Hey,

Spittles had an interesting facebook status earlier which got me considering what I should/shouldn't be doing when it comes to National Insurance.

I've been playing full time for the past 18 months or so, should I be making NI contributions? I understand technically I am down as unemployed due to poker not being taxable. I know paying NI is a good way for having a state pension in the future, but I certainly don't expect to be grinding until I retire and expect at some point I will move on to a job where I will be taxed. What's the best way to approach this? Perhaps pay into a savings account and manage that myself?

I don't see what realistically can be done about the live situation with streaming. They either keep it as it is where friends may relay information (that potentially they could have picked up on breaks) or isolate the players away from any external viewers killing the atmosphere but not being able to receive this information (and I imagine legally they wouldn't be able to implement this, stopping people from going outside, contacting friends/family etc.). There's nothing stopping a player from setting up a recording of the live stream then running to see what happened between hands or on breaks in any key hands.

I might be a little off with my comparison, but the way I see it is two low league teams playing one another, team A get a penalty. A fan catches eye contact with the penalty taker and says "I've seen him train, he ALWAYS dives to the left". Inevitably he slots it away to the right as the keeper dives to the left. The fan shouldn't come under fire for offering advice, the goalkeeper should come under fire for implementing an exploitable strategy.

Think this is entirely different to 'ghosting' that may occur online. In the live situation the player goes into and comes out of the hand making all the decisions himself, the online situation means the player can hand his account over, go to sleep and wake up to find out where "he" finished.

WP to both.  Awesome updates as per Tighty.  Great to have you back!!!!

This ^^

lots of limped buttons here

both want to be smallballing it seems

i thought fraser would try and pile it on?

They are clearly looking to give you value for money

vernon makes it 800,000 on the button

fraser calls in the big blind

Q-4-5

Check

vernon 1.1m c bet

fraser folds

sick small balling

1st £200,000
2nd £120,000
3rd £80,000
4th £55,000

No deals, definitely no deals

Will DTD be invoiced for Vernon's bill at the dry cleaners following this event?

vernon in 2 outer shocker, getttttt

glgl skalie, vernon, tom hall, fraser, dewi.

Mainly vernon cause hes my purest bro, but if anyone deserves the title its probs Tom Hall. from what I understand he works ridic hard, keeps his head down and crushes without having to let the world know. Kinda hard to dodge chris "the luckbox" vernon though

Chris Vernon leans back, clearly has a hand


"i am good at these" says Vernon
 

the only leaning he will be doing, at least hes honest!

good to see leaning getting the attention it deserves during updates

Rumour has it that Chris Vernon won a big pot off Julian Thew and now has over 100K. Good luck to Chris - a young player with a lot of potential.

This HAS to be his father

sigh tighty beat me in nvm

Rumour has it that Chris Vernon won a big pot off Julian Thew and now has over 100K. Good luck to Chris - a young player with a lot of potential.

This HAS to be his father

boss, played great. If theee was an award at tomorrow nights British poker awards for most underrated reg he'd probably win.

<3 thanks guys

Sunday funday.....

really focussed yesterday, for first four hours or so was listening to motivation videos and stuff. Had deece stacks early managing to get QQ to put chunks in pre in spots where I had AA, then it all went a bit sour. Seemed to have AA in most spots where I busted, was more frustration at run outs than frustration at myself.

However I pulled a mad lean with AJ in a 3 bet pot on QQ10-A-3, where I bet, check turn, cram over a donk on riv over thinking the hand, expecting Qx to fold that wasn't a boat, potentially 1010 and KJ. However he took my arm off with AK. What's most annoying is that it was in the Sunday Million and was jamming with 20k fairly early on, got too ambitious coming down with a spell of fancy play syndrome.



Did however find a slightly more than mincash result in the $215 megadeep on 888 and the $100 50k on Party Poker.

OTG today before taking tomorrow off, although will still be looking to review midday.

Wow, apparently the iCloud hacks have hit us all, no one is safe.

It's a common phrase one of my mates use. You shouldn't discriminate against various tit types Matthew, that would be titist