Well there’s no good news after the 2k event except for the two guys I wanked my chips of to. I played my A game for about 7 minutes then my arse started aching on the wooden chair. I started fidgeting and looking for something better to be doing, after all it was Saturday night and the prize for winning is only €171k - who needs that?? (ME FOR STARTERS)

Anyway, we started play at 6pm and I made it to the dinner break at 7.30 with 8k of my original 10k. I met my girl Jade for dinner at the buffet which was pretty shit. The meat was so tough it wanted to fight me outside and the veg was cold so I had two desserts. Jade had nothing but her luck was in. The guy on the door had noticed she hadn't eaten anything so he gave her a buffet ticket back so she could go back the next night and eat nothing again - the meat would be even tougher then and the veg colder...

I talked Jade into rushing to the hotel next door as I thought a bit of sex might calm me down... forty minutes later I arrived at the cardroom and the tourney had started 15 minutes previously. I was so busy admiring a guy's wife's arse I fell over a chair (which got a round of clapping and screeching from the monkeys). I'd been sat down about 5 mins when I was dealt AK - I raised and got two callers. The flop came 7d 7c 8c, not too bad, one guy checks I decide to check and see if the monkey on the button bets. If he does I'll raise his arse making my hand look strong... That's what happened. He bet 800, the other guy folds and I made it 3000. He studied for about 2 seconds, finished off his banana and moved all in! I folded and was deafened by these oooooooooohaaaaaaaaa monkey like sounds as he flashed me the ten of clubs. He probably had two tens or the 9 10 of clubs... I told him I’d folded two aces.

I decided to re-group and play my a game again which I did for as long as it took the dealer to deal the next hand. TWO EIGHTS, unbeatable right? It went perfectly - raise 1k under the gun, call 1k to my left (my hands have been handling chips cards and cash for over 30yrs) they shove all my chips in without waiting for my vodka-soaked brain to kick in. I'm called instantly by two queens. 'Nice hand' I say, not bothering to curse the dealer as they don't speak English anyway and the guilty look she gave me told me she knew it was her fault. As I left I noticed some kind soul had put a cushion on my chair for my boney arse. If I’d noticed that 5 minutes earlier it might have been a very different story…

London next for the WSOPE! I'll be in touch.

Love you all, adios DEVIL
 

Hello fans hope you are well!

I arrived in Barcelona on Monday for my first big tournament since Vegas.  I played in the €2,000 No Limit event to get warmed up for the big one but I bluffed my chips away to a guy who was that fat they had to cut him out of his hula hoop when he was a kid!

I then played the Main Event Day 1A on Wednesday (although now I wish I'd played on Day 1B instead)

After losing my chips in the €2,000 tournament I decided that I would not bluff one chip away in the Main Event. I kept to my plan but I still managed to get rid of my chips! The first hand I lost was with the 9 7 of hearts. The flop came down 4 6 7 with two hearts giving me a pair and flush draw. He bet 1k and I called. The turn brought a 5 giving me a staight draw as well and the guy bet 2.5k. I was thinking of moving in at this point but I was sure he would call me and my drawing power was nil anyway and I figured he'd probably call me with an over pair if i hit my hand. I didn't hit.

The next big hand, where I lost the rest of my chips, came with a flop of 10 8 5.  I had 10 8. He had, surprise surprise, three 5's - goodnight fish.

Im playing the €2,000 on saturday - I'll let you know on Monday how it went.

Love u all DF

p.s HAVE NOT HAD A DRINK SINCE LAST SATURDAY but ill make up for it tonight - watch out Barcelona 

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If you are wondering why you haven’t seen Devilfish playing on the site lately it’s because he is over in Las Vegas tearing it up at the World Series of Poker.

Follow all his adventures here, on his home site, as he provides us with exclusive updates from the poker tables, bars and nightclubs of Sin City – sure where else would you expect to find a Devil?!

16th July - Tarzan swings out of the neon jungle with a profit 

Hi all

Good news/Bad news

Bad news is that I crashed out of the WPT Bellagio Cup tournament today. I made it to the last seventy or so and had 340k in chips. I missed my stright draw and moved in 205k against some monkey who called me for 90% of his stack with A4! I could have been bluffing and still had the best hand. He immediatley started screaming like a chimpanse and he was quickly joined by a pack of more screaming monkeys - I felt like I was in a Tarzan movie and the rope had just snapped.

The good news is I swang over to Bobby's Room as fast as the rope could take me there and managed to win $100,000 before the game broke  - which was about 7th place in the tournament, so maybe I was lucky he called!

Anyway I'm in front on the trip and me and my lovely girlfriend are going out partying in Pure before I fly back to England tomorow.

Devilfsh
(or 'Divafish' as my girl calls me!)

15th July - The Bellagio,Bobby's Room, Bullets and Big Pots

Hello matey's

I have managed to climb everest in rollerskates and I have actually hit the front on the trip.

I started today's tournament with 20k and ended the day with 85k despite not finding any hands - although I did win a coin flip with AK.

After the tourny ended tonight I played in the $300-$600 Omaha in Bobby's Room and won a 350k pot with a set of aces!

I'm starting the tourney again at noon tomorow i think there are around 120 players left ill let you no how it goes tomorow. [There are Currently 125 players left of 446. Top 100 get paid.]

Devilfish

p.s

I noticed we had some great adverts in this month's Cardplayer magazine so the site can only get bigger and better.

Thanks for staying loyal

Devil.

14th July - The $1 Million Swing

To my friends and supporters -  buckle up for a ride in the roller coaster poker life of Devilfish!

It's been a long time since I let myself get into such a deep hole as i did this time, Having never made the second day in a world series poker tournament I felt like Stevie Wonder playing in a darts tournament. In fact my arse was like a dartboard.

I managed to get myself $1 million down on the trip.

Over the last 15 months or so my cash games have been limited to winning or losing around $20,000 max, mostly winning, but this time I was like a fly landing on a razor blade using its balls for brakes.

I was very lucky that my friend Bobby Baldwin decided to take a week off and play PLO every night in Bobby's Room (exclusive poker room in the Bellagio where the highest stakes cash games in the world are played).

It's a 60k buy-in with $300-$600 blinds with people stradling for $1,200. I have managed to get my money back and I am now level on the trip! Even more amazingly, I have managed to make the second day in the WPT Bellagio Cup $15,000 buy-in.

I am not in great shape having 20k in chips (we started with 45k). Still, I will be trying to build up the chips tomorrow and if not the game continues in Bobby's Room. I'll let you know how I get on.

Will be home very shortly so please keep supporting my site, can't wait to get back and join you all.

Love you all Devilfish

8th July - Homeward Bound

Hi All,

The Main Event didn't last long enough to report on I'm afraid but here's a a quick update from Vegas anyway.

Everything's still going down hill and if I was one of Angelina Jolies triplets I'd be the one on the bottle! 

Moved to the Bellagio today, played in the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em event. The two-seat (the player in seat number 2) who looked like a spider monkey skinny with an ugly face (I was hoping he'd walk outside and the wind would blow him over and a cat would run off with him) took me on with a 7-high flush draw. I had flopped the nuts straight... you know the rest. 

Anyway I'm back on 17th July and will be online talking to all my supporters and friends.

Thanks

Devilfish x 

3rd July - Ante up for Ulliott as the Main Event commences

Hi Devilfish here again,

Unfortunetly nothing seems to have gone my way at the tables so far.

My latest bad beat came in the $10,000 Omaha Championship event (WSOP Event 50) where I got a guy to put his money in on the turn with two aces when I had a full house... of course he caught an Ace on the last card.

I then played in the Omaha cash game last night where the flop came Q88. I had full house of Queens against ... four eights. I went to bed after this hand.

Later I got up and went for dinner with my girlfriend at the Paris's french restaraunt. We then went across to the Bellagio to pick some money up, then headed across to the Rio where I got a hug from my old pal Ben Affleck.

I then wandered in to the poker room where there was a $200,000 sit down No Limit Hold'em game going on. The star of the show was a property dealer from L.A. He bet $4,000 in the dark. I raised to $10,000, he now looked at his hand and called the raise.

The flop came 8 high with two hearts, I had two Jacks so I moved in for about $50,000 wich covered him. He called imediately with the nine duece of hearts, we ran the last two cards twice he made the flush both times (big supprise).

I left the table gracefully muttering somthing about monkeys and bought into the $10,000 Main Event for tomorrow. It is now 4a.m and I haven't gotten to sleep yet but just going to try again.

Will let you know how I get on over the next few days... the last two times my luck has been this bad I have done good in the Main Event so who knows.

Devilfish

P.S. I pitty the people who are flying back with me, it's about even money the wing falls off!!!

P.P.S I peeled a banana today it was empty and i bought all the tickets for the lottery and still never won. I covered all the numbers on roulette and the ball flew out the wheel and hit me in the eye, i've been runing that bad that they were considering changing the 'Ante up for Africa' tournament to the 'Ante up for Ulliott'! 

20th June - The Devil, Harry Potter and the Robin Hood of Poker

Nothing good to report yet, I played 4 more tourneys and went deep in the €2,500 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed (WSOP Event 31). I finished 94th from a field of 1,012 players for $3,724 but at least I got a book off Barry Greenstein for knocking him out. My girlfriend says it’s very good. [Barry Greenstein, known as the Robin Hood of Poker, famously gives a signed copy of his book to the player who knocks him out of a tournament].

I played the €1,500 Omaha yesterday and played great until I decided to call a raise from a Harry Potter lookalike with 4567.  

The flop came 679 giving me an up-and-down straight draw and two-pair. This is usually a very good hand against a raiser so I moved all-in for 30k and he called with KK99 giving him three 9s - Goodnight Fish.

I steamed straight into the Omaha cash game and, after several bad beats (including my AA10J being beat by A832), I found myself around $80,000 behind. I carried on playing and as the game got shorthanded with my aggressive play I managed to win all my money back and stagger out of the card room at 8a.m.

I arose from my coffin at 11p.m having missed another beautiful day and the 10k Omaha Hi-Lo Split tourney which I would have liked to have played.

I am trusting all my loyal fans to keep my site going whilst I’m away in Vegas as by law I am not allowed to play from America. Tomorrow is the $2,000 Pot Limit Hold’em tourney which I won in ‘97, was second in ‘98 and 3rd a few years ago so hopefully I will do well.

Love you all DEVIFISH X

My luck has been shit and I feel like a one legged man at an arse kicking party.

I played for 12 hours in the $1,500 Omaha (Event No.19 ) when a new dealer sat down and announced to the table she’d never dealt Omaha before! There were only 6 tables left so surely they could find 6 dealers who could deal Omaha??? Anyway she miss dealt on the second hand and knocked me out.

Then I played the $5,000 Omaha with Rebuys (Event No.28).  In this tournament if you were out of chips, you could take a double rebuy and I was in for $30,000 already when the dealer started shaking and closing his eyes.  He’d made several mistakes so I asked if he was OK, he said no and that he had a low sugar level, so I asked a floorwoman to replace him.  She decided he could deal a few more hands and ended up getting heads-up with Kings suited against Queens (unsuited).

We had about 6,000 left each when the dealer mucked the flop before turning it and then dealt another one quick hoping we hadn’t noticed!! A ruling was called and the decision was that the cards must be reshuffled and another flop dealt.  On a 9 high flop we each had our 6,000 in making a 20,000 pot. Wouldn’t you know it, a Queen spiked on the turn so I had to buy another 10,000 worth of chips thanks to very bad decisions by floor staff.

To finish me off I then had my Aces cracked by Phil Hellmuth’s 3355, so I left the Rio $50k down and stepped in some dog shit outside with a 6 inch nail in it.

- Devil

Congratulations to Devilfish who finished 60th out of 759 players in the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha tournament. He takes home $3,522 for his day's work. Report to follow.

Having a great time even if the poker has been pretty grim for me so far.

In the $5,000 Mixed Hold’em I would have been chip leader after 12 hours play if my Aces had held up against Kings – they didn’t. More of the same the following day in the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em (with rebuys) when Queens beat my Kings!

I then went deep in the €10,000 Mixed Games tournament, but after playing for 2 days I still managed to get knocked out without a cash.

After that start I decided to take a rest from tourneys and lost 50k in cash game...

Anyway next up is the $1,500 Omaha tomorrow so I’m going to watch a movie and get an early night.

Went out with (Ian) Fraser and Eddy (Hearne) on Friday night and me and my girl got pretty drunk!  We then went to Eddy’s 29th birthday party on Saturday night in Pure nightclub where we met up with Mike Tyson. Only in Vegas baby!

 I’ll keep you posted - Devil

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