Betfair £2 25p MTT

Well I finished 9th out of 342 so that is my best finish for a while, I decided to move away from SpOdds for a while as it is knocking my confidence a bit. I know I can do better than I seem to be doing on there and this seems to be the case, first MTT I play in I make the money.

Was down to an all-in situation with around 20 left and Morlspin was watching, he said, you'll need to pick a hand soon so I immediately go all-in with 10 6 and hit the straight, cheers G!

A hand later I'm all-in with pocket 6's to hit trips and I'm suddenly sitting 5th.

Get to the final table sitting 3rd and steal a few pots but end up all-in with AQ? or KQ, don't remember but got busted by JQ who hits runner runner.

Was pleased overall as sometimes the luck goes with you, sometimes against. Thanks G for the support.

Uncle Ed

As I don't think he's going to make a blog I'll keep his info on here too. He is the money winner in the family. In September he won the Champions League on Sporting Odds and won a seat at the Midlands Masters in November, so that's a nice wee all expenses paid trip for both of us. I'll happily rail.

He has won the $4k guaranteed on Sporting Odds before. Also won Tikay's tourney. So as I said he is the poker player.

More Family

MILLIE

BARNEY

My family

Marcus and Amber

Ed and Amber

SpOdds $4K

Finished 23rd in this, should have done sooo much better but too much vodka meant I didn't see the big stack was still in the hand when I went all-in with 55 to steal the baby stack's blind, oh well live and learn.

What it would be like to be famous

Ok so posting lots of poker blogs is not for me as I'm shite at recounting hands so I'm going to pretend I'm famous for 5 mins and that people care what I have to say and can't wait to find out all they can about me!!! That would be cool. So....

SPOKERPLAY3R MAG HAS A DOUBLE PAGE ARTICLE ABOUT WORLD FAMOUS PLAYER DAN DAN

Dan Dan the Diminutive Destroyer was born Valerie Gibson, the result of too much alcohol being consumed when those dreaded English won the World Cup in 1966, shortly after that she became Diane Sheret. Her father was a showjumper and was fiercely competitive, his life revolved around horses, her mother was a teacher and her life revolved around making his as difficult as possible.

Diane's promising career as a show jumper was shortlived as basically she was terrified of leaving the ground, always a bit of a draw back.

Diane was more artistic and spent hours drawing. Living on a farm and having moved to a small town made her slightly different to her peers. ( One quality that attracted her now husband, Uncle Ed the Eliminator, in the first instance)

School was enjoyed by the young Diane and she left to train as a Beauty Therapist at college. According to her this was to become a make-up artist for the BBC where she would meet Prince Andrew and marry him (he had recently been interviewed by Selina Scott on Wogan)

At this time she was first introduced to gambling by her brother, she would play some kind of stud (she can't remember which now) at his friend's house for petrol and fag money, she always made a small profit.

The career of make-up artist never materialized and she became a curtain designer instead. She drifted away from the gambling crowd after a short relationship with one of them ended and did not return to gambling for a few years.

When she did it was to place wagers in her local pub on the domino players (she never played herself). It was here she received her other nickname Wee Fiver, given to her by the old men playing dominoes because she would always have a fiver on so and so. This again funded her travelling and drinking each weekend.

When she met Uncle Ed he was a champion pool player and there was money to be made from his pool playing too.

Another passion of Diane's has been RFC and the highlight of her Rangers experiences was meeting Graeme Souness during the pitch invasion at Aberdeen in 1987 when they clinched the first league in 9 years, she still has her piece of Pittodrie turf and seat!!!!

After many years of curtain designing Diane returned to college to train as a graphic designer only to end up a signwriter, disillusioned she changed direction to become a dental nurse and began her poker career in 2005 when Uncle Ed became obsessed with watching it on TV.

They progressed to online poker with Sporting Odds, recommended by The Mole and onwards to the Punters Lounge after banter with Telepe, Higgs23, Pocketlady and Penelopeys during a Champions League match.

It has been a roller coaster from then onwards for the pint sized star and 6 WSOP bracelets down the line she is still going strong.

We wish DAN DAN more success in the future as she is the most pleasant interviewee we have ever had here at SPOKERPLAY3R

MUSE, My fave band just now, going to see them in November

Sporting Odds Champs League

Well I finished 10th in this tonight which is a major achievement for me just now, getting to final tables in MTT's ( unless it's a qualifier to another MTT) seem to be elusive.

Seems the more I learn the worse I get!!!!

Anyway I went out with AA so I wouldn't have played it any other way. Galronix's 77 made a straight. That's poker.

No idea what to write here, so hi anyone reading this so far.