ILX POKER TOURNAMENT #7 (?) Sunday 1st Nov 2009 4pm ET/9pm GMT

PWN CUP missing from the private tourney tab. Did we miss too many weeks and get dropped from the automatic scheduler?

I'm out for at least the next couple of weeks.

ill be in the US as of tonight! can prolly still play though in fact i'll be less hungry and also probably have a better net connection. will check what's up with the pwn cup too don't blame them if they had deleted it though!

greeting from las vegas!

god it has been fun. it's my final day i think it's just about right as i'm exhausted!!

played a couple of tourneys at the caesars palace a lot of fun but no winnings. turned to the student oriented casino "o'shea's" and found the going much easier and chopped between top two for $270.

Today I had the weirdest two hands - first hand, the ace was spade was exposed for one dude. I had QQ and guy immediately before me raised with a short stack (reckoned i stood a good chance with one A gone) and I put him all in, turned out we both had QQ. But sickeningly 4 clubs showed on the showdown and I won, felt a bit ill and think that I had used up all my luck

Very next hand, I was big blind (there's 50 ante and it's 100/200) everyone folded except chip leader small blind who flat called, i had 4 6 and flop was 7 5 10, he raised minimum and i called, turn was 8, he raised again and I went all in, he had 7 5 and I made the low straight, he called and the 7 came on the river.

I had no cause to complain given the immediately previous hand but it is a funny game isn't it? Walked out of Caesar's Palace into the sunshine, think it might be my last game of this trip (down $65 overall due to an ill adviced cash game while i was drunk and waiting in the queue for the cheap steak at Bill's). Reckon if I ever go again I'll have to go with someone else as all the ups and downs is really hard when you're on your own!

final flutter this morning at the oshea again before i left and chopped another at the top for $120, which left me annoyingly $5 down overall in the end. it has been fun though although definitely had enough for the time being now. i will miss the free drinks when i get back to a uk casino (i was knocking back long islands at the caesar's game)