Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[kenjude]

The Newcy side has a marvellous boardwalk which runs for miles, & this morning they had a street market there, the sun was shining brightly, & litererally thousands of folks were just strolling along by the river in the most peaceful of atmos. Such a contrast to the scenes & atmo a few hundred yards away in the City Centre last night.

At last years Virgin Festival the street ousyide The Gate resembled a war zone in the early hours as I recall. Bodies flaked out on the ground, and blood-stained shirts everywhere. It's a truly horrible place at night IMO. No doubt the teens love it.

Judging by the din at 3am on the Monday morning nobody in Newcastle goes to work or school on a Monday.

[tikay]

Also in Manchester, here's CharlieBloke, one of the In-Poker Runners. The Runner's job seemingly includes attending to every whim of the Talent. I find being waited on slightly embarrassing, actually.

Anyone who wants to have a career in TV - the "other" side of the Camera - starts off as a Runner, & it's a bit like the football apprectices in bygone days, who had to clean the boots, these Runners are almost like Servants, and I imagine some Divas give them a tough tiime, but Sky Poker have some cracking Runners, and they are splendid examples of well-mannered & intelligent youth.

She's a lovely girl, too, she's been selected for one of those Reality Programmes where they go off to a tropical island for a few weeks & live with the locals. Good Luck CharlieBloke, we'll miss you.

[Laxie]

The Newcy side has a marvellous boardwalk which runs for miles, & this morning they had a street market there, the sun was shining brightly, & litererally thousands of folks were just strolling along by the river in the most peaceful of atmos. Such a contrast to the scenes & atmo a few hundred yards away in the City Centre last night.

At last years Virgin Festival the street ousyide The Gate resembled a war zone in the early hours as I recall. Bodies flaked out on the ground, and blood-stained shirts everywhere. It's a truly horrible place at night IMO. No doubt the teens love it.

Judging by the din at 3am on the Monday morning nobody in Newcastle goes to work or school on a Monday.

Until that night I'd only ever witnessed scenes like that on the telly.  Was absolutely insane!

[tikay]

The Newcy side has a marvellous boardwalk which runs for miles, & this morning they had a street market there, the sun was shining brightly, & litererally thousands of folks were just strolling along by the river in the most peaceful of atmos. Such a contrast to the scenes & atmo a few hundred yards away in the City Centre last night.

At last years Virgin Festival the street ousyide The Gate resembled a war zone in the early hours as I recall. Bodies flaked out on the ground, and blood-stained shirts everywhere. It's a truly horrible place at night IMO. No doubt the teens love it.

Judging by the din at 3am on the Monday morning nobody in Newcastle goes to work or school on a Monday.

To be fair, it's not just Newcastle, it's everywhere.

"In-Poker" means we end up in all sorts of places, & as I'm inclined to travel the day prior, so I'm fresh for what is generally a long day, I've gotten to see so many different City Centre Saturday nights this year, Newcastle (twice), Birmingham (Broad Street at Midnight, ugh), Southend, Brighton, even Swansea.

Swansea was awful. The road to the Hotel was coned off, 8 Police Vans were on standby, police were everywhere. Three Bouncers blocked the entrance to our Hotel (as they did in Jurys Inn, Broad Street, Brum, & in Newcy at the Royal Station last night), & we had to suffer an interrogation at their hands before being allowed into our own Hotel, as it's their job to prevent pissed up hobbidy-hies from gaining entrance.

Rooms in the front of the Hotel - above where the revellers revelled all night, on the pavmemt - were half-price, such was the din they make.

The following morning, at 8am, with military precision, the clean-up started, with a fleet of jet washers arriving to sluice the vomit & piss from the pavements.

Bouncers, coppers, clean-up crew, all have to be paid for, no-go areas are estabilished, & decent people, quietly going about their business in an ordered fashion, have their lives impacted. In every Town & City across the UK. Every weekend.

And the breakdown in the natural social order spreads to every facet of life, & now it's almost normal for drunken tossers to disrupt poker Tourneys, & complaning about them yields the response "they have the same rights as you". They do?

I'd shoot the lot, I would.

Anyway, don't start me off. I nearly bit then.

[DesD]

Good to see you back in diary mode Mr K.

[amcgrath1uk]

was playing the afternoon tourny in the G in Manchester this afternoon.. one guy was already pretty smashed, swearing quite a lot and getting on the dealers ( self deal too) nerves. After the break, I dealt, and he stepped out of line once. Called me a stupid **** for raising on a board which he called with A high which was good.

He got told in no uncertain terms that would be the last time he said a word like that, and by me ( thanks the G staff for having noone about). He amazingly shut up after that.... I find it weird how in a lot of places, the management don't bother with warnings.

[gatso]

Bouncers, coppers, clean-up crew, all have to be paid for

tax paid on the alcohol consumed during the night covers these costs several times over

[tikay]

Good to see you back in diary mode Mr K.

Thank you Mr D.

As I noted earlier, a bunch of folks asked me today "where's the Diary?", & one guy, someone I just know from playing poker, who's a regular up here, bought a book along for me - more of which later.

Before leaving the Casino this evening, I had a drink with Jeff Kimber & Jon Raab, & Dena stopped by. It would appear Dena shares my passion for Bridges, & Mr Kimber, though not readily admitting it, was dropping heavy hints & doing his his best to get on the Duxford Air Museum Trip. I may well indulge them both.

We started filming in the City at about 11am today, & the day's work was finished at just after 6pm. WTF? I can't be doing with half days.

I got pressured into playing tonight's £100 Bounty affair at Newcastle, joining 58 minutes late, & was unlucky to walk into Queens. Ater an hour or two, Blinds were going 400-800 (75 RA), & I just pre-determined, 3 hands in advance, that I'd jam from early position "blind" two hands running & pick up 3,300 of dead money. I decided not to look - I awlays bottle it when I do - & duly shoved into Queens, against which 6-3 plays so badly. I was pretty cross with myself aftwwards, what a waste of money that was.

Tomorrow it's the long drive South, I'm doing PTP in the evening, writing all day Tuesday, resting Wednesday, the Show on Thursday, playing DTD Friday & Saturday, & working at DTD (In-Poker) on Sunday. The weekend after it's Dublin, then it's the Sky Poker UK Tour Biggie, back at DTD. Not to be missed, that one, & the £25,000 Guaranteee it likely to be surpassed comfortably. Very comfortably.

OK, 2 more pics from today's GUKPT, then we move on.

Preparing, in different ways, are Steve Jelenik - he made some quite extraordinary Passes today - & Dave Clark. Dave seems always to be surrounded by splendid females, including Kelsey, & his quite adorable Daughter-in-Law. Both were absent today, sigh.

[ripple11]

Bouncers, coppers, clean-up crew, all have to be paid for

tax paid on the alcohol consumed during the night covers these costs several times over

Phew.........thats OK then.

[tikay]

was playing the afternoon tourny in the G in Manchester this afternoon.. one guy was already pretty smashed, swearing quite a lot and getting on the dealers ( self deal too) nerves. After the break, I dealt, and he stepped out of line once. Called me a stupid **** for raising on a board which he called with A high which was good.

He got told in no uncertain terms that would be the last time he said a word like that, and by me ( thanks the G staff for having noone about). He amazingly shut up after that.... I find it weird how in a lot of places, the management don't bother with warnings.

Correct. Except at DTD, where they are treated with the contempt they deseve & thrown out.

[amcgrath1uk]

was playing the afternoon tourny in the G in Manchester this afternoon.. one guy was already pretty smashed, swearing quite a lot and getting on the dealers ( self deal too) nerves. After the break, I dealt, and he stepped out of line once. Called me a stupid **** for raising on a board which he called with A high which was good.

He got told in no uncertain terms that would be the last time he said a word like that, and by me ( thanks the G staff for having noone about). He amazingly shut up after that.... I find it weird how in a lot of places, the management don't bother with warnings.

Correct. Except at DTD, where they are treated with the contempt they deseve & thrown out.

very true. I would never tarnish DTD with that brush

[Laxie]

Thought you were in Dublin this week-end for APAT.   

[gatso]

Bouncers, coppers, clean-up crew, all have to be paid for

tax paid on the alcohol consumed during the night covers these costs several times over

Phew.........thats OK then.

sssh, stop interrupting when I'm trying to wind grandad up

[tikay]

Bouncers, coppers, clean-up crew, all have to be paid for

tax paid on the alcohol consumed during the night covers these costs several times over

!

I think you are just trying to wind me up there. Not biting.

[ripple11]

Preparing, in different ways, are Steve Jelenik - he made some quite extraordinary Passes today - & Dave Clark. Dave seems always to be surrounded by splendid females, including Kelsey, & his quite adorable Daughter-in-Law. Both were absent today, sigh.

I sat next to Mr.Clark a couple of weeks ago..........surrounded by delightful women and pink champers. He certainly does poker with style.