So after checking the scales I noticed I had put on 7lbs since before Christmas, So back training for me. Actually down 3lbs since then, but still alot to lose. Also been lazy at work. PNB has been going really well, and sometimes when things are going good it’s easy to get lazy. However, I got my act together and started work on a few new sites again aswell as trying to improve PNB with some quality new articles.

Future Plans

So recently I’ve been spending alot of my time building a new MMA site: MMARankings.org. Biggest problem was trying to build the independent rankings system, which has now been done (took forever) and trying to workout how to make money from a MMA site as its a new industry for me. I have added a UFC T-Shirt section just now and plan on adding a Bet on MMA section and UFC Tickets section. So thats the plans for that site. But the main goal is to turn MMA into a brand and the strongest MMA Rankings site. I always think if you can build the best possible website in your chosen niche. If you do that the money will follow. So that is my main plan for that site for a while anyway.

We are at a good stage with PNB at the minute. It’s now making good money and gaining every week and month. Rankings are also improving all the time also. However, I’m now at a stage with PNB where we can invest some proper money into the site. Problem is I still haven’t decided what to invest in. I looking to add something new and cool. Some sort of app or something, just don’t know what yet. So will probably keep going over idea’s and see which one will be best for PNB. But hopefully by next year PokerNewsBoy will have some cool feature thats new to the poker industry. just need the idea and a top class coder who can do it and we’re there.

Future Events

So I’ll start with the Industry related stuff. The plan is just to go to the Dublin Super Show this year. Last year I went to the London Conference and the one in Dublin, and Dublin was far more enjoyable. So thats one reason, the other is the fact that Kev (my partner on PNB) is coming over from the US for Dublin. So if he can make it all the way from the US, I’m sure I can make it from Omagh (about 2hrs drive from Dublin). So if you are going to Dublin this year and I know you, or even if your a member of PAL let me know and we can meet up. Also if you do go to Dublin and you are a member of PAL, make sure you bump into Jeremy and buy him a Guinness. Rules are if you buy him a Guinness he buys you a stake dinner with all the trimmings. Only kidding, butting meeting Jeremy was cool last year, we drank alot and partied alot. Never did much work though.

So for my personal life: 3 weeks time I go back to the place where I meet the my fiancee (Edinburgh). Before moving to Omagh I lived in Edinburgh for 4-5 years. By the way Edinburgh is the best city in the world. Well best City I have ever been to anyway and Iv’e been to a few: Paris, Barcelona, London and Dublin to name a few. But not been back to Edinburgh for about 5 years. So looking forward to going back and meeting up with a few new faces.

The plan after that is to go to the Euro’s. As luck has it my mum and dad are staying in Poland for a planned 4 months from April onwards. Well my dad’s plans are 4 months, my mums is not to return. However, this gives me the perfect opportunity to go over and catch a few games. I have bought 4 tickets for the Denmark v Portugal and 2 tickets for the Denmark v Germany game. So I am hoping to make it to both of those games. So busy summer planned anyway.

By the way I’m looking to add some skype contact to my current list. So if you are a poker affiliate add me on Skype: pokernewsboy

So what have I been upto the last 8 months?

Improving my Poker News website?

The main thing I have been trying to do is increase the the quility, traffic and income on PokerNewsBoy.com. If any one else runs a news site instead of a normal static bonus site they’ll be able to tell you there is alot more work involved just trying to keep it fresh and upto date, aswell as trying to break stories and gain regular readers. Thats on top of the usual stuff thats involved with running a poker website. But we have been focusing more on the other stuff as I am now happy with the amount of content going up on PNB each day aswell as extremely happy with the amount of writers we are using and they way they work. So worring about news content doesn’t take up as much time as it did in the past. Getting to this point wasn’t easy though.

However, this game me more time to focus on the things that make money. Meaning we have been tracking SERPs more and trying to rank for much harder terms than we have did before. This has been working well, and PNB is probably on track to make 6 times more this year than we did last from rev share.

Trying to lose weight.

3 months ago I made the decision that I wanted to get back playing football (Soccer for the Americans) before I got to old and the chance wouldn’t be about for to long. The biggest problem was I weighted about 4st which is about 56lb more than I did the last time I played proper football. But since I’ve been back training I have now lost about 20lbs. Not bad in 3 months. The biggest thing is the feeling from feeling fit again. I still have a long long way to go, but I’m on the right track at the minute.

Trying to Quit Smoking.

So because I am trying to get fit again I wanted to stop smoking. However, losing weight seemed to be far easier than trying to stop smoking. I have tried a few times. Tried is the wrong word as I have actually never got past the cigarette in the morning. But I did think about smoking a good few times.

But this got me thinking about quiting smoking anyway, and I thought if I was to start a blog on it that might help. So I bought the domain Quits.co. The plans to create a site with articles that will hopefully help people quit what ever they want to quit. Obviously smoking will be one of the main topics and I plan on starting a blog on my journey. Not sure how well this will work, but thats the plan.

So other than that not much really happened. Had a great summer. (Not weather wise) Enjoyment wise. Went to spain for a week on holiday. Went to Scotland twice for two short breaks (one with the kids, one without). Went to the conferance in Dublin. Which turned out to be a great few days. Never did much work related stuff, but did plenty of drinking with Kev and Jeremy. But now just the winter to look foward to and a trip to Edinburgh hopefully.

I have been working with Lock Poker and Bluff Magazine for ages on this now and we finally started promoting yesterday. You should hopefully start seeing it everywhere in the next few days. I won’t be going into the nitty gritty of the promo here as it will be all over Poker News Boy in the coming weeks. So I hope you check out PNB for all the latest details on the Bluff Pro Challenge.

However, this is the biggest thing PNB has ever been involved with and should be massive for all three sites involved. But probably moreso PokerNewsBoy as we have the most to gain. I have been making deals giving away favours and pretty much doing summersults to get this deal sorted with Lock and Bluff. Even though Bluff is the main focus for the Promo, PNB has as much involvement and was involved at every stage of getting this promo sorted. To be 100% honest it was originally my idea. So that will explain why PNB is involved. As I am sure some people are wondering how I managed to get PNB involved with two sites as well respected and known as Lock Poker and Bluff Media.

Over the coming week I will be calling in a few favours and trying to get this as out there as possible. However, if you wish to help or looking for a costum post on the Bluff Pro Challenge let me know and I’ll get an article to you.

So here is the official press release from Lock Poker:

Lock Poker and Bluff partner again! This time the world is invited to the Bluff Pro Challenge

The BPC sponsored by Lock Poker is set to kick off on April 1st.  Bluff, Lock and PokerNewsBoy are giving you the chance to show the world who is the best of the best. Time to take your game to the next level.

The prizes include the player being on the July 2011 cover of Bluff Magazine, as well as featured in a 6 month marketing campaign, and signed to a 2 year LockPRO ELITE Sponsorship and a WSOP Main Event Seat.

“The first Bluff Online Poker Challenge was a revolutionary concept in poker to try to find who the best tournament players in the world were, this time Lock Poker and Bluff are stepping it up a notch to try and determine the best poker player… period”  says Eric Rizen Lynch, “one month, one goal, whoever makes the most money wins. I’m looking forward to finding out who emerges from the challenge and getting to know the next big thing in poker!”

“We are so excited to be doing this type of challenge with Lock again. We really are in a new generation of poker where online Pros are the new rockstars,” said Eric Morris, President of Bluff Magazine. “We want to be a part of making the next amazing player really matter. This is a life changing moment for any serious poker player out there and we are excited to be a part of it.”

Each player begins the competition with the bankroll of their choice and has the entire month of April to build their bankroll playing in ring games, multi-table tournaments and SNGs exclusively on LockPoker.com. The winner the player who shows the greatest profit. Players are permitted to reload their account at any time during the 30 days. The minimum weekly play required is 250 SNGs/MTTs or 2000 raked hands.

The BPC begins April 1st and runs through until Midnight on April 30th. Fans can follow all the action through the daily scoreboard and video blogs from the players at www.lockpoker.com/challenge.

BLUFF

BLUFF Magazine is America’s leading poker publication and BluffMagazine.com is the leading website for poker news and player rankings in the world. BLUFF is home to exclusive columnists like WSOP bracelet winners Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak and Jennifer Tilly who take readers inside the world of poker’s elite each month.

LOCK

Lock is the world’s most innovative online gaming brand. Lock launched their first masterpiece, Lock Poker, over two years ago and recently launched their ground breaking Casino. They exploded into poker industry by introducing the Bluff Online
Poker challenge, becoming the first company to develop a Mac download casino and hiring Eric Rizen Lynch as their VP of Product development. Lock continues to bring a fresh perspective to this exciting industry and its mandate is to drive innovation through superior design and initiative. http://www.lockpoker.com & http://www.lockcasino.com

POKER NEWS BOY

PokerNewsBoy.com is the Internet’s leading source for poker news, information, and exclusive bonuses and promotional offers. Since its inception, PokerNewsBoy has grown into one of the poker world’s most recognizable brands and has developed into one of the poker industry’s most trusted online poker portals.

As PokerNewsBoy continues to grow you can expect the same level of dedication and expertise from their owners, management and staff. Visit the PokerNewsBoy homepage at www.pokernewsboy.com

If you are looking more info on the Bluff Pro Challenge make sure to visit http://pokernewsboy.com

I swear to god that 99% of new affiliates posting in the PAL forums asking for advice are all basically saying the same thing, “I have nice site that gets some traffic but I’m not making any money”.

Factors that you should take into account when converting visitors

1. Keyword Research

Success in affiliate marketing means making websites that will convert visitors and give you the highest ROI for your investment.  So, how do we go about making sites that will make money?

The first thing that I do when planning a new website is do keyword research so that you can find niches or “keywords” that have relatively high volume, limited competition and most importantly that will have a high conversion rate.  Generally speaking, any profitable keyword with traffic of over 500 exacts in google keywords tool is something that I will show an interest in.  Of course, anything above 2,000 is even better, but than again the competition for those keywords will be very high.

Although ranking for keywords such as “3Betting Light” and “MTT Strategy” might get you traffic, these types of visitors are NOT looking to sign up to a poker room.  They won’t make you any money.

Instead, you should concentrate on targeting keywords where the traffic obviously has intent to buy..  For example, “poker bonus”, “iPhone Gambling App”, “paypal deposit methods”, “real money instant win games”, all have players that are looking or at least considering to sign up to a room.

From my experiences, while a keyword such as “3betting” will have a 1,000+:1 conversion rate, “sportsbook deposit bonus” will have around a 3:1 conversion rate for CTR to signups.  In other words, this is a money term.  The same goes for anything with the keywords “play online”, “real money xxx” or “best xxx online”.

2. Buying a Domain and SEO

Once you have a keyword in mind, you need to figure out the best way to SEO and rank your site for that keyword as quickly as possible.

Buying a keyword rich domain (i.e. a domain that has your keywords in it) helps a lot when doing this.  For example, if I wanted to rank for “poker bonus” than having a top level, exact match comain such as pokerbonus.org would help a ton.  If the exact match domain is already taken than try finding another domain which still includes your keywords, such as “bestpokerbonus.org” or “onlinepokerbonus.org”.

One of the major benefits of having a keyword rich domain is that you can link to your site with your keyword without triggering a Google penalty as easily.

For example, linking to the site pokerbonus.org with the anchor text poker bonus will seem more natural to google than linking to the site hotpoker.com with the anchor text “poker bonus”.  If you build too many links with anchor text like this than it would eventually trigger an algorithm in google that would give your site a penalty and decrease your rankings.

Another advantage using exact match domains give you is that when you get natural links to your site, using your domain, you will get a bigger boost in the search engines for that keyword.

Converting Visitors on your Website

Getting traffic to your site is one thing, but actually converting it intelligently with the use of text links, banners and CTAs (call-to-actions) in articles is the final hurdle.

It’s important not to over think or complicate this step.  If you have traffic coming to a single page on your site for the keyword “xxx bonus”, than just give them the information that they need and give them a big banner or CTA to click so they can go to the gaming site easily.

On the other hand, if your traffic is just looking for information than banners tend to be least effective.  Instead, you should intelligently place text links inside articles and engage with the reader why they should sign up or play at a specific room.

This requires more than just “hey you can get a big bonus here.”  You need to try a different approach such as, “if you’re looking to qualify for the WSOP than you should really try Carbon Poker’s daily satellites.  Carbon Poker run x number of satellites each day from just $1, and they have the easiest competition compared to major US sites like PokerStars.”

Don’t over-do your site and confuse your traffic with too many offers or banners.  If your traffic is looking for the best protein powder or US-friendly poker site than just give them one or maybe two products to promote.  Don’t promote millions of products on one page and expect that it will increase your revenue ten fold.  It will just confuse visitors and increase your bounce rate.

Also, I think it’s a good idea to provide negative reviews of products to back up your positive reviews or other products.  Otherwise if you just say that everything is great than your reviews will lose respect and authority from visitors.

I would like to thank Adam Grunwerg for the Guest Post

IGB Awards

However, last month I managed to make it to London for LAC and the IGB Awards. I landed on the Thursday of the IGB Awards and quickly got registered for LAC and got my ticket for the IGB Awards before shooting off to my hotel to get suited and booted for the Awards. So once I was ready I headed back over to the main hotel to meet up with Mike (BestPokerSites.org), John (OnlinePoker.org) and Kendall (OnlineBlackjack.com). So after a quick drink at the hotel that Kendall happily bought us after losing a game of Credit Card Roulette, we headed over to the Awards. To be 100% honest the awards where nothing special. Meal was nice, Free Drinks where nice, and entertainment in the form of the comedian presenting the awards was OK. Seat was horrible. We wher stuck at the very back in the corner. So couldn’t actually see much. Apart from that I can’t really say much else about the awards. After PNB not winning Best Newcomer, we left pretty fast. Headed back to the hotel for another few drinks, before deciding to head for a nightclub.

After checking out a few night clubs we ended up going to a place called China White. So we jumped out a taxi at the doors of China White and there was a que to get in. However, Americans must do things different from us Scottish. The first thing that through my head was, “Shit where going to have to que in this.” However, Mike just walk straight to the front of the que, said something to the bouncer, then he walked to the corner of the street, told us to follow and there was a guy there with a stamp. we gave him some cash, he gave us a stamp. Then we walked past the que straight into the club after showing the bouncer our stamp.

Ended up a good night you can see some picks at the bottom and was good meeting up with Mike, John and Kendall. All really cool guys.

Launching New Sites

So after getting back from London, I started thinking about starting some new sites. I thought about building more Poker Websites, as I know Poker. But this is also the reason I decided not to build more Poker Sites and decided to move over to Casino Sites. Totally new to the Casino Industry I tried to read up abit about it. See what other sites are doing. Read abit about Casino stuff on Affiliate Bible. Then went looking for Domains and looking for the best Casino Affiliate sites.

Buying Domains

I’ve been used to looking for Poker Domains, which is near impossible to find a good one. PokerRankings.org is still the best domain I have found while looking for Poker Domains. However, Casino Domains seem to be easier to come across. Either that or I got extremely lucky. After about 30 mins searching domains I fould a few decent ones and found a decent brandable all in one site domain. So I ended up buying CasinoSitesGuide.com, CasinoSitesBonus.com, OnlineCasinoSites.co.uk, OnlineBlackJackSites.co.uk and also bought the domains CashPlayer.co.uk .org and .us as I though that was a half decent brandable domain. So now just looking to start building sites on them. Maybe sell a few to fund some of the other sites.

Here is the pics from london that where promised earlier…..

However, lets get to what everyone wants to read. The important updates:

1. First thing I want to do is thank everyone who voted PNB in the IGB Affiliate Awards. PNB made the final cut in the Best Newcomer (Affiliate) category. So now it’s down to the last 10, I better start preparing my winners speech and sorting out travel and accommodation. In all seriousness I can’t see past BettingPro.com winning. There site is seriously sik. Just don’t know if they can be counted as Newcomers, but think they by far have the best site. Still cool to be nominated though.

2. The second thing to announce is the PNB Poker Awards and PNB Forum launch. Last month we launched the forum and a day or two ago we announced the first PNB Poker Awards for players to vote in. So I’m asking everyone who bothers to read this to pop over to the PNB Poker Forums, register and vote in the awards. Also feel free to leave some views in the forum. Could do with all the help trying to get the forum started.

3. Thats me and the family settled into the new house. Great having all the extra room. Plus the games room is awesome now, just full of boys toys. Xbox, Wii, Laptop and my computer. But its great to have all the extra space to breath, especially coming upto Xmas. Only problem is as we have all the spare room, we invited everyone for Xmas dinner. Now have 14 coming to dinner. Which I have to cook.

4. Other big step foward for PNB was PNB becoming the official Poker News source for PokerSpace. It’s pretty cool and means that PNB has the resources to reach many new poker players and it helps us by PNB being able to offer bigger promotions to our readers and gives PNB more credibility. Also makes it possible for PNB to give away free money at poker sites thanks to PokerSpace.

5. We also have two massive promotions starting in January and Febuary, both involving Lock Poker. First is the crazy freerolls that only PNB and PokerNews.com players are eligible for. In total they are four 10k freerolls, which involves $7.5k in the prizepool and 25 $100 bounties available to be won. Should have crazy value for the poker players that are eligible. Just sign up using Lock Poker Bonus Code: PNB1200. That bonus code will get you a 200% bonus up to $1200, plus means you can play in the $10k freerolls.

The other big promo is the BE A PRO competition that PNB and Bluff will be holding on Lock Poker. Can’t really go into much details as it’s still all top secret. But this is going to be massive. Just watch this space

Thats about all I can think about. But if you fancy posting anything on here, send me a email or message. And we can sort something out.

1. New Baby

So on the 13th of September I had my second child, a baby girl. That’s now two girls, Mia and Kara. Kara was a monster 10″3 when she was born, and if you don’t know much about weight’s of babies when they are born, well thats pretty big. So far Kara has been great, apart from the odd sleepless night, but otherwise she has been great.

2. New House

Currently Me, Tracey(my girlfriend), Mia and Kara live in a small 2 bedroom house. So when Kara arrived we decided it was time to look for something new. So after a few weeks of searching, we found the right house. Its a 4 bedroom detatched house with a big garden. The garden was the selling point. You can see a pic here currently. Don’t know how long it’ll be up.

3. Been working hard on PokerNewsBoy.com

Me, Kev and Stevie invested a few more $$$$ into PNB the last few months. Been adding lots of new content, upped the amount of Poker News alittle and spend a large chunk on SEO and advertising. So we are just all hoping that PNB cross over from being a decent site to a one of the leading sites in the Poker Industry. I think we are close to making some decent money as well. Over the last few months PNB has been increasing up the SERP’s at a decent rate. SO just hope it keeps going. The only problem is the forum, not that we have had any great push or advertized it anywhere, but was hoping to see a little more activity in there. So feel free to pop past and leave a comment. Talking about comments, PNB have opened up to comments in posts again. This will only last a few weeks and we will be closed for comments again. So if you are looking a link feel free to comment. However, only comments that add something to the post will be approved. Comments such as “Great Site” and “Awesome Blog” will not be accepted. It will feed my ego, but won’t get you a link back.

4. Irish Poker Awards

Next week The Irish Poker Awards will take place in Dublin at the IPO. And one of my mates and small share holder in PNB is up for an award. So I’m asking the few people who get this far down this article to Vote AllinStevie in the Best Online Player category. You can read an article about AllinStevie and the Irish Poker Awards on PNB or go straight to the voting page at Irish Poker Awards by click here. All votes for Stevie will be greatly appreciated.

5. Selling RakebackVictory.com

Due to having the new baby and moving into a new house, I have decided to sell one of my Poker Websites and the Victory Poker affiliate account to go with it. I am looking in the range of $12k for it. But can be negotiated. So if interested in the Victory Poker Rakeback website and affilaite account with over 400 players. You can hit me on skype: pokernewsboy.

So I think thats a big enough update for now. Probably be a few months again before the next one, but I’ll try my best to get an update sooner. Maybe try and talk one of my affiliate friends to write a guest post. You can hit me on skype for that also, if you fancy writing a guest post.

So what have I been upto? The honest answer is nothing much. I have been doing some work on a few other projects and been working more on the small changes and preparing for the official launch of the Poker Forum on PNB. This will hopefully be this Monday to co-inside with PokerNewsBoy.com being officially 1 year old. The Forum will be mostly News based, but will also contain some info on the league that will soon start and the staking section too. Hopefully add section as the forum increases, but it will be mostly Poker News related.

Other recent additions to PNB

The stuff that I have been working on (and still trying to tidy up) are new but essential things that any affiliate website needs to succeed. For example review pages, I have been adding Online Poker Sites reviews such as PokerStars, DoylesRoom, Full Tilt and a load more. I have also been focusing on trying to rank for there bonus or referral term as well, such as Doyles Room Bonus Code and Full Tilt Referral Code. Still no great luck with that, but slowly improving and will hopefully get there.

Other new additions are the Online Poker Rooms section and the Poker Player section (needs tiding up). So although I haven’t been as busy and productive as I should be, Poker News Boy is still slowly moving forward. So if you are looking to exchange a few incontent links give us a shout.

Other things happening in my life.

So for all you noisy people who love to know whats happening in peoples personal lifes, here is your fix. Although nothing has been really happening. Currently trying to quit smoking. Which isn’t going to well. Laptop recently broke. So never had a laptop for two weeks and had to use my old computer that is as slow as death. To add to the things breaking, my pride and joy broke (47″ HD TV). So that is still away getting sorted. With still no sign of that getting fixed yet.

And the big thing coming up is that I am expecting my second child in 3-4 weeks. So that will be a big change yet.

So apart from that nothing else really happened. Just trying to pick up my productivity and increasing the earnings. Ohh, Still not a millionaire yet either. But going in the right direction.

First up is a promo for my Poker Affiliate friends over at PAL. I am going to give away $100 to the top two affiliates who rank for the term “Poker News Boy Relaunched“. So this is me trying to give back to the community that helped get me and PNB where it is today. I would also like to thanks the members for there kind words about PNB. That was great to wake upto.

Another new thing that some of you like to read PNB is the addition of the PNB Newsletter. This will be a weekly newsletter that will go out every monday. It will just be a quick recap of what happened in the poker world that week. So abit excited about that, and I hope you’s all sign up.

I also have a crazy link sale going on over at PAL. I am doing the unthinkable and giving away quility permenent links for $40. All these links go in new posts before they are published so that they are there when google first indexs the page. I have not went totally crazy though, as I am limiting this to 50 links and a max of 10 links per affiliate. Compared to what I usually charge this is an extreme bargain.

What else? There is also plans for an affiliate news section going up on PNB, this should be pretty cool and will be looking some help and particapation from my poker affiliate friends.

That is pretty much all I can mention, there is still a few big suprises in the horison but I’ll keep them under raps till closer to the time. But things are going good for PNB.

p.s if your looking any links contact me on Skype: pokernewsboy.

First was the great news of bring Kevin in on the mix on PNB, which has been great for me and PokerNewsBoy. Kevin will be a real asset for PNB and I’m sure will take the site to the next level. This also generated extra funds, so we have a new template that should be complete any day now. I have to thank Eduardo (Eyenod) for that. He has been really great through the whole process, even putting up with my overeagerness and everything else that comes when you deal with me. I’m sure Eduardo will agree, it can be a struggle just putting up with me, never mind anything else. So hopefully you will see the results from all Eduardo’s hard work in the coming week.

Next was the inclusion in google news. This was something I looked into near the start of PokerNewsBoy. unfortunately the first 2 times I tried I was unsuccessful, due to having the site set up wrong. I actually have to thank Marcus for giving me a help with that. He really helped getting PNB into google news.

The only problem was after changing so much on PNB, google dropped the whole site. Apart from still featuring in Google News. Thank God thats fixed now, but it was a really worrying week for me. This also caused some problems with plans to run a blog from the Irish Poker Open. As when I was there google wasn’t indexing any of my content. So I gave up after day 1 at the Irish open. Which turned it into a great weekend.

I went with my mate Stevie to the Irish Open. Stevie would be a fairly well known online poker player. Mainly because he dominated the high stakes tournament scene about 3 years ago, before turning to playing cash. He is probably better known from his online screen name “AllinStevie”. However, Stevie busted level 5 of day 1, which corrisponded with my departure from blogging. The bar was calling, and I hate to disappoint the bar. It’s never let me down before, so I try my best not to disappoint it.

So day 1 at the bar wasn’t to messy, day 2 was.

Day 2 at the bar started 11am by watching the Man Utd, Chelsea game and finished by me leaving a cash table at 4am because I got board funding everyone at the table. In Between is mostly a blur. But their is a few things I remember that I found funny or at least rememberable.

I can remember Man Utd getting beat. We actually watch the game with Teddy Sheringham, as he had also busted the tournament day1. This was followed by many Vodka Redbull’s. Then we meet up with a few of Stevie’s mates. (This is where the name dropping starts). So we ended up watching the David Haye, Ruiz fight with Chris Moorman. One of Stevie’s close friends. This is where one of the funniest quotes I can remember from the night happened.

So after a bit of slagging going on, mostly me slagging Moorman that his father was a better and more recognized poker player than him. Incase you didn’t know, Moorman paid for his dad to play in a poker tournament in the UK for his birthday, which he won and over took Moorman in live tournament winnings. However after that Moorman told us something his mum said to him, which I though was funny as..

Him mum said ” Why do you keep going to these live event’s to play poker. You never win. Why don’t you just stick to playing online with the amateurs.” I thought that was so so funny. Probably one of the best tournament players of my generation and his mum thinks he isn’t good enough to play live poker.

Apart from that going on, Marty Smyth, was also having his stag do with his poker mates. They had paid for a midget (sorry if it offends anyone but don’t know the proper term) to be hand cuffed to Marty for the whole night. That was funny as well. By the way, remember to Vote Marty Smyth into this years WSOP Tournament of Champions, hes giving any winning from the tournament to Charity.

After that its a bit of a blank, I can just remember leaving the cash tables at 4 after getting allin for about £600 with AQ v KQ. Lost that, King came on the flop.

Great weekend though.

And PNB also went back into google where it left the day I got back home, which removed alot of worry. Another good thing was the mini site I just built. I built a mini site targeting a few keywords, mainly Victory Poker Rakeback, and that has been ranking well and gaining a few sign ups.

So although their was a few low points over the 2 weeks, mostly just google dropping the site, it all ended up good, and ended up having a great weekend because of it.