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Alex O’Brien
@alexobrienuk.bsky.social
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Writer. Poker Player. Network Queen.
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#wcsj2025 Wed, 3 Dec, networking at Market@The Sheds

📷@serushagovender.bsky.social @alexobrienuk.bsky.social @engela.bsky.social & Sallie Robins
📷 Alex, Marie Virginie Mbusnum & Sallie

🍸4 Dec, networking cocktail sponsored by #WCSJ2027 London team
Tag ABSW on your pictures!

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December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#abswss25 #SummerSchool #hybrid
🔗 zurl.co/tUAAn

🎤Interview Skills🎤
How to get the most out of your interviewee? How to get the answers you need?

🎯Producer: @alexobrienuk.bsky.social
📢Workshop Leader: @alokjha @economist.com
June 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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My book rubbing spines with some other great reads in a super cool bookstore in Paris! Merci, Smith&Son. 😍
June 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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If anyone was to observe you today would they believe you are serious about your goals?

#whatkeepsmegoing
June 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Runner's high is cool and all, but Writer's high? That’s next-level euphoria, like caffeine for the soul without the jitters. Nothing beats body-slamming a creative block and strutting away like a literary rockstar...
June 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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It was meant to be a cash-and-dash, until the stack got too big to ignore. @daraokearney.bsky.social
“The Professor” did the math.

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Alex O’Brien: To bag or not to bag - when a stack messes with your flight plans
If you have a flight booked at the end of Day 1 of a live poker tournament, how many chips make it worth cancelling it and playing on? Alex O'Brien an...
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May 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Aww amazing I can't wait to read it!!
May 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Congratulations to @dipeshgopal.bsky.social
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Please DM me with your postal address and a signed copy of The Truth Detective will find its way to you soon.
alexobrienuk.bsky.social Alex O’Brien @alexobrienuk.bsky.social · Apr 30
🚨 Signed book giveaway! 🚨

To celebrate the paperback release of The Truth Detective, I’m giving away three signed copies!

Here’s how to enter:
1.Follow me and @souvenirpress.bsky.social
2. retweet this post

Winners will be picked at random by May 7th. Good luck!
May 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Science writer by day. Poker player and commentator by night.

I am calling the action tonight from 6.30pm at the Hippodrome Lightning Tournament! Expect fast play, big pots, and plenty of fireworks.
Let’s gooo! 🔥 #poker #livestream
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May 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Snag yourself a signed copy @dauntbooks.bsky.social 🤩
May 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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What an offer!
alexobrienuk.bsky.social Alex O’Brien @alexobrienuk.bsky.social · Apr 30
🚨 Signed book giveaway! 🚨

To celebrate the paperback release of The Truth Detective, I’m giving away three signed copies!

Here’s how to enter:
1.Follow me and @souvenirpress.bsky.social
2. retweet this post

Winners will be picked at random by May 7th. Good luck!
April 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
alexobrienuk.bsky.social
🚨 Signed book giveaway! 🚨

To celebrate the paperback release of The Truth Detective, I’m giving away three signed copies!

Here’s how to enter:
1.Follow me and @souvenirpress.bsky.social
2. retweet this post

Winners will be picked at random by May 7th. Good luck!
April 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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🥳Last week #ABSWmembers met for the annual after-Christmas party🎉
Tag people you met there. Let's start with...
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'Missed the Deadline' Christmas Party | 🥳 Last week #ABSWmembers met for the annual after Christmas party at the The Betjeman Arms 🎉 And it looks like people enjoy it! Tag people you have met... | By ...
🥳 Last week #ABSWmembers met for the annual after Christmas party at the The Betjeman Arms 🎉 And it looks like people enjoy it! Tag people you have met...
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January 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Do you think you're sitting still right now?

- You're on a planet that orbitis a star at 30km/s

- That star is orbiting the center of a galaxy at 230km/s

- That galaxy is moving trough the universe at 600km/s.

Since you started reading this, you have traveled about 3000km.
December 25, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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A first for me: go play poker and guy in line at cash desk pulls out my book still in its Amazon packaging from his backpack asking if I could sign it for his daughter. Made me smile all day. 🤩
December 11, 2024 at 9:39 AM