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LOVE a Turbo Tuesday! Looking forward to sharing the table with special guest Karl Mahrenholz who's cashed over $1,000,000 in live tournaments and has won numerous UK events including a GUKPT title.
Any questions for Karl? Rack that $1,000,000 winning brain!
Also on the show: Cheltenham racing is underway and everybody will be looking for that big underdog who can turn a few quid into a fortune. But we want to know YOUR favourite stories of turning a small sum into a poker fortune?
It can be something from your own career - maybe you satellited into a big Sky Poker tourney and took it down - or something from the world of TV poker. Whatever it is, let us know your favourite tales of rags to riches!
Plus our new show 'Poker Strategy' from 9pm will be a Cash Game 101 so as a bit of fun what would YOU put into Room 101? What are your pet hates on or off the tables? What as far as your concerned would you be happy to NEVER see again? Before you ask tikay - I am NOT putting Davina Mcall in there... Reality TV maybe....
Here's the run down then!
7pm 20K Super Roller final table highlights from Sunday
8pm Live coverage from the 10K TURBO OPEN
9pm Sky Poker Strategy - our new show: Cash Game 101
10pm Master Cash: Live action from the Master Cash tables
11pm Live coverage from the 10k Turbo Open – final table
GL and if you're playing our main event - be sure to register here for our last longer comp for free entry into Thursday's main
Sarah xx
Comments
People who talk on their mobiles at 127 decibels. You’re on the phone: you don’t need to shout! If you want to shout please do so once I have vacated the area and am suitably out of earshot.
And still on mobiles: people who find it important to tell the person things like: “I’m on the bus; yeah, I’m just passing the petrol station now. Wait a minute, he’s stopped at the lights. I’ll just be a minute. Oh! Can see you now. Look, I’m waving. Can you see me? Yeah, I’m wearing my red coat. You see me now? Ok, just getting off now. Right, I’m hanging up...”
People who play music on their mobiles without headphones (usually on a bus), so that everyone can hear it. The quality is rarely crystal and it’s always an artist or band that makes you want to jam the phone down the user’s throat just to see if you can still hear it from the depths of their stomach.
Adults who look to Harry Potter and/or Twilight for points of reference.
People who haven’t read a book since school yet managed to get through Fifty Shades, and think it makes them qualified to critique literature.
Men who go to the middle of the silver trough that’s in some public toilets, when it’s empty. If there’s nobody else there, just take a corner like any normal person!
And still on toilets: men who don’t hold it at the urinals and stand there with their hands on their hips. What’s up with that? I don’t care if you can control your aim without your hands. It’s weird and puts me off my stream, so just do me a solid and hold yours next time, ok? Left hand or right, I really don’t care.
Women who answer “you don’t ask a lady that” when you ask them how old they are; closely followed by women who respond with “how old do you think I am?” to the same question.
People who get tattoos on their face and then get annoyed when you stare at them.
Google Maps.
Facebook (in general), but specifically those people who find their world will crumble if they don’t post a picture of a plate of food they are about to have at least once a week, along with some inane caption along the lines of: chips and gravy, my fave – mmm. Really? I’m so glad you told me that. Now I can rest easily tonight. I’d also like to throw in those users who update their status with “I’m so sad”, or "boo hoo", and then wait until a raft of followers ask them what’s wrong before actually divulging what their (usually minor) issue is.
People who get in an elevator to go up or down one floor. Use the stairs! I know you know where they are, because you passed them to get to the lift!
Teenagers who only recognise songs as being performed by the flavour-of-the-month group or artist currently in the charts. You just know their heads would explode if you told them that "One Way or Another" was actually a Blondie song thirty-five years ago.
Movie reboots. Not only are few of them any good, but reimagined stuff like "The Karate Kid" invariably makes me feel old, because the original reminds me of my childhood. If Hollywood wants to reboot "Die Hard" (the greatest action movie ever made) - despite the lacklustre most recent entry - they will have to go through me first.
Cyclists who think they can double as road users and pedestrians, using whichever rules please them at the time.
Sprouts - nobody actually likes them, and anyone who says they do are part of the conspiracy.
Ditto for Red Bull. It smells like vomit.
Bruce Forsythe. Nice to see you, to see you.... no, not really. Not anymore, Bruce. I stopped listening to your silly 'jokes' during The Generation Game. You need to retire. Now.
Spam emails. I appreciate the internet's desire to increase my length and/or girth, but I am satisfied with my current dimensions and would like to be go at least one month without having to unsubscribe to yet another website promising to maximise my potential.
After-Christmas sales that begin on Christmas Eve.
People who ask what football team I support. Not, do I support a football team, but just the instant pigeon-holing of me as a follower of what the rest of the country calls 'the beautiful game'. The moment I declare that actually, I don't like football, the conversation ends, as if the only thing they can talk about is how good/bad/exciting/boring/tense that game was on Saturday.
Self service checkouts that don't recognise the items you have put through, and those stupid plastic bags that you spend ten minutes trying to open, and you look around to see that everyone else is doing exactly the same....yeah, that's it for now
http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/03/09/man-loses-bet-but-gains-ridiculous-name/
Still waiting for that big win!
Slipwater is obviously Tikay's Ghost writer... So many things to moan about.
I've been linked to many people in my time, but that one cuts to the quick!
Stick me in the last longer please, Sarah dear
last longer please
I have recently read an article Karl wrote about the rise of multiple re-entry tournaments which I thought was excellent, please ask Karl to talk about his thoughts on this as I think it's a massive issue for the poker industry going forward.
Pet hate? Chihuahuas, they're not dogs are they, they're rats with fancy haircuts. That's a joke by the way , 'pet' hate, get it?
Other hates (not 'pet' related) but that need to be put in room 101 -
People who use mobiles whilst driving, cretins.
Overweight people who blame it on a slow metabolism, large bones etc etc....its not, you need to eat less or excercise more.
Ignorant/rude people
People on benefits who complain about their situation but do nothing to rectify it.
Poker related hate -
Any dominating hand. The way they give you feeling that you should win and then quickly destroy it when your opponent hits one of his 3 outs.
Feel free not to read out any or all of the above, I'm not known for my political correctness!
Rags to riches? Still working on it I'm afraid, best so far was winning a £3 all in satellite to a Super Roller and then reaching the final table for £1,200 ish. Not my biggest win but probably the most unexpected.
Oh and LAST LONGER PLEASE. HAVE A GOOD SHOW.
I'm a writer, so I save everything!