Lazy Sunday Afternoon

I don't like Sundays, never did. It's a depressing day, the build-up to Monday (the weeks low point), getting ready to start a new week in work/school. The majority of hang-overs are scheduled for a Sunday. It's a rough day indeed.

That being said sunday has its advantages, it's a good day for online poker. Most sites running a big games, Stars has the millions, the warm up and the $11 donk fest with a 100k prizepool. Although these never have an overlay, theres various other 100k games on other sites. But this sunday is different. The millions isn't on, tonight on PokerStars is the main event of the WCOOP with a $5million guaranteed prize pool. Expect this to be a 24 hour event. I expect there to be a tourney thread following the Boardies progress in the event. Best of luck to anyone in there.

On the live tourney circut, the International Poker Open next saturday is a daring attempt at bringing large field deepstack games to the masses for a cheap buy-in (€125+25). The field just reached 709, which means two things, firstly the 100k guarantee just kicked in. And secondly it just broke the european record for a live tourney. The 2007 Irish Open held the record until today. Stephen McClean is organising the IPO and poker ireland had there sights set higher than the record, he has he aim set for full capacity at 1000.

Im in the field so expect a report here in a week.

First Post!!

In the last week my lifestyle, as I knew it, changed completely. This time last year I was entering the final year of my degree, this time 4 months ago I was preparing for a summer in the states and for the last month I was an unemployed graduate. As of last Monday (the 24th), I am a working professional. I started at a top Dublin architectural company, for the first time in my life I have a salary. And today I got paid for the first time since I quit my part time job a year ago (excluding a stint in America as a piano mover).
The relevance of this, not much. But over the last year money has been tight, having to put money aside for the states and general spending money meant that I had little cash to spend on poker, one of my hobbys. I had a small amount in a PPP account that I used to play with, but only micro limits to prevent bordom. I occassionally tripped into The Jackpot for a cheap tourney, or a college game. But I couldn't afford to play any of the higher buy-in games. So now that I have a job I am hoping to have some disposable income to invest in online poker and some of the decent games around dublin.
Stay tuned for news.