Back at my desk

I lasted about two hours at the WSOPE.  After a reasonably breezy start I limped along for a while before blowing my stack in two hands in the space of five minutes. We start with £20k of chips.  I am down to £18k when I pick up 10-6 suited on the big blind – a raise of £300 is called …

Catch up

I’ve been short on time and have a fair bit of catching up to do.  No runners last week but a few this week.  I’ve been to Newmarket, and the Comic Strip Heroes have bought another three yearlings (possibly four) in the sales.  The main event at the WSOPE starts today, and I’m playing in it. Shepherd’s Warning was targeting …

Baldy rides again

A poor day yesterday, and the end to a bad week of betting.  I’m going to take a break from betting fairly soon – it’s too time consuming and too much of a distraction. Baldovina makes her hurdling bow today in a pretty uncompetitive maiden.  On the face of it she has a lot going for her – she has …

Analysis

There is some decent racing today, and much of it is my sort of stuff – I’ve spent some time looking through it all.  I’m a creature of habit and I have a structure to my analysis. I like to go through the card twice – once the night before (to get the juices flowing) and in more detail at around …