Martin Devlin

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I don't know if anyone remembers a post from August last year, but one Sunday evening on the way home from the casino there had been a serious accident near my house. Someone had been killed and the Police had blocked the whole road for hours, I was worried about my Family and whether everyone was Ok.

It turns out in an inquest yesterday that the lad who was killed was 3 times over the drink drive limit and had cocaine in his system. He'd hit a car near to my home, flipped over and landed in a hedge. He managed to get his car back onto its wheels (fuck knows how) and continued to speed off towards Preston, only to hit a Subaru Impezza head on further down the road. THIS COULD OF BEEN US! and the poor lad who was in the Subaru is STILL in hospital 6 Months on, with serious leg, chest, wrist, hip and head injuries.

The fucking scumbag that died doesn't deserve to live, but how unfortunate to for the lad in the Imprezza. You can read the full story here.

Decided to go to Bolton tonight for the first ROE (round of each) tournament, which is the only one of its kind in the area. Now Bolton isn't my favourite casino, maybe because I've never ever cashed in there, but tonight (although i didn't cash) was a different story. Usually I find it very clicky but I think that about most card rooms, don't you agree? Maybe because there was Omaha involved, all the Pokerstars and wannabe hero players who see Gus Hansen make sick plays with Q8 and think that poker on TV isnt edited and Q8 is the nuts all stayed at home to play the Freerolls on ipoker (thank god).

Firstly, I think Lee is doing a great job down there and things are definately on the up since last time I played in Bolton. Tonights comp was £15 (£4 juice) and £5 rebuys for 1 hour, 3,000 chip stack. There were 27 players, 3 tables and 2 house dealers (including Lee, who took over for one of the lads), 41 rebuys and 22 add ons collecting a pot total of £720, £280 for first prize, paying top 4, a great turnout and excellent support for its debut.

At the break I had 21,000 chips, average was 9,000 and I only topped up. Great value IMO. Without boring the tits off you any longer, we were down to 15 players, I have about 30,000 chips 8 handed I'm UTG+2 holding AA35 blinds are 400/800, UTG limps, I raise the pot 800+3,200, UTG calls. Flop is 3Q5 UTG checks, I bet 6,000, UTG raises the pot, I'm all in, call. UTG IS THE LOOSEST PLAYER THIS SIDE OF NEVADA so I couldn't wait to get my chips in. He holds, now wait for it, a massive AQ89 for top pair BDFD, BDSD and not much else, he's in bad shape until Lee drops a Q on the turn, FML! cheers mate. The river bricks out and unfortunately my oppo who's as loose as a clowns pocket has me covered with 32k.

This comp will get better and soon, watch this space. I'd give it a go next Thursday but i'm playing the UKIPT on Friday so I need my beauty sleep. Get yourselves down next week, You'll enjoy it.

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