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When I saw Tighty at DTD this weekend I asked him when he was going to play his £1K or 2x£500 tourneys with the fund that has been in place for what seems like at least a year now.

He said that there was "no chance" of that happening for the forseeable future due to his updating commitments. The poor guy is just so good at his job that he is genuinely indispensable.

One thing that had been mooted previously was getting him an i-pad which would make life immeasurably better for him especially when doing his "round with Tighty" features and hands at the table in general, although I've not seen it mentioned for a while.

When I suggested to Tighty that maybe it would be a good idea to use half of the tourney fund to get himself an i-pad and leave the other half to play a tourney as and when the opportunity arose he intimated that he would be very happy to do that if everyone else agreed.

How do people feel about this?

If he played the tourney and won he could buy as many I pads as he liked.

I have no problem with the proposal, but the reality is, tighty could easily be afforded time to play an event if he wanted. And infact if you think about it, it would probably generate quite a lot of views on an update thread, as people would want to see how tighty actually did. There would be no shortage of people wanting to update FOC for the day/weekend because tighty has done such a good job (several including myself have already offered).

Lets face it, there is a strong chance he will bust day 1 (not a measure of his play obv), and if he doesn't then the rail/thread for any deep run will be incred.

Im just not sure why this "hasn't got time" tag is sticking because its bollocks IMO. Pretty sure if for some unspecified reason tighty pulled Kylie Minogue one Friday and she promised him a Saturday full of drugs and sex, he'd pass on the update that day. And for the same reason tighty should play an MTT imo

And the reality is the fund is big enough for an I pad and an MTT if that's what happens. But id sooner see him play an MTT. I want to see him next to Rastafish for 4 hours and see how the years of watching the great man have made him un-tilt-able

Why don't DTD just flick him an iPad? If its going to help him with work per cé, seems like it would be reasonable...

Ugh this is a bit embarrassing

I am certainly not indispensable

I will play the next Monte Carlo or DTD UKIPT for sure. The last Monte Carlo was awkward for me to play, as I had a couple of work commitments for it that were tricky to turn down.  Being self-employed at the recreational end of poker isn't a bundle of laughs and whilst I would have loved to play and let the people who kindly offered update, the reality is that I was unlikely to cash and earning money was more important

Probably the UKIPT looking at the DTD schedule for H 2. I do think it should be at DTD, the tournament I play

If there is anything left, then maybe an Ipad becomes an option. Thanks to Karabiner for the notion!

Let's just get him an ipad. Will only take 10-20 people to put in a tenner or twenty quid.

For the lookalikes alone its gotta be worth it..... I will get the ball rolling with £20.

Come on lads , dont be shy in posting.......

LOL - there is plenty for it all already

Where is the original Tighty thread?

But nothing seems to be happening on it. Tighty's updates are by far the best and if an ipad makes
his life easier then let's just get him one. No politics , debating for a couple of months , wishy washy talk.

With an ipad he may give us more weather updates on the betting thread ;D

Self employed journalist just buy one and claim it on tax surely? It's indispensable part of your job.

Looks like there about 1400 collected. Possibly more, that's enough for a 1k and iPad?

Gukpt Luton seems a good idea, local to Tighty and no expenses etc.

If people have funded for 2 tourneys, for the sweat/banter & updates why would they want to drop one to pay for something which as a journalist he should already have?

Not hating as im not part of it, is it too late now i assume? Just as Pleno says suprised either DTD dont sort him out or he just gets one himself as it would make his job alot easier

I will happily do the updates when/ if he plays a tournament. I have a number of look a likes already in mind ;)

I didn't see the original Tighty fund thread. So I will put in £20 towards an iPad instead.

Completely deserves it IMO.

How does the updating system work. Use 1k of the money to put tighty in gukpt main event Luton so no personal expense. Use money left over to pay for an updaters expenses.

Gukpt Luton is in oct.

We wouln't be updating a GUkpt, currently. I intend to play an event at Dtd. Think that's appropriate, given they have contributed. Dtd ukipt, probably

Why is playing at Dtd appropriate? The have contributed a small % of the total amount, I'm sure they're not bothered what you play, as Long as you get to play.

obv wants to play at dtd because they are ze nizzles.

I get that, but that's not the reason stated.

Its appropriate because

a) they have contributed
b) i know the players there in detail
c) blonde can't update gukpt's under the dtd sponsorship agreement

Its also d) where I would like to play.

B, c and d are all good reasons.

Lol, hints of the old dtd-blonde alliance again, who cares either way... When is the ukipt at dtd btw?

hints? DTD sponsor blonde, there is no need to hint about it.

Not quite sure why everyone is giving me a hard time about this

UKIPT is November time iirc

Just trying to remove the obstacles that seem to be in place, don't think anyone is trying to give you a hard time.

thank you

the only obstacle is my work ethic!

You still have to pay for it you know. You don't get it for free.

All you get back is the tax you would've paid on whatever it costs.

Also as Tighty's only a part time journalist I'd guess that by the time he's written off his other expenses he won't be paying any tax to claim back against anyway.

Nice thought though. If only it were that simple all self employed people would have loads of free stuff.

Fuck the system etc

I know tighty, i should have phrased it better, the perils of text interpretation.. was playing on the fact that others recently were having a moan on this subject, for no discernible reason as far as i can see. Apologies.

I am willing to help do this for the full duration of the tournament, or tighty's participation of it.... whichever is preferable.

I've enjoyed it the few times I've helped and would be more than capable given a few minutes of 'briefing' about suitable content! :D

Ukipt?

perfect

Quite possibly, yes

Oi oiiiiiii

Offer to do some updating stands :)

Or the sky comp? Or will you be updating that?

The Sky comp sounds a great shout, televised too Tighty. Imagine you binked that one? You'd have to start a new diary!

If you needed someone to help run the updates for a day then I would also volunteer to help out.  If you really needed a pad I also have a Nexus 7 in the drawer I have used about 3 times, and not at all in the past 6 months.