Wednesday morning in Primrose Hill. It has been peeing down for the last 24 hours and there is a river flowing past our front door. Good weather for online poker players!

We are well into the WCOOP so I thought I would round up how we have been doing.

So far I have only played 4 tournaments. The first three are hardly worth mentioning as I was barely involved. The $500 heads-up tournament was particularly frustrating. I had a bye in the first round which meant that I only had to win two games to get into the money. But I lost to a weak player who never missed a flop in two hours. Doh!

Last night we all played in the $300 “double chance” no limit holdem. There were 2,500 runners.

The first thing to mention was that the “double chance” was different to other DCs I have played. You were only allowed to take the second lot of chips (which you had to pay for) if you were down to zero. I started well and doubled up easily. I went to take my rebuy at the break but I couldn’t. Note to self, read the effing rules before you start!

Having started with 5,000, I got up to 500,000 chips at one stage but I ran out of luck with 5 tables left at 8.30am, cashing for a disappointing $1,850 (first was $130k). It didn’t seem much for all that effort

Both The Coach and Lord Miros also managed small cashes and much more sensible bedtimes. All in all a good night for Withnail’s Poker School taking $2,300 between us! It’s also The Coach’s third cash in three comps. Impressive stuff.

It gets a bit more serious later in the week. The $5,000 Main Event is on Sunday. Feel free to tune in to watch us from the rail at Pokerstars.com!

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