I played in a 20/40 LHE game in vegas in 1999 and he was at the table.

Did they play it as a kill game?

Just seen the news that Bobby Charlton has died, aged 86.

Sad news, and a genuine England football legend.  RIP

Tony Holden, author of the epic poker book "Big Deal", has passed away according to this tweet.

That book was my gateway drug into wanting to play poker.

RIP Tony.

https://x.com/ChadAHolloway/status/1711441359016689727?s=20

Michael Gambon, aged 82.  Brilliant actor.  Most will know him for his roles as Dumbledore in the later Harry Potter films.  I first recall seeing him in The Singing Detective playing a man with a terminal skin condition.

RIP

Due to a few clashes within my season ticket group, we have a few tickets going spare for the NFL London games over the next few weeks.

1 Oct - Wembley - Falcons @ Jags - 2 available, block 503, £100 face value (excl fees)
8 Oct - White Hart Lane - Jags @ Bills - 2 available, block 524, £93 face value (excl fees) - EDIT Now Sold
8 Oct - White Hart Lane - Jags @ Bills - 1 available, block 523, £107 face value (excl fees)
15 Oct - White Hart Lane - Ravens @ Titans - at least 1 available, block 523, £107 face value (excl fees)

Some are mine, some belong to others within our group.  Open to offers.

The Wembley tickets are in hand.  Still waiting for the emails for the others.  All tickets are electronic and come with links to upload them into Apple wallet or Google Pay.

Feel free to reply here or PM me if interested.

Payment just sent for 3 and 4.

If there's interest, I might look to set up a cups competition and LMS, on a similar basis that you've run them previously.  No immediate rush to have these in place by the start of the season, so it's something I'll re-visit once the early admin stuff is out of the way.

Thanks for running the main leagues again.

No LMS this season?

Blatant "I have a cleaner" brag, IMO.

Sad news about Doyle Brunson.

His life story was remarkable, including surviving cancer as a young man, and his position as a legend of the poker world was beyond dispute.  I still remember the slight thrill of seeing him on his buggy in Vegas a few years ago.

3rd time definitely not the charm!

In fairness, it was a miracle to get to a tie, given the gap going into Sunday.  I was the only one not to play Saka and I had Johnstone on the bench.

Needed something spectacular from Isak and Bowen, and Newcastle and Wesh Ham's performances did at least give me a sweat.

Thanks for running and good luck to those still standing.

When I first started playing poker in around 2004, he was Mr Consistency in terms of his tournament record.  Always there or thereabouts in the Grosvenor festival results around the country.

I was part of a 6 way chop at one of the Luton Festival events around that time, which included Micky, Carlo Citrone and a certain Rob Yong in the group of 6.  He was a tough opponent, but also pleasant company at the table.

RIP Micky Wernick.

LMS GW 18:

We had a tie.

The first tiebreaker is the number of goals scored by the players in your team.

Both Real Satoshi and Bee Sting FC scored two goals (Haaland and Rashford).

The second tie-breaker is countback (last week's score).

Real Satoshi: 83
Bee Sting FC: 87

So Real Satoshi is eliminated on countback.

From what I can work out, I think I may have survived a tie break for the 2nd time this season in GW25.  My 77 (-4) and Ha Ha Land's 85 (-12) both level on 73 points.  My team has 4 goals (Haaland, Salah, Saka and Odegaard), his has 3 (Haaland, Salah and Saka).

Assuming so, I feel a Phil Hellmuth "I can dodge bullets, baby" is in order.

Good job Chris.  Maybe we should find you better team-mates next year 

I made day two, I sense by the lack of yellow shirts around we will not be winning?  and I have permission to punt without team pressure?

Michelle was still in when I exited, but there were still a few levels to play.  Not sure about the others, but was shocked to discover that our chip-monster bunnydas had exited before me.

Punt away would seem to be the plan.  Good luck.

The seat draw is available via the following link:

https://www.apat.com/tour/season-16/uk-team-championship-2023/?fbclid=IwAR2LQBbmLwQHR0KvLj5_cuoANkCgVSJdBsvW3W9Y6KtpNJaMKHIglf0wtSE