Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Omm]

Good day All,

   From the Cosmopolitan  just after 5am , i’ve Been awake now for 90 mins whilst Sue and our daughter Emma compete with the dawn chorus, jet lag does get worse as you get older. Spent happy hours reading this thread over many years, and thought why not get involved, so here we are:

We’ve been coming to Vegas since ‘98, our Silver Wedding trip, and have been here most years ever since, bringing family and friends with us many times; but 2010 was the most amazing and emotional trip ever.

After Sue’s    against Swordsyboy’s  and James Hartigan saying “We know where this is going” on 865 in the May final, a few weeks later we were in a suite in the Rio. For 10 fantastic days, full of interviews, 16hr days and 10 hrs solid poker for Sue each of her 5 days in the main event, with me becoming a professional railer, butler and masseuse. Tony and the team from next door helped Sue to believe she could play and take on the best of them, and I have to say she did just that, from losing nearly half her stack in the first 2hrs, to folding Q’s twice in the hand for hand 4 days later.  Money cannot buy that sort of experience, and we look back on it and still have to pinch ourselves that it really happened.

We brought Emma to Vegas for her 40th and we will be taking in all that Vegas has to offer and playing a few tournaments on the way, that’s after of course going to the best venue to watch England win this morning. - the Crown and Anchor pub off Tropicana.

Cheers Dave and Sue

Great story, what dreams are made of. Welcome to blonde. Be interested to read more stories like this, you must have a few with the amount of times you have been to Vegas. Consider posting some up.

[booder]

Welcome to blonde.

[Kid Grimsby]

Just got back from the Crown & Anchor, what a game and what a finish. Stu Rutter and the Jake Kody crew where there; and Stu was thrown out 3 times after arriving at 2am, 9 hrs before the kick off. Jake had just navigated day 1 of the main event and was celibrating, 500 brits had a great time, the 3  Columbians not so much. Roll on Saturday at 7.00am.........

[I KNOW IT]

Kevin twigg passed away earlier today, RIP

Familiar to all Luton/London players

Very sad news.Big Kev was a good friend to me and a top man.
R.I.P Big man

[tikay]

Good day All,

   From the Cosmopolitan  just after 5am , i’ve Been awake now for 90 mins whilst Sue and our daughter Emma compete with the dawn chorus, jet lag does get worse as you get older. Spent happy hours reading this thread over many years, and thought why not get involved, so here we are:

We’ve been coming to Vegas since ‘98, our Silver Wedding trip, and have been here most years ever since, bringing family and friends with us many times; but 2010 was the most amazing and emotional trip ever.

After Sue’s    against Swordsyboy’s   and James Hartigan saying “We know where this is going” on 865 in the May final, a few weeks later we were in a suite in the Rio. For 10 fantastic days, full of interviews, 16hr days and 10 hrs solid poker for Sue each of her 5 days in the main event, with me becoming a professional railer, butler and masseuse. Tony and the team from next door helped Sue to believe she could play and take on the best of them, and I have to say she did just that, from losing nearly half her stack in the first 2hrs, to folding Q’s twice in the hand for hand 4 days later.  Money cannot buy that sort of experience, and we look back on it and still have to pinch ourselves that it really happened.

We brought Emma to Vegas for her 40th and we will be taking in all that Vegas has to offer and playing a few tournaments on the way, that’s after of course going to the best venue to watch England win this morning. - the Crown and Anchor pub off Tropicana.

Cheers Dave and Sue

Hi Dave,

Great to see you here at last.

What a memory 2010 was, with Sue finishing 332nd in the WSOP Main for $36,463. Here's the Hendon Mob results page, with Sue listed in 332nd;

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=40145


Here's Sue being interviewed before her WSOP adventure;







And here's Sue in action, at the table, end of Day 2, sitting on 110,000;




Wonderful, wonderful, memories.


I looked for you at McCarron on Sunday, but somehow missed you, I assumed you were on the Virgin flight from Manchester? I was awaiting the Virgin flight home to Gatters.

[tikay]

Kevin twigg passed away earlier today, RIP

Familiar to all Luton/London players

Terrible news.

Kev was the sort of guy I loved to rub shoulders with, out & out gambler & "night person".

Not sure when I last saw him - might have been at Equal Chance over in Walthamstow one night way back.

Condolences to his family.

Click to see full-size image.

[tikay]

Just came 6th out of 31 in a £2 Omaha Hi/Lo next door, been meaning to learn the game and thought I might as well start. Haven’t got a clue how I made the final table. Lol.

5th Omaha Hi/Lo Tournament and I came 1/29. Decent

Ha, PLO8 has a new recruit, good stuff Ommy.

I could not wait to get back Online & play a bit of PLO8, arrived home early afternoon on Monday, was playing PLO8 Next Door 2 hours later, & again last night. Played 13 DYM's at all buy-ins from £1 to £11, & made a whopping profit of.....£3.10. 

How is your back now? You settled back in to home life?

[tikay]

Just got back from the Crown & Anchor, what a game and what a finish. Stu Rutter and the Jake Kody crew where there; and Stu was thrown out 3 times after arriving at 2am, 9 hrs before the kick off. Jake had just navigated day 1 of the main event and was celibrating, 500 brits had a great time, the 3  Columbians not so much. Roll on Saturday at 7.00am.........

Ha, bet the atmo was electric.

How's the trip going so far?

[tikay]

Thanks Tony , how I have looked forward to reading about  your exploits every day when I get home from work.  
Thanks for sharing and have a safe flight home .

Thanks Craig.

I bumped into Mark Bartlog in Vegas, & asked about Robert Binelli (sp?), the so-called "walking scarecrow".

Both Mark & Robert used to come across to the UK Festivals, including Walsall, pretty sure you would have known both of them.

I could not find a photo of Roberto, but here's Mark Bartlog;




EDIT - just found a photo of Robert, this would have been just after he won the £500 Midland Masters at Walsall in 2005;


http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=16362

[tikay]

I was searching for someone else on google images & came across this photo.

Anyone know who it is? Well known blonde, used to be a half decent tipster back in the day. Looks a bit of a tit here;


 

[tikay]

Back to Kevin Twigg for a moment, I looked up his first recorded cash on THM, it was back in August 2003 at the old Luton Grosvenor in a £150 rebuy, & Kev finished 1st.

The top 4 were Kev Twigg, then Graham Pound, Mrs Bambos, & Keith Hawkins.

[4KSuited]

I was searching for someone else on google images & came across this photo.

Anyone know who it is? Well known blonde, used to be a half decent tipster back in the day. Looks a bit of a tit here;


 

From that daft grin, it must be Chompy. Trying to disguise impending baldness? Not seen riffling circular disks in Luton of late...

[tikay]

I was searching for someone else on google images & came across this photo.

Anyone know who it is? Well known blonde, used to be a half decent tipster back in the day. Looks a bit of a tit here;


 

From that daft grin, it must be Chompy. Trying to disguise impending baldness? Not seen riffling circular disks in Luton of late...

"daft grin" indeed, looks like he is impersonating Leif Force there. 

You are of course the winner, it is Chompy.

"impending baldness"?

Looks like it has pended.

[Chompy]

Good photo that. So good it's on my THM profile.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=83139

Solid pic for a solid top 800 all-time UK Brit.

I've retired Phil, at least for the summer.

[tikay]

The discovery & attempt to rescue the 12 kids trapped in a cave in Thailand is an extraordinary story, though I fear it is far from over.

The boys were eventually found by two Brits who specialise in that sort of thing, one of whom already has an MBE for a previous cave-diving rescue attempt;


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stanton_(cave_rescue_expert)



They don't look like heroes, but they are;

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