You get deep into a (on-line)tourney and your making all the right moves and then your cards dry up. You sit there for half an hour with nothing, you've tried bluffing a couple of hands just to stop the chip stack being eaten away by blinds but you've been sussed each time.

All of a sudden you wake up with aces in the hand and of course raise and lo......you hit trips on the flop. You thump a bet in and the numpty two seats down from you re raises all-in. The cards go over and he's sitting with 3, 6 os in his hand, the flop having 5,8. The turn gives him a 7 and he's on four-outer for the gutshot and BANG!!! there it is.

Short of strangling the cat how do you cope? This is just a one off thing but seems to happen to me on a regular basis no matter what level I play at.

I've worn out the 'BANG HEAD HERE' sign on the wall next to the PC and I'm suffering from blurred vision and head aches.

Any answers to this one?

I have been up and down around the roads of Ilkeston recently and to date haven't noticed any new speed bumps around. I guess that this would indicate that tikay is still alive and well.

I have closed my eyes when Andy Pyrah appears on the Sky poker bits now....I find this is very effective in preventing the TV screen being covered in phlegm!

I am still suffering from the curse of the tikays though, just gone out of a tourney.
A J v Q Q. I hit my two other J's for trips, they caught a Q on the river for a full house!

I have read this thread through with a sense of deja-vu. I'm just a newbie on here but have been an admirer and fan of Tikay since I first watched him on sky poker. No doubt when you shuffle off this mortal coil you will ascend straight into sainthood!

I'm not sure that I could be as detached as you are in this if my mates stitched me up (defending their honour as individuals, whilst highlighting their failings in the corporate sense) whilst they were able to treat you and blonde in the way they have.

I believe you when you tell folks that their dosh is safe, I wish mine had been when Tusk went belly up. Like with Poker Trillion a brand new room appeared with my details (tho' sadly not my dosh) offering wonderful sign ups etc even before the roof had finished falling in.Needless to say, I didn't take them up on their 'generous offer' and I suppose not too many of your members will be beating down the door to join up with Rockem either......

As for your £7k, lesson learned. I don't suppose you'll (blonde) be in too much of a hurry to be affiliated with them either.