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Would love you to be a Guest on the Channel, too, but I fear age-related issues may be a obstacle.
Sounds like a great adventure - stay safe, enjoy and good lucks.
I'll look after the sarcasm in your absence!
FWIW I'm 27. I even have an out of date provisional license to prove it. Sigh, not for the first time in my life, I really want a pink one.
That, and the extremely offensive odour.
Check and mate, gg.
I'm Australian
When you leaving?
I need to know so I can reload
Erm not really sure how to reply to that !
Have finished top 10 in both DTD weeks so far.....determined to nail that monthly! Owned by Dohhhhhh HU in DTD3 last night; really wasn't fair as his HU experience is far far greater than mine. He picked off my bluffs and didn't pay me off when I had the goods, sigh.
Thought I saw some chip dumping from another team.....not clear cut as it could have been a misclick or whatever but certainly clear cut that 6 high for close to a 1/3 of your 20bb ish stack with someone still to act behind, and the shove was UTG.
No poker tonight, seeing a friend who has spent a year in Australia and recently returned. Not seen him since May '13. He still owes me £200 for a holiday to Egypt from 2009, but I'm unlikely to even mention that tonight.
Sorry Gazza, didn't realise I had a PM. Cheers Sky!
Can ship tomorrow if that's ok?
I thanked him for his insight. Low and behold, a few orbits later after he'd steamed off a load of his stack, he limped A8s UTG out of maybe 22ish BB, about 32 players limp behind so we go to the flop with half the casino in the hand, and he goes broke on an A 10 3 flop vs 33. WP sir, far too good for me.
I busted in a dubious spot, felt A10s was doing ok vs someone's range. Alas, they had AA, gg me. My mate was involved in the chop at gone 5 this morning though, and I had 10% of him so £130 heading my way.
One of the said re-entered tournaments was a Saturday special at the Wynn, $25k gtd, $225 BI. Even though I'd already overspent for the trip, this tourney had a decent structure and very nice sums up top, for what would be my last shot at getting a cash on this holiday. Plus I'd never played poker at the Wynn, so that convinced me to do it.
Yeah, I polished off my first buy in within the first level. It started at 12pm, I was asking for a rebuy by half past. It did have a decent clock (40 minutes), but the starting stack was only 100bb. I got myself into a spot of bother with QQ on a 655J double suited board vs a guy who had shown previously that he liked to 'mix it up'. His check raise on the turn screamed he had a 5, but his loose aggro rep got him paid off as he had peeled 85 from the SB and stacked me. So I had to stump up another $200 to remain in the tournament. Almost immediately, flopped 10's full and turned quads, and got someone to shove into me, happy days! Sadly, that was not only the high point of that tournament but probably the whole trip! Stack just kinda dwindled away from there. Got my last 14bb in with A10s vs 33, and had that yes/nooooo moment that poker can dish out occasionally....first card out is the A, followed by a 3 to leave me almost drawing dead. Kinda summed up my poker quite nicely.
Despite all that above, I still maintain that poker on the strip is relatively soft. Obviously you need to play well yourself, and need that all important run good, but there is money to be made if you go the distance. Some vintage plays I witnessed include a guy raising 3000 UTG at 300/600, everyone folds and he proudly shows KK. Wp sir. The best though was a pot that went 4 or 5 way. Think there was perhaps 1.5k in the middle, and the SB donk shoves his stack of about 8k into the middle on a 479 board, everyone folds and he rolls over 74. Mad skills sir.
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Off poker, flew back with BA last night/this morning. First time I'd flown long haul with them so was interested to see what their product was like. Pretty disappointed in our flag carrier. A bo11ock freezing cabin, 2 hour delay, entertainment that was limited and also didn't work for the first couple of hours, turgid food, no drink runs through the night, and seat pitch wasn't exactly generous either. Perhaps I was just unlucky but I'd certainly look to use Virgin Atlantic over BA for future flights to Nevada. What are your thoughts Tikay? (on the off chance you read this) From one plane geek to another
Felt Virgin were decent to Vegas earlier this year.
I've yet to fly with any of them, but it seems to be the middle east/Asian carriers that are setting the benchmark; Singapore, Etihad, Emirates, Qatar, even the slightly more obscure ones like Oman Air have great reputations. Some European and American airlines could certainly learn a thing or 2 from them.
Who's your carrier of choice to China Geldy?
Edit- fair enough about getting up for your own drinks, but I had the window seat and the couple next to me were sleeping for most of the flight, was reluctant to disturb them. A couple of runs with bottles of water would've been appreciated.