Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[CoxyLboro]

Nope, never heard of that, Rod.

However, the real problem with reinforced concrete is when the internal rebar gets accessed by water, rusts, expands, & "pops" or "spalls" the surface. This solution won't cure that, which is the real problem.

What did impress was this rather breathtaking throwaway line.......

but concrete has never been more popular than today, with China using more of the stuff in the last three years than the United States in the last century

That is, if true, extraordinary. Not sure how they would know, mind.

I can't believe after all these years, I have finally registered on blonde to discuss concrete...

Self-healing concrete prevents rebar corrosion by resealing cracks that form from weathering and/or flexural stress, before the cracks reach the rebar to expose them to water and oxygen.

The stat about China is also true, but rather than solely from their enormous growth, its the collosal levels of inefficiencies that they employ when building multistoried buildings - thick concrete walls as internal partitioning, on over 70 floors. Even more comically, once the concrete has gone off and work is begun on higher floors, people are housed in the lower level apartments who immediately jack-hammer out the partitions they don't want. Building remains a construction site 5 years after completion and everyone gets cancer from cement inhalation. Magnificent.

Chris!

Welcome aboard, about time too.

Stick around mate, you'd be a great addition here, & I'm sure you'd enjoy parts of the site, particularly Poker Hand Analysis.

How are things? Still coaching?

What are your career plans after Uni?

Brief Introduction for others;


Chris Cox was one of the bigger players next door pre-Uni.

He won a Viva Las Vegas package about 4 or 5 years ago, so it fell to me to "host" Chris, his good lady, & the others in Vegas.

We had a proper ball.

Chris went again the next year, & spent a lot of time - & I mean a lot - at the Cash Tables.

He is, shall we say, a bit loose & gambly.......

He once sat on a 2p-4p No Limit Omaha Table Next Door with 5 other degens, & by the time the game broke, there was around £2,000 on the table. That's a 2p-4p table, with a max pull up of £4. You get the drift.

Lives near Swindon, or somewhere equally dreadful. Or might be Bath. Or somewhere.

He runs good with "swaps", too, taking a 10% swap with me in the UKPC Omaha two tables out, then promptly busting.  

Begin work in Manchester as part of the rail/transport/infrastructure department for an engineering company. Proper job, and all that.

I doubt I'd fare too well in the poker analysis forum, all these youngsters doing their crazy stuff is beyond anything I can cope with anymore!

Hope you are keeping well and may see you at DTD at some point for another successful* PLO swap.

*For some

[arbboy]

play any sports seriously at lboro or just went for the civ eng?

[tikay]

play any sports seriously at lboro or just went for the civ eng?

Chris is solidly built, quite like yourself, ArgueBoy, or Red-Dog.

Does not strike me as overly athletic.

[CoxyLboro]

play any sports seriously at lboro or just went for the civ eng?

Chris is solidly built, quite like yourself, ArgueBoy, or Red-Dog.

Does not strike me as overly athletic.

Scathing! I didn't do any sports at Lboro, which was my first university,  and continued to not do sports at my current university, which is Bath. I do however enjoy playing basketball and swimming a lot, contrary to my build!

[scotty77]

I think Chris should tell the story of the hand that won him his vegas package.

[MrDickie]

 

I think Chris should tell the story of the hand that won him his vegas package.

[CoxyLboro]

I think Chris should tell the story of the hand that won him his vegas package.

Fairly non-descript if I remember correctly, picked up a few blinds here and there.

[tikay]

I think Chris should tell the story of the hand that won him his vegas package.

Fairly non-descript if I remember correctly, picked up a few blinds here and there.

Steady on Chris, nothing you do on a poker table could ever be described as nondescript.

Pretty sure we shared an SPT or UKPC Table at DTD when you raised 8 times in an orbit. Think it was the 6-Max Event.

[booder]

When do you depart for the U S of A Tikay?

[tikay]

When do you depart for the U S of A Tikay?

Friday, David, or in my language, 5 more sleeps, or one more shop.

Pretty excited, to put it mildly.

[redsimon]

How many books are you taking for the trip

[tikay]

How many books are you taking for the trip

One more than usual - your Moorman book is already in my suitcase. In fact it's the only thing that is packed so far.

[tikay]

I planned to go up to Foyles early this morning, to get some reading material for Vegas, I generally take 5 or 6, then read 2 or 3. The flight, 10 hours each way, is a great opportunity to read plenty. Luckily, I checked on google, & discovered Foyles does not open until Noon today, though you can browse from 11am.

I'll maybe go tomorrow.

In a departure from my "never read fiction" habit, I'm currently wrestling with Joseph Heller's "Catch 22", said to be one of the greatest pieces of writing this century.

It's a bit of a struggle, though, it is funny, & beautifully ironic, very clever, but it is written in what is, to me, a very weird style, with incomprehensibly long sentences, 90 or 100 words long in some cases.  

I may just have to quit, as I'm finding it very hard work.






I really dislike giving up on a book part way through, but it's a meaty tome, & I have so many other books I want to read, especially factual stuff.

[tikay]

My annual Pre-Vegas diet ends in 5 days.

Slightly disappointed, I was hoping to get down to 12-7, but I'm currently 12-12, so not a disaster, & I feel a lot better for it. Not touched a Rennie since the diet started, either.

I began in earnest on Easter Monday, & since then I've had exactly the same every day, without a single exception. Every afternoon, 4 Ryvita with Phili-Lite & sliced fresh toms, with a Diet Cup-A-Soup, then an evening meal of cod loins, marrowfat peas & tinned toms, followed by a giant bowl of fresh grapes. My weakness has been lattes, at least 2 every day, which can't help much, but I'm hopelessly addicted.

The diet ends, by tradition almost, at Gatters on Friday morning, with the biggest fry-up I can buy. Might just buy a couple of pork pies to eat on the journey, too. 

[tikay]

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