Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Meanwhile, in China, they do these things bigger. MUCH bigger.

So big, in fact, that they celebrate theirs, & even have a Festival, everyone goes & watches it, & it's called the "Qiantank Tidal Bore Festival" I think.

To me, the fascination in these photos is not so much the bore itself, amazing as it is, but the people, who seem to value their lives so cheaply. It's a wonder they are not washed away, & drowned. Of course, if it were in the UK, the Authorities would close the whole area down & place a 100 mile exclusion area around it, in case they got sued for negligence. I suppose there is a happy medium somewhere betwen the 2 bizarre extremes, both of which are daft.

[cambridgealex]

When a known nipper walks towards you, open the conversation with "ahh, glad I bumped into you, bit short atm, could I borrow a one-er?"

Even the most hardened nipper is going to have trouble trying their luck after that.

A+

[GreekStein]

That's not A+ at all. The top 5 nippers would never let you get in first.

[tikay]

That's not A+ at all. The top 5 nippers would never let you get in first.

Tend to agree.

They always get in first, play on the front foot, so to speak.

The moment of most vulnerability is when you cash up after a Cash Game session, for example. You slide the tray across, wait for the girl to count out your money, & then you feel a tap on the shoulder...... that's the real awkward moment, you are almost always gg'd then.

Ironside got tapped up one day while he was at the ATM in DTD. Quality timing that, Sir.

[JaffaCake]

ha the only time I got properly nipped was cashing in at the cash desk after a decent win, didn't realise it at the time but obvious tactic. Nippers never walk towards u do can't get the first word in, they're more like a suprise predator who waits for u to walk past and emerges from the crowd with their opening gambit

[Simon Galloway]

you are almost always gg'd then.

That's when you roll up the notes, slide them in your pocket, look them in the eye and say "sorry, I don't have any cash on me."

[77dave]

Ooh, questions about "Top 5" players in GUKPT's 5 yeats back, & now. Hmm, that may be interesting. OK, I'll think about that whilst I am on the Motorway today.

Questions about top 5 nippers 5 years ago, lol, bless, you wanna get me in even worse doo-doo than I already am, Jim? Not sure it would be wise to answer that, & anyway, I think everyone knows who they were. If we asked 100 circuit regulars of that era the same question, I bet 90% of them would come up with the same 5 names, so it would not tell us anything we don't already know.

What WOULD be more interesting is the anti-nipping procedures I use these days, & what steps others do to avoid the serial nippers. I'll give my answer tomorrow, but I'd be curious what measures others use. Sadly, in my line of work, "eff off" is not exactly on message.

Meanwhile.....

Not expecting you to name names, i was more interested to see if any had survived the times, i can think of 3 that would be on my list both then and now.

[Bongo]

Saw this video with some crazy weather today - don't think I'd like to experience it first hand:



I've obv never been nipped because I'm assuming the best defence would be saying no

[MANTIS01]

When you arrive at the cash desk with the nippers gathering all around pull out your mobile and have a heated debate with a dead phone. Continue the debate until you are safely in your car. It's surprising how even the most hardened nipper wont interupt a serious telephone convo. You just gotta hope the phone doesn't ring while your doing it.

[david3103]

When you arrive at the cash desk with the nippers gathering all around pull out your mobile and have a heated debate with a dead phone. Continue the debate until you are safely in your car. It's surprising how even the most hardened nipper wont interupt a serious telephone convo. You just gotta hope the phone doesn't ring while your doing it.

put it on silent first?

[GreekStein]

When you arrive at the cash desk with the nippers gathering all around pull out your mobile and have a heated debate with a dead phone. Continue the debate until you are safely in your car. It's surprising how even the most hardened nipper wont interupt a serious telephone convo. You just gotta hope the phone doesn't ring while your doing it.

you say that like a guy who's ever needed to go to the cash desk to be paid.

[tikay]

Played the £300 @ DTD yesterday, the less said the better. Was hopeless, cardless, luckless (good or bad) & imaginationless. Took me 7 levels to get above my starting stack, started to change gear, but engaged reverse instead. Most pleasing table company though, in the main. Left there @ 1am, & was back in London just after 3am, & slept like a baby. An old baby.

Had THE most wonderful thrill yesterday. Was driving north, had exited the M1 in Northamptonshire as the traffic was so shite, & was pootling up the back lanes when I spotted a bunch of Red Kites. Stopped the car, & watched them for over an hour, what a thrill.

They have a wingspan of almost 2 yards, & seem to hang in the air for ages without barely moving their wings.

They were nigh on extinct a century ago in the UK, but have staged a remarkable recovery, & are now plentiful.

In the nest, the bigger chicks will kill the smaller chicks quite often, to ensure enough food supply, greedy buggers.

I read somewhere that if the chicks are on the ground, & a predator approaches - a fox, say - then the mother & the chicks "play dead" until the predator passes by. Sounds a bit of a tall story to me, but maybe it's true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Kite

[tikay]

If yesterday's Red Kites were not enough for one weekend, I spotted more big flying things today.

British Airways have an "Open Weekend" round by their massive maintenance hanger @ Heathrow, outside of whiich, & free for the public to view, were a 747, a Concorde, & dwarfing everything, quite the most monstrously big flying thing you could ever imagine, an A380.

So I wasted another 2 hours ogling, oohing, & arring at these.

Awesome.

[cambridgealex]

That's a big plane

[doogan]

jealous i missed the open day but got tickets for this one    http://www.cvent.com/events/british-airways-open-day/event-summary-2d4f7694f1444f339a951a6368744895.aspx?i=b1d4d9a2-1b24-4407-8148-af692b56cc60     but no idea what it is