I liked one of Billy Connoly's "You should have an agent Pal, why sit there in the dark handling yourself?"

well why dont you try and get the poker club to try some small (£50-£300) freezeouts also to try some different games a little bit of PLO and PLO8 as well as stud will give guys a break from holdem nothing drastic once a month or somthing

if they put on a £100-£300 PLO or PLO8 freezeout i might even travel down for a game

The manager hates Holdem - loves Omaha....

We're on different bankrolls BTW, £50 - £300 small  - my biggest comp ever will be the £50 Freezeout at the Gutshot on Thursday.

Ok im in give us a reminder nearer the time

Tell yer poker mates as well!!

Yes but as it stands, people are only going to go to CinCin when they put prize money in the pot or when Riverboat becomes full. Old habits and all that

But there's also lots of players who won't go to the Riverboat or CinCin while it's all rebuys, low chips, fast blinds (CinCin's is a wee bit better) & top3 payout only.

Hopefully we can tap into some of them & get a new market (I don't care which venue cashes in - I just want to play at a better time in a better game).

I think it's kind of daft the 3 clubs all playing the same games, competing for one small group of players.

Or the not getting a good reaction, "What do you want me to put on then?"

"Your Jacket!"

i am the one and only

It's turning into a bad 80's remake of Spartacus in here.

Mind you I'd rather be crucuifed than claim to be Chesney Hawkes 

RE Spartacus, loved the story that was doing the rounds about one of Kirk Douglas' sons (the crap one) doing stand-up in London. He was struggling & the hecklers were slagging him. He lost the plot & shouted out "DO you know who I am? I'm Kirk Douglas' son!!".

Cue heckler standing up and shouting "NO, I'm Kirk Douglas' son!!", then another then another.

Exit the real Mr Douglas - stage left 

"fictions good for the mind".....?

Is that a proven fact? (Rehetorical, for Red-Dog's benefit).

Non-Fiction is better for the mind. Assuming it's an intelligent mind.

Well I read both - and at times when I need to relax (definately good for the mind) - I read fiction.

Tell you what - read Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon & tell me you didn't learn something.

Not a fan of Bryson TBH.

And fiction's good for the mind 

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]

Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. WTF is THAT? And an "online translator"?

Look. I asked who Chesney was. A whole gaggle of wise guys start posting "I am the one and only". Then it moves to babelfishing, now hitchiking & stellar comments.

Wha IS the matter with you guys? You no speak plain English?

Every answer seems to require 4 more questions.

BUT you're starting to learn. I feel like a father after the wee one speaks his first words.

"AHHH Look everyone, Tikay used his first TLA."

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Dictionary Entries:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Humorous Science-Fiction book, made into funny 80's series, then made into crap film in 2004.

Babelfish - The Babel fish is a fictional species of fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. A Babel fish is a highly improbable biological universal translator. It appears as a "small, yellow and leechlike" fish. When a Babel fish is inserted into the ear canal it allows the 'wearer' to "instantly understand anything said... in any form of language." http://babelfish.altavista.com/ is an online translator named after the fictitious Babelfish.

Online Translator - Website where you enter a portion of text, then the software translates it into another language (usually badly).

TLA - Three Letter Abbreviation, ie WTF.

He LIED? To me? You sure about that?

Babelfish - what that?

Babelfish is an online translator (from the Babel-fish in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy?).

Online forum geek tactic is to take what someone says, say you put it through Babelfish & type what you think they really think. I'm thinking we should have a forum-speak dictionary somewhere.

Thank you Jammer. It was a simple enough question. Two House Points.

Tikay - he lied, put what he says through Babelfish & you get....

Chesney Hawkes, one-hit wonder with effete floppy blonde hairdo. Topped the charts with an amazingly corny song, from an amazingly crap film. Then, thankfully, disappeared.

Will work on it....

There's a few forums I can put the info on - once we know we've a few players going to turn up.

RFC & other Glasgow punters - get your names in - The UEFA cup's not on that night so you won't have a game  .

No, the thinking is that those who don't like the later nights & bingo night structure will hopefully go for it - probably make it 8 reg for 8:30 start.

All supposing we can get the 30 - there's a lot of guys from Shotts/Uddingston/Motherwell expressed an intrest - so they'd want earlier rather than later to get home.

Be better if the blinds started at 25/50

Don't think they have the correctly numbered chips to do that

I think this is great, it effectively becomes a £30 double chance freezeout. Count me in! 8pm though... thats running the risk of not having a tournament. Riverboat fiver night will have loads of people not getting in at 9pm.

Correct on the chips - originally thought of 1500 starting at 25/50 then realised they start at 50.

Re start time - there's loads who don't want to play till 3am on a school night - so hopefully will entice some of them into an earlier game - might make it 9 if enough ask for it though.

Romantic Red-Dog

I'm just worried how you found that.... 

Or are you an old romantic at heart