My Waterford Open 2008

Thursday saw me take the trip out to Tramore in what would see me put more hours in four days than I would usually put into 2 weeks! I was originally meant to be dealing for the weekend but by Saturday I had perfected the art of running around the ballroom with a chicken and cheese panini in one hand, a notepad in the other and an expensive looking camera around my neck! I was living the hectic life of a tournament blogger!

I’ll spare the details of the weekend, because they can all be seen at the Bodog Waterford Open Blog, but I will say that I was absolutely run off my feet as this whole tournament blogging scene was new to me! I can’t think of the number of times that I had taken note of a hand, taken a picture of the players and had gone to the laptop to post the story only to have to hop back up again to cover another hand!

I think I eventually got the hang of it as I just took a picture of the board and the players, went to the laptop and reconstructed the action using the pictures of the table… resourceful huh? The fact that by Day 3, there were only a handful of players left in the tournament also helped as I was no longer being summoned into the tournament areas to cries of “ALL-IN” every 15 seconds!

Having covered the whole event, it really highlighted the luck-factor in these tournaments. In looking back through the blog, I noticed that every player on the final table had two things in common 1) they were all involved in some kind of hand during the tournament where at best they were racing for all their chips and 2) they all left a trail of destruction in their wake!

So, after working for 50 hours over the 4 days, I stumbled back home with my various bits and pieces making sure that I had the most valuable things of all… the tiny orange notebook that now had the email addresses of two models that were down for the weekend? A thinly-veiled brag? I think not :p