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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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December 19, 2009, 12:54:44 PM »
The problem of water was one we were forever battling at Croydon,the water lagoon we drew from was always suffering an overspill from the silt lagoon next to it and it was a constant struggle to keep enough water in supply to ensure the plant could run,anyway Cemex closed the place a while ago and most of us have decamped to the landfill next door but hopefully i can get back into the quarry game one day (after 10 years i was just getting good at it lol) i think the nearest ones to me now are Dorking/Boxhill way.
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December 19, 2009, 01:17:37 PM »
Quote from: tikay on December 19, 2009, 12:46:26 PM
I rang a friend of mine the other day, & I could tell he was out in open countryside, I could hear the birdsong. "What you doing?" I enquired. "Admiring some cattle" he replied. It tickled me for a thousand reasons, & I was insanely jealous. Only he & I know why, though.
Bovine fetish obviously, see I'm not one of those knuckleheads I get all these bits of code...
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I guess I ought to insert a token piece of poker chat now & then, so did anyone see this hand from yesterday's Live Update? Tourney Life is so cheap these days. Though I'm sure everyone wll be on my case & say the play was good.
This is C & P from yesterdays splendid DTD live Update by his Tight-Ness.
"Quite a hand here
Mark Westbrook raises to 3600 utg
Paul Rayner flats as does the button
Rick Trigg pushes for 14,000 more from the big blind
Westbrook calls
Rayner calls!
Button passes
So we have a three way coup and a 60,000 side pot for starters
flop
Westbrook pushes
Rayner beats him into the pot for a 80,000 main pot, and 140,000 in total
Triggs flips
Westbrook
Rayner
turn and river
and Paul Rayner becomes an enormous chip leader ....."
The mind boggles.
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Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary
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December 19, 2009, 01:57:58 PM »
Quote from: tikay on December 19, 2009, 01:41:20 PM
I guess I ought to insert a token piece of poker chat now & then, so did anyone see this hand from yesterday's Live Update? Tourney Life is so cheap these days. Though I'm sure everyone wll be on my case & say the play was good.
This is C & P from yesterdays splendid DTD live Update by his Tight-Ness.
"Quite a hand here
Mark Westbrook raises to 3600 utg
Paul Rayner flats as does the button
Rick Trigg pushes for 14,000 more from the big blind
Westbrook calls
Rayner calls!
Button passes
So we have a three way coup and a 60,000 side pot for starters
flop
Westbrook pushes
Rayner beats him into the pot for a 80,000 main pot, and 140,000 in total
Triggs flips
Westbrook
Rayner
turn and river
and Paul Rayner becomes an enormous chip leader ....."
The mind boggles.
Paul came and sat next to me shortly after this hand and told me all about it.
10400 to call, over 30k in the pot so worth a look at a flop.
"If the guy shoves instead of flatting the 14000 I obviously pass"
Fair enough.
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December 19, 2009, 02:01:18 PM »
Quote from: EvilPie on December 19, 2009, 01:57:58 PM
Quote from: tikay on December 19, 2009, 01:41:20 PM
I guess I ought to insert a token piece of poker chat now & then, so did anyone see this hand from yesterday's Live Update? Tourney Life is so cheap these days. Though I'm sure everyone wll be on my case & say the play was good.
This is C & P from yesterdays splendid DTD live Update by his Tight-Ness.
"Quite a hand here
Mark Westbrook raises to 3600 utg
Paul Rayner flats as does the button
Rick Trigg pushes for 14,000 more from the big blind
Westbrook calls
Rayner calls!
Button passes
So we have a three way coup and a 60,000 side pot for starters
flop
Westbrook pushes
Rayner beats him into the pot for a 80,000 main pot, and 140,000 in total
Triggs flips
Westbrook
Rayner
turn and river
and Paul Rayner becomes an enormous chip leader ....."
The mind boggles.
Paul came and sat next to me shortly after this hand and told me all about it.
10400 to call, over 30k in the pot so worth a look at a flop.
"If the guy shoves instead of flatting the 14000 I obviously pass"
Fair enough.
Really? I mean, he HAS to catch 2 pair or Trips minimum, or 8-9 & a prayer.
If he has that price, fair play to him.
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December 19, 2009, 02:02:05 PM »
Blubberhouses is in North Yorkshire and sits right in the middle of the Washburn valley reservoir system. I think your silica quarry must have been somewhere else.
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December 19, 2009, 02:04:17 PM »
Quote from: Wardonkey on December 19, 2009, 02:02:05 PM
Blubberhouses is in North Yorkshire and sits right in the middle of the Washburn valley reservoir system. I think your silica quarry must have been somewhere else.
No - that's the place, though I mistakenly described it as being in Lancashire. I fancy it must be quite near the County border.
Blubberhouses is exactly where you say it it, BUT, the Quarry was on a place called Blubberhouses Moor, which is quite high up, way above the Valley.
The Moor is some 300 metres above Sea-Level I believe.
See....
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.walkingenglishman.com/leedsharrogate/20blubberhouses/blubberhouses.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.walkingenglishman.com/leedsharrogate20.htm&usg=___ewy8AMBVsw-twuRFBl4rO3RJVk=&h=321&w=484&sz=99&hl=en&start=1&itbs=1&tbnid=X6KLC5-mfV43UM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblubberhouses%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DG
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December 19, 2009, 02:07:24 PM »
Quote from: tikay on December 19, 2009, 02:01:18 PM
Quote from: EvilPie on December 19, 2009, 01:57:58 PM
Paul came and sat next to me shortly after this hand and told me all about it.
10400 to call, over 30k in the pot so worth a look at a flop.
"If the guy shoves instead of flatting the 14000 I obviously pass"
Fair enough.
Really? I mean, he HAS to catch 2 pair or Trips minimum, or 8-9 & a prayer.
If he has that price, fair play to him.
I can only quote the man's justification.
To be fair it is a bad play from Mr JJ to not iso shove but 10 7 is obviously not the hand you expect to see following a call.
He disguised it's strength very well don't you think?
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December 19, 2009, 02:11:06 PM »
Quote from: EvilPie on December 19, 2009, 02:07:24 PM
Quote from: tikay on December 19, 2009, 02:01:18 PM
Quote from: EvilPie on December 19, 2009, 01:57:58 PM
Paul came and sat next to me shortly after this hand and told me all about it.
10400 to call, over 30k in the pot so worth a look at a flop.
"If the guy shoves instead of flatting the 14000 I obviously pass"
Fair enough.
Really? I mean, he HAS to catch 2 pair or Trips minimum, or 8-9 & a prayer.
If he has that price, fair play to him.
I can only quote the man's justification.
To be fair it is a bad play from Mr JJ to not iso shove but 10 7 is obviously not the hand you expect to see following a call.
He disguised it's strength very well don't you think?
Oh, I'm not arguing, just chewing the cud.
And you are right - he sure did disguise his hand well.......
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December 19, 2009, 02:19:39 PM »
I wouldn't say it was close to the border, it's between Harrogate and Skipton. I go out there walking sometimes.
Sorry I'm just being annoying now, I can see how getting water to run uphill would be a problem.
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December 19, 2009, 02:25:36 PM »
Quote from: Wardonkey on December 19, 2009, 02:19:39 PM
I wouldn't say it was close to the border, it's between Harrogate and Skipton. I go out there walking sometimes.
Sorry I'm just being annoying now, I can see how getting water to run uphill would be a problem.
Not annoying at all, I'm glad at least someone found it worthy of comment, even if only to disagree!
I just "had it in my mind" that it was in, or close to, Lancashire, I'm not sure why.
It's stunningly beautiful there, & last year, I spent a day by the resevoirs down by the main road (A59?), & I think I saw more varieties of duck & wild-fowl than I can recall seeing anywhere. The Reservoir was part of the Water Supply system for Leeds IIRC. In fact, I think there were 6 or 7 reservoirs in a row, all linked to each other I assume.
I must go back, it's stunning countryside. I think there was a Satellite (?) Tracking Station near there, too, yes?
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December 19, 2009, 02:30:25 PM »
I worked on a lot of Service Reservoirs up that way, (some are buried under the ground) & many of the Towns had the "thwaite" suffix - Linthwaite, Braithwaite, Hampsthwaite, Thomthwaite.
The "thwaite" was pronounced ""wa", so Linthwaite was "Linwa". I did make a cock of myself when asking directions..... (This was pre Tom-Toms & suchlike).
Just as well "Thomthwaite" was not pronounced phonetically, too.
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December 19, 2009, 02:47:12 PM »
If you are not reading Tighty's Live Update frm DTD, you are missing a classic, he is in absolutely splendid form, dropping little one liners in nearly every Post.
Here's his latest.....
Jason Clarke from Milton Keynes. Second and third ranked player in Milton Keynes in fact.
Kid gloves beats the sledgehmmer every day.
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December 19, 2009, 02:51:13 PM »
Menwith Hill is very close by which is a RAF/Us Airforce base. It's main function is a NATO communications centre, there are strangle 'golf ball' like structures which house antennae that can be seen from the road, A59 I think is right.
The reservoir system has three reserviors one after the other along the valley, Thurcross, Fewston then Swinty. I don't think there are any more.
It's very pretty part of the world. Yorkshire Water have done very well to improve access to these areas. I'm always in awe of the scale of the engineering that built the reservoirs, and that they manage to do a job much bigger than they were designed for so many years later.
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Quote from: Wardonkey on December 19, 2009, 02:51:13 PM
Menwith Hill is very close by which is a RAF/Us Airforce base. It's main function is a NATO communications centre,
there are strangle 'golf ball' like structures which house antennae that can be seen from the road, A59 I think is right.
The reservoir system has three reserviors one after the other along the valley, Thurcross, Fewston then Swinty. I don't think there are any more.
It's very pretty part of the world. Yorkshire Water have done very well to improve access to these areas. I'm always in awe of the scale of the engineering that built the reservoirs, and that they manage to do a job much bigger than they were designed for so many years later.
Yes, I recall the "golf balls" sat atop the hills, a most peculiar sight given the surroundings.
Yes, fair play to YWA, all the Reservours are accessible, & they beat Alton Towers all day long for wow factor. To think those resrvoirs were designed & constructed over a hundred years ago, for, as you say, a much lesser capacity, is astonishing. How often do UK reservoirs, despite their age, fail?
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