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Ejection stories please.

$250 WSOP Daily Staredown, late regged, 200-400, third hand, AK utg+1 900, old roffler with no clue 1800, two callers, me all in 25k, snapped! "How much is it?" K9dd, two diamonds on flop, etc

The other one I was stood by a tournament table for a couple of hands learning how to best utilise a short stack in five-card PLO. "You can't be in the tournament area sir..." Shuffles a foot to the left. "Sir, you can't be there, you'll have to leave. FLOOR!"

I am the official cuckoo listener this year. Went for a DofE practice walk with my youngest round Grafham Water.  Heard one there too, so 3 different places, and again at parkrun last week.  Don't recommend Grafham in 32 degree heat, but have got myself a splendid sun hat.  

I do a circuit of Grafham Water three or four times a week on the bike. Nine miles approx. Never get bored of that route.

Just kidding, I haven't read it yet as chompy wants to present me with a copy in person.

Sold out

Link to the book please.

Not being published this one. There's material in there not suitable for public consumption, including the Foreword.
Got another one in the pipeline for the end of the year though. This one will be published, a collaboration. I'll stick a link up when it's out.

Can confirm Vegas in the summer still the same. Wiggly everywhere, me getting ejected from a tournament by the table clown after three hands and then getting ejected from the Venetian poker room by an overzealous dealer. No sign of the salmon pink trousers fortunately.

Used to go round Grafham on a bike at least once a week when I wasn't working.  It is much the same route walking.  Shame the main cafe is shut, as can't get a bacon roll right now (the flapjack at the other cafe is pretty good).  Good to see the swallows are back to deal with all the bastard flies.

My MP, Ben Obese-Jecty, goes up there fairly frequently.  Seen a few pictures of him there on his bike. Out last MP was invisible, this fella is everywhere. 

Do you ever do Rutland Water? that is much more of an effort, but they have Ospreys.

Think the results have shown the Birmingham wildcards were right.

There is an interesting situation for Wimbledon.  Chwalinska has come through qualifying to the French Open semis.  So if she gets a wildcard, she will be seeded for Wimbledon.  If she doesn't, she has to come through qualifying.  That is clearly absurd, and given we don't really have 8 deserving women players, then she should get a wildcard.

So women's wild cards will look something like Serena, Chwalinska, Xu, Stojsavljevic, Dudeney, Swan and Dart.

Assuming Jones gets in the main draw automatically, think we have Burrage, Watson and Klugman fighting for one wildcard.  Think it is likely Watson misses her first main draw since 2010 (ignoring COVID).  Don't see how you'd put Watson over the 5 Brits above, unless she can go deep in a tournament in the next couple of weeks.

I have to suffer the salmon pink trousers on the golf course, several people there think we are a couple.

Ejection stories please.

I am the official cuckoo listener this year. Went for a DofE practice walk with my youngest round Grafham Water.  Heard one there too, so 3 different places, and again at parkrun last week.  Don't recommend Grafham in 32 degree heat, but have got myself a splendid sun hat.  

I do a circuit of Grafham Water three or four times a week on the bike. Nine miles approx. Never get bored of that route.

Just kidding, I haven't read it yet as chompy wants to present me with a copy in person.

Sold out

Link to the book please.

Not being published this one. There's material in there not suitable for public consumption, including the Foreword.
Got another one in the pipeline for the end of the year though. This one will be published, a collaboration. I'll stick a link up when it's out.

Can confirm Vegas in the summer still the same. Wiggly everywhere, me getting ejected from a tournament by the table clown after three hands and then getting ejected from the Venetian poker room by an overzealous dealer. No sign of the salmon pink trousers fortunately.

Link to the book please.

Leeds, has a dog and a daughter. We are bff's on insta, think he blocked Cos if I'm honest. Which is understandable.

It reminds me of a line from a song.

Women think about themselves when men folk aint around,
and friends are hard to find when they discover that you're down.
I done it all when I was young, and in my natural prime,
now it's old dogs and children, and watermelon wine.

Give him my regards.

[Where is sovietsong anyway?]

Thailand is fantastic, very cheap and lots of smiley people. I could easily live there.

You've been to Thailand Tom? pray do tell as sovietsong would say

Sorry for the late reply Cos.

I've been to Thailand twice, it's quite a long and, (to me at least) rather profound story.
I don't seem to have the capacity for writing that I used to have and I can't be arsed to sit down for a couple of hours producing several pages of tl;dr waffle.

I will probably put something on my diary. Eventually....

Where is sovietsong anyway?

Leeds, has a dog and a daughter. We are bff's on insta, think he blocked Cos if I'm honest. Which is understandable.

[I was fully verified last year so no idea why I needed to do it again.]

He's a horribly abrasive & small-minded man who dislikes me, & the feeling is distinctly mutual. And I know it will soon kick off between us, despite my best intentions not to get involved in any bad blood at the table. He's the sort who can start an argument in an empty room & we have a lot of history.

Early doors & we play a small pot which is checked down, it's a chop & the Dealer splits the pot.

3 hands later he suddenly complains that the Dealer short-changed him by 100 chips. Imagine starting an argument over 100 chips....

I have no idea if he's right or wrong, nor does anyone else, but he's getting very agitated now. I cba with all this & toss him a 100 chip across the table with a bit of a cutting comment, "there you go sunshine, happy now?" sort of thing. He gives me the mother of all dead eyes & I know trouble is brewing...

But not a problem, as he tilts off his entire stack the very next hand with an inexplicably poor play & he's history. I just about resist the temptation to give him a send-off.

Love this
I hate having nonsense at the table in cash games, but in tournaments I find it entertaining especially when they tilt it off afterwards.
You’re still better than me in mtts , I’m 0/3 and -3100 so far.  
Was great to see you though, and you can’t escape me at WSOP as I’ll look up your table number to say hi .
Hopefully get time for proper catch up rather than 30 seconds at breaks !
Catch you Monday if not before I think - WSOP O8 mix deffo my favourite one of the trip

Hi Rob,

Yeah, see you Monday. I'm playing a $240 Big O at Orleans tonight, too small for you, 6pm kick off, next stop the WSOP Omaha Mix tomorrow.

I went across to WSOP @ Paris last night as I accidentally discovered that I needed to get "re-verified". What a faff. I was fully verified last year so no idea why I needed to do it again.

Walked into the Registration Room & there's 12 staff sat at computer stations assisting folks to get verified. They are open 22 hours per day, I guess 3 shifts, so imagine the cost of that.

My bloke was dead helpful, & knew what he was doing, & it still took 45 minutes. Had to give him everything except my Blood Type.

I really don't understand why we have to jump through so many hoops to play a WSOP event. We can walk into Venetian, Wynn, Bellagio, Aria, GN etc etc with a Rewards Card, pay in, & that's that, don't even need ID. What's so different about a WSOP event?

Meh.

And then I had to pay $25 to exit the Car Park. Luckily, it's only $20 Monday - Friday.

See you tomorrow. And hopefully the next day too....

PS - I bumped into the (self-styled) "PLO Professor" last night, Dear God, please don't be drawn on his table tomorrow. He's less humble than Trump.

They probably have to be wary of people trying to steal Jack Ury's record.

My first target is to be the new Eric Dalby except that he was famously grumpy. He must have been well into his 70's when he ran 3rd in a WSOP-E for £85,000, & he almost exclusively played Omaha variants. Not seen or heard of him in a very long time.

How are you & the family keeping?

I assume you have read Chompy's latest book, where you get a mention or two? I very much enjoyed it, although easily the best part was the Foreword.

Weirdly I read the foreword and it put me off the rest of the book...

Just kidding, I haven't read it yet as chompy wants to present me with a copy in person. I have seen bits of it, brings back a lot of good memories that helped me through a tough time. Even Chompy was ok back then.

We are all ok here thanks, I do get back to the UK about 6 times a year but not really up your way, or Tom's so you can both relax. But I suspect you'll come to Malta soon anyway for some mixed games tournaments so you can buy me a coffee then.