Right, this’ll be my first ever daytime poker game. The idea is that this is the time housewives and students are playing. Easy pickings? Probably not but its worth a go. I’m gonna use the $9 I won last time to play a $10 Single Table Tournament. Like last time thats 10 players who each pay $10 at the beginning and fight it out to the death. Thats $50 to the winner and $30 and $20 to the runners up. Here goes.

Well firstly I can’t see any students or housewives. Everybody is from Sweden on my table. Towns such as Simrishamn, Umea and Motala. A quick check on Google and they’re all Swedish towns. I tell a lie, there are two people from Wolverhampton and Bradford - I could still be lucky.

Jack And Ten of diamonds - not bad. A 7 & 8 are on the flop. I have a possible run if a 9 pops up. It doesn’t. I’m down 150.

On my next hand I get dealt a pair of jacks. One guy is betting strong but I go for it. The flop hasn’t given us anything better than a 9. He goes all in. So do I. And he has a pair of aces, damn, the best hand possible. The turn and river fail to provide a Jack and I’m out. All in 3 minutes.

Its hard to know if I made the wrong decision. In hindsight yes, but he would have needed either a pair of Queens, Kings or Aces to beat me. And they dont come around all the time. And a win that early would have deinitly put me in control of the table. Oh well, easy come easy go My balance now stands at $35.

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This amazing peice is by a friend of mine known as Kid Spaniard. Artist, mum and Dane - she has her work cut out.

See her complete gallery here.

I was recently invited to The Brighton Sun Club but declined the offer. The website is great though and gave me the FAQ to swinging that I have always been looking for. Anyone up for it

Its been ages since I’ve been offered drugs on the streets of Brighton but tonight I was accosted by a long-haired man who said “Know anybody who wants some Viagra”, as he pushed forward a blister pack of blue pills. He was 50 metres from my house outside a phone box. I said no, of course, and he then asked me for some change. Hey, maybe its good to have relatively decent addicts round my way - its better than being mugged. Good luck to the poor bastard!

My Poker Experiment starts here. I’ve just transferred £20 into my Ladbrokes account, which, added to my $2 already in there, gives me $37.12 to play with. The plan is to increase this amount (and not look like a mug). I’m hoping that by writing it up here maybe I wont play so recklessly.

I’ll be playing games of Texas Hold’em the most popular of the poker family. You can find the rules of Texas Hold’em here.

Although you can play with as many people as you like I’ll start off by playing a few Single Table Tournaments (STTs). This is where all ten players on a table pay the same amount of money and get the same amount of chips. Nobody can add any chips to their pile or cash them in - you play until one person has won all the chips. If you’re there till the end it’ll usually take an hour to play.

To start off I’ll play a $5 table. This actually costs me $6 as I have to pay a buck to Ladbrokes for the privilege - thats how they make their money. Thats a pot of $50 - $25 to the winner, $15 to second place and $10 to third. Winning is, of course, hard but getting into the top three is a bit easier. It all depends on the luck of your cards, the skill of the opponents and having some balls to see through any bluffs. Lets go!

Bets start off at 20 chips. Get a 3-8, I fold but three players go all in. That means two get knocked out and there’s 8 players left, great. Now I get dealt a 4-3 and call. A 4 and 3 turn up in the flop and I end up winning 500 chips, I’m now on 2000, I’m in 2nd place.

I lose 250 chips waiting for a flush that never appears, but get 400 back with four 3’s!! Can’t remember the last time I had four of a kind. Can my luck continue?

Not doing too badly. About 15 mins in and 2150 chips, still 2nd place. Throwing away hands that dont materialise and staying in with winners. 2 players down and 2 with less than 600 chips.

30 mins in and no change. And I’m not getting any good cards. Bets start at 100 chips now. Gotta be selective and decisive. Oh, another players taken out - but not by me. My hands are getting worse but manage to bluff a few chips back. Each hand is now 200 chips a pop if you want to see the flop.

Only six players left but I’m in 4th place. I need to take some of the lower players out. Gah! Down to 1300 chips with a hand that could have gone either way. Great, back up to 3rd with a nice three of a kind.

Then it all goes mad! I win an “all in” with 2 other players and I’m in the lead. Then there’s three of us left. I take the third guy out and I’m 8000 chips and the other guy is 7000. We have an almightly scrap which lasts about 10 minutes but he finally kills me off as I decide to match his all-in with a Queen and Jack, he has a King and ends up winning with a pair of them.

Oh well, I didn’t win but I walk away with $15. Thats a good start, and adds $9 to my pot, which is now $46. More poker soon!

cNet has compiled the top 10 intenet fads of all time. Highlights include my old favourite All Your Base and the once hilarious Mahir (which is currently down).

This is a tomato:

Check out lots more microscopic photos at www.MolecularExpressions.com

Grant Robinson has created a great little app which creates a montage based on the Google Images associated with any search term.

Here’s the images based on searching ‘KingOfMyCastle’. Try checking out your name.

Now this is what I call a keyboard. Take a look at the Art. Lebedev Studios design. Superb.

Maybe Rudy will sell them at his Blend Design Store.