Chilibobs

I recognise this chap!

Has he been on television?

To reiterate the announcement made late on Sunday Night, I would just like to thank all players who contributed to a unique and enjoyable weekend of poker.

After a couple of years running the cardroom at Gala Notts I did not think that it would be possible to have such a large group of players enjoying the game as it should be and played in the true spirit of the game.

In terms of my experience in the UK poker scene, those were my best days.

Thank you all

On a separate but related note, I omitted thanks for the dealers, supervisors and valets who worked so tirlessly over the weekend. so for any of you who lurk and read this forum Many many thanks for your hard work.

Additional thanks also to Snoops and Dana for thoroughly enjoyable updates (most notably the troupe of cheerleading Simon Trumpers)

Hope to see you all again at the next one


Rob

£300 Main Event - 231

£200 Omaha - 32

£100 Sunday Night - 123

Aggregate Total -  386

How Rude!

[58 votes]

Tournament TYPE distribution after 58 votes

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A Very Happy Birthday to the best player I know

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I voted the freeze out and double chance, but maybe one night a week a game _other_ than NLHE?

Perhaps I need to make it clear what i hope to gain from this poll.
The Choices are deliberately very similar in terms of potential spend and chip allocation per player. As such the prizepool will be about the same for each one.

They are all No Limit Hold-Em because other variations would confuse the issue.
This is not a Pot Limit or No Limit poll (I am sure that one of those will crop up at some time along with many more polls along a similar theme to this one)

What I am trying to establish is the relative popularity or desire for certain types of tournaments ie: Freeze-Outs/Limited Re-Buys/Unlimited Re-Buys.
This will enable us to create a schedule which reflects the kind of competitions the players want to play.

The best schedule will include the best balance of competitions that you, the player would actually want to play.

I do not assume for one minute that everyone has £400 available for poker each and every week. It is necessary to create a 'what if' scenario to allow the poll to yield the best answer to the question.

Since you have limited me to two choices, then my budgetted 400 quid slips nicely between the two big 200 quid freezeouts.

Usually I would play more than two a week and thus it would be one per night, whatever game was on, only playing the big one if I could afford it that week.

Mikky, because there were only two choices, what would have been your 3rd choice?

in fact anyone can feel free to answer that question... Please post your 3rd choice tournament.


Don't forget that I am not doing these polls to satisfy some crazy whim... I am aiming to find out the answer to the ultimate question of poker, the schedule and the entry fee

Thanks for the great responses so far



Nightfly

I am trying to gain an insight into the type of tournaments that you guys and gals would like to see included in a regular weekly schedule at Dusk Till Dawn.

Your votes and comments would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

Nightfly

TO ALL THE KIDS

WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

 
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

 
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

 
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.


Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.


We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and

 
NO ONE actually died from this.

 
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because .

 
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

 
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

 
No one was able to reach us all day.

 
And we were O.K.



We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

 
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms..........
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

 
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

 
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

 
We weren't given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

 
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

 
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

 
They actually sided with the law!

 
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

 
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

 
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

 
HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!

 
If YOU are one of them . . . CONGRATULATIONS!

 
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as
kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives

 
for our own good.

 
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

 
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

I, like most was, sad to hear about jen... a fantastic performance.

Since hearing about it i kept thinking of the following quote from the film Coach Carter

Can't say why really, Maybe it's relevant maybe it's not

It feels like it is, so i tracked it down and here it is:


Coach Ken Carter: What is your deepest fear?
Timo Cruz: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Very Well played Jen