Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

OBJECTION


I'll be administering the staking donations as per last year


claim your donations back against tax.


The word you were looking for was investment.

[tikay]

Rather later than promised, but here's the provisional playing schedule, & cost.

If anyone wants to change their requested % to a fixed sum, &/or reduce their investment, that's fine, nobody needs to feel committed at this stage.

This IS provisional, there are always various changes as we go along. I won't be playing anything without making the stakers aware in advance, though.  


Venetian, Friday 3rd June, 5pm, $600 PLO

Venetian, Sunday 5th June, 5pm, $600 PLO8

PH, Wednesday 8th June, 2pm, $240, 6 handed Big O

Golden Nugget, Sunday 12th June, 11am, $240 PLO8

Binions, Monday 13th June, Noon, $240 PLO8

PH, Wednesday 15th June, 2pm, $240 7 handed Big O.

Golden Nugget, Thursday 16th June, 11am, $240 Big O

Venetian, Sunday 19th June, Noon, $600 6-Max PLO

Golden Nugget, Tuesday 21st June, 11am, $570 PLO

WSOP, Wednesday 22nd June, 11am, $1,500 PLO

Golden Nugget, Thursday 23rd June, 11am, $350, Big O

Golden Nugget, Friday 24th June, 11am, $240 mixed PLO, PLO8, & Big O

Venetian, Monday 27th June, 5pm, $1,100 PLO8

Venetian, Friday 1st July, 5pm, $1,100 PLO/O8/Big O

WSOP, Sunday 3rd July, 3pm, $1,500 PLO8

Venetian, Monday 4th July, 5pm, $600 Big O

WSOP, Thursday July 7th, 3pm, $3,000 PLO8



I make that $12,960. In sterling, at today's rates, that is £8,868. So 1% would be £88.68, & a fixed investment of £100 buys 1.bit%.

Mere will be along in due course with the Spready to tidy everything up.

As to exchange rates, I'll leave that one to Mere to sort, & his decision will be binding on both parties. I don't expect either party to win or lose on Exchange Rates.    

1%  please  Tony, had deets but can no longer find them please send again.

Steve

Of course Steve, & thank you.

I won't be publishing further Staking Lists, you'll be pleased to know, as they will all be on the Spready.

The link to the Spready is http://bit.ly/1pdQZDY

I have not given thought to payments dates yet, but will PM it to all those who need it well in time.

Will probably set a payment date of about a week before I head off, on June 3rd.

[tikay]

I've just had a brainwave - I'll incorporate that Spready link into my blonde "signature", the thing you see at the bottom of every post.

Won't take me long to work out how to amend my sig. Talk amongst yourselves please, whilst I open the blonde bonnet.

[teamonkey]

Hi Mick,

Not sure how much 1% is, probably about £100, but £50 works fine for me, so I'll put you down for that, OK?

Appreciated, thank you.

What rig are you on, where is it, is it oil or gas? How do you get to & from it - by helicopter I guess? If so, do you have to undergo that emergency evacuation test thing, where they dunk you fully clothed in a swimming pool inside a mock up of a helicopter? Think I'd brick it if I had to do that.

Did you know that Bristow, who seem to make their living ferrying workers to & from oil & gas rigs, have 90 helicopters? Must be the largest helicopter fleet in the world, aside from the US military I'd think.



Mr Tikay

in reply to your questions:

1) i am on the Sedco 712 rig, the current client is Talisman Sinopec, the rig is run by Transocean, and i work for Fugro Subsea Services LTD as an ROV Pilot/Technician

2) We are currently on the Shaw Oilfield, about 120 miles east of Aberdeen

3) The rig can drill for oil or gas, it is not tied to a specific hydrocarbon type

4) transport to and from the rigs is usually by helicopter, however, due to another fatal incident, this time with an EC225 (known as the super puma), that happened ;ate last week in the Norweigan sector, there are calls for the fleet of 225s to be banned from being used as a transportation platform in the civilian world (the puma family of helis are still used in the RAF) and currently the CAA (Civilian Aviation Authority) have decked the fleet to carry out checks on all aircraft as to why the incident happened this time. This means that the other types of heli are now going to be used, causing those airframes to rewuire more frequent maintenence etc etc. This could turn into a long thread all on it's own

5) Yes indeed we have to pass a heli ditching simulation course to be allowed to work offshore. the initial course lasts 3 days, with a refresher required every 4 years. And we do indeed have to strap into a pretend heli, get lowered into a pool, the heli then flips upside down, and at that point we are supposed to undo our harnesses, and escape from the adjacent window.
the initial dunking drill is done without going upside down, and with no windows fitted, so it's into the water, unclip, and swim out the hole. At the end of the drills we are expected to go intothe water, force a window out of the frame, unclip our harnesses and then swim out.
During this time we wear a survivalsuit, life preservation jacket that currently has a built in mini air tank, inflatable life jacket, and locator beacon. However during training, and due to rules involving breathing high preasure air supplies, we practice with a slightly different rebreathing system that relies on the user putting a lung full of air into a bag, and using that for the minute or so that the drill can take (in the live version of these rebreathers, not the practice ones, there is a small cannister of pure oxygen inside the rebreather that is supposed to open when the jacket gets wet, giving the user up to 3-4 minutes of breathable air.
I
ve never had to use either type in anger, and hope i never have to in the future!!!

6) See above in answer 4. But on a side note, there are 3 main contractors in the UK for oil and gas transport, Bristows, Bond and CHC, all of them run the EC225 aircraft type, and if the aircraft type is no longer an option, there may be a lot of pilots who need to quickly get retrained on another type if they dont have it in their log books, or they will be out of a job.


hope this answers any questions, feel free to ask more and i'll answer if i can

Mick

[KarmaDope]

Mere - I assume as I'm paying in $$$ (cash in vegas) my amount for 2% is $260?

[MereNovice]

Mere - I assume as I'm paying in $$$ (cash in vegas) my amount for 2% is $260?

Any figure around that amount is fine.
I will calculate the exact percentage that it is worth once tikay has played his last event.

[KarmaDope]

Mere - I assume as I'm paying in $$$ (cash in vegas) my amount for 2% is $260?

Any figure around that amount is fine.
I will calculate the exact percentage that it is worth once tikay has played his last event.

Ok, for ease and round numbers put me in for $250

[MereNovice]

Mere - I assume as I'm paying in $$$ (cash in vegas) my amount for 2% is $260?

Any figure around that amount is fine.
I will calculate the exact percentage that it is worth once tikay has played his last event.

Ok, for ease and round numbers put me in for $250

Done.

[redsimon]

There's also a PLO8 $450 MTT at Aria on Saturday 25 June 11am if you wanted to add it to your schedule?

[Longines]

1% please Mr T if I may - looking forward to my annual vicarious PLO8 fix. PM bank details when you have a mo.

[EvilPie]

Tosser

[sonour]

Mere,

Is it ok for me to transfer £178 now ?

Thanks

[MereNovice]

Mere,

Is it ok for me to transfer £178 now ?

Thanks

Absolutely, if you have Mr. Kendall's bank details.
He may even favour you with an answer to your question one of these years.

[MPOWER]

Good Afternoon Tony

I will have a Punt.  3% if this is acceptable?

Regards

M

 

[tikay]

There's also a PLO8 $450 MTT at Aria on Saturday 25 June 11am if you wanted to add it to your schedule?

Good spot, Simon - thank you.

I'll keep that "provisional" for now - I'm a man of whims apparently - but yes, it looks a likely addition. There will be a few Comps added or missed, so it won't affect anything at this stage, & Vince's spread will take care of any changes.  

I'll almost certainly play it, though.