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Apologies for the lack of betting over the weekend.  Minor communication problems mean the 1/4 Final odds are probably sat in the inbox of a random granny rather than that of any of our traders......  :-[

The prices for the semis and an outright market are now up so happy punting.  :)

Simon AND John both 11/4 outright and they play each other in the semi ..... Hmmmmmmm

What price Mr Colclough?

OK heres my opinion on how todays match between "Burnley" John Falconer and Simon "The Edge" Nowab will go ......

These guys know each others games inside out, and from when we all used to play three card brag in the pubs in Burnley, they also have a pretty good read on each others bluffs.
 I predict a very cagey affair with a lot of long stares across the table, and many uncontested small pots pots being won.
 However I would have to go for Burnley John to win through purely because I feel Simon is by nature a much looser player and I fear he may get caught on the bluff one time too many.

All the very best of luck to both of them.

Burnley John IS the man......at least in that relationship,

good luck to all blondeites

ok outright prices are

Dave Colclough   2/1
Peter Gunnarson 11/4
John Falconer   11/4
Simon Nowab   11/4

Semi Final prices

Dave  8/11
Peter  EVENS

John   5/6
Simon  5/6

Prices taken from Blue square ( i hope they dont mind me quoting them)

New maximum stakes now

500 max for the matches
250 max for the outright

Good luck everyone!

Not wishing to do an "Ironside" , but 11/4 Burnley John looks huge .

hey watch it kev i am on a role

first blackpool, then the FA cup followed by winning my first mtt at stars 891 runner event on sunday morning, followed by 14th place in a 900+ event sunday evening

i am going to put my money on peter gunnarson (that will make the 3 brits very happy)

Congrats on the success, and i will have you know i stuck up for you the other day .....   someone said you werent fit to shuffle sh*t...and i said you were :)

well done ironside, how much wonga you get for 1st place in the stars tourney? 

you were wrong with my back it would kill me

not very much in fact i would have goten more playing a 100$ stt

it was only a 1$ limit omaha hi lo tourny only played it to stop myself tilting away some more of my bankroll after some horrid beats and plays

think the 1st place netted about 225$

wd, minor success myself at the weekend - won $28 in a 5c/10c limit game and 400 on the Eurovision song contest...

you won $28 bucks playing 5 cent 10 cent and you left the table?

Never mind the bloody poker .... YOU BET ON THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST  :o

who won the eurovision song contest?

Wow. Great point Kev.

Can't believe Alright Jack said that..........

Lap-Dancing Clubs one weekend, Eurovision Song Contest the next.

Yellow Card for Alright Jack.

Furthermore, with said financial interest, he may have actually watched it...

Mind you the quotient of miniscule skirts to unwatchable tripe was higher than normal this year.... :P

had to, girlfriend came home...

Now I don't want to appear a saddo myself. But the ESC is one of the great punting experiences of the year. Betfair traded just short of 2 MILLION quid on it this year !!! I had a modest result but some guys pocketed over 8k on it.

how did you know?


more to the point who won? and were they any good?

ps shouldn't this thread be in the general disscussion forum

this is meant to be live tourny updates and to be honest i dont think they are out of there beds yet

LOL this gets worse .... so what you are saying is...your girlfriend has been away, and when she comes home, instead of welcoming her with a bit of the old "bedroom olympics", you instead feel obliged to have a bet on, and watch, the eurovision song contest :o now thats just KINKY !!!!!

how did you know?


more to the point who won? and were they any good?

Greece, the ante post favorite

Short skirt, flowing tresses. Did it for me. The song...not a clue!!!

In babysitting my kids, trying to avoid online due to tilt tendencies when bored!


Thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!

betting on the ESC is a bookie's version of bedroom olympics, obviously.

And another Yellow Card for Ironside. This is a good, wholesome, Forum. Dont taint it by answering Ironside's question about the Euro Song Contest. His fetishism for such trash disgusts me, & all decent, clean living folks. Meanwhile, while "his sort" are gorging themselves on unmitigated trash such as the Eurovision Song contest, programmes like "British Railways Steam in the 1950's" are rarely given air-time.

But now "owner" tells us that over 2 million quid was traded on betfair on the ESC. This is all too much to bear. What's happening to our country?

In my defence, special betting is my bread and butter. Have made a lot of money on Big Brother, I'm a Celibrity, Eurovision, etc over the last 5 years. Even used to write a regular column on it back in the days when blue square had regular columns. Also wrote for the Guardian online under the name Jack Urquhart.

Greece won, but the money was made on the Top 4 market....standing ovations are genrally underrated by odds complilers and exchange odds generally don't go too far out of line. My best ever bet was a few years ago when Denmark won Eurovision. Standing ovation, yet Hills still went 125/1.

How is the Airfix modelling going Tikay?

er, any help you may wish to give us mere mortals on the forthcoming Big Brother 6 Will be much appreciated

Made a packet on BB5

Tikay, I apologise, now back to the Barcelona Semi's....

Kev,

The $28 and the Eurovision were not on the same day.

....apparently I got a gold medal in the aforementioned 'olympics' ... ;D

lol fair enough , but they give gold medals away far too easy these days ;)

as for the request for help on Big Brother 6....Dont bloody start watching it, it will turn your brain to mush and the next thing you know you will be staring at a computer monitor playing some silly card game for real money until the early hours of the morning ...oops too late LOL

But just for once, Ironside makes a good point, this thread SHOULD be in General Discussion. Which begs the question, how did a thread which began, & was entitled, "Barcelona Heads Up Semis" get from, & degenerate into, ESC & bedroom olympics? A neat link must have occurred at some point.

My Airfix modelling tight-end? I'm a Hornby man myself. OO as it happens. NOW let's see if there are any REAL trainspotters out there, 'cos THEY will know EXACTLY what I mean.....

00 is the gauge size of model train equipment .....  god im sad lol

Gold Medal for Kev.

OK, the most famous Steam Locomotive ever built at Swindon Works for the GWR (that's Great Western Railway to you cretins who did not know, or God's Wonderful Railway to devotees) was designated Engine Number....., & named.....

Gotta purge this forum of that ESC trash.

The Flying Scotsman?

And my 9 year old loves steam trains!! so dad loves taking him to steam days too...

where you guys want me to fly too

make sure it aint too far i aint got a passport

Don't be silly Tight-End. The Flying Scotsman was not a GWR Loco. It was not good enough to be, indeed it would not have been deemed fit to traverse the Brunel designed & constructed GWR tracks.

Clearly, you are taking your son to the wrong steam days. Parenting at it's worst.

railway chat - very en guaging

I thought the most prized medal was silver in that event.

For coming second !   ;)

Very droll Alright Jack, apart from the typo. I think you mean en-gauging, not en-guaging. As in, for example, intent campers.

not even a typo, I just can't spell... :-[

Christ, Tikay's clearly a frustrated schoolmaster at heart.

I don't know how he finds time for poker festivals in between filling up notebooks with train numbers

Anyway, is the answer "The Mallard"?

Cue more abuse from the trainspotter

when you start selling blondepoker merchandise for get the shirts get out the anoracks

can I get a flask and foldaway chair please

Sigh...... Look, this is a serious matter. What on earth do schools teach these days?

The Flying Scotsman? No!

The Flying Scotsman was actually a train service, from Kings Cross to Edingburgh Waverley, it used to head North daily at 10.00am. It was hauled by a Gresley Pacific (named after Sir Nigel Gresley, who was a famous loco designer) &, eventually & unusually, they named the loco after the sevice, hence "The Flying Scotsman" was reincarnated as a steam Locomotive. Originally numbered 1472 when constructed, during the early twenties the LNER (London & North Eastern Region) renumbered all their motive rolling stock, & she was given the famous 4472 number. In fact, when railway nationalisation arrived in the late 1940's, she was renumbered 60103. In all, she covered in excess of 2 million miles, & her original construction cost was about 9,000. I believe she was eventually sold to one of the McAlpine family.

Her original claim to fame was the first non-stop journey from Kings Cross to Edinburgh in about 1928. For this purpose, a "walk-through" tender was fitted, to enable the crew to be changed. The 400 mile journey took around 8 hours. 5 or 6 years later, the same loco was accredited with the first ever 100mph+ running, whilst hauling a passenger service between London & Leeds. Starting life as an A1 Pacific, she was upgraded over the years to an A3, but never to an A4.

The Mallard? Grood grief man, NO.

The Mallard was in fact an A4 Gresley Pacific, built in about 1937, which had the (then) novelty of streamlining. She also ran on the LNER. In Mallard's case, she was actually painted a dreadfully poofty shade of blue. She achieved what was the then world speed record of 125 mph in 1938. Most railway historians show her speed that day as 126 mph, which was what the dynamometer car showed, but in fact this is wrong, as she only achieved 125.4 mph.

But THE most famous Steam Locomotive - you IDIOT - was King George V, footplate number 6,000. Built at Swindon - OBVIOUSLY - to run on Brunel's GWR, she was based at Old Oak Common (shed location 81A). Brunel, by the way, enjoyed the full name of Isambard Kingdom Brunel - how grand was THAT? Built in 1927, 6,000 was taken to America as an exhibit in The Baltimore Centenary celebration, & was fitted with a Gold Bell which she carried throughout her career on her front buffer bar. Oddly, it was only as a result of her trip to America that she gained the name King George V, as it was felt she needed a name representative of her native Britain. In the mid-fities, like all GWR King Class locos, she was fitted with a double chimney. Designed by C B Collett, under instructions from Locomotive Suoperintendant G J Churchward, the designs retained all the trademark GWR features - polished brass pop valve framings, copper capped chimneys, & of course 4-6-0 bogeys. She ran best on soft Welsh coal, but the harder Daw Mill coal (from the Daw Mill Coliery in the Midlands) was used to fire her up. She used up to 15,000 gallons of water on a single run, & could refill her Tender from water troughs without stopping. She never looked less than magnificent in her GWR livery of Brunswick green, the very epitome of what a steam loco should look like.She hauled the inaugural "Cornish Riveira Express" & "Royal Duchy" services, & headed the first passenger service through the Box Tunnel. No finer steam locomotive was ever built. I have some LP's (Great Western Steam Sounds, Series 2) of King George V hauling a full load up an incline - in stereo, great stuff - and a Video of her in service too, which have enlivened many a dull evening.

So worry not. If we ever get stuck in a lift which has broken down, we will have PLENTY to talk about.

I do not loan out my LP's or Videos which feature steam Locos, but you are welcome to my place to see & hear the ultimate steam experience.

a) In case we get stuck in a lift together, I intend to henceforth carry a cyanide pill on me at all times

b) thanks for the invite to your place, but my mum warned me about such things from men keen on steam trains

c) King George V may be the most famous engine for afficianados, but for the hoi polloi, I humbly submit that both the Flying Scotsman and the Mallard have a cachet/reputation and standing that leaves aforesaid George V in the sidings

d) I gather the domain names www.blondesteamers.com/www.blondesteam.com/www.blondeandboring.com are left on the shelves. I have just bought them in a fit of entrepreneurial madness. What do you offer?

Regarding c), you will be hearing from my solicitors unless you retract.

Do you wish me to explain at length? I could go on & on you know. I mean, not Ariston league, but enough to make your ears bleed.

sorry to be a bit off topic, but has anyone heard anything from Barca today?

No, but they are an hour behind there, so they aint started yet. Still tring to figure how we got from Barca Heads-Up Semis to King George V. But if the Barca action is slow, I could do you an essay on British Railways Rolling Stock. Let me know.

surely they are an hour ahead in spain

Somehow this developed into an all time classic thread.  ;D

I'm out of here, everything retracted and back to poker!

Simon beats John and is in the final :)

seemingly they changed things around, and Simon and John were first on, in a quick match which both said they didnt care who won , as long as whoever did win goes on to win the final.

So Simon "The Edge" Nowab takes the first seat in the final.

Well well well, Nowab in the Final.

Well Done Simon, & hard luck John.

I am writing a piece for our Front Page today, about Simon Nowab's prowess as a Heads-Up player. You may be surprised at what I have to say.......

And yes, I got the time difference back to front, sorry! Body clock all messed up here.

And I have seen off Tight-End.......

Bore them to tears, that's the trick.

Second Semi-Final.

Dave having a tough time it seems. In trouble from the word "go", he somehow got deeper & deeper in the poo, before staging a mini-recovery.

At the break, he was down to about 20% of all the chips.

Come on Dave!

Text just in from Dave....

"lost".

I replied....."****"

More details later. Gutted for DC.

What a thread!!
Starts off as interesting and informative, goes on to the rediculous, then onto laugh out loud, a bit of perversion follows, then i fell asleep for a while......then a high note and finally a low.
Rivetting stuff
Ian

Yeah, it did go round the houses a bit, eh?

it brings me no joy in point out that i picked the winner