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Another of my little "Latest News" pieces for Next Door. Bit of spam in it, but not much.


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Quite how I came to call Paul "Boba Fett" McTaggart "James" I've yet to work out.

Hi Tony
Is there anyway you could copy and paste your articles and send to me please ,as I would enjoy reading them but im unable to open the links due to the Great Firewall of China :(

They are not THAT interesting Craig......

But yeah, I'll send them across later today. A few names in the latest ones you'll recognize from your days in the UK, including Mad Turk & Thewy. Even railtard gets a namecheck.

Love watching Ali play, most players on the local scene think he's a massive fish, not realising he has actually got a good game and can and does change and adapt to different tables very well.  Let's people see him in maniac mode then they wonder what's hit them when they get "mallu'd"!  Really nice guy and credit to the game well done Ali. 

On a side note, I took a local young lad to a £20 rb comp in Sheffield the other night, he loves poker and had never been to a casino before.  In we went with me telling him "don't worry it plays really tight, play really tight yourself and you shouldn't need to have any more than £60/80 invested."  He got Ali Mallu on his table, oh Lordy were his eyes opened!

The bloke is amazing, one of a kind. Whatever he wins soon finds its way to the blackjack or roulette tables, too.

I made a final table with him in 2006 in Blackpool, which was one of the weirdest things ever happen to me in poker. Trigg was on the same Final. Ali was about 3rd in chips, & we were due to start on Day Two, at 2pm.

We were all sat there waiting to start, Ali's seat was empty. He rings me, "I'm in Recepption, they won't let me in, come see me, quick".

I go see him - he's been BANNED. Some argy bargy had gone off 2 days earlier at G Bolton, & after investigation, he had been banned. But in the intervening day, he'd paid to enter this comp @ Blackpool & made the Final Table as 3rd chip.

Now what happens?

One of the most difficult spots for a TD, & the players, I've ever experienced.

You might say "he just blinds off", yeah, but that dramaticallly changes the table dynamic for those either side of his empty seat. Give him a min cash & remove his stack from play? Hardly seems fair.

Anyway, we all sorted it out eventually.

He was classified as 9th, but they refused to include him in the official result. I finished 8th, obv, so never beat anyone except the empty seat.....


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Not sure if anyone read the GPS blog yday but Mallu managed to call a 30 big 3 bet shove pre with 910 for most of his stack and run into 1010 and obviously the board run out with two 9's on it.  When you are in form you are in form i suppose!  Think his quote was 'i quite fancy this hand'!

Standard. He "quite fancies" every hand.

What a character.

I wouldn't have felt safe with the TT in that spot v him tbh!

Turk is riotous company at the table. If you can't enjoy poker when he's around, the game isn't for you.

+ big 1

TK have you done Vegas part 2 yet

Thoroughly enjoyed reading part 1

Should be up Monday or Tuesday, Trev. I got unexpectedly sidetracked this week.

And there you have typical Ali Mallu. Makes no sense, but he gets by.

i think he does just have a genuine love for the game.

Well he enjoys it, but I think he just loves gambling.

definitely that

Love Ali, he's such a pleasure to be around on either a blackjack table or the poker table. He won't pay savers, he won't do deals, but he won't ever moan and groan when he misses our or bubbles, etc.

A bloody donk though, mind you.

probably not the correct thread but out of interest.  If someone won a main event package with sky and also a main event package with another site that have similar conditions to sky (wear a patch, non-transferrable, cant get the cash) how would it be resolved?

Hi Paul,

Sorry, only just seen this.

Disclaimer, this is my personal view only.

Interesting.

The patch

Well you & I both know the position there. The T & C's state you must wear it, but if I approached you midway through Day 1 & you had a mountain of chips & no patch, (I would not, of course, that'd be naughty) what exactly would happen? Exactly.

I do think both parties - player & site - should behave fairly & properly towards each other, if the deal says "you gotta wear a patch", then the player should. He'd expect every ounce of his entitlement from the site, so it cuts both ways. 

Non-transferable

The Sky Poker T & C's are very clear on this, it's "non-transferable" as far as they are concerned. In reality, it does not matter much, because.....

The Cash

That's a complete non-starter. The way the Sky Poker deal is structured, when you qualify, they send you £1,000, supposedly "flight & expenses".

They book you a room at Palazzo Hotel.

The Main Event entry?

I'm not 100% sure how this is done, but as far as I can see, you never see that $10,000 entry money - Sky arrange for you to be entered "directly", & will have paid the WSOP cage the $83,300 for their 5 Main Event & 30 Side Event qualifiers. Presumably, they register the players, too. I don't actually know how that works, usually we buy the players in for cash, sort of accompany them to the reg cage, but its different this year, & I am pretty sure you'll never see the $10,000 of folding money.


If in doubt, I suggest you speak to Customer Care, or even better, drop them an e-Mail. Always better to get this stuff in writing, imo.

I suppose you could always stop winning all these packages left right & centre. Bang out of order.

Ha yea leave some for somebody else ;-)

Sorry to continue this thread hijack Tikay,

Regarding the VIVA Las vegas package:

Do you have to travel over on the 4th July, or would the 5th suffice?

I really want to play these satellites, but obviously don't want to invest time and money towards a prize that I can't actually utilise.

Bump

Hi,

You can travel any day you wish, I would assume. Your hotel room (for that package) will just be vacant that night presumably.. Probably best to let someone know in advance though, in case they let the room go.

You book your own flight, using the cash they send you for flight and exes.

As far as I can see, all that you miss if you go out on July 5th is the 4th July party, which is a sort of mixture of Welcome Party and Independence Day knees up.

Make sure you arrive in time for the Main Event though. Be a bummer to miss that.

Good luck, be great if you could qualify.

Bugger, sorry Craig, clean forgot.

I will try and send them across in the morning.

Thanks Tikay!

SO the 10k package is for the main?

Thank you

It's like a right of passage into live poker tournaments in the UK. If I had a pound coin for every time a young guy who is in his first year on the live circuit has come up to me and started his sentence with "Oh MY GOD, you won't believe what Ali Mallu did to me..."

He's been playing local comps in North england and £300+ live comps in the UK since before I was born, I think VERY early on he realised that if youplay very aggressive and put constant pressure on people, then you accumulate so many chips very quickly, sure every so often you end up getting your money in a bit ropey but usually by then you've got 5x anyone else anyway...

The problem Ali has is that as of about 4 years ago this system is frequently seen and well known, and he is VERY well known as being a complete lunatic and people, even not so good players know how to play vs him, like you don't fold TT pre-flop vs Ali Mallu, dont worry about the action, you just don't...

Ali has, unfortunately not really found any way to combat the fact that a great number of players are comfortable playing his style and know how to beat it, so when people suggest there is some subtle ingenuity to his play, he makes people think he's nuts when actually he's composed and calculated then its just not true, he's played this way for 20 years and this is how he plays. That being said, many people (even good players) often play very badly vs him, and he is utterly fearless which is a huge attribute deep in tournaments so I'm never surprised when has big chips in a tournament.

He's a fun guy too - he once explained his blackjack strategy to me in detail...  ;noflopshomer; *

*I still use the Ali Mallu BJ system, it's fun :)