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Are you feeling ok Paul?
Lots of people say Bournemouth are a "nice side" and i think thats what lets us down at times.
Need a bit more aggro to kill games off at times.
He was quite the man back in the day. Worse dress sense than Natterley Brommers.
Ted McDougall, now there's a proper striker.
I never realised he played for so many Clubs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_MacDougall
Yup, agree, has to be good.
Which reminds me, you asked me to reply to something a week or two ago. I'll go try & find it, & reply, now.
Trolling? It tends to increase whern a Forum is going throuigh a quiet spell. The summer is bad for Online Poker, & so the Forums go quiet, too.
Mid to late summer, there was deffo an influx of trolls here.
In several cases, people who had never played here, or only played "Play Money" games, were coming on & making observations which were pure trolling. The great thing was that most people recognized them for what they were. We can look at the previous Post History of these trolls & soon see that all their posts are negative. I'm not sure what buzz they get from doing it, but they must have really dull lives if that is how they get their kicks.
I do think that Forums & Blogs are less popular than they used to be, but the Summer never helps.
Since your Post, both the 2 Forums you mention have picked up a bit, with new Diaries & more activity.
Fair to say, the Community software here is not the greatest.......over at the other place, I can - & do - measure the daily Post Count, & I'm pleased to say it has picked up in ther last month, & October has continued that trend.
That "Best In The Business" chap is Patrick Leonard, & I see he has been nominated for no less than THREE Bluff Europe Gongs. Good luck, I hope he gets at least one. Don't know if you have ever met him, but he is shorter than Matt Bates.
He is a Geordie, currently living in Budapest, Hungary with a bunch of high roller guys. 'Stars have had to withdraw from Hungary (& 23 other countries, too), so he is going to move to Malta shortly. Living the dream, & all that.
Another point you mentioned was how Forums work.
They, sort of, belong to the Members, & its up to the Members to make a little effort if they want the Forum to work. Moaning about them makes no sense. We all have the power to make them better.
When new Diaries start, it only takes a moment to Post on them, & offer a little encouragement.
Starting new threads helps, too. Some folks have never started a new thread in their life, but they sit there & say the Forum is poo.... Go figure. If people want a good forum, they need to help build it. The power rests with us all.
There are posters who have never made one positive post. Gawd knows what these people must be like in real life. Spend all the time criticising, but never do anything themselves. Not my fault Guv.
There is always a mini-mutiny, too, when someone gets chat-banned, but the fact is, it is VERY hard to get chat-banned, they generally get 2 or 3 warnings first. And you have to have rules, you just do.
All things considered, especially the quality of the Forum Software here, I think this place is pretty decent actually, populated, for the most part, by really decent people.
It'd be a real shame to lose it, so its up to the people who use it to try & look after it, & do their bit, start interesting new threads, be nice & positive, put a bit of tlc into the place.
We have no entitlement to anything, & we'll get out of it what we put into it.
Yup, here's a lad who, literally, gets the LOT at Online Poker, his results are unbelievable. And he had no idea how to bleed a radiator!
Supports Newcastle United, too, though "supports" is maybe the wrong word. Pardew is a clown.....
It's probably old news now and you've already made your decision, and I'll probably only be repeating stuff everyone else has already said but here goes....
1) If you play MTTs on here, you will already be better than like 80-90% of the field in pretty muc every single MTT on the site. So there's no question there imo about your ability to beat them.
2) People talk about swings and they can be big in MTTs, BUT... if you're gonna play them anywhere, then Sky is probably the best place in terms of low variance. All the fields are pretty small and your edge over the average joe will be pretty big imo... plus a huge % of games are BHs which are obv lower variance because you'll 'cash' a lot more often, so I really don't think you'd experience huge swings on here. Like if you just played every £11 BH (think there's 6-7 per day) and nothing else, I reckon if you had only £400 in your account you would never go bus ever.
3) I said this to you online but I guess it's all about what you want. Imo there's no question that you would win more £££ playing MTTs on here than DYMs it's just about in what form that money comes. DYMs you're probably gonna have pretty consistent wins all year round, sometimes it'll be £300 in a month, sometimes £150, sometimes £500 but I'd back you to win 12 months from 12 playing DYMs. With MTTs, I think you'd win more money over the year but it'll be a lot more erratic (sp?)... some months you'll lose £200, some months you'll win £2-3k, and everything in between.
Team is good. My problem is that I don't contribute much. Feel a bit bad about that. Mondays aren't good for me. Penny is out and I make tea and put the boy to bed. The first Dtd game is a little early for me.
You're not sad Geldy, just different
Ta for posting Paul. Some interesting points there. Yeah, the Dyms are low variance and I can expect to win each month. It's a lot different with mtts.
Dohhhhhhh (wonder where he's gone at the moment? pity he's not posting right now as he's one of the best forum members) made a good observation that I'm not going to move forward playing the Dyms. He's quite right. I feel that I've stood still really over the last couple of years and that means plenty of others pass you.
Going to continue with the Dyms as that should ensure monthly profits. Going to play a little less of them though and throw in more mtts and get better at cash online.
I enjoyed that, would love to hear more of your story!
Means alot that a respected forum member is reading it.
I always drop by yours when I am forum browsing because I know it will be a good read.
I guess I am as guilty as many of reading a lot and not posting enough (especially in others peoples diaries when I don't "know" them).
General point as like you I struggle to fit the MTTs in time wise whether you think a series of 1hour timed tourneys would be useful? Put on at 9-10, 930-1030, 10-11? I would certainly give those a go with the potential of much bigger results than a SNG in a similar time frame.
Saw on the news feed this morning that Kris Commons is getting linked for a move back to the E Midlands. Can't see for one second that he'd come back to Forest after the death threats... but would he be any more welcome back in Derby?
I really appreciate it when I get those sort of comments. Worry sometimes that I'm just droning on a lot so it's nice to know people enjoy it.
Interesting one that Phantom. Only ever played a couple of the timed mtts. Might give them a try sometime.