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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 !

Hi Rob,

Sorry I had to dash when we bumped into each other yesterday, was on a Break & needed to sort a LuxonPay issue.

Did you make all your weird flight connections? (Rob lives in Cornwall & was flying something like Vegas - Amsterdam - Bristol).

Good to see you again this year, we've been bumping into each other in Vegas for so long. First time was in Binions, during either a Euros or a World Cup & you were wearing an England shirt. God only knows how long ago that was.


Hope my run bad the last week didn’t rub off to you in the seniors.


Err, read back a page or two....

I'm a bit like you, maybe 2 weeks may have been more sensible. I was absolutely shattered last night, so tired I thought I was ill. Anyway, fly home on Saturday, & got a full week of golf booked for next week.

See you next year, Health & God willing.

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.

Thanks Alan. Think we all miss Jeeves, incredible times.

Mateos is unbelievable, they had a Bracelet Ceremony for him yesterday, it was his 6th WSOP Bracelet, & he's only 32.

And it's less than a month since he won $6.3 million for 1st place in a Triton thing. Live earnings to date? $67 million.


https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=257618

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.

Worst thing was, as I slinked away, the disappointment of exiting a WSOP event so early, Level 3 I think.

That was seriously ugly Tony.

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

Thanks Ralph, & yeah, it was a nasty one, especially in the context of it being a WSOP event rather than, say, a £50er at DTD.

Definitely one I'll never forget though.

yesss brilliant! Although not sure why its scottish golf rather than renfrew

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.

https://www.hamiltongolfclub.co.uk/handicapmaster-opens?subpage=results

Results there, you're in 3rd if I am guessing right? 

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