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Skydives are awesome. I did mine in Cairns over the Great Barrier Reef (thin brag), was a great experience and something I'd love to do again. Bungee jumps are less awesome however....
If you're gonna play a Roller, this is the one. Wasn't it around 9k up top last time? Think I'm gonna chuck good BRM out the window and buy into it. Gotta be in it to win it and all that.
Not wanting to divert the thread back to football or anything, but I did see your manager in my workplace yesterday. Suffice to say, his hair is just as ridiculous in real life as it is on the telly. When he asked if he could pay downstairs, I resisted the urge to put on a fake Dutch accent. I'm nice like that.
1/5
in roller sat
one time!
2nd night running 4th in rebuy. 1st was £111 so would have bought into roller with that.
still 1/5 in roller sat, looking ahead, could be harsh heads-up!
Seat for 1st, £11 for 2nd
game is nuts.
3 limp every other hand
1 goes all in pre for 30+ bigs every other hand
edit
limper just tanked qq against 30 bb shove man
urgh, just hand to fold aa
still 1/4
with 25,000
2nd 12,600
3rd 5,800
c'mon Jac
Prolly worst heads up player in the whole wide world.
Rivered a tossy 2 pair. He had slightly less tossy 2 pair.
£5.50 profit though!
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Good and bad evening
4th in speed rebuy
1st would have been £111 and so would have used that to buy in directly to roller
As you might have gathered from the above grumble, I didn't win a seat in the sat.
I made a little profit on the night though and so shouldn't complain. £35 or so.
Also, took a deep breath and played a sit and go.
Usual kind of stuff for me in sngs/dyms. Was all in a lot and won flips ☺
Up to 68% now. Pretty convinced that 70%+ will be needed
vwp
I'm gonna be playing that in a couple of Saturdays time
Apologies in advance for the Diary de-rail, but I can't help myself, some things just trigger memories, stories, & stuff.
Greg Hill.
He plays golf off PLUS 1 (so he tees off "one over", lol), & his Dad, Geoff, now aged 70+, plays off 6 I think.
Greg posts elsewhere under the alias "Junior Senior", you may have seen his Posts. He was previously "Junior", but changed it when he passed the age of 30, lol.
When I began playing Live Poker, at Gala Notts, he was one of my original "e-Mail" group. Like a Skype Group, but 2004 style. We used to exchange e-Mails after every Tourney. Greg Hill, Red Simon, Belly, Thewy, & me were the original gang.
From that, I began writing Tourney Reports on The Hendon Mob forum, & from that, Dave Colclough invited me to be his founding partner in blonde, along with his then wife, Rhowena.
Greg is a decent player, got plenty of moves in him, & played a lot then, but he met a young lady, got married, & for the first 5 years of marriage, he barely played poker.
His poker trade mark was NEVER, under any circumstances, to "show" a winning hand.
Greg was a winning player back then, but lacked confidence. Thewy & I were going over to Grosvenor Walsall to play a satellite to the £1,525 entry 2005 "Midlands Medley" Main Event, & we eventually persuaded Greg to jump in the car with us. He lacked confidence, & was not keen, but he qualified, as did Thewy & I.
"The rest is history" as they say, he finished 2nd for £36,000, with the winners purse going to my then business partner, Dave Colclough. Dave lives in the Philippines now, saw him 2 years ago in Vegas, when he was the IT Guy for the ill-fated "Chip-Tec" thing. I like Dave very much, lovely table demeanour, but we never got on at all well as to Business, & we had a few barneys before we parted ways, & he left me holding the blonde baby.
Other cashers included Micky Wernick, Trev Reardon, Henning Granstad, Stuart Fox, & one Paul Jackson. Not you, I must add.
It was Greg's biggest ever win, he's never had a bigger cash.
His TV appearance was later that year, in the William Hill Grand Prix. Won his heat, & finished 8th in the Final.
I was working for Wm Hill TV at the time, Ch 435 I think, along with Johnny Gould, Dave Compton, Ed Giddens, & Rhowena. Thewy was the WH Site Pro, of course. Johnny, Compo & Ed were to join me later @ Sky Poker TV. Rhowena ran away with the milkman, I think.
I got a little side contract with Wm Hill to run, manage & Live Update the Wm Hill Late Night Poker land-based qualifiers. We did them in Birmingham, London, Dublin, & Notts. I was getting £750 per Event for the work.
Greg qualified via one of those, as did Maria, (Chili), & that was Greg's 2nd biggest cash ever, $15,000 I seem to recall.
In early 2005, I did the first EVER "Interactive Live Update" on a poker forum, from the EPT Copenhagen. Joe Beevers, who was then running THM, was immensely helpful to me, & we've been close friends ever since. We run competing sites, but behave like proper Gents to each other, & don't rain on each others parade, ever. Joe has sold THM now, of course.
Anyway.....
In that Midlands Medley in which Greg Hill was 2nd for £36,000, I did the first ever UK Interactive Live Update on a poker forum. But there no wifi @ Grosvenor Walsall, so I had to do the whole thing, over 4 days, by text, I texted the stuff to a mate, & he Posted it on the Forum, lol. Think I send over 700 Texts in 4 days, lol, & my "texting thumb" never recovered for months.
I texted them to a fella with the alias "jbsc7769", I won't mention his real name, but he is a Big Cheese - one of the top top suits - at Pokerstars these days, & we still chat regularly, just industry stuff. Bumped into him at the Bluff Gong Night, too.
Just imagine, a whole Live Update via text, lol. But we just got on with things on those days when things went wrong. These days, if the table loads slowly & a player misses ONE HAND, a thread gets started, with 23 exclamation marks, OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I so nearly went up to DTD yesterday to play the £275 8-Max thing. Then I decided the £110 jobbie at Luton looked a better bet. Then I decided to stay at home & play DYM's all night on Sky Poker. I made an £8 profit. Game Selection ftw.
OK, diary derail over, carry on, as you were.
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Bit random this
Have you ever read "Chronicles of the 20th Century"?
Happened across it the other day when I was sorting through a few things
Reluctantly I regged a couple of sngs.
89 called my 3bet all in first game and got there
2nd game, 2 outer on the river on bubble
Not a great time to run bad.
Oh well, regged some more. Just need to win about 5 on the bounce to have a chance now
gl me
JAC is top if the skill&go leaderboard
vwp
Will need a kick ars* session on the headhunters tonight to join you
So I don't think you will need to worry about that.
Not that you were.
Would be nice to have a sat challenge though.