Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[snoopy1239]

Bacon is a 20th century painter, and that looks like a pope of some sort, so I'd imagine it's not the original.

[snoopy1239]

Ah, it's a Velazquez! (shamefully had to Google)

[Colchester Kev]

whats so good about that ... i could do that ffs ...

[Tonji]

  wd Snoops

[AndrewT]

One of my favourite artists. Snoopy will know the link this painting has.

This is what happens when you lean against a painting before it's dry - smudged beyond belief.

[snoopy1239]

One of my favourite artists. Snoopy will know the link this painting has.

This is what happens when you lean against a painting before it's dry - smudged beyond belief.

[tikay]

HWCBN - aka Mick McBag - aka Mick Mccool - & blonde

Many of you will know that some "bad blood" arose between Mick McCool & blonde, & indeed, myself, some time ago.

He fell out with blonde, & we with him. Tractors on the M25, Chili & stuff. And with me, & I got a bit of a hard time on his otherwise splendidly written Blog. I never responded, or "bit", there's no point, there's much to be said for turning the other cheek, & keeping barneys private. Other than his rather aggressive table demeanour, I never really had any issues that affected me personally, though of course he was not, at the time, behaving in a manner on blonde which we could accept. I'm not even sure now if he left us, or we Banned him - it matters not, really.

I also, for reasons I don't understand, became the recipitent of many tales as to Mick's financial dealings.

Fast-forward a few months.

One of Mick's pet greyhounds died recently - Suzy - & I was very moved by Mick's Blog tales about Suzy's death. It was incredibly sad. I went so far, some thought bizarrely, to Post on his Blog - the one that was crucifying me - that I was very sorry to hear of his loss. Which I was. Mick was clearly distraught about the loss of Suzy.

Fast-Forward a few more months.


He played the DTD £750-er last weekend, rebuilt his stack after being felted, & Finalled, but got extremely unlucky several times. No table-banging, no hooting & hollering, just took it on the chin, according to many who witnessed it.

As you know, blonde, in the terrific Live Update of the Event, showed some hilariously comical pics of Mick, with a brown paper bag photoshopped on his head. (Well, I assume it was photo-shopped). And he was described in the Update,  generally, as HWCBN, & Mick McBag. All in good fun. Thankfully, snoops had the good sense to ask Mick first, & Mick said "yeah, go-ahead, I don't mind".

I bumped into Mick tonight, & he asked to have a private word with me. (Private is always good in such situations, please note). He specifically asked me to post this message. These are my words, but they sum up what he said to me. Bear in mind we've barely spoken in months, & it's been a bit "awkward", shall we say.


"tikay, please go on the Forum & give my apologies for the way I behaved on blonde, & towards you personally. I'm sorry. I was out of order, & my head was in a mess. When Suzy died, it made me realise a lot of things. Poker is just a game, why fall out with people? The loss of Suzy was real, was so devestating, it's puts things in perspective.

Since Vegas, I've behaved muich better, & differently, especially at the Table. No more bad-mouthing, arsey stuff, I've sat there quiet & friendly. I got three sick beats in the DTD £750 Final, & took it like a man, no complaints. I loved the paper-bag pics of me on blonde, & snoopy had the decency to seek my permission first, which I gave.

I'm not asking to return to blonde, that's not my point, I just wanted to put the record straight. I'm sorry for the way I behaved."

He also told me some ins & outs of his financial situation with others, (some of them blondes), which I can't repeat, but, if Mick is to be believed, he'd had a few issues himself, but he's spoken with everybody, today, honestly & openly, he tells me, & it's cool now.

We shook hands, kissed, (well no, not exactly kissed, but you get my drift) & that's that.

I don't have, or want, many friends in life, 2 or 3 max, & I've got them already. But I sure as hell would rather not be making enemies at my time of life. I have a strange compulsion, a box on my tick-list or Bucket List, to make my peace with those who I've crossed, or have crossed me, in life. I don't really mind how you read Mick's comments, but I think I've just ticked another box. (Shame I've added a few more boxes this weekend!).

I hope I've repeated Mick's comments accurately, but I can assure you, it's pretty close.

Who'd have thunk?

Oh, no more HWCBN, it's Mick McCool now. And no more paper bags. Actually, I rather liked that paper-bag. On second thoughts, the bag can stay.

[TightEnd]

Fair play to him, and you

Takes much to put serious disagreements to one side and move on, and often never happens, its a credit to you both that you've moved on

[the sicilian]

HWCBN - aka Mick McBag - aka Mick Mccool - & blonde

Many of you will know that some "bad blood" arose between Mick McCool & blonde, & indeed, myself, some time ago.

He fell out with blonde, & we with him. Tractors on the M25, Chili & stuff. And with me, & I got a bit of a hard time on his otherwise splendidly written Blog. I never responded, or "bit", there's no point, there's much to be said for turning the other cheek, & keeping barneys private. Other than his rather aggressive table demeanour, I never really had any issues that affected me personally, though of course he was not, at the time, behaving in a manner on blonde which we could accept. I'm not even sure now if he left us, or we Banned him - it matters not, really.

I also, for reasons I don't understand, became the recipitent of many tales as to Mick's financial dealings.

Fast-forward a few months.

One of Mick's pet greyhounds died recently - Suzy - & I was very moved by Mick's Blog tales about Suzy's death. It was incredibly sad. I went so far, some thought bizarrely, to Post on his Blog - the one that was crucifying me - that I was very sorry to hear of his loss. Which I was. Mick was clearly distraught about the loss of Suzy.

Fast-Forward a few more months.


He played the DTD £750-er last weekend, rebuilt his stack after being felted, & Finalled, but got extremely unlucky several times. No table-banging, no hooting & hollering, just took it on the chin, according to many who witnessed it.

As you know, blonde, in the terrific Live Update of the Event, showed some hilariously comical pics of Mick, with a brown paper bag photoshopped on his head. (Well, I assume it was photo-shopped). And he was described in the Update,  generally, as HWCBN, & Mick McBag. All in good fun. Thankfully, snoops had the good sense to ask Mick first, & Mick said "yeah, go-ahead, I don't mind".

I bumped into Mick tonight, & he asked to have a private word with me. (Private is always good in such situations, please note). He specifically asked me to post this message. These are my words, but they sum up what he said to me. Bear in mind we've barely spoken in months, & it's been a bit "awkward", shall we say.


"tikay, please go on the Forum & give my apologies for the way I behaved on blonde, & towards you personally. I'm sorry. I was out of order, & my head was in a mess. When Suzy died, it made me realise a lot of things. Poker is just a game, why fall out with people? The loss of Suzy was real, was so devestating, it's puts things in perspective.

Since Vegas, I've behaved muich better, & differently, especially at the Table. No more bad-mouthing, arsey stuff, I've sat there quiet & friendly. I got three sick beats in the DTD £750 Final, & took it like a man, no complaints. I loved the paper-bag pics of me on blonde, & snoopy had the decency to seek my permission first, which I gave.

I'm not asking to return to blonde, that's not my point, I just wanted to put the record straight. I'm sorry for the way I behaved."

He also told me some ins & outs of his financial situation with others, (some of them blondes), which I can't repeat, but, if Mick is to be believed, he'd had a few issues himself, but he's spoken with everybody, today, honestly & openly, he tells me, & it's cool now.

We shook hands, kissed, (well no, not exactly kissed, but you get my drift) & that's that.

I don't have, or want, many friends in life, 2 or 3 max, & I've got them already. But I sure as hell would rather not be making enemies at my time of life. I have a strange compulsion, a box on my tick-list or Bucket List, to make my peace with those who I've crossed, or have crossed me, in life. I don't really mind how you read Mick's comments, but I think I've just ticked another box. (Shame I've added a few more boxes this weekend!).

I hope I've repeated Mick's comments accurately, but I can assure you, it's pretty close.

Who'd have thunk?

Oh, no more HWCBN, it's Mick McCool now. And no more paper bags. Actually, I rather liked that paper-bag. On second thoughts, the bag can stay.

Nice 1... The way it should be..met mick over in Vegas nice guy and friendly..sure his a great Craic when he gets going

[celtic]

i've always liked Mick, never done anything to me so i dont have a prob with him. Always pleasant to me when we meet and always got time for a chat.

He wrote a nice piece on his blog yesterday re the situation with forums and owing money etc. Nice to see someone try to 'sort themselves out' as such.


good luck with it Mick.

[tikay]

Fair play to him, and you

Takes much to put serious disagreements to one side and move on, and often never happens, its a credit to you both that you've moved on

Well, to him, I did nothing. But I do have a permanent olive branch growing out of my arse, it's always there to be tweaked.

[Snatiramas]

Love it when men behave like men...........good news both

[Wardonkey]

Fair play to him, and you

Takes much to put serious disagreements to one side and move on, and often never happens, its a credit to you both that you've moved on

Well, to him, I did nothing. But I do have a permanent olive branch growing out of my arse, it's always there to be tweaked.

Dingbell can sort that out for you...

[tikay]

i've always liked Mick, never done anything to me so i dont have a prob with him. Always pleasant to me when we meet and always got time for a chat.

He wrote a nice piece on his blog yesterday re the situation with forums and owing money etc. Nice to see someone try to 'sort themselves out' as such.


good luck with it Mick.

I am a regular visitor to that Blog, but I had not seen that Post until you mentioned it, & Mick never mentioned it tonight.

If anyone wants me to C & P the relevant part, I'm happy so to do.

I was also not aware until I read his last Post that he read my Diary, but he clearly does! Fortunately, I keep private counsel on such matters, I don't do all that attention-seeking public spatting, so there was no bad-mouthing of him on it, even in the darkest hours. Just as well!

Don't get me wrong, we aint about to fall in love, but, for reasons I can't articulate very well, I feel better for having had tonight's convo.

[Royal Flush]

Forget all this, tell the kids how the £5-£5 ROE went the other night....