blonde poker forum

Sadly one "Anthony Kendall" was last to depart last night in 46th


but look who is well placed....and look who needs that double up

Alan Linford     3     6     139000
Kevin Noble    2    5    136900
Ali Zihni    15    3    103000
Ryan Lawton    14    4    100100
Garry Brown    2    6    94600
Rupinder Bedi    2    2    87000
David Harris    11    3    84700
Mark Mckinney    2    7    80200
Phil Long    12    7    67900
Michael Wernick    14    7    67600
George Achillea    3    3    65900
Mohammed Patel    11    2    65600
Oluwashola Akindele    12    6    65000
Abdul Khan    15    2    63700
Umar Khan    3    9    63100
Stephen Okeeffe    15    1    61100
Alex Torrance    11    6    60600
Chris J Wood    15    8    60400
Nadim Sarwar    15    7    60100
Garry Wilson    3    5    56800
Fidel Burton    15    5    56200
Lee Jasper    11    9    55600
Saifon Lambe    15    9    51700
Dylan Davies    3    1    50400
Jamie Harish    12    3    46800
Ramazanali Abbassi    14    2    44100
Mohammad Faisal Khan    12    4    43100
Raymond Power    14    1    43000
Gary Strang    14    9    42600
Colin Myott    14    5    41700
Robert Boon    12    2    41700
Liam Batey    12    9    41500 (playing this as a blonde League win prize)
Julian Thew    12    1    41400
Stephen Lovatt    2    9    38700
Stuart Brownson    2    8    37100
Ali Ahmed    2    4    35200
Steve Brown    11    4    34000
Martin Lawton    11    7    32500
Jason Herbert    3    8    30300
Paul Wilson    3    4    29100
Andrew Papageorgiou    14    8    24000
Rachael Costa    12    8    21800
Darren Leeson    14    3    20200
Thomas Mccready    2    1    19400
Barry Neville    12    5    7400


263 began, and the event just missed the £80,000 guarantee

Updates on here this afternoon from anyone there please, and good luck blondes!

gl gl gl you lot!!!   ;cheerleader;

Updates should be on blonde!!! It's poo poo without them!!

glglgl all blondes left!

+1

yes i dont know how much it costs for blonde to be at dtd but the benefits to both parties are massive. i cant see any draw backs at all other than the financial aspect were obv the team need paying a wage and rob not being able to afford this (joke obv). my wife would be the first person to chuck some beans into the pot to have blonde covering the deepstack so then 1. she knows where i am and at what time i should be home. and 2.  how much she has to spunk on internet shopping as she is on 50% as my manager. usually has to twist my ears before i tell her how much i actually cashed but i wil continue to keep trying to grim her

Good Luck to ALL of you. May the best man, or woman, win.

I've said on thread after thread

DTD don't want to pay for them, which is fair enough, having done so for 18 months which was great and enormously appreciated

We would love to do them, but can't afford them

For DTD Deepstacks:

One person for two days including a modest wage, hotel and travel is £350 or so

Two people, assuming shared hotel room £600-650

I've done several updates (DTD Grand prix, DTD UKIPT, GUKPTs) voluntary but its trickier and trickier to do this. After a while it becomes the "norm", and that's not a particularly comfortable situation to be in

I agree the benefits to both parties from updating the DTDs are huge. I think the event itself suffers a bit without the updates in terms of profile, PR and "noise". Two overlays in a row now and blonde could have helped in avoiding those. blonde of course would benefit from traffic, new members and a busy forum on the deepstack weekend

I'd take any donations for blonde, straight into the company bank account, from benefactors and put them towards future updates, just PM me. Ideally instead of this we can earn the money, or partner with sponsors, who will help with costs and I am talking to several people to achieve this for updates in 2011 whether they be GUKPT, DTD, UKIPT etc

surely we could get 140 peeps to donate £5 a month via standing order, to fund these, I must admit I really miss them, and would happily give a fiver a month, anyone else?

good luck all blondes left.

Good shout Dewi, start a thread and put me down.

The numbers at dtd have def been affected by the lack of updates on here imo since they disappeared.  Give it a couple of months of more overlays and the powers that be will realise the benefit of the updates versus the cost of another overlay.  FWIW i think the updates benefit DTD much more than they do blonde.  I know several people who dont play the sats for the £300 anymore because they know their mates wont be able to follow them should they bink a seat.  Sounds sad but a lot of small players like their 10 minutes of fame if they play an event miles out of their bankroll i guess.  

We need at least 140 people who are willing to Donate £5 a month via standing order to get the DTD updates re started, if you are interested please post name below, Cheers.

Dewi
KevB

Pm Bank details please

+1 but would we get permission from DtD to do the updates though?

DTD have said in the past that they're happy to accomodate any updates blonde wish to do. Think Nick W posted in the DTD thread a while back.

good luck all of you!

I personally loved the updates. They made the comp feel more special. Like it was high profile.

I obv don't know how DTDs finances work but they've had overlays in the last 2 deepstacks. So had blonde been updating and the event got just 2 extra runners as a result then the updates have paid for themselves. Even if that's not the case then DTD seem happy to put overlays on and generally add value everywhere. An extra £650 every month to help give their flagship event that extra quality seems like great value imo.

Bank transfers between Ireland and England are a proper pain in the backside, but I'd be willing to stump over the £60 for the year next time I see Tighty or Tikay.

I know this idea has been flogged to death but I love the idea of having like a PayPal donation button on the update whilst it's running.  I'm sure tons of people would donate cos it's so easy to click one button and donate rather than pissing around handing over bank details and so forth.

There has been some reluctance from Tikay in the past to do this but I will be having words for sure.

It's only when the updates are acutally gone that you realise how valuable they are to people. Something is very missing from the DTD 300 by not having them.

Also I think solo updats are just plain wrong. From having done about 20 of them in the past I know how bloody hard they are even with 2 people.  You can't police 30 tables alone, you miss so much and the banter between the updaters is usually great.  You get to a point where you just the post the minimum and the obvious cos ur so knackered running around like a nob.

pretty much sums it up CF your post. 

The same 200 odd punters play the deepstack every month and they make no difference to whether there is an overlay or not.  Its the casual punters which affect the overlay.  The 50/50 type guys who are marginal on entering.  I think the updates have an impact on enough of these to easily justify them being funded by dtd.  But its their money and they can spend it how they like.  Just surprising to build up such a loyal once a month comp feel via blonde over 18 months then just jack it in. 

However people starting threads saying lets all pay £5 a month to help promote DTD's event via blonde are not helping imo.  Let nature take its course.  Stand back and see what happens over the next few months and see if the last 2 overlays were because of xmas (january) and pokerstars event (feb) or whether there are because of the lack of blonde updates.

spot on imo

we have two threads going here regarding the subject.  Todays dtd gl thread is sorta overlapping this one as well.

We have been down the Paypal donate button for years but for some reason Tikay is totally against it, have a word Chili, he listens to you (maybe).

How can TK be against a paypal donate button but blonde are OK with people setting up standing orders?

I have no idea.

The other angle which has never been mentioned is the amount of people (again marginal punters who are not 100% to play the event every month) who are staked into the event either via blonde forum staking and/or private staking.  IMO having the dtd300 updates on blonde would make staking an individual far more likely as the stakers can easily follow their charge from home. 

I have occassionally staked people into the event and i know i probably wouldnt do this now as the updates made it very easy to follow my charges compared to without them.

tikay said the other day he was ok with the paypal idea if it's what people want to do, Tighty is trying to get the details as there's already an account, keep up people  ;whistle;

I think the question isn't Can we fund them, it's Should we fund them ??

Obviously in the clique.

Hush you, are you playing UKIPT ?

my views from the other thread (gl at dtd thread) try to get the posts on one thread.

The numbers at dtd have def been affected by the lack of updates on here imo since they disappeared.  Give it a couple of months of more overlays and the powers that be will realise the benefit of the updates versus the cost of another overlay.  FWIW i think the updates benefit DTD much more than they do blonde.  I know several people who dont play the sats for the £300 anymore because they know their mates wont be able to follow them should they bink a seat.  Sounds sad but a lot of small players like their 10 minutes of fame if they play an event miles out of their bankroll i guess. 


 

The same 200 odd punters play the deepstack every month and they make no difference to whether there is an overlay or not.  Its the casual punters which affect the overlay.  The 50/50 type guys who are marginal on entering.  I think the updates have an impact on enough of these to easily justify them being funded by dtd.  But its their money and they can spend it how they like.  Just surprising to build up such a loyal once a month comp feel via blonde over 18 months then just jack it in. 

However people starting threads saying lets all pay £5 a month to help promote DTD's event via blonde are not helping imo.  Let nature take its course.  Stand back and see what happens over the next few months and see if the last 2 overlays were because of xmas (january) and pokerstars event (feb) or whether there are because of the lack of blonde updates.



The other angle which has never been mentioned is the amount of people (again marginal punters who are not 100% to play the event every month) who are staked into the event either via blonde forum staking and/or private staking.  IMO having the dtd300 updates on blonde would make staking an individual far more likely as the stakers can easily follow their charge from home. 

I have occassionally staked people into the event and i know i probably wouldnt do this now as the updates made it very easy to follow my charges compared to without them.

It's a valid question. I like reading the DtD 300 updates. I don't care about the event itsself in the same way that I don't care about the EPT. There are more blondes playing the DtD300 and I like to keep up-to-date with their progress...

On the other hand; If DTD is losing money on the 300 because they don't have the updates going on (not sure if this is actually the case) then surely that's DTD's problem?

I like reading the updates and don't mind paying a 5'er a month for them...I don't want to pay for DTD's advertising budget for this event though, it shouldn't be up to blonde readers to ensure DTD gets enough runners for this event. (if you know what I mean)

£140 people at £5 per pop is going to be a nightmare to manage and I doubt you'll get that many people willing to do it.

Why don't 20-30 of us just stump up £20 each a month and then others can donate as and when they wish with whatever amounts they like?

Please see recent posts elsewhere. Tikay has dropped his objection to a paypal button. However there is a hitch I am having to resolve. Someone linked a paypal acc to the blonde bank acc in 2006 and not sure who yet! Until then its sponsorship, bank donations or persuade dtd!

why dont you wait 3 months until they have donked off another £10/20k in overlays and then they will probably be willing to get blonde on board like the old days?   If they dont then the reasons why they dont want to pay for the updates anymore are obviously not business related as it wouldnt make sense.

Maybe the solution is a combination of these donations providing a percentage of the updates cost, and DTD paying for the rest?

:dontask:

Coincidentally, I was given a dontions towards "any blonde Update" yesterday, & I had planned to start a thread today saying "OK, there's £40 in the kitty, anyone else wants to make a pledge, fine, you owe me, pay me directly or indirectly, via third parties, whenever." The very worst that can happen is that a few pledges go unpaid, & that won't kill me.

The Paypal objection by me? I can't recall my objection, stubborn pride probably, but I accepted a month or so back that I'm fine with it. But Tighty then had trouble sorting out the Paypal Accoun, for a variety of obsure reasons.  

Anyway, what the hell, I'm gonna start the Thread, & if it dies a death, well, nothing is lost.

PS - I don't need Chili on my case, ffs, she's like a nagging Mother-in-law.

Ah ok sorry, obv my blonde policing skills are not upto cos standards. didn't realise tikay had mellowd on the subject.
Carry on tighty, great job :-) x

i really love the updates but why are we going to help advertise DTD out our own pockets??  If coke cola sales fell by 50% would ITV then them have an advert on tv for free? The last two £300 deepstacks have fallan in numbers i really thing this is cos off the updates not been around anymore!

mbn to be dtd.  Let your customers pay to market your premium product every month.  

In the scale of things, the big numbers that DTD deal in ,and given the good pts made above........ £650 is surely a no brainer.

I know Tikay and Tighty say 100% there is no reason behind the scenes, but I can't see the logic.

Im sorry as much as i love the updates i don't believe we should be paying for them, for that reason i'm out

Set up new account for this purpose and link a new paypal account to it? I know banks aren't too keen on opening new accounts these days but should be manageable?


Who said we are advertising DTD? I get enjoyment out of reading about Boshi folding his way to day 2, how many breakfasts Red has had or George spectacularly blowing a massive stack so would be prepared to pay something towards them. We are talking about an amount of money most of the people on here would never notice and probably tip a taxi driver more than that. I also think it is probably in most of their interests to see DTD thrive. I am not the biggest fan of the place to be honest but compared to what we have on offer from the Casino's in this country it would make sense to see it continue to operate (not suggesting it is in any threat of not doing so but continual overlays can't help)

 

I think I work in the wrong town!

One bank account is fine, easily recorded. Will need to merge threads when at home!

I think saying the reason DTD numbers are down for the deepstack is due to the lack of updates is a stretch too far. More likely because they have a £500 event next weekend and people can't afford to play both

Who really thinks "I fancy going to play this £300 event today" "oh no forget it, there's no updates online"?

I'm still in.

GL  ;cheerleader;

PS I expect early fireworks from big Baz with that shortstack

Well done you!  chip count please seeing as there's no point asking for a brekkie count.

Can't we get a petition of names an hand it to DTD? Or flood the suggestion box with 'blonde updates' cards??

No. The debate as to whether DTD fund any more Live Updates is, for the present, closed. It's their call, & they currently don't wish to pay for them.

Anyone, of course, can suggest to DTD otherwise, but I won't be raising the matter further with them, I know their stance quite clearly, & I don't have any issue or argument.

I kinda agree and disagree karluccio. For me and I'm sure many other blondes, interest wanes a bit when there's no updates. I don't really plan to play many / any dtd deepstacks this year, partly because half the fun for me is sweating people I know and the updates reminding me of the 300 etc. If there's a 300 and I'm not playing but reading the updates I seem to always wanna play the next one.

I was still in until play started, but then I went out first hand. J10s into KK.

Ju out too. Now he has position on me in the 6 Max...

The tikay Bok Service is in fine form. I spoke with both of you minutes before play re-started & wished you both luck. GG me.

Agree totally, quite a few people think the same, too.

I played it yesterday, & loved every minute, but I did miss the Updates, & would willingly bunged in a few bob to have it.

We had this discussion a week or so ago - and I was questioned over my post. Where is Cos when you need him? This a well constructed post CF but reflects the assumed stance of Blonde. Surely Cos should be questioning whether this is really CF's thoughts or those of Blondes?  

GL too all the Blondes still in though !!

I sort of played yesterday too.

Where do I ship?


If people have issues sending money from abroad etc can they not ship on ftp/stars to someone who can do it easily?

Barry Neville, 74k....

Just Post on the thread below, please....

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=51832.0

Yep, I'm not at home til tomorrow but will send bank details out to whoever has requested them then

I'll also get a viewable spreadsheet going so we can see who has funded what, with any special requests for events to contribute to, or not contribute to


thanks everyone

I like reading the updates and don't mind paying a 5'er a month for them...I don't want to pay for DTD's advertising budget for this event though, it shouldn't be up to blonde readers to ensure DTD gets enough runners for this event. (if you know what I mean)
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Maybe the solution is a combination of these donations providing a percentage of the updates cost, and DTD paying for the rest?

+1

Methuseluh got it right again - Barry returned with less than 4xBB!

Maybe the solution is a combination of these donations providing a percentage of the updates cost, and DTD paying for the rest?
+1
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As I understand it, that's highly unlikely.

Why do people seem to think that DTD should pay anything towards these updates?

The updates don't advertise DTD at all so where's the value for them?

When DTD were sponsoring them there were banners everywhere and Tighty would frequently be asking people to sign up to DTD, saying how great the place is, blah blah blah.......

If blonde pay for them it's for the benefit of blonde and it's members because we all seem to want them.

There won't be banners on the update page and Tighty won't go out of his way to push DTD at everyone.

DTD will be getting very little from it and their hospitality in allowing blonde to be there will more than cover the 3 or 4 extra players that might not have played if it weren't for the updates.

I think some people are grossly over estimating the impact blonde has on the deepstack comp. It may affect the number of blondes playing by a tiny % but that's it.

gl to bazza and shola. Sick day for me after running like God yesterday to playing 3 hands today and losing all 3.

ugh, tell us more. I thought you'd ship the double

gah don't want to be accused of whinging but since you asked

Lost with Jacks to QJ. 99 to KQ and then 55 to AK so basically two flips.

lol donkaments

Shola out 18th

Neville out 18th

Smashedagain still going


Rachel Costa who tikay and I met in Newcastle SPT, still in. 21yo, got a great game

Hi,

This is my first post here, I am hoping to get the details of a chap who mentioned that he posted on/read this forum.

He was playing in the DTD £300 deepstack yesterday and we were on a table sitting next to each other. We both exited the tournament around the same time and I gave him a lift home to Wolverhampton with his brother, I can't remember his name, he was a Sikh bloke and I do remember his brother was called Gary though and I wanted him to drop me a line because I didn't get his number or anything and he seemed like a nice fella. PM me if you're out there mate!

Andy

Think you're looking for Singheee

Results?

According to site Jason came 3rd- not sure if deal was done

263 runners

1     Alex Torrance     £24683.75
2    Alan Linford    £14430.50
3    Jason Herbert    £8658.30
4    Stephen Okeeffe £6076.00
5    David Harris    £4557.00
6    Nadim Sarwar    £3417.75
7    Kevin Noble    £2658.25
8    Gary Strang    £1898.75
9    Rachael Costa    £1519.00
10    Ali Zihni    £1063.30
11    Ramazanali Abbassi    £1063.30
12    Dylan Davies    £1063.30
13    George Achillea    £1063.30
14    Garry Brown    £759.50
15    Steve Brown    £759.50
16    Lee Jasper    £759.50
17    Stuart Brownson £759.50
18    Mohammad Faisal Khan £759.50
19    Saifon Lambe    £450.00
20    Oluwashola Akindele    £450.00
21    Barry Neville    £450.00
22    Mohammed Patel £450.00
23    Martin Lawton    £450.00
24    Chris J Wood    £450.00
25    Ryan Lawless    £450.00
26    Fidel Burton    £450.00
27    Stephen Lovatt    £450.00

hi all. 3rd was good seeing as i returned 1/2 average day 2. ran good played good. mrs herbert is very willing to make a good contribution (from her 50% managers fee) to the blogg  fund as she really enjoys following the action as it happens. the event is def lacking when you guys  are not there.

N1 Jason, thank you, & well done yesterday.

I was very pleased also for Dylan Davies, who finished 12th, & young Rachael Costa (9th), who seems to me to be a very exciting prospect, & a really lovely girl. She made the Final of the Newcastle SPT as big Chip Leader, only to see her Aces busted by A-K. I've rarely met anyone who smiles so readily, she brightens up any Table.

N1 jason

Congratulations Gouty and SmashedAgain, well played both!

Deal between top two after a long heads up. GG

This is the info were missing without the blonde updates!!

spot on girl from a really nice poker playing family. would like to say i taught her everything she knows but i really havnt!!

Any relation to Peter?

It's clear that someone has coached her, or she just has good natural ability. For one so inexperienced, she has a great game, & what's more, she takes her bad beats well, & smiles so readily.

Based on looks, no!

Peter's surname (Costa), of course, is not actually Costa.

LOL thought it maybe strange

Am I missing an 's'

You are missing a lot of things I suspect, Rich......

Oh dear, have i been whooshed again :) or just reference to my lack of brain cells ?

ty dik9

what a fun weekend and drive back down the M5 with some cash for a change. gotta feel for steve o keeefe who woke up with kings in bb 4 handed after i had iso 3 bet shoved from the sb A9. what a classy bloke he was when i rivered the str8.

i played a few hours with tikay at end of day 1 and enjoyed that as i always like his musings on here. it felt good to fold qq to 4 bet shove preflop and the fella shows AA and get a knowing wink from fellow "nit" tikay.

i nearly lost it 3 handed with jason cos i felt he was being personal with the banter and had already misplayed 2 big hands with him constantly jabbering on and name dropping half the UK poker glitterati every 30 seconds. thankfully he was coolered half hour in or he would of prob crushed me h/u who knows? he is such a nice guy over the rail but uber tilts me on the table lol.

poker fact of the weekend is that i played 23x 45 mins levels of poker and NEVER saw 1 misdeal/cock up.

very well done simon and team.

alex

I really enjoyed the 3 or 4 hours we shared Tables, Alex, & well done on the result

I could never have folded those Queens against that guy - GREAT fold! Did you ever see a guy - he was a splendid chap, too - get so many big hands so often as he did? Still  great & cheap fold by you.

I'm delighted you cashed big, & hope we meet up on the Tables again soon. You are Welsh, right? Living where, exactly?

you deserved the win alex 100%. i do have a habit of tilting people coz you tend to find that guys often fold when you are mr nice when you want them to call so if you are a  bit annoying they call coz they have the hump with you. thats also the reason i wear the hoodies. the young lady  on the final was un lucky on her exit hand too. i think she never knew you had raised / shoved and her AJ was also ahead. bit ironic  i lost with Alister James having had that hand 9 times onf/t myself. wp again soon and am sure we will play another final soon

No, no, not at all, Rich. I only know about two "famous" film lines, & that was one of them, so I was just showing off, really.

In one of the "Lock Stock" films, a geezer asks someone "what do you know, tell me?"

He said, knowingly, quietly, & with a wink, "I know a LOTTTTT of things".

If someone could find the YouTube clip, it'd make sense. Maybe.

I think it actually is Costa Tony, but oddly Pete's oldest brother Louie's surname is Costi although Kim is still what I assume to be the original Constantinou.

I don't know of any other three brothers who all have different surnames.

Well I must defer to your infinite wisdom & geat age, Ralph, my apologies.

I really thought his "proper" name was "Constantinou", the same as Kim, who I've not seen for some years now. I liked Kim very much.

I'm not sure HOW 3 brothers all have different names, to be honest. Maybe it's a Greek thing.

A lot of greeks changed their names slightly when they came to the uk or to make them easier.

I know 3 brothers with different sirnames...haralambous, charalambous and hambi.

Yes, that's understandable, but there "real" name surely remains the same, unless they change it by deed poll, no?

I had assumed that Peter just preferred to be known as "Costa", which is a different situation altogether.