Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Nakor]

The reason is to stop people running corner shops coming in, buying up all the stuff on special offer, then selling it on in their shop.

They certainly used to do this when I used to work on the tills in Tesco over 20 years ago - I remember a guy buying 200 packets of butter.

Funny this being discussed on here today, I was in Tesco just this morning and the guy at the next till had his trolley loaded with packs of kitkat chunkies (50% extra free) and Carte noir coffee ( half price) all still in the cardboard boxes, he'd obv just cleared the shelves, and I thought no way are they gonna let him buy that but the cashier didn't bat an eyelid 

If you give 24 hours notice by phoning ahead Tesco will accommodate most bulk purchase's. Some smaller stores will not allow bread, meat or alcohol purchases of this type but they are happy to sell anything to anyone within reason. Obviously tough times for the giant retailer.

[Royal Flush]

Tony in reference to MH370. It is the Southern ocean, assuming as you have that the plane impacted after a stall then there would not be many large pieces to spot, in the roughest seas in the world coupled with the delays in searching the right area it's not surprising nothing was seen.

As for ditching, million-1 in those seas.

[redarmi]

The reason is to stop people running corner shops coming in, buying up all the stuff on special offer, then selling it on in their shop.

They certainly used to do this when I used to work on the tills in Tesco over 20 years ago - I remember a guy buying 200 packets of butter.

Funny this being discussed on here today, I was in Tesco just this morning and the guy at the next till had his trolley loaded with packs of kitkat chunkies (50% extra free) and Carte noir coffee ( half price) all still in the cardboard boxes, he'd obv just cleared the shelves, and I thought no way are they gonna let him buy that but the cashier didn't bat an eyelid 

The cashier will get a rollicking for this in the morning.  Clearly over the selling limit and she should have made a phonecall to the lolgrocers at .

[booder]

On IPlayer now Tony ,  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04b7cbj/the-fifteen-billion-pound-railway-1-urban-heart-surgery


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10971070/The-Fifteen-Billion-Pound-Railway-review-nail-biting.html


Fascinating stuff.

[tikay]

This story was in many newspapers yesterday, the incident took place on Wednesday.

Once again, the media taking an unbalanced view.



Drunk passenger attacked plane crew with false leg

A FLIGHT between Tunisia and Scotland had to be diverted after a drunk passenger attacked cabin crew with her prosthetic leg.


The woman demanded “cigarettes and a parachute” and became aggressive when staff asked her to calm down.

Holidaymaker John Smith, from Falkirk, said the woman slapped a young girl in a neighbouring seat before unfastening her leg and swinging it at flight attendants.

The crew managed to put her in handcuffs while the pilot of Thomson flight 297 from Enfidha to Edinburgh made an emergency landing at Gatwick.

The woman was escorted from the plane by police, as passengers broke into a rendition of the hokey cokey

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Once again, the media taking an unbalanced view.


I lolled.

[tikay]

Once again, the media taking an unbalanced view.


I lolled.

I lolled when I read it. It was just the matter of fact way they reported it in that final sentence. Lovely job.

[tikay]

For reasons I wont bore you with, I just looked at my THM from 2004, 10 years ago.

I cashed in Live Events in....

Luton (twice)

Walsall (twice)

Venice

Blackpool

Barcelona

Sheffield (twice)

Brighton (twice)

Paris

12 cashes in total.

3 were Pot Limit Hold Em, a game we almost, if ever, see now. LOVED Pot Limit Hold Em.

One was mixed PLH & PLO.

Three were PLO.

10 years on, I can't live with the NLH boys, they blow me way these days, there is no longer any PLH, but I can still (just about) get away with PLO if I get a bit of run-good.

Weird thing is, I play Online most nights now, seriously small-ball, just £3, £5 & £10 PLO8 SNG's, & make a very small profit. And yet I've never enjoyed my poker as much as I do now, I've arrived at poker heaven.

I wrote a story about Ian "Belly" Oldershaw next door this morning. Anyone remember him?

He always called Tom "TAPS", as in "Thick As Pig Shit". Tom is still in my phone contacts as TAPS POKER actually.

   

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I wrote a story about Ian "Belly" Oldershaw next door this morning. Anyone remember him?



   

Nope. Can't say I remember him at all.

link plz.

[tikay]

I wrote a story about Ian "Belly" Oldershaw next door this morning. Anyone remember him?



  

Nope. Can't say I remember him at all.

link plz.

You jest, surely? You must remember Belly? You had dinner with him at Brighton one night.

Can't link, dont wanna upset our Sponsors. FWIW, we were chit-chatting about whether I should go to The Vic tonight for a little PLO comp. Paul Jackson - not the poker player, this one posts as "Jac" here - asked me about my previous reluctance to play @ The Vic, as I never used to find it very player-friendly there. (It's fine now). I was in ramble-mode, & wrote.....  


Pretty much, yes, though the gist of the story was the way we are greeted, welcomed, or not, by Receptionists or "Front of House" staff.

That first impression is so important.
 
Being grilled so sternly by this unsmiling Receptionist was not exactly customer-friendly. Never smiled once, never made eye-contact, never looked up from tip-tip-tapping her keyboard.

After eventually gaining admittance, I wished her a good day. "Be a lot better when I get out of this damn place" she grunted, still without looking up.
 
It used to be the policy @ The Vic - & I thought it was no bad thing actually - that you could not wear trainers or plimsolls, only "proper shoes". Jen Mason, in those days, had this most horrendous pair of a sort of a cross between Ugg boots & carpet slippers. She was refused admission, so she removed them & was allowed to gain entrance barefoot.

A chap you may remember from the days back in Gala Notts was Ian "Belly" Oldershaw. "Belly" because he was, well, quite big.

He turned up at The Vic one night in a smart, clean, T-Shirt.

"Collared shirts only, sorry", & so he was turned away. In those days, unless you were seated before the first hand was dealt, that was it, you were not allowed to play.
 
So Belly dashed up to Woolworths on Edgware Road to get a proper shirt.
 
But...Woolworths never sold clothing as such - but they did sell children's school clothes.

He returned to The Vic 10 minutes later wearing a collared short designed to fit a 10 year old. The buttons never even reached the buttonholes, there was a gaping 9" gap between them, exposing his expansive belly. His arms were spread out wide as the sleeves were so tight. They let him in, of course.

A year or so later, Belly, Thewy & me went on to play 2003 MasterClassics in Amsterdam.

Him, Thewy & me were travelling & rooming together, we always did. We had all played the MasterClassics Festival, but I had to return home for work reasons, & so left Thewy & Belly out there to play the Main Event.
 
Belly was skinto, & so offered Thewy & I first option to buy some of his action. I emptied my pockets & said "you can have whatever I have left, just leave me my taxi fare to the Airport". Thewy did the same. I ended up with 19% of Belly's action, Thewy had 15% I think. We always swapped 10% anyway, it was a standing order.
 
A few days later, I'd forgotten all about it, I'm busy working, & I get a text from Thewy.

"Belly got 2nd in the MasterClassics Main Event for €120,000".

It was the biggest win I'd ever had at the time. God bless Belly.

Belly turned Pro shortly after that, but it never turned out well, so he went back to work, for Derbyshire County Council as I recall. Saw him at DTD a few years back.

Think he got banned by DTD actually, in odd circumstances.

We were on the same table when it kicked off. Belly was a proper decent bloke, polite & friendly, but he did not tolerate fools gladly. He was sat next to a drunk bloke who was completely bladdered & most onboxious, as drunks often are.
Drunk bloke kept nudging Belly, sort of touching his arm & messing about.

Belly says "do me a favour mate, keep your hands off me, I don't like folks touching me."

Geezer carries on, putting his arm round Belly & messing about, slobbering all over the place.
 
Belly is getting a bit cross now.

"Mate, seriously, I DON'T LIKE YOU KEEP TOUCHING ME, do me a favour, pack it up or I'll punch you in the smacker. And I'm, serious".  

Geezer continues, Belly stands up, picks the fella up & decks him. Belly gets banned. Honest, I've seen more trouble in cardrooms caused by drunks than enough. Belly should not have hit him, of course.

As a matter of fact, it was that big Amsterdam bink which sort of led to my retirement from proper work. Thewy was alrady a Pro, & Belly had now turned Pro. Thewy kept nagging me, "go on Tony, you are 55, if you don't do it now you never will". And after some dithering, I did exactly that.

Sorry, I'm in ramble mode.

[Gamblor21]

I'm considering the Omaha tonight, do you know stack stack/structure?

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I wrote a story about Ian "Belly" Oldershaw next door this morning. Anyone remember him?



  

Nope. Can't say I remember him at all.

link plz.

You jest, surely? You must remember Belly? You had dinner with him at Brighton one night.

You're so swooshable lately. I simply choose not to remember someone who likens my mental abilities to a porcine by-product.

Seriously though, I spent quite a bit of time with Ian before you came on the scene. I only lost contact with him when his magnesium flare poker career ended.  

[tikay]

I'm considering the Omaha tonight, do you know stack stack/structure?

Hi Ian,

I tried ringing up & asking them, lets just say that never went very well.

The website just tells us that tonight is....

£150 + £15 entry, 4/5/6 Card PLO, 7 handed tables, one level of each, single Re-Entry.

30 minute clock, 15,000 chips, 7pm start.

Guarantee is £5,000.

http://www.thepokerroom.co.uk/poker-room-2/tournaments/

Assuming most players take the re-entry, it only needs, say, 20 runners to hit the Guarantee, but that might be a struggle. Probably just play 3 places, too. You don't normally make Top 3 in PLO Tourneys, do you?

I'm still dithering. I can stay at home & play Online, & guarantee not to win or lose more than £20, & happily sit there & play in my knickers. Or get 3 trains up to Town, & meet real people in Live Poker, which is the nuts. No knickers though.

[tikay]

I wrote a story about Ian "Belly" Oldershaw next door this morning. Anyone remember him?



  

Nope. Can't say I remember him at all.

link plz.

You jest, surely? You must remember Belly? You had dinner with him at Brighton one night.

You're so swooshable lately. I simply choose not to remember someone who likens my mental abilities to a porcine by-product.

Seriously though, I spent quite a bit of time with Ian before you came on the scene. I only lost contact with him when his magnesium flare poker career ended.  

Bugger.

Thats was why I got a bit confused, as I knew you & he were quite close for a goodly while.

He rang me up one day & said he'd met this really weird bloke in Brighton. True, he did. I was always a bit suspicious of "met a bloke in Brighton".

[Claw75]

Haven't played poker in agessince this week but been enjoying a bit of zoom plo on stars this week with a small profit. Seriously tempted to crawl out of the woodwork and use it for a shot at tonight's game. Let me know if you're going and we can have that long overdue coffee and catch up beforehand x