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Pleased Preston did the business for you.
Your wife has expensive holiday tastes! Guessing a week in Skegness as a compromise wouldn't go down too well?
Didn't know at the time, but my Dad wasn't an overly happy flier, so that's why we tended to holiday in the UK, sometimes branching out to France on the ferry.
Because of this, I was very much a late bloomer in the travelling stakes. My first flight wasn't until I was 21, and I was dropped right in at the deep end; 12 hours overnight, Heathrow to Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific, and then onwards, again overnight after an absurdly long wait in HK airport, to Cairns in Australia's tropical north. That's where my eyes were opened to the world. Since that 6 weeks in Australia all the way back in 2008, I've been pretty fortunate in my travels; I've been back to Australia, and seen many beautiful places like New Zealand, Bali, Malaysia, Cuba, USA.
Catching the travel bug was perfectly timed with Manchester City becoming less cr@p. My first European away day was at Copenhagen in Feb 2009. It was beyond freezing, and it made London look cheap! Think it finished 2-2, pretty sure we conceded a last minute equaliser. Great first trip to see City abroad though. Since then, I've seen the Blues in Dortmund (lost), Poznan (lost), Porto (won), Lisbon (lost), Munich (bloody won!) and Barcelona (lost, though had to settle for a pub off Las Ramblas for that as tickets in the City end were like gold dust). I've also seen City on pre season tours in San Francisco and Hong Kong. Suffice to say, the Champions League draw is my Christmas day!
I'd love to take my Dad on a Euro away day. He goes to Eastlands every week, and has had a season ticket for what must be at least 20 years now. It's tricky for him with work, but I think retirement is on the horizon so hopefully a trip to the continent might be on the cards one day soon. I just know he'd love the whole European away day experience.
Phantom, I apologise, I have completely rambled and none of this has any relevance to anything! But I do hope you get to take your good lady somewhere nice for her 50th/30th birthday
My yoouff family hols were almost exclusively UK holiday parks in Devon - we didnt go abroad until I was 17 which was my last family holiday.
I loved Malaysia - been many times with work but sadly never got to do the touristy stuff.
Hope you get your dad to a Euro away day some time soon.
Run well.
Well ok there a LOT of things better - but that's what I did this morning.
Tracking spreadsheet ready to go.
On a weekly and cumulative basis I will record the following...
I have decided that the P/L on regular play will be for me and the Profit on any FR entries or token entered comps will be for the Mrs P holiday fund.
I am making this a 6 month challenge to start with. Tokens are valid for 6 months and it happens to be Mrs Ps birthday at the end of November - so it will be interesting to see if we are ready to pop down the travel agents or whether I am booking a B&B in Skegness.
*edit* added another £13.85 so I will record it as a starting balance of £50.
I guess car crash TV is popular so car crash poker diaries also have their place.
Last night I rounded off with some cash great news for the points with the rewards accelerator but terrible news for the B/R.
On the whole a bad session card wise but I didn't make a few bad plays too. I think I upped my game a little and didn't do anything too stupid when Shaki joined my table but up until then it had been a different story.
My plan was to start with a B/R of £50 - I was £13.85 short of that so I have deposited that this morning and will edit my results to be from that baseline. Doesn't change how much I have lost but it does give me a more playable B/R.
From what I can tell (small sample obviously) the rewards accelerator this week has had the effect of killing midweek traffic and the FR hunters were out in force on the cash tables last night earning their points.
That's a pity for the regulars on the site - we seem to have had quiet tables for most of the week and yet the FRs are going to have large fields.
Next week should be relatively easy to meet the target of 100pts with double points weekend on SNGs.
I have made my points playing almost exclusively on dym's and try for 20 a day to get into the ukpc freerolls. made my 100 points now so no my points for me (no point, I wont get to next pay level, so have switched to another site where I am grinding a bonus).
haven't decided what I will use token on, either a dym or save them for mtt. decisions, decisions!
Thanks Mt White.
Just hit 101 points after 5/5 in dyms tonight for a bit of a recovery on the B/R.
I agree with you for us low stakes players the rewards system doesn't really give much incentive to go for points beyond 100 as 500 is such a long way away. Maybe next week it will be possible for me to make 500 with the SNG promo,
I have a busy day Sunday so may not get back on - but at least I will have my first token and FRs for next week.
I will definitely be saving the tokens up for now.
GL at the tables.
Got a few more games in today.
Earlier on hit a run of bad bubble beats - standard run for DYM play. Later on got a bit luckier - though not as lucky as the SB in this hand...
Bit of missing DYM strategy from the BB here I think. Even though ul their nut low gets counterfeited on river, why risk any chips here with the pf call? Even down the streets why would I be bluffing and they are risking getting quartered.
Bring on the Freerolls!