Day 268 ... Yes it's Friday & it's Fete Watch ...

Random Weather Report ... Amundsen-scott, Antarctica -41F

Partly Cloudy - Like minus 41F isn't enough reason to stay away unless your into penguins (or is it polar bears in Antartica) or global warming research.

Batman's The Penguin Comic covers and images.

10 Fantastic Polar Bear Facts including
Minty the bear on the Foxes Glacier Mints.

Fete Watch ... Random pick of fete's coming up nowhere near you -
Brightwalton Fete Extravaganza Sunday 30th April, West Berkshire.

Boasting FREE parking, brass band and the Krazy Kat Theatre's riotous performance of George & the Dragon. Don't forget the terrier racing - bring your dog and enter on the day or just turn up with someone elses.

We will endevour to bring you Fete Watch as a regular Friday feature adding this to our other highly successful regular column - Wordsicle Watch on Wednesday's.

Poker News ... PokerStars 3rd annual World Cup of Poker (WCP)

For PokerStars players worldwide to come together, play poker and

decide which country is the king for 2006. You can represent your country and play for a slice of $200,000 in prize money, a free trip to play in the televised finals and an entire year's worth of bragging rights.

Stage 1 - Qualify for your country's WCP team (50 FPP required) and enter the non-US country qualifiers run on April 16th & 17th.
Leading to the Barcelona Semi-Finals & Finals (Live event).

PokerStars are now running satellites for the 2006 World Series of Poker. They bred the last 3 WSOP main event winners - Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer & Joe Hatchem. Determined to continue the success story PokerStars are running a massive amount of WSOP qualifiers this year. With qualifiers from $5.50 to $370 for a total of $5 million of WSOP packages. They are putting up 150 WSOP packages guaranteed on Sunday July 16th. PokerStars Review

4kingpoker Losses Update ...

Poker Heaven ... $ 18.57

$3+0.30 SnG Full ... 8th ... -$3.30
$3+0.30 SnG Full ... 3rd ... +$2.70
$3+0.30 SnG Full ... 2nd ... + 5.70

Poker Heaven ... $ 18.57 ... + $5.10 ... total $ 23.67 (- $ 26.33)

Managed to get some time to sort out the news pages a bit on 4kingpoker so while that was chugging away I thought I play a couple of games in the background. Did OK half concentrating - the up side of working and playing is that you really have to cut out the majority of starting hands as your not concetrating on the players enough to really suss out how they play ... this would be dangerous if they were good tight aggressive players - they'd start to steal the blinds and push you around. But on the low limit games you can be fairly sure that a bluff is going to get called all the way down so your better off leaving the clever stuff for later in the game.

4kingpoker stuff ...

Now the news section is up and almost running - I'm going to be a bit tied up getting this up to date so my blog may suffer. Like its got such a high editorial standard to keep up !

Titan Series this weekend - It's the last game this weekend at Titan before the final of the current series. It's a $3+0.30 buy-in with $50 addded - which needs to be busy as you can only qualify for the highest 30 scorer's final if you've played in a buy-in tournie. The series seems to have been a success and we're just sorting out the details for the Titan Series II which is great news.

There is a 500 piece poker chip set up for grabs for the Series Winner - but if it's someone in the States it'll probably be easier and better for them if I send an amazon voucher - no point in half the prize money going in shipping costs.


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