Grand Prix Time - time to get qualified!

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The blue Square sponsored Grosvenor Grand Prix qualifiers start in earnest this week. For those not familiar with this Annual comp, you can ONLY qualify by entering a £100 rebuy qualifier. The top 15% of ALL entrants go through. So if there are, say, 20 runners, then 3 seats are awarded. 60 runners, 9 seats, etc. That's ALL you need to do to qualify - finish in the top 15%. All the £100 rebuys go into the Main Prize Pool, for the Grand Final, which takes place at Walsall 15th & 16th October.

The Prize pool is GUARANTEED at not less than £250,000, & you can reckon on around £100,000 to the winner. I have enteted - & qualified for this - for the last 3 years, & I have estimated that the comp has an equivelant "hypothetical" entry value of somewhere in the region of £1,300 to £1,400, so it has to be great value.

This weeks qualifiers are at......

Today (Saturday) - The Vic

Tuesday - Huddersfield

Wednesday - Walsall & Liverpool

Thursday - Cardiff & Brighton

Friday - Online only, at Blue Square.com

We are trying to find out who has qualified so far - they started qualifiers last Sunday at The Vic, & Thursday at Ramsgate, & yesterday there was a Blue Square online qualifier, the third to date I believe.

What we want to do is keep a running list of qualifiers on blonde, so if you have already qualified, please let us know, & we will construct a running list. WE need LOTS of blondeites in this one, & then we can all hook up at Walsall in October.

The easiest Casino in whjich to qualify? I usually find Salford a doddle, though it's a rotten drive for me, across the peaks in the dead of night, & up the horrendous & never ending A6.

Those who attempt to qualify early tend to find smaller fields. The later you leave it, the bigger the fields, but that just means more seats. The last few nights of qualifiers have HUGE fields, as eveyone scrambles for a seat.

Don't forget - let us know if you have qualified, & where. And where & when you will be playing, so the blondeites can hook up.

[RED-DOG]

I'm playing Walsall on Wed and Blue sq on Fri

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So you already know you will not qualify on Wednesday then Red? That's realistic, if nothing else......

On that basis, I suppose Ariton will play all 45 qualifiers.

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So you already know you will not qualify on Wednesday then Red? That's realistic, if nothing else......

On that basis, I suppose Ariton will play all 45 qualifiers.

I would point out that I have always qualified for this in the past at my firstat tempt, but I might bok myself

BTW, bok is the Romany word for luck

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"BOK" = Luck in Romany? There you go, we learn a little every day - you could not have told us that 3 days ago! Is there a whole Romany language?

What's Romany for "firstat tempt"......?

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Yes, there is a whole language, but sadly, its dying, I speak less than my parents, my children speak less than me

The form most of us use now is called 'Poggardi Jib' (Broken Speech) because some of the old words are missing

[snoopy1239]

Good Lord it's bright in here.

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Good Lord it's bright in here.

Not bright enough for me to understand that comment, Mrs red had to explain it to me

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"Poggardi Jib". Really? What a lovely name! Is that where the word "jibberish" originates?

Oh, & can you explain the "bright in here" riposte? Me = thicko.

[Karabiner]

I keep waiting for Red-dog to say "Playing poker is like making love to a beautiful woman"

 

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I keep waiting for Red-dog to say "Playing poker is like making love to a beautiful woman"

 

Ok, going blonde really must have made me dumb, wtf are you on about now?

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Someone please post a pic of Swiss Toni - or Swiss Tom as we will now rename him......

[Royal Flush]

Swiss Toni!!

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Wish I'd never asked

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Hells bells - that IS Red-Dog!

Talking to Red is like making love to a beautiful woman.........(OK wise guys, finish the sentence)