Karabiner

by Karabiner
Submitted by: snoopy on Fri, 08/12/2006 - 5:20pm
 
What is your BlondePoker username?        

Karabiner

Which area do you live in?                        

Nottingham

What is your marital status?                      

Back on the market

Do you have any children and/or pets?       

One grown-up son                   

When did you start playing poker?            

In the late 1960's

Where can you be found playing live? 

Walsall and The Vic occasionally

What is your favourite online site?

Pokerstars and Ladbrokes mainly

What is your handle there?         

Karabiner/Titteryenot/MrFloppy

What is the harshest beat you have inflicted on an opponent? 

I just don't retain stuff like that, whether I inflict the beat or the beat is inflicted on me

Who are your poker heroes?

Lancy Howard and Wild Bill Hickok

Who is your best friend in poker? 

I don't like namedropping

What are your greatest accomplishments in poker? 

Winning a WSOP package online in 2005 and winning Notts. Gala's most valuable tournament of 2005 for £11K

What is your most embarrassing moment in poker?

Probably misreading my hand and confidently reaching out for a large pot after exposing my hand having still not realised that I din't actually have that straight after all.

Which Blondepoker thread did you enjoy the most?

It has to be The Tanks elaborate practical joke on AdamM "Table balancing", closely followed by quite a few other outstanding contributions from Red-dog, Rob Yong and The Tank.

The thing I love most about BlondePoker is?

That I have been here from the very beginning and seen it grow into something very special.

My biggest pet hate in poker is?

People who criticise other's play publicly, bad manners and lack of consideration, table thumpers, bad losers, cheats, colluders, and especially dealer-abusers.

What are your main interests outside poker?

Arsenal FC, sports-betting, cooking, drinking wine(the better I run the better wine I drink) and golf.

Tell us something about yourself none of us would know

I used to be a hippy and lived in San Francisco in 1967, "The summer of love"

What is your favourite pie filling?

Apple

Who is your favourite singer? 

Ronnie Van Zant (Lynard Skynard)

What is your favourite song?

Simple Man

Who is your ideal man or woman? 

Not found her yet

What is your favourite holiday destination?

Well it was Las Vegas but I'm not sure now that poker has become such big business.

If I could change one thing about myself I would?

I would like to be fifty years younger and know what I know now. I would listen more and talk less.