It sucks when things like this happen, doesn't it. You've just got to keep going and don't let it affect your play. Most of the time, you'll take pots like these without any problems. Still sucks at the time though!

TCOOP is the series of online poker tournaments available at Pokerstars where the action is fast!

The TCOOP runs from January 19-29, 2012, and has a massive guaranteed prize pool of $10,000,000 spread over 50 events.

The schedule includes Turbo and Hyper Turbo tournaments, with buy-ins ranging from $5.50-$2,100. The highlight is the $1,500,000 guaranteed Main Event, and you can qualify now.

At the time of posing this, 15 events have taken place but there are another 35 waiting to be players, so get over to Pokerstars now and cash in on some mega prize money!

Been playing quite a bit of $1/$2 No Limit Hold'em games at Poker Stars over the past week or so and tried out the capped games (CAP on the game menu.) 

For the ininitiated, at the tables I've been playing there's a cap of $40, which means that in any single hand, I can't put more than $40 into the pot.

I'm finding it good because sometimes I can get a little ahead of myself and call an all-in when really I should probably just fold.  The CAP games help me stay within the realms of sense a little and even when I do have a moment of madness, it's not the end of the World.

However, they can be a little frustrating in that certain games can become a bit of an all-in fest between certain players.  In all honesty, this is probably what has been making my roll a little bigger but I do still find it a pain when you're constantly getting marginal hands you can do nothing with because the rest of the table's all in with very little.

Anyone else tried the CAP games, what's your thoughts.

(Turn the volume up !!)

Here's a link to a Shell commercial shown in Europe - how cool is this, even if you're not a motorsports fan.

Ferrari pulled several of their race cars from various ages out of storage, flew them around the world, and filmed them running through the streets of Rome, Rio, New York, Hong Kong, Honolulu and Monaco.

No computer graphics - these are the original cars on the original streets.

The best part is the sound - from the basso-profundo notes of the early, front-engine era, each scene cuts to a later generation, ending with the wail of a modern F1 car.

There's just something about 3 liters and 14,000 RPM !