The final bell has also rang for Boxing Journalist and commentator Colin Hart aged 89 RIP

 
 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-14515639/Colin-Hart-boxing-journalist-George-Foreman-JEFF-POWELL.html

A few other tv series along the crime / gangster genre
Boardwalk Empire , Godfather of Harlem , Gangs of. London and Peaky Blinders

Hope you are well tikay 

I'm grand ta Craig.

Where are you these days - still in China? All good with you & yours?

I’m great thanks Tony .
I left China in 2022 and moved to Thailand ,which is where  I had always  wanted to finally be after initially discovering Asia all those years ago

I have lived in Asia for 15 years now  and do wonder where the time has gone . They say time flies when you are having fun!

I also play a fair bit of golf again now which like you I do really enjoy.
Next month we have a competition called the Thai China Ryder Cup which is between expats from China vs expats from Thailand (who once lived in China). Just an excuse for a group of mates to play 3 days of golf together and have a catch up and the craic

Take care mate it’s been emotional

Noooooooooooo - 15 years? It does not feel anything like that since those wonderful days at J10. There were some characters there.

There certainly were , unfortunately many are no longer with us. 

A few other tv series along the crime / gangster genre
Boardwalk Empire , Godfather of Harlem , Gangs of. London and Peaky Blinders

Hope you are well tikay 

I'm grand ta Craig.

Where are you these days - still in China? All good with you & yours?

I’m great thanks Tony .
I left China in 2022 and moved to Thailand ,which is where  I had always  wanted to finally be after initially discovering Asia all those years ago

I have lived in Asia for 15 years now  and do wonder where the time has gone . They say time flies when you are having fun!

I also play a fair bit of golf again now which like you I do really enjoy.
Next month we have a competition called the Thai China Ryder Cup which is between expats from China vs expats from Thailand (who once lived in China). Just an excuse for a group of mates to play 3 days of golf together and have a catch up and the craic

Take care mate it’s been emotional

A few other tv series along the crime / gangster genre
Boardwalk Empire , Godfather of Harlem , Gangs of. London and Peaky Blinders

Hope you are well tikay 

RIP Dave.   Always a gentleman whenever I saw him

Hi Tom
If you are still in Thailand , download the App Bolt.   It’s same as Grab but a fair bit cheaper

Thanks for the Vegas updates Tony , I always look forward to reading them so appreciate your posts
Hope you get to return in 2024

Mark Margolis 1939 - 2023 died today
Also know as Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul

Great informative updates , thanks for taking the time
Very best of luck in all events

Ian “ At it “ Bradley still in the $10 k bounty.   17th in chips
Good luck him.  Always found him a good guy

The very best of luck and thank you for doing the updates it’s much appreciated.
I really look forward to all Vegas updates every year

We have lost the true Godfather of the Midlands poker scene. 
Micky was a great character and had fabulous stories across the felt .  Unfortunately I hadn’t seen him for many years due to living in Asia but the memories live on
God bless you Micky R.I.P

What and enjoyable and fascinating read.
 Thank you for sharing and the very best of luck in all future endeavours

I remember reading about Stu Ungar calling Matloubi’s river shove in a $50k HU game with ten high.

I remember sitting next to I KNOW IT deep in a Walsall J10 event and watching him snap-call a turn shove with K high, no hand no draw. I looked on with my jaw on the felt as he slapped his hand down with such confidence. Sent that guy to the rail talking to himself.

I even remember the late, great MANTIS01 fist-pump slam-dunk calling a river shove in the latter stages of a Vegas event with A high. I was so in tune with the poker universe I felt the magical vibrations of a higher energy..(admittedly on that occasion my opponent tabled quad 7’s but whatever)

Adelstein may say ‘poker’ is an extremely complicated and nuanced game’ but I reckon it’s nothing compared to the workings of an average human brain. Don’t think I can remember a poker comp where some action or another hasn’t boggled my brain. How? WTF? Pffft!

Never seen somebody take their money back before though. Interestingly the thousands of examples I’ve seen could never be due to a hidden vibrating device or knowing the river cards in advance when running it twice. So what was the logical explanation back then? Really, the fascinating enigma of poker is how classic wizards cannot fathom the off-topic actions of inexplicable artists. It’s simply illogical captain.

Here they must have given the fish with no poker understanding a vibrating device. Plus offering my money back would be a big admission of guilt so hey presto she offered it back, clearly admitting her guilt. These brainiac suggestions make perfect logical sense to my Dr Spock mind. It’s not that I’m a massive cry baby and my oppo thought fuck it call, fuck it have your dollar back.

Haha. I do miss the good old J10 poker days.   
Welcome back mate , I also missed your insightful posts

Hi tikay
I’ve just caught up on you Vegas reports and thoroughly enjoyed reading them as per every year you go to the WSOP
Thanks for taking the time for doing so , it means a lot to us who enjoy the WSOP but don’t get out there anymore.
Hope you are well