I live in Carlisle no poker for 100 miles (well glasgow/newcastle anyway)

liked blackpool a lot - good scene felt like old days with tourists in casinos not giving damn about money as they were on holiday.

hopefully 1 more weekend there and a nice little win to pay formy little trips this  summer - do a monthly Omaha and i will be thre every time!

big thanks to D2D and Party for letting my $275 grand prix ticket unused be used for this instead.

Now to get to day 2 online and its a fun weekend in nottingham for free -

I am getting a couple of days in Blackpool soon. Going to be there on saturday and sunday.
Fancy a couple of tourneys/and or low stakes cash game max £1/£1 (preferably lower).

Any locals give me a pointer on best place, any other interesting info?

thanks man reminded me of my salad days organizing games on meetup.com

I dunno - the way things are "live- streamed" now and the extra information you can use a smartphone for seems to be a unnecessary addition to the table.
But we all can use them so its not unfair, I just think its one of those double edged swords that technology provides. To a younger player who did not
live in a time before phones it must seem unreasonable to ban them. If all player agree to rules the event could be fun but its like a "revival night" games changed
and there's no back in the day in poker you have to adapt or play another game if its social interaction that's the most important.
I organised games around london back in the days when poker was almost a fashion thing. All the Friday night people would come and get drunk.
There were  pretty girls at cash games,  It was very sociable and cool to  say you were involved in the poker scene.
But I also remember before when poker was only in casinos or illegal venues. wasn't so sociable then either sometimes you would worry you would get
hurt physically not just financially.  The people that played were sometimes shifty and took advantage of new players not knowing the rules it could be
intimidating. 
Now its a sport almost - I think I prefer it in some ways, everyone knows the rules mostly and you can play at anytime/anywhere.  You can imagine
20-30 years conteversies in poker from accelerated learning and memory implants.  I will be that 80 year old degenerate who smells vaugly of piss and cabbage
protesting to the AI card manager that the kids cheating and using a time machine to outplay me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snRGREwyps4

this, rounders and Late night poker got me into the game.

anyone else remember this?

[XXL 25 6 Max: £5K Gtd [1st £1.2K] Fantastic 5S:7:30PM LR:9:05PM £25+£5 20K+20K 20Mins]

nice to see theres still some small buy in events over the festival for us fishy recs who won seats and will probably crash out early. :
 
Wednesday 19th april
MILLIONS Live Day 1B: £6M [1st £1M]
S:2:00PM LR:3:50PM Day2 £5000+£300 1Million 60Mins
Satellites

XXL 25 6 Max: £5K Gtd [1st £1.2K]
Fantastic 5
S:7:30PM LR:9:05PM £25+£5 20K+20K 20Mins

 
Academy: £600 Gtd [1st £200]
S:7:45PM LR:9:00PM £15+£3+£2 3x10K 15Mins

Thursday 20th April
 
MILLIONS Day 2: £6M [1st £1M]
S:1:00PM LR:3:50PM £5000+£300 1Million 75Mins
Satellites
 
£2500 8-Max Day 1A: £1m Gtd
S:4:00PM LR:9:55PM £2500+£200 100K 45Mins

 
XXL 25 Giant 8 Max: £5K Gtd [1st £1.2k]
Fantastic 5
S:7:30PM LR:9:05PM £25+£5 20K+20K 20Mins

 
Academy: £600 Gtd [1st £200]
S:7:45PM LR:9:00PM £15+£3+£2 3x10K 15Mins

Friday 21st April
 
MILLIONS Day 3: £6M [1st £1M]
S:1:00PM LR:Closed - - 75Mins
Satellites
 
£2500 8-Max Day 1B: £1m Gtd
S:4:00PM LR:9:55PM £2500+£200 100K 45Mins

 
XXL 25 Giant: £5K Gtd [1st £1.2K]
Fantastic 5
S:7:30PM LR:9:05PM £25+£5 20K+20K 20Mins

 
Academy: £600 Gtd [1st £200]
S:7:45PM LR:9:00PM £15+£3+£2 3x10K 15Mins

 
DTD 200 Day 1C: £100k Gtd
S:8:00PM LR:11:15PM £200+£20 30K 30Mins
Satellites
Saturday 22nd April
 
£2500 8-Max Turbo Day 1C: £1m Gtd
S:12:00PM LR:2:35PM £2500+£200 100K 20Mins

 
MILLIONS Day 4: £6M [1st £1M]
S:1:00PM LR:Closed - - 75Mins
Satellites

DTD 200 Day 1D: £100k Gtd
S:2:00PM LR:5:15PM £200+£20 30K 30Mins
Satellites
 
£2500 8-Max Day 2: £1m Gtd
S:4:00PM LR:Closed £2500+£200 100K 45Mins

 
£2500 6-Max Day 1A: £250k Gtd
S:4:00PM LR:9:55PM £2500+£200 100K 45Mins

 
DTD 200 Day 1E: £100k Gtd
S:7:00PM LR:10:15PM £200+£20 30K 30Mins
Satellites

XXL25 Monster: £10K Gtd [1st £2.2k]
S:7:30PM LR:9:05PM £25+£5 20K+20K 20Mins

Sunday 23rd April
 
DTD 200 Turbo Day 1F: £100k Gtd
S:12:00PM LR:1:45PM £200+£20 30K 30Mins
Satellites
 
£2500 6-Max Turbo Day 1B: £250k Gtd
S:12:00PM LR:2:00PM £2500+£200 100K 15Mins

 
£2500 8-Max Final Day: £1m Gtd
S:1:00PM LR:Closed £2500+£200 100K 45Mins

 
MILLIONS Final Day: £6M [1st £1M]
S:1:00PM LR:Closed - - 90Mins
Satellites
 
XXL 30 Freezeout: £5k Gtd [1st £1.2K]
S:2:00PM LR:4:45PM £30+£5 30K 25Mins

 
MILLIONS Ladies Event: £10k Gtd
S:3:00PM LR:4:35PM £200+£20 20K 20/30Mins
Satellites
 
DTD 200 Final Day: £100k Gtd
S:3:30PM LR:Closed £200+£20 30K 30Mins
Satellites
 
£2500 6-Max Final Day: £250k Gtd
S:3:30PM LR:Closed £2500+£200 100K 45Mins

Cheers Rob was worried about this - booked a week off and hotel,  would be a bit boring to have to play cards at the other places in Nottingham when the fest is on if I crash out early.

I think that cocksureness is something you only get from a successful player. I am addicted to his video's though he does make you think about poker as I imagine a professional does.
He's a good salesman too, almost joined upswing poker-almost convinced it will help me place well in the up coming Millions tourney. Another good one on YouTube is Andrew Neeme.
Guys living the life in vegas and gives good behind the scenes view of that lifestyle we would love to have. He also gives interesting live cash game analysis warts and all.

long time lurker - 1st time poster

But I made it through!

Gonna use the £550 for nice hotel in nottingham for phase 2 and hopefully the million!

cheers DTD

oinkment66 on party