Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Do you remember the time Karl, I, you and IrishDenis made the final 4 at the Western?

Things did not go too smoothly on that final either....lot of water flown under mutual bridges since then!

 

I don't remember this one?

Just a minor midweek Western Tuesday night £100(?) buy in

I'm guessing 2007 or 2008

We made the final four

A couple of us wanted to chop (stupidly, probably, but it was sort of the way back then) you said no...

Someone who shall remain nameless was knocked out fourth, so we chopped.

:-)

Lol, FML.

[TightEnd]

Andrew Georgiou still very much part of the London circuit, and occasionally seen at DTD

Sadly lost his wife a few years ago, and withdrew for a while but around and about again now

[Dry em]

I Posted this 10 minutes ago, it is a Final Table in 2004.....

1st Surindar Sunar £17,024
2nd Sonny Nijran £8,960
3rd Paul Maddern £5,824
4th Fari Badiemansour £3,584
5th Simon Trumper £2,240
6th Mick Cook £2,016
7th M Clark £1,792
8th Andrew Georgiou £1,568
9th Ben Grundy £1,344
10th Joe Beevers £448


Then, 5 mins later, Karl Posted a Link to an Omaha Final Table that went off 3 weeks ago....(with acknowledgement to The Hendon Mob .com)

Lalit Khajuria    £3,745    $5,849 
Zandi Dezman    £3,745    $5,849 
Unknown    £2,065    $3,225 
Robert Harkins    £1,225    $1,913 
Andrew Georgiou    £980    $1,531 
Marvin Babul    £735    $1,148 
Chandra Khajuria    £595    $929 
Balbir Pottiwal    £490    $765 
Karl Mahrenholz    £420    $656 


Incred that one guy featured on both - 8 years apart.

2 guys in fact

[Dry em]

Do you remember the time Karl, I, you and IrishDenis made the final 4 at the Western?

Things did not go too smoothly on that final either....lot of water flown under mutual bridges since then!

 

I don't remember this one?

Just a minor midweek Western Tuesday night £100(?) buy in

I'm guessing 2007 or 2008

We made the final four

A couple of us wanted to chop (stupidly, probably, but it was sort of the way back then) you said no...

Someone who shall remain nameless was knocked out fourth, so we chopped.

:-)

Lol, FML.

Me again?

[tikay]

I Posted this 10 minutes ago, it is a Final Table in 2004.....

1st Surindar Sunar £17,024
2nd Sonny Nijran £8,960
3rd Paul Maddern £5,824
4th Fari Badiemansour £3,584
5th Simon Trumper £2,240
6th Mick Cook £2,016
7th M Clark £1,792
8th Andrew Georgiou £1,568
9th Ben Grundy £1,344
10th Joe Beevers £448


Then, 5 mins later, Karl Posted a Link to an Omaha Final Table that went off 3 weeks ago....(with acknowledgement to The Hendon Mob .com)

Lalit Khajuria    £3,745    $5,849 
Zandi Dezman    £3,745    $5,849 
Unknown    £2,065    $3,225 
Robert Harkins    £1,225    $1,913 
Andrew Georgiou    £980    $1,531 
Marvin Babul    £735    $1,148 
Chandra Khajuria    £595    $929 
Balbir Pottiwal    £490    $765 
Karl Mahrenholz    £420    $656 


Incred that one guy featured on both - 8 years apart.

2 guys in fact

Oh wow, even spookier!

Jeez, what were the chances of that?

[TightEnd]

Open goal time

Thoughts on Virgin losing the West coast to First Group?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19264614

[tikay]

Open goal time

Thoughts on Virgin losing the West coast to First Group?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19264614

I was just reading that, elsewhere.

To be honest, & it pains me to say it, but it is insanity, or so it seems from where we stand. 

I imagine there is some logic somewhere, but I can't think what it is, so I'm not going to diss it to death, but it's quite odd.

"First", of course, handed back a previous Franchise, which I would have thought barred them for life from even bidding.

The whole Franchise system just seems like a nonsense to me, in this case, Nationalisation worked better, or, if privatising, at least leave the TOC's alone to get on with it. First will now spend fortunes to re-livery the EXACT same rolling stock.

[tikay]

Saw some absolutely HUGE Cruise Liners docked in Southampton, these beasts are bigger than you can ever begin to imagine.

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That top photo shows the exact location where Leo caught his first fish in the photo I posted a while back.

The bottom photo shows all the pontoons being set up ready for the Southampton Boat Show which isn't until the 14th September, they like to get started early in Southampton.

www.southamptonboatshow.com

Hi Aaron.

Sorry, I had clean forgot you lived down there, I knew you were in Hampshire somewhere, & that you used Southampton Airport, but I never realised you were actually in Southampton.

So, as it happens, you can solve a mystery for me.

As the I-o-W "Red Funnel" Ferry departs Southampton, it passes on the right (umm, starboard?) side this very odd looking building. It is, I think, before reaching Fawley.

What is it, please?

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[david3103]

Google is your friend (maps, in satellite view - i was bored, and curious)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/468922

[tikay]

Google is your friend (maps, in satellite view - i was bored, and curious)

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/468922

Excellent, thanks!

I suppose the two extra tall chimneys were the clue.

I can only assume the exterior is down to some mamby-pamby poncy architect who had a bad Friday & some spare money in the budget he had to get rid of. Or burn even.

Incinerators should be square, or rectangular, & really really ugly, spaceshippy is just wrong.

I was involved in constructing a few back in the 80's, during that era when they liked to come up with poncy names for regular things. They called them WRU's - Waste Reduction Units in the same way as the Besam Door Company described themselves as "Entrance Solution Consultants".

This is what a WRU - sorry, incinerator - should look like. Proper ugly.  

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[tikay]

Next question for David, then.

Same location, at the mouth of Southampton Water, alongside Halshot Castle, what is that sticky-uppy thing please?

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[Doobs]

Next question for David, then.

Same location, at the mouth of Southampton Water, alongside Halshot Castle, what is that sticky-uppy thing please?

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Calshot coastguard tower
http://calshot.wordpress.com/

[Junior Senior]

Just read a blog by Karl Mahrenholz which mentions you tikay. I think it's in a complimentary manner... http://www.pokerencore.com/blogs/2012/08/turning-30-as-a-professional-poker-player/

By the way, the £7,700 Karl mentions winning at the Stoke Genting Poker Series isn't all going on his garden. I won a competition to have a 5% stake in Karl so I was well chuffed when he went so deep!

Being over 30 i enjoyed that blog post

[redsimon]

Do you still have shares in Rank Group?

Results out today, online poker revenue hits new low £1.1m per year down from 1.5 million .

In the scheme of things miniscule.

The shares leapt up today with big increase in final dividend and healthy income from G casinos with Gala soon to be taken over the biggest force in live UK poker?

[stumpythefish]

Open goal time

Thoughts on Virgin losing the West coast to First Group?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19264614

I was just reading that, elsewhere.

To be honest, & it pains me to say it, but it is insanity, or so it seems from where we stand. 

I imagine there is some logic somewhere, but I can't think what it is, so I'm not going to diss it to death, but it's quite odd.

"First", of course, handed back a previous Franchise, which I would have thought barred them for life from even bidding.

The whole Franchise system just seems like a nonsense to me, in this case, Nationalisation worked better, or, if privatising, at least leave the TOC's alone to get on with it. First will now spend fortunes to re-livery the EXACT same rolling stock.

Your right its totally crazy it all boils down to the highest bidder even tho they have handed back past franchises. imo virgin have done a great job in turning round a difficult route.When gner pipped virgin for the east coast mainline with a crazy bid which everyone new they couldnt afford it.I will give first group 2 years until they hand it back to the government.I was dead against privatisation when it was introduced but a hell of alot has improved since the br days unfortunately alot of private companys have made alot of money out of it and put nothing back in.Since privatisation i have worked for 5 different companys some good some bad but in the end it doesnt seem to matter how they do the franchise just seems to go to the highest bidder.The relivery is a running joke as if they repaint our shiity old trains again they wont fit thro the tunnels