Cardiff - here's another nice story.

[tikay]

Went down to Cardiff yesterday for their monthly £250 Freezeout (10,000 starting chips, great structure, 45 min clock).

Travelled down with Red & Chili, arrived with 15 mins to spare.

The Welsh boys are tremendous fun, & it was great to hook up with them all again, especially Doc, & his two quite splendid & beautifully-mannered sons, Martyn, Viv, Mark Williams, James, Matthew Stevens, Roberto & Bro, well, too many names to remember.

We had a little meeting of the blonde Ex-Smokers Club befor the comp started - sofa-king, Chili & myself. We were all quite pleased with our efforts far. Both of them had a pop at me over the  possibility that I may start smoking again at Crimble, but they both know the real score with me & ciggies.

So, the comp starts, & we have a bathroom break after 3 hours.

Suddenly, I'm aware that everyone is stood round in a group, & Mr Manager is bringing out a sort of Birthday Cake - 4 candles, one at each corner, all lit, & they present this to cake to......me!

On the cake is a pic of me - taken at a comp - with a BIG stack of chips (how they find THAT?), and it says at the bottom - "tikay - 4 weeks, NON-SMOKER".

It was all down to James Fisher - aka Sofa-King, aka 23 of spades.

He's truly a lovely fella - handsome he's not - but his heart is in the right place, a real top bloke. Something of a magician too - he was running card tricks on us for hours - extraordinary ones, too.

To everyone at Cardiff - we had a smashing time, & all being well, we will be back this weekend for your Fessie.

Thanks Guys.

Sorry if this is a bit boring, but I like nice stories. I'm an "up person", see?

[RED-DOG]

The guys at cardiff were great. Well, all except that Sean. What a trouble maker he turned out to be. Sheesh!

[thetank]

Sounds like a weak 23 spades to me. 

Glad to hear a happy tale.

[suzanne]

So, the comp starts, & we have a bathroom break after 3 hours.

Please tell me you are kidding.....3hrs!!!

Awww really nice gesture sofa 

[Graham C]

oh man I love the cake!

4 weeks, great going Tikay

[RED-DOG]

The cake

[Poppet7]

Aww that's really nice! Lovely thing to do sofa king!

As for the 4 weeks of being a non-smoker tikay - KEEP IT UP!! xx

[TheJagster]

Very nice story - Congrats on the 4 weeks Tony - Wish I could do the same.

DO NOT let it go to waste!!!!!

Did they auction off who had first go at it with a big carving knife?  Bet they'd have made a fortune!

 

[sofa----king]

thankyou tk and red -dog and chilli,it was a pleasure to have yall down,your all dead money in my eyes so the cake was worth it lol,hope to see yall this weekend,i got a little trick lined up for tony,yes it do include a sheep,and yes one of you will be tied up,,but on a serious note,its nice to have a good laugh when you go to these poker nights coz its not all about the money its about having a good time,money is allways a bonus (ul tk about the bonus thingy)see yall fri,sat,gl in amsterdam tony and dont  ewe wear yourself out m8.......

[Royal Flush]

The cake

Just thought i should explain that stack.

The Grosvenor festival chips are coloured like this 25-Orange, 100-Grey, 500-Green, 1000-Purple. So it was about starting chips!

Mystery solved.

What a nice gesture though, and congrats to Chilli and James aswell.

[tikay]

The cake

Just thought i should explain that stack.

The Grosvenor festival chips are coloured like this 25-Orange, 100-Grey, 500-Green, 1000-Purple. So it was about starting chips!

Mystery solved.

What a nice gesture though, and congrats to Chilli and James aswell.

I think I was sat in someone else's seat, truth to tell......

[Chili]

I wanna say - thanks to Sofa---king for entertaining us on Sunday - Well not me cos i was still in the comp - but thanks for looking after the early exiters 

[tikay]

I wanna say - thanks to Sofa---king for entertaining us on Sunday - Well not me cos i was still in the comp - but thanks for looking after the early exiters 

OK, OK........

Pish!

I still can't bear to think about my Exit, on of those super-dooper-too-bad-to-even-discuss jobbies.

[thetank]

Where did Bono finish?

[Chili]

Was Bono there?

No but better still Matt Stevens was - and those boring spats between any hands at all were made all the more pleasurable for my eyes.  Thanks Matt.