I would take 5mill as well...if it meant only wearing it for the FT of the WSOP...in every interview after the WSOP I would mention that they paid me 5mill and are a bunch of cheating w*nks and people shouldn't play there... ..take 5mill and ruin them

Now THAT'S integrity.

The agents at the Main Event peed me off. We (Party) had a qualifier who had worn our colours all week, and on Day 6 he was on feature table with Hellmuth. As he was sitting down at start of the day and unpacking chips, an agent from another site tried to get him to switch patches for 20K! Our player was trying to prepare mentally for the biggest poker session of his life - and some clown starts messing his head up at the table, in front of audience. Unbelievable!
Anyway, our man stuck with us and I'm very pleased to say went on to cash for $96,000.

He should have sent Party an email about it, then nothing would have happened for two weeks.

Many congratulations Del, it's never too early to teach her how to make a good cricket tea.

How can a favourite meal consist of only three courses?

Hack mech nisht in chaynik!

Has Andy been able to get onto the internet yet?

Maybe he's gone on holiday to Vegas?

I was turned away on the opening weekend for wearing trainers, despite the fact that their website specifically said that "fashionable" trainers were acceptable (the website has since been changed). Fortunately, I had a pair of suitable shoes in the car.

I can only assume my trendy beige Geox Respiras didn't meet the criteria. Unfashionable, moi?

Perhaps the reason that you feel uneasy (but can't put your finger on it) is that your soft play most likely removed a further buy-in from the satellite pot, and therefore from the prize money.

This is quite low on the list of deliberate and accidental misdemeanours that crop up all the time in cardrooms, but on the list it most certainly is.

I am absolutely against the death penalty,  we shouldn't kill anything in my opinion.

Weeds?

[much progress has clearly been made in the last 7 days]

As to the other more general matters raised in this thread, you will need to be a little more patient please. We have secured over £3,500 tonight, plus £600 already paid, so we are on the right road, & much progress has clearly been made in the last 7 days.

...but it probably wouldn't have happened without a stink being drummed up on this forum.

Not a happy state of affairs.

I find it odd that people would begrudge someone £155 per week (even with employers ex's and other ex's on top) whatever the % of the total budget that represented.

If wages = money given to good causes then, since it's not a zero sum game we can say that money given to good causes is greater than zero - this is good. There may be a line where this makes no sense, ie taking 1 million to raise 1 million is probably slightly unjustifiable, taking 10k to give 10k to good causes is 10k up on someone sitting around doing nothing and nothing being raised.

This may be true where charities don't already exist. You could argue that new charities, with their additional expenses, actually detract from the total amounts disbursed. If P4C didn't exist, would it have been possible for Maureen's family and the hospital to receive donations? Of course it would.

What I don't understand is why P4C felt the need to divert funds from this appeal to other causes.

It seems like everybody who attended, as well as Spin Palace themselves, thought that their substantial donation was solely for this cause, so what motivation is there for sending it elsewhere?

This whole thread is now farcical.

Has anyone tried to get to Fowoods from New York? It looks like its in the middle of nowhere!

If you hire a car, it's a very pleasant drive from New York of about two and a half hours, up the I95.

At the right time of year, the drive through Connecticut is beautiful.

Isn't that the John McCririck hand against Moneymaker televised last year when there is the Broadway straight on the board and no flush possible?

I will remember the look on moneymaker's face when the racing one folded for a long time


Oh and Fred, venerable offspinner from Middlesex in the 1970s and 1980s missing several toes...Welcome to Blonde

(Gutshot Titmus the marvellous Alllan right?  )

Indeed. Being barred from Gutshot, need a new forum to er, pollute.