Hi Monda,

How does it feel not to get mentioned by Greekstein in Tikay's thread?

'I made lots of very good friends here too. Stu Hopkin, Sunny Nagi, Mitch, CambridgeAlex, Celtic, Giblin, Matt, Maria etc. Most of whom I unfortunately rarely ever get to catch up with these days but really really enjoy when I do. Catching up with Mitch, Alex, Sunny etc in Thailand over the years has been great and I hope they're all crushing life.'

Cheers x

Lololol, it hurt the soul real deep, but I did say I'd give the fucker an update so I'll stay true to my word.

Hey Cos,

Hope your well mate, been a long time since those DTD days together haha. Have had the thought 10+ times to give an update here, been so long so don't know where to start but will give it a go sometime soon, cheers <3

Oh my. Happy 21st birthday Superman. 😍🎂🎊

Great to hear you are enjoying retirement Tikay. 👋

Good grief, lovely to hear from you.

You still travelling the world, wating sport of every kind?

Unless I've got mixed up (an odds-on shot tbf) the last time we met was at a ball game (baseball) at Cashman Field (RIP) in Vegas.

Not a mix up, right person. Yup reckon that was 2014 WSOP, when we met at the baseball!

Life has changed a bit my end, the travelling world watching sport thing ended up with me meeting my now wife (cricket in New Zealand). Not so much travelling as I am full time dad to our daughter in South London. Work part time in cricket, mainly for Surrey County cricket club working on the scoreboards for pro cricket matches , so I still get plenty of sport in!

Pleased to hear life is good Longy <3

Quick question for you.

Anyone recognize this chap?

Tom sent me the 'photo (hope I'm not stealing his thunder), it was taken by him at Goliath yesterday.

I used to be very close to this chap & some of you will remember him, as his star shone brightly for a while, although that was a long time ago.  

Name that man...

Clue - originally, he was a Gala Notts regular, & I know a few of you used to frequent that place.


PS - Tom is disqualified from answering.

PPS - I never even recognized the chap until Tom told me his name, & yet we were THAT close & I have much to be grateful to him for.

Colchester Kev?

And congrats to Julian's young'un, Julian one of the nicest people in poker for sure.

@Keith, if you fancy Sunderland to be competitive this season and want some friendly action on heads-up handicap points evens bets vs other teams, shoot some lines over and I'll probably bite on a few

Hi Raymond, happy to take Sunderland against any (or all) of West Ham, Brentford, Forest, Burnley, Fulham or Bournmouth. Use Spreadex season points midpoint to determine handicap.

Sent you a PM Keith

Pretty much anyone could fluke a hole in one, potentially although highly unlikely you could fluke a 9 darter with a little bit of skill, whereas nobody is ever fluking a 147. Thus 147 is clearly the hardest and its not even close for me.

@Keith, if you fancy Sunderland to be competitive this season and want some friendly action on heads-up handicap points evens bets vs other teams, shoot some lines over and I'll probably bite on a few

Enjoy your retirement tikay, and be lucky in Vegas.

Amazing result, big congrats

Thanks so much everyone for the support!

Considering this thread was created several years ago when I had my first decent ept run in the “last ever” EPT, they’ve turned out alright for me now 😄

Kind of got dealt out HU but the key hand was the KQ hand where he found a nice bluff and I wasn’t able to find an equally nice call, based on that I think he deserved to win it… It’s really not bothering me though - amazing result for me and my family that I’ve always dreamed of but thought would probably never happen. Getting home today to my family and seeing my wife and daughter having achieved financial security for the 3 of us and seeing my little girl face crawling up to me was genuinely the best moment of my life. Soft aren’t I?!

Hopefully this isn’t the final post in this thread!

Amazing mate, big congrats, enjoy it.

From more recent shows this is excellent on Apple - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11280740/

Quite a few good shows on there, Defending Jacob is also a very good watch, Slow Horses is good, and The New Look just started and very interesting so far.

Good luck Stu

Congrats Alex

Great story, three top Blondes <3