Idea I have..... Start a weekly / monthly raffle for poker packages. Like hotel travel and entry. Split the profit with blonde/ charity ?
Buyers can pay  by stars or cash dependant on comp / package being up for grabs.
Each entry gets a unique two card poker hand drawn at random and posted up b4 the live result.
The winning hand is from a live comp such as the Sunday mill.
So it could be the first flop dealt at Nigdawgs table...for example 35 6ccc .
You can only win from your hand being the best after the flop is dealt . So if you had 47 cc you win .
Any ties would go head to head on the next flop with their same cards and so on until we have a winner.
You can purchase up to ten hands.
 So let's say we raffle a DTD £500 deep stack with £60 travel and one night in the plaza. Total costs £700. Hands sell at £10 each.  We need 70 to sell to cover costs. Any monies over each week by the finish time go to the forum / nominated charity. Previous weeks winner nominates the cause.
Eg. Joe has 2 entries .
Gets drawn & 2 s2 d
  Entries close at 725 pm Sunday.
Nigdawg sits at million table that starts at 730 pm
Being a big nit he folds but two callers see a flop on the very first hand dealt .
We all rail to see Ac2sKd flop dealt . Exact matches are counter fitted
so in this example Joes  best hand is 2 dAc  and not 2s2d2s

Flame Away  

Any tweaks ideas to add welcome

I like the look of Gosdens Robemaker, been running on Soft allyear.

Roayh smashed this one out of sight last year

[Roayh]

think you will see a different horse in the goldolphin Roayh  in the 4.40. dont forget this horse ran 2nd to the top rated Farhh last year . At the weights i can see this one running well on better ground than good. The fav in the race Hajras looks fairly decent too but would prefer softer going . Recommend doing Roayh each way at decent odds if not too much rain getting into the ground.  gl : )

sorry everyone . looked very green to me . ran on at the death when the race was over .
 one to note next time.
hope  you all only had small stakes .
 hate putting info up as it usually makes you looka twat : (


but i wanna be a hero !

Just nip into Waitrose.
Quality shop with top quality food . They will have a whole host of ready prepared stuff that looks great  and tastes amazing .
Dont wanna fk about peeling and mixing ingredients to cook up  (unless its for a large jug pimms )
If you like fish the marinated sardines are the nuts , also the sea bream excellent
Meat  : wont go far wrong with their aberdeen angus burgers , pork belly slices marinated in a range of flavours, or chicken pieces. Steaks are great if you wanna spend a few quid more  : )


fkin starvin now .. poxy diets  : (

Have heard a whisper that the George Baker yard fancy their 2yo to run well in the maiden tonight . Eton Rambler currently 33/1 on bet365.
Heard whispers before that have lost so you pays and takes ya chances .
fwiw i have a free tenner from 365 so have put it on EW. sick brag ! 
I find that these types of races are guessing games but as it's fancied probably worth a small  each-way punt . glglgl !

he clearly has held his hands up and admitted he was in the wrong and is now paying the guy off.
give him a break imo.  no scam here me thinks

Treefella, I think Marc has hacked your account.

blondaped lol

I don't think Lewis has done anything wrong as your above post implys.

Btw, I only know Lewis through Skype convo's, so have no reason to take his side.

The thread title was totally fair, you kept saying you would pay him and didn't, that is quite obviously very wrong of you, as you ackowledge.

I also think he has every right to feel agrieved about timing issues, if I was in this spot the very first thing I'd have done when I got home was get this sorted out and pay him the full amount, so 24 hours is a long time in the circumstances.

Tbh, you just always seem to attempt to make yourself look better by blaming others for your mistakes, sometimes when you make a mistake you should just hold your hands up and admit you where in the wrong instead of defending your own actions no matter what you do.

he clearly has held his hands up and admitted he was in the wrong and is now paying the guy off.
give him a break imo.  no scam here me thinks

 Sunday Donko instead then sigh.
 didnt get the best of starts hampered out of it at the back . done all the work to get to the front to get done in a photo for a plc in 4th .
 sigh . thought was nailed on for the plc at least

[Cool Macavity 4pm Ascot 16/1]

Just thought i would put this up as im running good at the mo picking a few out  and i wanna be a ' Sunday  hero '    : )

Cool Macavity  4pm Ascot  16/1 bet365

Was a tad unlucky in running last time . been following this one and i think he's a decent horse that's overpriced today .

im on each way ... good luck us !

It's ages away but, early next year should do a long term league to result in someone playing the Main for a relatively small outlay, I'm sure you could think of something epic Pads.

  great idea. up for something like this

That isn't surprising given the relatively relaxed attitude towards ambiguity in OPs on 2p2. That just wouldn't fly on blonde because the community would pick up on it.

I'm confident that I speak for most of the regular buyers on blonde when I say that we would not have sent money in that spot.

Struggling to make this any clearer without repeating myself

Guess we'll have to agree to differ.

The ambiguity is why I had a problem with Bram's caveat.

I buy 5% of Bram, go away for a few days. I turn my computer on and see he's binked a bracelet only to check my email and find out he's opted out of the stake the night before he played it, I would have been spitting blood.

If he had said in his proposal "I reserve the option to buy back my action if I have won $100k or more on the stake already". I would have had zero problem with it.

As it was, he could have bought a share in Tikay's HiLo bracelet.. and bought back his action despite it being a losing stake.. (I don't think he would, but the caveat gave a more unscrupulous player the chance to do that).

Anyways, I've wasted enough time on all this tonight.

But surely as a genuine investor you would of just raised any issues you had before sending any funds. A simple pm asking the very question ' how much are we talking about before you want to buy back the action ? "
All this 'what if 'and ' i would of not been happy about' are poor examples because surely you would of made sure that you are investing on terms you are happy with.
Why should the 'seller' be drawn over the coals about his proposal by non-buyers that have issues with it.
Obviously it just wont sell if it's that bad a deal for the investor and the seller would have to take a look again at their proposal.

 

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Having a mod as some sort of arbitrator is moot because their decisions aren't enforceable. "So you're saying that I can either pay out $x or I get banned from the blonde staking board? Sweet. Cya."

Having clear and concise staking proposals is really what we're after but that is a good thing both for buyers and for sellers. When the desired outcome is of benefit to both parties, what we need is education not regulation. As it stands, the buyers know that having better quality staking threads is a good thing for them. You can see what you're buying and make an assessment as to its value pretty quickly.

Some sellers aren't on board yet as to why posting better quality proposals is good for them. Let people know that they will generate more interest in their proposal if it is clean and concise. Make it easier for sellers to create good quality proposals by bringing the FAQ and the template up to date then it seems like problem solved? Keys has been doing this for a little while and his contributions have had a big net positive effect on the forum       imo. There have been very few junky, non-starter type threads that are much more likely to run into problems and even the quality of regular sellers  posts have improved (mine included) compared to say a year ago                     


The whole issue about caveats and auctions and stuff is ridiculous. If you don't like it then don't buy it. You can't dictate to sellers what you want their product to be.

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Great post. 

There has been a number of disputes arising from staking posts recently.

I just thought having mod (s) would nip alot of these disputes/arguments in the bud.

Only disputes ive seen are from people poking their nose into staking threads that they have no intention of investing in, and quite frankly just being nosey and obstructive.
Staking threads are so dependant on the market forces that will always decide if they are good or bad value. Ridic that a mod should interfere or anyone else that is not a genuine investor IMHO.

Shouldn't just tip for the sake of it or 'because it's the norm'
Tipping should be like everything else in life, i.e if you felt you have had great service , enjoyed yourself and want to give a thank you 'drink' then its cool . Just ridic to start tipping 1k  + etc unless you wanna be balla  : )