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Time to take-on-tikay?
I'm doing "Take-On-Tikay" Tonight, starting at 10p 20p Cash, & moving around the Levels during the Evening, probably up to 50p-£1 via 15p-30p, & 25p-50p.
I'll be on 10 Seaters all night, so fill yer boots.
I'll field any questions, too, but please remember, it's tough to answer "Open" questions via the medium of the Chat-Box, but I'll always take them on the Forum.
7pm until 10pm. Hope to see some of you there.
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You know i've been through a nightmare 12 months, in terms of results and cashes. my question is how should you handle a period like this.
I am naturally a tight/aggresive player and a one point I did notice I was not playing particulary well, chasing hands, playing rubbish out of position, in an attempt to change things around.
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col
Multi-tabling and chatting on every table is not as easy as you make it.
Good? I'd say "competent" rather than good.
Surviving for 12 years is my greatest poker achievement, but I know my limitations, play a long way within my bankroll, & have never borrowed money (or been "Staked", in modern parlance) to play.
What I AM good at is enjoying the game. Which, if you think about it, is actually quite important.
Then a guy asked me to play a £5k Event, he would put up 75%, at The Vic. Good, I played it, got busted early, (by the odious Mark Telscher of all people) & Mr 75% grimmed me. Marv.
It just goes in runs Col. And it's not much fun.
Just take a short break, forget poker for a bit, & you'll be surprised how quick it can change. And when it changes, boy is it fun!
Hope ur chilled m8?
It's not just chatting - it's fielding questions directed at the PTP-er from EVERY player, on both Tables, simultaneously. Sometimes, after about 10 seconds, they type "?", like, "hurry up"!
I do say, a lot, "please don't ask us open questions when we are PTP-ing, put open questions on the Forum, & we promise to reply to them all".
Last night, to be honest, was a bit of a fraught experience, as some agitators got on my case. So the easiest of last night's "difficult" questions - & imagine trying to answer THIS in a Chat-Box - was ""tikay, whats the best way to play AK?". Well, I need to ask HIM 50 questions to be able to answer that!
One guy wanted me to sponsor him, (he asked 17 times) another said Sky Poker were "missing a trick". Hows that, I asked? "Not buying RedTooth Poker, right good bunch they are, you should try running a Pub Poker League.". Err, yes m8.
Then we had "tikay, my mate got chat-banned for life, he's a great lad, he did nothing wrong, sort it out". I suggested - 5 times, if anyone at Head Office wants to read the Log - he contact Customer-Care. Eventually, I buckled. "What did he do to get Banned, then?".
"Well, he stacked a geezer, it went off, so he swore at him. But the other bloke swore too". Err, Customer Care mate, but I could not resist saying tht if his mate went round abusing folks at a poker table, he'd get nil sympthy from me.
And then a guy said we were all "the Sky Poker Robbing Team". Yup, thats me m8. But you have to be cooey-wooey, see?
But it's not all "testing".
_MAGIC_ & I engaged in dialogue about the relative merits of the maintenance costs of the Traction Motors on English Electric Type 5 (BR Class 55) Diesel Locomotive. Worth the hassle for that alone.
There's not one job I do in Sky Poker that I don't thoroughly enjoy, relish even. And the bigger the ask, the tougher it is, the more I like it - I love tough challenges. and I know this - the PTP & T-O-T nights are far & away the most stressful things I've done in the last 10 years. When they finish, I'm a complete wreck.
So, thanks Apollo - glad you noticed it's not as easy as it looks. So, respect to all the PTP-ers, because it's the same for all of them. And that's before we get to the spite-calls & bluffs "because you are on the telly, like".
It's all part of life - rough with the smooth, & a bit of wind in our faces doing us no harm.
Tikay
You must have the patience of a saint with those ridiculous questions. Well done.
tikay,s patience well surpasses a saint, beleive me
I must admit it is partly the fact I feel a little guilty, as you know if I can I will answer for you when you are knee deep in questions, but felt I was not really able to field some sorry m8.
If and when you have some spare time, I wonder if it would be possible to give me an idea on how to go about getting a sponsor if this ever does come up again (if it is not too difficult to explain that is) I could give them some pointers
I went to Frankfurt once, for a "romantic weekend", with the lady of the moment. I took her to the main Railay Station, & thought it'd be neat to sit in the carriages of some of Trains waiting to depart, which I thought woule be rather exciting.
The weekend subsequently became somewhat cool, frosty even.
It's very hard to understand the mindset of women, sometimes. They just don't get it. Nor, for that matter, did I.
The first man to work out the mindset of a woman is made for life
Talking of getting with the times, I got a rather weird message yesterday - it was a "Public Message", on my Profile Page, so I guess it would not be indiscrete to C & P it here, as it was (is?) posted "publically".
The Gentleman has never Posted before, or since, on our Community, so it was all rather intriguing, that he'd come here especially, for no other reason, than to wish me well. Ish.
Here's what he said. Remember, it's already there for all to see, on my Profile Page apparently, so I'm not talking out of school.
"....MR MR MBORO WAS RIGHT ABOUT YOU YOU ARE A BUMBBLING IDIOT , YOU SPEND MORE TIME TELLING PEOPLE WHAT TO DO, IF WE ALL PLAYED LIKE YOU ALL THERE WOULD BE WOULD BE WOULD BE SLEEP STACKS & POKER WOULD BE BORING, BE CONSTRUCTIVE NOT DESTRUCTIVE, WE CAN'T ALL PLAY THE SAME. NOT EVERYBODY NEEDS TO SHOVE WHEN THEY HAVE 10 BIG BLINDS, YOU ARE OLD SCHOOL, GET WITH THE TIMES!......"
I'm really not sure if he's being nice to me, or having a pop, to be honest.
The Internet has changed the world. sometimes for the better, sometimes not.
I've been involved in Poker Forums for many years, & have had to deal with this sort of stuff from "anon" Posters all that time.
Anyway, let's not get all negative. Sky Poker is Smiley Poker, let's keep it that way.
In my private life, yes, I'd give it right back, "in yer eye mate", but when you weear the Site Badge, you need to be a little more circumspect.
You, man, are the schmizz.
" ALL'S GOOD IN THE HOOD "
GL tonight Tikay - good to see you on Sunday at Luton enjoying a live game x
May I say you looked resplendent in that frock on Sunday, especially the necklace.
Having been in a similar position in a company, your every word IS jumped on and "corporate image is everything.
There are many on here, me included, that Tony could and sometimes does, say exactly how he feels.
Those people would not go running to the "suits" to get him into trouble.
Its not easy to keep everyone happy, but Tony comes very close to do just that, I have never seen him dodge a question or chat to people, even when he is very busy at the SPT. He is a real pro and we love him for it.
col
+1, and an absolute gent
TY Mr Kendall. It made a change to dress like a woman rather than a poker player. I knew you would like the necklace.