Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[MrDickie]

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I guess the person that sets the table does not have to do all the washing up.  Jeez.

[IT5PAYDAY]

Thanks for your help earlier in the thread guys...

Managed to book Tropicana for part of our stay (5nights there) for £268 inc taxes/resort fee's.


Any info regarding location, pool, casino, actual hotel itself?

[Karabiner]

Thanks for your help earlier in the thread guys...

Managed to book Tropicana for part of our stay (5nights there) for £268 inc taxes/resort fee's.


Any info regarding location, pool, casino, actual hotel itself?

This might help:

http://www.cheapovegas.com/tropicana-las-vegas

[ripple11]

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Soup spoon!.....proper lunch.

6/4 Vegetable
2/1 Tomato
5/1 Leek and Potato
50/1 Gazpacho

[tikay]

Meanwhile, from my one of my favourite businessmen, to one of my least favourite, but needs must if heading north today.

You going to Leeds on that train?  Looks like West Coast to me.

I was thinking that.  100% Euston and west coast.  Assume its a file picture.

Pah, fella knows nothing about trains clearly.

Well I'd like to think I know the difference between Class 390 Pendelinos (West Coast) & those dear old ECML Class 43's & Class 91's. Everyone does, surely?

It'll be a sad, sad day when those wonderful Class 43's eventually retire. Many of them have covered in excess of 10 million miles.

[tikay]

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Soup spoon!.....proper lunch.

6/4 Vegetable
2/1 Tomato
5/1 Leek and Potato
50/1 Gazpacho

Nick knows.

You must have been on a few of those Corporate dinner jobs to know that.

Don't want to appear rude or ungrateful, but leek & potato soup? They must be having a laugh if they expect me to consume that.

Had some sort of chicken pate stuff, which was edible. 

[tikay]

I was a guest at Old Trafford of my boss, Plimsoll Sam.

He made an effort as it was a posh do.

[tikay]

It's many a year since I have been to an English Premier League match - boy oh boy, the security checks were amazing.

We had a private car park space, but they checked the car with those mirrors under the car, opened the boot etc.

Then, when we entered the stadium, we had to open our coats & have a full body frisk. They never looked under my hat though - guess they assumed there was nothing there.    


We had a cracking box, & before the game started, we were entertained by a magician of all things. Very good he was, too, we were up close & still could not see how he was working his magic. Most impressive.  

When the game started, there was another magician - Paul Pogba. My word he has some tricks, flicks & shimmies. Can see why he was so pricey, & he is completely unselfish, "feeding" everyone else, mainly Zlatan.  

Zlatan looks a moody, fearful sort, not to be messed with, but he was all threat, huff & puff & no end result on this occasion.

Rooney came on 2nd half as a sub, & it was great to hear & see the crowd give him a rousing welcome.

A most memorable & enjoyable evening, sandwiched between 2 nice train journeys.  

[tikay]

Manchester was wet, miserable, dreary & full of dirty buildings which either need demolishing or cleaning.

So many dull buildings in the City Centre, though there were a few nice buildings in and around St Peters Square.

I stayed at The Britannia Hotel, which was nothing short of splendid in 1910, I'm quite sure, but is utterly dreadful now, though I did get lucky & have an en-suite bathroom & loo. Oh my, it was bad, odd for one so close to the City Centre, right adjacent to Piccadilly.

Can't think of a worse hotel I've used in Great Britain except - obviously - that dreadful one in Newcastle City Centre.

Still, I should not complain, it's all good I guess.

Here's Britannia Hotel, Manchester. Looks good from the outside, right? Looks good as you enter, too. I'll spare you the rest.

 

 

[tikay]

After the match, jumped the Tram back to the City Centre.

I had assumed it would be free, or sixpence or something. Three bloody quid.

Pretty neat though.

You don't get much "feel" or excitement on a tram though, do you? A bus or a train is infinitely better.

[tikay]

What a life.

Who could have imagined that guy who did the reports from all the tournaments he played 15 years ago, would parlay that into becoming the celebrity face of poker.

Pretty amazing journey you've been on when you step back and think of it.

I would agree with the first & last paras, Keith. Not sure about para 2, mind....

I've loved every minute really, & still have an insatiable thirst to play poker, albeit just smallball stuff these days. I make a profit, too, which I'm quite proud of given my age, & that I don't "study" & have never "reviewed" a hand history or session in my life.

Every evening I play between 30 & 60 SNG's, mainly £5, £10 & a few £20 jobs, & I love it to bits, the challenge is everything, & it feeds my need to "gamble". I've not  deposited a single penny for 4 years, & have a few thousand in my account now.  I won't be troubling Team Pleno anytime soon, but I'm pretty proud that I can still cut it, even though just smallball. Think I played 65 SNG's yesterday, & 11,000 last year.

After abandoning NLH many years ago in favour of the 4 & 5 card Omaha variants, I've recently returned to NLH in an attempt to re-learn the game. To my surprise, a) I'm thoroughly enjoying it, & b) I'm not losing money. Who'd have thought?

I love my little job at Sky Poker, & am in my 11th year there now. I'd be lost without it. I have good days & bad days, busy days & empty days, but it's just right, & the Team I work with is small - just 4 of them - & we get along great. My contract seems to have been renewed for another 12 months, too, which will take me into my 71st year.  

They give me little jobs & "projects" to do, but not too much responsibility, other than one on one stuff with Customers, which I do very well I think.    

My first "recorded" Live Cash was 14 years ago, at Naps in Sheffield.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=1701

Dipak Makawana is "The Doc", who I later became very close friends with, a perfectly splendid man.

I still run into Osmam Mustanoglu from time to time, usually in PLO affairs. He used to run with Rumit Somayia, who I have not seen or heard of in yonks.

Is Bambos still around? Feel a little guilty asking, as he must be quite old now. Hope he is ok. When he played the circuit, he always paid his wife in as well, & she was, well, you know, not very good, so we always liked to be drawn on her table. She might just have been tighter than me.

Apropos something & nothing, I was doing some business in Manchester on Wednesday & who should be there but Sin Melin. I thought she was London-based.

Enough waffle for now.

[tikay]

This was my 2nd ever "recorded" Live cash, & the first of dozens at Luton.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=1517

Some faces there - loved Dave Courteney to bits.

Graham Pound - surely an adversary of Camel, Trumper & Channing at Reading back in the day was "give me the money, honey".

Don't know what happened to Jim Reid, who owned a haulage business in somewhere awful,  East Anglia or The Fens I think.

Lucy, God bless her, was fearless.

[Jac]

I was a guest at Old Trafford of my boss, Plimsoll Sam.

He made an effort as it was a posh do.

Man Utd, Every Leeds supporters 2nd team

[Rod Paradise]

Manchester was wet, miserable, dreary & full of dirty buildings which either need demolishing or cleaning.

So many dull buildings in the City Centre, though there were a few nice buildings in and around St Peters Square.

I stayed at The Britannia Hotel, which was nothing short of splendid in 1910, I'm quite sure, but is utterly dreadful now, though I did get lucky & have an en-suite bathroom & loo. Oh my, it was bad, odd for one so close to the City Centre, right adjacent to Piccadilly.

Can't think of a worse hotel I've used in Great Britain except - obviously - that dreadful one in Newcastle City Centre.

Still, I should not complain, it's all good I guess.

Here's Britannia Hotel, Manchester. Looks good from the outside, right? Looks good as you enter, too. I'll spare you the rest.

 

 

The Brittania chain tend to be the same, and have been like that for decades. As a trainee telecom engineer attending training school in Liverpool we stayed in the Adelphi - once a magnificent hotel, used by the great and good before setting sail for the USA. Some floors even had room doors that opened out the way - to get people used to the stateroom doors on the ships. What were magnificent hotels then take a LOT of maintenance, cost a fortune to upgrade & so end up a bit shabby. Whenever big events filled the hotel we'd get bussed off to one or another of the Manchester Brittanias, for a bunch of 19-20 year old trainee engineers the one you were in was fun, especially hooker watch as the 'nightclub' was filled with ladies of easy (if costly) virtue.

[tikay]

Manchester was wet, miserable, dreary & full of dirty buildings which either need demolishing or cleaning.

So many dull buildings in the City Centre, though there were a few nice buildings in and around St Peters Square.

I stayed at The Britannia Hotel, which was nothing short of splendid in 1910, I'm quite sure, but is utterly dreadful now, though I did get lucky & have an en-suite bathroom & loo. Oh my, it was bad, odd for one so close to the City Centre, right adjacent to Piccadilly.

Can't think of a worse hotel I've used in Great Britain except - obviously - that dreadful one in Newcastle City Centre.

Still, I should not complain, it's all good I guess.

Here's Britannia Hotel, Manchester. Looks good from the outside, right? Looks good as you enter, too. I'll spare you the rest.

 

 

The Brittania chain tend to be the same, and have been like that for decades. As a trainee telecom engineer attending training school in Liverpool we stayed in the Adelphi - once a magnificent hotel, used by the great and good before setting sail for the USA. Some floors even had room doors that opened out the way - to get people used to the stateroom doors on the ships. What were magnificent hotels then take a LOT of maintenance, cost a fortune to upgrade & so end up a bit shabby. Whenever big events filled the hotel we'd get bussed off to one or another of the Manchester Brittanias, for a bunch of 19-20 year old trainee engineers the one you were in was fun, especially hooker watch as the 'nightclub' was filled with ladies of easy (if costly) virtue.

Yup, you've nailed it, Rod, exactly that.

There were some dubious sorts hanging around in Reception, & outside the front door, too.