Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[kinboshi]

Before THAT tale, here's a scoop.

How does Red always manage to be first in the - any - Bufffet queue?

Well now we know.

The DTD Dinner was scheduled for 1pm yesterday. This was taken at 9am.

It's fortunate that Tom doesn't play at APAT events.  Tighty is ALWAYS at the front of the buffet queue and if Tom was there, well...it'd be the irresistible force colliding with the immovable object.  The whole fabric of space time would fall apart and we'd all wake up in an alternative reality - otherwise known as Hull.

[Dingdell]

Another sidetrack, but I got invited to Simon Cowell's Birthday Party, here's a couple of pics taken there.

That's Rich Orford &, I think, Kara Scott.

Get your eyes sorted mister - it was a picture of Steve Davis on his way to Gazza's place, not Simon Cowells birthday. And I was right about Frank Bruno or was it Bruce Willis - when you ALL knew I was wrong.

FYP

The proof is out there - somewhere.

[lazaroonie]

Before THAT tale, here's a scoop.

How does Red always manage to be first in the - any - Bufffet queue?

Well now we know.

The DTD Dinner was scheduled for 1pm yesterday. This was taken at 9am.

It's fortunate that Tom doesn't play at APAT events.  Tighty is ALWAYS at the front of the buffet queue and if Tom was there, well...it'd be the irresistible force colliding with the immovable object.  The whole fabric of space time would fall apart and we'd all wake up in an alternative reality - otherwise known as Hull.

last APAT i was actually quite near the front of the buffet queue....too near actually - since they never brought the chips out right away.

GG Chips...

[Colchester Kev]

Before THAT tale, here's a scoop.

How does Red always manage to be first in the - any - Bufffet queue?

Well now we know.

The DTD Dinner was scheduled for 1pm yesterday. This was taken at 9am.

It's fortunate that Tom doesn't play at APAT events.  Tighty is ALWAYS at the front of the buffet queue and if Tom was there, well...it'd be the irresistible force colliding with the immovable object.  The whole fabric of space time would fall apart and we'd all wake up in an alternative reality - otherwise known as Hull.

Truth be told ... I was first at DTD, tom dwelled up in case there was another tray coming.

you snooze you lose !!

[GreekStein]

lol welcome back to blonde Ding - Tikay sure was being serious when he said Simon Cowell's party!

[tikay]

lol welcome back to blonde Ding - Tikay sure was being serious when he said Simon Cowell's party!

Hush you. The bait was cast, & Ding bit.

[Dingdell]

lol welcome back to blonde Ding - Tikay sure was being serious when he said Simon Cowell's party!

Hush you. The bait was cast, & Ding bit.

Oh ffs. I'm only visiting - just wanted to tell you all I was the anon in the DTD final last night.  and that I'm right about the kara thing. I'm off now - hope that covers everything.

[kinboshi]

lol welcome back to blonde Ding - Tikay sure was being serious when he said Simon Cowell's party!

Hush you. The bait was cast, & Ding bit.

Oh ffs. I'm only visiting - just wanted to tell you all I was the anon in the DTD final last night.  and that I'm right about the kara thing. I'm off now - hope that covers everything.

You sure were right about the Kara thing. 

[Karabiner]

Before THAT tale, here's a scoop.

How does Red always manage to be first in the - any - Bufffet queue?

Well now we know.

The DTD Dinner was scheduled for 1pm yesterday. This was taken at 9am.

It's fortunate that Tom doesn't play at APAT events.  Tighty is ALWAYS at the front of the buffet queue and if Tom was there, well...it'd be the irresistible force colliding with the immovable object.  The whole fabric of space time would fall apart and we'd all wake up in an alternative reality - otherwise known as Hull.

last APAT i was actually quite near the front of the buffet queue....too near actually - since they never brought the chips out right away.

GG Chips...

Your early pace when it comes to buffets is in the form book...

[The-Crow]

" Man who waits for Aces before playing, has to wait a long time "

[tikay]

The endearing beauty of Live Poker is that you meet some incredibly interesting characters.

Most poker geeks can't have a convo that is not poker based, but look & listen, & there are a few who are well interesting.

Yesterday, at DTD, we met a right character. His name was, I think, Andrew Carins - in fact, he Finalled in the £300.

Red, Kev, BookieBasher & me where standing in the Car Park, just chatting.

Up drives Andrew in his big Lexus, & promptly parks it in a disabled bay.

Andrew knew me from somewhere in the past, & had called me "Tony" when we shared a Table on Day one - a clue that he has known me a long while. Most poker "acquaintances" call me tikay.

Andrew, oddly, reminds me facially of Achilleas Kalakkis.

Here's Andrew.

Note, by the way, that he's holding his left arm a bit strangely.

[tikay]

Anyway, the 4 of us, as old men are wont to, were chuntering that he'd parked in a disabled bay, tsk tsk.

So we delegated Tom to have a word. And you know what Tom's like. So he did.

"Can't see your disabled sticker mate" says Tom.

"Oh, it's under the dash" says Andrew.

Kev, Boookie & me take a step backwards, to give Tom more room to dig himself out of this hole.

"Err, sorry, so you are disabled then?" says Tom.

"Oh yes, says Andrew, I had a bit of an accident 6 years ago".

We three take a step further back, Tom is digging frantically now.

"Err, really? What happened then?"

And the geezer rolls up his sleeve, & shows us the most hideous wound you could imagine.

"I can move my arm from the shoulder, & I can scoop in (poker) chips with it, thats about it".

[tikay]

6 years ago, it seems he was swimming off Cairn Island, Australia, off a boat, & got attacked by a frigging great shark. In a bad mood.

[tikay]

The shark gets hold of his arm, shakes him about a bit, then lets go - & gets hold of his head!

The water is running bright red with blood now, but for some odd reason, the shark buggers off.

Andrew is airlifted to Hossie, has xteen pints of blood transfused, and his arm, which is hanging on merely by the tendons, is somehow stitched back on, he has 140 stitches in his head, is transferred to a specialist hossie in Intensive Care, & after 6 months, all is well. Except he has a gammy arm.

But here's the thing, & it's black humour as black as it gets.

Just before the shark got him, his mates on the boat saw the shark. So they shouted to Andrew "ANDREW - GREAT BIG SHARK RIGHT BEHIND YOU, GTF OUT OF THE WATER".

Now, I don't suppose, in the circumstances, he could do check boxes, but if he could, his answer was....

[  ] There sure is a shark behind me.

But there was......

We plied him with queastions galore, what a story.

And then he said another stupid (but true) thing.

"So how did you get him to let go?" we asked.

"Well I hit him, with my other arm" says he.

Now Kev chimes in.

"That's no good, you are supposed to poke them in the eye" says our shark attack expert.

"Well yes, I know that now", says Andrew, "but, you know, at the time, I never had the bloody manual on me, or a 'phone, to seek advice".

You just can't make these things up, really.

I don't give a toss if he can play poker or not. I want him on my Table, he's a fun guy.

Some great characters out there if we take off our poker blinkers.

[The Camel]

The shark gets hold of his arm, shakes him about a bit, then lets go - & gets hold of his head!

The water is running bright red with blood now, but for some odd reason, the shark buggers off.

Andrew is airlifted to Hossie, has xteen pints of blood transfused, and his arm, which is hanging on merely by the tendons, is somehow stitched back on, he has 140 stitches in his head, is transferred to a specialist hossie in Intensive Care, & after 6 months, all is well. Except he has a gammy arm.

But here's the thing, & it's black humour as black as it gets.

Just before the shark got him, his mates on the boat saw the shark. So they shouted to Andrew "ANDREW - GREAT BIG SHARK RIGHT BEHIND YOU, GTF OUT OF THE WATER".

Now, I don't suppose, in the circumstances, he could do check boxes, but if he could, his answer was....

[  ] There sure is a shark behind me.

But there was......

We plied him with queastions galore, what a story.

And then he said another stupid (but true) thing.

"So how did you get him to let go?" we asked.

"Well I hit him, with my other arm" says he.

Now Kev chimes in.

"That's no good, you are supposed to poke them in the eye" says our shark attack expert.

"Well yes, I know that now", says Andrew, "but, you know, at the time, I never had the bloody manual on me, or a 'phone, to seek advice".

You just can't make these things up, really.

I don't give a toss if he can play poker or not. I want him on my Table, he's a fun guy.

Some great characters out there if we take off our poker blinkers.

Lucky Michael Greco wasn't there or you would never have heard that great story.