Happy New Year

May all your flush draws hit. May you hit trips often and may the fish be plentiful and your poker booty bountiful.

Well it's back to work for me and two weeks of poker free fun in Alba mater.

I'll be starting all totals from scratch for 2008 so please let me know your starting bankroll and we will use that as Ground Zero.

I did log on once over the hols to transfer some cash to Bigshot and Lamma_Jim. It seems L_Jim's money has gone through okay but as it was a larger amount to Bigshot they have emailed me and asked for confirmation which I've provided but they asked for contact details and since my phone was off they seem to have suspended my Stars account. Trying to clear it up with them now. I started my 2008 poker career with a loss last night but plan to include those figures in the final 2007 figures which I'll post later.

I also placed a few new bets on the footie using Unibet and broke even but have taken another step towards clearing the bonus. I also had my $100 bonus from Ladbrokes rejected as I live in China. I checked with support that I was eligible before doing it so I am fighting my case but not hopeful.

I'm struggling to find a site to kick off my year. Playboy Poker is on the Crypto network which is pretty tough at the moment. I signed up to Pacific Poker but the software is glitchy, they use spyware that Windows XP won't allow and their support are incredibly unhelpful and indeed stupid so I'll give that a skip. I'm actually leaning towards Unibet as my first site of choice. Ideally I'd like to sign up for Poker4Ever's Happy Hour bonus but that is only between 3-6am on Saturday and Wednesday morning and I missed my chance while staring at the ceiling with jetlag this weekend.

Normal service will now resume on this blog - ie patchy, questionable content and geeky pokerdom aplenty.