Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Laxie]

We filmed at the Guinness Factory in Dublin on Sunday morning, & what a place that is. I've boned up on it since, & it's not only Dublin's biggest Tourist attration (measured by Visitors) but Ireland's, too, with over a million visitors annually. And look out for the weirdest "top of the Show" link Poker Week have ever done. Bet NOBODY can guess which world-famous Film-Star I do an "impression" of. My money is safe, unless someone let's the cat out of the bag......(There's a clue for you).

Anyway, I'm so gob-smacked by the Guinness factory thing that I buy a book about it at Dublin Airport, (where I was stranded for 12 hours, did I mention that?.....) but it was a bit sychophantic & toshy. But I wanted to check out one specific fact, & it gave me that.

There's a plaque in the floor of the Guinness Factory that has a fascimile of the original Lease on the Factory, signed by Arthur Guinness in 1759. The Lease was for.......9,000 years!

The book states this as correct, & that the annual Lease costs, can you believe, (& remember, it occupies a HUGE & extremely valuable tract of land) £10 a year! £10 a year, it must be worth a bloody fortune. Oh the down side, it expires in the year 10,759. Ah well, only 8,752 years to go. Bet there'll be an Upward Revision in 10,759 though.

Mike Myers?

[lazaroonie]

Eventually, after a typical traffic-thronged trip to the Airport along Dublin's quite dreadful roads, we approach the Airport. "Got the answer yet boys?" says Cabbie-Man. Yup, lies Compo, "I think it's Carberry".

"Unlucky" says Cabbie-Man, "it's Richard Hughes". So we have to pay the €40 fare.

As we stand by the Airport Terminal & the Taxi drives away, Compo goes mad. "I texted my mate & he sent me the wrong bloody answer".....

i just looked this up, because I was convinced that Paul Carberry was the answer - in fact I would have put a large wager on carberry being the right answer.

of course it was Richard Hughes...

[tikay]

Eventually, after a typical traffic-thronged trip to the Airport along Dublin's quite dreadful roads, we approach the Airport. "Got the answer yet boys?" says Cabbie-Man. Yup, lies Compo, "I think it's Carberry".

"Unlucky" says Cabbie-Man, "it's Richard Hughes". So we have to pay the €40 fare.

As we stand by the Airport Terminal & the Taxi drives away, Compo goes mad. "I texted my mate & he sent me the wrong bloody answer".....

i just looked this up, because I was convinced that Paul Carberry was the answer - in fact I would have put a large wager on carberry being the right answer.

of course it was Richard Hughes...

I think it was a semi-trick question Laz, because Compo thought it was Carberrry, too, before realising the error, & why. Cabbie-Man has, it seems, won many bets with the same question.

[tikay]

We filmed at the Guinness Factory in Dublin on Sunday morning, & what a place that is. I've boned up on it since, & it's not only Dublin's biggest Tourist attration (measured by Visitors) but Ireland's, too, with over a million visitors annually. And look out for the weirdest "top of the Show" link Poker Week have ever done. Bet NOBODY can guess which world-famous Film-Star I do an "impression" of. My money is safe, unless someone let's the cat out of the bag......(There's a clue for you).

Anyway, I'm so gob-smacked by the Guinness factory thing that I buy a book about it at Dublin Airport, (where I was stranded for 12 hours, did I mention that?.....) but it was a bit sychophantic & toshy. But I wanted to check out one specific fact, & it gave me that.

There's a plaque in the floor of the Guinness Factory that has a fascimile of the original Lease on the Factory, signed by Arthur Guinness in 1759. The Lease was for.......9,000 years!

The book states this as correct, & that the annual Lease costs, can you believe, (& remember, it occupies a HUGE & extremely valuable tract of land) £10 a year! £10 a year, it must be worth a bloody fortune. Oh the down side, it expires in the year 10,759. Ah well, only 8,752 years to go. Bet there'll be an Upward Revision in 10,759 though.

Mike Myers?

Sigh. BE SERIOUS!

[Laxie]

  So that's  'NO' then?      Ok, ok...I'll keep searching.    

Continue on...love reading your diary.

[TightEnd]

Cat Stevens?

Cat Deeley?

Atomic Kitten?

Pussycat Dolls?


which impression was it?

[Ironside]

sir alec guiness you fools

[tikay]

Compo & I arrived in Dublin at around 7pm on Saturday night, a quick cab-ride to the Hotel, shower & change, then off to the RDS to film stuff. We film until nearly midnight, say good night to snoops & Chili, & head back to the Hotel. "Let's go to The Fitzwilliam for some cash-action" says Compo to me & Chili, but we are meeting at 9am Sunday to film some stuff, & I've been travelling all day, & I'm not up for it.

We get back to our Hotel, "night Compo" I say, "nooooooo" says he, but I stood firm, "sorry, I'm too tired mate, I'm off to bed".

5 minutes later, we are in a cab to The Fitz, damn him, & when we arrive, Chili is there already, at the table playing!

We soon find a table, it's a €200 sit down I think, & I'm soon pulling up again after Compo makes a shocking call with 2-2 when he's obviously behind, but he gets lucky. When I say "he's behind", I'm speaking technically, of course, and although I'm technically behind, I'm something like 107% favourite.

Soon, I'm on my third pull-up, & I'm in for €680......but remember Luton, on Friday night, when I could not catch a card, & was £1,500 down before my luck turned? Well, it was payback time now, & how. I hit everything in sight & eventually cashed in for €1,450 I think. and I'm more convinced than ever that the luck factor in poker is higher than most folks think. And to a large degree, it's not your hand that matters, it's the other fellas hand that does the damage.

I began with  , & bet out on the  flop, & got smooth-called. How was I to know he was holding the floptastic A-K? Running spades later, I'm scooping,. & AK man is open-mouthed. "How could you?........".

Then, strangely, Q-4 again, this time v AA, but what am I to do on a 3-5-6 flop? The two arrived with a card to spare.....

Then it was 4-4, & plenty of action pre, but I just KNEW I'd flop my set, & I did, on a 8-4-3 jobbie. I housed up on the 8 turn, &, and this is the thing, this is where the luck REALLY is, my oppo was holding an 8, so no escape for the poor fella.

Matey-Boy then runs a bluff on me with 10 high, & I make a huge call with 2nd pair, correctly, & he stomps off with the hump.

Then, & I know not why, but I Raise it up with 2-4 & flop my undercard, & bet out, thinking I might nick it, but get action. I turn the 4 for 2 pair, now I'm liking it, especially against my oppo who held A-Q & guess what rivered - yup, the Q. Bingo. Almost literally.

Finally, I need to sort Compo out after his 2-2 shocker, I'd warned him I would, & I was hunting for him big time. He Raises my BB, & I've got  the guaranteed-to-be-ahead . Well it was for sure after the third heart Turned, & the Board came 9 high, he had no escape with his pile of poo. That's his J-J pile of poo. Happy days. Compo ended a few hundred up, as did Chili, & we shared a cab back to our respective Hotels, happy souls all three of us. Little knowing the torrid 12 hours ahead of me at Dublin Airport.....Did I mention that before?

[tikay]

Nobody even remotely close to the Film-Star Impression, & I'm late, I need to get on my bike, I am Luton-bound. And late again, damn.

[kinboshi]

Nobody even remotely close to the Film-Star Impression, & I'm late, I need to get on my bike, I am Luton-bound. And late again, damn.

Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman in the Batman film.

[Ironside]

gene wilder

[jakally]

Nobody even remotely close to the Film-Star Impression, & I'm late, I need to get on my bike, I am Luton-bound. And late again, damn.

Liz Taylor? (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

[Claw75]

Jessie Wallace?

[JungleCat03]

me

and for those questioning my film star credentials you are obviously blissfully ignorant of my touching performance as "man-made-to-look-like-donkey-by-pretty-girl" in channel 4's balls of steel.

PS love reading the diary tikay. Keep it up - best blog around imo.

[77dave]

Just to prove that Tikay is the luckiest player going    wiat till you hear the first hand of last nights holdem cash game

He made the bravest call from the button ever