When we left off, I was telling you about how Jul. 7 changed my life. I had just walked up to the microphone for my first ever after dinner speech… What I was going to say I had absolutely no idea. I paused for a while and then said, "Hands up who knows me!" All the dealers in...

The World Series has made it feel like back to normal in downtown Las Vegas. With the Horseshoe, Binion's Horseshoe that is, and the Golden Nugget both running mini festivals, the poker interest in downtown is running real high. Binion's has been getting up to four hundred runners per...

The month of May was going to be something special to me because Manchester United had made the European Cup final and everything was set for May 21. Moscow here I come! My good friend Simon Zach had managed to get me executive tickets for the final, with accommodation and a first class flight....

What I know about cricket you could write on a grain of rice and there would still be room for my name and address. I live in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, and when they told me Min Patel was in the celebrity heat of the PartyPoker.com World Open IV I had absolutely no idea who he was, but I was going...

With the poker calendar in March promising a European Poker Tour, Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, and the Irish Open, I was on my way once again to the Spring Poker Festival in Vienna which is now better known as the PartyPoker.com European Challenge. For the second year, the day before the main event...

February was going to be a long and exciting month, with three great poker tournaments being filmed back to back to back. Government scientists using a series of experiments would not get close to what was going to happen, and it was my job to keep everything under control. The first of the three...

Katharine and I were so excited to be going back to Melbourne for the Aussie Millions. We'd had such a fantastic time last year and would have done nearly anything to return. My preparations for the tournament were basically reliant on recovery, after sitting next to a woman on the plane who...

By the time this story reaches you we will be well into the New Year. But I must mention my New Year's Eve trip to Galway. Galway is on the west coast of Ireland. Having never been there before, I was excited about the prospect of visiting a new venue. As I was going to be running a Tombola...