the adventure starts here.....in Brighton. First event that PaddyPower have bought in for me on the road to Dublin was the £100 freezeout at the Rendezvous Casino, Brighton. Nice cosy little venue, a bunch of friendly regulars, nearly as many of the Paddy Power team coming along to oversee things.

Managed to play fairly tight but still ended up getting blinded out and limping off stage left in 48th (out of 140) - Terry had come down with me and with a 25% deal of each other's winnings I was banking on him to cash. Chip leader with 13 left I had faith. He then ran into one of the local Brighton fish who tilted him into going all in and he busted out in a pissed off 11th. Grrrrrr... I managed to salvage proceedings with a win in the side game for a nice £90 profit. Thoroughly knackered we hit the London borders just shy of 6am the following morning. Bring on London !