Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[gatso]

decided to look it up myself

if only more people would do this my life would be much easier

[kinboshi]

More than £8 billion profit in a 14 week period.

 http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/01/24Apple-Reports-First-Quarter-Results.html

[tikay]

More than £8 billion profit in a 14 week period.

 http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/01/24Apple-Reports-First-Quarter-Results.html

Eye-watering stuff!

 The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion,

The Company sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 128 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 15.43 million iPads during the quarter, a 111 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 5.2 million Macs during the quarter, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 15.4 million iPods, a 21 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

We are very happy to have generated over $17.5 billion in cash flow from operations during the December quarter

The question, of course, is what comes next, the current generation stuff still has a few years left, but as can be seen with i-pod sales, it only lasts for so long, then new toys are needed.

Incredible, absolutely incredible, results.

[Solaris]

Not bad for a company selling fairly average products...

[tikay]

Not bad for a company selling fairly average products...

!

I'm not getting into the Apple debate, but as a business, it is quite exceptional. And I must say, I have an i-Pad now, & the user interface, short of a few niggles, is just the greatest.

I do know that Apple are a bit like Marmite, & the IT geeks are all passionately for or against Apple, there are rarely shades of grey.

Seems a daft thing to get uppity about, to me, when there is the fascination of concrete, slump tests, cube testing & the like to cogitate.

[tikay]

Camel made mention of Jeff Buffenburger ("Buff") somewhere yesterday.

Buff is one of those rare folks who is liked by everyone. A big smile is perma-fixed to his face, & he always sees the positive side of life, a proper glass half full guy.

He has a business - I think he trades in used Mobile Phones & Office copiers etc, he refurbishes them & resells them, probably - I don't know - to third world countries. 

If you play poker, & Jeff walks into the room, you'd pay good money for him to be on your table, he is such fun, & I've never once known him throw a sulk over anything.

He went through a bad spell about 2 years back, due to illness in tyjhe family, which never worked out well, but he seems to have got his mojo back now.

In the inaugural WSOP-E (£10k buy-in), Jeff was in good shape & they were on the money bubble. A deep-stacked kid was exploiting the bubble dynamic, & when Jeff opened with K-K, the kid jammed on him, expecting a fold, & Jeff, of course, made the quick call to find himself up against K-8, or K-10, as good as it gets, but the kid got lucky & busted Jeff. Even that never wiped the smile off his face (he plays off his own money), despite the fact that £19,000 had just gone down the swanee. 

We see "heroes" & "legends" talked about in poker every day, which is a slight exaggaration of the term, to put it mildly, but if there were suich a thing as a poker hero, Jeff would be one.

In the photos below, you'll see thr "Michigan" cap - Jeff is a yank, & in one photo, note the random fish on his mobile, tsk tsk. That, as it happens, was Luton, & on the table also was "Pepe", & Joe Grech. Plus the random on his phone.

[rex008]

Not bad for a company selling fairly average products...

!

I'm not getting into the Apple debate, but as a business, it is quite exceptional. And I must say, I have an i-Pad now, & the user interface, short of a few niggles, is just the greatest.

I do know that Apple are a bit like Marmite, & the IT geeks are all passionately for or against Apple, there are rarely shades of grey.

Seems a daft thing to get uppity about, to me, when there is the fascination of concrete, slump tests, cube testing & the like to cogitate.

Being an IT geek and liking Apple are mutually exclusive. You can't claim both.

Their results are spectacular. Truly amazing. I do wonder, now Steve Jobs has departed this mortal coil, whether they'll actually start doing something with the cash mountain. Which I believe currently stands somewhere between $90b and $100b. Be interesting to see if they pay a dividend any time soon.

[DaveShoelace]

I remember that jeff hand, he also bubbled a wsop limit event in Vegas with the same cheerful grace while having to walk across a packed card room cheering and whooping because they all made the money

[AndrewT]

Their results are spectacular. Truly amazing. I do wonder, now Steve Jobs has departed this mortal coil, whether they'll actually start doing something with the cash mountain. Which I believe currently stands somewhere between $90b and $100b. Be interesting to see if they pay a dividend any time soon.

Someone should point them in the direction of the staking boards.

[tikay]

Morning Mr Carter.

How is Paris, and the European Poker Award things?

[Laxie]

Morning Mr Carter.

How is Paris, and the European Poker Award things?

Rumour has it, he's going broke paying for pints.

[DaveShoelace]

Someone asked me what Paris was like the other day- I told them to wait until it is really cold, go outside, set fire to all the money you have in your pocket, then take a high strength laxative - pretty much sums up the experience for me.

As for the awards, they are always one of the best nights of the year for me, I get to judge with the legendary mr raab and the lovely miss kara Scott in a couple of hours time. I will be tweeting the results this evening if anyone gives a toss, I will be pretty hammered so they could include swears n that

[DaveShoelace]

Morning Mr Carter.

How is Paris, and the European Poker Award things?

Rumour has it, he's going broke paying for pints.

€10 for a 330ml bottle of Heineken, euro zone crisis my arse

Free bar tonight tho to make up for it

[Laxie]

Morning Mr Carter.

How is Paris, and the European Poker Award things?

Rumour has it, he's going broke paying for pints.

€10 for a 330ml bottle of Heineken, euro zone crisis my arse

Free bar tonight tho to make up for it

I dunno.  Was there last year and it was all very civilised.  Not one of us was drunk leaving the place at 2am, despite all the free drink. 

Ah well, have a great time and enjoy the freebies! 

[skolsuper]

Camel made mention of Jeff Buffenburger ("Buff") somewhere yesterday.

Buff is one of those rare folks who is liked by everyone. A big smile is perma-fixed to his face, & he always sees the positive side of life, a proper glass half full guy.

He has a business - I think he trades in used Mobile Phones & Office copiers etc, he refurbishes them & resells them, probably - I don't know - to third world countries. 

If you play poker, & Jeff walks into the room, you'd pay good money for him to be on your table, he is such fun, & I've never once known him throw a sulk over anything.

He went through a bad spell about 2 years back, due to illness in tyjhe family, which never worked out well, but he seems to have got his mojo back now.

In the inaugural WSOP-E (£10k buy-in), Jeff was in good shape & they were on the money bubble. A deep-stacked kid was exploiting the bubble dynamic, & when Jeff opened with K-K, the kid jammed on him, expecting a fold, & Jeff, of course, made the quick call to find himself up against K-8, or K-10, as good as it gets, but the kid got lucky & busted Jeff. Even that never wiped the smile off his face (he plays off his own money), despite the fact that £19,000 had just gone down the swanee. 

We see "heroes" & "legends" talked about in poker every day, which is a slight exaggaration of the term, to put it mildly, but if there were suich a thing as a poker hero, Jeff would be one.

In the photos below, you'll see thr "Michigan" cap - Jeff is a yank, & in one photo, note the random fish on his mobile, tsk tsk. That, as it happens, was Luton, & on the table also was "Pepe", & Joe Grech. Plus the random on his phone.

I was sat to his left when this happened, and the bubble was over £27,000 that 1st year. Such an incredibly nice guy, didn't stop laughing and joking all day, but even he let a note of disappointment creep into his voice for just a second after that. IIRC "the kid" was Marcello Marigliano: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=91660