Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

I read LilDave's latest Blog with much interest,because I THOUGHT it said "What is the 'plane?"

Turns out he wrote "What is the plan?".

What a difference an e makes.

Good read though, dem kidz just don't care.

So, what IS the plan, Dave?



http://lildaveslife.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/failing-to-plan-is.html
 

[bobAlike]

After a great meal with friends, last night, we ended up in the Rainbow casino. This was the first time in close to 15 years. This was the place where I, and so many others, cut my teeth on holdem poker. This was a great place with all the old stalwarts of British poker plying their trade. In the 80's the £10 rebuys regularly made upwards of £4k.

As an aside there used to be an old Greek boy called Nikita who achieved 7 wins in 7 days one week. He was a larger than life character who played an absolutely great game.

Anyway to cut a long story short, it's changed, It's been totally remodelled baring no internal resemblance to the good old days. No poker tables, no cash games, no craps, only 4 roulette tables (used to be 12 in its heyday, fruit machines everywhere and NO atmosphere. Such a disappointment all that history and nothing to show for it apart from memories. I don't think I'll be visiting again in the next 15 years.

On the bright side I sat down and played 3 card poker and the very first hand hit a straight flush followed closely by 2 flushes and 3 straights and my initial stake turned into £300 in less than 20 min.

[tikay]

After a great meal with friends, last night, we ended up in the Rainbow casino. This was the first time in close to 15 years. This was the place where I, and so many others, cut my teeth on holdem poker. This was a great place with all the old stalwarts of British poker plying their trade. In the 80's the £10 rebuys regularly made upwards of £4k.

As an aside there used to be an old Greek boy called Nikita who achieved 7 wins in 7 days one week. He was a larger than life character who played an absolutely great game.

Anyway to cut a long story short, it's changed, It's been totally remodelled baring no internal resemblance to the good old days. No poker tables, no cash games, no craps, only 4 roulette tables (used to be 12 in its heyday, fruit machines everywhere and NO atmosphere. Such a disappointment all that history and nothing to show for it apart from memories. I don't think I'll be visiting again in the next 15 years.

On the bright side I sat down and played 3 card poker and the very first hand hit a straight flush followed closely by 2 flushes and 3 straights and my initial stake turned into £300 in less than 20 min.

Good Lord, The Rainbow!

Back in the day, that was THE place to go for Live Poker.

I'm sure Karabiner has a hundred "Rainbow" stories, if we could but persuade him to tell a few.

Kim, who passed away a few days ago, was a regular there, too. Everyone was really, it was where it all happened then.

Taffy, from Derby, won the UK Open or somesuch there back in around 1990, or so he used to tell us all. Every night.

I have just randomly googled a Tourney at the Rainbow in 2000, this was the Top Ten.   

John Bostock

Allan McLean

Dave Colclough

Craig Grant

Garry Bush

Rumit Somaiya

K Vasiliou

Kevin O'Connell

Frankie Knight

Tony Girasoli

Blimey, some stories between that lot, the only one who does not ring any bells with me is John Bostock.

Tony Girasoli was quite a chap, he was the original Tony G, as I recall. Lived in Glasgow, I think, & was, by trade, a Librarian or Accountant. Possibly.

[Tal]

After a great meal with friends, last night, we ended up in the Rainbow casino. This was the first time in close to 15 years. This was the place where I, and so many others, cut my teeth on holdem poker. This was a great place with all the old stalwarts of British poker plying their trade. In the 80's the £10 rebuys regularly made upwards of £4k.

As an aside there used to be an old Greek boy called Nikita who achieved 7 wins in 7 days one week. He was a larger than life character who played an absolutely great game.

Anyway to cut a long story short, it's changed, It's been totally remodelled baring no internal resemblance to the good old days. No poker tables, no cash games, no craps, only 4 roulette tables (used to be 12 in its heyday, fruit machines everywhere and NO atmosphere. Such a disappointment all that history and nothing to show for it apart from memories. I don't think I'll be visiting again in the next 15 years.

On the bright side I sat down and played 3 card poker and the very first hand hit a straight flush followed closely by 2 flushes and 3 straights and my initial stake turned into £300 in less than 20 min.

There was an armed robbery there a couple of years ago, wasn't there? I take it that's what led to the refurb?

[edgascoigne]

What a difference an e makes.

Didn't think this was your scene Tikay?!

[RED-DOG]

After a great meal with friends, last night, we ended up in the Rainbow casino. This was the first time in close to 15 years. This was the place where I, and so many others, cut my teeth on holdem poker. This was a great place with all the old stalwarts of British poker plying their trade. In the 80's the £10 rebuys regularly made upwards of £4k.

As an aside there used to be an old Greek boy called Nikita who achieved 7 wins in 7 days one week. He was a larger than life character who played an absolutely great game.

Anyway to cut a long story short, it's changed, It's been totally remodelled baring no internal resemblance to the good old days. No poker tables, no cash games, no craps, only 4 roulette tables (used to be 12 in its heyday, fruit machines everywhere and NO atmosphere. Such a disappointment all that history and nothing to show for it apart from memories. I don't think I'll be visiting again in the next 15 years.

On the bright side I sat down and played 3 card poker and the very first hand hit a straight flush followed closely by 2 flushes and 3 straights and my initial stake turned into £300 in less than 20 min.

There was an armed robbery there a couple of years ago, wasn't there? I take it that's what led to the refurb?

They stole the wallpaper?

[Tal]

After a great meal with friends, last night, we ended up in the Rainbow casino. This was the first time in close to 15 years. This was the place where I, and so many others, cut my teeth on holdem poker. This was a great place with all the old stalwarts of British poker plying their trade. In the 80's the £10 rebuys regularly made upwards of £4k.

As an aside there used to be an old Greek boy called Nikita who achieved 7 wins in 7 days one week. He was a larger than life character who played an absolutely great game.

Anyway to cut a long story short, it's changed, It's been totally remodelled baring no internal resemblance to the good old days. No poker tables, no cash games, no craps, only 4 roulette tables (used to be 12 in its heyday, fruit machines everywhere and NO atmosphere. Such a disappointment all that history and nothing to show for it apart from memories. I don't think I'll be visiting again in the next 15 years.

On the bright side I sat down and played 3 card poker and the very first hand hit a straight flush followed closely by 2 flushes and 3 straights and my initial stake turned into £300 in less than 20 min.

There was an armed robbery there a couple of years ago, wasn't there? I take it that's what led to the refurb?

They stole the wallpaper?

Pretty much, I think.

[Tal]

I've never been. Because I only play poker, there's the Rainbow on Hagley Road and the Grosvenor on Broad Street that have never seen me cross the welcome mat.

It is, I am told, where it all began.

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There was an armed robbery there a couple of years ago, wasn't there? I take it that's what led to the refurb?

Not sure about the robbery but it certainly has new owners now. The Original owners were the Morrell (sp?) family who owned it for many many years. My father was friends with some of the family members (probably female ones) and one day, in the early 70's he was shown the contents of a 6ft tall cabinet safe which was full with punters jewellery. I wonder if Genting or G casinos would allow that now lol.

[tikay]

What a difference an e makes.

Didn't think this was your scene Tikay?!

Agr  ntirly, not my scn.

[bobAlike]

After a great meal with friends, last night, we ended up in the Rainbow casino. This was the first time in close to 15 years. This was the place where I, and so many others, cut my teeth on holdem poker. This was a great place with all the old stalwarts of British poker plying their trade. In the 80's the £10 rebuys regularly made upwards of £4k.

As an aside there used to be an old Greek boy called Nikita who achieved 7 wins in 7 days one week. He was a larger than life character who played an absolutely great game.

Anyway to cut a long story short, it's changed, It's been totally remodelled baring no internal resemblance to the good old days. No poker tables, no cash games, no craps, only 4 roulette tables (used to be 12 in its heyday, fruit machines everywhere and NO atmosphere. Such a disappointment all that history and nothing to show for it apart from memories. I don't think I'll be visiting again in the next 15 years.

On the bright side I sat down and played 3 card poker and the very first hand hit a straight flush followed closely by 2 flushes and 3 straights and my initial stake turned into £300 in less than 20 min.

Good Lord, The Rainbow!

Back in the day, that was THE place to go for Live Poker.

I'm sure Karabiner has a hundred "Rainbow" stories, if we could but persuade him to tell a few.

Kim, who passed away a few days ago, was a regular there, too. Everyone was really, it was where it all happened then.

Taffy, from Derby, won the UK Open or somesuch there back in around 1990, or so he used to tell us all. Every night.

I have just randomly googled a Tourney at the Rainbow in 2000, this was the Top Ten.   

John Bostock

Allan McLean

Dave Colclough

Craig Grant

Garry Bush

Rumit Somaiya

K Vasiliou

Kevin O'Connell

Frankie Knight

Tony Girasoli

Blimey, some stories between that lot, the only one who does not ring any bells with me is John Bostock.

Tony Girasoli was quite a chap, he was the original Tony G, as I recall. Lived in Glasgow, I think, & was, by trade, a Librarian or Accountant. Possibly.

Garry Bush, was he known as the alien, due to his gaunt look? If so there was a TV documentary on some poker players, mainly from the Rainbow, the year escapes me but could have been late 90's and he was claiming to make £300k a year back then from cash games. Lucy Rokach may have been on it too.

[edgascoigne]

What a difference an e makes.

Didn't think this was your scene Tikay?!

Agr  ntirly, not my scn.

I remember hearing a while back of a book called "A Void", written ntirly without the letter 'e' - I believe it was intended to explore the abstract concept of absence.

Here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void

Translation from a French work called "La Disparition" by Perec, which would explain how I heard of it.

As an aside, and as someone who has translated in the past, I can not even begin to describe how difficult the task of faithful translation of such a piece would be. Truly incredible.

[doubleup]

Tony Girasoli was quite a chap, he was the original Tony G, as I recall. Lived in Glasgow, I think, & was, by trade, a Librarian or Accountant. Possibly.

he was a property developer if you don't mind, a trade that has become rather difficult to practice of late.  

The two Tony Gs were actually in the same room in St Pete, during Murray Brown's European Nations comp.  New Tony G playing for "the Baltic States" was shouting out odds and when he gave 100-1 Scotland, original Tony G shouted "I'll have a grand on that".  New Tony declined the wager.

[tikay]

Tony Girasoli was quite a chap, he was the original Tony G, as I recall. Lived in Glasgow, I think, & was, by trade, a Librarian or Accountant. Possibly.

he was a property developer if you don't mind, a trade that has become rather difficult to practice of late.  

The two Tony Gs were actually in the same room in St Pete, during Murray Brown's European Nations comp.  New Tony G playing for "the Baltic States" was shouting out odds and when he gave 100-1 Scotland, original Tony G shouted "I'll have a grand on that".  New Tony declined the wager.

Sorry, I was being a little disingenuous or ironic.

Yes, a property developer, & he developed a fair bit of property, including some apartments in Glasgow which sold for a pretty penny, Dave Colclough purchased one I believe, as did a well-known Online grinder back in the day who used to post a lot on blonde, & was at one time the biggest client of the blondepoker cardroom, can't recall his name right now..

As I said, the original Tony G was a bit of a character.

[Royal Flush]

After a great meal with friends, last night, we ended up in the Rainbow casino. This was the first time in close to 15 years. This was the place where I, and so many others, cut my teeth on holdem poker. This was a great place with all the old stalwarts of British poker plying their trade. In the 80's the £10 rebuys regularly made upwards of £4k.

As an aside there used to be an old Greek boy called Nikita who achieved 7 wins in 7 days one week. He was a larger than life character who played an absolutely great game.

Anyway to cut a long story short, it's changed, It's been totally remodelled baring no internal resemblance to the good old days. No poker tables, no cash games, no craps, only 4 roulette tables (used to be 12 in its heyday, fruit machines everywhere and NO atmosphere. Such a disappointment all that history and nothing to show for it apart from memories. I don't think I'll be visiting again in the next 15 years.

On the bright side I sat down and played 3 card poker and the very first hand hit a straight flush followed closely by 2 flushes and 3 straights and my initial stake turned into £300 in less than 20 min.

Good Lord, The Rainbow!

Back in the day, that was THE place to go for Live Poker.

I'm sure Karabiner has a hundred "Rainbow" stories, if we could but persuade him to tell a few.

Kim, who passed away a few days ago, was a regular there, too. Everyone was really, it was where it all happened then.

Taffy, from Derby, won the UK Open or somesuch there back in around 1990, or so he used to tell us all. Every night.

I have just randomly googled a Tourney at the Rainbow in 2000, this was the Top Ten.   

John Bostock

Allan McLean

Dave Colclough

Craig Grant

Garry Bush

Rumit Somaiya

K Vasiliou

Kevin O'Connell

Frankie Knight

Tony Girasoli

Blimey, some stories between that lot, the only one who does not ring any bells with me is John Bostock.

Tony Girasoli was quite a chap, he was the original Tony G, as I recall. Lived in Glasgow, I think, & was, by trade, a Librarian or Accountant. Possibly.

Garry Bush, was he known as the alien, due to his gaunt look? If so there was a TV documentary on some poker players, mainly from the Rainbow, the year escapes me but could have been late 90's and he was claiming to make £300k a year back then from cash games. Lucy Rokach may have been on it too.

Ha i remember that documentary, hilarious.