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Padraig Parkinson

Padraig Parkinson writes regularly for the Hendon Mob visitors. Visit Padraig's profile in the Hendon Mob Poker Database.

Articles by Padraig Parkinson

• Heads or Tales (15/07/2009)
  I decided to adopt a new tactic for the main event this year and got married between Day 1 and Day 2.
• Size Does Matter, but Viagra isn’t Always Necessary (29/06/2009)
  He said that people have been playing for a month now and nearly everyone is broke, so it’s not the game that matters anymore, it’s the size of the buy-in. If it’s 1500, everyone is in, if it’s more than that, they’re not.
• The Man Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight (25/06/2009)
  Previous employer: San Francisco Giants; Position held: Pitcher; Reason for leaving: Couldn’t throw strikes. If poker players were that honest, there wouldn’t be a game.
• Never Trust a Lawyer or a Woman (17/06/2009)
  Dan Quale was always good for a laugh. "I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future." is one of my favourites. He did get it right when he said that one lawyer for every 250 Americans was a bit over the top.
• Dead Money, Dead players and a Lucky Guess (11/06/2009)
  During the first break of the $2500 Holdem/Omaha tournament, I mentioned to Neil Channing that I strongly suspected that none of the players at my table had a job. Channing told me that he’d be amazed if any one at his table had worked a day in their lives.
• Fame is for the Famous (03/06/2009)
  My 2009 WSOP trip got off to a great start. In the airport anyway...
• Radio Gaga (14/05/2009)
  When Jesse May came up with the idea of doing a live poker radio show, I thought he was nuts.
• March Runs into April (07/04/2009)
  Irish poker and heart have often been mentioned in the same sentence, and rightly so. But heart is about more than shipping the tank in with air. It’s about putting your hand in your pocket when it may not be full to help out those for whom a poker bad beat story would be a luxury.
• Bad Day for Planet (24/03/2009)
  I decided to push the WSOP preparations a little further by playing a bunch of events in the Aviation Club. I’m not sure if it’s working good or bad because on the plus side I was going deep with chips and on the negative side I wasted a lot of time. On the very negative side...
• Nailed (12/03/2009)
  Hanging out with Surinder Sunar is usually good value. He’s the most superstitious gambler I’ve ever met. We were in Dublin airport recently on our way to play the European Open TV event when he spotted me purchasing nail clippers. This got him very excited as we’d swapped a piece and he explained to me that playing poker with long nails was desperately unlucky. Especially the feet.
• Never Help a Friend in Need (18/02/2009)
  Roy Wood may have made a few quid pretending he wished it was Christmas every day, but even thirty years ago that looked like a bluff to me! Celebrating Christmas once every five years would be more than enough for me, New Year’s Eve on the other hand is a totally different story, I’ve come to love it since we began spending the celebrations in Galway.
• Just for One Day (15/07/2008)
• To Play or not to Play? (13/07/2008)
• Inspiration from Stu (09/07/2008)
• Whiskey in the Jar (06/07/2008)
• Stu, Doyle, Johnny, Dan, Phil... and Billy (01/07/2008)
• Magic Potions (27/06/2008)
• Why It Can't Wait Until November (25/06/2008)
• A Mile in Another Man's Shoes (20/06/2008)
• Broken Dreams (11/06/2008)
  A dream is what’s brought us all here
• Treacherous Kickers (06/06/2008)
• Diplomatic Relations (03/06/2008)
• When Benny Met Terry (02/06/2008)
• Give Me the Muppets Anyday (08/08/2006)
• The Pain (03/08/2006)
• Me, Phil and History (23/07/2006)
• Omaha Practice and Lucky Numbers (22/07/2006)
• A suicide and two tournaments. Same result (09/07/2006)
• Looking back at where you came from might show you where you're going (03/07/2006)