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Tank will be losing his DTD virginity this weekend.        ;cheerleader;

  I am sure he would be delighted to see a plethora of blondes attending to enhance his experience.

Come join the fun.

Any other waifs & strays from North of the Border? If so, I don't think I'll bother. Especially if the Ugly Brothers are coming.

one of the ugly brothers will be attending,unfortunately Rod is unavailable although Teacake is an able deputy.

I wish I could but sadly I can't make it

Have a great time :)

there is a possibility lapdancers will be involved at some point in the weekend

[   ]   Tank has had good times with lapdancers

When are you there till?  Not around tonight, but will try and make it over tomorrow.  

Wasn't he going last weekend?

:dontask:

will be there until late Sunday/early Monday

:)up

So, remind me, who is the other Ugly Brother?

You appear, cruelly but fairly, it seems to me, to have named Rod Paradise as one. Shame on you.

oooh - could be tempted to come up saturday night....

hotel booked :)up  who else is gonna be there then?

I might.....

do it!

ooooh - wavering....

me and Blath will be there 2moz

meet you in the bar at 7?

Boo and I are in Hotel, Tank and Laz still on route.

Be good to see you tomorrow Claw.

Tracey do the right thing, lets go Gazza spotting.

With George and more its turning into a mini BB, I believe even Grandad is coming tomorrow.

Obv too good an offer to refuse! I'm in  ;D

yay!

Much as I regret not making it to Nottingham (if nothing else just to have a word with a certain old geezer about his insults  ;nemesis;), having just come 3rd in the $10,000 GP SPEED Rebuy for £600 odd quid, I think I did the right thing. ;D

Tell me who it was Rod, & I'll have a word in their ear.

I see big Laz got 3rd in last nights £50 comp for just shy of £800 ... trip paid for I reckon, WP big boy xx

Scoop,nice one laz

How did tank get on in the £300?

Wp Laz.

Well done big Laz!!!

Shame oor team didn't do as well.....

Nakor made the final too! Well done lads.

4th for me - what an brilliant weekend so far.

So good to see everybody and all in such fine form.

Lots of fun, stories and pictures to come.

What a great performance from these two blonde heavyweights. WP lads.

Wp Nak, didnt know you were an adam ... sounds like you boys had a blast ... cant wait for the Colonels trip report :)

The Colonel was in no fit state to report anything.

I had a bet with Wick that booder would not Final, £20 @ 7/2, Wick tried to grim me. I seeeeeethed. I collected, too.

Well Done to Laz & Nakor. Laz's exit, in 3rd, was horrible, just horrible.

He & A N Other were well chipped up, one guy was down to the felt, he just had to outlast him to guarantee himself a 4 figure cash. And then it all went horribly wrong.

You will also note that Action Man is lurking on the Forum today. That's guilty conscience. He's dreading every Post for being the one that exposes him. We have dirt on him. Bad dirt.

 ;popcorn;

Nice one Laz and Nakor ;applause;

Good weekend Tank? Certainly hope you enjoyed it.

Spill the beans Tony!

btw tank, is your eye ok now? i thought you had something stuck in it last night, looked a little sore!

what a great weekend, i will be composing a trip report in due course, once I get enough caffeine into my veins...there is a lot to write about.

I have had one overriding poker ambition in 2008, and that has involved visiting a certain poker venue in the east midlands. There has been a number of personal issues involving health, work, business, family which have conspired to make this a very difficult ambition to realise. With 6 weeks left of the year I made a decision to set a date, and make  this trip.

Joining me for this trip south would be my able co-driver mr Tank. (actually he cant drive, i run bad...). We would be meeting up with Booder and Nakor, and as it turns out many other blondes in the course of an interesting weekend.

We left glasgow at 12.30 on the friday. Which should have given us ample time to negotiate the friday afternoon traffic to nottingham. well, as it turns out the M1 was even worse that could be expected. and after going off motorway we eventually arrived at our hotel in the centre of town at 7.45pm. On reflection we should probably have headed straight to DTD, but my preference was dump the car in the hotel car park and forget about it for a few days.

so we checked into the hotel , ran upstairs to dump our gear, opened the door to be confronted with....a double bed. oops .More time spent sorting this out.

we eventually arrived at DTD at 8.20pm, with about 5 minutes left to register for the comp. I quickly settled in and got into my usual early level "rock it up" stategy, which gave me a chance to take in my surroundings, which have been written about by many better orators than myself. Suffice to say it is impressive. Most impressive is how they have managed to make such a vast soulless building into something which seems much smaller and intimate.

Anyway, we negotiate the first few levels of the comp, make some good calls and win some chips, make some bad calls get lucky, and win a few more. Then manage to get them all in on a K43 flop whilst holding 33, against 44, and we are back to the start again. The evening passes pretty quickly, largely due to the utterly efficient way the tournaments are run, and I look at the plasma screen to see the state of play - 13 players left, 10 get paid. average stack 35K, I have 45K. nice position. I then get dealt KK on the button, and get an old guy (no, not that old guy) open shoving from UTG for about 30K. I obviously shove, and he turns over AK. Ace first card out and I take a mortal wounding. We then lose another player, and are down to 12 - I could probably have held on for the money, but was steaming really badly. Next hand I just shove them in with 3 5, and a 5 on the river gives me the 2 pair against 2 callers, but unfortunately also gives one guy the flush. game over.

Almost right on call mr Kendall arrived in the building, and we all spent an extremely enjoyable few hours having a few vodkas/whiskys/cups of tea, generally taking the piss out of everyone and anyone.

Day 2 to follow shortly...

So gutted I couldn't make it to DTD this weekend.  Every other bloody weekend, but I couldn't get there for this.

;frustrated;

Thanks to MrPie for the 4-minute message on my phone though.

hey - I sent you some nice updates from the car park too :D

Yes, even your sob story was a bloody rubdown!

lool   nice rubdown sir

wd to Laz and Nakor for a great performance.....quality weekend with some great mates....was great to see Claire,Ding,Chilli,Red,Fran,Ralph,Redbull,Chris Bruce,Evilpie and a very pissed Stu Hopkin,Tikay,Tank and the one man comedy show...Trigg.
Too many laughter moments from the weekend to post here but Frans quote that "Trigg is camp" was proved to be quite correct (who would have guessed) when Maria informed us she had his pink cushion and gay belt in her car........photos to follow

Me? Pissed? Never!
Me? Blabbering rubbish to RedDog? Never!
Me? Ordering more guinness at 5.45am? Never!
Me? Waking up and it was still dark? Never!

I had a feeling that the Scottish guy sitting at my table, drunk (ish) and dressed as Santa was a Blondite but i didn't like to ask. Anyone know?

Saturday started at around 11am with the decision that the included crowne plaza breakfast had to be sampled, and obviously photographed, if any good. It was decent, but the plates were too small to get any decent amount of food onto them, so they wouldnt have stood much chance on the Rate my Fryup.

At lunchtime we metup with Booder and Nakor, and retired to a local pub , and picked the likely winners from the upcoming excellent card at Cheltenham. One hour and a trip to the bookies later, it was back to trying to pick the winners at any other meeting that hadnt been abandoned....

A few hours later I leave the guys in the bookies, and go for my afternoon siesta. I meetup with the guys and we head out to DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) and first have some dinner in the chiquitos in the retail park.

onto the comp and there are a number of blondes playing, but as always seems to be the case, there are none at my starting table. I am actually still tilting a bit from the exit the night before, but try to keep it together. I am down to nearly half my starting stack before the break, but a double up with AA keeps me in the game.

Approaching the end of the second level I am again back to the starting stack of around 4K and with the blinds going up soon, I have to make a move,  so push from the cutoff with A 10 suited, the button immediately pushes too and I know I am in trouble. the big blind (who has a lot of chips) calls for "value". So we have A 10 agains A J and 10 7. so I am in trouble until a flop of A 10 x gets me out of trouble, and the A on the end makes sure :)

we avoid any more drama and basically just always have under average chips, and manage to navigate a steady course to the final with just over 30K chips. I was really sorry to see Karabiner (ralph) was the unfortunate bubble boy in 12th, but the good news is that Nakor also made the final table. Average is around 50K so we know we need to do something special. At the break I say that an early double up would be handy...

First hand back and I am in the big blind, and I look down to see A Q suited. I am happy to see a raise to about 7K from a mid position and a big stack. I decide to push, to make it look like I am defending/restealing my blind.I know I am in front here. He takes an eternity but eventually calls with KQ, we avoid any drama and I have now got a playable stack. Four uncontested raises later and I am close to the chip lead. Nakor then decides to steal my thunder by raising the next 4 pots. Its really game on by this point.

We eventually get down to five, and I have now got a reputation of being a bully, which I dont mind. I have used the tightening of the table to regularly come over the top of early raisers which they dont like very much. This has given me the chip lead, but there are so many chips on the table and so many chips going in various directions it is hard to work out approx stacks. I manage to knock out Nakor in 4th, after he had been nearly felted in the previous hand. It was my BB and I was obliged to call the extra 10K or whatever, and the K in my hand was enough to match the K on the board...

Down to three and now it starts getting interesting. the guy to my right had made some of the most incredibly baffling plays all night - he had a nasty habit of raising UTG for the minimum, and on another hand checked down a raised pot with the nut full house (which he had made on the flop). Then he didnt raise with AA from the small blind, and only bet on the end when the board paired.

the other guy was my old nemesis from the first hand and I knew he was a capable player. We played for a bit until the guy to my left was almost down to the felt after he had suffered a horrible beat to the "bad player". He pushed all in for about 25K and with my big blind being 10K I was obliged to call, I held K 7, against his J 8, but he managed to get out of trouble and was back up to 50K.  Next hand he pushed from the button, again I held K7 but felt that doubling him up was not in my interest here. I was sure I would find better spots. We played another couple of rounds, and by now he was down to about 40K again. I had about 180K, and Matey (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1361) Boy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=1361) 220K. from the button I raise it up with A 8, and get a call from idiot in the small blind (!). flop comes ten high he checks, I check. turn comes another ten, he checks I check. River comes an 8, he bets about 35K. In one of the worse moves I think I have ever made, I push, and he calls....and shows 10 2. incredible.

I shouldve been happy with the prize, but I wasnt. on reflection I shouldnt get so steamed up by idiot play, and just concentrate on my own game. The irony is, by the time I had gone for a smoke, and the heads up had started and finished with the other guy overturning a 400K to 40K chip deficit in the space of 5 minutes to claim the 2K first prize. well done him....

Overall impressions, it is a great club. the staff are 1st rate. the tournaments run like clockwork. i almost want to live in nottingham....

just noticed that I am  in 9th place in the overall monthly tournament leaderboard. maybe I shouldve hung around for sunday night too....

nice writeup Laz

Top quality reportage Laz, and lovely to see you guys at DTD.

lmao at me ever being close to camp

 :cheers: Good report

Trip report

part 1.

Travelled down and played some poker, that DTD is a bit of allright.

part 2 to follow

Part two

Boo, Nakor Laz and myself are in this wee pub on Saturday lunch. Nice wee pub, not the biggest of places, they did some good grub. Booder was UTG with the soup of the day, on the button was Nakor with a Cajun wrap type thing, Laz was small blind with a Cajun wrap too (but he slowplayed it) and I was big blind with Hickory Chicken (It was on the specials board)

After lunch our story begins, Laz was outside smoking one of his cigar thingys, or he might have been over the road watching the 1.50 at Doncaster, I can't remember. Nakor was attending to some toilet buisness, or away from the table for other reasons. It's not really important to the story, the point is, just Booder and myself remained at the table.

A lady, late 30's early 40's, comes up and politely asks if anyone was using Nakors seat.

I opened my mouth with the intention of telling her that the seat was in use. Booder did the same thing, and he managed to do so succinctly.

I was less successful, and just ended up stuttering for about 20 seconds, didn't get past "the seat umm umm arr arrr the seat" etc

The poor wee woman listened intently for all this time, I did not have any new information to impart to her, Booder had handled the job most competently.
I was saying the exact same thing but after 12 or so seconds of random lady and Booder listening patiently to the beginning of my sentence, I realize I'm going to have to finish it.
Time for thoughts such as "zomg, I'm wasting this nice ladies time" to fly through my head as I struggle to succesfully put one word in front of another word without repeating the original word. It's tough sometimes, I run bad.

Anyway, Booder decides about 17 seconds in to giggle uncontrolably, and my stutter is mercifully brought to an end 3 seconds later when I join him and start laughing too.

Poor lady looks at me like I'm a rather odd and mean man, who's taking the piss out of her. She toddles off with a tut and a shake of her head to stand next to her group.

I think Booder played the hand well. Big-up to booder

part 3 to follow.

part three

more poker on Saturday night (that DT (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/)D (http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/) is a nice place)

Was good to see some old friends, and a few new names to faces. Special big-up to Laz and his motorcar.


/trip report

Nice poosts guys! It was good to see you.

Did you play in the DTD cash games Tank ?      Any interesting hands occur ?

Yes

sigh....was expecting a brief synopsis, probably not that brief though.

Anyone know who the drunk scottish santa was? It's bugging me.

was it Gazza , Trace ?

Oh you mean the pocket kings hand Booder?

SB: (RedDog) posts £1
bb: (Chilli) posts £2
UTG: (random) straddles for £4
UTG+1: (me) calls £4      
UTG+2: (Claw) raises £20 to £24
UTG+3: fold
UTG+4: fold
CO: fold
BTN: (actionman) raises £21 to £55

REDDOG: fold
Chilli: fold
Straddler: fold
thetank: raises £70 to £125
Claw: fold

I've got another £107 back, action is on Trigg who has me covered.

I forget what happens after that. My eye was sore though.

 rotflmfao

trigg called with his 72o and flopped 772 got you all in and you spiked a k on river i heard

Great to see you guys at the weekend.

Don't leave it so long next time. We like your money.

The Boys Weekend.

Look at the love in Chili's eyes.

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"I'm not Camp" Twigg ADMITS to owning this.

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look at chillis leg positioning, its a tell imo

Your leg positioning and expression on face = Im scared  :D

Nakor's trip/tourny  report       
http://www.thetincatinca.blogspot.com/
 :)up

Oh yes baby, busted.  It's called distancing......




p.s great trip reports guys.

We haven't been debriefed by the Colonel yet.

I read that link as 'The tin cat in CA' so was surprised to find Tinca Tinca!

So two questions from the weekend from me;

Grandad for you - what is the story with the mighty Tasos?  some player IMO.

And for all - somebody please tell me who Jeeves is - was certain I knew, apparently not.

Tin Cat Inca here

Jeeves is Compo   imo

Jeeves is still NoFlops imo, Tikay was messing with us.

Jen and AndrewT were the other front runners iirc.

LOL Jeeves is just Jeeves, end of.

I've always assumed this, Floppy seems the type to have one :)

 ;indestructable;

jeeves is not floppy jeeves aint posh enough

According to the last installment Jeeves is Phil Hellmuth. I'm sure Jeeves will remerge when he feels it's safe to do so.

Obviously (although "great" ;)) I am nowhere near old enough to qualify as "Grand-dad" but I have played poker with Tasos for the best part of twenty years and he is a damn fine player and much under-rated imo. He is also a perfect gentleman and I have never had a cross word with him in all of the many years that we have played together.

+1  I thought everyone knew!!!

Karabiner has answered the Tasos question better than I ever could, & I agree with every word. Old School, Legend, and a very big man indeed.

So did I!!!   rotflmfao

so did Jeeves for that matter...lol

It's just staggering that 4 regular blondes do not know who the "real" Jeeves is, or was. Admittedly, we would not expect a high degree of perception from two Scots, & two ukelele playing country boys from the Fens, but this is just beyond comprehension.

AndrewT, Flops, & Jen, were all, improbably, nominated as "probable/possible".

I asked a few normal people at Luton last night, & most seemed equally ignorant of Jeeves (RIP) identity. 

Old Abs Lincoln got it right.
 

Isn't Ironside Jeeves?

LDO - he used spell checker to throw us off

I had previously thought Jeeves alter ego above such things, that's what threw me.

please