Indestructible havent seen or heard from him in a few years

Sure he'll turn up on a random quiz show one day, Pointless or The Chase probably.

Colchester Kev?

I know why he isn't here any more, but I used to be his fb friend and when I looked he seems to have disappeared from there too.

Oh god, the first year of the GUKPT where play could not start until after 4pm for some reason, and you had to be in your seat before the first hand.

From memory in year 2, which I think was 2007, late reg began.

It wasn't all bad.

When I first started playing there was a cap of £25 maximum entry fee to buy in to a tournament. I remember the Vic's first ever 5k event was £5000+25 (plus a free player'as buffet!)

If you view NFTs in a similar way to a piece of art, I think that is a fair comparison and makes a bit more sense. In my opinion, art really doesn't have much benefit to society apart from people think it looks nice, or maybe even beautiful. It certainly isn't worth the amount that a lot of people pay for it.There are a lot of NFTs being created by artists, they are then selling them on forums on OpenSea and making a living.

Some of the NFTs are actually really creative. Even some of the avatar type things are quite fun. A game like Sorare is fun because it is fantasy football.

But yes a majority of NFTs are absolute shite just jumping on the bandwagon. But in my opinion, a majority of art is also absolute shite, so there we go. A lot of NFTs are just digital art.

Something like a cryptopunk is now basically like a digital asset. Compare it to a diamond for example in my opinion.

What is the benefit of art apart from enriching the original creators? Same thing really. But nobody says art is dangerous when you go and overpay for some crappy painting.
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The whole concept of collectability is an interesting one isn't it? It is like what do rich people do with their surplus income? Do they donate it to charity or do something useful with it, or do they spend it 'collecting' some random thing and then just storing it in their house and occasionally looking at it.

Conclusion. I think NFTs are stupid. I also think art is stupid.

Crypto itself though is not stupid.

I love this response, so many great points well made.

It's what I've loved about blondepoker over the years. Smarts people making great arguments, whether I agree or disagree with them.

Just a shamethat a couple of twats always tried to ruin it for no discernable reason other their own trolling pleasure.

If you view NFTs in a similar way to a piece of art, I think that is a fair comparison and makes a bit more sense. In my opinion, art really doesn't have much benefit to society apart from people think it looks nice, or maybe even beautiful. It certainly isn't worth the amount that a lot of people pay for it.There are a lot of NFTs being created by artists, they are then selling them on forums on OpenSea and making a living.

Some of the NFTs are actually really creative. Even some of the avatar type things are quite fun. A game like Sorare is fun because it is fantasy football.

But yes a majority of NFTs are absolute shite just jumping on the bandwagon. But in my opinion, a majority of art is also absolute shite, so there we go. A lot of NFTs are just digital art.

Something like a cryptopunk is now basically like a digital asset. Compare it to a diamond for example in my opinion.

What is the benefit of art apart from enriching the original creators? Same thing really. But nobody says art is dangerous when you go and overpay for some crappy painting.
/
The whole concept of collectability is an interesting one isn't it? It is like what do rich people do with their surplus income? Do they donate it to charity or do something useful with it, or do they spend it 'collecting' some random thing and then just storing it in their house and occasionally looking at it.

Conclusion. I think NFTs are stupid. I also think art is stupid.

Crypto itself though is not stupid.

Is Soare just like fooptball index?

I don't know why people thought I was PB. I used to say all the controversial stuff using my own name.

He did email me once to offer to put anything juicy I knew but didn't want to publish under my name on his blog without crediting me as the source.

But I never took him up on the offer.

Did the PB ever get in touch with anyone else?

Bill Purle hacked his hotmail account, the password was Bastard

I don't know why people thought I was PB. I used to say all the controversial stuff using my own name.

He did email me once to offer to put anything juicy I knew but didn't want to publish under my name on his blog without crediting me as the source.

But I never took him up on the offer.

If only we could ask The Poker Bastard, he'd know.

 

Woz

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Hold on, I think I heard about this. Wasn't there something going around about Gus Hansen getting with Caroline Wozniacki at one point? God knows when though!

Boom. Full marks to Adam.

Time to resurrect the old quiz from the Hendon Mob Forum of yesteryear.

First one is easy.

A poker player had a month long affair with a top ten ranked (at the time) tennis player.

Name the two lovebirds.

Clue: it wasn't Tikay and Angela Mortimer.

Jon Shoreman or The Ginger C*** as my old mate Colin Kennedy used to affectionately call him?

Currently sitting rather comfortably with an above-average stack in the ME

Lives in Vegas now I believe.

Is Mantis still hanging around?

Wonder whatever happened to boltpp?

45th minute.   Gl stu.

Always got to have aan edge, made sure he got first half injury time too.

Great gesture Stu, glglgl

Found this

https://www.scrumptiousfoodphotography.com/about-rhowena-maccuish/