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Years ago, that was a euphanism, usually used by Barbers, but that's not what I mean!

Anyway, what you up to this weekend? Nice Tourney somewhere, watching cricket, going out with the kids, a date, Fathers Day Duties?

I'm trying to decide between the Super-Six at Bolton (nice comp, but pricey, & "short-handed" is hardly my strength) or a really cracking & well structured £200 Jobbie in Newcastle. I seem to do better in smaller fields (fancy that!), & frequent little cashes keep the Bankroll ticking over. Decisions, decisions....

well im deff not going to the seaside

With the kids for Fathers Day weekend

Big regional football tournament for one son on Sunday

Buying their mum's birthday presents tomorrow, as quickly as my daughter allows

park, cricket, etc etc weather permitting later on

I am absolutely itching to go play live this weekend, I much prefer live to internet, but will have to settle for the odd internet game when i catch the time as have Reece staying for a week, I really can't choose my games i have to make sure i am free to see to his cares. I love the live updates when i am in this situation as it keeps in intouch with poker so hoping we have a live feed from Bolton?...If I was free it would be Newcastle for me i think.

Sorry Maureen, no Live Update this weekend. We just decided to take a break this week, we've barely recovered from last weekend's hoohah.

Oh well never mind, I will have to twiddlw my














Thumbs then..x

I,m going out with "she who must be obeyed" tonight. Tomorrow we are going to a small party on a barge moored near Chelsea bridge. Sunday weather permitting take my boy to play golf / pitch and putt he's ten.

It's been a funny week as he has had a week away with his school. I really miss him. My daughter is doing her exams. She is sixteen. She has to work hard for anything she gets as not a natural. Add the fact that I have noticed lots of young chaps calling at the door and my blood pressure is not good. I try to give them the evil eye but I suppose it's life.

On a poker front I really feel I have got my game back. I had only played in London this year but over the last two weeks went to Walsall and Bournemouth. Went deep in Walsall before exiting two away from the money. Last night in Bournemouth again finished three away.
As for where to play the weekend. I have never been to Boltonand no nothing about the place. Bournemouth should be good fun and their is the added advantage of the night spots and retirement homes for Tikay. Newcastle might be wet but a night out on the "Toon" should be fun. Bring an interpeter. Is the ship still parked under the bridge. I remember falling down the stairs once. They have the strangest thing going on up their. Lots of queues to get into places. Even when the weather is rubbish girls will wear little or nothing. Their is a god. Ah I remember it well from my years in Durham.

Stuck in front of the pc tonight as usual and hoping for good weather for the rest of the weekend to chill in the garden, play with the wee one and take my dog for a walk.

Might even fork out the $50 for the live feed and hopefully watch Stuart Fox win a bracelet (unless anyone knows a cheaper option  ;D)

Off to look at some motor homes then probably offer to assist in Nun's twiddling. Oh and a few SnGs as and when I can.

Moving everything into the new clinic in MK. Floors are being done tomorrow, moving desks etc on Sunday, but just realised the sink is in the wrong place. I really am not friends with my builder today.......... >:(

And I just know it's going to rain while I'm moving stuff. 

Off to the Cinema tonight to see Oceans 13 with the mrs Hopefully get a couple of beers in before and/or after the film.
Going to barrel/bottle my homebrew and hopefully get some sunshine to enjoy the garden.

I think Newcastle is the most vibrant & exciting City in England.

Thery have dealt with their traffic problems well, the Architecture is good by UK Standards, the girls are something else, the place just buzzes, driving across the bridge into Newcastle always makes the pulse quicken. And yes, the "ship" is still "parked" (we sailors say moored, actually....) under the bridge. A walk along the riverside late at night, thay have a lovely boardwalk, is not to be missed. Apparently, if you cross the River, you are in Gateshead, so it's a beautifuly defined natural  boundary.

If time to spare, drop down to Durham, arguably Britain's finest Cathedral, it "sits" so well on the hill above the town, & frames the town superbly.

You have a 16 year old Daughter? - wow, that must be bittersweet, when the boys start to get interested! You ever watch that film, with Steve somebody - "My Darling Daughter", or "my Daughter's Wedding"? The fella comes home & puts his hand on her thigh.....Dad;s blood pressure ROCKETS!

Tricia and I are on grand daughter sitting duty this weekend. Princess Ailee staying for the weekend means a very busy and tiring time for grandad Geo.

Have a look, don't you just know it.

Geo

 ;gobsmacked;

Im going to builth carnival on saturday, first time i been out in ages so going to hit it hard on an all dayer!

Than Sunday back up the farm to carry on sorting out my farmhouse and the garden which i hope to move into about a year from now. So excited, gonna post some pics of it to prove the view from it will be on par with tikays derbyshire!

Taking my dad to Vinopolis in London on Sunday for a spot of wine tasting  ;) ;)

You decided yet? Play me heads up(assuming you have the time and desire to take $50 off me), if you win go to Newcastle, if you lose go to Bolton.

As for my weekend, a few jobs to do on my car. Other than that I'm free!

I went there last year - take the train is my advice!

Off to Manchester for a mate's stag do.

Should be having a curry with old school friends tonight and then Saturday looks like a (badly organised) disaster waiting to happen!

Grand daughter! You didn't seem old enough Geo  ;gobsmacked; Cute girl though :D

My weekend is going to be taken up looking after our wee one, she's got chicken pox so we're not getting much sleep at the moment.  Maybe get an internet tournament in in the evenings.

Good Grief!, Princess Aillee is a stunner.

just wanna add this is a nice lil thread, we should do this weekly.

Ooh good - you couldn't help move some furniture could you?  ;slavedriver;

I'm not that free  ;joestrummer;

If you were local, alas.. you'd be long finished by the time I get there.

Taking the kids to the NIA in Birmingham tomorrow to watch the Masters football.

On Sunday my eight year old son is in a football tournament all day. It's great watching these tournaments the kids wear their hearts on their sleeves and put in so much effort you can really see how much they love the game.

Then Sunday night i'm winning my WSOP seat on Stars. (1 time Poker Gods PLEASE)

is the newcastle one a freezeout ? 1 or 2 day job?

i might of fancied that if i had known about it

would loved to play the bolton 6s but i cant justify the expense

Freezeout, beautifully structured, 2 day affair.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=24610.0

Poker6 with around 20k added by bluesquare....how could you go anywhere else grandad? This was one of the best events of last year and cannot be missed imo

Im spending the day packing and making sure i have all my bits and pieces sorted before i fly to vegas for the wsop tomorrow morning.
out with the mrs tonight then ill be up all night tonight so that ill sleep through most of the plane trip.
off the plane drop bags in room at the bellagio and straight to the poker room
see you all in 3 weeks

I have a very good friends sons barmitzvah so unlikely to get any poker in, which is a shame because one of my targets this tear was specifically to play in the super 6..........I just love the look of the format

Maybe next year

Hang on maybe Tikay could take my missus to the barmitzvah and I go and play the super 6 for him...........just got hit round the head by the missus so that's a non starter.

Ah, that explains the mysterious listing in the TV magazines for the weekend.

Sky Sports 1 - Sunday

1pm-4pm - Live Wine Tasting from London

PMFSL  ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause; ;applause;

Sorry to hear that big guy. best wishes to the wee one for a speedy recovery.

geo

I hope she takes the chicken pox a lot better than I did when I was a kid.

'MUM - MORE CALAMINE LOTION NOW'

It's a bit weird, I was looking forward to it, but now I am just wavering a bit.

Short-Handed play is a weakness for me, so that's maybe not the wisest way to invest a grand. And I've built a decent bankroll, &, well, I'm a bit odd with Bankroll, the more I have, the more I seem to want to try & protect it.

Plus, I do better in smaller comps, between £200 & £500, & the atmo in these is lovely, it's kinda more intimate than being squished in with a few hundred others.

I do agree though, the Bolton comp is a beaut, & fair play to Blue Square for adding £20k, great stuff.

Same with Vegas, I was agonising, "shall I go across & play the Main Event, I'd love to, but $10k is a lot of nice little comps in the UK, that'd keep me going for 6 months over here". Then Poker Week said they'd like me to go across with & do some work (= earn some money....), & a few other "commissions" fell my way. Suddenly, I was not bothered about the Main Event, Compo & me can just play comps around Town, have some fun, no pressure, I can do my "job" properly without worrying about playing too much, & I'd come home with more money than I went with.

Vegas's bright lights hold no appeal for me, I can enjoy myself in Walsall or Cardiiff in a £200-er just as much. I think age brings with it caution, & the long view, as to Bankroll. I adore Tournament Poker, & want to play it for a while yet. I see these guys shelling out a grand every week, for little return, & many of them are having to "nip" left right & centre, & I think, "well, each to their own".  In the real world, a grand is a shed-load of money, but in poker, we can easily get blase, a grand here, a grand there.

Being old is a bad thing Russ.

nice to hear a poker player with a sense of perspective. I often find it tiresome when I hear of the sums of money being thrown around by poker pros - I often wonder how much these people can really afford it, and how much of it is all "front".

I have never operated with a bankroll - in my professional life I earn more than enough money to keep me comfortable, and also could afford to spend a bit on my poker. Its funny, cos my missus wouldnt think twice about spending a grand on something or other for the house, but a grand on apoker tournament (where I would at least have a chance of making some money back) ?? I would need to think about that a lot.

A thousand quid is still a lot of money. Although if tonights tenner rebuy at the stanley is anything like the last time I was there, I will probably be close to spending that tonight  rotflmfao rotflmfao

I'm off to Manchester for a bit of stag do.

Also means I'm going to get some football practise in... Team Wales will win(a match)at the next bB!maybe

Good stuff, dont make it too obvios thought, i want good odds from ITB!

Me? A poker player? I love you Laz.

You wonder how many guys can afford it? Many of them can't. Trust me.

And I hear you still drink it to this day Andrew - lol

Geo

You have bought a farmhouse.  Nice one,  I want to do that at some point in the future and also get a camper van like Robert.  I need to start building up the bank account first though

Nah i havent bought it, it belongs to the family farm from which my great uncle passed away last april. As i have always worked and helped out on the farm, and the fact im the only one oft he grandchildren to actually want to stay in the countryside, the family have agreed i can have it for as long as i want rent free. So I hope to live there til i hopefully go back to college and pass out which should be around 6 years then look to build on the land after that.

Edit, think id better put an 'o' in countryside!

ok ,  cool  .

Tony the biggest comps I have ever bought myself in for was robs home game a couple of years ago and even that was won online and transfered across from a site. I think the biggest ammount I have ever got out of my wallet (which was my own money) was the odd £500 or £300 event. I would not stump up a grand to play every week I am just lucky with qualifiers and the odd bit of sponsorship here and there thats all. I am playing the poker6 for someone who wanted me to play a couple of events at the wsop for him but as I am not going he has decided to put me in some UK events instead.

I'm off to Bolton as well, and agree with Tikay & Russ, I would never pay 1K to enter a tourney,getting there sober is hard enough ;)

You mean my fav Taff will be only a stones throw away and i will miss seeing him...

you can always come and rail Maureen, wont be in long we can have a drink :kiss:

My weekend is probably gonna be spent wishing I was at Poker 6 (trust me to finish 2 places off qualifying) and playing occasional Internet poker.

Gl to all the blondes playing Poker 6.

Wish i could Dewi.. but have the grandson here for the week..

A far better proposition then, always another time ;)

Dewi.  You are my hero.

;tightend;

My weekend was spent in a drinking/gambling haze.

This antelope is recovering...