Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Karabiner]

Good few poker players I've come across that are/have been decent snooker players, century makers including...

James Akenhead
Kevin O'Leary
Me
Dominic Rice'n'peas (almost turned pro).

Any others to add to this illustrious list?

 

[tikay]

Lenton Abbey Ralph - on the A52 Priory roundabout. It's a Petrol Station/Office Block now. Used to be a Cinema before it was a snooker Club.

norr, I fail. you did play in bexleyheath back in the day though didn't you? or did I make that up?

Never played snooker in Bexleyheath, & I've tried very hard never to go anywhere near the dreadful place.

I've sussed where I got the idea from. you played poker at spiders in bexleyheath, albeit a lot more recently than that photo.

My word, what a memory you have! You are the anti-Cos.

You are right. In Bob The Butcher's spieler, & I won a £5k (I think) pot off Vic "Desperate Dan" Kanwar with a set of Jacks. Then had to find a way of getting the money out of the place. Entry & exit was gained via a flat-roof & an iron fire-escape staircase, at 5 in the morning, & Bob said "don't worry, come with me"........

[GreekStein]

To sidetrack slightyly, that kid you tipped as being kinda good is in the last 68 of the Prague EPT - with 462k in chips!

gogogo Toby Lewis.

I think he was partly staked by several blondes.

[kinboshi]

To sidetrack slightyly, that kid you tipped as being kinda good is in the last 68 of the Prague EPT - with 462k in chips!

gogogo Toby Lewis.

I think he was partly staked by several blondes.

Great work Toby.  Get it won!!

Tikay always has a nose for picking a winner.  You too Cos?

[GreekStein]

To sidetrack slightyly, that kid you tipped as being kinda good is in the last 68 of the Prague EPT - with 462k in chips!

gogogo Toby Lewis.

I think he was partly staked by several blondes.

Great work Toby.  Get it won!!

Tikay always has a nose for picking a winner.  You too Cos?

Be careful when you cross the road this weekend.

[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?

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.

Ugh, I feel the pain. Try & look at it positively - it was a reasonably cheap lesson. If only many of us - me included (though I'm talking gambling, pre-poker) had got off so cheap.

A great & honest Post.

[tikay]

To sidetrack slightyly, that kid you tipped as being kinda good is in the last 68 of the Prague EPT - with 462k in chips!

gogogo Toby Lewis.

I think he was partly staked by several blondes.

I think he has a great future, & have said so repeatedly. I'd prefer he did not get ahead of himself & get in a mess with staking, but that's just my view, & it won't be shared by many.

Nothing would please me more than were he to win the lot there. Time those county boys from Hampshire did something.

[EvilPie]

Lenton Abbey Stu - on the A52 Priory roundabout. It's a Petrol Station/Office Block now. Used to be a Cinema before it was a snooker Club.

I used to play there when I was a kid. Bunch of grimming bastards!!!! I can still remember it 18 years on.

First time I was ever grimmed!!!

[EvilPie]

Good few poker players I've come across that are/have been decent snooker players, century makers including...

James Akenhead
Kevin O'Leary
Me
Dominic Rice'n'peas (almost turned pro).

Any others to add to this illustrious list?

 

I believe Steve Davis could hit a ball or 2 in his time.

[tikay]

Lenton Abbey Stu - on the A52 Priory roundabout. It's a Petrol Station/Office Block now. Used to be a Cinema before it was a snooker Club.

I used to play there when I was a kid. Bunch of grimming bastards!!!! I can still remember it 18 years on.

First time I was ever grimmed!!!

Were you the chap that used to come every afternoon with Dale Winton, from Trent FM?

Quite a few footballers were in there regularly, too - Kenny Burns - obv - & a big tall centre forward who later got tx'd to Man United, I forget his name. not sure whether he was DC, NC or NF.

[GreekStein]

To sidetrack slightyly, that kid you tipped as being kinda good is in the last 68 of the Prague EPT - with 462k in chips!

gogogo Toby Lewis.

I think he was partly staked by several blondes.

I think he has a great future, & have said so repeatedly. I'd prefer he did not get ahead of himself & get in a mess with staking, but that's just my view, & it won't be shared by many.

Nothing would please me more than were he to win the lot there. Time those county boys from Hampshire did something.

I take it you've never bought a piece in anyone then?

[StuartHopkin]

Lenton Abbey Stu - on the A52 Priory roundabout. It's a Petrol Station/Office Block now. Used to be a Cinema before it was a snooker Club.

I used to play there when I was a kid. Bunch of grimming bastards!!!! I can still remember it 18 years on.

First time I was ever grimmed!!!

Were you the chap that used to come every afternoon with Dale Winton, from Trent FM?

Quite a few footballers were in there regularly, too - Kenny Burns - obv - & a big tall centre forward who later got tx'd to Man United, I forget his name. not sure whether he was DC, NC or NF.

Please, just one time, let this be true.

[gatso]

Were you the chap that used to come every afternoon with Dale Winton

I love that you asked matt that

[StuartHopkin]

To sidetrack slightyly, that kid you tipped as being kinda good is in the last 68 of the Prague EPT - with 462k in chips!

gogogo Toby Lewis.

I think he was partly staked by several blondes.

I think he has a great future, & have said so repeatedly. I'd prefer he did not get ahead of himself & get in a mess with staking, but that's just my view, & it won't be shared by many.

Nothing would please me more than were he to win the lot there. Time those county boys from Hampshire did something.

I take it you've never bought a piece in anyone then?

I think Tikay isnt a fan of the long term staking more than the one offs.

[tikay]

To sidetrack slightyly, that kid you tipped as being kinda good is in the last 68 of the Prague EPT - with 462k in chips!

gogogo Toby Lewis.

I think he was partly staked by several blondes.

I think he has a great future, & have said so repeatedly. I'd prefer he did not get ahead of himself & get in a mess with staking, but that's just my view, & it won't be shared by many.

Nothing would please me more than were he to win the lot there. Time those county boys from Hampshire did something.

I take it you've never bought a piece in anyone then?

You'd be wrong, as you well know.

I buy bits of friends, on occasion, as I feel fit, but I'd never "stake" anyone, (in the accepted sense of "staking") ever ever ever. Why on earth would I?