7 days...
Took her for a drink on tuesday....
Nah not Craig David.. 7 Days til i leave for sunnier climes. I'm nice and relaxed and haven't played much poker this last week which can only help. I had a great Christmas I think Santa knew I liked poker 
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Anyway just so people who want to follow me know whats happening.. I finish up work on the 3rd Jan and train it down to Manchester. Stay in a Hotel then fly to Florida on the 4th. I arrive in the Bahamas at around about 9pm local time where i'll get some sleep.
On the 5th the WPT starts im not playing until day 2 however pokerstars want me to be about as I may be used for interviews with the British Press.
I start on the 6th January and see where I go from there...
No matter what happens I'm there to enjoy myself 2005 has been a great year to me pokerwise and playing in the World Poker Tour can only be a great start of things to come for 2006.
If you don't hear from me before have a great New Year and wish me luck 
Matthew on 12.28.05 @ 02:38 PM GMT [link]
Greetings from your temporary field reporter.
music: Return to Forever
mood: chipper
This is nsidestrate from ITH and I'm just dropping by to see if I can make entries to Matt's blog. I'm going to be posting updates from his WPT adventure and I wanted to make sure I could do so. Perhaps when he brings home $600,000 he will give me a tip for my services. If not, at least I can say I knew him when...
nsidestrate on 12.27.05 @ 07:07 AM GMT [link]
Rebuilding the Bankroll Rounders Styleee
I'm the first one to admit it I do not have bankroll Management. I've been of the mindset that when I cash big it goes on me and my fiancee's future.
Should I not have withdrawn all my big hits My bankroll would sit at $16,000 rougly.. However it doesn't.
Sooooo the new proposal is the Prima Rounders Tournaments.... Anyone not farmiliar with them can read about them here :
Basically its like a step tournament win round 1 goto round 2 etc.
It will also let me practice for pretty much free!!
If anyone is looking for low cost poker practice these are the Daddy!!!
So if you see me at the tables "Matt7184" wish me luck!!
Matthew on 12.18.05 @ 02:23 PM GMT [link]
No Edinburgh Festival For me
Despite playing some good poker I failed to win a seat to the £1000 Main Event, the same tournament I played so poorly back in June.
I laid down AhAc on a board of 2dJs8d Kd to an allin turn reraise with another deep stacked player Hand history and Discussion can be found here
I'd been playing for over 5 hrs and got short stacked after the villain from the AA hand Paired his Kicker A7 to beat my AK on a 332A7 board...
I still had an M of 5 and I was moved tables Played ultra aggressively for half an hour to work my stack up to an M of 11 Now I start work in 5 hrs time and there are still 28 left out of 46 runners for 4 seats. The thing aint finishing any time soon. So I donk off the rest of my chips with a stop n go running into KK!! 
So no seat but I was playing very confident poker and felt I was giving off a great table image WPT t-shirt and Sunglasses will do that for for you
* There are still some shares available for my WPT Atlantis tournament. *
See my previous entry for details.
Out
Matthew on 12.02.05 @ 10:00 AM GMT [link]
