ALPT 4 is coming on the 18th September at the Grosvenor Victoria casino off Edgware Rd. We will be open for registration in a few days time, so clear your diary for free networking, drinking and gambling.

If you are a member of the Grosvenor chain of casinos entry will be easy, if not then you MUST remember to bring photo ID. I will be constantly reminding you all of this between now and the event. No membership or photo ID, no entry.

Wow, what a night! Summary:

I was the very first player out, on my second hand. Don’t get me started. I had to announce to everyone that I was a big loser with my own megaphone.

World famous WSOP poker champion Annette Obrestad (Annette 15) turned up to kick our asses.

The prizes were awesome. Roy and his staff at the Loose Cannon club were superstars as usual, this time saving us when the casino canceled our venue at the 11th hour. Betfair laid on some amazing sponsorship. The Betfair team turned up mob handed and are really great people. In total 115 people attended the tournament. Surely an indication of the growing popularity of the PokerCoder events. Read on for the details. Read more

So you have a pair of Jacks. The guy opposite you is wearing a cowboy hat, shades and a month of stubble. You can’t see his eyes but you know he’s staring into your head. You start to think that inside he’s laughing because he knows what you’ve got, but on the out side he is cold and calculating. You raise and he re-raises, without hesitation. While he watches you sweat he starts to shuffle his chips with one hand, split the single stack into two and reshuffle them again with one hand. He seems to do it so easily and almost without thinking. How does he do that? It’s really cool, but intimidating at the same time. I wish I could do that. But the chinking of the chips is getting louder in your ears and you start to question your hand. He must be good. Look at the way he shuffles those chips. You fold. He laughs at your weakness with contempt as he starts to take your chips and shows you his 2 7 off suit.

Beaten by a chip trickster. Well no more! No longer will you have to loose the girl because you’re scared of a chip bully kicking chip tricks in your face, and other such crap, shoehorned analogies. We will teach you the ways of the chip trickster. Starting with a great video from a fat bloke called skd1337 who looks for all the world like Mike Jones‘ stunt double. Don’t be fooled, this guy knows his stuff.