Here you go Curtis....

Thanks.  It looks like you have to remove the full stop from youtu.be to get them to work, if they show up with that in the link.

I'm closer to the current music scene than I have been for a while, thanks to my 15yo daughter becoming as obsessive a gig-goer as I am.  I'm following her developing music tastes with interest, and have discovered bands such as The K's (currently top of the album charts), The Lathums and Overpass, to name a few that I've watched play live with her recently.

My favourite song of 2025 though remains one linked to my own musical tastes.  My all-time favourite band, Carter USM, disbanded in 2014 but I still get to hear their music played live as part of lead singer Jim Bob's solo tours with his backing band.  He's produced some great solo output too, of which A Song By Me is a particular favourite.  Lyrically, it's absolutely fantastic, as the video done by Happy Toast highlights, and the sound is very punk-era influenced.  2 minutes 42 seconds of absolute joy!

http://youtu.be/zCafaTPwN6M?si=pTs9h3hJDLRyXCVa

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NB: The tip about the YouTube link doesn't seem to work for me.  Above has the same link both within and outside of the YouTube brackets, and the bracketed one shows as invalid.

£25 Classic and £25 H2H please.

Would be interested in a LMS or cups package, but I assume those are a step up in terms of admin demand.

Unsurprisingly, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi finished the job of winning the WSOP ME last night in 22 hands, after going into the final 4 with over 75% of the chips in play.

He did this in the same WSOP series in which he won the Poker Players Championship for the 4th time, which is a fairly astonishing achievement.

A few of the big name pros had made a case for him to be immediately inducted into the Poker Hall Of Fame if he won (avoiding the usual annual vote process), and this happened at the presentation ceremony.

So, in the grand scheme of things, where does this rank in terms of WSOP achievements, or any poker-related achievement?

Johnny Chan's 2 consecutive wins and a 2nd place is the often-quoted all-time best, but done in the days prior to the huge fields of almost 10k players in the Main Event.  Surely Mizrachi's series has to top everything else?

Shocking news coming from Spain that Diogo Jota has died in a car crash aged 28, a mere 5 days after he got married.

A member of Liverpool's title winning squad, and a player in his prime.

Thx mate
Managed to bag 930k which was the highest I’d been all day taking a nice pot of Gus Hansen at the end in O8.  Hellmuth joined our table for the last hour too
Was fun , time to rest up and hopefully go deep at the business end tomorrow 1pm restart (8pm uk time)

Best wishes on the resumption.  Hope you can pull down a big score.

Just caught up on the May updates.  Happy retirement Tikay, and I hope you continue to have a blast in Vegas.

Scarily, I now qualify for senior tournaments, which shows how long we've all been hanging around on this forum over the years.

Looking forward to reading the updates.  Good luck to the blondes still standing in the latest tournament.

Gene Hackman found dead at home with his wife and dog, according to reports.

A brilliant actor.  I remember him best for being Lex Luthor in the original Superman films and the Sheriff alongside Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven.

95yo is a good innings, but the circumstances of his death seem odd at this stage.  RIP

Thanks for all your hard work in running these leagues.

I'm tempted to try to continue them, but you're a hard act to follow.  However, I'd miss them not being available.

Will see if anyone else fancies taking on the challenge, but might look to try to continue them if not.

Steve Albini, producer of too many iconic albums to mention.

"Seamonsters" by The Wedding Present is the first one that springs to mind, but most would probably know him from his work with Nirvana.

Just seen someone describe this as "Princess Diana for 6 Music Dads."

I played in a 20/40 LHE game in vegas in 1999 and he was at the table.

Did they play it as a kill game?

Just seen the news that Bobby Charlton has died, aged 86.

Sad news, and a genuine England football legend.  RIP

Tony Holden, author of the epic poker book "Big Deal", has passed away according to this tweet.

That book was my gateway drug into wanting to play poker.

RIP Tony.

https://x.com/ChadAHolloway/status/1711441359016689727?s=20

Michael Gambon, aged 82.  Brilliant actor.  Most will know him for his roles as Dumbledore in the later Harry Potter films.  I first recall seeing him in The Singing Detective playing a man with a terminal skin condition.

RIP

Due to a few clashes within my season ticket group, we have a few tickets going spare for the NFL London games over the next few weeks.

1 Oct - Wembley - Falcons @ Jags - 2 available, block 503, £100 face value (excl fees)
8 Oct - White Hart Lane - Jags @ Bills - 2 available, block 524, £93 face value (excl fees) - EDIT Now Sold
8 Oct - White Hart Lane - Jags @ Bills - 1 available, block 523, £107 face value (excl fees)
15 Oct - White Hart Lane - Ravens @ Titans - at least 1 available, block 523, £107 face value (excl fees)

Some are mine, some belong to others within our group.  Open to offers.

The Wembley tickets are in hand.  Still waiting for the emails for the others.  All tickets are electronic and come with links to upload them into Apple wallet or Google Pay.

Feel free to reply here or PM me if interested.