Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[kinboshi]

Nice jumpers.

[titaniumbean]

Resist me if you can is such a great pic.

Love them Tony. Keep it up and see you at DTD on Sunday if you make it

[Claw75]

Finally, a gathering at the snooker club.

That'd be, on the left on the sofa, Sharon, me, Wendy, & Steve. My oh my, that was some game of Musical Chairs.

ooo this sounds like my kind of story...

[TightEnd]

Finally, a gathering at the snooker club.

That'd be, on the left on the sofa, Sharon, me, Wendy, & Steve. My oh my, that was some game of Musical Chairs.

ooo this sounds like my kind of story...

Notice how each lady either side of him is looking very tactile.

I am putting 2 and 2 together at this point, and thinking about Golf Courses.

[Dingdell]

Positively the most embarrassing pic ever taken, but hey, warts & all is ok. Mid 1980's I think.

Did you drive a Cortina in those days? In this pic you have the air of a man who leaves work and drives his cortina home. Don't know why, you just do. 

I'm going with a Capri or a Chevette.

Yup - a Capri. White. Of course.

I had a Cortina, too - a 2.8 Ghia with all the trimmings. Beautiful bit of kit, but I went through 4 engines. And two driving licences.

A Capri!! I can't tell you how many bloody Capri rallies I went to in the 80's. Fields full of proud Capri owners, hot Saturday and Sunday afternoons looking at Capri's, driving in covoys of Capri's to the fields, driving in convoys of Capri's home again, ah good thing my youth was spent so wisely. 

Those were the carefree days. Where did they go?? 

[tikay]

Yeah being backed is not all its cracked up to be i can tell you. I guess you have got to have the correct mindset to begin with, i have only been staked once and it led me to making some unbelieveably stupid decisions and losing the lot.

Which led to allsorts of unpleasantness on both sides. But you live and learn so they say and as well as paying the cash back ( which will take time but will be done with interest ) i will never ask anybody in any aspect of life for another penny again. Don't mind being a staker but never again a stakee.

For me its my one poker regret.

Nope neither a borrower or a lender be,i've just not got the mental capacity for it.

Respect, bud. I'm not getting on anyone's case here, it just worries me more & more, & your explanation says so much.

I never USED to think that way - is was no big deal to borrow to gamble - but I've done a back-flip recently. Look around the Poker Forum's - everyone does Staking now! I bet some folks are being staked by 3 or 4 different Stakers, too.

Add in Bad-Beat, & Black-Belt - admirable in their own way, & very well run - but you start to see the picture. And EMS, & Tony G, & da de da. Poker is more & more relying on credit.

If I may ask, how much (ball-park) were you in for? And were you legally, or morally, required to make up the make up?

[tikay]

Finally, a gathering at the snooker club.

That'd be, on the left on the sofa, Sharon, me, Wendy, & Steve. My oh my, that was some game of Musical Chairs.

ooo this sounds like my kind of story...

I need to be more subtle with my clues, but poor old Cos was getting whooshed too often. Whereas YOU young lady are, as ever, a step ahead.

[GreekStein]

Finally, a gathering at the snooker club.

That'd be, on the left on the sofa, Sharon, me, Wendy, & Steve. My oh my, that was some game of Musical Chairs.

ooo this sounds like my kind of story...

I need to be more subtle with my clues, but poor old Cos was getting whooshed too often. Whereas YOU young lady are, as ever, a step ahead.

I still got whooshed!

FFsssssssssss.

[tikay]

Positively the most embarrassing pic ever taken, but hey, warts & all is ok. Mid 1980's I think.

Did you drive a Cortina in those days? In this pic you have the air of a man who leaves work and drives his cortina home. Don't know why, you just do. 

I'm going with a Capri or a Chevette.

Yup - a Capri. White. Of course.

I had a Cortina, too - a 2.8 Ghia with all the trimmings. Beautiful bit of kit, but I went through 4 engines. And two driving licences.

A Capri!! I can't tell you how many bloody Capri rallies I went to in the 80's. Fields full of proud Capri owners, hot Saturday and Sunday afternoons looking at Capri's, driving in covoys of Capri's to the fields, driving in convoys of Capri's home again, ah good thing my youth was spent so wisely. 

Those were the carefree days. Where did they go?? 

Capris were THE thing Trace, as you know.

I had three. A standard 1.6 L, white, a 2 litre GL, black, & an absolute beaut, a 2.3 Ghia, white, with that sexy hump on the bonnet.

Some years earlier - this will be lost on most - I had an MGB GT. Now that was some machine, in the day.

PS - Hope you are feeling better.

[AndrewT]

If Rookie and Red-Dog had a child together - that would be him in the top-right.

[StuartHopkin]

Yeah being backed is not all its cracked up to be i can tell you. I guess you have got to have the correct mindset to begin with, i have only been staked once and it led me to making some unbelieveably stupid decisions and losing the lot.

Which led to allsorts of unpleasantness on both sides. But you live and learn so they say and as well as paying the cash back ( which will take time but will be done with interest ) i will never ask anybody in any aspect of life for another penny again. Don't mind being a staker but never again a stakee.

For me its my one poker regret.

Nope neither a borrower or a lender be,i've just not got the mental capacity for it.

Respect, bud. I'm not getting on anyone's case here, it just worries me more & more, & your explanation says so much.

I never USED to think that way - is was no big deal to borrow to gamble - but I've done a back-flip recently. Look around the Poker Forum's - everyone does Staking now! I bet some folks are being staked by 3 or 4 different Stakers, too.

Add in Bad-Beat, & Black-Belt - admirable in their own way, & very well run - but you start to see the picture. And EMS, & Tony G, & da de da. Poker is more & more relying on credit.

If I may ask, how much (ball-park) were you in for? And were you legally, or morally, required to make up the make up?

Long time lurker first time poster on this thread 

Im quite intrested in all this staking thats going on. I havent really heard any great success stories from anyone, but Im starting to here some pretty worrying ones.

Did you call an end to the agreement pokefast knowing you would have to repay the makeup.

P.s. The Resist me if you can pic has made my day!

[tikay]

If Rookie and Red-Dog had a child together - that would be him in the top-right.

His name was Colin Sales, & he was, even by the standards in those days, a total total degen. A worthless piece of poo, in fact.

He had an illness which meant he was scared of going out of the house, & so could not work, & was on perma-benefit. He played for our Snooker Team, & we went to Matches all over the County, & the illness went into remission annually when the Snooker Club had theirl jaunt to Majorca.

[tikay]

Yeah being backed is not all its cracked up to be i can tell you. I guess you have got to have the correct mindset to begin with, i have only been staked once and it led me to making some unbelieveably stupid decisions and losing the lot.

Which led to allsorts of unpleasantness on both sides. But you live and learn so they say and as well as paying the cash back ( which will take time but will be done with interest ) i will never ask anybody in any aspect of life for another penny again. Don't mind being a staker but never again a stakee.

For me its my one poker regret.

Nope neither a borrower or a lender be,i've just not got the mental capacity for it.

Respect, bud. I'm not getting on anyone's case here, it just worries me more & more, & your explanation says so much.

I never USED to think that way - is was no big deal to borrow to gamble - but I've done a back-flip recently. Look around the Poker Forum's - everyone does Staking now! I bet some folks are being staked by 3 or 4 different Stakers, too.

Add in Bad-Beat, & Black-Belt - admirable in their own way, & very well run - but you start to see the picture. And EMS, & Tony G, & da de da. Poker is more & more relying on credit.

If I may ask, how much (ball-park) were you in for? And were you legally, or morally, required to make up the make up?

Long time lurker first time poster on this thread 

Im quite intrested in all this staking thats going on. I havent really heard any great success stories from anyone, but Im starting to here some pretty worrying ones.

Did you call an end to the agreement pokefast knowing you would have to repay the makeup.

P.s. The Resist me if you can pic has made my day!

Why? Because I was so damn cool?

[TightEnd]

What standard snooker player were you?

Still play? Still watch?

You saw the news this week about the governing body getting chucked out and replaced by...Barry Hearn and team?

I predict a brighter future for snooker again from here with Mr Hearn in the drving seat again

[pokefast]

Yeah being backed is not all its cracked up to be i can tell you. I guess you have got to have the correct mindset to begin with, i have only been staked once and it led me to making some unbelieveably stupid decisions and losing the lot.

Which led to allsorts of unpleasantness on both sides. But you live and learn so they say and as well as paying the cash back ( which will take time but will be done with interest ) i will never ask anybody in any aspect of life for another penny again. Don't mind being a staker but never again a stakee.

For me its my one poker regret.

Nope neither a borrower or a lender be,i've just not got the mental capacity for it.

Respect, bud. I'm not getting on anyone's case here, it just worries me more & more, & your explanation says so much.

I never USED to think that way - is was no big deal to borrow to gamble - but I've done a back-flip recently. Look around the Poker Forum's - everyone does Staking now! I bet some folks are being staked by 3 or 4 different Stakers, too.

Add in Bad-Beat, & Black-Belt - admirable in their own way, & very well run - but you start to see the picture. And EMS, & Tony G, & da de da. Poker is more & more relying on credit.

If I may ask, how much (ball-park) were you in for? And were you legally, or morally, required to make up the make up?

Basically i was in a bad place both mentally and financially when the offer to stake me arose,and as such should have swerved it. I did not!.

Thought it was a chance to get back on the poker ladder,after a very traumatic time in our lives, and it would of been too,maybe,but i could not shake the feeling of " i must not lose this money " and inevitably i did in double quick fashion breaking every bankroll management rule in the book. And equally regretably getting banned from elsewhere in the process.

I felt and still feel sick to the stomach about the whole episode.

It was small change ( $1000 ) to some i suppose,but not to me,but when circumstances allow that money will be repaid with interest.

I have no legal rights to pay this money back but morally i believe i do.

Never again,not for me.