[Event #12: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha]

Event #12: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha
Status: Started (End of day 1)
Field: 2,483
Paid: 373
Remaining: 80


Selected players still remaining are:

David "ODB" Baker
Mohsin Charania


Points scorers:

Those listed above plus

   Yevgeniy Timoshenko
   Dominik Nitsche
   Dan Kelly
   Scott Clements

I do believe that Connor Drinan also cashed in this

I do believe that you are correct.
Thanks.
Spelling error on my part.

Thank YOU, kind sir 

[Event #12: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha]

Event #12: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha
Status: Started (End of day 1)
Field: 2,483
Paid: 373
Remaining: 80


Selected players still remaining are:

David "ODB" Baker
Mohsin Charania


Points scorers:

Those listed above plus

   Yevgeniy Timoshenko
   Dominik Nitsche
   Dan Kelly
   Scott Clements

I do believe that Connor Drinan also cashed in this

Great news Ransom.

+ what Vinny says - more updates if you can find some time.

What do we think of Everton De-martinezed with bucketloads to spend and a renowned talent spotter in place as manager?  Quick turnaround? Might take a while? Keep lukaku and stones or lose them? Presumably defending better plus new recruits would mean they kick up the league in short order?

I mentioned this last week when it looked like the Koeman deal was imminent. They are supposedly after the Seville DOF too. They apparently have nett £150m to spend and they are curently attempting to tie down their prize assests (Barkley/Stones not sure about Lukaku?).
Their odds for winning the league have dropped slightly from 200/1 to 150/1, odds of top 4 dropped from 16/1 to 14/1. There may be still some value in this as these odds are only going to go one way imo.

The price on 366 for a top 6 finish has also been chopped from 11/2 to 7/2. I think that top six is probably the best that can be expected for Everton in a season that will be ultra competitive as mentioned by others. I think all the value's gone now. If only we'd had a speculative bet a week ago when the 16/1 (top 4) and 11/2 (top 6) were still available. However, if they sell Stones and/or Lukaku there's likely to be a price rise which may present an opportunity to have a speculative punt imo.

Hi Mere

Please may I sub out Sam Trickett from Best of Brits
& replace him with Chris Moorman

Thanks

Nice double for SDS this afternoon to extend his lead in jockey's championship.  Never a quarrel are still 1/2 SDS.

Crazy that he can still be backed this side of fives on, never mind 1-2.

Double puts him nine clear of Buick and 11 up on RyRy, who's having another Monday off tomorrow. Meanwhile, SDS has seven rides, incl a couple of short favs and a couple of 5-1 shots.

Ryan obviously not off a yard this summer.

I backed Buick at 10's just in case SdS suffered an absence through injury. After a slow start, Bill's doing a decent job with the relatively low workload he gets.

FMP

Nice double for SDS this afternoon to extend his lead in jockey's championship.  Never a quarrel are still 1/2 SDS.

Crazy that he can still be backed this side of fives on, never mind 1-2.

Double puts him nine clear of Buick and 11 up on RyRy, who's having another Monday off tomorrow. Meanwhile, SDS has seven rides, incl a couple of short favs and a couple of 5-1 shots.

Ryan obviously not off a yard this summer.

I backed Buick e/w at 10's just in case SdS suffered an absence through injury. After a slow start, Bill's doing a decent job with the relatively low workload he gets.

You can only run better when you finally get to the city of lights.

It's a terrible state of affairs. Of course there's no easy solution that doesn't involve draconian measures.

I frequent a Corals in a pretty genteel postcode, and yet there have been at least two armed robberies in the last few years. The staff cope with this daily threat with astounding stoicism - more than half of whom are female. There's a new girl in training just now, and I'm certain that she hasn't got a clue about how dangerous her situation is. Even I've felt uncomfortable & intimidated by some of these guys who rage at the machines when they're in the process of squandering £hundreds.

I agree with arb, most of these high street bookies will be gone in 10 years' time. Hopefully with FOBT's with a maximum spin of £20 and a track-record of zero robberies over the previous 24 months, given some new legislation.

The flip side of this is the constant red tape businesses face (and the incurring ex's which force up prices and reduce competitiveness) from EU reg's when they don't trade with the EU.  There was a smoked salmon farmer on radio five live a week or so ago saying the EU reg's he faces cost him a five figure sum being forced to reprint all his packaging to fall in line with EU reg's even though he doesn't trade outside of the UK to the EU at all.

So businesses are being forced to tell consumers what they are putting into our food, and they have to follow regulations about the size of lettering and so on. Bloody red tape.

I may be wrong but I think the situation was the guy selling salmon had to print something like "contains fish" or some such wording - he was selling salmon!

The guy had to go to the expense of re-printing all his labelling.

It was rather silly (and unnecessary if common sense prevailed).

Correct that is exactly what it was!  Contains fish!  Do me a fucking favour.  Fuck off EU.   Buy some nuts at the boozer and they have to say 'contains nuts'.  No fucking shit.  imagine running a business where you don't trade at all with the EU and being forced to set fire to a five figure sum just to put something insane like that on your new packaging and set fire to the perfectly good old packaging.

You're not getting the point. It has nothing at all to do with trading with the EU. It's about protecting UK customers, employees and other businesses.

Mint, I'm feeling playful - how does getting a guy who sells salmon to reprint his labels to say "contains fish" protect the consumer?

We've managed to sell salmon for hundreds of years and realise salmon is fish.

You have to agree, some regulations are just daft.

So you think that instead of just putting the ingredients on the pack (whether this is single or multiple ingredients) it would be a simpler process to decide - perhaps through complex testing - what the simplest consumer would be expected to know and then either put the ingredients on or not?

And you think the EC are bureaucratic?

And if putting "salmon" on a package is a significant cost to a business in the digital age, they deserve to go under as they are obviously utter mugs.

This is amazing.  Some people are so unwilling to be critical of the EU that they are actually suggesting that some consumers don't know that salmon is fish.

Take a balanced view ffs.  You can be pro EU while at the same time conceding that some of their regulations are pure idiocy implemented by politicians with no concept of small business cost pressure.

It is me who is taking the balanced view.  You seem to think that that its simpler to have a packaging regulation that say sometimes put the ingredients on and sometime don't, based on some nebulous criteria.  Your rationale for this is that there are occasions when it would seem like over-regulation, but it is actually a minor consequence of less complex regulation.

Do you think a pure smoked salmon product should be forced to put Ingredients:smoked salmon?  Same for eggs?  Milk?

It's hardly rocket science to say that one ingredient products where the single ingredient is in huge letters on the labelling doesn't need to have an ingredients list.  It's a single bullet point in a lengthy directive.  The directive had an oversight in my opinion.

While that might seem straightforward, you are making the assumption that they didn't do that due to an oversight on their part, when it is far more likely that they considered 28 countries and 28 languages and 28 different cuisines and just decided to go for the simplest - if a product contains an allergen put it on the label.

And as Nakor confirmed the cost in any case was minor for any competently run business.

Don't buy it.  If I buy nuts in Poland I assume the "contains nuts" is also in Polish so I don't see how that helps.  If I don't understand the polish word for "nuts" in capitals on the label how am I going going to understand the allergen warning?

I know the polish word for fish but not the polish word for salmon.

I suspect that there will be a requirement to put "contains egg" stamp on eggs pretty soon. Just in case people don't know what an egg looks like, or in case some clever marketeer has developed packaging that looks just like an egg (but they've put something else inside!!) 

Thanks for running this again Mere!

Captain: Jason Mercier

2015 ITM More than 5 times: Mohsin Charania

Brits: Sam Trickett

WSOP POTY Top 10s 2014-15: Daniel Negreanu

High Stakes: Jason Mercier

Main Event Champions: Phil Hellmuth

Eurozone: Eugene Katchalov

Best of Blondes: Toby Lewis

Wild card 1: Joe Kuether

Wild card 2: Connor Drinan

Could that be you on the FT of the Luton G monthly special?

If so, GLGL Harry!

The Vegas fund's looking better every day 

Staying in the worst room I've paid 70 quid for ever in Venice, crap room, rude unhelpful staff. The only saving grace is the view from the balcony 

Click to see full-size image.

Venice is too good a place to have it ruined by a shit hotel. If ur staying long enough for it to be worthwhile, it's worth checking rates on some of the nicer places - some can do very good offers, and most are a short walk.

The Rialto saved the day for me & Mrs Suited

On Radio 5 - 50+ people on the French terrorist watch list had air-side access at De Gaulle airport     .....       words fail me!

Not sure if I was listening to the same comment on 5 Live, but what I heard was that, after the Paris attacks, the authorities reviewed the security passes of the c.30,000 staff at CDG and removed airside passes from about 60. There was no mention of these 60 being on a watch-list as such. Either way, it's always best not to take what the media say at face value.

Later in the day (yesterday) I listened to a presenter interview a politician about the BBC's plan to make savings by reducing the amount they spend on SEO for 10,000 recipes. Neither seemed to have a clue about the subject they were discussing. The politician kept repeating "how can it save the BBC money by taking off recipes that are already on the BBC website & paid for by the license fee payers?" whilst the interviewer kept repeating "So tell me what you would cut in order to reduce the BBC's budget?"

Back to the missing Egyptair flight, I heard on the news this morning that "the wreckage located in the Mediterranean was not, in fact, from the missing flight - as had previously been reported". The only sensible comment I've heard so far has been from a retired air crash investigator who said that a) we must be patient, and b) the info released must be accurate rather than quick.

[Rec £50 No Welsh Goalscorer at 16/1 with BMU]

Having a look at Wales for the Euros

Wales scored 11 goals in 10 qualifying games, 7 of which were against either Israel or Andorra and they are drawn in group B with England, Russia and Slovakia

England conceded only 3 goals in qualifying, Russia only 5 in a qualifying group that contained Austria and Sweden

Slovakia is where it gets a little more messy, they conceded 8 in 10 qualifiers and 3 of those goals were scored by Spain but they did allow 2 vs Luxembourg.

I think that 364 have this about right at 14/1 so at 16/1 I think theres some wiggle room in there with BMU


Rec £50 No Welsh Goalscorer at 16/1 with BMU

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/euro-2016/wales-euro-2016-specials/top-goalscorer

thoughts please

Not sure if the invite for thoughts is just to the sages that make this such an interesting board to follow; but I'm going to chance my arm with 2p's worth.

Unless Gareth Bale gets injured in the lead up to Champions League final on 29 May (or indeed during the match), then I'd be concerned about him producing a moment of world class skill against any one of the 3 teams in the group. Drawing a foul in the penalty area would be enough. Is there some intel that suggests he's carrying an injury into the final?