Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Karabiner]

A decent set of Results for 2010 for Ladbrokes, a 10% Final Div hike, & with newbie Richard Glynn solving many of their problems.  Except poker. They need to sort that 888 deal pretty sharpish. In the greater scheme of things, Poker makes not much difference overall to Laddies, it is a very small part of the whole.

Net poker revenue fell to £18.7 million, from £23.7 million. That is a serious drop, & follows several years of the same thing. It used to be my favourite site at one time, as it was to so many.

As to European Online Poker, they were in pole position to move onwards & upwards 5 or 6 years ago, be a "major" (European), but it all went wrong somewhere.



                                                               2010        2009         Change

Unique active players (000s)                         99          137          (-27.7%)

Average monthly active player days (000s)     226          293         (-22.9%)

Yield per unique active player (£)                  191          174         (+9.8%)

I'm not a follower of the finance as such but I used to be a big fan of Laddies poker when they were a stand-alone site, they were my "home" poker site and the one I used to fire up first every day for five or six years at least.

My favourite tourney was the 7pm. $10k gte. $20+R NLHE tourney which I won at least half a dozen times which shows you how long I must have been a reg. I used to play PLO and PLO8 cash on there quite a bit too.

Happy days but in the past now.

[wormster]

Thanks for that Steve, must have been terribly distresssing for all those who witnessed it first hand.

I assume, as a HorseRace TV Producer, you have a policy not to "linger" on situations where a horse falls heavily, or gets killed, in a jump race? As a viewer, I want to know if the horse is OK, but I don't want to actually see the result of the fall. Personally, I like it when the commentator utters the words "both horse & rider have got up safely".

You doing the Grand National this year, or Cheltenham?

I'm not sure if you've seen it, but one of the blonde Diaries I'm sure you'll enjoy is this one (below), written by an ex Racing Post journo, now a full time layabout & fashion icon. He has a white car with tinted windows, & a personalised plate. Honest, I kid you not.

It's here.....

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=51332.0

Yeah, we tend to join replays once the stricken horse is no longer in view.

After the Saturday at Newbury I was lucky enough to be invited to a box at Ascot & I met the owner of one of the fancied horses in the big race, a really sweet old lady that has probably bred & owned racehorses for years. She & her friends were full of beans as we sat down for lunch & she couldn't wait to get down to the paddock an hour or so later to see her horse get ready to race. Midway through, Pride of Dulcot lunges at a fence & shatters a leg and has to be destroyed. She didn't come back to the box.

And then today, we have a race voided because Star Player broke a leg at one of the hurdles and collapsed across the course and the rest of the field wouldn't have been able to race around him. A tough game this jumping lark.

I will be in the Teddington studios for Cheltenham & I will most likely be up at Aintree for the Grand National.

I'll take a look at that diary link soon. (A Racing Post journo becomes a layabout? I can't believe it)

[wormster]

I don't know if we can get it here, but in Kentucky (& I assume the rest of the US) you can now get KGC - Kentucky Grilled Chicken!

[MereNovice]

I remember Kenny Rogers (the c+w singer) being interviewed by Frank Skinner about his new culinary enterprise.

It was "Kenny Rogers Chicken" and it was advertised with the slogan "it's the wood that makes it so good".

The mind boggles.

His restaurant franchise is now called "Kenny Rogers Roasters" which sounds a little less eye-watering.

[Claw75]

"Kenny Rogers Roasters" which sounds a little less eye-watering.

really?

[MereNovice]

"Kenny Rogers Roasters" which sounds a little less eye-watering.

really?

Perhaps not.

[tikay]

A decent set of Results for 2010 for Ladbrokes, a 10% Final Div hike, & with newbie Richard Glynn solving many of their problems.  Except poker. They need to sort that 888 deal pretty sharpish. In the greater scheme of things, Poker makes not much difference overall to Laddies, it is a very small part of the whole.

Net poker revenue fell to £18.7 million, from £23.7 million. That is a serious drop, & follows several years of the same thing. It used to be my favourite site at one time, as it was to so many.

As to European Online Poker, they were in pole position to move onwards & upwards 5 or 6 years ago, be a "major" (European), but it all went wrong somewhere.



                                                               2010        2009         Change

Unique active players (000s)                         99          137          (-27.7%)

Average monthly active player days (000s)     226          293         (-22.9%)

Yield per unique active player (£)                  191          174         (+9.8%)

I'm not a follower of the finance as such but I used to be a big fan of Laddies poker when they were a stand-alone site, they were my "home" poker site and the one I used to fire up first every day for five or six years at least.

My favourite tourney was the 7pm. $10k gte. $20+R NLHE tourney which I won at least half a dozen times which shows you how long I must have been a reg. I used to play PLO and PLO8 cash on there quite a bit too.

Happy days but in the past now.

Sad, but true, Ralph.

Jeff Kimber used to do well on there, as did Tim Blake. "The Daddy" on Sunday was the highlight of the week, & I think Tom won that several times, too. As sexy Tourney monikers go, "The Daddy" was way ahead of it's time.

Nothing stays the same for long, I suppose, but, like the loss of Tribeca, it's a bit sad really.

You playing the £100 at DTD this Saturday?

[tikay]

Thanks for that Steve, must have been terribly distresssing for all those who witnessed it first hand.

I assume, as a HorseRace TV Producer, you have a policy not to "linger" on situations where a horse falls heavily, or gets killed, in a jump race? As a viewer, I want to know if the horse is OK, but I don't want to actually see the result of the fall. Personally, I like it when the commentator utters the words "both horse & rider have got up safely".

You doing the Grand National this year, or Cheltenham?

I'm not sure if you've seen it, but one of the blonde Diaries I'm sure you'll enjoy is this one (below), written by an ex Racing Post journo, now a full time layabout & fashion icon. He has a white car with tinted windows, & a personalised plate. Honest, I kid you not.

It's here.....

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=51332.0

Yeah, we tend to join replays once the stricken horse is no longer in view.

After the Saturday at Newbury I was lucky enough to be invited to a box at Ascot & I met the owner of one of the fancied horses in the big race, a really sweet old lady that has probably bred & owned racehorses for years. She & her friends were full of beans as we sat down for lunch & she couldn't wait to get down to the paddock an hour or so later to see her horse get ready to race. Midway through, Pride of Dulcot lunges at a fence & shatters a leg and has to be destroyed. She didn't come back to the box.

And then today, we have a race voided because Star Player broke a leg at one of the hurdles and collapsed across the course and the rest of the field wouldn't have been able to race around him. A tough game this jumping lark.

I will be in the Teddington studios for Cheltenham & I will most likely be up at Aintree for the Grand National.

I'll take a look at that diary link soon. (A Racing Post journo becomes a layabout? I can't believe it)

Do try & have a gander at that Diary, Steve, I think you'll enjoy it. The Author is a bit touchy, but it's a grand read. He even bets on the Eurovision Song Contest, & Strictly Come.

[tikay]

I don't know if we can get it here, but in Kentucky (& I assume the rest of the US) you can now get KGC - Kentucky Grilled Chicken!

Yup, it is being rolled out in all the UK franchises between now & September, at a cost of £7 million. The griddle equipment is called a "Brazer", apparently.

Apparently, this will be KFC's first "griddled" product. There will also be a griddled burger, "only" 400 cals, as opposed to 491 cals for a proper non-griddled burger. Tortilla wraps, too.

I'll stick to Simply M & S for now, I think.

I used to live on KFC, & adored it (I still love it, in fact), but I'd wake up the next day feeling terrible.  For bad goodness, I stick to Pork Pies & Sausage Rolls now, full of sogoodness. When I'm not on a Diet caused by them, that is.

Meanwhile, I remain stranded in the 12-10 to 12-12 range. Bugger, Topm's gonna lap me soon.

[tikay]

I remember Kenny Rogers (the c+w singer) being interviewed by Frank Skinner about his new culinary enterprise.

It was "Kenny Rogers Chicken" and it was advertised with the slogan "it's the wood that makes it so good".

The mind boggles.

His restaurant franchise is now called "Kenny Rogers Roasters" which sounds a little less eye-watering.

Vincent! I don't believe you Posted that.

[MereNovice]

I remember Kenny Rogers (the c+w singer) being interviewed by Frank Skinner about his new culinary enterprise.

It was "Kenny Rogers Chicken" and it was advertised with the slogan "it's the wood that makes it so good".

The mind boggles.

His restaurant franchise is now called "Kenny Rogers Roasters" which sounds a little less eye-watering.

Vincent! I don't believe you Posted that.

I knooooow. Not only have I let myself down, I've let you down, I've let the whole forum down.

Incidentally, you added an erroneous apostrophe in one of your "it's" in a post above.

[tikay]

The news Footage from the Christchurch earthquake seems incredible, though that sounds awful, like saying I went to a good funerral.

But it is amazing, lots of "as it happens" stuff. If it were in China, or Russia, it would get a small mention in a Page 13 sidebar.

A good friend of mine over at Sky Sports has just returned from her honeymoon in Christchurch, on Saturday, & only days ago was in that Cathedral that suffered so badly.

She sent me a link to an eye-watering Website, "New Zealand Quake Map", & if you can figure out how it works, well done, because I struggled a bit, but it's worrth the effort.

The world of communicatuon is changing so quickly. This website, in near real-time I think, is actually (the last time I looked) 8 hours ahead of us! See the quakes before they happen.

http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

[tikay]

I remember Kenny Rogers (the c+w singer) being interviewed by Frank Skinner about his new culinary enterprise.

It was "Kenny Rogers Chicken" and it was advertised with the slogan "it's the wood that makes it so good".

The mind boggles.

His restaurant franchise is now called "Kenny Rogers Roasters" which sounds a little less eye-watering.

Vincent! I don't believe you Posted that.

I knooooow. Not only have I let myself down, I've let you down, I've let the whole forum down.

Incidentally, you added an erroneous apostrophe in one of your "it's" in a post above.

We set such a bad example. Whatever will China Mug make of it?

[Chompy]

Bernudd is on the fown in fludds of tares to rarje as we spike

[Karabiner]

A decent set of Results for 2010 for Ladbrokes, a 10% Final Div hike, & with newbie Richard Glynn solving many of their problems.  Except poker. They need to sort that 888 deal pretty sharpish. In the greater scheme of things, Poker makes not much difference overall to Laddies, it is a very small part of the whole.

Net poker revenue fell to £18.7 million, from £23.7 million. That is a serious drop, & follows several years of the same thing. It used to be my favourite site at one time, as it was to so many.

As to European Online Poker, they were in pole position to move onwards & upwards 5 or 6 years ago, be a "major" (European), but it all went wrong somewhere.



                                                               2010        2009         Change

Unique active players (000s)                         99          137          (-27.7%)

Average monthly active player days (000s)     226          293         (-22.9%)

Yield per unique active player (£)                  191          174         (+9.8%)

I'm not a follower of the finance as such but I used to be a big fan of Laddies poker when they were a stand-alone site, they were my "home" poker site and the one I used to fire up first every day for five or six years at least.

My favourite tourney was the 7pm. $10k gte. $20+R NLHE tourney which I won at least half a dozen times which shows you how long I must have been a reg. I used to play PLO and PLO8 cash on there quite a bit too.

Happy days but in the past now.

Sad, but true, Ralph.

Jeff Kimber used to do well on there, as did Tim Blake. "The Daddy" on Sunday was the highlight of the week, & I think Tom won that several times, too. As sexy Tourney monikers go, "The Daddy" was way ahead of it's time.

Nothing stays the same for long, I suppose, but, like the loss of Tribeca, it's a bit sad really.

You playing the £100 at DTD this Saturday?

A very good chance that I'll be playing it Tony.

See you there?