Andy Gray got sacked for making funny, tongue in cheek, stereotypical comments with colleagues who you would assume he is relatively close to.  I do that every day and have yet to be formally disciplined.

His facial expression when commenting on the female lino is totally irrelevant because, as anyone who has ever made a flippant, 'pretend to be serious' comment will know, this face is imperative to the success of said joke.  The recipient must believe you mean it...

If you watch closely, the microphone funny in the studio was met with a laugh from the female colleague.  Just as she goes off camera. Funny shit!

Some people need to get off their moral high horse and see these jibes as what they are.  Andy Gray's prowess as a pundit is totally irrelevant when he has been sacked for something everyone does in one way or another.

Mon the Gray!

Missed the end of this.  Did the plane crash?  Massive fatalities?  If the loser guy survived did he realise his life's ambition of becoming a house breaker?

There's a fun book that looks at the subject of clairvoyance called 'Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks' by Christopher Brookmyre.

It's a fictional story (obviously) but there's quite a lot of interesting inside information revealed.

Well worth a read and if you don't appreciate it's educational value it's dead funny too.

A lot of this is written in Scottish slang so be warned!

Start at the bottom and work your way up.  Truly incredible literary skills at work.

http://dundeebarryleighgriffiths.blogspot.com/

Try this:

http://www.hostream.net/channel-8.html

Can anyone swap $200 on stars for $200 on tilt?

I'll send first. 

Thanks in advance.

Would appreciate $200 on stars for $200 on full tilt.

I would obv ship first because i'm an unknown and preferrably with a respected poster like joerama or fergus.

Thanks.

There's been a suggestion that the gentleman was duped into smuggling the drugs by a group who promised to make him a world famous popstar. 

He was unaware of the contents of his case and therefore his mental illness played a key part in the whole trafficing/prosecution/execution situation.

If this is the case then it appears he has been treated horribly but it begs the question, why was his defence not aware of the facts.

Its all very confusing to me and I suppose we'll never get the full story.  Its pretty upsetting whatever the facts.

Legend thank you.

My son just unleashed a ninja dropkick on my laptop and his feet have hit a button that has turned my screen from landscape (standard) to portrait.  I have no idea how to fix this.  Can anyone help?  Will be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Ok, I know that rulings are usually very mundane topics that generally hold very little interest value for anyone other than the poster but this one has left me peeved and distressed.

Pub No limit hold 'em tournament.  Self-deal.

A player gets all in with his short stack pre-flop from the small blind with  and is called by big blind with  .  Small blind is dealing and burns before firing out the flop  .  Inexplicably, in his pre-elimination frenzy he reveals the turn and river ( ) without burning any cards.

We realise this and the  is made the burn card,  becomes turn and the next card is burned before the  falls on the river counterfeiting big blinds two pair and giving short stack a double up.

Big blind then starts whingeing about how it was a bum deal and we should have reshuffled the whole deck when cards fell out of place.  There is no designated tourney director so chaos ensues.

Did we follow proper procedure or does big blind have a reason to be upset?  Please help!

I can do that muszclesz.  I'm not a regular poster so no problem if you don't feel comfortable.

Thanks noble.  Those were my thoughts exactly as i couldn't come up with any hand he could check flop with then raise turn so I decided on nut flush.

The odds were too good to fold so i flatted hoping to fill up on river.

The 4th heart came on river and i check folded.

Thanks for your help.  Still think I muffed it somehow but I ain't sure how exactly yet!

Ok thanks so far.  My intention was to check raise all in but it got checked round.  Here's my turn line.  Opinions and next steps would be appreciated.

quasirazor: checks
chililexus67: checks
sporting1971: checks
yanks1989: checks
*** TURN *** [ Ah] []
quasirazor: bets 4100
chililexus67: folds
sporting1971: folds
yanks1989: raises 4100 to 8200

Thoughts?

[Pre-flop/Flop]

Ok so i have been at the table for a while playing very tight.  Not been involved in a pot for quite some time.  The pre-flop raiser had not played many hands and seemed TAG.

I decided to flat pre and play the hand as a small pair for set value.  I'm pretty sure i made a few mistakes throughout the streets but any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I don't post much on hand analysis so if I've missed any info please ask.

I'll post a street at a time.

Pre-flop/Flop


PokerStars Game #27778414288: Tournament #158114173, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (300/600) - 2009/05/03 14:43:50 ET
Table '158114173 39' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: drifto88 (16728 in chips)
Seat 2: kwob20 (25100 in chips)
Seat 3: sporting1971 (22215 in chips)
Seat 4: yanks1989 (21579 in chips)
Seat 5: usourcek (12331 in chips)
Seat 6: quasirazor (19865 in chips)
Seat 7: Prof.ChaoZ (18440 in chips)
Seat 8: krid_00 (8535 in chips)
Seat 9: chililexus67 (21427 in chips)
drifto88: posts the ante 25
kwob20: posts the ante 25
sporting1971: posts the ante 25
yanks1989: posts the ante 25
usourcek: posts the ante 25
quasirazor: posts the ante 25
Prof.ChaoZ: posts the ante 25
krid_00: posts the ante 25
chililexus67: posts the ante 25
quasirazor: posts small blind 300
Prof.ChaoZ: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to quasirazor [ ]
krid_00: folds
chililexus67: calls 600
drifto88: folds
kwob20: folds
sporting1971: raises 1200 to 1800
yanks1989: calls 1800
usourcek: folds
quasirazor: calls 1500
Prof.ChaoZ: folds
chililexus67: calls 1200
*** FLOP *** [ Ah]

Thoughts?

What's next?