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31  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Game of Thrones thread with US paced TV spoilers on: April 24, 2014, 05:20:58 PM
I personally like the Bran storyline although I admit they have become a Velma-less Scooby Doo Gang and would like them to get where they are going nowish.  I personally think Bran is the thread which will run throughout the series (probably get his head chopped off next week now I've said that).

Loving the Tywin character.  Honestly don't know if he's the master puppeteer of the Purple Wedding or that he's such a great political survivor that there isn't a circumstance he cannot take advantage of and use to the benefit of his House.  Dance is obviously wonderful in the role.

Could do with The Wall/Castle Black storyline kicking into gear though.  The last two seasons were essentially 'We marched out, we saw scary things, some of us died, we marched back in.'
32  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Game of Thrones thread with US paced TV spoilers on: April 22, 2014, 02:21:47 AM
Was it just me or was Littlefinger turning the husky voice up to eleven?  Maybe it was all that fog.

Solid set up episode tonight.  Some character progression and nice setting the scene.

And just when I think GoT has broken every taboo we have continued incest of a rapey vibe with the parents of the dead child on the slab next to them.  Never saw that coming.
33  Poker Forums / Live Tournament Updates / Re: DTD £150,000 GTD Grand Prix April 2014 on: April 22, 2014, 01:58:20 AM
Many congrats to Guy, lovely bloke.  Just catching up and made up for his deep run.

Great updates as ever Tighty, lovely work from DTD too, brill tourney.
34  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Blonde Dictionary of Poker (2014 Edition) on: April 09, 2014, 12:37:05 AM
Disetppointment

Noun

In the live arena, to tank for a long time while facing a preflop raise in a multiway pot before sigh folding, then to snap tut and roll your eyes at a 247 flop and whisper to your neighbour 'Always comes when you fold it eh?'

Usuage

"You got disetppointment bro?'
35  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Feedback please: PLO Tournaments at DTD? on: March 24, 2014, 12:17:57 PM
I think it should be Double Chance and would play this if I was available/organised enough on the weekend.

It would be great to get PLO tournies like this running but might be tough to keep hitting the guarantee on a regular basis as laid out in the OP.  However you don't know until you try and the interest in PLO might just be enough now to get this going.
36  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Shark's Scope on: March 14, 2014, 06:17:53 PM
Re:  The Sky debate; the irony in this thread is that:

No player has helped the development of site and the players than Andy
No people have worked harder for the site and their events than Tikay or Tighty.

And they're all on the same page, just reading different languages.

So I'm going to try to translate for both sides:

To Andy.  I obviously know how frustrating it can be.  But sometimes the effectiveness of the truth is all in the presentation.  Especially if you're saying something which the recipient doesn't want to hear (I'm talking about Andy's posts and communications referenced in this thread on the Sky Forum/PMs, not anything in this thread).  People can just latch on to your frustration, your language and use that as an out.  Yes the fifteenth time you get stonewalled is annoying.  You just have to be all nice and patient again for the sixteenth time.  And so on.  You do go too offensive at times and you can't always fall back on to the fact you had valid and constructive comment at the beginning when the end game is just so chaotic.  It ruins the excellent points and thoughts that are under the loud and rude ones.  Would it be a better world if you didn't have to dress things up and be nice constantly?  Or if people snap listened?  Obviously it would.  Not the way the world works though and you have to accept that.

To Tighty.  Yes Andy's language can go coarse and offensive.  I don't particularly enjoy reading some of his more acute tirades.  However he never starts there.  And a lot of time one part of one his posts, some bad language, some offensive term, some minor flippant point, were blown up as the whole issue by the replier and everything else was negates.  I love playing on Sky, I still love the community and think it's a very good site for the niche it is aiming for.  However constant batting bat of valid questions breeds discontent.  Getting well put, intelligent and inoffensive posts deleted because they ask a hard question is annoying.  I'm not saying you or Tikay do any of this, in fact I'm sure neither of you do.  But when a poster, a player, a member plays exactly by the rules and then get's zero respect anyway, that is when frustration that leads to the attitude Andy and others now have is born.  It's particularly head scratching when I, among others, make valid and I hope well thought out points, am told I have never run a poker site so what do I know.  Then I see new 'Quids in' tables.

Re:  The chatbox.  It's no worse than any other site.  However as it's like a 95% UK player pool, people have a lot more ammunition and feel like they can be more offensive.  I mean, after the first few lines how many ways are you actually able to offend a Russian who doesn't speak much English?  In smaller, UK based sites, things get more personal because they can.  I currently have a 1k bounty for someone to stab me in the neck from a charming gentleman from Scotland.  If I downswing hard I might attempt to collect that myself.

tl;dr cliffs.

Vinegar = no flies
Sugar = flies
Getting ignored and evaded makes people angry.

TitBean, you mad bro?
37  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Sky Poker UKPC @DTD Rollcall and Expectations on: February 16, 2014, 05:25:48 PM
In and predictions..

High roller - 125
Hu - 73
Main - 850
6max - 600



Wow. 600 for the six max? That's double what I was thinking.

Is that 600 unique entries or 600 buy ins with the re entries for the 6max?
38  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Sky Poker UKPC @DTD Rollcall and Expectations on: February 16, 2014, 11:42:23 AM
1)  Playing the main and the 6max, going to try the HR live sats

2)  I can see it hitting 700

3)  I think the 6 max will be hugely popular, I know of some people making the trip just for that without being able to play the main.

I think it'll be a real fun week, I've spoken to dozens of people about it and they are all very excited for it.
39  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: £500,000 Sky Poker UK Poker Championships @DTD - to be on Sky Sports on: February 15, 2014, 01:19:43 AM
Really looking forward to this week.

I know I can buy a Side Event seat through the shop on the DTD website, however will it be possible to buy into any of the sides direct from either my DTD iPoker account or my SkyPoker account please.  I only created the former a week ago and last minute token dashing has been less than fruitful.

Thanks.
40  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: "Alternative Blonde Advent Calendar" on: December 04, 2013, 03:39:53 AM
As a long time lurker/part time poster, I really enjoyed reading both Advent calendar threads.  However this back and forth seems somewhat pointless.  For some reason last year's thread got a negative reaction from some quarters.  I have no idea if this was the reason Tighty hasn't done one this year, he might not have the time, he might not want to, I'm not in his mind and neither is anyone else.

I don't think it was ever written in stone it would be an annual event and anyway, it might do the concept good to be rested for a year.  It allows potential candidates to build up and with further years further reasons for duplicates to occur.
41  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Doctor Who - WP Matt Smith on: November 24, 2013, 02:52:15 AM
That was lovely - even though it was pure fan boy stuff, and it didn't really make sense (what happened to the Zygons?)

I squeed like a 12 year old girl meeting One Direction when I heard the voice of the surprise guest at the end - topped it all off really well.

Do you think they are going anywhere with that for Christmas/beyond or it was just fanboy porn?
42  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Doctor Who - WP Matt Smith on: November 24, 2013, 02:48:41 AM
Loved it.

First hour was a very traditional and mainstream episode (fun in history, monsters and morality with the Zygon/Human treaty and the moment between the two Oswins).  As it should be, it's a special event and will get many more viewers than the usual Who audience a la Christmas specials.

The last twenty minutes or so was pure fanboy epicness.  As they were rewriting the who motivation of the Doctor's guilt in the modern era I was very apprehensive but I think they pulled it off very well.  And the 13th Doctor moment was a pure mark out.
43  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Chat Box Warriors on: November 11, 2013, 03:29:02 PM
On a serious note though, I am interested to know how people respond to the abuse/little niggley comments that they get in the chat boxes. Again, as a predominantly live player, I'm used to the occasional comment or two but normally, given the fact that I very rarely shut up at the table, people tend to keep quiet or join in the gentle piss taking that often seems to go on at the table. Anonymity of the internet and all dat, tho. Rumours has it that beaneh is a proper chat box warrior.

To clarify, I wasn't at all annoyed by his comments, just wanted to say hello. I like talking to people, and when someone starts using the chatbox and I see a way to get a little conversation going, I like to take it Smiley

Agreeing with them whole heartedly has a 100% hit rate for me.  This is live, online and most situations in life.  I remember once I was walking home from work many years ago and total random stranger with a can of Fosters in one hand was obviously looking for some sort of fight so he used his free hand to stop my walking at the chest.  He says to me 'You know you're a C*** right.'  I turned and looked him in the eye, no fear or anger and said 'You're quite right, I'm a complete C***.'  He looked at me perplexed, he was not expecting my reply.  So he just repeated his first statement a couple of times.  I replied each time 'I've already agreed with you, is there anything else.'  He just wandered off mouth agape and utterly confused.

The point is most chatbox warriors have a predetermined idea of how you are going to react, be they intelligent Regs who for some reason find either entertainment or solace in the activity, or they are mono-braincelled individuals who just want to spread their own disharmony.  Give them something they aren't expecting, most do not have the capacity to compute it.

On a side note, I really get annoyed with some Regs who say they only berate other Regs and imply this is ok because it's just Reg on Reg.  The problem I have with this is they are really souring the experience for the recreational player.  Just because you are not berating the Rec or 'tapping the tank' directly as it were, the Recs are much more likely to read the chatbox and think 'I'm not enjoying this because I don't want to be next to get that sort of abuse.'  And less play as a result, which is bad for everyone.  Even if there are no Recs at the table some may be watching.

Cliffs:  Just don't be a douche.
44  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Pyscological effect of the last sit n go's of your session on: November 07, 2013, 05:31:55 AM
I think there is a lot to be said for the mental equivalent for 'warming up.'  I remember Honeybadger posting in PHA about purposely being aware and attempting to avoid strange or marginal spots early in a cash session.  I think the same could be applied here.  By the time you are well into your session your mind is more active, SNG spots are rarely wildly varied so you have short term experience to go alongside blowing the cobwebs out of your long term experience of the spots and much like Tomsom has said, the last one is the one you're still in.
45  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Go on Dooooooobs on: November 07, 2013, 05:20:04 AM
5toneface (jon titcombe) still in? how much up top please tikay?

He finished 2nd for just shy of a grand, £1650 up top.

Great effort Neil and Dooobs.  I think this is the second or third time Dooobs has gone real close.  tbh he's a pain in the backside to play and imo it's only a matter of time before he binks the jackpot.  As opposed to Magic817/MattBates who has no chance whatsoever and I assume his recent cross sites heater is down solely to Voodoo.  Those poor chickens....

And for Tal, COYS!
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