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Really, that was part of my reason for retiring early, to do all that. I'm particularly keen to do the West Coast of Scotland, having spent a good bit of time in Fort William & Ballaculish (sp?). I want to try & drive every yard of the Coast I can, including all the Islands, & the sticky-out bits like Campbelltown. Did you know Campbelltown has an Airport? And a Golf Club - Machnhanish Golf Club - it must be awesome to play there. And I will.
I've started planning it again recently, with the aid of google Maps, google Satellite, google Terrain & google Earth. What awesome tools they are, all free, too.
I'm a wildlife geek, too, birds especially, so it's gotta be done, & when the music stops for me here at Sky Poker, as it inevitably will one day, I'll be off up to Scotland like a shot.
Like i've said before, i'm not a person that has a major passion on Trains but by hearing great tales of all the trips you have done, i find it all REALLY fascinating stuff and it's certainly more interesting than watching that mindless and uneducated drivel that is the X-Factor!!!.
We have a pact - I call him Big TK, & he calls me Little TK. Sigh.
I like him very much, typically Austrian, perfect English, perfect manners, great sense of humour.
Orient Express - I've no idea why it does not turn me on. A bit commercial, I suppose, but it's never ticked any boxes for me, & I don't really know why.
Now, back to Vienna for one moment. (Love the Airport there btw, so spacious).
Now, let me ask YOU a question, & if you answer it "somewhere like", I'll tell you an extraordinary story about a WSOP Bracelet Winner, & a Vienna Taxi.
So - & think about this carefully - how many Taxis do you think there are in Vienna? (Roughly).
One top tip then Tikay avoid lambing season when you do it, the little cuties are everywhere.
That particular week in Monte Carlo would get a whole chapter in the unlikely event that I'd ever write a book. Dave Colclough, Marc Goodwin, Ram Vaswani, TonyG. Joe Beevers, bluffs & double bluffs, off-table nonsense, on-table tantrums, a grown man crying, a bust-up, & plenty more besides would all feature.
Marc Goodwin won a quarter of a million bucks (he had Shares in two others on the Final Table), & he had it in his hand-luggage, in cash. I had been Updating ther Event for my "other place", with Dave Colclough & Jen Mason - Jen is the UK's finest female player by a country mile, but she worked for me at the time, to earn a little money. (And it was little).
He'd promised Jen & I that we'd get the Air Taxi back to Nice the morning after, as well as giving us both a very handsome "drink" for Updating the Event so well. I HATE helicopters, but had no choice really.
After the Event had finished the night before, we'd all gone for a Meal - Phil Ivey, Paul Jackson, Dave Colclough, Jen, & a few others, but after the Meal, they all went for a drink, so I swerved it, & went back to my Hotel.
We assembled for the Heli-Trip at 9am the next morning, Marc, Jen & me, & it was clear Marc had been up all night, drinking. He was "tired & distressed" to say the least.
So at the Heli-port I gave him a surprise - a big fried breakfast, with runny fried eggs, the lot. He almost threw up on the spot.
Which was nothing compared to me when the Helicopter took off. It's only a 7 minute hop, but I don' think I took breath the whole way.
Never - never EVER again - will I get in a Helicopter.
I'm of Russian descent, and was due to go there with my (now ex) Russain girlfriend about a year or so ago. It fell thru due to a number of medical problems I had, but its still one of my ambitions to go there. Just need to run deep in the Sunday Million one time?!
I love eveything about Scotland.*
* Inhabitants excepted.
Both Termini are quite extraordinary. When peeps get off the train, they just walk onto the tracks - at the opposite end to the barriers - & wander wherever they want! That'd go down well at Paddington. NOT.
And Moscow Train Station is known locally as St Petersburg, & St Petersburg Train Station is known as Moscow. Because the line goes there. Go figure. It gets well complicated at the Ticket booth.
This refers to TKO. I'm afraid it's too late to register for TKO now, but I gather there is a very good chance that a new version of TKO will happen early in the New Year, so look out for that. The winner of the current TKO - Team Tikay I expect - will, assuming Sky Poker decide to repeat it, take on a new challenger in the next Series, just after Christmas.
Closest I ever got after that was reading the Big Red Train Ride by Eric Newby
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As a matter of curiosity, LCI-owned Casinos (ALEA's, Rendezvous's, The Empire etc) do not require Membership - you just walk in.
How did you go in your live game last night please?
Despite what the blinkered Online grinders say, Live poker is the absolute nuts if you want to enjoy poker, real poker with real people. You don't get puerile name-calling in Live Poker, either!
Just penned a quick blog - "Lose some, lose some".....
Just a routine night of Live Poker really. I'll get back to the (hopefully) interesting anecdotal stuff in the next one.
but when i move up to the next level my play that has done me so well no longer works i dont know how or what to do
to learn what im doing wrong on another note my tournment play is good to excellent plz take a look at my hand histroy and help me to improve my game my user name is jason 2012 and i have just won a small tournment on tuesday morning and i think my tournment play is good plz help me inprove my cash game thx tk
Hi Jason.
Welcome to the Sky Poker Forum.
1) Cash games. Can you tell me a little more about what is going wrong at the higher level Cash Tables please, then I, or others, may be able to help.
2) Hand Histories for Tourneys. I'm not able to see or access these for other Players, & if I were, there'd be hell to pay, as I play on this Site a lot, & I'd have "inside info".
Not much help, am I?
I'll try & answer the Cash Question if you feed back to me.
Yup, its an absolutely acceptable way of building your bankroll, I would maybe suggets having a try at a deepstack or two, these are a very good way to learn poker, and the players will help you with your poker, if you have the patience, just remember that varience is a fickle thing and can easily go for you as well as against, so dont be afraid to drop down a level should you start to lose, and dont play above your bankroll limit
It is the main tournament that starts at 8pm, which tonight is the 4,000 guaranteed open, hope this helps
Welcome to the Sky Poker Forum.
"The Open" is the generic Term we use at Sky Poker for our 8pm Main Event each night, though sometimes it's branded "Promo", "Bounty Hunter" or "Double Chance".
Tonight is a pukka "Open", it starts at 8pm & is £10 + £1 to enter, with a Guaranteed Prize Pool of £4,000. PLUS whatever Sky Santa & Sky Alf stick in the pot!
This is the second week of TKO and the tables i`ve been watching alot of players are away,I can understand that some maybe held up but some of us who were to late to reg are a bit put out by this.Is there away that players reg for different rounds of TKO so that those of us who did`nt get the chance can show our support? Thanks anyway.
I'll answer the various questions tomorrow, "able" included, but I'm all-in for today, & I gotta drive home tonight, a 2.5 hour trundle up the M25 & M1.
What a grand night it was again tonight - that TKO thing is massive fun. And I fancy it's 2-0......
Night all.
Safe journy, take care 2-0