DUBLIN BELLYBUSTERS

Day 5: Friday, July 24th, 2009
* Fill beat me when we resumed the €25 Heads-Up NL Hold 'Em game which was on pause from two days earlier. Immediately after, I beat him in a re-match.
* Feeling the lads needed to get back to their fast food roots, I took them down to Jo'Burger, a gourmet burger joint in Rathmines. Good grub and this time for the price of just 5 Wendy's meals!
* We took ourselves back to the Sporting Emporium for some more cash-feastage. Rounder came along this time as did Rob O'Connor. After betting a friendly €25 which of us would be the big winner, Fill raced into a sick lead, flopping quads the very first hand. Nick donated two €200 buy-ins in the first hour and then did what any self-respecting gambler would do. He bought in for €600. I made steady progress throughout the night, helped in no small way by a €600 pot in an AA vs KK all-in pre-flop confrontation. By 6am, the four of us walked out with a combined total of almost €4000. Fill won the bet, finishing up over €900. I made €850, Nick made €300 and Rob made about €50.

Day 6: Saturday, July 25th, 2009
We had a DBB Live Game with Rob O'Connor, Suzanne Kenealy, Patrick McAllister, Nick Carrillo, Stephen O'Connor, Ken Taylor and myself. A full report is available in the DBB Live Section but some highlights included:
- Rounder playing blind for the first orbit and winning!
- Me donking off over €100 with a gutshot to Fill's top-set just because I so badly wanted to bad-beat him!
- Suzanne picking her spots perfectly and walking away with almost €100 in profit!
- Me losing almost €400 before making a comeback to end the night down just a ton. (Also, I ran a sick sick bluff on Stephen when I fired €180 on the turn with 23 on a 9569 board.)
- Rob being bad-beated down to his last €14 in the first hour but coming back to have €270 at the end!

Day 7: Sunday, July 26th, 2009
I played cricket while the lads when all-out online, playing in most of the Sunday majors. By the time I got back at 9pm, Nick was up about $1K but Fill was down over $2K. (LOL!) Dying for a session, I through up a full quota of $69ers and played for about 4 hours, making about $1500. We decided against burning the midnight oil as we had a long day of traveling ahead of us and an early start. (Well, early for three poker players!)

San Sebastian, here we come!