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Sounds like a nice trip Eck.

I played in the Hamilton 4 ball on Monday and would probably have been lynched, if my partner hadn't been playing so badly. My score was the "counter" in 16 of the 18 holes and off my present 27, I would almost def have won a singles comp on a score of 91. Don't know if we won a prize as the computer wasn't working, so just had to put the cards in a box. Hopefully I can keep the improvement going for the rest of the season and maybe get a couple of prizes.

Pleasure bumping into you today one last time for that brief 10 seconds.  Hope my run bad the last week didn’t rub off to you in the seniors.
That’s me boarding soon, but I’ve left anything in excess in my WSOP a/c for use next year so, all being well, I’ll see you at a similar point next year, unless I search out some plo in the uk before that.  Fun trip but hindsight extending a week was a mistake but felt right at the time. 2-2.5 weeks is probably my sweet spot.

Highlight
Biggest cash in 17 years covered the trip and a bit
and very confident I’ve lost weight with all the walking

Lowlight
Wanted to go home 2-3 days ago

Observations
Definitely more angrier % of people at the poker table in my sample
Saw an almost fight couple tables down from me as well as a couple of very heated arguments

Also saw a woman going mental and put in cuffs in linq , as well as a Latino at flamingo taunting 5 security guards after being chucked out, kept coming back in and trying to bait them into trying to cuff him
Free vegas shows are wild !

Did I kill this thread?

Just back from 10 days in Majorca. Played 4 courses. Andratx and Bendinat both quite similar lots of elevation changes hitting drives from lots of high tee positions not my favourite type of course. Both in decent nick but didn't rush back to either. Played quite a few at Santa Ponsa. Nice course a lot more on the level and quite close to where we were staying. Used to be a european tour venue but needs a bit tlc to stand out but the actual playing conditions were good. Had a round at T Golf Palma course and facilties were very classy surprised at price was in line with the others as their other course is about twice the price and can't imagine its twice as good. really nice course unfortunately wind was gusting which made it tougher but would have played more if we weren't about half an hour away.

Got stuffed on the rounds I played with my brother in law who was getting 14 strokes. He's not long but kept breaking my heart with his short game.

Lovely time only soured a bit when it looked like the airplane looked like it dropped my golf case off before we landed 

i hate the fact that all year we get to choose a court to watch with sky but come the UK 3 weeks its centre court only with the BBC

Who else has received a wildcard?
Six British players - Cameron Norrie, Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter, Jack Draper, Jan Choinski and Francesca Jones - are ranked high enough to receive direct entry into the singles draws.

On Tuesday, wildcards were given to four British men's players, with two more spots to be confirmed over the next fortnight.

Men's singles wildcards: Grigor Dimitrov, Jacob Fearnley, Arthur Fery, Jack Pinnington Jones, Toby Samuel, Stan Wawrinka

Six of the wildcards in the women's draw were given to British players.

Women's singles wildcards: Maja Chwalinska, Harriet Dart, Alicia Dudeney, Hannah Klugman, Mika Stojsavljevic, Katie Swan, Mimi Xu

The wildcards are chosen at the discretion of the Wimbledon committee.

The tournament said wildcards are usually offered "on the basis of past performance at Wimbledon or to increase British interest".

Not really sure why Billy Harris hasn't got one, apart from that British wild cards were as expected.

Did you see Klugman today?  Came of age after a ropey 12 months or so. 

Lot of talk of Evans and Serena still getting one.  Jodie Burrage already got a qualifying wild card, but no Heather Watson in either singles list. Assume she is getting main draw if Serena doesn't take it up, and qualifying if she does.  Maybe something similar with Dan Evans?  Maybe Felix Gill gets one if he goes further than Billy Harris this week?  Maybe their wins in the Nottingham challenger have done for Evans?  Though suspect they will need to final to do so?

Enjoying reading your Vegas exploits Tikay. Not enjoying reading all this bad run/crap variance you are going through though. Hopefully, it changes for the good soon. I have still got my WSOP ap from last year, so I am following players on there and sometimes staying up late to watch the action on you tube too. Loving it/missing it.

What you need to do to improve your luck is two simple steps....
1) Get Jeeves to assist you
2) Change your name on that ap to Foxen/Mateos/Glazer etc etc.

VBOL for the rest of your 'holiday' , and please keep up the reporting for us back in blighty.

Imagine Phil Hellmuth being the guy with the 99 instead of Tikay... I can hear it in my head now      

Who else has received a wildcard?
Six British players - Cameron Norrie, Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter, Jack Draper, Jan Choinski and Francesca Jones - are ranked high enough to receive direct entry into the singles draws.

On Tuesday, wildcards were given to four British men's players, with two more spots to be confirmed over the next fortnight.

Men's singles wildcards: Grigor Dimitrov, Jacob Fearnley, Arthur Fery, Jack Pinnington Jones, Toby Samuel, Stan Wawrinka

Six of the wildcards in the women's draw were given to British players.

Women's singles wildcards: Maja Chwalinska, Harriet Dart, Alicia Dudeney, Hannah Klugman, Mika Stojsavljevic, Katie Swan, Mimi Xu

The wildcards are chosen at the discretion of the Wimbledon committee.

The tournament said wildcards are usually offered "on the basis of past performance at Wimbledon or to increase British interest".

Raise with 9-9, Mr Tight calls again, lol.

Flop 10-9-5dd, wiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

He bets 2k. I make it 5k. He jams. I call. I have a set of 9's, he has A-10.

And we see this runout.....

Eurgh, very, very unlucky. The only thing you can do is laugh, you know that loud hysterical laugh as you rock backwards and forwards waiting for matron to bring you one of those nice injections.

That was seriously ugly Tony.

Hope you have a deep run to make up for it tomorrow.