Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[turny]

it was a case of one extreme to the other though, taking 2500 from the stack and taking out a level was far to much in one hit.

shame though as it was a great tournament

[tikay]

it was a case of one extreme to the other though, taking 2500 from the stack and taking out a level was far to much in one hit.

shame though as it was a great tournament

Sure was.

[celtic]

i believe it will lead to a reduction in numbers attending. Thats surely not want the casino want. Be interested to know who's decision it was 'cause it could be one of the worst decisions they have made.

[Dingdell]

I so wanted you ton the plo comp at dtd last weekend so they could engrave TJ on the trophy

You'll be alright......

I was in good enough shape to win it with 6 left, but made a mistake, & Dave Clayton got me. I got myself in a hole earlier, against Iron, but got lucky when my draw hit.

Good Final, mind - Dave Clayton, Lucy, Dave Colclough, Rich EO, DingDell, Iron, etc.

I had no need to get involved in my Exit Hand, it was one of those "shall I/shan't I?" jobbies. I really fancied winning it, too.

Chinese Frankie won it, from Lucy, Dave Clayton, Rich EO, Iron, me, DingDell, Dave Colclough, & Mad Bloke. Huge fun.

There were 29 Runners, of whom, I estimate, 22 or 24 were pure Hold 'Em players, playing 4 card Hold 'Em.

Remarkable performance by Dingdell - not bad to Final (albeit only 29 runners) in such a Comp, especially as there were a handful of tidy Omaha players in it - DC, Lucy, Chris Bruce, Basha, Dave Clayton, etc.

Thank you - I was very pleased to get so far but it wasn't unaided.

Tikay persuaded DTD to lend us some cards on Saturday night and he gave me an omaha masterclass which was further buoyed up by Simon Trumper who sat down half way through and added some invaluable advice. Nowhere else has this ever happened to me. I would have to pay a fortune to get the advice I got that night, so it's really thanks to Tikay and Aces that I got as far as I did.

I just wish I had remembered more but the glass of wine I was steadily emptying somehow fuzzied it all up a bit.

I know we all take the proverbial out of him but TJ does actually know what he's doing.....   

[RED-DOG]

Tony Jendall.... It has a ring to it.

[77dave]

Tony Jendall.... It has a ring to it.

Tony TJ Jendall

[celtic]

Tony Jendall.... It has a ring to it.

Tony TJ Jendall

Have a vote.....

TJ or Teejay or Tijay?

[tikay]

Todays Daily Telrgraph carried a quite deliciously ironic Obituary of Paul Raymond (not to be confused with Teasy-Weasy Raymond), who passed away over the weekend.

Paul Raymond, he of the Raymond's Revue Bar, & the self-styled King of Porn, was a bit of a rogue, truth to tell, but his Sex-Empire was much affected by the increasing & free availability of Internet Porn.

When he first open his famous RevueBar, in the late fifties, a mind-boggling 40,000 Members joined within 2 years. He later published "Men Only" & "Club International", with Fiona Richmond, said to be his Mistress (which he vehemently denied) much featured. He later purchased the lease of the Windmill Theatre, & produced a Sex Play which featured Fiona.

In the late seventies, the Authorities clamped down on Soho Sex Clubs, & closed most of them down. The sharp-minded Raymond then purchased the Freeholds & Leases of therse now vacant properties at knock-down prices, & eventually he owned huge swathes of Soho, though the reported figure of 60 acres of Soho can be taken with a pinch of salt - it'd be nearer 6, than 60. He was a difficult man to deal with, & not to be messed with. If someone owed him money, he always sold the debt - at 20% or 25% discount - to "enforcers", & these guys rarely failed to collect, shunning stiffly-worded Solicitors Letters in favour of undated bricks delivered via the front window. Debt-Collection from undesirables by this method remains in vogue to this day.

While he concentrated on his Property portfolio, his daughter Debbie - of whom he seemed extraordinarily affectionate - took over running his Sex Business, but she died at an early age from a drug overdose, & he never trusted his son, Harold, so the Business was looked after by a nephew. He purchased a big site on Piccadilly Circus in the mid-nineties, which must be worth a few bob in itself. It's claimed he was worth £650,000,000, but that's probably a bit OTT. He lived in a penthouse next to the Ritz for years, had a gold Rolls-Royce, but became a recluse & a sick man in recent years.

I loved these few excerpts from the DT's Obit today.

"......he was fined £5,000 in 1961 after magistrates decided that allowing members of the audience to ring Ding Dong's Bell constituted an unruly house, & that furthermore, Julia Mendez should not have swallowed the snake in public....."

But this last piece is a purler, & I'm pretty sure it was actually penned by Andrew T, the blonde Punster-Tastic-King.

Speaking of the revival of Soho recently as a sex-area, it goes on, straight-faced, to describe.....

".....stemmed from the spending power of homosexuals who had pitched camp in the area".

Obituary writing is an art-form, & reading between the lines is a must-have ability. A beaut of an Obit.

RIP Mr Raymond.

PS - Gotta love those socks. No self-respecting 50's spiv would venture out without them.

[tikay]

Tony Jendall.... It has a ring to it.

Tony TJ Jendall

Have a vote.....

TJ or Teejay or Tijay?

Pack it in, the lot of you. Even the Sky Suits have re-christened me "TJ".

I got some serious writing to do here, GO AWAY.

[Dingdell]

Tony Jendall.... It has a ring to it.

Tony TJ Jendall

Have a vote.....

TJ or Teejay or Tijay?

Pack it in, the lot of you. Even the Sky Suits have re-christened me "TJ".

I got some serious writing to do here, GO AWAY.

It has to be TJ. It sounds like he should be in a crack force or something like Tubbs and Crockett or whatever they were called in Miami Vice.  And with those new suits he's got he will probably look like something from Miami Vice..........anyone got photoshop?

TJ gets my vote, just seems to hit the spot.

[77dave]

well i guess Compo needs a new name to go with TJ

TJ and Compo just doesnt work so we need something to bind the dynamic duo

[celtic]

duncan? then i can be tj and duncan...... got a ring to it..... lets get ready to rumble

http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=pj+%26+duncan&search_type=

[Dingdell]

well i guess Compo needs a new name to go with TJ

TJ and Compo just doesnt work so we need something to bind the dynamic duo

TJ and Campy?

[AndrewT]

Obituary writing is an art-form, & reading between the lines is a must-have ability. A beaut of an Obit.

The man who essentially invented the modern obituary, (out with the toadying eulogies, in with between-the-lines wry comments), was Hugh Massingberd, who was the Telegraph's Obit editor from the mid 80s to mid 90s.

His most famous piece of understatement was the obituary of Liberace. The piece detailed his career, the many albums, TV shows, sell out shows and his outfits.

The final sentence was 'He was unmarried.'

[hans47]

well i guess Compo needs a new name to go with TJ

TJ and Compo just doesnt work so we need something to bind the dynamic duo

TJ and Campy?

Sounds like a gay wedding ! TJ hooker was about the same age as tj is it him?