Monday, December 10, 2012

Irish Eyes new site launch

Irish Eyes relaunched earlier this week, providing access to a number of different poker rooms. At present the main ones are Revolution (formerly known as Cake), Merge, Ideal and Enet. More will be added soon including I believe OnGame, Ipoker and 888.

In this blog, I'll give some information on how to update your existing account or sign up.

Existing customers

Follow these steps:

(1) Update your password


In order to access your Irish Eyes account you must get a temporary password first, and this password must be changed before you can use any product. You will get the temporary password via email. If you have not received this email, you should go to our site www.irisheyesbet.com or www.irisheyespoker.com and then click on 'Log-In' at the top right hand side, and once on the Log-in page, click on 'Forgotten Password or Username'. This link is at the bottom of the Log-in page.

Once you have done this, you will be sent an automatic email with your temporary password included.

If you do not receive this email, it may be because the email address registered on your Irish Eyes account is not up to date. Perhaps you now use a different email address. If this is the case, please email support@irisheyespoker.com and ask them to change your registered email address to your new email address, and then try the 'Forgotten Password' process again.

If changing your email address does not work or if you know your email is correct on our system, and you still do not receive a temporary password email, you can email our customer support and ask them to manually change your password and email it to you directly. Once you get your temporary password, you must log in at our website, update your profile, and change your password. None of the products will work with the temporary password you have been sent. Everything must update within the Irish Eyes system through our website before you will be able to log into any poker client.


(2) Update your profile


When you are asked to 'update your profile' please note that there are mandatory fields you must fill in. If you do not fill these mandatory fields in, the update will not take place and you will be asked to 'please update your profile' repeatedly.

Updating your profile also means you will be asked to choose a 'username' for each of the platforms we offer. The usual thing to do is copy your Irish Eyes username into the boxes for each product. If there is a conflict with your username for any product, you will be prompted to change. This is because the username you have on Irish Eyes that you want to use on the other product might already be taken on that product. A slight change to your Irish Eyes username on this product should suffice.

Once your profile has been updated you will be asked to change your password from the temporary password emailed to you. Please note, the password must be letters and numbers only, and must not be more than 10 characters. This completes your profile update.

(3) Download the software

You need to download the poker clients on which you want to play, and this can be done on our 'Download Software' page. There is currently no 'multi-installer' that would download and install all software products to your computer in one go, but we are working on delivering this in the near future.

The main attraction for players (such as myself) who play on a number of different networks is the ease with which money can be moved around between the different sites covered, instantaneously and free of Fx charges.

On a completely different (and much sadder) note, I was very sorry to hear that Mick Hamilton (pictured below, courtesy of IPB's Danny Maxwell) passed away. Mick was a close friend of Miick Mccloskey. An archetypal "London gent", he loved coming over to Ireland to play poker. He was also something of a gourmand, and I had a lot of enjoyable meals spent in the good company of the two Micks. RIP Mick: you will be missed.


Monday, December 3, 2012

Fitz 7 Firm 0


I was playing in the Fitz EOM the other night. Daragh Davey jokingly tweeted that I had staked 10% of the field (a slight exaggeration) which prompted Mark Smyth to tweet the following gem which gave me a chuckle.

It seems to be pretty widely known these days that I do a bit of staking. What started a while back as just buying %'s in people in one off events has gradually mushroomed.

In his PocketFives interview, Danloulou made an excellent point at the time that one thing he felt was holding Irish poker back was the lack of a genuine staking culture. In my view, staking is both misunderstood and regarded with suspicion by a lot of Irish poker players. There seems to be a sort of general view that stakers are almost parasites or pimps (I've actually heard us referred to as pimps quite a bit). The view seem to be that stakers prey on the young without bankrolls, introducing them to a life of servitude in cyber sweatshops and living off the fat of their profits. In some quarters, staking is seen as a form of cowardice. I recently sat through an attempt by David Lappin to explain the benefits of staking (to the staked player) to a very sceptical Irish poker player who was arguing that anyone good shouldn't need to be staked. This is a historical perspective: the view that the way you "make it" in poker is to grind up your own bankroll. This was possible a few years ago when lower and even mid stakes were so soft a player could grind their way up quickly.

In a future blog, I will try to explain the benefits of staking to all the parties involved so watch this space.

The night after the Fitz EOM (where I failed to cash but Jaymo at least notched up his first live Hendon Mob result) was originally meant to be the night that Team Old Nits defended our title won last year, but was cancelled due to lack of interest (or teams). It was replaced with a rebuy which I decided to skip. Was pretty happy that I did when I went on a mini rampage online winning the Night on Stars Fr, getting a second on Party and a few other bits and bobs all adding up to my first 10k night online in a while. A lot of Irish players have been celebrating binks lately. Marc McDonnell had a bink earlier in the week on Stars Fr (beating no less than Christopher Brammer headsup), while on the same night John O'Shea reminded us that he can still play a bit of poker , binking an IPOPs and a PLO tournament on the same night. Love him or hate him (and he's one of those unique individuals it's possible to do both simultaneously) few would deny that Irish poker without John O'Shea would be a much duller place. After a recent bad run that he has been brutally frank about on his own blog, it says a lot about John's character and resolve that he can come back and do this.

The following night it was back to the Fitz for the Main event of their festival. With a decent structure and many of the best players in Dublin otherwise occupied at a boxing match across town, our hopes were high as no less than seven "Firm" members lined out. Pride came before a fall: we fairly got our asses handed to us with no more than zero of the seven surviving to Day 2. After meeting up in town beforehand, we found ourselves shivering on a corner of Grafton Street while David Lappin queued for......ice cream. Yes. Ice cream. Only in Ireland could you find yourself shivering on a street corner waiting for someone who wants to make himself even colder eating ice cream. Speaking of David, check out his cameo performance about 8 minutes 20 into this video of UKIPT Dublin.

http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-video-18913-ukipt-season-3-dublin-webshow.html?channel_id=172

Colin "Hammo" Hammond stayed in my house for a couple of nights, so he was grinding on his laptop next door in the kitchen while I did my 10k session. Hammo has been beasting it online this year and I've already eulogised on this blog so I won't repeat myself. What I will say is that after spending a couple of days with Hammo and listen to him talking about poker and watching him play online and live, he's gone up even further in my estimation as someone who has all the tools and temperament to be a superstar. He takes everything in his stride: I can't imagine we'll ever see Hammo kick or throw a chair after taking a beat. In fact he's so calm that when I had dropped to a few tables and moved into the kitchen for dinner to find Hammo on the final table of the OnGame 50 rebuy, his reaction to his bustout was so muted that I had to ask him if he had busted. When I see people throw a tantrum after a beat, I don't think any less of them as people (we are all entitled to the occasional emotional outburst and we all have our own way of expressing ourselves) but it does make me question their long term future in a game that will keep serving up the beats for as long as they play it. In my experience long term success in this game depends a lot more on temperament and emotional control than it does on pure poker talent. The reason so few people have the capacity to succeed long term in this game is that it requires diverse character traits rarely found in the same person. You must be both patient and aggressive. Most patient people are not aggressive, and most aggressive people not patient. You need to be calm but competitive. You need to be able to get over the past, live in the present moment, and focus on the future. In mtts, the big money decisions have to be made in the emotional cauldron of the latter stages when you are most tired and distracted.

One person who knows all this and has all these characteristics is Nick Abou Risk. Just when you thought Nick couldn't possibly be any more legendary, he goes and posts this on Facebook. Enjoy.

http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/12/dude-sings-both-male-and-female-parts-in-aladdin-415548?st=fb&ai=0&zi=0&ds=1

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