I just want to repeat what everyone is saying; that Frankie was one of the nicest guys in the world.

I was having some fun banter with Frankie over twitter for a while before I finally met him at DTD.

I've just been looking over some of the old tweets. He used to send me funny messages in really simple Thai language when I was in Bangkok, mostly about food or girls. When he saw I was in Penang, Malaysia he gave me a list of foods to try there. He messaged me on my birthday and at xmas. Wished me luck when I was playing in tourneys.

When I met him at DTD he was sitting at a cash game table with a big stack of chips and a smiling from ear to ear. The first thing he said to me after shaking my hand was "let me buy you a drink". I don't think I ever saw him without a smile on his face.

I remember last year when Kanu resigned from PokerStars he tweeted at him offering him a job in his chippy hahaha

What a legend. Friendly to everyone and a terrific sense of humour. Poker, and in fact the world, needs more Chinese Frankie's.

ship some nuts, always a winner

[social media award]

Please vote for me (Dale 'Daleroxxu' Philip) in the non-silly category of Best Social Media User :-)

If there was ever a reason NOT to vote for someone this is surely it.
Anyone asking for people to vote for them and posting links on Facebook and twitter etc must be the most repulsive horrid creatures that exist

People should refuse to vote to end the ridiculousness that is poker awards.

Wow, imagine if someone won a social media award by posting about it on social media, that would be ridiculous.

Why the anti-poker award sentiments? Any opportunity for poker players to gain more exposure should be embraced. There is a lot of money in sponsorship deals etc. to be gained from actively promoting yourself. I'm sure 99% of poker players who do actively work to promote themselves, or even go so far as to get an agent, do it not for any kind of narcissistic reasons.

Please vote for me (Dale 'Daleroxxu' Philip) in the non-silly category of Best Social Media User :-)

lmfao nice find

Looks like we're going to be taxed on all gambling winnings of £25k+ from April 2012, according to the new budget.



FML

http://www.fin24.com/Budget/Budget-2011/Gamblers-luck-runs-out-20110223

GTFO!

Congrats Paul, awesome!

yeah a good steak is absolutely ruined if cooked longer than medium-rare

can't understand people having it cooked "blue" though, I prefer my meat not to still have a heartbeat when I'm eating it.

After getting a lot of stick for only interviewing americans so far on my blog I've finally done one with a brit. His name is Michael Piper, a PLO pro. He plays a bunch live in london including at the international and empire and he final tabled EPT San Remo.

He also has the best moustache in poker (sorry RED-DOG)

Link: http://daleroxxu.blogspot.com/2010/08/interview-with-michael-wazz-piper-plo.html
(note, link is forum friendly, non profit, non-commercial, no ad banners)

hope u guys enjoy it!

I'd love to read articles written by thetank - would be worth the cost of the magazine just for his articles imo.

+1 but this is an entry level job - he's way too good of a writer for that.

From most of the HHs I've looked through it seems the main collusion was these guys never calling each other's allins, they just never get it in against each other (in a game where if 2 players get it in they are almost always both losing equity while everyone else at the table gains).

This alone is worth a few percentage points to their ROI in each game, in games where a good ROI is 5%, and is almost impossible to detect, plus there were so damn many of them.

Although bit of a coincidence that so many players from the same place in China are all playing DoNs and winning and cashing out, should have been picked up by stars when they were all cashing out imo.

It's recently come to light that a team of at least 49 Chinese players were involved in collusion in PokerStars Double or Nothing SNG.

I estimate the total amount stolen to be around $750,000!

I've written a fairly long article on my blog about what went on: http://daleroxxu.blogspot.com/2010/05/49-player-chinese-cheating-scandal-on.html

But if you have a spare half-day why not wade through this 500 post thread on 2p2: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28/internet-poker/chinese-don-collusion-ring-stars-791760/

just did

Mr Bean
Phil Mitchell
Joey TRibbiani
Larry David

it got all of them first time

[How would you like to be paid sir?]

Spencer Lawrence      46250


^ This is daleroxxu iirc

gl all left in

GTFO


also,


How would you like to be paid sir?

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Ahhhm just stuff some cash in a bag, whatever.

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