SCOOP 2012

The Spring Championship of Online Poker starts today and I'm pretty damn excited about it. 15 days, 40 events, 120 tournaments and $30,000,000 Guaranteed.

SCOOP is the tournament series for everyone, as there are low, medium and high buyins for every event.

Interview with Timothy 'entim' Boyle - Irish Poker Pro

Timothy 'entim' Boyle is a 21 year old Irish poker pro. We discuss his dropping out of university at 18 to grind low stakes Sit 'n Go tournaments, his crazy SNG prop bet, success in staking WSOP November 9'er Sam Holden, success in online MTTs and flipaments.

You can find him tweetin' on twitter @entim and on twoplustwo where he is blogging his progress throughout 2012.

I am a Lucky Man. Water Fights!

Water Fights (Songkran)

Happy new year everyone, happy Thai new year that is. The Songkran Festival runs every year between the 13th -15th of April to celebrate the new year and is basically just a whole country turning into one massive water fight.

Songkran is a big deal in Thailand, their most important holiday. It is to the Thais what Christmas is to most western countries. People go back to their home towns to visit their families, exchange gifts and enjoy grand meals.

Traditionally the Thais would wash Buddha statues at this time of the year and use the 'holy' water to splash on people as a show of respect. Just like Christmas has turned into something more awesome that the traditional holiday, Songkran has degenerated into massive water fights and people roaming the streets with water guns soaking everyone. Awesome!

It is impossible not to get caught up in it, it's everywhere. You simply cannot walk down any street without getting soaked. Every house or shop has someone sitting outside with a hose or buckets of water.

My ZOOM Thoughts

ZOOM has been available for a few weeks now (in beta) and I've been playing a lot of it. In fact, since it's release, 99% of my play has been at the ZOOM tables. So I would like to share my ZOOM thoughts with you guys.

(if you don't know what ZOOM is then check me out on YouTube explaining how it works)

The Ghost Critter

THE GHOST-CRITTER

I now have a new Thai visa, good for the next 3 months, but getting it was a huge pain in the ass.

A few of days before leaving for Cambodia to get the visa I noticed a huge blister on the antecubital space of my right arm. It was huge but I had no idea how it got there. Over the next couple of days it slowly spread into a huge swollen rash, covering most of my arm. WTF? I have no health insurance right now so Google is my doctor. Dr Google suggested that it was probably an allergic reaction to an insect bite, so I took a bunch of antihistamines and used steroid cream and it slowly got better. But I was still wondering what the hell it was that bit me.

My bus to Cambodia was leaving at 4:30am. I don't know if you'd call that super late or super early? I have no idea because I am always on a rotating sleep pattern where I go to sleep and wake up an hour later than the day before. I think my body was designed for a world that has 25 hour days. But anyway, it was 4:20 and I was scrambling around my condo packing all the essentials for the trip, such as Nintendo 3DS and stuffed monkey, and frantically drying off boxer shorts and socks (that had been sitting damp in the washing machine for at least a few days after the cycle finished) with a hair dryer. That is when I felt something on the side of my body, but by the time I looked there was nothing there.

Sleep is for Suckers

Interview

I was contacted by QuadJacks recently as they wanted me to be the feature guest on one of their shows, The PKRGSSP Show. Of course I was thrilled to accept their invite. It was the first time I did an interview that was being broadcast live, and it was about 8 hours past my bedtime, so I was a little nervous about it but it went really well and I had a lot of fun chatting the host, PKRGSSP, who has an enthusiasm for poker unlike any other. Have a listen to the show here --------->

WBCOOP

WBCOOP (World Blogger Championship) is well under way. To promote the series and have a bit of fun EVhero and I decided we'd create a phony rivalry over which of us is the best blogger, related to the Best Blogger award which is a big part of WBCOOP.

World Blogger Championship of Online Poker 2012 (WBCOOP)

The WBCOOP is a tournament series running from February 23rd until March 4th. It's for bloggers and it costs nothing to enter, zero, zip, nada!

Pump Up The Volume

It's already well into February and my poker volume for 2012 is way below what I'm aiming for. As part of Team PokerStars Online I have a certain commitment as far as earning VPPs and hours at the tables go. As part of that my goal is to earn 400,000 VPPs this year but I'm only at 22,000 right now.



The main reasons why I am behind already;

Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP)

Do you like action? I hope so because the inaugural PokerStars TCOOP (Turbo Championship of Online Poker) is about to begin and this isn't your grandmother's tournament series. The faint-hearted among you need not apply.

The next 11 days will see 50 turbo championship events being played out with $10,000,000 in guarantees. That is sure to make for the kind of heart racing, adrenaline pumping action that has never been seen before in the history of poker.

Two Thousand and Twelve

It's 2012, the year of the dragon apparently. Hopefully that means I'll be dragon a lot of pots. UCWIDT?

What does Daleroxxu and a Jehovah's Witness have in common? They both got the same number of presents on Xmas day.

It was the first year that I was alone for Xmas and New Year as I decided to stay in Thailand. My mother sent me an Xmas parcel at the end of November, but sent it airmail - no tracking, so obviously it got stolen way before it got to me. The Thai customs department are about as corrupt as the police, so merry fucking Xmas to the thief that stole my present.