What you doing with yourself these days? Really delighted to hear from you.

That's very kind.

I'm still working in enterprise IT, hoping to retire in a year or three.

Play live poker as often as I can as long as it's not NLHE. I remember back in the day on here keeping a thread updated with every live non-NLHE comp going, if it was more than one a month we felt blessed. I now do it in a Google calendar for my own benefit/interest. Want to have a guess how many comps there were in the UK last month?

Sixty. Across fifteen different venues. Marvellous.

If anyone else is interested, the calendar is here: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=dWtvbWFoYWNvbXBzQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ

Looking forward to the PartyPoker tour at Resorts World next month, whoever decided to include Drawmaha, HORSE, TORSE, BigO, PLO456, PLO Bounty and a £20,000 gtd PLO comp is a top guy. Hopefully it might mean the return of regular poker there.

Hello Mr T, long time.

There is a APAT Hilo tournament at DTD on Monday, wondered if you’ll be making an appearance? Freezeout too so none of those young whippersnapers chucking it in with Q994 ready to re-enter.

I’ve played the TORSE, 2-7TD and 8 game so far, wonderful atmosphere and table talk plus at 56 I must knock at least 10 years off the average age metric.

So many hidden blondes too, was lovely to share a table with redsimon and acer(I think, me being slightly deaf didn’t help) as well as bumping into pokerpops.

From 12th July BA LHR-LAS moves from T3 to T5.

https://www.headforpoints.com/2022/06/29/virgin-atlantic-introduces-guaranteed-reward-seat-availabilty-in-all-classes/

Virgin Atlantic has taken the bold move to offer guaranteed reward availability on ALL Virgin Atlantic flights.

Since Virgin Atlantic has smaller cabins than British Airways, and far smaller premium cabins, this is an expensive move which will cost them revenue in peak season. It is the right move, however.

Virgin Atlantic will guarantee 12 award seats per flight

From today – and this will permeate slowly through the booking engine as Wednesday progresses – Virgin Atlantic will guarantee 12 award seats on EVERY Virgin Atlantic flight.

This comprises:

    two seats in Upper Class

    two seats in Premium

    eight seats in Economy

I’d prefer to see four seats in Upper Class – after all, the majority of Virgin Flying Club members with large balances will be older and have families – but this is a massive improvement.

It is especially impressive given how tight Virgin Atlantic reward availability has been over the last few months.

How is this rolling out?

Nothing is ever simple, of course.

Virgin Atlantic has a 331 day booking window (British Airways is 355 days).

From today, every flight which opens up for booking at midnight, 331 days in advance – so from late May 2023 – will have the guaranteed 12 award seats available.

For existing services (ie every flight currently on sale between 29th July, which is the earliest date it will apply, and late May 2023) extra seats will be released during today as long as 12 reward seats have not already been released.

Put another way, today will see the greatest dump of award seats in the history of Virgin Atlantic.

5% please Mr T, feel free to reduce it need be.

I'm not a Boris fan, but I like the fact that he's the only one who didn't button his jacket.

Interesting, I saw the same picture and thought what have we done wrong to be represented by an unkempt, dishevelled cocksocket.

Winning totals

2022 465.00 Ironside
2021 454.44 Longines
2020 396.67 AlbusFawkes
2019 690.00 Chompy
2018 530.83 MTTDestroyer
2017 345.00 StuartHopkin

Super tight finish.

Congrats to Ironside, RickBFA and Jackally. Please PM your bank/Paypal details.

Thanks to all the tipsters for making it easy as usual to run.

Stewards in the side comp, patently unfair that Ironside gets to include all the points he scored in 4 comps in just this one.   Farce.

 

Going into the last I think the possible winners are:

Ironside
Alverton
StuartHopkin
Tal
Me

Back of a fag packet says 6 7 tipsters can still win - I'm on a 50/1 shot in the last 

Two races to go.

Wow, that was tight! Thought my Winged Leader pin had that.

After race 4, Alverton closes the gap.

Boom. 18/1.