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Pigeons

Dave “The Voice” is now in the pigeon killing business. “It’s all organic,” Dave explains, but declines to elaborate. I don’t ask. I’m not sure how you go about exterminating pigeons organically....

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ISPT: I WONT MILLION*

The International Stadiums Tour (ISPT) is a live poker tournament being held at Wembley stadium with day 1 starting on the 11th May 2013. The buy-in for day 1 is €300. First place pays €1 Million....

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Brian’s House

“I flopped a full ahse.” Numbnuts Brian is telling me a fascinating story about the time he flopped a full house. I’m looking at my phone, but that doesn’t seem to deter him. “Jack eight I had, and...

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Every Hand Butchered.

I was given a free entry into an online satellite for the ISPT, where the top ten would win a seat for day 1a of the tournament, by writing a post about it on my blog. Cool eh? Places eleven to fifteen...

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BUSTED. WTF To Do?

It looks like a few people I play poker with have found out about my poker blog. I found out about an hour ago, and my head is kind of spinning. I guess I always knew it would happen but now I have to...

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Fresh Meat at The Village

I mostly play with the same people every week in our pub poker games. Some I’ve played with for a few years. I mostly know their games and they know mine. Depending on who is sitting at me table I...

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The Cat Is Out of The Bag

OK that cat may not strictly be out of the bag, but this one really is. The blog I mean. So before I mangle any more metaphors, let’s press on. As I walk into the Village pub for the Wednesday game of...

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Galway UKIPT

Hello from Sunny Galway, Ireland. Boy is it hot. I’ve just got back to the hotel after a stroll around the town and a look at the bay with fellow bloggers Chris Hall and Chad Holloway. Chad recently...

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Poker Blogging from Galway Full Tilt Festival.

I got back from the Galway UKIPT Full Tilt festival yesterday just before 6m, tired but very happy to be home and see my girlfriend and the cats. You can see how happy they are to see me. We spent the...

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Learn to Love Folding

Nice Fold   This article first appeared at grassrootspoker.com where I post as MyLostPokli. It is intended as a light hearted strategy article for live low stakes NLHE tournament players. I love...

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Return of the Blog

Mylowstakespokerlife.com is back by popular demand. By “popular demand” I mean the occasional half-hearted enquiry from people asking, “You still doing your blog thing?” to my girlfriend asking if I’m...

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Shit Cards and the Long Game

  Monday night is pub poker night at The Palmerston. I had returned from a week’s work at EPT Deauville, watching some of the best players in the world fight it out for astronomical sums of money, and...

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Ace Magnets

It was the first hand of the Wednesday pub poker game at The Village and three players had limped for 50. I was in the small blind and made it 450 to go with two black kings from a starting stack of...

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Effective Playing Styles for the Pub Poker Player

If you want to succeed in low-stakes pub poker it is important to understand the different types of players you will encounter and the strategies they employ in order to effectively combat them. You...

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Donk Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope

Monday at the Palmerston and it was the start of the fourth and final 13 week season of 2015 and with it all the hope and giddy excitement that pub poker with a clean slate brings. Turn your sarcasm...

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