Monday Morning

Morning all,

Hope you all had a good weekend and a profitable one. Firstly I have noticed that Carl (Mandylou on Betfair forum) guessed the holder of the arse and posted it on the forum. It was Deejay (Dave Wells)and my clue was meant to be a little cryptic (spinning and records = Deejay). Ill have £20 shipped over to him later today. Thats one of the other things I like about IPoker is that you can transfer money to people.

On the Poker side of things I didnt play much over the weekend as I spend most of my time with the family at weekends but with the little I did play I ended up £300 down. I am going through one of those sick runs at the moment where I keep running KK into aces and losing all the vital races at the wrong time. I am not worried about this as it happens to us all and will blitz it later today so hopefully will turn these losses into a profit.

Most of my time at the weekend was taken up with putting up the outside Christmas lights. We are one of those mad group of people who go mad with the outside decorations at Christmas so it all takes time to do. There is a lot of satisfaction with the end result though and the neighbourhood love it and my two boys (6 and 8) love it as well and as they still believe it makes it worthwhile. Its not finished yet but will be ready for the big switch on in 2 weeks time. I will post a picture on here of the end result so you can all criticise me for being a sad bastard.

Well Betfair in their infinite wisdom have decided to ban me now from the Betfair forum. In one respect I cant really blame them as I was getting a little spammy with my references to I Poker and to this Blog but in my opinion they could have gone about it in a better way. It was a little silly really as I have access to about 7 accounts on there where I am able to post so its hardly going to stop me. I am going to put a statement on there later as I feel its important that everyone knows why I left them and the underlying facts.

I think in previous posts I explained my history in Poker and I think most people were aware of my loyalty to Betfair. I used to play on the site all of the time and never played anywhere else and part of this reason was because I had a good relationship with most of the head staff there and they did look after me from time to time. When Bruce Stubbs took over the site got worse and worse especially for myself. The multis I enjoyed playing were being cut and the stts were not filling. There were also lots of underlying issues such as the use of prop players that I didnt like. I mailed Betfair at least 12 times trying to put ideas to them and even offering to do Brucies job for him but all was to no avail. I asked what improvements were being made before I decided to go and to that there was no answer. I really tried to communicate and just could not get an answer and I can tell you for a fact that a lot of the head staff there feel the same was as me. Bruce done a crap job end of and in my opinion has taken the site backwards and is the one to blame for their ultimate demise.

I have no regrets leaving Betfair and am now playing on a site where I can get all the games that I want when I want and with the the bonuses and loyalty discounts dont lose anything from rake in fact it works out more. I feel really sad about the forum ban though as all they had to do was give me a buzz and ask if I could refrain from spamming which I must admit I was doing or at least give me a warning. I havent heard a single word from them though all I knew was I went to post and couldnt. In fact since I have left I havent heard a single word from them, I was worth a fair bit of money to them in rake and I would have thought they would have tried to lure me back (funny way to run a business really). Anyway its their loss and my gain.

I really am excited about my future in poker and will have a lot of news coming your way over the coming weeks.

Well spent long enough on here now and had better do some work - Good luck at the tables and dont forget if you want any information on I Poker please give me a shout.

New competion coming tommorow by the way where Ill put £50 up for grabs for the first correct answers so tune in.