The Las Vegas Team Challenge live final was the culmination of 16 weeks of hard fought online battle. When the dust had settled we had 190 people descending on Birmingham to fight it out for $36,000 worth of Vegas Packages and a host of added cash prizes.

It’s that time of year again. A time for reflections and resolutions. Working out why you didn’t achieve last year’s goals, and setting yourself some brand new ones that you will definitely stick to… at least until February...

It’s been a fair while since I last put my virtual pen to paper and wrote a blog. So long that there’s far too much to talk about to cover it all in one blog before you all fall asleep. Instead I’m going to focus on the present. Now that the new site is all up and running, I’m hoping to be able to travel to a few more events wearing my shiny new Poker Encore badge. My 1st stop this week was at The Palm Beach Casino in London...

My blog of yesterday stirred up quite a bit of interest, and I’d like to thank the 35 or so people for the emails I received, all of which I’ve now replied too. Several people told me what a lame name it was that I’d chosen. “The Flair Pool” apparently sounded a bit “1980’s” but nonetheless it didn’t seem to put too many people off...

The poker calendar is busier than ever. Praz has just come back from Romania for the WPT and in the next few weeks between us we’ll be going to Ireland, Connecticut, Vegas, Italy and Monte Carlo. Whilst travelling away is one of the perks of the job, it is sad that we often get to miss events back in the UK, such as the upcoming events at the GUKPT and UKIPT. The UK has a lot of young poker talent that it maybe doesn’t get credit for...