Entrepreneur, author: “from the arena” on Audible or Amazon, investor & mentor: tech / blockchain. Poker updates on Insta. “Mikster 🇮🇪” on GG. ❤️ Connemara.
Decent run - 559th / 10046 - but not to be - built up a fighting stack only to hit 2 pair A10 on a dangerous board by turn (straight, and a flush draw) … misread his bet as pointing to a pair and flush draw. Good luck to my pal Stephen Loughman chasing my Top Paddy title 🇮🇪🍀
Tough day 2 at the WSOP Main Event - one giant fold AQ top-top to a rivered straight. Tough grind and under the weather, so 150k above average stack may be good work. Back on Sunday. Cheering for all the Irish notably Stephen Loughman, Stephen Kehoe and Glen Keogh - storming it.
A mere 23 years later - got there: from the arena - an entrepreneur’s journey - the story of
Edited by
@DalyGavin
On Amazon: Paperback, hardback, kindle - best for paperback.
Also audiobook: Google Play
What a weekend’s racing. What buzz! Hope the whole
@JohnnyMurtagh
team shines, in particular, the unlikely challenger and superstar filly (in our eyes anyway) Champers Elysées, who has earned her place in Sat’s Matron, running for
#TheFitzwilliamSyndicate
#Dreams
Another
@WSOP
main event coming up - this time with thanks to a
@GGPoker
satellite. Shout out (again) to our own
@daraokearney
whose amazing satellite strategy book I cannot but highly recommend. Monte Carlo - Las Vegas double in the bag 🍀
A good day to say thanks to
@blaaaaaah666
for straightening out my poker a few years ago and showing a lot of confidence and to
@daraokearney
who I mentioned on this Insta post
Coming back to Day 4 of the WSOP ME with a 99 and a bag of chips (ok, 99k chips in a bag). We are on the bubble - 10 (tbc) more eliminations required. Unfortunately, I am back to Seat 2 and will probably have to fold my hand, bar a monster! So stack is really 79k.
#SpinItUp
What a journey
@Aughamorestud
... thanks and delighted for you guys too! He has a good eye that
@JohnnyMurtagh
fella ... great vision by Mark Flood and Paul Mc Keon in Fitzwilliam Syndicate too
#CmonChampers
@MichaelDwyer64
@JohnnyMurtagh
Best of luck with Champers tomorrow. Delighted to have sold her to Johnny as a yearling and be part of the rollercoaster!!
Enjoyed this conversation with
@mrgaryfox
of
@EntExperiment
on the challenges of an entrepreneurial journey (and the book “from the arena” edited by
@DalyGavin
). Views on Bitcoin and my WSOP poker adventures (I had the perfect audience in Gary for both) saved to the end.
Thanks (again) to Ian Kehoe and The Currency for Ian’s commentary today (free to read) and the link to extracts from my book: from the arena - an entrepreneur’s journey - the story of
More:
“What to read to understand poker, the finest game ever invented…” The Economist
The simple answer is … the works of
@daraokearney
and
@Barry_Carter
Love the compliment to our game - fine indeed!
Very best of luck to
@PadraigONeill89
on the final table of the EPT main event in Prague. Padraig is one of our best players of the past decade. Would be wonderful to see him and an Irish flag up top 🇮🇪 (… I tried too 🥲)
Grit & perseverance in abundance in BBC iPlayer documentary tracking poker pros
@Firaldo87poker
and
@daviddoc87
Pro poker has its glamour but depicted here as an exceptionally tough route to grind out a living. Good on you lads!
Niall 'Firaldo' Farrell stars in new must-see BBC poker doc
Recommended viewing: Follow
@Firaldo87poker
and
@daviddoc87
as they navigate an exciting year in the world of professional tournament poker 🎬
Final post on my book “from the arena” based on my journals over c20 years. 2023 royalties will go to VdeP Dundalk. Written with young entrepreneurs in mind, but reads as “a business thriller”, a few have said. So maybe a stocking filler! Links below. Thank u readers & reviewers!
A mere 23 years later - got there: from the arena - an entrepreneur’s journey - the story of
Edited by
@DalyGavin
On Amazon: Paperback, hardback, kindle - best for paperback.
Also audiobook: Google Play
Enjoyed the Heads Up battle with
@SmurphsMurphy
- he was always in charge! Loving the new generation of Irish poker player - a pleasure to play with (if very hard to beat). Another good night for
@daraokearney
too 👍
Hamas’ attacks were horrible. Israel’s disproportionate response is horrible; justification for its continuation, horrible. The displacement of so many innocent Palestinians is horrible. Fear of criticising Israel’s actions is horrible. Impunity is horrible. Bloody horrible.
Why do we have to be the MOST CONSERVATIVE in Europe on re-opening?🤯🤐😤 Political leadership please, in the face of over-exuberant and power-high
#NPHET
Wouldn’t you wonder who is representing the voice of the small business - hotels, restaurants, retailers, hairdressers - at Nphet discussions? And more saliently, who in that room is about to lose a salary, an investment, a life’s work, let alone the dream of a pension?
#covid
EPT London underway at Hilton Park Lane no less - struggling but itm in UKIPT HR but who knows what mad run may lie ahead - and Main Event to come today or tomorrow
My daughter is one of c9k students who sat LC ‘19 & are disadvantaged by 4.4% inflation. She’ll accept the offer she got (not her first choice), but many wont & all are disadvantaged. Quite unfair. I’m supporting the petition
#CAO
#Plus4
.4%
@SimonHarrisTD
Valuable advice with customary frankness from
@daraokearney
A much riskier decision these days for a young person to go pro. And yes, some of us senior regs enjoying our poker again (with a little help from out friendly pros)
When is lockdown too expensive? The graph of the rising costs of lockdown in mental health, demise of SMEs, massive build up of untreated health issues, national debt, will shortly pass the descending curve of Covid harm. Vaccinate the vulnerable, roll out fast but open up soon
Loneliness is increasing more among 18 to 34 year olds than for any other age group and is emerging as a 'very serious public health issue', according to the Institute of Public Health
An unforgettable festival when everyone and racing itself needed it, congrats to Rachael, Henry, Jack K, the Irish racing community, the team
@CheltenhamRaces
and
@itvracing
coverage. So many great previews, particular thanks to
@olibellracing
&
@SenseiChanning
& all at TheAsylum
Compelled to RT: of course, for
@daraokearney
’s well deserved praise of the Irish Poker Festival &
@fintangavin
, but just a teeny bit too, for Dara’s very kind comments about my book & (actually blushing 😊) my poker
#WTF
Humbled by the pen of our very own poker author & legend!
@ihrb_ie
Well reasoned and laid out appraisal of the case. Worth a read in full. Can’t argue with the punishment. GE cooperated fully, never in denial, showed lots of remorse and by all accounts an uncharacteristic moment of awful judgement. Learn & move on
Well done
@yeates_liz
working so hard for and with the
@MarieKeating
Foundation on
@IvanYatesNT
show, spreading the message to Stop Smoking and look out for the early symptoms of lung cancer.
Chuffed to be putting on an exhibition for an auld pal with rare talent - good luck
@Nolanart
- look forward to toasting you and your abstract art at The SeaRooms in Monkstown this weekend. All welcome.
@TomLyonsBiz
Agent seeks something akin to market value for the services of a high profile talented individual. Purchaser agrees. For its own shady pay- and governance culture reasons, purchaser fudges the books. Gets found out. Offers up said individual in a sinister distraction ploy. Yuk.
And the ancillary cost keeps mounting in mental health, relationships, abuse, undiagnosed & untreated cancers, cardiac disease et al, the economic cost at SME level & in unemployment. But the myopia goes to “the cases blah blah blah” of a now much more treatable disease. Open up!
We now have scientific evidence that there is a very reduced risk of
#COVID
transmission outdoors. We need to follow this science by permitting outdoor sports and activities.
Due to popular demand (yeah right),
@Barry_Carter
and I recorded a webinar on Milestone/Target Stack Satellites.
It's an expansion on the updated Poker Satellite Chapter we wrote and comes with that chapter on PDF. It contains literally everything I know about the format
Well that was good fun! Thanks to Richard Curran and the team at
@TheBusinessRTE
for having me on to discuss entrepreneurs and the challenges we can’t resist …. Interview starts at c.9mins
Latest book links pinned above.
Now the story of Dundalk man who went from a meat factory in Belfast to creating inflatable shamrocks for Irish football fans to selling his company for millions. He’s just published a memoir of his time in business called From the Arena.
@MichaelDwyer64
My interview on poker and business (and life) with the Chip Race poker podcast a few weeks ago (with the excellent David Lappin and Dara O’Kearney). It’s first up.
We could do with “the John Hume factor” facing today’s awful conflicts around the world. A timely reminder by
@StepWalkTV
. Hume believed in dialogue and depolarisation; confronting the root causes of violence and those responsible, at all levels. A hero of the peace.
“He is fearless, he times his moves well… and he lives by the Laconic motto ‘Molon Labe’ which can be translated into a poker context as ‘if you want my chips, come and get them’.”
My new article is about
@MichaelDwyer64
’s phenomenal 7-figure score.
🖊️
All sorted by Amazon France: It’s on its way: the new book by
@daraokearney
and
@Barry_Carter
… (you are buying “brioché”).
Beyond GTO: Poker Exploits Simplified : : Livres