The Good Day"s
Fine wine, good food, fast cars and loose women well not quite more like a can of tizer, chips and egg, a clapped out astra and loose women on the telly, but these were good days. Away from APAT, I started to play in bigger games now remember that before APAT I used to play in $2 or $5 STT and the same for MTT but now I was playing $20/$30 STT and the money was rolling in well not quite rolling in but dripping in. The biggest win was the $25k on pacific poker, from a $3 satellite into a $15 satellite to a $30 buy-in into an over $6000 win. The only one draw back was the wife "playing poker again, stopping in again, you keep on saying that you win but what have you got to show for it" so to keep Mrs Nosey happy I withdrew most of my bankroll (something I regret now, more on this later) but it did pay for a trip to Vegas, bought a new telly, paid for a new car (second hand, I did not win that much) but the wife was happy. In this period I also won the APAT South African open and then second in the Chinese open putting me on top again which I held for next four/five month (not sure how long, Des can confirm) These were good days. Then came my first APAT live game, my first ever live game was in Vegas, (there is plenty of blogs on Vegas, the best being ThinkerJE) Not a lot to say on this apart from the people I met, first of all that nice man Des followed by Richard (I didn't think that Shrek was an actuarial person) and that strange man of the telly. I am not going to mention the poker, it's not worth it but I will mention my first taste of fame. People knowing who I was, people I have never met new me it was a bit flattering. These were the good days
