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Sorry to say it remains an attempt.  James (Royal Flush) was forced to give up after 66 hours of continuous heads up play.  He needed to go for 72 to break the world record.  However, James did fantastically well. Last I heard he was over 400 up - considering most of the games were for a fiver thats pretty good. Made some money for poker4charity, which we all like to see.

I played him three times during the attempt and shamefully he won all three of them.  In one he outflushed me, in another he outstraighted me. In my defence, I was a little bit tired yesterday, having not had a very good night's sleep, hehe.

James lose nothing in faulire, a big up to him.

How much was raised for P4C?

66 hours :o thats bonkers but well done to James. Can you tell us why he had to give up ?

The thought of playing AlrightJack a 4th time I gather.....

Alright Jack are you the chap who has got a Blue Square shirt on all the time and you watch the uk touneys ?  Do you sleep in that shirt ? How meny you got mate ? ;D

Yes, I'm at all the Grosvenor festivals watching (cos I'm barred from playing there :-( ), but recently I've dispensed of the blue square t-shirts for a whistle and flute.  I do have a quite a few of those t-shirts - never worn one twice in a row though.

James had to give up cos of the effects of sleep deprivation - on Sunday afternoon he said the flops looked like bags of luggage being placed outside a hotel room door. However, I'm told he said  he had thoroughly enjoyed last few hours of play and was about to guess at Miss Scarlett in the drawing room with the lead piping before they called time on him.  I'm sure he would have been right.

Tikay, having beaten me three times already, the though of playing me again might just have kept him going - if'd been there then...

Thanks Jack ive spoke to you before havent I ?   Are you realy barred from playing poker ? that sound interesting, but im not nosey :-*   So how come your barred? :-\

bluesquare and grovenor are in the same group, and as such they really cant be seen to having a house player on there table just incase yogi has to make a ruling and a punter complains

also as blue square is the sponsor of all grovenor events then we cant have the sponsor running off with all the money

Yeah, but he'd never win.......

Yes we have spoken briefly Foxy, but not had a proper chat/drink yet.  Will do some time soon I'm sure.

Tis true what ironside says - I used to get away with playing in Grosvenor card rooms, until Rank head office found out :-(

I did try to plead my case to let me carry on playing  including the 'I add value to these tournaments' (cos I never win Tikay) line, but even that didn't work. 

Now if anyone wants to stage another fancy dress tournament I would fancy my chances.  1/1 for me in fancy dress comps. hehe. I got a trophy n'all - but it has since been dropped :-(

you dropping a trophy??? nooooooo, after alll your hard work in Blackpool ( holding beer bottles anyway lol)

At elast you can play in non grosvenor cardrooms i cant even do that, even my plan to tacklwe the gutshot was shot down :( So hence i'm stuck playin with fools on the net :( and doin me spuds at the moment hehehe.

Wouldnt mind doin a fancy dress comp here in Blackpool might brighten up my sundays and get some of em outta them stupid self publising tracksuits taht are oh so common up here

It wasn't even me who dropped this one.  Mrs AlrightJack did that when dusting the flat.  She claims it was an accident, but I'm not so sure.  The 'ahh, you and your ******* pokah' comment she made the night before might have been the clue.

perfect couple then lol hope you dont go shoppin for crystal together lmao could get expensive hehe

Fancy dress at Blackpool? You mean Howard is NOT in fancy dress?

PS - Let me know if you wanna borrow my shorts.

nah tony better not, dont think management would appreciate us being raided by the fashion police lmao

any congrats to james on his attempt was true brilliance and tooks some guts to try ( wonder what record is for dealing??? ??? wouldnt mind findin out ) hehehe

i know of a man who made 500lk dealing coke in london but i think that is light wieght to some of the top london dealers

hahahahahaha you know what i mean.

Would look good on my CV and may get me taken a little more seriously lol although theres always the crack if i was doin it for personal reasons lol

Not many ways we staff can get involved in P4C and yogis already done his bit lol

Without the Blackpool crew - Yogi, Wolfy, the dealers & just about everybody up there, the H-U jobbie would never have happened. Now it's gonna be a fixture, Luton next, & even better, P4C are gonna earn out of it.

And there will ALWAYS be a Notts-Blackpool challenge from now on, every Fessie. You never know, Blackpool may even win one.

There is an argument that it James did achieve a record; I understand that the 72 hour record was a ring game and certainly not as arduous as this H-U session.

I got to play him and won his chips but, after 50 hours play, the poor lad was mistaking the button for a chip and thought all his own chips were trains, so I didnt win any bragging rights there nor did I have the heart to cash the chips in. 

does it matter in a way? james is a hero for even going that far and putting himself on the line for others less fortunate.


cant seem to find any records for poker dealing, me and yogi might give this a go

you and yogi deal? i have been to blackpool twice and still to see you 2 pick up a single card,
now if there was a record for standing round sucking a thumb while getting the staff to deal
you 2 might have a chance

Whahoo! Ironside feels better, & that's a beaut. Two House points to Ironside.

You only seem to come when i get away from dealing hehehehehe apart from 2 weeks a year its all i do.

and i actually have photographic evidence of Yogi dealing during the last festival lol

Evidence required please.

I deal every festival somewhere along the line.

Usually a cash game.

Yogi

Thanks to everyone for all their support. 5000 was raised for Game for Life along with another 2000 worth of assets purchased as a direct result - so certainly no failure. I hope VCPOKER.COM the sponsors of the event felt they got value for money from this attempt. If anyone would like to register their thanks and praise for their sponsorship please email Andy Horne and let him know at andy.horne@vcint.com.

Bring on the heads up challenge................................................................................ and a couple of days off.

thankyou all for the support i got doing this.

I really enjoyed the challange and got to meet some great people, pitty Rob you didbnt introduce yourself! Although i have you narrowed down to 1 of 3 "train conductors" as i like to call them!!


It was a bizzare experience and i am glad that some decent money was raised for P4C in the process!!

I will be writing at some point a proper report for P4C and will post it here when i do, untill then i would just like to say cheers for the money Jon!!!

I was the one in the tasteful blazer and proper trousers. Hmm perhaps we shouldn't mention trains on this forum or you never know what will be posted next.

Trains? Someone mention trains? What do you want to know?

As a matter of interest - great interest - I was in York today, just in time to catch the 2.49 Virgin Voyager back to Derby (stopping at Leeds, Doncaster, Sheffield & Chesterfield). But York is such a fascinatng station, with the Virgin Main Line (I hate that poofter Branson with his wooly jumpers & plastic trains, pah!) & GNER - "The Route of the Flying Scotsman" emblazoned on the side of each carriage, running through parallel island platforms. So I decided to miss that one & catch the next an hour later. Wht an hour I had - fascinating stuff.

See... now look what you did.

you live near Derby Tikay?

Yup, halfway between Derby & Nottingham.

You ever done a tour of Derby Railway Works? Awesome!

Family live near Mickleover, I went to University in Nottingham. Would love to end up back there one day.

Small world

Its God's country up here, & I say that as an escaped Londoner.

Moved up 20 odd years ago, I absolutely love it. To drive daily past sheeps & cows and all that green grass stuff, & those sticky-up things - trees are they? - it's just beautiful. Plus there is Derby Railway Works.

So, and I will regret asking this, you enjoy the steam days at Butterley then?!?!

Hey Tikay im a railway man, dont knock them, well actually i work in the design office, but its still NetWork Rail!!  :-*

Oh YES.

But I'm busy today, so you have fallen unlucky. Remind me, & I tell our readers all about it tomorrow. They got trams as well, you know, and buses. I love buses, especially the old RT's, though with time, I gradually warmed to the RM's. I saw an RT in Africa once, amazing. They have one at York Railway Museum, too.

Hey Tikay im a railway man, dont knock them, well actually i work in the design office, but its still NetWork Rail!! :-*

Christ aloud, you've really done it now. Hold on everyone....

......... and the tramway museum at Crich.

Grew up as a lad in Nottingham, aged 4 - 21. Came down to South hmmmm a few years back, not how saying how many coz I'm more youngerish than others.

Would dearly like to get back to the East Midlands. I might yet as I am becoming less tied down to this area.

Crickey, this is the busiest thread on the forum!

Hey Dave, I will NEVER knock the railways. EVER.

Dad was an engine driver, Grandad too. I wanted to follow, but Dad said I had to get a proper job. Course that was in the days of British Railways, pre BR, pre Network Rail, pre Railtrack. And Dad & Grandad were both on the GWR - God's Wonderful Railway - is there any other? I could go on, but I got work to do today. We must chat about this another day.

What do you do in the Design Office? PW, signalling, rolling stock, anything exciting like that?

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exactly, if you knew me, and realise that i have an input into the rail tracks designs up here, you will never go on a train in scotland again!!

Bingo

P/Way Maintenance, my good man, im also following in a family line here, My Uncle was in BR and before him my Grandad, who is now 70+ something!

So im Flying the Flag for the 'McGilp' family, whicg is my second name by the way.

Yes, i need to finish some work too, we have a chat later Tony.

Cheers

Dave

PS Tony am i the fastest to become a full member on this forum???

(Joined 8th June - Full member 14th June) = 6 days!!

What, PW Remodelling & that sort of stuff? I noticed yesterday that they have remodelled the PW in York Station - done a great job, got an award too.

Tramway Museum at Crich? I worked 3 miles from there for 20 odd years, Heage. Used to pop up to the Museum most lunchtimes, find a bench, eat my sarnies & daydream of driving some of their kit. Happy days.

PW maintenance? WOW. Yes, we MUST talk later. Gotta push on now.

guys dont forget your anoraks when you leave

i was down at York 2 weeks ago, for a 'Permanent Way Institution' (Institution for Rail / Civil Engineers)(was pestered into joining, purely for a good drink at the function ;D) Conference!

Stayed in the Moet House Hotel over looking the river! Not bad.

ended up in some weird night club, called 'The Reflex' till 4 am the night before the conference, i was like a 'half shut knife' the whole way through the next takes event!

The reflex nightclub, did have a revolving dance floor tho, which was a bit of a novelty!

anyway must dash

Your newest Full member!!   :-* :-*

One last thing, welded track does make for asmoother & quieter ride, I'll grant that, but I do miss - very much - the old clickety click, clickety clack, clackety click, clickety clack. That and slam door trains, my favourite sounds. I've got LP's of Steam engines you know, Videos too.

hey do you want the finest dancers in Glasgow??

well then, ill accept an apology, anytime in the next 30mins ;D

right i think you need to go have a Lay Down now mate. lol

any will do beggars cant be choosers finest or worst as long as they have access

what the hell has happened to the forum??? has it been hacked?? all this talk of click clacking and the like?????


we all must really stop going off topic like this so often lol

With respect, Wolfy, you heathen, it's not "click clacking" it's clickety clack, followed by clackety click. Would you like me to explain why?

They're all winding you up Tone, I put em up to it  :D

can we please hve less of the wolfy?? lol

Been tryin to work myself up as a respected Supervisor for 2 1/2 years and little pet names aint helpin (not that it will ever happen anyway hehehehee).

but seriously the train talk is a bit drab huh you'll all be on stamps next lol

he says "please dont call me wolfy" then he says trains are dull, you've done it now wolfy

ok no more wolfy from now on i will only call you wolfie

Sorry Wolfy.

But if trains are drab (alleged) you will remain Wolfy.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr FFS

wohooo wolfie your now a full member these means you get a multiple choice question to solve your name problem

A) bluewolfy
B) bluewolfie
C) wolfy
D) wolfie

and answer other than A,B,C or D means any forum member or staff member at any casino in the country can call you any of the above or any name hey choose

Or..

E). Wool Fee

glad i amuse you chaps hehehehe

I can feel my cardroom career slowly dissolving even more than it already was.

Looks like the move i'm lookin for is gonna have to be somewhere Blonde hasnt spread to yet and even scotlan is out of the question now lol

No place exists where blonde does not reach. We get detailed daily traffic stats - and we get a fair bit of traffic from Tonga. Tonga!

damn damn damn oh well looks like i'm screwed hehehe

Ul Royal Flush. Great effort.

How about that trip report you promised?

lol i just read this on his blonde hall of fame


would you try and do this again?

I really wanted to do something like this. world record is +100hours now tho?

He was fitter then, now degen addled, no chance :)

Got to say it was a good try though.

78 hours i think held by phil laak

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMkaT4F4ZI8

laak went on for longer than that

phil Laak went for 115 hours but there was talk about some austrians going for 150 hours but cant find anywhere if they did it