Also very briefly shared a table with perhaps the most irritating little man in poker, JJ, aka JJ Hazan, he of Dragons Den.

Briefly? Well, as in 1 hand, which fell between his 6th & 7th bullet I think.  

If you look carefully you can see a Trophy next to him, which he presumably won somewhere. He was using it as a card-marker. Never one to GIQ, was he?

He got that in a chop!

No!?

At Birmingham he arrived late, & he literally went to every table, brandishing his Trophy, & telling everyone how he won it. Then went round again & told everyone he would use it as a card-marker.

As it happens, the event was part of something called "PLO Masters" which, loosely speaking, he "organises". In truth I fancy Party organised it, he just added the Title.


Here, take a look...



 https://www.plomasters.com/

He comes to Malta a few times a year where he is equally as popular.

He comes along with a few hundred others from Europe for The Festival Series. You should give it a go, it's held in several locations throughout Europe, so you don't even have to see me! Loads of different mixed games along with some Holdem stuff too.

Thanks Vinni.

Ill keep an eye on the schedules. The bulk of the MTT action in Fessies is usually NLH, & I'm not remotely good enough to invest in the cost of travel & hotels etc to play NLH, but if it includes a decent amount of the sort of Mixed stuff I can handle, then yes, I'd maybe come along.

That aside, how's life for you & the fam? What you up to?

This was the schedule when it came to Malta in September: https://www.thefestival.com/wp-content/uploads/TF-Malta-Schedule-2025-Main-1.pdf

And this is their homepage where you can see their upcoming events etc; https://www.thefestival.com/the-festival-series-malta-2025#block-a74959d3-8b61-4351-89b6-1b848490f3c8

We are all fine thanks, just plodding along working for an online casino and getting fatter. Life is good though, so I'll take that for now.

Also very briefly shared a table with perhaps the most irritating little man in poker, JJ, aka JJ Hazan, he of Dragons Den.

Briefly? Well, as in 1 hand, which fell between his 6th & 7th bullet I think. 

If you look carefully you can see a Trophy next to him, which he presumably won somewhere. He was using it as a card-marker. Never one to GIQ, was he?

He got that in a chop!

No!?

At Birmingham he arrived late, & he literally went to every table, brandishing his Trophy, & telling everyone how he won it. Then went round again & told everyone he would use it as a card-marker.

As it happens, the event was part of something called "PLO Masters" which, loosely speaking, he "organises". In truth I fancy Party organised it, he just added the Title.


Here, take a look...



 https://www.plomasters.com/

He comes to Malta a few times a year where he is equally as popular.

He comes along with a few hundred others from Europe for The Festival Series. You should give it a go, it's held in several locations throughout Europe, so you don't even have to see me! Loads of different mixed games along with some Holdem stuff too.

2025 been an OK kind of year for Palace so far.

Happy Birthday Tony!

Looking great for 78.

Hope you had a great day x

personally i try not to travel with a dildo in my pocket, ergonomic or not.

Where do you hide it then?

1 thing brought it home to me the other day. Because I still think of Celtic as a massive club. And, of course (and I include Rangers in this) in various senses still are

Celtic's record signing is (I believe) £11 Million.

The 3 teams that have just been promoted to the Premier League are all predicted to go straight back down. And, this Summer alone, have between them signed 13 players for more than that amount.

Yeah it’s a different world. It’s also a different league(s) which is a whole different product to a much bigger audience worldwide so it also doesn’t make too much sense to compare them in some ways.

[A British league would transform the finances of your club.]

It's only fun.

Tony and I have sniped about our respective teams for years. It's a North v South London thing We both enjoy it, and don't really take it that seriously

To quote my Wife, at the end of the day it is only about 22 overpaid blokes chasing a bag of wind

On the assumption you support the team that bears your name, it must be disheartening to be both head and shoulders above all other Scottish clubs, with a massive level of support and an awesome history, yet only have the budget of a bottom-half Championship club. A British league would transform the finances of your club.

To return to your point, Spurs got ridiculously lucky in Europe. More so than they were unlucky in the League.

I am 62 years old. And Spurs have not won the League in my lifetime

Assuming we got the current owner and board to change their ways, then it would be great. Until then we'll just plod along being that big club that likes to act like a small club. Very frustrating.

I would have cashed out at 4/1, too. Nothing to do with this "Spurs-y" nonsense. Quite a lot to do with what Tikay said-Spurs were bound to sit back, and PSG were awesome going forward. The other point was that Palhinha wasn't fully fit. When he went off (together with Kudus and Richarlison) we lacked the ability to fend them off and counter effectively.

Love the idea that fans of various clubs feel able to believe Spurs cannot win things. To be in the Super Cup you have to win 1 of the 2 big European competitions, and to have won it in the last 50 years.

Arsenal have, like Spurs, played in it once. In 1994. Under George Graham. And got beaten as easily as PSG beat Arsenal in the Champions League last year.

Played as well as we could. Which is probably why the PSG Manager felt Spurs deserved to win.

We've no longer got Aussie Idea-less at the helm. Lovely guy. Deserved a chance after doing well at clubs in small leagues. But I am more confident than for years.

You’re getting a bit carried away EssexPhil, whilst it was nice for yous that Spurs won the Europa league, they had an easy run in all the way through with the exception of Stuttgart. Don’t go down that route of sniping back at people who give opinions, sit back and enjoy the season, then let us know we were right all along 😄

Shambles.

Will be surprised if they  make the top half.

You’re going to give Booder another heart attack!

Doesn’t count I believe. Only the two that stay in.

Never getting a morning squeeze out of this thread.

Good Luck Tom.

Give big Jim McShane a hug from me when you see him.

[I have received almost no response from the moderators (only from Ironside, thank you), to my fair questions about whether those posts need to be here. The person abusing me, for not having good enough reason to be suicidal, is himself a moderator. That is the reason I ask on the forum. I repeat, I deserve no pity, no sympathy. But, in 2025, this horrible, old school attitude to suicide, and to someone who is actively feeling it, needs to be challenged. Please delete the relevant posts (and mine)]

I am posting because I don't want silence to suggest anything but how deeply sorry, and devastated I am, and always will be.

I don't want anything I say to sound the slightest bit like an excuse,  the slightest bit like looking for sympathy.

I can promise that on both issues, with the football one being bad, and the poker one far far bigger, I have suffered massively, and , especially with the poker, can be sure that I will every day for ever.

My wife came home the day after I got home from Vegas to find me with knives and 30 paracetamol tablets.  I would have thrown myself in front of a truck on the last day in Vegas if it wasn't for a dear friend talking me through every step of the way. I have had suicidal thoughts ever since the football incident, and have had a period of time on anti depressants.  I have been very suicidal the last two weeks, and frequently think of throwing myself in front of a train. Some messages here may seem undeservedly supportive,  but they have kept me alive. I am trying to keep myself alive for my family, and 6 year old boy

I want to clarify the football thing. The poker consequences are all completely deserved.  They are deserved for ever. The football thing, I do believe I have suffered enough.

 I sang 'always the victims, it's never your fault.' I got punched, got arrested in the commotion. What I did was very bad. It deserves a football ban, deserves a fine. But 99.9% of the punishment comes in the articles being there for ever, and having exaggeration (Sheffield Star) up to 'mocking the dead.'

'Always the victims' is a generic football chant that I have heard multiple times on the TV before and since. I repeat, what I did was bad, but I want to clarify the whole thing. Obviously my mental health has been bad for a long time, and the football thing has put me in a deserved dark place for a long time since, the poker thing a deserved, far far deeper one

If you think getting convicted for a crime or fiddling a few quid from backers is enough to want you to commit suicide when you have a 6 year old child then you need to seek professional help and stop fannying around on a poker forum worrying about what a bunch of people think about you.

Let me make it completely clear, that I am fully aware of the massive punishment I deserve for what I have done. I will live that punishment for ever.

I think it is fair, however, as an independent thing, to ask, why some posts are still here? My feeling is that the thread doesn't need to be, but I do understand that there is an argument for the thread being here.

But why do 2 posts- one abusing me for my reasons for being suicidal not qualifying as being good enough, and another, more well meaning, telling me that I am not suicidal- have to be here?

If there is some kind of qualification required on this forum, for whether someone is allowed to be suicidal, let me fill you in on the rest of my life. I have chronic fatigue syndrome. It is horrible. I have gone from running marathons, to my body packing in, in mysterious and unpredictable ways.  3 days ago, I walked 800m, as part of the near impossible attempt to slowly build. I am now on my third day of feeling exhausted as a result, dead to the world, depressed.

I repeat, the suicidal feelings that I have felt after my poker mistake are deserved. That mistake is of course independent from any illness. Explained partly by beng in a dark place, but with absolutely zero excuse.

I have received almost no response from the moderators (only from Ironside, thank you), to my fair questions about  whether those posts need to be here.  The person abusing me, for not having good enough reason to be suicidal, is himself a moderator.  That is the reason I ask on the forum. I repeat, I deserve no pity, no sympathy. But, in 2025, this horrible, old school attitude to suicide, and to someone who is actively feeling it, needs to be challenged. Please delete the relevant posts (and mine)

Have you forgotten the messages we exchanged? The ones where I explained why I didn’t want my posts removed? And the one where you said the matter was now closed?

I’ve only played Golf twice, once in England and once in Vegas. I was terrible both times.

I’ve always felt golf is an expensive sport, am I wrong? Can you hire clubs, or do you have to have your own? How much is 18 holes roughly?