all-in, AK calls all-in (JJ won main pot c.200k, I won very small side pot v AK) JJ v AJ]
b) 212,000 - 132,000 [AQ lost to A8] Terrible play/fold v new player I hadn't played. Cost me the game.
c) 132,000 - 0 [59 'UTG blind' lost to AJ]

Read the APAT Newcastle Tournament Report.

See the APAT Gallery.

Read the Winner's Interview.

PokerPlayer UK Open

2006-11-30T17:09:00.000Z

4:50pm. Just woke up after attending the PokerPlayer UK Open at The Loose Cannon card club. It was a pretty good night with a few players present from the Blonde Poker and Punter's Lounge forums. My tourney didn't go too well, and in the end got busted when I went all-in blind UTG with 52o!

Punter's Lounge Gang. (left to right) DaMatrix, LegendKiller. Teaulc, Teazz, Teazz's m8, ColU_FC and Msaban.

Bainn (centre) from Blonde Poker

The Final Table

Harry Potter Wins

Watch the Poker Player UK Open Video.

$10,000 Loose Change

2006-11-22T08:06:00.000Z

After over 5 hours I beat 998 other players to win the PokerHost Money Madness $100K freeroll - turning $0 into $10,000!

Using my most recent new alias, "TightMoney" - the name of a song by Leon Huff, I navigated my way to the final table stealthly only having to get lucky once. My all-in open raise with AT outdrawing JJ. Didn't get bullets for the whole turney, but an above average run of cards at the final table and no outdraws aswell as skillful short stack play meant that I arrived heads-up almost level.

I suggested that we made a deal as we were so even, but to be truthful, I fancied my chances against him since I had a good read on his style and I believed I could grind him down. Facing a standard button raise though I reraised with TT. He pushed all-in and I called beating his 44. It was all over the next hand. DaMatrix 1/999!

I don't usually report tournament results where I didn't play as DaMatrix, but I had to make an expection today because of all the bad luck I have been having lately as DaMatrix. Plus, 1st/999 is my best performance since unreported 1st/550+ and 2nd/730+.

Update: Just won the next tournament that I played for an unlikely 70,000+/1 back-to-back. By best is a 250,000+/1 back-to-back (2 consecutive 500+ runner tournaments).

Betway 1st/73

Drink Driving Donk

2006-11-21T14:39:00.000Z

Following the 3-car accident last month, 26th of October, a drink driving donk late last night ploughed into the back of my parked car.

The bad beats keep coming!

Talk Sport $1500 TV Freeroll

2006-11-19T23:11:00.000Z

Finished 6/364 in the Take Sport Magazine TV Freeroll on Poker333 that was shown on Poker Night Live. At the final table I took a 100k+ beat when my QQ lost to A4s. Then I gambled with the short stack but my 'gay waiter', Q3, lost to the 'big chick' AQ. Out shortly after when my AQ lost to 43.

By the way, my Q3 play was called "catastrophic" by the presenters.

Cool! ;)

Look out for the final table report in Take Sport Magazine.

Prima $138 Aussie Millions Weekly Final

2006-11-18T23:06:00.000Z

Almost turned $0 (qualified via a freeroll) into $1400 but finished in the bubble for a seat to the Prima/MicroGaming Aussie Millions Final on December 10th. Should have really won a seat but made a bad call with AK with 9 left after the short stacked had raised and the second short stack had gone all in. I was trying to get it down to the 8-handed final table ASAP so I called to try and bust him - I was also expecting original raiser to call so that the FT bubble would have burst for sure. Original raiser folded though and my AK lost to KK.

I was second in chips at the time and had almost locked in a seat. I should have let the two short stacks fight for the pot which would have resolved the final table bubble without any risk to my chips. Both short stacks ended up earning a $1,400 seat due to my mistake and I bubbled when my AK lost to the mighty 'DaMatrix', KQ.

Just call me DaBubble

Tony G Wins BAPT

2006-11-17T00:45:00.000Z

Congrats to Tony G who won the BAPT.

Best of Tony G:

Tony G #1
Tony G #2
Tony G #3

November Pain

2006-11-13T16:01:00.000Z

I should have been in Singapore playing in the Betfair Asian Poker Tour if it wasn't for extreme bad luck. Instead, I am feeling a bit like the poor kid below.

Tuan Le's Worst Bad Beat

Skill Matrix Win

2006-11-01T12:16:00.000Z

I won the October Skill League after coming 2nd in August and 3rd in September. Last month's winner, owenmoney, finished second. It was really a tie though as we decided to chop the 1st and 2nd place prize money and play for 1st.

Final October Skill League Table

I had a great chance to break the 2000 point barrier but I forgot to deregister from a tourney that I couldn't play and lost 15 points when I was up to 1982 points on the penultimate day.

$209 Paddy Power Poker UK Poker Tour

2006-10-26T11:48:00.000Z

Just got back from the Birmingham leg of the Paddy Power Poker UK Poker Tour at Broadway Casino.

Didn't play too well, partly because I was involved in a 3-car accident on the way to Birmingham. A donk ran into the back of me when stationary at a traffic light queue and I got squeezed with the car in front. Not great!

I just about made it to the casino on time but things got from bad to worse as I was dealt crap all night with Lucy Rokach four to my right. She tripled up early after she made a button raise with 88 after an open raise and a cold-call - both called and she was up against 55 and AK. I passed an Ace-rag but another A flopped but she hit an 8 on the river to survive. Up to the first break the only pair I got was JJ and a couple of rag aces.

Short stacked the first spot where I could have made a move was with K7s in mid postion but I waited until UTG with QTo. Lucy Rokach isolated me with 99 but luckily I hit a T on the turn to double up.

Got moved to a new table and Lucy Rokach followed and this time she was immediately to my left. With blinds 300/600, someone in mid position raised to 2000. I had TT on the button and should have gone all-in, instead I passed and Lucy Rokach in the small blind re-raised all-in to just over 7,100. Original raiser passed. One orbit later and I found myself in the small blind with T8o against Lucy Rokach. Again, I should have pushed but folded. Next hand I went all-in with 2s2 on the button and Lucy Rokach isolated me with As9o from the small blind, hitting a 9 on the turn and the nut flush on the river.

Managed to drive back home safely at least, but I found out that the damage to my car was worse than I thought and my neck feels a bit stiff.

Result:

Stop number three on our whirlwind tour of the UK saw Birmingham's glamorous Broadway Casino bursting at the seams.

125 players started with 4,000 chips and play continued until 5am. As the sun began to rise it was PPP online qualifier Chris Carr who was celebrating a £5,400 payday along with a prestigious UKPT title.

Carr, from Wirral, adapted his online skills to defeat Joe Koumi (aka 'Chicken Joe') heads up in what was his first ever live tournament! Chicken Joe had probably been the strongest player at the final table until the batteries died on his ipod - it was all downhill after that!

BugsysClub October Skill League #1

2006-10-22T12:19:00.000Z

Currently second with 10 days to go in the October BugsysClub Skill League. In the last 5 days I have closed the gap to owenmoney from 113 points to just over 5 points.

October Skill League Table

DaMatrix joins Team Full Tilt

2006-10-20T13:04:00.000Z

DAMATRIX

Nicknamed "DaMatrix".
Member of BugsysClub Wall of Fame.
Winner of the 2005 Maxim King of Poker.

DaMatrix does not play online exclusively at Full Tilt Poker.

Mansion $109 Aussie Millions Final

2006-10-15T23:17:00.000Z

Finished in the bubble in Mansion's $109 Aussie Millions Final after qualifying via a sat. I let myself get blinded out after making a bad decision close to the final two tables. Had I not made the error I would have been 2nd chip leader with less than 30 left. C'est la vie.

19th/128, 18 paid

How to get busted holding the nuts...

2006-10-10T23:36:00.000Z

Game: Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo
Level XVII: 3,000/6,000 Blinds (1,000 Minimum Chip)
Average Stack: 39,714.28 (2,000 starting chips)
Remaining Players: 7 (35 started)
Seat 1 : DaMatrix starts with 1,000
Seat 2 : elblop starts with 9,000
Seat 4 : lilzhitt starts with 76,000
Seat 5 : neilsiv starts with 11,000
Seat 6 : Al_E_Gator starts with 39,000
Seat 7 : sparky6 starts with 53,000
Seat 8 : EnricoMartini starts with 96,000
Seat 7 : sparky6 has the dealer button
***DEALING HOLE CARDS***
DaMatrix dealt down 4c 2s Ah 3h
EnricoMartini posts the small blind 3,000
DaMatrix posts the big blind 1,000 and is all-in
elblop folds
lilzhitt calls 6,000
neilsiv folds
Al_E_Gator folds
sparky6 folds
EnricoMartini calls 3,000
***DEALING FLOP*** [ 6d 9c 4s ]
EnricoMartini checks
lilzhitt bets 6,000
EnricoMartini calls 6,000
***DEALING TURN*** [ Td ]
EnricoMartini checks
lilzhitt bets 6,000
EnricoMartini calls 6,000
***DEALING RIVER*** [ 8h ]
EnricoMartini checks
lilzhitt checks
EnricoMartini cards were As 2c 2h 5s
DaMatrix cards were 2s 3h Ah 4c
lilzhitt cards were 8c Kd Kh 8d
lilzhitt wins high 17,000 with three of a kind, eights
EnricoMartini wins low 17,000 with an eight low
lilzhitt wins high 2,000 with three of a kind, eights
EnricoMartini wins low 1,000 with an eight low
DaMatrix wins low 0 with an eight low

DaMatrix has left the table
DaMatrix finishes in 7th place

***SUMMARY***
Hand Ended: Tuesday October 10th 6:56:20 PM CDT 2006
Total Pot: 37,000
Board: [ 6d 9c 4s Td 8h ]
Seat 1 : DaMatrix (big blind) lost 1,000, showed hand [ 2s 3h Ah 4c ]
Seat 2 : elblop did not bet, folded pre-flop
Seat 4 : lilzhitt bet 18,000, won 19,000, net +1,000, showed hand [ 8c Kd Kh 8d ]
Seat 5 : neilsiv did not bet, folded pre-flop
Seat 6 : Al_E_Gator did not bet, folded pre-flop
Seat 7 : sparky6 (button) did not bet, folded pre-flop
Seat 8 : EnricoMartini (small blind) bet 18,000, won 18,000, net 0, showed hand [ As 2c 2h 5s ]

TonyG #3

2006-10-08T15:40:00.000Z

Also, read the story of Shawn Marion - The Matrix.

USA Poker Legislation

2006-10-06T11:43:00.000Z

Companies who have made statements regarding removal of the US market segment include:

Titan Poker (Confirmed)
Betfred Poker (Confirmed)
CelebPoker (Confirmed)
Pacific Poker, 888.com, Reef Club Casino (Confirmed)
Paradise Poker (Decision Pending)
PartyPoker, PartyCasino, PartyGammon (Confirmed)
Poker Ocean (Confirmed)
PokerPlex.com (Confirmed)
Titan Poker (Confirmed)
VIP Poker (Confirmed)

Nordic Bet $240 Baltic Tour Final

2006-10-05T19:28:00.000Z

I qualified via a sat and was up against 58 other players fighting for ten $2,200 Baltic Tour packages to Estonia.

Things were going ok, I doubled up via AA v KK (I saw this scenario 3 times during this one tourney!). Then lost a bit with A7 v J9 and KQ v 33 before overplaying A9s v TT in a battle of the blinds from the SB against Mullah. That cost me the seat really and Mullah ended up qualifying.

Oh well, I think Estonia would have been cold in November anyway! brrrrrrrrrrrr

Another disappointing result

Betfair S&G Challenge Performance Graph

2006-10-02T12:40:00.000Z

DaMatrix Betfair s&g Graph

$8,000 BAD BEAT

2006-10-01T17:30:00.000Z

Playing for a Betfair Asian Poker Tour package, I hit a streak of 4 wins in a row in NLHE thunder sixpaks.

4-a-row then.....

I called Betfair to see if Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo STTs were part of the promotion. They confirmed and so I played one, luckily getting to head-up but building a 8783 to 1217 chip advantage when:

Game #2503304083: Omaha H/L PL (500/1000) - 2006/10/01 - 17:05:59 (GMT)
Table "STT 3567577 - 1" Seat 9 is the button.
Seat 3: DaMatrix (8783 in chips)
Seat 9: Shampoo (1217 in chips)
Shampoo: posts small blind 500
DaMatrix: posts big blind 1000
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to DaMatrix [Ts 3h Ah 2h]
Shampoo: raises to 1217 and is all-in
DaMatrix: calls 217
----- FLOP ----- [Jc Jh Th]

----- TURN ----- [Jc Jh Th][As]

----- RIVER ----- [Jc Jh Th As][9c]

----- SHOW DOWN -----
Shampoo: shows [4s 8s 6d Qc] (HI:A Straight, Queen high)
DaMatrix: shows [Ts 3h Ah 2h] (HI:Two Pairs, Aces and Jacks, Ten high)
Shampoo collects 2434 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot 2434 Main pot 2434 Rake 0
Board [Jc Jh Th As 9c]
Seat 3: DaMatrix (big blind) showed [Ts 3h Ah 2h] and lost
Seat 9: Shampoo (small blind) showed [4s 8s 6d Qc] and won (2434) with HI:A Straight, Queen high

Shampoo doubles with a 3-outer then I get rags and end up losing the match! My bubble count this year has cost me over $40,000 now.

Owen's Money

2006-10-01T11:27:00.000Z

The September Skill League at Bugsy's Club was won by owenmoney with a skill rating of 1943.47. Second was knoemp with 1922.72 and I was third with 1902.70. Last was ASG with a score of 1381.49!

I could have won the league if I tried, after all I scored 1961.63 in August, but I had other things on my plate and this month I didn't play as much as I needed to - partly because I wasn't on form.

September: Final Top 10

Overall though, not a bad September since I had my second most profitable month of the year on all poker.

BAPT Madness Weekend: Saturday

2006-09-30T23:06:00.000Z

Played 68 6-handed sit & goes on Betfair today. Winning 5-in-a-row would earn you a $8,000 Betfair Asian Poker Tour package to Singapore. Below is my performance after beginning the challenge:

DaMatrix Shed S&G Graph: Saturday

During my sit&go downswing I was also playing MTT satellites for the BAPT. I played 3 and here is how I got busted:

#1: Winner take all 31/105: AA v QQ v some other junk I think.
#2: Top 2 11/88: AK v JT
#3: Winner Take all 52/72: KK v AK V JJ

Bugsys Club September Skill League #1

2006-09-27T12:21:00.000Z

Currently in 3rd position in this month's Skill League. Last month I finished second to collect a $1,800 bonus after a deal. This month the payout has been made flatter, so the top 3 payouts are:

1ST $3,500
2ND $2000
3RD $800

Bugsys Club September Skill (4 days to go)

On another note, been getting a few hits on this blog by people searching for "Muppets Reloaded" on google! LOL

Betfair Asian Poker Tour $250+$20 Sat 2

2006-09-21T23:47:00.000Z

Qualified for this again via a $18+$1.80 sat on Monday. Could I do better than last week?

Answer: No! A poor 20/60. I played quite bad; I didn't make some moves when I should have. The only time I got a walk in the big blind I had KK - it was that kind of night and in the end I made a move with J9 UTG and ran into AA.

JonnyTexas Poker Invitational: Final

2006-09-19T23:41:00.000Z

The final heat of the Jonny Texas Poker Invitational was played today.

The finalists fought for the following prize pool:

1ST 50,000 EUROS
2ND 32,000 EUROS
3RD 23,000 EUROS
4TH 18,000 EUROS
5TH 14,000 EUROS
6TH 11,000 EUROS
7TH 8,500 EUROS
8TH 6,500 EUROS

High Stakes #2

2006-09-17T18:20:00.000Z

Betfair Asian Poker Tour $250+$20 Sat

2006-09-14T18:27:00.000Z

Qualified for this via a $18+$1.80 sat yesterday. Could I turn it into a $8,000 package?

Close but $2100 worth of cigars

Blonde Bash 3

2006-09-09T19:15:00.000Z

Made my first visit to Walsall Casino for Blonde Poker's Blonde Bash 3. Didn't take my camera so no pictures I'm afraid.

The tournament was a £30 NL Double Chance with over 150 players and 3,000 starting chips with 30 minute levels. I began on actionjack's table, then got moved ironside's and then bullitpete's before finally, when down to the last 3 tables, matt674's table where he busted me with AJs against my T5s.

snatiramas won the tournament with matt674 finishing runner-up.

Had a dream...

2006-09-08T14:13:00.000Z

... that I became world champion.

Waking up this morning wasn't cool!

Tony G #2

2006-09-06T17:33:00.000Z

Mighty Indeed

2006-09-01T13:22:00.000Z

Mightycricket scooped almost everything at Bugsy's Club in August, winning the $20k GTD Event, the $10k Skill League and the $3.5k MTT League.

The final stages of the Skill League were exciting as predicted. I swapped the lead with mightycricket several times during the day and at one checkpoint I was winning by just 0.01! I was ahead until the final couple of hours of my 20 hour session, after we had agreed a $1k saver to reduce what we were playing for from $4.2k to $2.2k. Shortly afte making the deal, I lost focus in one important tourney losing all my chips with QQ against mightycricket's AA. He went on to win the tourney to collect 15 valuable points but I lost 9 points in the same event meaning that mightycricket gained 24 points.

Post-deal, I made another mistake which made me finish 3/66 in another event. Winning that tourney would have given me first in the skill League. Dejected from these two final mistakes, I peter out of my last 2 events. Mightycricket though ended the month on a high winning the very last August skill tournament (to gain a further 19 points on me) and take his final ranking up to 1990.65, 29.02 ahead of me.

Final Results: Top 10

A bit of a disappointment then, I finished the month runner-up to mightycricket in both the Skill League and MTT League, winning $2,300. Mightycricket collected $5,000.

Congrats to mightycricket who I have to say deserved to win as he was the best tournament player throughout the month. Well played and thanks for the saver which I received already!

Didn't think you'd do a jojo45! ;)

Tony G #1

2006-08-30T19:48:00.000Z

BugsysClub Skill League Update

2006-08-27T11:37:00.000Z

August 27th A.M. Top 10

The August Skill League will end in 5 days and I am still top with a personal best score of 1945.49 set yesterday. Moving up into second place, helped by a 1st/164 result, is mightycricket with a 1909.24 skill rating.

I'm sure that I will be overtaken before the end of the month and the Skill League will go down to the wire with a tense final day on the 31st of August which could be decided by the very last tournament. I may have to reach my original goal of 2000 skill points in order to win the league.

Numero Uno

2006-08-20T11:03:00.000Z

High Stakes #1

2006-08-19T05:42:00.000Z

Skill PB

2006-08-18T09:38:00.000Z

Since my last post I have had 5 cashes at Bugsy's Club's Skill tournaments and 3 out of 5 of those cashes have been wins. That's given me a new personal best skill score of 1881.02.

Friday Morning Skill Leaderboard

The 3 wins weren't easy.

WIN1: One of my greatest ever comebacks. Came back from chip and chair 10-handed at the final table.

WIN2: Overcame a 5:1 chip disadvantage heads-up.

WIN3: Lost nearly all of my stack when my AQ lost to A8 and my KK lost to AQ. Arrived at the final table as the short stack and fortunately doubled up with AT v AQ. Still short stacked I mucked JJ preflop after my raise got re-raised and thus I took another knock back. From there I played my opponents well and 4-handed I busted all 3 other players.

Apart from my wins, the list of slowrollers has also increased: RobertoMac (slowrolled AA vs my QQ) joins bbanddd (slowrolled AA vs my JJ).

Skill & APAT

2006-08-15T18:15:00.000Z

Had 3 skill cashes in a row yesterday at Bugsy's Club to give myself a little cushion in second place and close the gap to fairy_ring who hasn't played after reaching a hard to beat score of 1924.68.

My peformance in later games yesterday was hampered by the fact that I read a 52 page thread in one go on Blode Poker regarding the Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT).

Gave back some skill points as a result but today I've had 2 skill cashes so far to keep me going. Not bothered that I haven't won a skill tourney in a long time as I was expecting it since changing my strategy in these games.

Below is the Tuesday evening Skill Leaderboard (since posting it I've played a few unfocused games which will make me drop points):

Bugsy's Club Top 20 Skill Players

The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) is holding its inaugural live event, the English Amateur Poker Championship next month and I hope to be one of the 120 players that will compete. Recently, I applied to a poker company for sponsorship/turn professional but was rejected (their loss! lol) - maybe becoming English Amateur Poker Champion will pave the way.

WSOP Champions (plus 2nd & 3rd)

2006-08-11T14:21:00.000Z

2006: Jamie Gold (Paul Wasicka, Michael Binger) 8773
2005: Joe Hachem (Steve Dannenmann, John Barch) 5619
2004: Greg Raymer (David Williams, Josh Arieh) 2576
2003: Chris Moneymaker (Sam Farha, Dan Harrington) 839
2002: Robert Varkonyi (Julian Gardner, Ralph Perry) 631
2001: Carlos Mortensen (Dewey Tomko, Stan Schrier) 613
2000: Chris Ferguson (TJ Cloutier, Steve Kaufman) 512
1999: Noel Furlong (Alan Goehring, Padraig Parkinson)
1998: Scotty Nguyen (Kevin McBride, TJ Cloutier) 350
1997: Stu Unger (John Strzemp, Mel Judah) 312
1996: Huck Seed (Bruce Van Horn, John Bonetti) 295
1995: Dan Harrington (Howard Goldfarb, Brent Carter) 273
1994: Russ Hamilton (Hugh Vincent, John Spadavecchia)
1993: Jim Bechtel (Glen Cozen, John Bonetti) 220
1992: Hamid Datsmalchi (Tom Jacobs, Hans 'Tuna' Lund) 201
1991: Brad Daugherty (Don Holt, Bob Veltri) 215
1990: Mansour Matloubi (Hans 'Tuna' Lund, Dave Crunkleton) 194
1989: Phil Hellmuth (Johnny Chan, Don Zewin) 178
1988: Johnny Chan (Eric Seidel, Ron Graham) 167
1987: Johnny Chan (Frank Henderson, Bob Ciaffone) 152
1986: Berry Johnston (Mike Harthcock, Gary Berland) 141
1985: Bill Smith (TJ Cloutier, Berry Johnston) 140
1984: Jack Keller (Byron Wolford, Jesse Alto) 140
1983: Tom McEvoy (Rod Peate, Doyle Brunson) 108
1982: Jack Straus (Dewey Tomko, Berry Johnston) 104
1981: Stu Unger (Perry Green, Gene Fisher) 75
1980: Stu Unger (Doyle Brunson, Jay Haimowitz) 73
1979: Hal Fowler (Boby Hoff, George Huber) 54
1978: Bobby Baldwin (Crandall Addington, Louis Hunsucker) 42
1977: Doyle Brunson (Gary Berland, Milo Jacobson) 34
1976: Doyle Brunson (Jesse Alto, Unknown) 22
1975: Sailor Roberts (Bob Hooks, Crandall Addington) 21
1974: Johnny Moss (Crandall Addington) 16
1973: Puggy Pearson (Johnny Moss, Jack Straus) 13
1972: Amarillo Slim Preston (Puggy Pearson, Doyle Brunson) 8
1971: Johnny Moss (Puggy Pearson) 6
1970: Johnny Moss

DaMatrix with Doyle Brunson

Pocket Pairings

2006-08-09T12:57:00.000Z

DaMatrix -----------------------KK----------------------- Sammy Farha

Devilfish ----------------AA------------ DaMatrix

Skill League Update

2006-08-08T12:38:00.000Z

I've maintained my position as Bugsy's Club's 2nd highest ranked tournament player despite stiff opposition. Looks like it is a race for second place as fairy_ring has extended his lead as the best with some impressive results.

Tuesday morning's Skill Leaderboard:

Bugsy's Club Skill League Top 15

Think you can outplay me? Join Bugsy's Club!

Tuesday Night Update:

Decided on just half a session today as I've been running very bad. My luck is at it's low point and I'm losing almost every race and getting rivered when a big favourite. I've slipped 3 places to 5th in the league and I've cashed in less than 20% of the Skill Tournaments - very disappointing as I expected to be closer to the leader if my luck had been average.

I'm making things worse by tilting and throwing games so I can go and chill - losing even more skill points in the process. I lost about 30 points today and a total of $600 on all poker in the last 3 days.

Slowroller

2006-08-05T11:06:00.000Z

After a great start I've let my performance slip considerably due to an incident a couple of days ago. I was slowrolled for the first time at Bugsy's Club and I didn't react very professionally to it. Been on tilt since but I've realised I just gotta forget about it and the experience means that I won't let it affect me next time.

Below is the updated table for Saturday morning. Yesterday, despite 2 Skill Tourney wins, I played like a donkey and fairy_ring who's been playing very consistently took full advantage to build a lead.

Skill League Update

Will need to play my A game next week in order to be top by this time next week. Also might need to change strategy as I have been playing a style more appropriate for winning tournaments. Will revert to an In The Money style I think.

Bugsy's Club MTT Day

2006-08-02T23:59:00.000Z

In order to begin plugging my tournament leaks, I spent the whole of August 2nd playing at Bugsy's Club. My challenge: to reach 1st in the MTT leagues.

Despite taking numerous bad beats and hitting the bubble too often for my liking, I'm happy to report that I managed to be ranked first:

August MTT Skill League

August MTT League

July 2006 Summary

2006-07-31T23:16:00.000Z

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

2006-07-23T15:27:00.000Z

Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza

EPT Season 3 Schedule

2006-07-19T12:29:00.000Z

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

2006-07-09T23:22:00.000Z

Survivors Log Page 1

Survivors Log Page 2

Photo by Morlspin.

World Cup Semi: Germany 0 - 2 Italy

2006-07-04T23:28:00.000Z

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

2006-07-01T23:42:00.000Z

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

Almost Stan's Poker Poker

2006-06-29T00:53:00.000Z

Almost made it a "Poker" of different 100+ runner Freeroll wins on Stan's Poker. Was sailing along until I lost almost all of my stack with JJ v KK. I was then the short stack with about 25 left but managed to navigate myself to heads-up albeit with a 4-1 chip disadvantage. H/U lasted about 3 hands as I tried to double up early but my 62s ran into 66 and a Q6x flop. Almost.

#4: Freeroll Thursday (2/767)

#3: Sunday Roast Win (1/103)

#2: Freeroll GP Win (1/481)

#1: 200 Freeroll Win (1/5536)

Prima $1,078 WSOP Stud Sat

2006-06-18T22:03:00.000Z

Another waste of time. Played solid overall but when you catch only one break in 2 hours, in stud, you have no chance.

My nemesis on the night was aceturf who's calling all the way to seventh street strategy paid off for $5952. Heads-up aceturf settled for the cash and so 22-year old Nevin took the $7936 Stud package.

Stud Final Result

Shitaly

2006-06-17T11:37:00.000Z

Not going be spending any more time trying to qualify for the WSOP Main event as it looks like I may have other commitments at the start of August. I still have a few qualifiers left but something is telling me that I am not ready yet. We'll see what happens.

Played in the Hendon Mob's World Cup Freeroll on Full Tilt Poker last night. I was happy with my short stack play thoughout the tourney (can't say the same thing about the Azzuri in Italy v USA) and in the end finished 3/86.

HM WC Results

Congrats to Indestructable who won 2 tickets to the World Cup final and $2,000 spending money. Everyone at the final table won a custom FTP soccer shirt which I value at $135 going by the gear in the FTP Shop.

Prima $950 WSOP Short Hand Sat

2006-06-11T23:07:00.000Z

In this satellite, 1 in 6 qualified for a $5,400 package to play WSOP Event 21: 13th July No-Limit Hold'em - Short handed 6 per table $2,500.

Before the tourney started I warmed-up by taking part in Stan's Poker first ever Sunday Roast Freeroll Tourney. The warm-up didn't go too well but at least I didn't finish in the bubble ;)

Warm-Up Result

The SHed satellite began with 16 players, meaning we were playing for 2 seats and $3.6k for 3rd. Not much to report - I had probably the worst game of poker this year and finished 9th. I had diabolical situation after diabolical situation and even though I made over 90% correct decisions for my game plan I got no result. Pathetic!

Final SHed Result
Quote of the Day: Indiscreet> worst satellite experience ever, but it ended alright:)

MANSION World Cup Getaway

2006-06-10T15:12:00.000Z

Won a trip to watch England v Paraguay in Germany courtesy of Mansion Poker.

As a valued Member at MANSION, we would like you to be the first to know about our exciting partnership with airline FlyBe. MANSION is proud to announce our sponsorship of a FlyBe BAe-146 aircraft, which will fly the MANSION brand throughout Europe for a two year period.

MANSION is inviting 40 of our most loyal customers to share in our celebrations as we unveil the new MANSION jet to the world, timed perfectly to take in the excitement of the 2006 World Cup.

Join us on a trip of a lifetime to see England square off against Paraguay in the 2006 World Cup on 10 June 2006. 40 lucky MANSION Members will be our special guests to enjoy all the action and soak up the atmosphere of World Cup fever, receiving a VIP prize package that includes:

Return flight (same day) aboard the MANSION branded BAe-146 from London (Luton) to Frankfurt**
Return coach transportation to the World Cup event stadium
Prestige class seating for the England v. Paraguay match, 10 June 2006
Full hospitality service

Total estimated package value is over GBP 2,000.

The night before the game, I played in a special England v Paraguay tourney on Mansion Poker where I finished 2/63. As well as $126 for second place I also got the chance for an extra $60 per goal scored in the game and also $100 for every goal scored by a player wearing the #2 shirt.

Obviously I was hoping for a goal fest on the day...

Photos to follow:

Luton to Germany on MANSION'S plane

Saarbrucken: Long way from Frankfurt!

The Stadium: Exterior

The Stadium: Interior

Line-up: England v Paraguay

Come on England!

3rd minute: Beckham's freekick

England Fans

1-0 with 11 mins left but no more goals

DaMatrix & Ovalman with souvenir

All in all, a great day out. Many thanks to MANSION. The Mansion team was very generous and looked after everybody well on the trip.

Next stop: Silverstone...

Onstar In U'A Car

2006-06-07T10:23:00.000Z

Click above to watch!

Related links:

Pasquale & Rosina Parmiggiano.

Mind of Chester.

דאמטריקס

2006-06-06T00:06:00.000Z

The Omen was released today, June 6 2006 (i.e. 06/06/06 or 666). Some people believe that 666 (the Number of the Beast) represents the Gematria value of Nero or "Neron Caesar".

Since I have been having some extreme bad luck lately (bubbled out of a total expectancy value of +$25,000), I decided to calculate the value of "DaMatrix" to see if it was 666!

Firstly, I had to transliterate DaMatrix and I found out that it is written as דאמטריקס using Hebrew letters..

Using Gematria, 424 (60/100/10/200/9/40/1/4) thus encodes the letters of DaMatrix). Not The Omen but a very attacking football formation!

Bring on the World Cup!

Bullets & Muppets: May

2006-05-31T23:31:00.000Z

May Summary

Was heading for my first losing month of the year but managed to turn it around in the last 3 days for a bigger profit than January. May's Bullets and Muppets:

Bullets

PuntersLounge - Great poker forum.
Betfair Poker - More organised than Maxim!
Live Poker - Reality

Muppets

Maxim - 1 year and they still haven't sorted my King of Poker prizes!
EuroPoker - Blocked my account even though I've sent verification docs.
Online Poker - Virtual

DaMatrix Pwnage

2006-05-28T02:30:00.000Z

Pwnage: Now

Pwnage: Few Days Ago

Recent Visitors

Pwnage: Time Zones

Pwnage: Languages

Pwnage: Browser

Pwnage: Monitor Resolution

Prima $790 WSOP Qualifier

2006-05-27T23:58:00.000Z

Fuct up in the Prima $790 WSOP qualifier. Had almost doubled my stack from the initial 3,000 starting chips when a couple of pots against JBeth976 took me right down to 2,500.

I then won AK v AQ to take me up to 4,200 and in 8th position 20-handed. From there, I changed gears and played more aggressive up to a point where I was in 2nd chip position.

Then, I lost JJ v KQ. K hitting the river for varene from Trondheim. That took me from 2nd to 8th/9 players remaining!

Managed to rebuild slowly but was not getting lucky at eliminating short stacks. Was back up to 2nd/8 remaining and giving 110%. Manouvered myself to 3-handed and then lost a critical race 66 v fishnutz' AK to finish in the bubble once again in a WSOP sat :( (I'd almost knocked out fishnutz 7 or 8-handed when my Q5s was ahead on the turn against his 88 - fishnutz (who played in the WSOP last year) hit the river for a str8 though!)

Another failure. If only the river had been kind I would have busted both varene & fishnutz. Instead I have to say congrats! lol.

WSOP Satellite Results

No luck there, but I managed to finish 2nd/41 in the Poker.com Blogger Poker Tour Event 6. That gives me a seat in the July 1st final where 50 players will battle for a WSOP seat.

BPT Event 6 Results

Also, finished 5th/182 on Mansion Poker. 1st place was a Poker Dome Seat worth $7,000. Maybe I shouldn't have gone all-in UTG with A3s with an effective M of about 2. Loswages2 in the BB woke up with AQ and he then went on to win the seat. Also played the $145 Late Night Poker Ace II qualifier on Party Poker but lost a race early on against one of the many muppets in it.

All in all, a Negative-G day...

Betfair City Aces Challenge 2006

2006-05-25T16:39:00.000Z

The Betfair City Aces Challenge Grand Final was held in London today at the City Bunker, Canary Wharf. 50 players were invited to play for the following prizepool:

1st: WSOP seat ($15,000)
2nd: £1500
3rd: £800
4th: £400
5th: £200
6th: £100

Starting stacks where 5,000 with 20 minute blind levels. I was in seat 4 on my table with former England international Trevor Steven in seat 9 (he was busted before the first break with AQ v VeraPera's QQ). After the break, at the 300/600 level, I was knocked out after going all-in in mid position for just over 4k with A9 and getting called by the BB (who'd just been moved to my table) with KJ.

Some pictures of the event:

Down to the last 2 tables: Table 1

Table 2

The Final Table

Threesome Action

The Final Hand

Betfair City Aces Champ - Rory McCague

Champ with Trevor Steven

The rest of the night was a bit of a blur

for some of the players!

Prima Poker $1.2K WSOP Multi Event Final

2006-05-20T16:44:00.000Z

The winner of the Prima Poker WSOP Multi Event Final would become an instant poker legend as they would get to compete in every event possible during the 2006 World Series of Poker.

The package is worth $134,000 and includes multiple buy-ins, travel, 60-nights accommodation in Las Vegas, Nevada (June 26th to August 10th 2006), and $3,500 in spending money.

I qualified for the $1,200 Grand Final by winning a Stan's Poker Freeroll GP, so I am now freerolling to become a poker legend ;)

*********************************

Well, I played a mediocre game, got dealt mediocre cards and finished a mediocre 34/72.

brett_h limped UTG, I was short stacked and pushed all-in with AQ to increase my stack by 30% or hopefully double up against a pair if he called. He did limp in with a pair, unfortunately it was AA!

Oh well. Missed opportunity. After winning the first 2 pots and getting decent cards early on I knew the writting was on the wall. I got dealt J2 five times and saw enough other ducks that I am worried I caught bird flu.

In fact, that has been the theme of 2006 thus far: Ducks & Bullets (I keep getting deuces and get busted by AA)!

Final Result to follow:

I'm watching the 3-handed phase and brett_h has made it this far, along with derek7 and mahony (Andreas Hagen - who I've met at the VC Poker Cups & WHUPC 05).

He (brett_h) doesn't know though that by busting me he has effectively lost any chance of coming 1st.

Heads-up now. mahoney (157k) v brett_h (53k)

After AJ v AK chips = 110k v 105k-ish

At the Break: 109k v 106k

After the break, the key hand was TPTK v Gutshot str-8 flush draw on the flop. brett_h lost leaving himself crippled.

mahony won the very next hand and the $134,000 WSOP Package!

Congrats on a fantastic comeback from chip and a chair!

Final Result

It was a such a thrilling final table to watch that I missed the Absolute Poker Blogger Freeroll. Who cares? Getting bored of playing online since playing the JohnnyTexas Invitational. Infact, I had my biggest losing week online straight after but have since made it back. mahony doesn't have to worry between June 26th and August 10th! Good luck in Vegas!

Looking forward to the Betfair City Aces Grand Final in London on the 25th now, where I hope I won't run into Aces - although the name of the tournament might suggest otherwise...

Absolute Poker Blogger Freeroll

2006-05-17T13:06:00.000Z

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2006-05-12T11:36:00.000Z

JonnyTexas Poker Invitational: Heat 2

2006-05-10T23:37:00.000Z

I played in Heat 2/8 today but unfortunately you will have to wait til September to see what happened!

All I can tell you is that my heat consisted of: Stuart Nash, Pascal Perrault, Ian Frazer, Arshad Hussain, Roy Brindley, Iwan Jones and [Kalpesh??]. A tough table comprising over $4 million in tournament winnings. Tune in to Sky Channel 187 in September to watch the JonnyTexas Poker Invitational!

Top Secret

JonnyTexas Poker Invitational: Qualifier

2006-05-07T23:58:00.000Z

Managed to say a big FCUK U to my recent bubble finishes to qualify for the inaugural €3,000 Jonny Texas Poker Invitational TV Tournament. I won a $5k package for a $93 investment in satellites for the $525 online final.

Finally!

"The Main Event"

The format for the main event will be of 7 heats each consisting of 8 players. The winner of each heat will proceed to the final & each heat runner-up going into a play off final to clinch the last remaining final seat.

The starting stack for each round will be 10,000T/C and each level will be based on a 45 minute clock enabling for a good level of play and hopefully omitting any form of crap shoot.

The entry fee for this Invitational Event is €3,000.

PRIZE FUND

The remaining 8 finalists will be paid as follows:

1ST 50,000 EUROS
2ND 32,000 EUROS
3RD 23,000 EUROS
4TH 18,000 EUROS
5TH 14,000 EUROS
6TH 11,000 EUROS
7TH 8,500 EUROS
8TH 6,500 EUROS

Some of the players attending:

Rory "Mafews" Matthews, Rumit Somaiya, Pascal Perrault, Stuart Nash, Arshad Hussein, Ian Frazer, Trevor "Big TR" Reardon, Howard Plant, Tony Chessa, Tim Flanders, Simon "Aces" Trumper, Roy "The Boy" Brindley, Tony "Tikay" Kendall, Ian Woodley, John Shoreman, Paul Maxfield, Micky "The Legend" Wernick and representing team Poker.co.uk: Matt "Gus Mango Fish" Dale, Dan "Lucky Scrote" Carter and last, but not least, DaMatrix!

Maxim King of Poker 2006

2006-05-03T23:09:00.000Z

This year, the Maxim King of Poker Grand Final was held at Cafe de Paris, London. Joining the back of the queue to get in at around 6:30pm, my two guests and I were looking forward to the night ahead. Infront of us in the queue were two women old enough to be our mothers and we speculated whether they were here to play. The information that I had was that there would be at least 2 female players and my guests kindly noted that it would be funny if I'd get busted my a woman.

Starting out as the reigning champion in the field of 40 players, I was confident of making the final table. With a structure of 2,500 starting chips and 20 minute blind levels, winning a coin flip or two at the later stages would be important.

The first major pot I won was when I rivered a set of 3s against Spurman on my left in a battle of the blinds. I had to call Spurman's small bet on the turn knowing I was behind, especially since Pocket 3s had been the lucky hand of a home game I'd played the night before.

That pot propelled me to chip leader on my table, but with the blinds increasing rapidly I knew the other stacks were getting desperate and that I'd probably have to win a coin flip for a major part of my stack.

Blinds 250/500. Table chip leader with about 5,000. UTG SHed, raise to 1500 with 88, "Kenny" in late position pushes all in, making it 1800 to me to call to win 5,500. He had the second largest chip stack on the table and was the last person I wanted to race against as I would be crippled with the big blind hitting me next.

Nevertheless, after a dwell, I have to call since the event was a winner take all and I was almost certain he just had overcards. I call, he turns over AQ but the first card out of the deck is an Ace!

In trouble now but I manage to pick up uncontested pots with junk such as 9-high and Q2 before the break.

King of Poker@Cafe de Paris

During the break, I manage to do a bit of celeb spotting. I had a chat with DJ Sassy and also notice Barny Boatman and Vicky Coren walking around but had no time to say hello as the tourney was kicking off again.

Celeb/Media Table

Bird & Greco

After the break, with blinds at 350/700 I go all in in my first two hands to pick up the blinds. A couple of new players, including the woman from the queue, had joined the table so it was a good time to do this and as a result I'd built my stack up to over 4k.

The woman two to my right had won a pot by limping in with QQ and then calling off her short stack as Kenny (who had been winning almost every race) with KJ led out with his top pair on flop and turn. That double up for her now meant that she had me covered too.

My final hand was reminiscent of how I'd been busted in a home game the night before. After 3 limpers I moved all in with AT from the BB to pick up the weak money and add 30% to my stack. My bro called with the night's lucky 33 to bust be with a flush after I'd flopped 2 pair.

Spot the woman

At the Maxim King of Poker, my final hand unfolded almost the same way. Blinds still at 350/700. Short stack goes all in for his 700, woman on the button limps-in, small blind completes. Finding 98s in the BB, I push to isolate myself with the all-in player and have a freeroll at winning 2,800 chips and almost doubling my stack. I was about 90% sure the 2 limpers would fold, but when the woman asked how much she had to call I knew it was check-mate. She turned over AA to win a big pot and bust me out in around 20th place.

McCririck & Teddy

After a drink or two and going out for a bite to eat just as Teddy Sheringham was entering the club, My two guests and I returned during the pre-final table break. The woman that had busted me had made it to the final table in great chip position.

We left just as the final table action restarted though, did the woman become the Maxim Queen of Poker?

Unfortunately not, as PsychoSi beat the woman, HulaGirl, heads-up. No deals were made and so PsychoSi (Simon Pettet) became the new Maxim King of Poker, scooping around £15,000 in prizes!

More Maxim King of Poker 2006 Photos.

May Day! May Day!

2006-05-01T11:39:00.000Z

Capsized by Brandon Adams (9th place in the Tournament of Champions 2005) last night to finish in the bubble in PokerShare's $270 WSOP Qualifier. I didn't play my ideal game at all and was punished as a result. Fish flu strikes again.

Joebob went on to win after Brandon failed to adjust his game heads-up. Final hand:

Final Results: 1st: Joebob ($13k WSOP package), 2nd: BrandonAdams ($7,250), 3rd DaMatrix: (Big Fat Zero)! When will the tide change?

Visit BrandonAdamsWeb.

Fish Flu

2006-04-29T23:33:00.000Z

My Fish Flu symptoms began on Thursday. Then, I was lacking the killer instinct needed to win. I began losing heads-up, blowing mass chip leads in the money and blinding away around the bubble - until finally, I was the bubble.

Friday was flull blown Fish Flu day. Not only was I playing below par, but Lady Luck had even deserted me at final tables costing me $17k worth of seats.

I took most of the day off today. Started playing around 8pm. Warming-up in Bugsys Round 3 by messing about, trying to shake off the Fish Flu. Seems that I am recovering as I managed to avoid the bubble in a Prima Satellite.

Watch out if you're playing at my table as you might be the next player to get a dose of the Fish Flu. You want to sleep with the fishes?

Maxim King of Poker 2006: Preview

2006-04-26T11:46:00.000Z

Just one week to go to Maxim's King of Poker 2006 Grand Final in London. I will be there to defend my title and if I bust out early the girls and booze will drown my sorrows...

Before then, I'll be trying to use up all my donkey plays before the end of the month. Lately, I've been trying to improve my game by making mistakes/choosing more risky plays in tournaments and I've learned a lot in the process.

Poker is full of secrets - a bit like women ;)

April Rivers

2006-04-19T10:35:00.000Z

April kicked-off with a lot of excitement as I had lined up a few satellites to major live tournaments.

Somehow though, I failed to qualify for the Irish Open, Irish Poker Tour, WSOP Circuit Event, Ladbrokes Nordic Challenge and Nordic Bet's Baltic Open as well as other smaller events. Just haven't had any luck at online final sats at the moment.

Donkeys

Below is an example, only 21 other players to beat for a WSOP seat and I donkeyed in at 18th. Ok, the tourney did start at 2am DaMatrix Time and with only 1,000 chips and winner take all, I gambled my game on the line with second pair/gutshot draw on a 2-str8/2-flush flop against a possible drawing hand/over pair. As it happens, my opponent had KK and I got crippled. Peege2 was the eventual winner (ICRUSHU2 claimed he already had a WSOP seat).

Got a few tournaments lined up for the last week of April, but May is crunch time.

You know what they say: April rivers bring May dollars.

April tit relief.

Strip Poker.

Happy Easter

2006-04-16T12:01:00.000Z

Ariston's STT Challenge

2006-03-27T23:13:00.000Z

Took on BadBeat's "The Ariston STT Challenge":

"On Monday 27th March between the hours of 12:00 and 16:00 GMT Ariston will play 9 seater Stt's on UncoverPoker. For every top 3 finish he will receive points :

1st 5points
2nd 3 point
3rd 1 point

During this four hour period he will keep a record of all points earnt.

The challenge is to beat Aristons score. Challengers must play on 9 seater Stt's only, with a minimum buy in of $5, speed and turbos are allowed.

Any players getting more tha 25 points will receive a free buyin to BadBeat's WSOP Tour on Wednesday 29th March. Should anyone beat Aristons score they will receive buyin to BadBeats WSOP Tour on Wednesday 05th April as well. The player with the highest score above Aristons (if any) will play Ariston heads up. Should he defeat Ariston he will get a buyin to UncoverPokers WPT final on April 8th. (Bellagio package valued at $28,000)

Players can only score between 12:00-16:00 GMT or 20:00-24:00 on Monday 25th March."

Ariston played session 1 and managed to get 40 points from 27 s&g's. (1st = 5, 2nd = 5).

I managed to start 63 s&gs in session 2, getting a total of 67 pts!.

5/3/3/6/5/3/3/4/3/6 = 5 pts
1/4/3/1/3/7/7/2/4/7 = 15 pts
4/2/5/9/3/9/4/3/5/6 = 5 pts
3/9/7/3/4/4/3/3/3/7 = 5 pts
2/1/4/6/2/3/3/2/3/3 = 18 pts
2/1/5/3/4/5/2/4/6/4 = 12 pts
3/3/1 = 7 pts

TOTAL = 67 pts

1ST = 5
2ND = 7
3RD = 21

Started off quite badly, as I was also playing a satellite on Nordic Bet which I managed to place 3/513 in, winning a $198 buyin to their Baltic Open final:

Part of the reason for taking on Ariston's challenge was that I haven't played many s&g's this year - so I thought I'd cram in as many as I could in 4 hours! As you can see, my results in the last 23 s&g's were pretty good even though I was knackered by then!!

Even managed to make a modest return overall of around 13% ROI.

**UPDATE**

Ariston convincingly beat me 2-0 in the subsequent best of 3 heads-up challenge match.

In the Nordic Bet Baltic Open Final I was card dead throughout and finished a disappointing 36/61 when my AA was busted by KK for about 23 big blinds. Top 10 qualified.

WSOP Calling

2006-03-25T23:57:00.000Z

Placed in my first attempt in BetHoldem's WSOP Memphis Basketball challenge promotional tournament. My reward is a seat in the April 20th final where 24 players will battle it out for a WSOP seat. Thanks to this, my goal of making it to Vegas this year has increased by an extra couple of %.

Elsewhere, I placed in the money in the Blogger Poker Tour's inaugural event at Poker.com. Finished 7/51 but was unlucky throughout the tournament otherwise a top 4 place and a seat in the BPT Grand Final, with a WSOP package for 1st, would have been a formality.

In Bugsy's Club monthly Round 3 $10k Final, I only managed a disappointing 64/164 finish after my preflop re-raise all-in ith QQ was called by captainNdiet with AJ who had me only slightly covered. Congrats to Fuzznucket for winning a $10k buy-in of his choice.

Bad Beat, Not

2006-03-22T23:03:00.000Z

I joined www.BadBeat.com today and played in their WSOP Tour event at Crazy Poker. Some of the best online players participated, and after losing half my stack when my bullets were cracked by JJ on the river, by thelodger, I recovered well to finish 2nd. Heads-Up I tried to push NordicStone off a hand at the first opportunity when I had him covered, unfortunately he had top pair and couldn't fold.

Congrats to NordicStone since this result made him the first WSOP Tour winner at BadBeat and won a WSOP seat for his efforts.

Before this result, I was already on high spirits today since I had won 2 satellites to two land based events' online finals in the next couple of weeks. $20,000 in packages up for grabs.

Fingers crossed!

Another $1k Seat

2006-03-19T21:56:00.000Z

Just won a second $1k+ satellite final seat for this year's WSOP at Spin Palace Poker. This time it's the $1,078 Prima Poker 7-Card Stud WSOP qualfier to be played on June 18th for a package worth $7,936.

The package would be for Event 28 ($5,000 Seven Card Stud) at Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday, July 19th 2006. Last year's winner of this event was Jan Sorenson, winning over $290k.

Seat Winner

Paint People

2006-03-17T16:58:00.000Z

King of Hearts - Charlemagne
King of Diamonds - Julius Caesar
King of Spades - King David
King of Clubs - Alexander the Great

Queen of Hearts - Judith (Heroine of Apocryphal Book of Judith)
Queen of Diamonds - Rachel (of the Bible)
Queen of Spades - Pallas (aka Minerva)
Queens of Clubs - Argine (anagram of Regina)

Jack of Hearts - La Hire (French warrior - aka Etienne de Vignoles)
Jack of Diamonds - Hector of Troy/Roland of France
Jack of Spades - Hogier the Dane (one of Charlemagne's paladins)
Jack of Clubs - Lancelot

Cheltenham 2006

2006-03-15T20:46:00.000Z

Freeroll Grand Prix Win

2006-03-14T23:34:00.000Z

My luck didn't continue on Saturday or Sunday. Had two $200+ satellites which I didn't do very well in. Winning those should have been easier than winning the weekly Freeroll Grand Prix on Stan James were I had to overcome 480 other players!

My reward? a $1,200 seat in the Prima Poker WSOP Multi Event final where the winner will walk away with a $134,000 2-month Las Vegas WSOP package! Ship it!

Freeroll GP Win

March Madness

2006-03-10T23:24:00.000Z

March has been mad so far. In February I was very consistent but his month I have been very erratic - often messing about. On Wednesday I had my biggest losing day of the year (losing 1/3 of my March profit so far) but made the loss all back yesterday.

It's been up and down like that all month really - and it is only 10 days old. I feel like a poker peasant. Whilst mateyboys are playing in great live tournaments taking place all over the world, I'm grinding out a couple of $$$$ the hard way.

So, it was a relief that just now I have qualified for the Betfair City Aces Challenge Grand Final to be held in London on my first attempt. I beat 115 other players in the first of 8 freerolls.

Heads up I thought I had blown it against the very aggressive Telepe (aka GotaFancy) from PuntersLounge.com. In the final hand, all the chips went in preflop - my pocket 6s flopping a set against Telepe's AKs flush draw. The river didn't disappoint me this time as the case 6 popped up to give me quads!

Still got it!

Got a couple of cool tournaments lined up for Saturday and Sunday - touch wood my luck will continue.

PokerHeaven $5k TV Tourney

2006-02-13T23:00:00.000Z

Today, PokerHeaven ran a special tournament with a guaranteed prizepool of $5k that will be screened on the PokerChannel (SKY - 265) on Saturday 18th of February at 10pm GMT.

I entered since the buy-in was only $30 and it had just 50 other players to beat. You may recall that PokerHeaven was where I qualified to play in Doyle Brunson's Big Deal last year. This was to be my first tournament at PH this year - and maybe my last.

Why? Well, early in the tournament the dealer button teleported position from before the flop to the flop. Take a look at the hand:

Table: $5000 TV Tournament
Started: Mon Feb 13 19:39:50 2006
XLence is at seat 1 with 4710.00
Chatter is at seat 2 with 1950.00
silverbear is at seat 3 with 1970.00
boringblok is at seat 4 with 2180.00
foudewins is at seat 5 with 1380.00
DrSarnie is at seat 6 with 1970.00
conman2 is at seat 7 with 1810.00
topdec1 is at seat 8 with 1920.00
Spit9 is at seat 9 with 1800.00
TheMatrix is at seat 10 with 1710.00 [OTB]
Chatter posts the large blind 20.00
XLence posts the small blind 10.00
topdec1: --, --
Spit9: --, --
TheMatrix: Ks, 8h
XLence: --, --
Chatter: --, --
silverbear: --, --
boringblok: --, --
foudewins: --, --
DrSarnie: --, --
conman2: --, --
Pre-flop:
silverbear: Call 20.00
boringblok: Fold
foudewins: Fold
DrSarnie: Fold
conman2: Fold
topdec1: Fold
Spit9: Call 20.00
TheMatrix: Call 20.00 [BUTTON]
XLence: Fold [SMALL BLIND]
Chatter: Check [BIG BLIND]

Flop (Board: 10d, 3c, Jd):

Spit9: Check
TheMatrix: Check [SECOND TO ACT NOT LAST!!!!]
Chatter: Check
silverbear: Check

Turn (Board: 10d, 3c, Jd, Jc):

Spit9: Check
TheMatrix: Check
Chatter: Bet 60.00
silverbear: Fold
Spit9: Fold
TheMatrix: Fold

Wasn't happy about that and changed my strategy in case the same thing happened again. Despite the teleporting button, it was for the most part an enjoyable little tourney with plenty of table banter. I was sailing along until my stack was dented by bad luck and then tightend up to make the money. At the final table, I took an early opportunity to attempt at doubling up to go for first place but didn't win the coin flip.

Tune in to the PokerChannel this Saturday at 10pm to watch DaMatrix in action! [In the meantime, have a look at this Sporting Odds advert]

Final Results

Teleporting Dealer Button Update:

Here is the response I received from PokerHeaven regarding the button moving position from preflop to flop:

"We have reviewed the game in question and can confirm there are no errors in the game play."

DaMidas Touch

2006-02-03T11:57:00.000Z

I've noticed that my luck has been rubbing off on other people, I might have to start charging a fee talk to me ;)

At the WHUPC 2005, my tip after watching his first game in the TV studio, Peter Gunnarson, went on to win. John Falconer and Simon Nowab, who I'd railbirded and had a couple of beers with in Barcelona, finished 2 and 3rd. The guy that beat me went on to cash after he turned down my offer of a little swap before our match as I felt confident that if he could beat me he would indeed go on to cash. In the 540 Euro NL, My AK got busted by A4 but Noah Boeken next to me went on to finish 5th.

Even at the Maxim King of Poker, which I won, my luck rubbed off in the queue before the event as the guy next to me who's hat I'd noticed almost ended up beating me heads-up!

VC Poker Cup 2005, and during a break, myself and Rolf Inge Kavik were the short stacks on our table. I almost offered him a swap as we both had nothing to lose. He went on to win my table and almost win the entire thing but was beaten heads-up by Tony Bloom. The only player I wished luck before their first heat, Ben Roberts, comfortably won his table and went on to finish 3rd overall.

You are getting the idea. After winning a seat to Doyle Brunson's Big Deal. I did a little coaching for my friend (who I would be taking to play Doyle) and he went on to chop his first NLHE live comp at the Broadway Casino, I would have made final table and finished high if only my AA had held up against AJ.

Paul Jackson is another player, that I met in Barcelona and VC Poker Cup, for which the now legendary DaMatrix luck had rubbed off on - he went on to finish second at the Monte Carlo Millions.

Next, coached my bro to second place at the Sun Poker Championship. I organised all the travel, accomodation etc and when all you gotta do is play the cards you really can't lose!

At the Blonde Poke Bash, I had a vision of Simon Trumper winning and wished him luck just before the final table. He went on to win. NoflopsHomer who busted me, finished in the bubble. After busting me though, I had a snack with him during the dinner break and told him about a great value tournament that would take place the next day - the 32Red Poker Masters. I'm looking at the names registered before it starts, and see his name there. I'm already worried that he'll win and I didn't do a swap lol.

I get off to a great start, and I'm not out of the top 15 for about an hour, I'm pretty focused and I feel good about at least cashing. But then NoflopsHomer gets moved to my table and I lose focus as we start talking in the chat. I'm playing another table at this point and almost down to final table - I end up crashing out of both comps within a short period of space of each other.

No happy at losing focus like that, I log off and take a break. I then decide that I might as well support NoflopsHomer and railbird him to victory. I join just after he busted someone with the powerful 47 (the Blonde Poker community's signature hand). The signs are very good and at the final table, after I ask him how his heads-up was (implying that I think he'll win and to get ready to switch to h/u gear) he steam rolls into first place.

Finally, a couple of weekends ago I was out in Cheltenham and lately I have been wearing a PokerStars cap after a long spell of UB and Expekt. Next day, who goes on to win over $100,000 in the big Sunday PokerStars tournament? A player from Cheltenham!

If you've been running bad, who you gonna call?

Da-Matrix!

Italiani leader anche nel poker

2006-01-17T18:23:00.000Z

Blonde Poker Bash

2006-01-07T23:59:00.000Z

I almost didn't go to the first ever Blonde Poker Bash at the Broadway Casino in Birmingham as I had been sick for the previous 2 days but I wrapped up in a warm coat and scarf and brought my new silver rabbit card protector with me for luck!

I'd been to the Broadway a couple of times before and new that the Blonde Forum members who hadn't been there before would be instantly impressed. It was my first visit since Dik9 had left and his absence was clearly felt. I'd like to thank him for getting this event off the ground but it was a great shame that he was unable to attend. I read on another thread that I was one of his picks at 33/1 - I think he meant to lay in my condition!

Made a great first impression when I almost burned Tightend's hand off with a cigarette as he was handing my name badge to me in the presence of Tikay aka Grandad (Tony Kendall). Just before the comp started I also saw a pic of Aces (Simon Trumper) in Poker Europe for winning a 30 euro tourney in Paris - I got a vision of him winning again and that instantly made him favourite in my book to win.

I started on table 11 seat 4, 9 people on the table with Red Dog (Tom McCready) in position 9. The only 2 other people I noted where some kid with a WPT Bellagio cap showing off with chip trix and Rookie9 who I'd seen talking to Gambler21 so I gathered he might have a few moves - when you see the name "Rookie" you gotta watch out!

The table was quite tight, I don't thing Red Dog won a hand for over 4 orbits until he stole some blinds. He had to undo his "$$$" imprinted yellow tie. The WPT kid was playing confidently and there were one or two Gus Hansen wannabe's trying to lose their cips. It was a double chance, and the WPT kid was the only player that took the option for the add on at the start. That's normally an optimal decision and a tip off that he thought he was the best player at the table - that's all you need sometimes. I decided to blend in and be non threatening instead since the table was tight anyway - 2,500 chips were ample.

Our table was one of the first to be broken up and I got moved to a more mature table. The first hand that I get at my new table is AA and I eliminate MalcM, melting his snowmen. I now take my add-on option and reach the break with 8,000 chips. After the break I lose about 2k of it to Ace2mouth trying to steal a pot.

With the blinds increasing every 20 minutes, we were already at 600/1,200. Paresh moves all in and I find JJ in the small blind, after a dwell I pass. Mel Lofthouse can't believe I passed, while Paresh says he had JJ too. He moves all in the next hand too and then again utg with K7s which he shows after every one folds - I'm now regretting my earlier fold lol. In early position I find TT and move all in for 4700 with the blinds still at 600/1200. Folded round to Paresh who dwells and then folds, the table chip leader NoflopsHomer calls the 4100 from the small blind with 66, BB folds. I'm busted by 666

Felt a bit sorry for the WPT kid who just missed out on the money and NoFlopsHomer who ended up as the bubble boy. I don't think anyone that has ever knocked me out of a live comp has gone on to win unless it was heads up! - remember that! Nevertheless, it was great to watch ActionJack (Paul Jackson) and Simon Trumper still in the comp and I congratulated Aces on a great comeback during a short break. Didn't wanna jinx him so I didn't tell him about my vision about him winning it lol

Meanwhile, The Edge (Simon Nowab) was trying to play h/u drunk but still drinking out of a bottle of Bollinger and someone was chatting up El Blondie (Dave Colclough)'s wife unaware of who she was! With the main comp down to 8 players, I entered the last blonde STT. Royal Flush (James Dempsey) wanted to play but wasn't on the list, but in true Blonde spirit we all agreed to let one more fish play and so we started with 11 players and 1,000 chips each.

Sitting in seat 4, the first and second player to get knocked out where in seat 1 and seat 2 respectively. IFM in seat 3 had other plans though and didn't want to follow the trend. I almost literally folded my way to the money level on chips with Royal Fish but IFM with about 80% of the chips. IFM then busted the fish and first hand h/u I was all in blind, losing and finishing runner-up. A well deserved win for IFM.

Who became Blonde Champ? - Aces of course!

DaPokerStars: A - Z

2006-01-02T18:00:00.000Z

The A-Z of Who's Who on PokerStars:

#1_Lucky_One - Phil Hellmuth
#1PEN - Peter Neff
$saxo$ - Karsten Johansen
$urebet - Ted Spencer
-BBJ- - Ben Sprengers
10avefrezout - Scott Wanzer
1oneriverrat - Scott Harms
1Ryu - Dario Alioto
21paul21 - Paul Phillips
2a472 - Phillip Bass
3moany - Jonas Ovestad
4KingAceHole - Sam Grizzle
55Lucky55 - Spiro Mitrokostas

AawwNutz - Roy Carter
abc2000 - Peter Mairhofer
acesfull23 - Bryan Bevis
Acey-Deucey - Dennis Longoria
ackbleh - Steve Day
acpro - Pat McCarthy
actiondonkey - Jim "Minneapolis" Meehan
ACTIONJACK1 - Paul Jackson
Acunningham - Allen Cunningham
adamx - Adam Schoenfeld
adanthar - Serge Radushkevich
adgator - Andrew Dykeman
Aguskb - Aaron Gustavson
alaw911 - Andrew Lawlor
Algernonned - Trevor Diks
alh3 - Adrien Herr
allin2k5 - Marcus Bower
am888 - Carmy Banin
AmazingGrace - Steve Zolotow
amishdriveby - David Ring
anakinso - Mike Goodman
AndreasH - Andreas Hagen
Andy134 - Andrew Booker
AnGlen - Ansel Glendenning
antyfreez - Yaron Wasserman
AppSt2004 - Joe Harwell
area23JC - J.C. Tran
ariesone - Howard Riley
artoface - Brian Nadell
Astrolux85 - Brent Roberts
asuna_11 - Kelly Lange
atlantic17 - Jacek Ladny
AuroraKT - Kevin Tennant
autoduelfool - Philip White/Jay Goldenberg
Axabaxa - Alexander Cooper

babeee - Anne Schoendorff
BadAtThis - April Zwick-Friedman
BadLarry - Lawrence Frye/Anders Rosander
Baffa - Johan Backfjard
Bamboo100 - Paul Maxfield
batoelrob - Rob Hollink
bajeezes - Tod Skarecky
Barron5 - Dwayne Ronson
BATI99 - Bret Atiyeh
Bauer44 - Dustin Bauer
bbaced - Ryan Walters
beanie - Paul Nobles
bebert004 - Samy Boulheouchat
BeepCS - Brian Shimek
Believer82 - Jeremiah Vinsant
berka - Daniel Bergsdorf
bigbrains - Brett Hamburger
bigfish729 - Eirik Kolaas
biggies05 - Sean Johnson
bigglesworth - Thomas "Thunder" Keller
bighearted - Tammy Rocco
bigpaddy - Patrick Whiting
bigsinc - Birgir Gudmundsson
BIGSLICKNG - Michael Terrel
Bigslicks3 - Broc Segura
Bill Ivey - Lee Money
Billiam_CDN - William Fitzpatrick
billybobx - Bill Rector
BillyBones - William Brennan
billygoatgrf - Jonathan Sanger
bingobent - Anders Kuhl
birdguts - Gavin Smith
BKLaw - Natan Wager
bl0wback - Hugh Kirton
blazing44 - Alex Beresford
Blessed - John Duthie
blkjck - Ryan Skluzab
Blotzilla - Gordon Cross
Bluesbr0ther - Thomas Madsen/(Salvadore Cataldo?)
Blumfeld - Henning Frick
Bob&TomShow - Derek Dix
BobbaD - Dan Bobba
BobbysBabe2 - Robert Skanes
bogey54 - Brad Kondracki
boilingfish - Rob Berryman
bossen - Andre Fossmark
bottsky - Kevin Bott
Boxclock - Stephen Krex
braveyoyo - Yarom Limor
BreakRibs - James Kilarjian
Brett Favre - William Jensen
brianbeeper - Brian Baris
brocklanders - Todd Jones
broksi - Gus Hansen
bsly79 - Jason Beasley
buck21 - Shawn Buchanan
bulld0g4life - Lindell Coker
bulletproof - Bruce Yamron
Bumperenos - Bill Munley
BUNGALOWBILL - Paul Vicary
Bunsen - Matt Mortensen
Burnley Joe - Joe Geraghty
Bushman - Chris Bush
Buster Love - Mark Seif
Butch Acidy - Joe Cassidy

C.K. - Christian Kruel
cafeblue - Frank Borg
cajunsqueeze - Ed Pelegrine
capnncoke - Chip Jett
Caradoc - David Wilkins
carallen - Chad Runkle
Carlos_DK - Rehne Pedersen
carlspacker - Chris McIntytre
carnivex - John Loftus/Robert Fairs
Carteio - Raul Oliveira
CasinoFun - Eric Karr
CASINOICE - Brynjar Valdimarsson/Mar Sverrisson
Cattaneo - Adam Stormwind
cbunger - Craig Bunger
centgas - Paul Coles
Chelsea16 - James Goodman
Chemovs - Jerome Douieb
ChicagoSlims - Mike Kleinstub
chickenlittl - Shawn Keller
chief525 - Jeffrey King
Chino23 - David Rheem
Chips7911 - Ray Johnston
chipsjn - Jeff Nairin
chizzer - Christopher Szuchy
ChosenKid - Greg Debora
CHUFTY - Richard Ashby
chump - Troy Reed
clarkaoo - Thomas Mathiesem
collins3 - Stuart Fox
colson10 - Carl Olson
CooperD - Jeff Nosek Patterson/William Rockwell
copi - Bernd Stadlbauer
crankyman - Tim Ramsey
crazyplayer - Barry Greenstein/Mimi Tran
csonka39111 - Jeff Eggenburg
cstu82 - Shawn Stewart
cuckmaker - Jared Davis/Stacee Evans
cunningplan - Richard Piper
curzdog - Patrick Curzio

d'Amphoux - Michel "Mike" d'Amphoux
D-Rockkk - Paul Darden
Dabest247 - Davin Andersson
Daleroxxu - Dale Philip
dam_straight - David Miller
Dan Druff - Todd Witteles
DanHartman - Daniel Hartman
danistheking - Dan Carter
danny boy 14 - Dan Burns
dannythekid - Matt Hawrilenko
danxxx1 - Dan Nassif
DaProfessor - Brady Davis/Miguel Olillares
Dark Swan - Arul Sivaguru
Darrell77 - Darrell Dicken
Darth Maul - Nicholas Fradet
dass - Mikael Nilsson
Davethebest - David Tavernier
dawns7up - Dawn Marshall
dblgutshot - Gregory Alston
DBLMEUPPLS - Jason Levine
deadmeatRB - Richard Belle
Decision - Jon Hansmeyer
deek2122 - James Ennis
DeOhGee - Joseph Cordi
Demon1 - Pri Hallan
den&vic - Dennis Orr
derek7 - Michael Collins
DerSpringer - Patrick Grothuesmann
Dflawless - Dewey Archer
Dgrimreaper - Leslie Kerrigan
Diamond Dave - Dave Veitch
DingDingDing - Raymi Sanchez Thorn
dirtyguy - Yaser Al-Keliddar
dinodapro - Dmitri Nobels
DiscoDD - David Davies
djslash - Larry Wagner
DLOPT - David Layani
dmmikkel - Dag Martin Mikkelsen
docbaby - Richard Lloyd Behl
Dogger9 - Bernard Lee
dolfan - Carmen Marino
Doli - Marcin Doliwa
Donald - Anders Berg
donfairplay - Donald Craig
donttap - Jay Canowitz
Dosenpfand - Thomas Vinas
doubleas - Scott Gallant
DOUBLEDUCE - Paul Wolfe
doublesuited - Daniel Negreanu
downtheline - Jim Hamburger
dpommo - David Pomroy
drc4982 - Tim Lipinski
DrewM - Trish Forrestall
DrPauly - Paul McGuire
DSGDale - Dave Greenleaf
DuckU - Greg Hobson
Dud711 - Rob Chasen
DuggaYowski - Travis Brennan

EasyH - Hoyt Corkins
eat@theY - Dennis Bray
ebolivia - Edward Moncada
Echoniko - Niko Vastamaki
EDOGN - Erick Lindgren
eirivi - Erik Villand
El_Loco_Solo - James Courtney
El Blondie - Dave Colclough
El Capitano - Marcel Luske & Noah Boeken
eleint - Peter Provaznik
ElkY - Bertrand Grospellier
empress58 - Aliza Broude
emptyseat88 - Scott Fischman
Enon - Lee Goldman
erbloore - Eric Bloore
Erdnase - Jan Heitmann
ericppp - Eracles Panayiotou
erguon love - Phil Ivey
EvelcyclopS - Arran Keable
evybabee - Evelyn Ng
Exclusive - Noah Boeken
Exitonly4 - Ray Coburn
extempore - Paul Phillips

fangs22 - Kevin Fangerow
Farune - Frank Silverstein
FAtALBuLLeT - Shawn Silber
Federal - Igor Trafan
fedlos - Ted Lawson
feeltheglee - Gilbert Lee
FellKnight - Jordan Devenport
feurinho - Markus Feurle
fezzig - Lee Budin
fidallio - Joe Sebok (Greenstein's son)
First Ward - Frank Russomano
FishLips - Seth Eisner
Fixedset - James Jordan
flashbadger - Graham Clarkson
flopit20 - Brian Wilson
flushthecat. - Brook Lyter
FlyingPig73 - James Doran
forkpens - Dan Kaplan
Fossilman - Greg Raymer
Fougan - Thomas Fougeron
FoxyLisa - Peter Eichhardt

G6Dragon - Johnathan Lane
gaamblor - Joe Pelton
Galaxy 500 - Greg Teed
gambler21 - Anders Henriksson
GambleAB - Aaron Bartley
gank - Brett Jungblut
gapoker63 - Robert Daniel
gator93 - Frank Hernandez
gatormark - Mark Hanna
geneticfreak - David Erickson
geocom - George Commander
georgeman88 - Igor Golovin
GigaBet - Darrell Dicken
gizzimow - John Michael Gale
GKD326 - George Kell Dickson
Go Deacs - Ron Gibson/Ron Smith
GOLDBRICK56 - Phillip Sears
Goonboy - Jason Hahn
gotmilk - Richard Grijalva
Gouge - J.C.Welgemoed/Justin Foster
Grandblue - Mattia Daverio
GreasyTony - Mark Hylden
GreenMan - Ken Moss
groupco - Ashkay Kumar
GSpin - Greg Spinder
gunduwarrior - Andrew
Gunslinger3 - David Bach
Gurre - Jonas Molander ?
Gusti.is - Gustaf Bjornsson
gwchater - Alan Hance
Gyr1 - Harinam Khalsa

H@££ingol - Oren Halling
hafe - John Haefele
HALIPIMP - Cory Campbell
halp1 - Michael Halprin
Hamman - Paul Redmon
Hammerinick - Nick England
Hangman - Paul Roper
hard$ - Frederick M. Ammon
Hardway Hank - Hank Sitton
hawk22 - Jim Hagan
hawkeye0808 - Barry M. Schwartz/Brett Bezotte
Heavy Sho' - Ryan Shore
HelmetSky - Boaz Lavie
HeppHepp - Per Marki
herschelw - Jerry Watterson III
hervattin - Trond Manger
hh1689 - Michael Woo
hickoryhill - Joe Vannata
Higgins43 - Michael Higgins
hitecdeck - Declan Barker
Holdem_NL - Tom Dwan
holdem2000 - Jonathan Senn
HoldEmPhil - Eric Fithian
Homer03 - (Anthony) Don Fagan aka Kalooki Don
HooBangin - Aaron Haw
Hoogmeister - Robert Hutchins
Hoss_TBF - Baker Jamil Abdallah
Hubyone - Hubert Attali
Hugefish2888 - Manlee Wan

I_Tilt_You - Ilari Sahamies
iansmitty - Ian Smith
ICfishies - John Harper
IgnatiusJ - Alex Balandin
igorfederal - Igor Trefane
ijsj2003 - Iwan Jones
Irishlust - Tony Mucci
Ironside - Alistair Fowler
Ironwine79 - Tim Eagle
Iweedmanl - Donald Hill

j1hubbs2h - Jeff Hubberman
J9 of Clubs - T.J. Cloutier
j.pizza - Olaf Thorson
jackbileduct - Todd
jacksup - Matt Matros
Jacques_xxx - Carlos Mortensen ?
JAMAPLAYS - John Harrington
jamesy - James Goldstein
jan c 59 - Charlie Curtis
japaneezer - David Carthy
jaxtraw - Peter Falk
JBabel - Jarrod Babel
JCamby - James Campbell
Jcastle - Desmond Portano
jdags21 - John D'Agostino
jec79 - Joseph Chee
Jenna Fan - Nadejda Abelli
jennicide - Jennifer Leigh
jerrod - Jerrod Ankenman
jesmo5 - Jessie Moore
JESUSITO YLO - Jesus Abreu
Jimmtogni - Nate Kelley
joe buttons - Phil Ivey
JoeyTrip - Mike Joyce
Johnny Bax - Cliff Josephy
johnnyv5000 - John Vellios
Johnster - Stephen Jones
jonnym_NY - Jon Minick
jtsandwich - Jefferey Taylor
jugman - Henrik Kask
juker1 - John Nakatani
JvilleWhip - Adam LaBare
jwblack100 - Arnold Blenner
jwvdcw - Assani Fisher

K_Rose - Kyle Rose
kagesen - Klaus Agesen
kamuflaza - David Juhart
KarlSpackler - Derek Van Damme
KD1970 - Keith Donais
kdhspyder - Robert Fogarty
kdw - Kim Wittendorff
KeishasCaddy - Scott Sheridan
kenydalglish - Dave Colclough
kgbs nutz - Ray Uy
Kid31 - Steve Amer
KidBlaast - Ray Campbell
KidDoc - Dave Smith
KidDutch - Dutch Boyd
kidfrmtenn - Mike Halford
KidpokerJD - Johnathan Dull
kidwonder - Jason Lane
killa187 - Ahmed Al-Bassam
Kinboshi - Daniel Phillips
kirillG - Kirill Gerasimov
Klinsmann18 - Aleksander Strandli
kmac13 - Kevin McCarthy
known - Anders Williadsen
Kodie - Greg Severson
Koop78 - Brian Kooperman
KrazyKanuck - James Worth
krex - Greg Kiempisty
kruzer - Steve Fetterman
KURN - Richard DiLonardo
kwob20 - Kyle Bowker

lampedusa - Xavier Lascalles
larsenrw - Bob Larsen
Lauren Elise - Simon Galloway
LavaDrake - Eric Zabek
lbfresh - Lon Balter
ledstudent - Rob Lederer
lenny - Dan Heimiller
lirarerik - Erik Friberg
live4yng - Michael Young
llbilly - Bill Crouch
Looptroop - Daniel Larsson
Loosehal - Harold MacDonald
LosersWin - Richard Gregory
Loss Vegas - Endre Eikeseth
Lost City - Todd Manzi
lotsoaces - Leon F Locklear/Steven Shankman
LuckBox - John Juanda
Lucky Blind - Mike Lacey
LuckyLady519 - Michael Banducci
luckysod - Noel Pearce
luckysucker - Hans "Tuna” Lund
luckyTC - Tobias Christiansen
LUHMAN - Chris Martin
LURPED - Markus Gonsalves
LXIXME17 - Brian Hansen
lynseywarner - Leon Rossiter

M_Croft - Mike Croft
MAD M3 - Arshad Hussain
Madam X - Gianna Gragnani
MadMonster - Tom Clark
Mafews - Rory Mathews
magicpitch - David Benyamine
malibu44 - Leonard Lawrence
manny - John Manchon
march11x - Marcelo Colosimo
Mariachi - Allan Dyrstad
Marian - Marcin Meinardi
mariolo - Mario Zeledon
MarkDShark - Mark Seif
markos aces - Marko Juncaj
Martingales - Martin Segal
MaryBeth - Eric Kettner
Master_Maria - Martin Laliberte
mattpackage - Matt Dean
mattymillne - Matthew Milne
MaxellD - Leonardo Feinzaig
Mazak14 - Mats Rahmn
MazeOrBowie - Jesse Martin
McGee - Matt Treasure
mct119 - Matthew Turner
melikman - Ara Melikian
melonhead - Kenneth Maust
Meranti - Jogvan K. Glerfoss
mercedez - Isabelle Mercier
MGCAPRI - Mark Garner
mgv2004 - Oscar Mariano Gonzalez
mickeyriv - Ray Ticsay
micon - Bryan "The Icon" Micon
MightyCanes - Mark Craves
miiine - Shawn Morrison
Mike the Hoon - Mike Comer
mikef777 - Michael Foster
Mikos - Michael Lawrence
milkybarkid - Ben Grundy
minatmms - Tam "Tommy" Hang
Miros - William (Bill) Purle
missvicky - Danny Walker
mitchman1114 - Mitch Schock
MIXA - Massov Cohen
MJCACE - Michael Carlson
MK12 - Michael Kilgore
MKKMOO - James Dempsey
mlabbe22 - Marlon Labbe
mman_status - Michael Meredith
MobMentality - Oliver Fink
mockahai - Michael McClain
modelx - John Whitlock
Mojo99 - Joseph Lang
moledaddy - Paul Greim
Monge Toot - John Loftus/Robert Fairs
Mooknows - Jim Morris
moon - Jesus Abreu
Money800 - Chris Moneymaker
moneyman29 - Jeff DeHaven
monk-dogg - Casey McCarrel
montagu77 - Robert Ingoldby
Monty3 - Shane Bartholomew
Mr5Million - George Draper
Mr.Lucky - Ray Henson
Mr.Wrong - Michael Hogbom
MrBlini - Byron Shock
MrCoco - Julian Gardner
mrpokejoke - Mike Matusow
mrrain - Jeff Banghart
MrSmokey1 - Steve Billirakis
Mrs. Solid - Eddy Perez
Muppetshow - Stuart Beaton
mydenise - Clemente Castracucco
Mysterwit - David Pullen
mysticaces - Jason Gola

nairobi - Colin Thomson
nativefrog - Karl Carter
NeverheebX - Dan Bobba
neverlose - James Kwon
neverwin - Dustin Woolf
neyek - Abdulaziz Abdulaziz
nibluck - Art(hur) Blanda
Nicklas70 - Niclas Gustafsson
ninewins - Mike Pino
No Leaks - Richard Scott Pipe
nobbyhayes - Kevin Hayes
Nofoldit - Chad Deschene
NoMercy - Isabelle Mercier
NotACmputr - Chris Argento
nt65 - Nhut Tran
nutboy1 - Darryl Dare
Nytorget - Johan Storakers

Oakplayer - Evan Schwartz
ob1knob - Larry Silk
ODYSSES - Ferit Gabriellson
offthenuts - Ben Johnson/Brian Cospolich
OLDstyleNL - Klemi Hagag
Omega74 - Thomas Lindgren
onepocketpro - Simon Young
org45 - Jorgen Kjervol
orian_sharp - Chris Bane
OrieM - Orrill Martin
OscarF - Oscar Fred
Ozgal - Marsha Waggoner
Ozzy 87 - Aurangzeb Sheikh

p10ker - Gary "The Choirboy" Jones
paigedunn - Corey Mandell
Panella86 - Jordan Berkowitz
PancakeBoy - Dan Yi
panrains - Matt Hoagland
PateK - Simon "Aces" Trumper
Patman - Patrick Antonius
PATNITROF - Patrick Fortin
patrissimo - Patri Friedman
pechorin - Leo Wolpert
peckle - David Mgyuen
PECSC - Paul Snead
Pehtoori - Sami Siltanen
pens66 - Alistair Melville/Sirous Modivi
PGA71 - Pete Athansoulis
phidelt799 - Kyle Finn
PhilAlbo - Philippe Albert
philledingue - Phillippe Boucher
PICKLED EGG - Dan Harrington ??
piledriver91 - Robert Jones
Pilf - Antony Wolsey
Piquette - Jean-Phillippe Piquette
pjfff - Paul Fisher
PJWGUNIT - Pete Wawak
plattsburgh - Matt Vengrin
play4pay - Steve Zoine
plumberpat - Scott Gray
Pmackid - Patrick McCann
PMJackson21 - Patrick Jackson
Pnut - Lee Briscoe
pojai - Leopold Chow
Poker Snoopy - Millie Shiu
pokerhands - Chuck Agnew
pokerlee - Lee Pierce
pokertrip - Jon Friedberg
Pokerstud - Erez Savion
Pokeyman - Steve Murphy
PolPolPol - Argyris Argyrou
Pool_shark_1 - Sumit Kumar
Popper - Pat Johnson
Pops 528 - Robert Matos
ppthebandit - Pascal Perrault
Prefontaine - Prahlad Friedman
Premier - Maros Lechman
prestoet - Paul White
PrinceCharls - Mark Banin
profpolo - Nick Montuori
psykokwak - Bruno Fittusi
Pub1755 - Dan Cormier
PuertoKid - Daniel Roth
Puffies - Jeff Manning
pumpmaster - Duncan Bell
Punkfloyd - John Conroy
Purr of Aces - Derek Morris
PW756 - Pat Walsh
pwr14224 - Patrick Reichmuth

Qdog223 - Casey Quinn/Gregory Ashburn
qprman - Stephen Little
QT576 - Quan Tran
Quackers - Andrew Prock
quadducks - Jacob Spelman
Quantum - Tom Shaneberger
quaribravo - Armando Perrone
Quetzalcoatl - Thomas Brandt ?
Quillan - Quillan Nagel
Quister - Matthew Rosenquist

Rabscuttle - Steve Cowley
Raconteur - Richard Gryko
Ragde - Edgar Skjervold
ragingbull81 - Gavin Hammans
raiders42 - Alen Patatanyan
raisemaster - Halldor Sverrisson
Razorbax - Josh Arieh
rbutan - Radu Butan
RChan5 - Raymond Chan
realsass - Thomas Sasso
redbaron590 - Niall McNamara
redrumxxx - Morten Sembach
reggiman - Michael Reed
remedialskil - Steve Kerman
reloadthis - Layne Flack
Rolodinero - Rod Donnino
Reraiseallin - Nikhil Persaud
rhea-n-lana - Rhea Clevenger
Ribs - Graham Ribchester
Rike14 - Risto Ponnio
Rizen - Eric Lynch
rkl2226 - Ronnie Kincaid
RockyWaters - Tom Egan
Robroy - Rob Lumb
ron dogg - Ron Winnegar
ROONEY_DIVES - Daniel Bolton
Rosebudd - Vaughn Sandman
RoundTower - Dave Murray
RugDoctor - David Williams
Rustyrust - Rusty Roth
rynofan23 - Jared Kuykendall
rzitup - Mike O'Malley

sacrifice - Graeme Harrison
saintclarky - Eric Clarke
SamENole - Matt Smith
saphire1 - John Shipley
Sarne - Sarne Lightman
savemyskin - Chris Fargis
scammer - James Paluszek
schaefer - Brandon Schaefer
schnizeltoe - Matt Keikoon
scossett - Spencer Cossette
Scottf75 - Scott Moore
scrapper41 - Greg Fondacaro
scsuhockey10 - Bob Lauria
sculby - Sal Calandra
Sdouble - Josh Scheln
seaanchor - Reuben Peters
SelimTheGrim - S. Osman/Tom Ohlsen
Senor_Sock - Nicholas Matala
serb2127 - Nenad Medic
Shaniac - Shane Schleger
sheets - Eric Haber
Shinomori - Andreas Larsson
Shooter D - Dale Hunsucker
Showbizzzz - Brian Gass
Shrubluv - Scott Bush
ShuMoney - Kevin Kaikao
Shytalk - John P. Eadie
sichair - Eric Wall
sickboy6 - Vaughan Machado
sideshowgil - Mark Gilbert
siina - Mika Paasonen
Siren - Shirley Rosario
Sittingin123 - Luciano Giustini
skaand - Andrzej Skawinski
skins81 - Stanley Boralsky
skullchips - Michael Leahy
Slambam2 - Tim Spake
slammedfire - Clayton Mozdzen
slee95 - Sherman Lee
slyther2 - Ryan Ottele
smarx - Steve Marx
smokingjoep - Joep Durkstra
smurfla - Mark Smyriski
Sooners - Russ Floyd
sorerichard - Jake Minter
SouFlamengo - Hugo de Carvalho
soundgarden4 - Kevin Matten
spankme - Chris Jenkins
spetsern - Age Spets
SPORTCARDS - Kevin Betsill
sportfreak - Russ Prentice
SPURS79 - Max Ward
Spyder44 - Jim Misiti
stabbyfoulke - Peter Brainard
StackChipz71 - Cuong Do
StanDman - Stanley Statkiewicz
steamraise - Daniel Alaei
stelladora - Chad Brown
steveinhants - Steve Lacey
stevejpa - Steve Paul-Ambrose
steveo72 - Steve Vassilaros
stevesbets - Steven Jacobs
stevestar - Steve Day
steyr_aug - Albert Alshamn
stiff - Chris Ellison
stikit - David Plastik
stoogster - Stewart Brown
str8frushe - Robert K. Schnelle
strassa2 - Jason Strasser
stroker352 - Rob Bowers
suckoutqueen - Vanessa Selbst
Suffolk Punch - Simon Young
Sugar D - David Zeitlin
sugar teddy - Teddy Tuil
suitedaces - Matt Szynazek
super ninja - Terrence Ding
Super Ron - Ron Blount
Surrey Rock - Harry Fitzpatrick
Svend sværd - Martin Wendt
swirly - Greg Blau

t soprano - Andrew/Brock Parker
taktloss47 - Sebastian Ruthenberg
talonchick - Adrienne Rowsome
taqtiX - Thorkell Thordarson
TavistD - Evan Dahl
TBohms - Thomas Bohmer
tdrot - Tom Drotleff
tdw9750 - Thadd Wolff
technologic - Doug Kim
Temel55 - Vladimir Temelkovski
texdaddy - Cory Saunders
TexP - Scott Pfeffer
The Anvil - Michael Luber
The Camel - Keith Hawkins
THE CUBE - Rumit Somaiya
The Grinder - Michael Mizrachi
The Hood - Jason Grey
The PkrRoach - Michael Winter
The Salesman - Michael Westerlund
The Shrike - Jeff Henry
the tree - Patric O'Connor
The Whacker - Garry Bush
The Wombat - Leo Boxall
The13thWhale - Mike Cordell
TheBeat - Pete Giordano
thebookie - Allen McLean
TheCleaner11 - Jorryt van Hoof
TheCount1729 - Gautam Rao
TheDon5156 - Chris Lowrie
thedonator - Stuart Paterson
TheGrrrr... - Guillaume Patry
TheHawk - Patrick Hocking
TheKid1948 - Larry Prugh
TheLegacy IV - Michael Elbert
TheLife - Nick Eisel
theprofess - Ted Forrest
TheRedBaron - Christopher Comely
TheTakeover - Nick Schulman
thewinner - James Copeland
Thorpedo - Robert Keating
Tidle Wave - Aaron Katz
Tigerma - Hieu Ngoc "Tony" Ma
TIJO - Alex Brenes
TiLLerMan - Iain Girdwood
Todzila - Todd Thomas
tollamus - Thomas Grundy
TomMcEvoy - Tom McEvoy
Tomstra - Tom Straathof
toocharming - Brian Vaughan
TOPARED - David M. Bailey
Tpikahna - Anthony Peroni
travdawgks - Travis Garrod
Tryangle - Gary Lent
Tune - Tune Seidelin
Twichie - Charles Wey
twin-caracas - Jorge Arias
TWINKIE - Liz Lieu
Two Ones - Jonathan Shecter

Ufearme44 - Brian Fanning
ugabevo - Kevin Shackelford
ulieudie - Alan White
unassigned - Terrence Chan
unglee - Ung Lee

van h - Bruce M. Van Horn/2
varment/varmint - Rob O'Brien/Rick Lowe
Veganboy - Theodore Park
vegassami - Sam Seegars
Vegassk2005 - Stephen Koblos
vesap - Vesa Pitsinki
VikingVII - Mark Guttormsen
vinny_vegas1 - Vince Martignetti
Virus1975 - Jarl Lindholt
VixxWater - Rocky Parker
vogman42 - Eric Vogman
Voodoo - Johan Kretz

Wader - Wade Graham
wallfly - Alan Cunningham
waveball - Will Walter
wchen - William Chen
Wee Stinker - Andy Richmond
WestTexasMan - Shawn Rice
William - William Thorson
willy-rugs - Will 'Willy-Will' Failla
windough - Steph Klempner
wineguytx - Chuck Barnes
WINNER'circl - Steve Tague
WinstonS - David Lundberg
who's bad - Robert Mizrachi
Who is next - Noah Boeken ?
whojedi - Jay Newnum
whoodat77 - David Taylor
winkyboy2 - Andy Winkett
Wooote - Olivier Daenincke
wraptduck - Tony G
wsop2005 - Gavin Griffin

Xerxes757 - Edward Ihre
xkngdcex - Nathan Zabala
xmrstyle - Scott Bohlman
XXJohnXXL - John Letts

yaaaflow - Jeff Johanson
yahtzem - Alex Jacob
yellowhat - Gabriel Nassif
yellownape - Phil Myers
yellowsub86 - Jeff Williams
yosi_ben - Yosi Benbenisti
youssepe - Yousif Massoudnia
Yun-Harla - Steven Greenberg
yuri de haan - Yuri ten Bokkel

zachary muk - Henry Wilcox/William R. Swenson
ZeeJustin - Justin Bonomo
ZeemJr - James Holland
zelolo - Jose Arenstein
zohar72 - Jay Goldberg
zqxjk - Grant Sbrocco
Zukertort - Kevin Shutt