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Believe it or not on more than one occasion someone has said to me "why don't you start a diary?".  I just thought who on earth would want to read "got up early, went to work, posted on blonde, came home, watched tele and went to bed" on a daily basis which is pretty much all I have done over the last 2.5 years. Before that time it might have been a different story..

However, now that I have broken free of the 9-5 (read 7-7) lifestyle I feel like I could have something semi interesting to write.

Today is my first full week since being made redundant and I can honestly say I don't think I have ever been happier! I was suffocating in that office and I genuinely feel like I can now breathe again.

I don't actually have any concrete plans for what the future will hold, I have enough money behind me so I don't have to worry about any sort of bills / expenses until the end of June next year and that's about as far as It goes.

Possibilities in order of preference:

Poker - Somehow make a living from poker (in before lolz, gl)
SAHD - Be a stay at home dad and just about get by on just the missus' wage
Start a business - Custom toyboxes
Get another job - Barring 6 months I have had various full time jobs since I was 16, I turn 30 in 6 months and don't really ever want to have a 'jobjob' again.

I have a fair bit to say but I don't want to make it tldr, I basically plan to document whatever I get up to over the next 8 months, June 01st is my D-Day where I hope to have a much clearer vision of the future.

For those who don't know me. I am Dave Milligan, a 24 stone, hat wearing, film loving, pizza eating, love machine who unfortunately has the voice of a 9 yr old girl.

Here I am in a rare appearance without a hat holding my daughter Amelie.

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It would be cool if people came along for the ride, feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions or ask me any questions. Hopefully this will make a bit of a refreshing change from the one post one diary type things and all the pure grinders out there.

This week I will mostly be trying to sat into UKIPT IOM and youtubing how to carve pumpkins.

glglgl!

Giving up the 9-5 was the best thing I ever did.

In that your real hair?

in on page one

tyty. Even though it wasn't by choice I already know it's the best thing ever, although I do miss lolling when you used to get a taxi to work.



I'm just happy to have some. It's a bit Elvis esque but it's better than my other 30yr old mates who are rocking the Bruce Willis or in one case the Philip Schofield

Got made redundant nearly 5 years ago now.  Best thing that could have happened to me.

Played poker for 3 months, then started my own business.  Wish I'd done it years before.

Good luck with whatever you choose to fill the next 8 months with, be happy.

Tks mate, health and happiness are defo key. I have a lot of work to do with the former but that is also part of my plan. Glad it all worked out for you.

Eff the 9 - 5.

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lol I'm impressed you remember that. Was a great way to spend a few hours wages (NOT) but I just hated the grind of that boring office shit and commuting etc and my job wasn't really too bad - were definitely some nice perks but I don't miss a single thing about it.

As a young and then single guy it didn't scare me taking a shot at poker, but I think if I was in your shoes with a little one I'd go down the 'my own business route'. I don't wanna not be my own boss ever again.

What a lovely picture that is of Dad & Daughter, she looks a real heart-melter.

Good luck with the next chapter of your life's adventure.

Are those your real legs?

What a lovely photo!  Not sure why, but I never pictured you as a Dad.  How wrong I was.  Enjoy the break and the rest will fall into place.

Thanks Teeks, that's not one of her best photos but it is certainly one of my better ones, so I was happy for her to take the hit. :)

@Cos, yeah I know exactly what you are saying, I actually played poker for a living for 6 months before my last job and before we had our daughter. At the time I had nothing behind me, I was playing 1st-29th of the month to pay the mortgage on the 30th so to speak, the pressure just crucified me! The only possible way for poker to be viable for me personally is if I had 6 months wages as it were (minimum) behind me. So come June next year I would be looking to have minimum £12k for me to continue. Obviously I will have re-evaluated before this time and probs done work on business or maybe even have managed to get the missus preggo again.

Photoshop ldo. Could be a shinpad model me!

People that know me well said "oh god, Dave is going to be a dad" but now they all say "you are the best dad ever". Amelie being born changed me pretty much instantaneously. It really is easy though, there is nothing to think about, you just put them first and that's it. Although don't be fooled I am still really immature and probably always will be. Before my grandad died I asked him when do we as men grow up and he said he was still waiting to..

Were you born with a silver spoon in your mouth?

If I was it would have been stolen. :)


Hope DrFiasco doesn't stumble across this diary.  ;marks;

Will you ever listen to me about lifestyle advice?

Assuming you are talking about health in which case all taken onboard and being put into action. Even had grapefruit with no sugar for brekkie today. nom nom nom

A obviously. Join the zoom train!

Giving MTTs a spin for a month then will be knocking on your door for some advice yo. If I could have one of your bad days every couple of weeks then I would be loving life. :)

<3 milli.
 
Subscribed

Oioi  some quotes from said hero a couple of years ago


still on page one


GL Milli I know you will do well whatever path it takes buddy x

<3 Redsgirl

<3 Eso.

Those posts were made before that 2 week period when around 7,2433958 diaries popped up, although thought there was room for one more. ;)

So far today we have x3 3 outers and x1 2 outer vs us. Pretty good going considering i've only played 3 comps.. anyway this wont be a place of bad beats, it will be about positivity and keeping the Chinese debt collectors away from our door!

Sprinkle a bit of cinnamon over it and it's even more nom nom.  Extra flavour without the extra calories. 

So you got made redundant then I grimmed you.


rofl sigh sorry at the timing



but yeeeeeeh at rubbing dolla on tittys titty :d

Can't lie, my life has been pretty much downhill since that very moment. It was only $1 but the psychological implications have been immeasurable.

In other news this just turned up at my house:

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But what is it?

fix the door handle ffs.

Have't you ever read the manskills thread? DIY is not my strong point. Will get the missus to do it on the wknd. :)

Eagle-eyed cherry

Projection screen?  I am sure I read somewhere you like to watch the odd tv series.


Good luck with the future.

I wish it was a projector screen! It's my latest Xmas deco.. A garage door cover. I know some people don't like to talk about Xmas until Dec 22nd... but it's Christmas from September onwards in my hizzouse.

Here is what it looks like slumped over my couch:

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The garage door sticker thingy? Can't remember if that was you or a different blonde.

Mad keen for this diary.  Hopefully it won't be shit.

Yessir! Man I love Crimbo, I was measuring it up outside and the neighbour said "you're not putting that up now are you" which makes me want to put it up now so bad.


I can't make any promises brah.

I'm still interested!!!

GL with it.  Looking forward to seeing which way this goes.

So you never went for Santas workshop...?

All the best in whatever direction you decide on.. Subscribed..

That is Santa's workshop! Just can't see all of it as it was too big when I tried to roll it out indoors.

https://www.style-your-garage.com/en/Garage-poster/Motifs-for-single-garages/Winter-Edition/Santas-Work-shop.html (https://www.style-your-garage.com/en/Garage-poster/Motifs-for-single-garages/Winter-Edition/Santas-Work-shop.html)

Blonde legend.

Has your recent £25k bink and redundancy money left you with some flexibility? Have you worked out how many months it gives you where you dont have to worry about taking a shit job or whatever?

I know lots of people who got redundancy and turned the opportunity into something big.

What sort of jobs are you looking for, if it comes to that?

Fave pizza topping?

Ooooooooooh Questions.

Massively so, my redundancy package was going to be 2 weeks pay.. (1 week per year with company, rounded down..) which would have left me in a bit of bother.

However, they were worried I would refuse to do any work or just leave before I had trained the people over from Singapore (the ones taking over my job), so they offered me a 'handover bonus' which would have seen me through to the end of the year (with a very budget Xmas). The plan was to sell the second car, take daughter out of nursery, cancel sky etc and live off the missus' wage until I either got a new job or had my business idea off the ground. After my GP bink I have been able to pay myself £2k per month until end of June, have a very decent Xmas, keep Amelie in nursery full time, splurge on decos and have a little bit left over for an anniversary trip to Paris and an ever depleting poker roll. So yeah it really has afforded me a lot of flexibility which in turn has sent my happiness meter off the charts.

It does seem to be the trend that people are prospering during times of redundancy. It basically puts you into sink or swim mode, you have to do something and do it fast. I don't know if that's what lead to me binking or what. Who knows?

I really really don't want to ever have to work for anyone or in an office environment again but the sort of things I search for that I am qualified to do are Intel Manager / analyst, Research Manager / analyst (Quant), Interpreter / Linguist marketing exec, DP exec but I don't really want to have to do any of those types of thing again.

Pizza topping is all the meats all the way! I also like to go half/half with tomato and bbq sauce base.

Playing a feeder sat on dtd, phone rings.. Amelie is ill and I have to come pick her up from nursery. I sitout and leave, come back to find I have binked one of the top spots. MBN. Although she isn't allowed back until Thursday at the earliest so it's daddy daycare time! Should be fun.

More deets about these toyboxes then please.

That's Plan C atm. All in good time. Probs gonna pick it up again at the beginning of next year as left it too late now for the Xmas rush plus I just wanna chill out and enjoy myself. Still not even finished watching Dexter!! New Homeland and TWD tonight. wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

GLGL Milli.

New career as a OFC grinder? :D

That would require ever getting paid from the people who owe you..

I can't make tomorrow night now either. :(

Already making good game selection decisions, half way to being a top grinder :D

Do you know how you love Christmas so much. Ever dressed up as Santa? How about having your own millis santas groto. Would be a nice little earner for December and a good laugh id imagine!

Btw looking forward to the diary!

OFC u are son, what with all that free time on your hands ;)

Good luck Milli

Why Liverpool FC?

Last film you cried to?

How many tattoos do you have?

Biggest Degen Story?

Favourite Takeaway order?

TIA

I literally love everything about Xmas, how happy people are, the films, presents, decorations, food and especially the music! Why I love Christmas so much? I have never asked myself! I think it is probably because when I was growing up it was clear to all that my parents had zero chance of staying together, but every year without fail they put everything aside and just had fun.

Obv dressed up as santa!! Will be dressing up again this year on the 23rd to pick up my nan from the station and on Xmas eve for the little un. Got a pretty deece outfit tbf. Also went to DTD last year dressed as Santa and handed out candy canes. I meant to give them to everyone but Stato ate most of them.. Don't think I could do a grotto as if I ever got any annoying or spoilt kids I wouldn't be able to keep my cool.

Here is a pic, no padding needed!

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Pics will be a common theme throughout thread. Gotta love the snaps!

i dressed up as Santa on a rugby do one time, back in the day needed a pillow down the front. Now that would definitely not be necessary

Wtf? 4 pages in and no one has mentioned nandos? Shite diary. Should call it property downswings 2 or something.

Ok, I don't know you, heard good things about you tho, from Eso, so that doesnt count for much, but having read you're 24 stone, you sound like the kind of guy I would like.

Good luck with diary and whatever you do in the next 6 months or so.

You do realise that skinny people that dont eat much are good to go to nandos with? Leftovers for the winnn

You seem like an absolute boss, who loves staking and the game. It makes me happy to see someone who seems to enjoy life so much.

FYP

nothing better than the Nits thread much better than that TFT rubbish. Whats the point in winning when you can have an acca and a dream!

Nice questions Sir.


When I was a kid I remember my dad saying "so David, what footy team do you want to support". I said Liverpool but in reality it is probably because my Dad supports them.. even though he was born in Brixton and was raised a Chelsea fan.. 2 - When I lived in Manchester I got to see them a fair bit and I liked to be a bit different.


I've only ever really cried like blubbering twice and they were at real life things. But the first time I remember feeling a tear in my eye whilst watching a film was when I saw my girl Norrrrrrrr Macaulay! Lolz, i know. Recent times I think there was a scene in a French film called "Rust and Bone" that got me a bit.


4.
Shit one on my leg that I got when I was drunk
Amelie ambigram on arm
Oscar Wilde quote "to live is the rarest thing in the world"
Angel D and Devil D which represents my split personality.
Plan to get a sleeve on left arm when I have lost weight. It will be just stuff I love. Grandad, films, Xmas, gambling, footy, food etc.


Hmmmm. There are some stories that I can't actually share on a public forum as some things I have done are not strictly Kosher.

Done $1k spins on roulette in Vegas, won $12k playing $1/$2 in Vegas, bought an ipod touch and then dusted the lot off on roulette and strippers.

Numerous times in the RAF I have been on what we called "millionaire weekends" which is when you go out on payday and spend the lot. One time in Kavos I dropped loads on a stripper, got the bouncer to give me a lift to the cash machine on his moped, got everything I could get out, came back and did the lot, some how I also ended up naked in the club. He ended up giving me a lift back to my hotel on said moped as I couldn't afford a taxi. I will have a think as undoubtedly have a lot more. When you see me next say "i'm not a dog". That's a good story.

Have also let a friend stab me.


Used to be large mighty meaty pizza but cheese has been making me pretty ill. So at the minute it's Chicken tikka massala, chicken pakora, onion bhaji, chips and a keema naan. :)

Nandos can gtfo. Such a terrible place. I hate places where you have to queue for your food. Don't like buffets or carvaries or any of that shit. I like to sit down and be served.

Apart from your love of Nandos you seem like a deece guy also heard good things.. one day we will meet and I will treat you to a Chiquritos. Went in there the other day, rubbed the gecko and they took ages to seat us so we left and went to Nandos!! I ordered plain chicken burger and chips. I ate the chips and that was it. Even the coke was shit. HATE THAT PLACE. Damn you Bettsie!

Really Mili? Youve litterally just lost 5 man points Chicken tikka massala is such a poor dish of choice.

top man milli

will read with interest

I always get your username mixed up with someone else. You are Adam Picken right?

I enjoy staking puting as it means I can enjoy time with the family and still have a sweat in a tourney and what's even better is I don't have to sit there myself getting cramp for 12 hrs. I must admit one thing I don't like is when you see people requesting staking but never buying pieces themselves. :( Gotta share the love when you can. Blonde is a great community and I think it will stay this way if we all do our little bit.

Poker is weird for me, I love it so much, watching, reading about, studying but the thing I like least is actually playing. Anyone else feel like that?

Yeah, you gotta enjoy life. What's the point if you don't?

Love this guy!!


Hate this guy!


Yeah, I must admit i'm not very good with spicy although I am getting better. It's either CTM, Passanda or Butter Chicken for me.

Tks horsie. Don't forget to swing by the nits and share the odd FGS tip. :)

<3

always happy when I met him


Ps if u wanna buy some toys lmk I have a bunch ;)

Obv love the Ho also. You get a bad wrap and I have no idea why. You prickly pear.

Obv not letting your dodgey Chinese import toys go anywhere near my lil princess. Probs set the house on fire or something.

Hows the missus liking her DTD hoody?

Yeah, me. All I play these days are local pub games with a few mates and the occasional trip to the local casino. Yet I still continuously post on here/APAT, read 2p2 and watch DeucesCracked videos.

Wiiiii. i'm not the only one! I must admit i'm not totally sure why that is though.

I have a bad rep? Really?
Don't think I can name many that hate me
I might have done some dodgy stuff before but that's just due to stupidity then maliciousness

The missus has stashed it away with the poker stars top and FTP balla robe

Sigh such a waste

clowns gonna clown

Done $1k spins on roulette in Vegas, won $12k playing $1/$2 in Vegas, bought an ipod touch and then dusted the lot off on roulette and strippers.



This is so wrong. What you meant was, you spun up to 12k, spent it on strippers and roulette, then dusted the rest off on an iPod touch.

Some food advice, if I may. Learn to eat spicy stuff, it's incredible when you get used to it. Nandos, and Indian are both nicer, the spicier you have it.

Gl man.

I recently found myself in a very similar situation... made redundant with a similar list of possible choices (getting another 'jobjob' being bottom of the list), having enough money aside to not have any money troubles for a good while. The jobs I'm qualified for/have a ton of work experience in are the jobs I really never ever wanna go back to... so I've recently started a blog (on blogger) about taking a shot at playing poker for a living.

Best of luck whichever route you take
Paul

so what when and where are you plying atm?

Nice. GL to you too. link to blog plz. PM if it could be considered spam. Do you like darts? Mortgage or kids? How long is a good while?

Don't think it's spammy so here it is http://paullambert180.blogspot.co.uk/

I do like darts although aint played for years and it's completely unrelated to my username, I just picked the first number that came to my head after Lambert was taken.

2 kids, Lily and Leah (5 and 3 respectively), no mortgage yet.... currently renting.

At least 6 months, more if push came to shove.

At this very moment playing sat on DTD for UKIPT IOM.

In general I just play MTTs across various sites or < £300 comps at DTD, obv not had chance to put any real volume in as of yet but plan to play a live comps on wknds and euro sites during the day. Cash would be best for the lifestyle I want but I have always really struggled with online cash for some reason. :(

Is live cash an option for you? Would be easier to make money than online.

get eso to teach you!

well thats not particuarly true. he can make around 38 dollars an hour at 50nl on stars if he grinded to get there whichwould tkae some time, but if its a job its just like studying. Better hours, with your family, more fun?

Grinding to Ricky Gervais podcasts. You sicko! Nice write up on the SPT main. If I had known about the free massages I might of played on the site we shall not name.


It's an option and although I have done well playing occasional cash at DTD I think the daily petrol costs and rake would affect my win rate too much to make it viable. Mon-Fri has to be online really.

Looooooooooooolz, you got a stand up dvd coming out for Xmas as well?


If I could make $38 p/h tax free I would work 8hrs per day Mon-Fri and be the happiest man alive! What do I need to do? I am happy to be the second best in the business..

I think it would be easier to make more money live in a 50/1 and 1/2 game, than it would in a .25/.50 game online.

How did I miss this?

Good luck with the health kick, you're a man cut from the very same cloth as myself in lifestyle habits.l

I'm just about to start mine 2 months early this year, because I feel like garbage and seriously need to attain a much healthier routine on a permanent basis.

Gutted that our paths never crossed at Chicksands, although it's probably for the best that they didn't ;)

<3 Millionaire weekends, which coincidentally was my downfall at DSSS.

LOL @ your degen stories... We'll have to swap some more of those soon.

Best of luck with the grind in the meantime, and I look forward to following!

Oioiiiiiiii Markus Auerlieus.

GL with your health kick too mate. Get them protein cookies down ya son.

Yeah it would have been like when the streams crossed on Ghostbusters. Shit would have gotten real!

DXXX was incred, millionaire wknds then cashing rubber cheques in the spar on Monday was the nuts!

Thanks man, yeah got some cool stories speshly about Bedford (genevieves, above KFC) but can't say on here. ;)

Gimme a shout if you ever venture to DTD or that, if not I will have to get grinding a Vegas fund for next year.

Well I will respectfully disagree  :kiss:

Don't have to be respectful with me son. Tell me why?

The way I see it is playing live should earn more than 38 dollars per hour. Is that wrong?

pads you're wrong you just incorrectly think other people are anything like you.

live is easy to beat whereas the discipline required for online rules out so many people so easily. most people cant put the work in you do and dont have the mental capacity to be a crusher.

$38/hr live would be deece at 1/2 in 'normally' sized live games, v v tough at 50/1. Factor in exes, travel times etc to hourly and add in the fact the long term takes longer to realise ie downswongs last longer in physical hours of play...

^^^^^ this from titty certainly applies to our hero of thread!

As for pads, your work ethic is off the chart. Wp sir, get bk on the graphs!

Probably true in the past.

Certainly got the mental capacity, discipline is my biggest issue though and this is something which I am working on everyday.

Isn't there a button I can just press to ban gingers from this diary?

yes.

Tomsom from NO cash experience is playing and winning at nl50 in what? 1 month?

also if he plays live he has to be away from his family at night, away from missus etc and its just not sociable.

online he can sit in his chair rofling around in his pants and looking at his ridiculous christmas decorations. GET DAT VALUE.

Also theres 24 hours a day online and not that many hours live.

He also had a lot of experience grinding decent amount of hours and being fairly decent at the pokeys anyway. Its not like a monkey learning to play from scratch. Taking someone who already appears to have the prerequisite discipline and someone who has experience winning and grinding is nothing like someone just starting out the grind.

From my experience somewhere between a £12-26 is achievable in a £1-2 game of decent size. This wasn't in London though, I imagine a higher hourly is attainable there. Hardest part of playing live would be finding a regular game that runs at decent hours for you. This is virtually impossible as friday/saturday night are always going to be the best nights so anyone who wants some sort of family life is screwed.

And he wants to be treating it as a job, not rofling around in his pants discussing eastenders with the mrs.

It's got to be easier to make money live v online.

yeah and how much is that dipped into with drinks, food there, tips etc etc

looolz. Pretty accurate description tbf. :)

Right, Pleno, don't think of me as the the two times GP final tableist.., try and think of me as a fresh faced eager to learn extremely good looking poker playing robot. What should be my first move on the quest to the magical $38 per hour? Bare in mind I don't want to end up like JB though. That guy is a shadow of his former self.

@Celtic, Pleno is right, live is just not viable, it defo has to be online for me. Going to grind live MTTs @ wknds is fine but Mon-Fri has to be on the virtual felt. 

@anyone interested. I should clarify that I am not a complete fish here, played pokes for > 10 years as a hobby, played MTTs (10am-6pm) for 6 months as a job (lol) avged £1200 profit per month in that period. Obv I've not played 11 million 180 manners or 14 zillion cash hands but it's not like I need a chart telling me a flush is higher than a run. ;)

Is it pretty unanimous that people would start off playing cash?

Yessir. You've got 8 months to get to a point where you can beat 100nl. That's a lot of time. If you want this you can do it.

I do and I will! Legooo, chooo chooo

Right time for homeland then bed.

<3 Blonde

38$ in rb through what? Its not exactly cash in hand...?

Definitely start with cash.

Ill write a blog post about it on my new (totally ad free/affiliate free) website, next week.

I'm going to start smashing some juices down my gregory instead, see if a bit of Sid's wisdom can help me shift the timber.

It definitely would have been a beautiful thing, but I'm not sure the Litten Tree or Mission would have been able to handle it!

Talking about Bedford, as you come down the bridge and hang a left around the one way, what is the name of the pub on your right hand side just after you turn the corner?

Unfortunately I was percy plastic with 3 bank accounts then, so I went balls out and had a millionaire year...

I only ever went in KFC, so don't even remember anything above, and definitely feel like I missed out now :(

Standard 4am wake up call from the lil lady. I sort her out then she goes back to sleep and I am left wide awake like a lemon.

Mary, not sure what pub you mean and don't even remember a bridge! lolz. Banker's Draft was our fav Leo sayer watering hole.

Day 1 of 2 'Daddy daycare' so  no poker until 6pm when the missus gets in. :(

4.5hrs sleep ftw.

Ok I have been having this argument discussion at home about getting up with the dustbins and pray tell when you were at work and not a statistic :P what was the routine please?

Haha, I had just gone to bed and was out like a light ;)

If you drove into Bedford town centre from Chicksands you went over a small flyover before you entered into the town. You would be looking at the main strip of pubs as you came down the hill, but at the bottom you were forced to bear around to the left and onwards around the back.

Unless my memory is gone completely, there was a pub about 100yards after you bear left on the right hand side as you look out of the window.

When I was at work I did fuck all, I'm talking Micky Flanagan old school fuck all. Missus got up at night, in morning, took her to and from nursery, put her to bed, did a full time job and made my tea. When I write it down it sounds like quite a lot. Role reversal :( although it's a lot worse because she isn't allowed to nursery.

Marky, can't think where you mean. The corn exchange came to mind but doubt it's that.

oi oiii

this already better than Bettsies diary 1 tune a day shite.

gl big man

looking forward too railing ya again tonight.. You and an Guy are the worst lololol  :D

Not playing tonight now, think I have caught the lil uns bug. Want to die.

ps, you are shit but I still like your shiny head.

just found this!

nice one milli .....enjoyed the first few pages!

what season of homeland you watching?

are we gonna have some kind of fitness/weight loss prop we discussed?

I can see the pub in my mind now, we used to start there before heading around the corner and back up the street to the Litten Tree.

Isn't Bettsy still there? Surely he drinks occasionally and will have an inkling?

@Lee, welcome aboard. watching latest season, dl eps from America. No weightloss prop, need to make lifestyle adjustments as opposed to just trying to Hammer it for short periods.

@Marky no idea where you are talking about, Bar Soviet was our pre game hole. BBettsie thought you meant Litten tree.

@Me, sort your sleeping pattern out! baby is fast asleep and I am wide awake at 4.30am.

Let me know when garage door cover goes live

Can then ride round Digsville trying to spot it

Live on the camp mate so will need to get you signed on. :)

Obv will take photos. Tonight is my first attempt at carving a pumpkin, everywhere in Lincs seems to be sold out of carving kits so I will be using kitchen knives. eeeeeek

Have you tried the food at Scopwick since the new owners?

Narp. Assuming it's good then?

I want to try that Black & Whites place in Sleaford, proper filthy American grub. nom nom nom.

Played our first home darts match there two weeks ago and after the match they provided....

Big tray of curry with rice, plate of bread rolls, two big bowls of proper home made chips then...

Came out with plate of hand carved cooked ham and boiled eggs yum yummy

Was a reet greedy guts and spent most the night rolling about in bed with exploding stomach

#servesmeright

Mine and the missus' first attempt at pumpkin carving, no ink in printer so had to go free hand.

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and here is me going overboard as per:

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Haha, nice effort.

Go round the features with black marker pen for a meaner daylight look.

Leave it on imo ;)

Hey mili

Please explain the living on camp ?

Rented house I take it .... U used to be in raf ?
They let you keep renting house ?
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Alright Lee,

Yeah I own a small house in a local village which I rent out, we in turn rent a much bigger house on camp for half the price that I rent mine out. I can do this because my missus is still in the RAF. :)

Made sense for one of us to leave in case either of us was posted and as I had grown to hate it as well as being black balled for promotion it was an easy choice to make.

The reason I was blackballed was down to a Warrant Officer declaring as long as he was serving in the Royal Air Force, I would never get promoted. This declaration was a direct result of all the hassle I had caused him due to a couple of minor incidents I was involved in. Including things such as:

Insubordination / Resisting arrest
Misuse of a fire extinguisher / endangering human life
Drinking whilst on ROPs (Restriction of privileges)
Missing parade (Although they inititally they tried doing me with AWOL as I missed a parade on a Friday due to being too drunk to turn up then wasn't seen again til the Monday. Apparently this constitutes AWOL in the army but I got away with missing parade)
They suggested that they might do me with fraternisation (sleeping with a trainee) and I suggested I might seek advice from a human rights solicitor.. NFA taken, I subsequently married that trainee.


Loads more little things that I will jot down when I fully remember and I imagine loads that I was too drunk to ever be able to remember. Despite all this I was still very good at my job, if not thee best, certainly one of. Unfortunately this isn't enough to get promoted these days in the RAF, you also have to do secondary duties which ate into drinking time so I point blank refused.

Also some quite comedy situations I got myself into that wouldn't be out of place in a Mr Bean sketch.

I give mlli some stick on here, but you can not deny he was fantastic at his job. Always great fun to work with and wounded when he was forced out. Would love to see him do what he wants now and hopefully he does!

I thought it was Halloween not April 1st? Stick to trolling me, compliments just feel weird coming from you.


ps. I knew you loved me really. mwah.

What languages are you fluent in?

Not a bad rap sheet, I had a few on mine and a fair few more I got away with.

One which falls into both categories - 2 weeks 9s (RoP) for 3 months AWOL

Slackest punishment i've ever heard of! I got 1 week just for drinking when I was banned.

Trev, is anyone ever truly fluent in a language? To answer your question the way NATO sees it is that there are 6 levels of language.

0 -  No Profiencey
1 - Survival
2 - Functional (Military Linguist level)
3 - Professional
4 - Expert (Military Interpreter level)
5 - Native

I am level 2 in Russian (which is the level I was taught to) and level 4 in Farsi (which is the level I was taught to). It is widely accepted that level 5 can not be taught. It involves living in the country for a substantial amount of time and fully immersing yourself in the culture and language.

Each level is expanded here: [url]http://www.westminster.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/9149/STANAG_6001_Edition_3-eng.pdf[/url

The bad thing about speaking, reading and writing foreign languages to a decent level is that you get massive skill fade if you are not using it all the time. Unfortunately it is not like riding a bike. It has been over 2.5yrs since I used any language in a professional capacity, can't imagine how much I have forgotten during that time.

Long, long story... They only charged me with 2 weeks, hence only getting the 9s

Kush kesh

Does seem from reading your post that the Wobbly might have had a point.

madar eh shoma

meh, that's nothing really in the grand scheme of things, in the good old days you needed to be charged to be classed as a good soldier / airmen, it showed character. All too PC for me. Plus that was all within 3 years, once you have served your punishment it is supposed to be a clean slate but it is clearly not the case..

Luckily I was on timed promotion and i only had to keep my nose clean for a year. Left before the need to to go up the ladder again arose.

Should have joined the navy Millidonk, you'd have been a chief in 5 years ;)

Yeah all my Navy mates were chiefs like 3 yrs before I left. Pretty sickening really. :(

Thanks mate
fuck you guys get off light in the Raf!

All the lads I was on course with are probably waiting on their Warrants now, and they're all younger than me!

up at 5am on a Saturday. Seems reasonable.. Really struggled with sleeping for a over 4hrs recently. Hoping increased exercise will help else I might have to take a trip to valium city..  good news is I have loads of time to research today's footy bets.

I only normally sleep for 4/5 hours a night, but sometimes have a doze during the early evening too if I'm feeling tired.

I take Melatonin if I'm ever having problems sleeping, and that normally does the trick.

I get to sleep fine, in fact I actually struggle to stay awake past 11pm but I pretty much always wake up at 3.30 - 4.30am for a slash, then that is me wide awake. I try to get back to sleep but it just never happens, the missus suggested leaving all electronic devices downstairs because as soon as my eyes are open I grab my phone or tablet and read facebook / blonde. :(

Just read about that Melatonin, seems quite deece and pretty cheap. It's actually given to blind people to help them regulate their sleep pattern. Will see if exercise helps first as I remember sleeping very well the last time I smashed the gym. Then if not I will add that to my daily stockpile of pills. :)

Post footy bets??

Enjoying this diary, also have fantastic sleeping patterns too. Quite frustrating can get to bed @10, wake 11, 2 ,5 etc would rather just a good solid 5 hours so i feel refreshed. Only thing that seems to do this is drink for me but obviously thats not good, anything helps you let me know.

Changing shifts at work this week to longer hours so i can do 3-4 days a week so this may suit too :) gym on days off if i can be bothered

You wouldn't want to see my bets! but.. unfortunately they are documented in the buying shit way of the nit thread in the sports / betting section.

Yeah, I used to drink loads but I could go to bed at 5am and be up and about at 8. was so tilting.. I have a dodgy liver now so don't drink much. :(

gl with the sleeping, let me know if you find a magical cure. sleep 11-7 is the dream.

You at DTD today?

Nah, feel like shit so just staying in, although with how Liverpool are getting on I am starting to wish I went..

Will just have to take down redspade open instead. glgl

I go to bed very late most nights, so normally doze off watching an episode of something. I normally wake up a few times a night for that, so am thankful my room is ensuite. I normally get back to kip ok, however, I can't remember the last time I had an uninterrupted 8 hours!

Definitely think no electronic gadgets might be the best bet, I watch shows on the laptop and am forever checking the forum etc. I bought a load of it from a reputable ebay seller, and it's decent enough. I definitely used to sleep better when I ate well, trained a lot and was generally in better health.... Who'd have thought that would be the case? :D

Sounds like my sleep patterns minus the loking at phone/tablet after the 3.30 am wee :D

I think I take enough pills though I think the Statins are probably something to do with my lack of sleep at night.

with your redundancy how did you tackle the pay jumps in the dtd comp?

what was your mindset like?

do you believe in destiny?

I actually didn't look at the payouts, Simon Trumper asked me if I wanted to know the payouts with 5 left but I declined. Obv I had a rough idea as I knew first place was £50k but my mindset was just to give myself a chance of winning it. I had no intention of blinding down in an attempt to just ladder a couple of spots. I still don't really regret my 5b jam with a7.. (Even tho I maybe should) he folds and we are even in chips, I bink another heart or an ace and I have £50k in the backburner. I was worried if I let my redundancy weigh on my mind then I might make poor decisions or if anyone was aware of the fact then they would try and exploit me.

Actually do believe in fate but still not sure what mine is, if I'm in Vegas in June next year then I might have a better idea.:)

Looking forward to getting on the zoom train and posting some shakira graphs.

Really enjoying Marshall Mathers LP2, Eminem back to his best, not really liked anything of his since MM LP1 tbh. Will be incorporating into my grind tonight.

People are saying he leaked it himself for free.. which seems weird. Full album on youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNFCSc9AP8o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNFCSc9AP8o)

My first tune as always will be, Jamie Woon - Lady Luck on repeat until I lose an all in, such a tuuuuuuuuuuune but I rarely ever hear the full song..

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

Anyone else have any sort of weird grinding superstitions?

Wow,that's pretty interesting!  I'm not sure if I believe in fate but I think in poker the good guys generally get the run of,the green when they need it the most. Even with blonde a lot of people have had scores when they've really needed it. NLT sure what this is put down to or called but it seems to happen all the time.

What's a shakira graph?

Yeah, I defo agree that a lot of people bink when they are most in need. Could be fate, could be down to the "fight or flight" / "sink or swim" type theory which forces you to bring your A game. I certainly didn't play any different to how I normally would, I just had the rub of the green and was on the right side of a couple of big coolers. Those poker gods really do work in mysterious ways.


Shakira graph is just like a loch ness graph, up n down, up n down. "Lucky that my breasts are small and humble, So you don't confuse them with mountains". Pretty bad really, should have stuck with nessy..

I had my biggest binks when I said I'm gonna quit lol

Just say you are going to quit every Sunday.. I wish this worked for me with the amount of times I have given up poker..

Playing online bores me to death

Hi Dave/Guys

Really Love this thread and in particular the rap sheet above    ....   It seems you were quite a rebel   :)

Ive got so much respect for all you armed forces guys and think you get such a bum rap from certain quarters ,  especially when you constantly put your lives on the line and sustain injuries such as lost limbs etc

There seems to be a common theme running through this thread with you, Lee , Mark and Craig etc you are all seemingly humbled by your time in the service which has no doubt made you really value things today

You all deserve some life ( and poker ) run good for your efforts   :)

Cheers Fraser. You are always spreading the love which is nice to see.

TBH from about 13-16 I was a massive prick and at 18 when I joined the RAF I was probs just a mediocre prick.

I was always quite intelligent but was just into all sorts. I can't even blame it on 'being in with the wrong crowd' as I instigated most of it.. I had 2 real turning points, the first was when I was 16 and my mum kicked me out. I roughed it for one night then went to live with my nan in London (from York). This made me wake up a little but I was still going out drinking 5 nights a week and getting into loads of fights. Once I joined the RAF I still had the 'cheeky chappy' mentality but the old adage of they break you down to build you up again is true, it just took them a bit longer with me.. Basic training was 9 weeks I think, normally everyone has been straightened out by the end of that time, it took them about 3yrs to sort me out.. Glad they did though.

My time in the forces was centred around Iraq and Afghanistan and it wasn't too long before I found out that someone I had joined up with had been killed. I was fortunate to never actually witness anything first hand, although I did actually volunteer to go to Iraq but my deployment fell through at the last minute. :( Stuff like that does have away of making you become humble pretty quickly.

When I was out in the states it was great, I got discounts absolutely everywhere, people stopped and applauded you and you never had to buy a drink! In the UK it's not quite the same.. Once I was in a bar in Kingston and I showed the bouncer my ID, he said "are you going in there later" (pointing across the road at Oceanas) I said "yes", he warned me "don't show your ID as they will kick fuck out of you".. I also got spat at in Bedford which was fun. The times I was on Novembrance parade and got to chill with the veterans or someone said "thanks for everything you are doing" massively outweighed such instances.

I was also in a pub in Norbury once when an Irish guy told me what he thought of me being "in his pub", unfortunately for him that was in my first 3 years and I hadn't quite been straightened out by that point..

Where on the prick scale would you put yourself at now Milli? ;)

Even since going to America i have endeavored to show people in the armed forces a lot more respect. Saying thanks when i see someone in uniform etc, firstly for the completely selfish reason that i would not have the balls to go out there and fight and im glad someone else has to go and do it on my behalf and secondly because i think it is a very important job for queen and country and i like a bit of patriotism like that. In America they are on a whole other level with the respect thing the armed forces are treated 100% as hero's where in this country that is not so much the case and there is a lot of hate around.

So... Thanks to you and the others itt that have served for queen and country. Have a friend coming back from Afghan next week and its reminded me to get the crate of beer on order for him!

haha, on the prichter scale I am probs 2/10 now, 18yrs old 6/10, 16yrs old 9.5/10. :)

I am not actually a massive fan of the queen herself, not watched her speech although I did choose to pledge allegiance to her when I enlisted, so if I was that bothered I wouldn't have joined up.

Once, I was leaning back on my chair and some sgt said "what are you doing? that's the queen's chair!", stuff like that used to tilt me. I had a mate who was a proper lad but if you went in his room it had commemorative plates of the queen on the wall and a little queen figurine on his tv. Used to make me lol.

Thanks for your appreciation tho mate and hope your mate gets back safe and you treat him to a drink and a lapdance (not you personally ldo). I would also like to give thanks to you for your services to poker and DBBH.

Guess I must be a twat then :P

obv don't need it enough. :)

Didn't the MC bink come at a good time for you if I recall correctly?

Well I'm always teetering on the edge tbf, so probably.

It obviously has nothing to do with the fact that your under it that means you run good to win, just a ton of other factors involved, none of which are fate.

Don't be so quick to disregard fate mate. You never know.. I remember talking about this I with you n Red's diary. I'm kind of on the fence,  I like to do things for good karma but don't essentially believe in any one idea / philosophy or religion.

I find the whole Karma/Fate idea to be this desperate hope that there's something afterwards, not that I'm saying there isn't, just think that's a load of bollocks. Like most thing with this subject people just choose to ignore they constant examples of, Karma especially, being total bs which is kinda tilting. That said I'm not ignorant enough to not think I could be wrong, there's always a chance, there's a chance you might win the Euro Millions when it's 92049589 Million as well.

There are a ton of more logical reasons though why you would win when "you need it". Just like there's a ton of people who need it desperately and it doesn't happen and they toddle of thinking they were terrible at poker and go do something else.

I get where you are coming from but I don't think Karma is related to life after death or lack of, I think when you die, you die. That's it. Obv I would like there to be something more but I just can't see it.. That doesn't stop me thinking the idea of Karma is great though, do bad shit, bad shit will happen. As I did bad stuff as a youth I almost try and make up for it by being extra nice whenever I can now. Being nice and trying to do good things can't be bad for anyone really.

Fate is a bit different, as it would imply some people are destined to have a bad life and some people are destined to have a good one. This could be true but I like to think that everyone is destined for good things at some point. Who knows for sure? Nobody really, but I think if you live by the belief that life on the whole is utter shit and you have to make a concerted effort to get any enjoyment out of it and you make this concerted effort then everything will be A ok.

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Great Stuff and what an interesting life though its a shame you get people being aggressive and rude towards you .

It must feel strange to have a colleague die in action...serious reality check and no doubt an emotional roller coaster

Interesting post and quite understandable viewpoints Ray.

I'm a great believer in trying to do right by people , "what goes round come around" , "you reap what you sow "etc etc and although circumstances can sometimes make these attempts difficult I do feel you get both short and long term rewards . This could be anything ...like just feeling good about yourself because somebody appreciates your efforts  this in turn can put your mind in a good place and positive things start to happen.

Words like Kismet ,Serendipity , Fate  etc are difficult to qualify , for example is somebody fated to win the lottery ? Well they wont win it unless they a buy a ticket so therefore they have created their own fate ?

I'm not religious but certainly spiritual and interested in a multitude of  things like meditation , yin and yang , how the the human mind works etc etc.

I use the word "Karma" quite often as an all encompassing expression but whether it actually exists is obviously debatable ! What I do know is that getting my mind , body and soul in order has a positive affect on both myself and others and stands me in good stead for life and has definitely helped with poker.

I don't think it hurts to keep an open mind...who knows ?  you may be glad you did   :)

Had this convo with Milli, as he said, in Tom's thread. But, my point is you should do these things just for the sake of being a good person, not because if Karma exists then if we do summit good summit good will happen to us, just do it because it's nice to be nice.

Exactly that...certainly not looking for any reward as its nice to be nice .....however it would be good to think life will somehow balance itself out.

Not the best of wknds. Poker was terrible, punting was even worse and buying pieces wasn't too great either,  that's Sundays for ya. 

This next week I will mainly be getting on top of my Xmas shopping, watching fireworks  and playing DTD satties. Hope to qualify for at least one biggie.

I like the concept of "Paying it Forward", or "Random Acts of Kindness".

Been to a fair few fireworks displays in my time and done LV @ New Years twice but  last night easily put itself in my top 3 life time. The lil Un loved em  and I also got myself a new fb profile pic so iit's all good. The camp did itself proud, apparently the CO wanted to make it extra special in an attempt to bring the community closer together.

Need to get hitting the DTD cash tables to reach 25pts for the freerolls next week. I am +£56 with 4pts after 4hrs play.. Ok hourly but the pts balance shows what an utter nit I am. :)

In other news I bought 7 pairs of joggers yesterday to add to the collection,  this will form the basis of my new working clobber,  much better than the shoes, shirt and trousers of old.

Actually made monies playing online cash this morning! In before first time for everything. Got that msg on stars about the November mission thing, so needed to earn 150 vpps for a token. Thought I would give zoom a try and loaded up a couple of 0.10/0.25 or 25NL whatever the kids call it and was like +6BI in < 1.5hrs, obv gave a load back and ended up +3 BI. Would take that everyday if I could. People really seem to hate playing post flop on there and they just go to pieces if you flat their 3bets, so I basically just small balled pre and had fun post..

Postman brought me another new decoration this morning so all in all a great day so far and i'm about 1/2 way to making up for my CL bets last night. :(

I did my bollocks o 25NL Zoom early this morning. At least i know it went to a good cause! I would only spunk it away, saying that all your going to do is buy christmas dec's

Xmas decs and food. Minus the cheese sauce obv.

I went for the Pleno mentality of dont quit until your up. Or i get to an -8bi limit. One table i had 5 buy ins on and was -4bi's down. Obviously did my bollocks on the 5 buy in table! Clever clogs.

Thin, though they don't sat a lot about you :)

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Mid afternoon session was fun. Snap lost 2 BI, then got +1, ended up -2.5 for marginally better than breakeven day. Made my VPPs though and am now regged in that All in shootout freerol with $15k up top. Now wouldn't that be fun to win. When I said I was lolling around post flop I wasn't lying.. Here is my fav hand of the day.

PokerStars Zoom Hand #106598525438:  Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2013/11/06 15:17:37 WET [2013/11/06 10:17:37 ET]
Table 'Whirlpool' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: milligan84 ($15.19 in chips)
Seat 2: ZERTIQ ($25 in chips)
Seat 3: RanisHardy ($12.40 in chips)
Seat 4: elber35 ($18.71 in chips)
Seat 5: RuuZer ($16.84 in chips)
Seat 6: JaguarBLR ($25.80 in chips)
Seat 7: opasny176 ($22.37 in chips)
Seat 8: bobtayler ($36.76 in chips)
Seat 9: zhusup ($23.88 in chips)
ZERTIQ: posts small blind $0.10
RanisHardy: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to milligan84 [Ac 4s]
elber35: folds
RuuZer: folds
JaguarBLR: folds
opasny176: folds
bobtayler: folds
zhusup: calls $0.25
milligan84: raises $0.85 to $1.10
ZERTIQ: folds
RanisHardy: folds
zhusup: calls $0.85
*** FLOP *** [9d 6c 3d]
zhusup: checks
milligan84: bets $1.50
zhusup: raises $1.50 to $3
milligan84: raises $1.50 to $4.50
zhusup: calls $1.50
*** TURN *** [9d 6c 3d] [7c]
zhusup: checks
milligan84: bets $9.59 and is all-in
zhusup: calls $9.59
*** RIVER *** [9d 6c 3d 7c] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
zhusup: shows [2d 5d] (a pair of Deuces)
milligan84: shows [Ac 4s] (high card Ace)
zhusup collected $29.35 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $30.73 | Rake $1.38
Board [9d 6c 3d 7c 2c]
Seat 1: milligan84 (button) showed [Ac 4s] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 2: ZERTIQ (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: RanisHardy (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: elber35 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: RuuZer folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: JaguarBLR folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: opasny176 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: bobtayler folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: zhusup showed [2d 5d] and won ($29.35) with a pair of Deuces

Made me chuckle.

noooooooooooooo, not full ring!  be a hero son, 6 max beastttt

nits gotta nit. 6 max is too fast for me atm, working my way there.. plus full ring = more people with more premiums for me to bust. I love it.

When is your site live? I need some free strategy advice yo.

Free strategy advice from pads.  I've had it!  I'll tell you what it is.....


fold pre.

Meh, fold to river bets is better advice.

Just catching up with this now, Millidonk's memoirs have had me taking a very lengthy stroll down memory lane, and I think the post is probably at about 2 pages right now :D

Cheers Fraser and Callum, but my service wasn't anything like as lengthy as Millidonk's and Lee's.

Looking forward to it Markus!  Hope we are at Vegas at the same time at some point. I puked blood last time so it would take some going to get in a worse state than that. Bettsie was my room mate at the time which I am forever greatful for else I would never have made it back alive. #positiveinfluencesftw

I thnk you and I must have been separated at birth reading your prick scales. However, I had longer spells at massive prick, with short periods of remission.

From 14-27 I was a massive prick, and then gradually got better as the years went by.

Lke yourself I was always quite smart(yes, really), and actually got moved up a year at school when I was younger. That didn't work out too well though, the older kids picked on the new geek, and after a short while I started lumping them. This problem was solved when the dad had a word with a member at the club, who happened to be headmaster of the secondary school on the other side of town. I shouldn't have been allowed a place, because I lived directly opposite the school I should have attended, but it got worked out.

Things were ok at the new school and I did reasonably well from there on, with only the odd scrap like all kids. However, by the time I hit 13 I was spending more time at the snooker club. A regular weekend for me, would be a few snooker matches best of 3 for a tenner and the light, followed by a game of Pontoon £2 max bet with the locals. I did pretty well at these, normally nicking on average £100 a week, and was probably the richest 14yo at my school.

By this time I was smoking, hanging out in an arcade and also trying to run a book on football at school. I didn't have a clue what I was doing, but the manager at the club used to run one and I would just copy his prices :D

I coasted through the rest of school, and managed to get 8/9 grades at A-C in my GCSEs, despite not attending much of my last year at all. I actually remember doing the whole of my year 11 History coursework over about 36 hours the day before it had to be handed in. Sad really, but I was off the rails, without causing enough aggro for them to be at my parents constantly.

Somehow managed to blag my way back into 6th form, started A-Levels in Law/Business and English Literature. That went ok for about 6 months until I got bored, and my attendance fell to around 30%. They jogged me on after 1 year, I was too lazy to ever have any shot at making it as a snooker player, so I went tp help my old man out at his office for the summer.

By now I was an absolute nightmare, in the same vein as Millidonk. Fighting, drinking and just being an absolute helmet really. Anyway, the old man suggested the navy, and after hearing how he spent most of the 70s on the piss I was sold.

What could be better than getting paid for playing sport and going on the piss?

He had told me how he missed out getting his Chief Petty Officer rate, after having a clash of personalities with one of his bosses. His branch had to get 3 years consecutive reports that were good, but his boss had sent him on a 3 month course, so he was awarded 'SUT' Satisfactory under training. Given that I was rather outspoken and opinionated, he said it was nailed on something like that would be hazardous to me. So he told me to look at joining as an Artificer, which was a tech branch where you got promoted after passing exams.

I have never been that into engineering and all the 'Tif' branches were based around engineering, be it weapons, marine, air. There was a branch which did appeal though and that was the communications branch, where they employed 'Communications Technicians', or CTs for short. I read it through once and was sold, the branch looked the business. Mostly landbased, you got promoted after passing exams, and could expect to make Chief in 5 years!

Off to the careers office I went, took all the exams and told the officer that I wanted to join as a CT. He told me that they only took 32 probationary CTs a year across the whole country, so it would depend on my scores and 2nd interview. Long story short, I had aced the tests and the officer was happy that I had the aptitude for the CT branch.

This was Sept 98, and as they only took 32 a year, I had to wait 9 months until I joined up the following June. So I was working for the old man at his Mortgage Brokerage, doing all his admin and eating too much. I was still fighting a lot when out, so to keep me out of trouble my dad sent me to stay with his brother who ran a pub in Welling around November that year.

Story for another thread, but I basically got into more trouble those 3 months in London, than I could have done in a year at home :D

Just realised how much I have rambled on, without even getting to my time in the mob!

Cliffs

Massive prick for most of younger life.

Prick for majority of adulthood.

Grew up a bit over the last few years and not such a massive prick anymore*

*may or may not be true

Bloody hell son. Thanks for helping me get my page count up. :)

Haha, we were both the Alan Sugar's of our school then. I used to have a paper round and in the morning where I would 'acquire' a pack or two of 20s and sell them for 50p to £1 each! I also had a poker crew established where I started playing poker and brag for money and just destroying kids who didn't have a clue or didn't have the roll to stand up to my triple barrels. :)

Re coursework: I used to record MTV Euro top 20 on VHS for a mate and he used to do all my maths and German coursework. His family didn't have sky and he loved his europop..

You're a loveable prick tho mate.

Just reminded me actually! I had done something wrong at Chicksands and as a punishment they sent me to work down stores, the RQMS was a notorious hard case and the higher ups were hoping he would smash me into shape! Little did they or I for that matter know that he knew my dad from Bulford. He turned out to be safe as you like and ended up giving me the keys to one of the empty double rooms in 411. Thus Oceans 411 was born! This was an underground drinking / gambling and cigar den! It was immense, we sent out secret invites on proper plush headed paper and made a secret society. Had a strict dress code and everything. Those were the days. I actually have video footage of it somewhere. Will see if I can dig it out. I remember watching it back once and I think I raked in a £400 pot when it should really have been a chop but none of us had a clue what we were doing.. Ahhhhh the good old days.

Keep misclick adding friends when I want to make notes on people on DTD. Whose idea was it to put them next to each other? Getting pretty embarrassing.

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Lolz, not wrong. Although you should have done one yourself saying misclick friend.

But you were too LAZY!!

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Do one myself. You over estimate my abilities!

I use this site. Answer to all your prayers. http://wigflip.com/roflbot/ (http://wigflip.com/roflbot/)

loving the diary.

really really wanna hear yours and marky's rogue tails from your wanker days as you guys say.

Fair play for coming across the total opposite of what you once described. That's why I'm all for national service being compulsory. You don't get too many kids of 18+ behaving like arseholes in Cyprus etc

tyty, it took a while but I think I am a deece enough chap now.. although sometimes I do find myself biting my tongue pretty hard so I don't lose it.

My brother was actually born in Cyprus. We were living in a place called Pergamos at the time but he was actually born in Larnaca I think. There was a big coffuffle with his birth certificate else he could have been eligible for national service. Fortunately it got sorted. Lovely island! Sisters were born in Germany so I am actually the only British kid in our family..

Sigh either you've no notes on me or we fallen out :(

I will add you when you pay your OFC debts..

Put it on that talking horse tip, you know the one that couldn't get over the first fence :D

 ;whistle;

I'll make sure not to pass the next one on. Hope it romps it. ;)

I wouldn't say I was the Alan Sugar, because I never kept hold of the money :D

I used to play poker when I was a child with my nan, but I never played holdem or any other poker until after I left the Navy.

LOL @ taping Euro top 20...

Cheers <3

I lived in the married quarters at Chicksands, well until I got in the shit and as punishment got moved into 411 with another lad from my house. You've probably told me, but when were you there on course? Definitely never knew of any card school in 2002, but then again you probably didn't want the clever kids in on it ;)

Only PITA I remember from Chicksands was Roy Paulson the SWO, who used to give me loads of agg when I was at DSSS. Weirdest thing was bumping into him in Weymouth on a night out. This was years after I had gone outside, and I was out of my box doing shots with him at the bar.

Chicksands was such an easy life, I only worked 2 full days a week most of the year there. Half day Monday and Wednesday because of Rugby training and matches, and half day Friday before going weekenders. That said, I decimated my own career there due to my degenerate behaviour and carefree spending...

Yeah we moved down to married patch when 411 was getting refurbished then I moved back into the block once my original course left. They made me stay longer as they promised they would even though I passed the tests... I didn't mind though as I abs loved it there!

Poulton was class. Really liked him actually. Was strict and he used to rip me to shreds on Tues morning parade but I still liked him as he called a spade a spade really.

In other news I need to admit something. I am an addict!! a Bike Race app addict. If anyone hasn't played it it's incred! So simple but so addictive. I am getting my ass handed to me by kids all over the world. Any other addicts out there brave enough to come forward?

This seems like a good way to lose some money.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=62516.0

Any Karma about... :P

http://money.uk.msn.com/features/%C2%A38m-lottery-winner-to-keep-working

Yeah to Horneris. I am still wounded from when he beat me HU.

Yikes the guy is 67 himself, what he is doing looking after the "elderly". Take a break old boy! Hope he does go to the worldcup.

I used to crush bike race, 3 starred every level bar 1.

Then candy crush got me, fml.

I don't get candy crush. Missus loves it but I think it's shiz.

I'm currently going back through and getting 3 stars on the levels I missed out. Soooo good.

People claimed I would get bored when I wasn't working. I just lolled and said "no chance". Not enough hours in the day now!

Thought you be at DTD tonight :(

Not sure that they weren't refurbing 411 when I was there, or at least doing something to it. That said, it was falling apart and they were always at it in some way. Still you must have been there early 00s at a guess? I can still remember my course BCC 3/02 :D

Yeah, think he liked giving the matelots shit because most of the PCTs had only been in for about a year when they went on course, and then got their rates on completion. I had done 3 years before I joined Chicksands, but that was through admin cock ups, and it probably would have been longer if I hadn' taken an extended Xmas leave in 2001/2 ;D

I stay away from the app games, I got that Lucky Birds thing, but lost patience with it rather quickly, and have never bothered since. I do like playing the My Vegas app on Facebook though, it's free and you can build up points for free show tickets, rooms etc.

There tomorrow and Saturday. Thought you and Eso were coming through tomorrow? Wait, it is Thursday isn't it? I don't even bother keeping track of the day anymore. :)

Just opened bike race, loads of new levels. Only went to arctic 2 when I played.

Marky, was there twice. First time was Nov 02. My course was RUB 2/02.

Points for free shows? I like the sound of that! sure I've had some invites on fb for that. probs from you..

Oioiii Pokerfan is back in the game. Add me on fb then we can play vs each other. #appfriends

Aye, he's up tomorrow, hopefully both back Saturday.

Come back up anyway and play the incred 100. I will treat ya to a Chiquiritos before kick off. Fuck Nandos.

Hi Mark

Just been catching up..it seems you and Milli are a good contest on "the rogue" front. They use the saying what a life on here quite often but it seems very appropriate for the military

Was it 2004/2005 we used to play together on Ladbrokes ? I'm sure you wont mind me saying you used to be " a bit aggressive " in the chat   :)

That's no really gonna want me to get there to be honest. :)

You were on course while I was there then, so we must have crossed paths at some point. Were you at DSSS during the first stint there?

I got my year 4 CTs salary when I got to Chicksands, which was just under a LH/Cpl wage, so I thought I was a milliionaire and was going mental :D

Yeah, you just collect chips, punt them on Blackjack or Slots and build up points. Those points can be redeemed against rooms/shows/food at MGM properties. I know how annoying it is when you constantly get invites, so I am pretty careful that I don't send them out myself.

we spoke about this when I first found out who you were on laddies I think, I knew your name and described you correctly but I didnt actually "know know you" at the time. I was at DSSS from Nov 02 til about Sep 05.

I can remember a few navy boys names that I used to knock about with but I will PM them as it's too dodge posting as they are stil in and iI'm still mates with a couple of them. Was you still there when eeveryone had to march up because of the orgy, shit on the bonnet and duck head on the car antenna? that was like my ffirst week thus Dxxx was born.

Tease

There must be a thousand Dave Milligans on FB, search me, there's only 1 Malcolm Gorse ...

I must admit that kinda sounds like that's what I got upto in my first week. I should clarify I wasn't involved of any of that, it just so happened to be in my first week and as the military is fond of corporal punishment I also had to March everywhere.

It all sounded fun apart from the duck which I was utterly disgusted by. Never found out who did that else I probs would have tried taking their head off.

There was a game called the 100 shot challenge where you do a 100 shots of shit mix in 100 minutes. On completion you become a centurion. The only rule was that you did all 100 within 100 mins. So if you were sick, the next minute you just did 2 etc. I have only known one person not to puke. One time we added a tumbler into the equation so every 8 mins you had a glass full it was pretty horrific. In 2.5 yrs I completed the 100 shot challenge 11 times which was a record that I don't think will ever be broke. One time. we did it at 7am on a Saturday the rest of that day was utter carnage, 2 of the most legendary girls did it with us and everything got a bit crazy. On the Monday I was matched into the office and informed that I was never allowed to "host a party"  again. Obv that didn't happen. Good times.

What time we gonna try and get the cash games running Dave?

Eff you Malcom, THERE'S ONLY ONE BIG DAVE MILLIGAN.

Hey Fraser,

It definitely wouldn't have been good news had we been plotted up together whilst serving, that's for certain!

On the most part, it definitely is a great live. I was fortunate enough to never be exposed to the other side of things, so am in awe of the guys and gals who really do put it all on the line.

That was it, and it doesn't seem like 9 years ago now. I still remember your nicks too 'CAT-DOG and SarahJane'. Unfortunately I took a lot longer to pass the 'massive prick stage', and spent a fair bit of my 20s being a muppet :D

Big Game st DTD didn't go to plan. Ran bad when it mattered most. Met a couple of new faces, it forced me to put some clothes on and I got to hear the loudest fist pump possibly ever heard in the club, so all in all was pretty worth it. Thinking about going back for the iancredible100 although just found out missis' family are coming down, we were gonna see them next wknd unless I binked Eso's Wembley raffle Decisions decisions. Don't really want back to back encounters but neither do I want my balls in a vice for completely swerving them. :(

Need to take it easy on footy today, lost bundles last wknd.

This has been making me chuckle this morning (have to watch to the very end).

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFSW-r6-rWo

In other news off to Paris a week on Friday. Need to get some euros and some new clobber together. Anyone got any tips or know of any cool spots to visit? Never actually been before.

Apart from that I will mostly be fixing my printer, playing poker and hopefully trying out my e-shisha if it arrives today. They are supposed to contain no nicotine, no tar, no carbon monoxide, no tobacco or any other harmful substance. Hoping it helps me pack up the cigs for good.

Got schooled on Bike Race by Pokerfan. :(

:)

This place is pretty cool

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Tikay would love it..

Don't worry, I will clean up the URL for you..

Wasn't sure whether or not to book a restaurant for the second night as we have booked a boat cruise for the first or is it better to just see where you end up? That one doesn't look too bad tbf, although maybe a bit posh for me. I will have to check their cap wearing policy. ;)

For some reason, I keep reading your thread title as 'Stepping into the furniture'

Sofa so good

Best to do some research and book somewhere Milli

Obviously depends where your staying but it is very hard to avoid the touristy restaurants in Paris if you don't have a specific resturant planned.

Cheers Stu,  was looking at trip advisor and have ear marked a couple of 'walk in bistros' just in case. Lke England most of the really good places are fully booked way in advance, especially for a wknd. My own fault for leaving it so late really. Hoping that we are enjoying it so much that we are not even bothered about having a nice sit down meal. or that. Just grab a croissant and happy days.. although not sure how grabbing a croissant will go down with the missus for celebrating our 3rd wedding anniversary. :( Still got the boat trip one night so not a complete loss.

Red,  in before it would have to be a bloody big wardrobe.

Le Verre Vole is brilliant...if you like wine. Food nothing amazing (think it's just from a deli next door) but the wine selection and service is unparalleled. Near Place de la Republique, from memory nearest metro is Jacques Bonsergent.

Unparalleled you say? That must be good! I know my lambrini from my blossom hill but that's about as far as my wine knowledge stretches.. I think I might still go just to judge the level of service. :)


Watched 5 films yesterday, all terrible apart from Prisoners with Jake Gylanhaal and Wolverine which was rather enjoyable. Ever since having a child of my own I get much more wrapped up in child kidnapping thrillers etc, I also feel much more affected by please donate adverts where in the past I would just switch channels. Sign of growing up?

on a less serious note, has anghone played COD ghosts? Read bad reviews but still tempted.

Did you make any progress on the ToyBox project Milli?

There's a company local to us doing a good personalised product at c£120

 Bought the url and the website is pretty much setup, got a decent enough quote from courier just need to add stock, tidy it up and then get promoting.

Fell out with one of the carpenters which is a bit of a sigh but he messed me around and I wasn't willing to put up with his shit tbh. My other 2 are really busy atm with Xmas orders and I left it too late for this year so going to pick it up in the new year.

Rest of Nov is just about chilling and having fun. December is about Xmas and family. Then January is operation 'generate income'. Obv will be flicking in cash and a few mtts along the way. :)
Does your local one have an online presence? if so link plz if not would they like an online presence? :)

RANT

Today's plans have quickly come to a halt since nursery rang me saying Amelie is ill so I have to come and pick her up. The only real reasons for this are to cover their back to make sure nothing drastic happens to your child whilst in their care and also to get them out in case they are contagious. But it's getting pretty ridic tbh,  they have rang us to collect her at least 30 times this year due to coughs, temp 0.2 degrees over normal, runny nose etc. It's not the fact they do this that annoys me, It's the fact you still have to pay for the full day's care, (I had to pay for 2 weeks when she was really ill as its not her being there which you pay for it's her physical place), but you also have to put leave in with your employer so you can look after them or pay for another carer whilst you go to work. I hear it gets better once they have picked up all the generic bugs in the early days.

Do think the government should do something to help families where both parent's work. Not really many incentives in this country compared to other EU states and childcare is just joke expensive. I can understand why people just have tonnes of kids and live on benefits as you can work out being much better off. To put it in perspective childcare for 2 children per month is £1400, then you have clothes, nappies, food etc so you are looking at £1600 per month to have 2 children, then mortgage and all other bills it's just insane. Me and my missus both have our own cars as well. We were on just under £60k combined and were not even close to being able to afford having another child.

Obv none of this applies to me anymore as I am just a Jeremy Kyle watching, dishes washing bum and tbf all I had planned today was to go out and buy a computer game and play a bit of zoom but waaaaaaaaaaaah waaaaaaaaah, felt like I needed a vent.

It's quite crazy that now I don't have a job we are in a much better position to afford to have 3 children just because we wont have to pay full time childcare x 3.

Obv once your child gets to 4 yrs old they get free school in the UK so it doesn't really matter then but I don't think working parents should have to wait til one of their children turns 4 just so they can afford to have another.

/RANT

http://www.littlewoodworkshop.co.uk/

click on 'Kids' to see toyboxes etc

we got a Groupon to take the grandkids to a 'making' session, will let you know about quality etc

£45 delivery = yikes. I reckon I could get them done for £125 delivered. 'Making sessions' is pretty genius tbf. Kids are going to love seeing how it was made and it will make it all the more special. Have fun mate, looking forward to seeing the final pic.

When my little one was 3 and in Nursery she broke her leg, she was fine in a pot and could sit and shuffle about. The nursery refused to let her attend and charged us the full cost for 4 weeks while she was in a pot. At firs they said she was fine to go in, but changed their mind.

Safe to say I told um what I thought and we didn't go back the next term or send my youngest there. Absolute ripoff.

Yeah, same at ours. Proper sighs. If she is ill for 6 months you still pay for 6 months as it's their place you are paying for not the actual child. If they keep your kid's place open then that means another kid goes without.. It makes sense but I think there should be some sort of concession or something. Full whack is a bit harsh.

agreed they are keeping the place open but if they know she is not going to be in for say 4 weeks guarenteed they will change staffing plans, food etc. Therefore saving them money and still charging you full whack bet they havea  field day when a bug goes round and they have 5/10 off at the same time.

I have 3 year old twin girls. From the term after their 3rd birthday we will receive 15 hours a week of nursery education funded by the state. Any nursery, your choice.

Twins. Ouch, that can't be cheap! I have a brother and my parents tried for one more as they really wanted a girl and they binked twin girls as well.

I know, 15 hrs is better than nothing but when they are in there for 50hrs per week it's not exactly going to make you do start doing backflips. 4 yrs old is the backflipping point. Pretty sick when you realise you have spent over £22k on childcare alone before they are even in school.. and that's only if you spend £700 pcm. My mate spends £1200 per month for 1 child and he has to provide all 3 of their meals.. we just have to provide nappies, milk, medicine etc.

Milli,

Can I ask why you went Nursery rather then Childminder, Au-pair, live in nanny?
I have gone down the childminder route, still have to pay for days of non attendance etc but the costs were so much cheaper (I appreciate cost is a little skewed for me as I live in the arse end of nowhere and nursery places are at a premium) but a full time live in Nanny would have been cheaper then a full time nursery place in this neck of the woods.
Just curious as its a decision I agonised over for a long time.

Good question tbf and it wasn't a decision we took lightly.

Au-pair / live in nanny; I actually proposed this idea at the beginning but the missus wouldn't have it, obv doesn't trust me.. although her counter offer was to get a male nanny but I just thought that would be weird. A large part of her going to nursery is to get interaction with other children which she wouldn't get with a nanny or au-pair.  So that's why the nanny / au-pair option got binned.

Childminders; Often they have their own children and they will always put their own first no matter what imo. Plus they sometimes have pets, smoke, their houses aren't great etc. When a childminder is ill they just say they can't look after your child and leave you in the shit.. that wouldn't happen at a nursery.

Nursery; Apart from cost it won in every regard. Our nursery is really good, it's not the closest nursery but it is certainly the best. Has everything we could ask for, get a daily report, nutritious meals, has a blog where they upload photos, all members of staff have higher than the required quals, it's not too big which I like and their ofsted report is very good. They just seem more accountable than any other option and the main thing is she gets to interact with other kids and you know they are not ill as they would be straight out the door..

One of us bring her up; Means cutting back on holidays, cars etc but this is something I would love to do. My dad was never around really as he was constantly away with the Army and this is not how I want to be. jjandellis posted a link to people's regrets on their death bed. One of which was worked too much and another was not spend enough time with family. I don't want either of these to be one of my regrets.

Why do I always seem to get so deep these days?

To lighten the mood here is a joke I ready today:

"Mummy, Mummy! Where have all your scabs gone?"
"Shut up and eat your corn flakes."

Swerved DTD live tonight in favour of darts and boxing while grinding micromillions and DTD freeroll. Outlasted 65,000 players and cashed for a massive $6, Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, also turned a £15 token into a £1100 seat. :)

UK poker champs - Tick

In other news; chocolate covered raisins are effing incred. nom nom nom. One of my 5 a day yo.

ukipt instead?

knocked me out u bastard

Congrats on the Sat bink, wpwp.

Apart from the leg space I'm not a massive fan of 6 max. Probs play if I luck box another.


Made me sweat tho.. Your avatar made me chuckle, when  you think Stato1 you think fiddy cent. :)


Cheers guys, will actually be my first £1ker, I've binked a Monte Carlo seat before but sold it like a fish and I've played a UKIPT where I had 4x avg by level 4 and was out by level 6.. used to be such an aggro spewbox, now I'm just an old nit.

Result!

Welcome to the club ;-)

Game changers is possibly the worst tv programme to ever make it to air. What is it doing on my sky sports?

Love Saturday's; missus has already gone out shopping with the nipper so I am busy finding some bets to make me rich. Pushing really hard to get the missus to let me put up the decorations today but she isn't having it. :(

For all people with sky be sure to check out channels 327 and 376.

Lolz at deco's in November.

some of the hardcore get em up July-Sep.

One day I hope to have a setup like this. (Keep with it til the beat drops.)


YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOyN9CawB8w

I must admit a lot of my stuff is mega cheese but I am one cheddar son of a bitch anyway so just love it.

Utterly ludicrous

No Xmas scrooge but to see some houses looking like a heathrow runway at night this time of year just makes me despair.

One house near me blows up an enormous snowman and has the air fed in via an electric blower 24-7 for six weeks in the front garden in the run up to Xmas, plus a sledge lit up on the roof above the front bedroom

How these people live with the embarrassment I do not know

By definition, the fact that you do not appreciate their festive display makes you a scrooge in our eyes.

There is no embarrassment! I imagine they feel a justified sense of pride.

I thought about getting an 8 foot snowman and putting it on our porch roof but the missus wouldn't have it.. I would say a day doesn't go by where she isn't trying to talk me out of doing / buying something..

If I had my way the decs would go up on November the 6th as that is when I get into 5th gear in the proverbial xmas car.

In my living room I have two xmas countdown items. One is a xmas owl modelled by me and little princess below and the other is a little snow cottage on the mantle piece.

As you can see our countdown started some time ago...

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As of December 26th I go in a massive sullk as for me Xmas is pretty much over come midnight on the 25th. I utterly detest NY eve, birthdays are usually shit so it's all I have really.

Don't hate.

Yeah I don't see it as embarrassing at all, just pretty hilarious, lecky bill must be hugeeeeee.

It's a lovely photo of your daughter

You though David, are stark raving bonkers

Think of the money you waste on daft stuff. You don't need, in my opinion, to go competely OTT to have a good Xmas.

Friends, family, well chosen gifts with a bit of thought...

Why the fuck does anyone need an 8 foot blown up snowman to make their christmas any better?

I don't actually think I go that OTT tbh. I would say I am just the same as a typical American.

Decos to me are defo more than just decos though, they are an ever growing collection akin to how someone collects football programmes or stamps.. I add to them every year, I get immense pleasure from looking at what to buy, actually buying them, putting them up and then basking in all their glory. ahhhhh. So they are not really for other people at all really.

Obv I skimp on presents and apart from my missus I pretty much put zero thought into what to buy. Most people have had vouchers for the last 10 years..

Unfortunately I have no logical response to the lecky bills. Joke massive and that's with me turning my stuff off from 0000 - 0700.

Apart from Xmas stuff I only really collect hats and adidas jackets. My xmas hat collection is something to behold! Unfortunately I have never found a Xmas adidas jacket (in my size at least) :(

Tighty dropping the F bomb itt! Shocking scenes!

Meh do what makes u happy

If a 8 foot snow man brings a smile to you or others it's worth it imo

Personally don't understand ppl who hate Christmas. Best time of year by far.


Crimbo market just started in manc

Gonna be incred

Yes the Paul Ho!

Love Xmas markets!

Assuming you have been to Lincoln xmas market before?? Sooooooooo good. I think it might actually be considered as the best in the country or something. My nan who lives in South London even saw adverts for it in a magazine which came through her door. I know coaches full of Germans came over the other year as well. Only thing I don't like about it is the walk up the hill!! Such a trek..

Enjoy.

Lincoln is good but Manc better cos there's more food to eat and it's around longer



Lincoln is too busy

Also park on wragby road and walk there
Can't believe ur such a Christmas market noob

Manchester markets incred! Really looking forward to this year when me and my mates have planned a big piss up in a few weeks where we can got out eat good food drink good beer and then get Christmas presents when smashed. If I can get them wrapped up even better then it will be a surprise for everyone Christmas morning when they open them!

lolz million you can get a space anytime after 10am..

Xmas market lovers itt. wiiiiiiiiii

Abso rammed today
Gonna visit tomorrow also


It's easy man just park near the rugby or tennis pitches so many side streets to park
Also

Man v excited.
Gonna get som crimbo jumpers

Hate Christmas. Nandos is closed.

That's all.

i'm not a xmas hater, i sometimes make out that i am to wind the wife up, but i love it really

i'll be back off the rig by 6th dec so me and the wife will def be hitting lincoln market this year again, probably gpoing by train again so we can poartake in some xmas cheer when there, then getting picked up by the eldest lad who has finally managed to pass his test (3rd attempt)

going to try and get matching xmas related outfits this year too

but like mili said, getting up that hill, ooof, it's a grind!!!


as for xmas itself, i'm not that into getting pressies, i like to give them out, and again, me and the wife have promised not to spend too much on each other, and as usual she's already way over budget, but the kids are mostly frown up now, 18,16 and 12, so in reality, they just want a hunk of cash in their pockets, and untill we get grand kids (how old am i getting???) i dont think we'll get to see a kids face light up when they open up a parcel and see something they were desperate to get

also, i love to do the xmas dinner cooking, turkey crown, roasties, sprouts (they all hate them but its fucking xmas and they WILL eat one each!) roast veg, proper meaty stuffing etc etc, i've always enjoyed cooking things, from cheese on toast to a full on dinner, and when i do get to buy a house i'm going to insist on a gas hob btw, and xmas dinner is one thing i have to do if i'm home for it.

xmas, it's pretty awesome for me these days!!!!

Fyp.

Nice to see the Xmas lovers coming out of the woodwork. :)

Went shopping this morn; bought a new flat cap and my first ever shapka ushanka as they say in Russian.. as well as a couple of xmas bits and bobs obv. I'll never forget the word shapka ushanka because written in Russian it is шапка-ушанка which was one of the first words I learned.. It always made me think of wanker youwanka. It is the word for a furry hat with ear flaps..

Not gonna put in a big grind today as got a bit of a headache and feeling pretty tired, probs rail Sykes to a 6 fig score and maybe try bink another £1k seat on DTD.

Got COD Ghosts yesterday, it is pretty shit, I wouldn't bother if you haven't already.

Oh, btw Tesco's cheese and tomato popcorn. Just trust me!

Saw this and thought of you :D

Guy on right is Devilfish?

Lolz, <3 Elf. Sick film.

The shops this morning had xmas songs on, was so incred.

Stealing pic for facebook.

I used to like Xmas a lot more when I was in the mob, and got a month off on full pay to go on the piss :D

Blueberry mulled wine
Plum straddle with custard
Lanc hot pot
Bratwurst
Chilli n cheese wurst
Roast nuts
Garlic

Good first day with my gf

buddy the elf is awesome

personal hero of mine

Obv there is a gunman on the loose in Paris 3 days before i am due to arrive.. also got on a plane in New York <24hrs after the Christmas day bomber. Not sure how long I can keep swerving these madmen. Hope haven't just bokked myself.

pahh, i went on honeymoon the day after the Cloverfield monster problem they had on Manhattan, got to give it to the yanks, they managed to clean that mess up quick, dont think the binmen in Doncaster could have done it that well and quickly

Question is bigman, how long can these nutters swerve you? With your rep the Paris chap will be handing himself in once he knows the milli man is in down.

Such a fab pic of Amelie on the previous page! Loved it bro! Let me know when the decs go up.

Very true and that reminds me Bettsie; I made a thread asking if I was a psycho because I thought about driving head on into traffic and stuff..  with the help of vegaslover I was able to take the NHS nutjob test and I'm deemed not a threat to others. sigh.  Another type of thought I have a lot is that I am in a bank or something I think to myself "wouldn't it be cool if a robber came in and I took him down and saved the day" I think like this all the time planes, shops even DTD. Greg Davis does a sketch along these lines in his new dvd and he has determined people are fucking crazy!! He asks the audience "by round of applause who here has been driving their car with the family in and thought to themselves all it takes is this"  and motions a swift turn of the steering wheel. It seemed most of the drivers had.

It's a funny old world and humans are a funny old species. A lot of people don't like admitting their random inner thoughts but I think it's fun to share.

Will let ya know when the decos go up.

i do the driving thing i must admit.

but my oddest inner thought came after having a very bizarre dream where a random stranger stopped me me whilst i was put walking my dog and offered me a million quid to be allowed to torture my dog to his death, i refused the offer in my dream as my dog is a member of the family to me. i woke up feeling quite disturbed to be honest, but then started asking myself how much i'd have to be offered before i agreed to it.

i love my dog to bits, and miss him every day while away at work, my wife obviously knows this and makes sure she sends me a few photos every day with him in it, usually with a "morning dad" type caption.

inside the head thinkings can be very dark indeed

and i never came up with a figure i'd have accepted incase anyone was wondering, he's my dog, and one of my family, so that's how i see him, and i wouldnt do it to a hum, so why would i do it to a dog.

on the other hand i'd have no trouble eating him if the need arose, i'd just make sure he didnt suffer in his sacrifice.


which reminds me, last night a had a dream about BBQing 2 dogs, i'd been assured that both had been put down, however when they were on the hot coals they both "awoke" and were happy sat on the bbq, wagging away, while they cooked. messed up shit if you ask me

perhaps i should have put this on my own diary lol, sorry milli

Yeah get your dogloving shit outta here.

Cat and fish lovers only itt.

I do also have a corner fish tank with around 15 fish in it. And when we eventually buy a house I'll be sorting out a pond as soon as I can.


Please let me stay!!!! I'll be good I promise

This .......I done rear party in Germany one day on two days off ....on the one day on it was one hour on 6 hours off !!
Then I got the whole of January off !

Was awesome

Bought a floodlight, a plug and a cable and an hour later I have a working outdoor light,  like a boss.

My mate is in Afghanistan atm so his missus asked me to do a photoshoot of her and their kids as he won't be home to see them for Xmas. :( Providing it doesn't rain that's what I will be doing this afternoon. Looking forward to it.

This is fast becoming my favorite diary on blonde...  ;hattip;

and you sir, my favourite poster. :)

So I ended up doing the photoshoot yesterday. It's quite nice because my mate (who is probs my best mate nowadays tbh) his wife is my missus' best mate and they have been best friends for years now, so it's all real nice and friendly. Often my missus' friends have proper dicks as husbands / bfs so I just swerve them completely with my stock excuse being "he's at poker"..

It turns out taking snaps of 2 kids is much harder than taking pics of one!! However, overall the shoot went well and she was over the moon with the outcome even though I did have her in tears at one stage. :(

I took 120 photos in total which then became 68 after I have gotten rid of the duds.

I have selected some of the ones I liked along with some of the post editing ones which I was asked to do.

Obv I have asked her permission before posting anything:

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my personal fav: (this little girl did not like posing or standing still for a millisecond so was happy to get this)

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The one which made her cry:

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I'm still undecided if this is in bad taste or not. I was going for "missing you" but I might have gone a bit too dark. She said she likes it but isn't going to show it to him until he is back home safe and sound. The rest (along with the 60 odd overs) she has already printed out and is sending today in the hope they arrive in the sandy lands in time for Xmas.


Obviously this wasn't about me but doing it did make me feel quite happy with myself. He knows how lazy I am and the fact I actually put on clothes let alone leave the house normally comes as a shock to him, so I know he will really appreciate these. I have said when he is back then I will get some snaps of all four of them together.

Today: I plan to get dressed, go out, get a haircut and buy some new shoes. Off to London tomorrow to meet an old friend which should be fun. Saturday morning it will be time to board the Eurostar and head to the land of the baguettes and berets. Just taking my little point and shoot camera to Paris as I can't be bothered lugging a big camera around and I don't want to stick out too much like a tourist. Will try and take a couple of snaps tho. ooooh la la.

Ha!

When I finished my Electronic Warfare course at HMS Dryad back in 2000, I was one of a few who didn't get a ship straight away. I got send out to do 2 months on HMS Fearless just before they decommissioned it, and then went back to Dryad to wait.

I finally got my draft through to join HMS Westminster at the end of July, so they sent me home for 5 weeks summer leave and I was to join the ship at the dockyard. I was told we would be going straight into a DOST (Deployment Operational Sea Training), which basically meant a month of digging out 18hours a day around the south coast exercise areas.

I was naturally pissed, because a few of my mates had flown out to the US to join their ships in the middle of a global deployment, and I had gotten a short straw. However, I bowled up to the ship on a Sunday teatime to dump my stuff off and grab what I thought would be a last night out for a month. Get onboard and get my mess sorted, meet a few of the lads etc.

I then find out that in fact the whole ship is going on leave the following Friday, there will be a ship alongside and I'm on summer duties. Basically it was worked out that we ended up having to stay on board 1 day in 4 and I was basically on the piss for a month in Portsmouth :D

Great photos Dave
My favourite one is on the bench looking at each other !
Nice work mate

My first ship was to fly out to Rio de Janiero for 6 weeks advancement course on Ark Royal

3200 on board, when we left there was 2000 outside sick bay....now i wonder what was our problem...ermmmmmm

Nice pics mate. What day are you at UKIPT?

;D

Not sure am playing it yet mate. Using my token for UK poker champs, but there is a live sat on Tuesday night so probs play that depending on what time I get back from France. When you coming over?

Great stuff on the pics Milli, they're really good.

Good call not sending the last one imo.

The last one is a great pic.

Replace the shoes with a pic of some random bloke and send that :)

oh yeah saw you won the seat so guessed youd play it for this, thursday.

I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK

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Travel:

Got back from Paris in the early hours of this morning. Been to France a couple of times before but never actually visited the capital. Such a great place. Amazing food, history and culture. Did all the touristy stuff as well as got off the beaten track which was fun.

Legs are killing from all the walking, really felt the burn as I passed the fatties catching their breath on the walk upto the top of the arc de triumph but the view was worth it.

Joke amount of photos which I will have to sort out at some point. Thanks to everyone who gave me tips on where to go / eat. Only actually managed to do Ed's suggestion which was visiting Place des Vosges, grabbed a hot choccie but didn't stay too long as it was proper baltic. Can imagine it is the place to be in the summer.

Missus' highlight was the Louvre' where she was actually brought to tears, mine was the Xmas market on Champs Élysées where I was also brought to tears. :)

All in all a great anniversary trip, cost me a ridic amount of money but should keep the missus happy for a few years.

Christmas

Couple of houses in my area have put their decs up so it's fair game now! One of the houses has gone proper overboard which resulted in me rethinking my colour scheme. Have gone from muti coloured to warm white which should be nice.

The garage door cover has been put up! Plan to do the rest of the outside either today when it gets dark or tomorrow. The inside will be done on the weekend as a family.

Here she is in all her glory:

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Already had a few people walk down the street to come and have a look.

Poker

Very tempted to go and play the £50reeb £1k sat at DTD tonight. Tired as it is and can only imagine will be even more knackered after going up and down ladders but think the value could be too good to miss. Will see how I feel later. If I win that I would probs play the 6 max, then try for one more to cover xmas deepstack and January GPS. Already have my seat for the Sky poker UK champs. Can't wait for that!

or could just chill and have a decent whack at the double vision Sunday on stars.

Decisions decisions.

Get them Paris Pics up

Get them decs up!

Honestly mate, I have like 9000 of the Eiffel tower alone.. just took a little point and shoot and got a bit trigger happy.. they aren't the best but sure I will manage to find a couple to post up. Will sift through them a bit later. Defo getting on a diet come the new year! I am well past the double chin stage, in some of the pics I look like I have a fucking neck tumour!


Waiting for the inlaws to leave then operation 'unpayable electricity bill' will be put into effect.

Just re-read my post back. It seems I also lost touch with the English language whilst away. Please fill in your own punctuation & grammar where necessary.

Predicament:

Had planned to go and buy the PS4 at midnight tonight but after seeing myself in some of the Paris photos I have come to the conclusion that sitting on my ass for 10 hours a day playing on the Playstation is the last thing I need. I have also been getting pains in my chest. I brushed it off as indigestion but now i'm not so sure..

Do I:

A - Get a PS4 tonight, enjoy the rest of the year and smash the healthy lifestyle in January
B - Get a PS4 tonight, only allow myself to play on it once I have done that day's session of P90X
C - Set myself a weight goal and only buy the PS4 once I have reached that goal
D - Never get a PS4 as it will only stop me making headway with any poker / business related plans.


Here are a few pics of my anniversary trip where I don't look like i've swallowed a Chinese phonebook;

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Here I am with my slimmer Parisian cousin:

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Great Pic's


Defo 4

If you want to seriously get on in life you have to go out there and grab it

Nowt will just come along

Why wait till January, just wasting another valuable month

No money to be made sat on arse playing this PS4 thingy

Great pictures...

If you're playing poker online, then do you really want to be looking at a screen for any longer then necessary?
Personally I would say if you're an avid gamer option C would be best, as you'll have an incentive to hit your weight target..

From knowing you vicariously through this blog, I don't think a PS4 would stop you making headway in your poker & business career...

Anyways the Pic with you and Santa FTW.... 

When does the santa chair arrive back in Lincoln from the last pic?

Cheers Bang and Trev,

for transparency I also had an option 4 via txt

fwiw I defo don't plan on grinding hard or starting a business or anything in 2013. I still intend to chill and just enjoy my time off until January when I will start stepping into the future properly. I know this isn't the best use of my time but I do need some time off.

OP RECAP

Poker - Somehow make a living from poker (in before lolz, gl)
SAHD - Be a stay at home dad and just about get by on just the missus' wage
Start a business - Custom toyboxes
Get another job - Barring 6 months I have had various full time jobs since I was 16, I turn 30 in 6 months and don't really ever want to have a 'jobjob' again.

I must admit at this moment in time I am leaning towards the SAHD option (when my money runs out in July), possibly with poker or business in the evenings. Really couldn't put a figure on how much I would need to be paid nor could I think of a job which would rival how enjoyable the week and a bit spent looking after my little one by myself was. Also if I went the SAHD route this would open us up to being able to have a couple more kids. Would love to have a son but I know If I tried too hard I would end up doing a Gerrard by having 3 daughters..

Tried robbing it but it was bolted down. :(

Just play the ps4 through dinner time

Have decided with the money I would have spent on a PS4 I will flick in a few UKIPT sides:

NL TURBO BOUNTY Tonight - 9pm £160
TURBO SUPER DS EPT EDITION Sunday - 4pm £110
NL TURBO 6 MAX DS Monday - 2pm £110

This gives me Friday and Sat with the family and if I bink anything I will do option B, othwerwise it will be C with a target of 20 stone (like 24st 11 now) :(

But how many pm's did you get?

Just 15 PMs. I will PM you a screenshot if you don't believe me! Obv not all blonde PMs. Some were on bebo and myspace.

Oioi will come and introduce myself tonight! I'm on the weight loss bandwagon at the minute! Although you will not notice yet!

Glgl at the tables hope you get 2nd to me :)

Meeting lots of new people tonight and been at a careers fair all day so if I'm asleep or not speaking at the tables later that would explain why! 5am starts after 2 hours sleep are not cool I much prefer the SAHD option! They don't have a stand for that here today though?

2nd ftw. I've not won a live poker tournament since 08 October 2009.

Hopefully you are on my table so I can get to keep your ginger scalp.

The only part of me that is ginger is my tash. That is going on Monday so you have Thursday or Sunday to take that scalp!

Just in case you missed it on fb.

You two could be brothers.

Lolz, unbelievably you're not the first person to say that although I think it's a terrible shout. I get the guy from  Elbow a lot and when I was skinny ppl said I looked like James van der beek. Anyone other than John Candy or Goodman will do me. :)

there I was having a not so great day, then this pure comedy genius! Made my day!

Glad I could perk up your day fella.

Looks like no DTD for me tonight :(. It appears I forgot that the missus was babysitting our friend's kids for a few hours which in turn means I am babysitting our own child.. I really need to start recording our conversations as I am 72% sure I was never informed of this.

There isn't a day that goes by without someone saying to me: "milli, what would happen if you decided to stand on your laptop". I was sick of the uncertainty so decided to give it a try. May I present to you:

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Fml. Hopefully santa hasn't wrapped my present yet.. worst thing of all is that this happened whilst decorating my Xmas tree. Fuuuuuck you xmas karma. :(

Lolz at babysitting your own child :)

Cu Monday on the rail.

Ffs it's like waiting for Xmas ....waiting to see your Xmas lights!
When you putting pics up ??

It's a bit disappointing this year so far, a couple of things still haven't turned up, my external spotlight on my door cover randomly started smoking so I have had to rethink how I am gonna light up the garage. Also as I have changed my colour scheme from multi coloured to warm white I now have an abundance of spare lights and not sure whether to go for it or try out a 'less is more' type thing.

To quench your Xmas thirst here is what I was wearing yesterday, you also catch a glimpse of my tree. Elf Tshirts >>>>>>>>> novelty Xmas jumpers

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"SANTA, i know him!"


Anyone know if we can directly embed videos onto blonde without having to use youtube?

Please feel free to share your xmas decs or any other xmas bits with me!

I forgot to say I purchased what may be the tackiest and thus the best Xmas item ever whilst in Paris! I think I have actually outdone my talking santa head from last year, it's even better than the singing Xmas tree I have in the downstairs toilet!! I love it, it is so utterly horrific that it is just brilliant.

This is a video from last year when I was testing the talking santa head out. The missus has banned me from using it outside this year, she has also banned me from setting my lights to music. SCROOOOOOOOOGE.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiF36axVCfg

Won't find many better American accents than that!

HAPPY 1ST OF DECEMBER TO EVERYONE. Finally I wont have to listen to "it's not even bloody December yet..."

hahahhahahahaha first time ive genuinely loled in a long time at that video.

Confirmed.  Patrick is one miserable bastard!!!!

Excellent Milli. moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Was supposed to be going DTD today but have just been reminded that tonight is the big PCA sat on stars to which I have nitballed a couple of Step 2 shots as well as being double vision day. People are going to think I am the elephant man if I don't start leaving the house soon! Also staying in means I get to watch footy and darts! into a recluse. #firstworldproblems


Hope any guests are able to find the downstairs toilet..

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Yo any links where I can buy some of these things that you quite rightly and proudly show us.  Kids grown up but I have 5 Grandkids that just got to get the full treatment. Get em young I say.

Steve

<3 Quite proudly. :)

Loads of my stuff is from abroad. Ebay.com is often a good place to go but you end up paying over the odds with delivery.  The yanks know how to celebrate xmas so much better over there.

Garage door cover: Germany: https://www.style-your-garage.com/Garagenplanen/Winter-Edition/ (https://www.style-your-garage.com/Garagenplanen/Winter-Edition/)
Toilet door cover I got from USA, but seen there are a few on ebay.co.uk just search xmas toilet door cover
Recordable santa head: got from a random shop in America but can't find it anywhere online.
Climbing beads santa: Got from Paris xmas market, but after a google it seems they are available everywhere, it also seems I got mugged off on the price. (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/281213387033?lpid=83&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=83)

Got loads of random bits and bobs that you can pick up from most shopping centres / garden centres.


Sighs, I have just stepped into the future and seen what I could be like in 20 years time! This guy seems wrong on so many levels. Sick deco tho.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F6VBJVdy2g 

Many thanks

Nothing to update. Today I have done some online shopping, practiced making a couple of gifs, watched day time tv (DOND was incred) and ate mince pies. About to play the cashgame freeroll on DTD then it's time to watch Homeland and TWD.

Feeling nice and chilled.

Great night. Homeland was pretty damn good and TWD was just out of this world incredible also binked a £110 seat in the cashgame freeroll then watched a film I love but hadn't seen for a while; The Butterfly Effect. Such bliss.

Obv all yin must have it's yang.. My yang was the missus' car having to go to the garage this morning as she went over a pot hole last night and what I believe to be one of the suspension coils has snapped clean off. :( Checked online and looks like it can cost anything from £100 - £500 to fix. They normally fix both if one goes apparently.. If I get some rungood with the cost then I will be playing the Sunday $5 million this weekend. The Sunday Milligan. It writes itself. One tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime let me see that headline.

Butterfly Effect is a great film.

Still getting up early or is this part of your SAHH/F role?

Oioi another lover. Not enough people have seen that film for my liking. Love it.

Unfortunately still getting up early. Bed at 0030 up at 0515 today. Played with Amelie before nursery then picked the missus up from the garage and took her to work. Will be picking her up from work and also picking up the lil un about 5pm before having tea and trying my luck in another freeroll. I never get a full day to myself! WWIE??

What tourney is the 5 mill?

Sunday Million has a 5 milli gte this wknd. Sunday storm has a 1 milli gte

Did the car go to Bracks?

Yeah, they are proper decent imo. Really trust them. I went to the one in Branston once and Pitstop on cannick hill and got abs mugged off both times. :(

Where do you use?

Thankfully i don't require the garage very often

But Bracks is a good family run garage that looks after their punters, thats where i would go if required.

PS my better half keeps playing the clip of climbing santa she loves it

haha, gotta love Mrs P. Hope you've got her loadz of prezzies fella.

Dont buy anyone a present not even the wife

She is chrimbo mad and buys presents

Spent last 12 christmas in Marbella, now i do like that

Went to Toronto on my own for Millennium she wanted to stop at home with xmas tree, how sad

oh yea, forgot about that. You told me before. So sick. Scroooooooooooge.

What's the weather like in Spain around Christmas Trev?

You know I've seen about six films in my life and that is one of them! Yeah it was a good un.

Hello Tom hope your keeping well sir

We have been very fortunate with the weather

Never had a rainy day when you have had to stay in

Usually around 16-25C sunny  very comfortable and mostly sunny

Freeroll was no good last night. They messed up the structure which resulted in it becoming a hyper turbs which is no good for a nit like me. It's not all doom and gloom though as i've just purchased a new camera courtesy of a Mr Sykes deep run in the UKIPT 6 max. This is going to be my last one for a good few years now as i've bought 3 cameras in < 2 years. The armoury is now equipped with a decent point and shoot, a super zoom and a DSLR. So no need for anything else, just lenses.. Missus doesn't see why anyone would need more than one camera.. I don't see why anyone would need more than one dress..

I plan to recreate some old family shots when my bro and sisters come to visit at Xmas.

Some belters on this site: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/category/photos/recreating-the-awkwardness/ (http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/category/photos/recreating-the-awkwardness/)

also got some ideas for Xmas shots but need a specific prop and location to pull it off.

Hope everyone is feeling festive now. Christmas day is only 3 weeks away. Pigs in blankets, nom nom nom.

Lincoln market Milli

Plenty of fill yer belly stalls

Traffic is always carnage when it's on. Mum was down visiting and couldn't be bothered fighting the crowds so just stayed in and chilled yesterday, forgot to play the cashgame freeroll. :( Might go tomorrow in the day time.

Like the look of comps at DTD next week. Gonna plonk myself in front of the mirror and practice my live tells ala Keith Johnson in preperation for my return to the live arena. Should be fun. That's unless I win the sunday million tomorrow in which case I will be looking at cars and houses.

Went Friday late afternoon early evening, least people we have ever seen there

She bought a sheepskin coat to add to her huge collection sigh

Mind you it was only £40 from second hand shop..... Good as new know what i mean Guv

like it son. more gambling monies innit. wiii

My mrs keeps banging on about Lincoln market is it just one weekend or over a few weeks ?

Finishes tonight. Started on Friday. Get yaself down soon.

Would love to mate but I playing big game today

I'm playing the million today if you fancy a punt Dave, will sell up to half and freeroll the same % in the storm.

Feel free to tell me to gtfo obv.

Don't beat around the bush Malc.. will take 25% if I can ship via bank. (stars don't let me deposit and xfer and I don't have much on there)  only coz it's u and I am a mega punter.

Was up at 4.15 this morning went back to bed and 11, just woke up now and feel great. Got a good feeling about today (as I always do until I bust every comp by 10pm)

GL Bro.

I know I only have 4 readers ffor this diary (on a good day) but up for swapping 20% in sunmil in 5% chunks if anyone fancies some little cross sweats? For transparency; I will be late regging (1.5hrs) and my name is milligan84. just post Itt along with your stars name and I'll let you know that it's booked. Got a real good feeling, hope it lasts until this time tomorrow.

Punters gonna punt innit, will send bank deets.

Swap yer 5%

Will probs be late reg also

carvor

Booked sir. gl us.

15% left for swappies.

Still not regged the milli.

Bust out first 3 comps in ridic fashion.

JJ < A4 (aip to be massive in big 22)
JJ < A10 < A6 (3 way aip)
KK < AJ

Pretty much every I touch which has a power supply is just breaking. I have a laptop with no screen plugged into a desktop monitor with a broken tower..

I am gonna take down the milli by playing stars on a HUDL. legoooooo.

Aim is to win $10k then I can just replace everything.. gl all.

feel ya pain brah. Hate Sundays.

posted in wrong thread will delete

sory

Still in a poker tournament at midnight on a Sunday!! Was cruising but now well back in the pack with 20bbs. Lost a flip, got card and spot dead and ppl started 3 betting me. :(

This time in an hour we should be itm. gl all blondes left in going for gold.

gl milllllllli

gl 2u2 Mr chip leader.

I have slipped down to 9th now :(

is everyone stalling on your table? its v tilting

Nah, playing normal. Just doubled to 92k with A8 > JK. He flopped the king but we rivered the A ball. phew.

Let's doooo this. The dream is still alive.

Stalling wankers..

siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. Went out for $592.

AQ < AK did the real damage.

Get it in with AxAd vs KK and 77 for the juicy treble up to get me back into it.

Board = 7d xd xd xd...... 7. wp that guy.

Gl to the Ho and any other blondes left in.

So December has resulted in me putting my foot through my laptop screen and somehow frying the motherboard of my PC that I built about 3 months ago.

At the moment I am rocking this sexy hybrid;

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Obv also have best tablet tesco clubcard points can buy! HUDL HUDL HUDL.

Need a bink and need it fast.

Sent the $ Dave, shame we couldn't hold in dem flips....

Rxd. tyty. UL mate. Both lost with AA. Will get em next time.

HOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLD!!!!!!

Sick sweat. COME ON!

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motherfucking holding! congrats milli

WAL!

Congrats

tyty. tbf that game had 3-2 City all over it. When Bayern went 2-0 up I really couldn't see any other result..

Can buy a new PC now and maybe even treat myself to a cheeky new deco.

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:D

But how much did you lose?

x3 losing £5 bets x1 £5 winner.

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punted $30 on some
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as well

Binkkkkkkkkkkk

Congrats Milli

Only the second time in my life that I've been pleased to see a Citeh win

WP milli

Ferkin lurrrrrv it

Wdwdwdwd

Cheers guys. Can't believe we held. Thank god Pelegrini didn't realise if they scored again they would win..

Along with my PC that broke my cheapo office chair also died the other week so I've just oordered a 'heavy duty' desk chair. Basically one which doesn't crumple when a fatty like me sits on it.

Also given the missus money to go and see her parents and take em out for a meal which means I have a free wknd. wiiii, gonna overdose on poker, porn and sports. chooo chooo.

superb milli

enjoy

Haha, love the pic!

Always happy to see a punter get one over on the bookies <3

Went to DTD last night. Banter was actually better than normal tbh but there was bit too much of "oh man, my 92 would have turned a boat, i knew I should have stayed in..", fist pumping and analysing every hand for my liking. It's probably not a good sign when you start thinking to yourself 'I could be watching eastenders right now'. Was supposed to be going tonight but will probs swerve and go back Fri and Sat for the £10k and £20k gtes.

Poker wise I was far too aggro and struggled to get people to fold the bottom of their range. Silly of me for trying really. Didn't flip well either which meant I was home for midnight.

I don't think I have mentioned my love for milkshakes itt. I abs love milkshakes! Whenever I visit a new place I always have to try one in case they can better the holy grail. The holy grail is my very own concoction. It is hands down the best milkshake I have found on this planet!!

Holy grail = Vanilla ice cream, strawberry ice cream, strawberry nesquik powder, milk, couple of ice cubes, strawberry ice cream sauce and a handful of fresh strawberries all blended together. Eff me. Just incredible and it is also an amazing hangover cure.

I even have a couple of milk shake related strawberries;

Me and the missus were in a restaurant in Rome. I had just finished my coke as the waiter brought out our mains. He asked if I would like another drink and I replied "Yes, but could I have a strawberry milkshake this time please".. couple of mins later as I have just finished my first slice of pizza he brings me over a huge glass of what he claimed to be 'strawberry milkshake' but in reality was a gigantic ice cream sundae.. we were sitting outside at the time in 40 degree heat so I had to demolish this glorious dessert before it melted. I can only imagine what people must have thought.. this story seemed much funnier irl than typing it out.. nevermind.

4am, Georgia, just left a nightclub with some American friends and they told me were going to place called IHOP to carry on the night.. I said "cool".  We got there and sat down. The waitress asked me what I would like to drink and I asked for a Corona.. she said "haha, we don't serve alcohol here honey". I was actually semi pleased about this as I was pretty bamboozled as it was. "no problem" I said. I will have a milkshake instead. she asked me what flavour I would like and I replied "Banana please". Oh my days... "BANANA" she screamed. " A banana............. MILKSHAKE??? " she then called over her colleague and repeated the hilarity of the situation whilst they both laughed in my face. I was slightly confused as to what was going on.. the only flavours the yanks really do are chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. This was deepest, darkest Augusta and never in her life did she think she would hear someone order a banana milkshake. Again this story seems more interesting in my head and it is much better when I do the waitress' accent. I later found out IHOP stood for 'international house of pancakes'. It was kind of like our kebab shops where everyone goes after the clubs to pull the filthy leftovers. Michael Jackson came on the radio and I ended up singing and dancing with 2 black women (easily both 25 stone+) who were actually kind enough to offer me a 3 some. (I think they were after their UK badges). Like a proper English gentleman I politely declined and went back to eating my blueberry pancakes. THE END.

Like a proper English gentleman I politely declined

i think i have lost a little respect for you here, surely this would have made a much more interesting story!!!!!!

PS, maybe try catch you saturday for the £50(+2 rl!)

Had a missus innit. #loyaltyftw

Over 50 stone combined weight in a threesome would need some bed to hold Them!

70 stone back then.. floor ftw.

Only acceptable excuse imo.

WP

Bed at 4 and up at 7. :( little un was going mental, if someone can sleep through the sounds of a crying child they are a better man than me. Second I woke up I started thinking about darts, lolz, pretty crazy but I'm so excited. wiiii

New chair arrived this morning. It is pure heaven. I have been sitting on a dining chair for the last week and my back is in tatters. I finally know what comfort feels like. ahhhhhhhhh.

D-Day has finally landed. I am balls deep in one bet and will probably have a cheeky intrest in every game. Could be broke by January, but it will have been worth it.

LET'S PLAY DAAAAAAAAAAARTS!

D-Day has finally landed. I am balls deep in one bet and will probably have a cheeky intrest in every game. Could be broke by January, but it will have been worth it.

Enlighten please

I dont hate this diary.

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My struggle to get a bet on was documented in the darts betting thread and tft. Was 5/4 last night. 5/6 now and I can see it going even shorter tbh. I geninuely think it's a 1/2 shot. Unbelievably on Weds before I had spotted it, it was 2/1! Some shrewd mother must have hammered that to pieces. We have a PS4 and a few games riding on it. gogogogogo. Will give me a sweat for every single game regardless!

 
I used to not hate your's tbf. Until it got all serious and there was a severe lack of gifs. Now I hates it.

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Just made my diary a whole lot better. tyty. Now if only you could work this magic in your's. :)

Not done anything I intended too today.. :(

Although, it's not been a complete waste as I did discover this beauty:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwrreWsS3Vs

Some class lines. Once I fingered an owl was my fav tho.

"The Diner" which is an American themed chain restaurant in London does the best Milkshakes...

Nutella and Coconut is amazing... Love Milkshakes especially when I'm having fries, maybe because the sweet milky taste offsets the salty fries...

oooh. will give it a shot when I'm next down there. Will have to be pretty damn special to beat the holy grail tho.

Oreo milkshakes are a specialty of mine.

I'll give you the secret recipe if you like?

Actually don't like oreos. I know right. When I reenact rounders I have to use jammy dodgers.

Come on.. Next you'll be saying you don't like Jaffa cakes .....

Jaffa cakes have no place in a discussion of biscuit preferences.

ewww jaffa cakes.

Christmas + biscuits has to mean Kimberly Chocolate Biscuits...I'll go through at least one tin over the Christmas/New Year week.

Might suffer them if they were coated in milk chocolate...

http://www.tinseltown.co.uk/menu-shakes.php

Stumbled across the branch in Leicester one day and the kids loved it, the burgers and wraps were excellent. I must admit to a Travolta "a five quid shake? you just ordered a a five quid shake?" moment but my reaction was the same - the Ambassador* was pretty damn special.



*Ferrero Rocher, Oreo Cookies and ice cream milkshake with rich chocolate sauce topped with whipped cream, chocolate sprinkles and a rolled wafer.

Wow. Taking it up a notch in the milkshake stakes!! vwp.

Just google mapsed it. 1hr 16 door to door. wiiiiiiiii..

Abs love ferrero rochers but for some reason over the last couple of years I have developed quite an aversion to nuts and this festive treat does me in right good. The fact it has oreos in it is enough to make me swerve though.

They seem to offer a nice selection! Cherry Bakewell! Like it, although I would probs go for the Fruit A-List and the Wunderkind from the VIP section. Food looks deece as well. nom nom nom. Thanks for sharing.

There is a place in Lincoln called Eskimoo which only does shakes. It used to be very good but seems to have gone down hill recently. Crunchie and Strawberry millions were my favs.

I need some Wunder Kind in my life!

Think you should come to Luton over Christmas/new year for a comp.

You'll love it..

I used to live in Bedford, been to Luton a few times, went to the G when it got done up but they made me wear shoes and take off my hat. :( #shithole

Next time Mrs Eso goes away I might go stay at his and come through with him. (he isn't aware of this yet)

What comp...?

As the newly crowned "Mr Christmas" can you settle a couple of Xmas arguments in our house please;

Is a Christmas Loo Seat cover "going to far"?

And

When can we open the Squirty Cream?

All parties have promised to abide by your judgements.
Thankyou in advance.

I also have a xmas loo cover and it is perfectly acceptable!!

No squirty cream in my house! Extra thick double whipped cream only!

Fwiw here is the outside of my downstairs toilet:

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Here is the inside:

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Everyone likes to listen to a singing xmas tree when having a slash..

My sister's toilet cover makes a hohoho sound everytime you lift it up. #jealous. Please feel free to share a pic of yours. :)


In other news my garage door cover blew off last night. Thankfully it got wedged under the missus' car else it could have ended up in a neighbouring village. I went to the shop and got some industrial velcro. £6.75 a metre! with 8 metres worth I expect that thing to survive a hurricane!!

Same Loo seat cover.

Must press you for a date.

Seems the whole bought for Xmas is an issue in our house.
After eights gone, Biscuits for Cheese demolished, 1 advent calendar already on 25th etc, etc, etc - She needs rules.

We had this problem for years, I would eat everything in the house. Tried buying 2 of everything. I would just eat twice as much.. Missus found 2 solutions ; do 90% of it online and get it delivered closer to the big day or hide it. She hid 2 tins of celebrations in her car last year and didn't even realise until Jan 4th. geeeeg new years resolutions..

If it's in the house then it's fair game imo

Do you know what you have done . . . . .  If she has eaten the rib of beef when i get home I am not going to be happy.

Thanks for your help.

What a rip off.

I once got paid £400 to deliver a role of Velcro to a court in Essex from the Midlands. Easiest job I think I ever did.

Shocking pun attempt, thing's like that really wont stick itt.



In other news; How have I only just come across the squashies range of sweets??? Incred flavours!

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Just eating drumsticks. nom nom nom. Fine taste of drumstick lollies but you don't lose any teeth! Immediately anyway..

Anyone around tomorrow for Mr Yong's bounty jobby? Thinking of breaking my Luton duck!

Oh my days... Drumsticks are the business!

They look incred, were you get them from ?

Local newsagent. I am reliably informed that they are stocked in all good sweeteries these days.

s'all about bonds boiled sweets sold in jars on shelves behind the counter. or thems aint proper sweets.


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Titty, get out!

Matey boy in work is bringing in a family sized box of swizzels matlow at the minute, they have double dips, drumsticks and the world in them. My dentist is not a fan!

Boiled sweets? gtfo. This isn't the front line and it's not the 1940s.

Although the rhubarb and custard ones are incred. I suck em so hard the roof of my mouth ends up hurting. #livingontheedge

Get the Lemon Bullseyes on the go!

ld fucking o

it's like sherbert lemons, if you've not eaten enough that your mouth is bleeding slightly you're not doing it right.


and obv i'm a pensioner so I like old persons 'treats'. :)

Pretty sure sherbert lemons are 70% glass. Slice ur tongue to bits.

Talking about being an OAP the missus spotted a grey hair in my beard today. Life is officially over.

ah see you do know how to eat em. ie keep going till there's none left and you have to clean your teeth twice before bed!!!


boiled sweets are incred. <3


whos diary is this anyway?

No idea. Some Christmas loving fish.

So my lil princess turns 17 months in 2 days. She just had a developmental assessment at nursery and scored in the 36 - 48 months for a lot of things. They are going to retest her in a couple of weeks to make sure it wasn't a complete fluke. I already knew her comprehension was quite advanced as I don't know many 1.5year old kids who can pull off stuff such as;  "get daddy the phone", "put this in the bin for daddy", "get daddy's shoes... no, not them, the white ones". Having your own butler is incred. Can't wait til she is tall enough to reach the fridge.

On a serious note obv I am proud but I always remember hearing a saying which keeps me in check; "If everyone's child is such a genius then why are the so many ordinary adults around.."

As a youngster I was somewhat of a child prodigy myself.. although this pretty much halted as soon as I turned 13. It was at this time when I discovered cider and fanny! Pretty much simultaneously in fact. From this moment on my academic life went rapidly down hill. It was worth it tho. #FrostyJacksftw #WouldntChangeAthing

Now if only we could get her to stop biting other children..


Darts is having a severe impact on my pokers. Played live last Weds and 1 tournament online on Sunday which is pretty shocking for me. Looking forward to the new year when I will start grinding like a tomsom monda lovechild.

Great stuff... Future Mensa member? Proud dad thread stuff right there...

Me and pizzled should be there tonight.

Nice one, will you look after me? Also they best have the arra's on as I will be missing my nightly fix otherwise!

Woah, this isn't the plenty of fish thread. Arrange your dates somewhere else you pair of doggers.

If you haven't tried it, Mars Drink... Phenomenal...!!! 

Yeah when I used to commute I would usually grab a milkshake from the garage. Mars has made the cut a few times but I think Galaxy wins in the choccie drink stakes.

Thought you'd appreciate this...

The guy is also raising money for charity and has a tube which you put money into from the street that goes directly into his wishing well.. Pretty awesome..

Are you playing any of the WCOOP tonight?

No mate. Far too many family games and films to get through. As well as the darts!

Ruskington today to see the reindeer and have brunch, then chilling before driving up to York tomorrow to pick up some of my kinsmen.

Poker takes a back seat this time of year, will be back on it January unless I go to DTD before then.

glgl if you play sir.

Carol service at Blankney church, then i will give stars a bash!!!

Carol service? well I am surprised. I would have layed big odds on that being how you would choose to spend time!

Parish councillors must been seen in the right places

Not posted for a while as been balls deep in the festivities. All the relatives have gone so life can finally return to some form of normality. It was great having everyone here but by boxing day night I was looking forward to having the house back to ourselves.

Xmas roundup:

• Didn't drink alcohol but ate so much junk food I think I have developed sugar related headaches.
• Playing operation is joke easy if you are not drunk, even with your left hand whilst people shout in your face trying to put you off.
• Hydrastrike is as good as it was when I was 11. Got video footage of my nan playing it vs my bro.
• Only the 5 pairs of socks this year which is about 25 pairs below my normal amount
• Did pretty well presents wise; 2 onesies, aftershaves, tripod, soft boxes, photography backdrops and stand, retro calculator watch, books and chocolates.

All in all it pays to have people over at Xmas as normally me, my brother and sisters don't even buy each other anything.

Craigy Betts bought me 'The Perfect Punter: A Year of Losing Everything and Trying to Win it All Back'. Looking forward to reading that! Although not sure what he is getting at..

Poker:
 

• Haven't played live or online over the last week, massively looking forward to getting back into it though. Going to start grinding my bollericks off come January.
• Bought a few pieces here and there as knew I wouldn't be playing myself, to no avail so far.

Thoughts on New Year

Not sure if I have mentioned my hatred towards NY Eve itt? I have done Vegas twice at NYE which were incred but in the UK it has been pretty shit. Even when I was single back in the day I would go out in town but apart from the fact you were guaranteed to neck on at midnight it was just a big let down; A Pain in the ass getting a taxi in, have to pay a ridic amount to actually get through the doors, queue for hours to get served then to top it off you always get some mug who never goes out the rest of the year trying to give it the big I am. Following that you have the fun of trying to get a taxi home and you get to pay double the normal price for the privilege.
I would honestly say I have only had one proper decent NYE in the UK and that was when we took on the Scottish tradition of 'first footing'. You basically knock on stranger's doors holding some booze and coal and they invite you in to get smashed. It was so random but pure com. Unfortunately we can't really do that where we live now though as we know everyone and I don't really like them or they are my missus' bosses etc. All in all New Year's in the UK is pretty poor imo. Last couple of years I have been at house parties but I ended up just being bored praying for the countdown to begin so I could give my well wishes and go home. Reading this back I sound like a right grumpy old prick but meh.

This year, my main mate is in Afghanistan, his missus in Bristol and the other usual suspects are up in Scotland which is pretty much ideal as it means we can just stay in, watch the celebrations from around the world, have a little international buffet and set off some fireworks in the garden. I will also do a couple of traditions which I have picked up from blonde; write your resolutions on some paper and seal them in an envelope and get someone to write a resolution for you which you then open the following NYE (courtesy of Waz). Open the front door to let the new year in and the back door to let the new year out (courtesy of Eso Kral).

Great day of footy ahead of us, come on the reds!

Hi Milli,

Thanks for the invite over Christmas, I enjoyed it, though I thought you overdid the Xmas decs a bit.


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Pleasure mate, welcome back any time. Enjoyed the stories about how you knew Santa when he was just starting out. :)

Welcome in Scotland Anytime Sir.

Make sure you bring Beers and Beers and little more beers. :)up :)up

Cheers fella although I don't think my liver could take it. I did new years once up there. It was in a place called Linlithgow, nobody but me and my English mate started drinking before the bells (midnight) we had started at about 4pm and were absolutely baggaged by the time everyone else started drinking. They carried on for pretty much 48hrs straight. I went to bed at 4am and was back in the pub at 11. carnage.

ha.
I work in Linlithgow and stay about 20 mins away.

Get up and jump aboard the bus. Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

So was asleep by 11pm last night, woke up at 3.30am feeling like utter shit. Had intended to be in the gym first thing which hasn't gone exactly to plan.. Although did have a healthy breakfast and have already drank 2 litres of water so not all bad. Hoping I start to feel a bit better in the next few hours then can get the gym in before darts starts.

Poker wise I had a teamviewer session playing 6max speed cash on ipoker, had one major leak pointed out to me which I am working on resolving asap.

If anyone has any up to date links/ helpful material for cash games then please feel free to share. :)

Here's to blonde crushing 2014.

Cheers

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Do you mind sharing what the leak is?

If you make a nice video of you playing ill do a free video review for you and ping it up on wugwug.

30 minutes or so as ill be stopping and starting etc.

My major leak was being too loose from sb. I peeled a lil bit more than I should and 3b late opens way more than I should. I was almost 3betting atc to a button open and  as a result just burning chips.

Just 1 tabling without a hud atm until I am confident that I am not making any glaring mistakes then will increase tables, then it's volume, volume, volume.

Yeah, happy to have another pair of eyes review my play. Will send the first 30 mins of my next session as I often seem to lose at the beginning but end up in profit by the end. #mentalgamefish

Great, Skype me it bro, will MSG later

Some people slag onesies, I was once one of those people... they are abs incred. Got 2 bought for me this Xmas and pretty much been living in them.


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#comfort

Thread unsubscribed.

Pffffft

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I ain't scared of no ghost :D

:D

Can't say that I'm a fan, but I can imagine they're pretty comfortable..

Best thing about working from home is that I can bowl around in shorts and t-shirt all day, though a close 2nd is not having to shave every morning!

yeah i trimmed the day before that photo as i was starting to approach Zeus mode. no uniform, no shaving, no discipline. ahhhh, bliss.

I did my own 'Movember', but I just didn't shave at all, and I even surprised myself with the set I grew.

I am now going back to bi weekly shaves though, because it's a nightmare standing in front of the sink for 20 minutes trimming before I can shave.

So..

been a good start to the year;

Almost lost a stone already. Just another 9 to go til I am considered in the 'normal' range.

Fun weekend punting, Brent Horner put up 3 decent priced picks for FA Cup on twitter which all comfortably won. I was on the singles and treble also had Hibs to beat Dundee U, they were 2-0 up at 80 mins, but an 82nd and 91st min goal killed me. Did a late get there with Swansea vs Man U to restore the rungood. Thought I would ride the wave and had two chunky bets on the NFL which both bricked. Still in profit but it could have been a comma day. :(

I am pretty sure I now know how Michelangelo must have felt when he completed The Sistine Chapel:

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This is my new grind station which I assembled all by myself. This is quite an accomplishment for me as normally with flat packed furniture I would just go off in a mood whilst the missus finishes the job.. next step is to get a dual monitor setup and a new PC as I managed to completely destroy my last one. Hoping it brings some 2014 rungood. Anything is better than my old grind station. Anyone remember this?:



Had a quiet Sunday poker wise, just single tabled the GPS sat on DTD whilst watching the NFL, managed to bink a seat which means we are in the main for a total of £24. Will be my first GPS event so quite excited, would be nice to get the year off to a flyer..

Haha, love the onesie pic.

Something incongruous about the big fella, the action pose..all wrapped up in the onesie. Gonna fire this up whenever I need a smile

Glad I could help cheer you up. My first shot was a full length model pose, but unfortunately it turned out a bit too daily star so I had to delete.

lol, hope you continue to enjoy your sabbatical/poker career, how ever it turns out

First proper day grinding today, actually feel pretty tired tbh and only did 10-4 with a 30 min break at which time I grabbed a late lunch and installed PT4..

First portion of the day I dabbled in .50/1 and .25/.50 and snap lost a chunk, missed a monster draw and was on the wrong side of a couple of coolers. After I installed PT I went down to the stakes I am supposed to be playing.. things went a lot better there, managed to win 3bi just by small balling really.

The moment I have always dreamed of has finally come to fruition, my first graph post:

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Still a bit down overall for the day but feeling positive about tomorrow, hoping I can bink an upwards graph throughout the entire grind..

<300 hands and you post a graph?

Come back when you've played 30,000 :)

See you in 2015. the. I'm nearly 30 you know! can't keep up with all these whizkids.

Aiming for 2k hands tomorrow which will easily be the most hands ive ever played in a day.

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My aim was to play 2k hands today but flicked in 3,275 for the fun of it because I was in a hole and was determined to get out.

Fun graph today, rollercoaster anyone?

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I did run pretty bad overall but certainly didn't play as well as I should have in some spots. I've got a bunch of hands to go over before my next grind. Will probs post some on pha board for the pros to laugh at.

No online for me tomorrow as I will be playing GPS at DTD. Wanted to play Friday then remembered that Amelie isn't in nursery on Fridays any more so It looks like I will be battling it out with all the pros. Fun times. Legoooooo.

Not been on a rollercoaster since Disneyland in 2009!


Good luck tomorrow, shippers ;)

What site/stakes u playing bud?

Cheers ships.


Just .10/.20 euro on ipoker. I want to take the scenic route to the top mid tier. :)

Are you playing speed poker with a rakeback deal? Did you not fancy pokerstars zoom?

Pretty much yeah, with the odd mtt thrown in for personal pleasure. I played a bit of zoom before deciding where to lay my hat but decided against it in the end for a few reasons:

A lot of regs on stars, I didn't want to play in $$, stars is the devil and the perceived rakeback equivalent of vpps is quite poor. I read that silverstar to platinum was equivalent of 20-30% rb and superonva was 40-50%. As I doubt I will put in the volume for supernova I was better off grinding  elsewhere.

If I am breakeven or better over a few hundred thousand hands then I will just turn into a robot and up my volume.

Made day 2 of GPS, going back to 35 or so bbs, that's loads for a nit like me. Took a big gamble early on and did a river get there, then from there it was all pretty standard.

Defo the most I've enjoyed playing in a long time, tonnes of banter throughout the whole day and pretty much everyone was up for a natter, also got to put a couple of faces to online names which is always nice.

gl any blondes playing.

No grinding for me today as I am looking after the little lady. Might put in a few hands tonight depending on how tired I am.

Day 2 of the GPS went well... a pretty horrific spew by me. :( A guy who I didn't have tagged as the greatest player at the table had 4xed the button 2 out of last 3 orbits with me in the sb. The prior orbit I folded 55 to him when I had 30bbs. Third time it came around he 4xd again, I looked down at J9dd and thought it would be a good spot to jam 28bbs.. my thinking was; he has opened every button when folded to him so could have atc, 4x is too much for me to not make a play, he might fold 22-88, he might call 22-88 in which case we are flipping, if he has AK/AQ I wont be in too bad shape and if we are crushed we can get there.. He had AQ we flopped a pair and an open ender but didn't get there. Last year I worked on getting rid of unnecessary pre flop spews and unnecessary zero equity post flop bluffs (of which I used to do a lot of..) clearly I haven't solved my problem. After this I was left with 6bbs, jammed the button with JJ, Frankie woke up with 66 in the bb, we had to dodge 6 outs on the river to claim the pot but it wasn't to be. Didn't play the £150 as really can't be bothered to drive back tomorrow. Will just enjoy the day with the lil one and missus instead.

Footy and horse bets were tez today, but got a tonne of new films to watch. Wiiiiiiiii

Cliffs: I am terrible at poker
 

Life:

Deece day yesterday. Went to a place called 'Woodside wildlife and falconry park' up the top of Lincoln. My mate told me about it but didn't really sell it too well. I thought it was incred, as did Amelie. Highlight was handling a couple of snakes, a lizard and an emu egg. Lowlilght was some stupid cow asking if she could meet Sharon (Sharon happens to be the code word for their tarantula) I practically threw my daughter at my missus and ran out of the place much to the amusement of everyone else. When I was out of the room they put it on a guy's shoulder without him knowing, I can guarantee If they did that to me I would either be dead from a heart attack right now or in a police cell for the murder of 2 game keepers and a tarantula.

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Couple of pics:

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Poker:

Didn't play yesterday. Got up nice and early today ready to take on the world and instantly went down like 5 BI. It was filth AA < JJ aip, flopped a boat and guy rivered a higher boat, got it in with 2 pair vs over pair only to be counterfeited and allsorts of other fun. I thought about logging out and just scratching up the day as a loss but instead I dropped a table, whacked Plan B on the headphones and proceeded to smash the place up. Probs wasn't the best poker i've ever played but it was certainly my most aggressive. Pretty much just put everyone to the sword whenever I could. We ended up getting out for the day to secure a small profit which when added to rb means I am happy enough to take the afternoon off grinding and do a bit of studying instead.

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I have started ever session so far losing. It's almost as if I have to lose before I start playing properly. Anyone encountered anything like this before or got any suggestions? Could just be coincidence as it's a joke small sample size but it feels like there could be more to it.

Been finding I tend to lose a bit getting used my foes/tables and once I get into the table dynamics seem to get back ahead. (Cue massive downswing !). Limit O8 is quite fun to play, not got a grind mentality going yet and still 1 or 2 tabling. I find my focus goes after 1 hour (old age? or need to have more tables open?).

Are you trying to get any GC for the Grand Prix?

Think the dynamics are less of an issue on speed / zoom as obv the player pool is bigger and the players at your table change nearly every hand.

Focus is probs down to your age. :) I don't have any browsers or anything open when playing, just my music playing in my headphones so normally quite focussed throughout unless I am getting punting tips via txt..

Not tried for GP yet, plus as I play on ipoker but through a different skin I can't play on DTD at same time so don't really have time to grind any sats in the day. Not actually a massive fan of the GCs tbh. Both the times I FTd a GP I was not in possession of a Golden Chip. In fact the only time I did have one I busted early as I thought I could get people to fold on the fact I was unlikely to be bluffing with a GC.. i'm such a mental game fish and often level myself. :(

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i have the same issue with losing at the start and having to regroup. Issue is if i say dump 3/4 buy ins early then get back i often want to quit as it feels like a result. Which is definitely a mental game leak!

Sweet, so i'm not the only one. Right, now how do we resolve this?

That's exactly the same as me! Take today for example; snap -5bi, then get back in profit and then logged out as it feels like a massive win. I thought about continuing grinding through, I thought about having a break and logging back in and decided to take the afternoon off instead. My reason being that my longterm mental ev would be way higher if I just booked today as opposed to if I logged back in and lost monies which would crush me. This has to be a huge leak and I imagine can't be good for the long term? I am properly rolled for my stakes so it isn't even the money aspect, it's strictly a mental issue. I should probably read mental game of poker again.. 

mine is slightly roll issue when i win it back i tend to end up with say 400bb on one table and at the back of my mind i keep thinking. Id hate to lose all that. The sessions where i go into beast mode is when im up early. If im sat with 300bb on each table and all are in profit im usually not that bothered about stopping because i think. Ahh well if i lose alll on one table im still up etc. I do think its a good thing to book winning sessions BUT the way im doing it is definitely a mistake. Not sure how to solve it, where is pleno when i need him!

Mate, I am the same way with that as well. :(

Pleno wont be able to help, he never loses..

I imagine this must have been brought up before so there must be something about it on here. Nothing springs to mind though so will have a search, failing that will have a look on 2+2.

Probably got gut rot after eating raw meat if you look at his diary :D

going in for a session in a bit of zoom will see if i can avoid it!