I'm on my way home from Vegas, not with my tail between my legs but with it firmly up in the air. My one and only tournament was a wash out, eliminated during the third level, but I got a chunk out of the cash Omaha from some very long sessions and cannot wait to return on June 24 for more....

Sometimes I ask myself simply why do I bother? The year is rapidly reaching its halfway mark and I've barely picked up two cards. Don't get me wrong, poker is great and I owe so much to this wonderful game but the truth is I've scarcely got two free days to play a tournament. Last...

This month's task was to write a 500 word story about the virtues of buying a healthy family meal for €5. It actually wasn't but it could have been. It was to write something, anything, about poker when completely brain-dead. Oh my, did you know in the introduction to his book,...

Bejaysus, we are in May already. Amazing, its like the year has not started yet 33% of it is already over. Irish Open apart, it's like I've not had chance to play cards this year. A family bereavement has stopped me participating in this week's televised World Open and the...

In a word, catastrophic. Sense of Joy withdrawn lame from the 1,000 Guineas and Pyro's chances in the Kentucky Derby now looking mythical following a washout in the Bluegrass Stakes. Amazingly, helped by War Pass' withdrawal from Run for the Roses, I have managed to lay Pyro at a price...

Oh happy days! Curlin proved his class when romping away with the Dubai World Cup last weekend and, being on the American superstar at an unbelievable 7/4 when the betting opened, I have to say I was somewhat happy. As a result I am also doubled up on my 1000 Guineas fancy, Sense Of Joy, who I...

Agreeing to pay the registration fee for all entries into an Irish Open satellite at the Liffey Arms card room in Newbridge, Co. Kildare, should Denman win the Cheltenham Gold Cup, was not my finest moment. All those €20 added up but thankfully I managed to overcome an old friend heads-up,...

Hopefully you will receive your next edition of Card Player Poker + Sports nice and early, specifically in time to take my advice and back Curlin, currently the greatest racehorse in the world, for the Dubai World Cup at odds of 7/4. Following a cake-walk of a prep race on Thursday the superstar...