Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[RED-DOG]

Thanks so much to everyone for the fantastic rail, it's made this comp so much fun.

I've been absolutely card dead again all day, hovering between 10 & 20 bigs.

The biggest pot I won was when I was more or less obliged to call a min raise with 84, flopped 2pr and Iwan did a misread and gifted me 50k, lol.

So somehow, we made day three. We have 109500. The blinds will be 600/12000 so that's like, 10 bigs. Not much I admit, but to look on the bright side, there are ~ 260 players who wish they were in our position.

If we can just get a double up early then who knows?

This time next year, we could all be millionaires!

[outragous76]

Thanks so much to everyone for the fantastic rail, it's made this comp so much fun.

I've been absolutely card dead again all day, hovering between 10 & 20 bigs.

The biggest pot I won was when I was more or less obliged to call a min raise with 84, flopped 2pr and Iwan did a misread and gifted me 50k, lol.

So somehow, we made day three. We have 109500. The blinds will be 600/12000 so that's like, 10 bigs. Not much I admit, but to look on the bright side, there are ~ 260 players who wish they were in our position.

If we can just get a double up early then who knows?

This time tomorrow  next year, we could all be millionaires i could have paid for lots of peoples xmas's

fyp

[mulhuzz]

Thanks so much to everyone for the fantastic rail, it's made this comp so much fun.

I've been absolutely card dead again all day, hovering between 10 & 20 bigs.

The biggest pot I won was when I was more or less obliged to call a min raise with 84, flopped 2pr and Iwan did a misread and gifted me 50k, lol.

So somehow, we made day three. We have 109500. The blinds will be 600/12000 so that's like, 10 bigs. Not much I admit, but to look on the bright side, there are ~ 260 players who wish they were in our position.

If we can just get a double up early then who knows?

This time tomorrow  next year, we could all be millionaires i could have paid for lots of peoples xmas's

fyp

with a nod to G2L...

#10bigsandafknxmasdreeeeeeeeeeeem

[mondatoo]

I went back as shorty and had like 15bbs, run good and win, glglglglgl.

[Karabiner]

You can get them varmints tomorrow, I just know you can.

Great effort so far.

[claypole]

You're a legend - just a great sweat - as I said in thread just go enjoy tommorrow

[pokerfan]

GL tomorrow sir 

[pokerfan]

^Today even.

[kinboshi]

A Tom win to mark the 1000th page of this thread, would be fitting.

Get it won, cultured one.

[taximan007]

Good Luck Tom, you were one of my 'heros' back in the day I started playing online poker at Laddies, invariably making the money/FT of the daily $100 and the 'who's the daddy tournies' yet always having time to chat and offer advice to us newbies.

One of the REAL nice guys of poker.

[leethefish]

hope you realised this was meant for you on page 1 day one b updates ....lol

good luck mate

[typhoon13]

Tom you deserve a big win.

We are all willing you on and will be watching the updates.

Good luck sir.

[Kev B]

Best of luck today Tom. An early double up then breathe. My wish would be you and Frankie 1&2.

On my home front, a first for me today as I pick up my Granddaughter from school for the first time. Also Joo and Cal's (my eldest son) birthday today, she loves her pressy BTW.



AND THE MONTE CARLO WINNER IS ..................................................................................

[RED-DOG]

I woke up at 6am to the smell of coconuts. It wasn't me, so I assume it was something that Mrs Red has put on her hair.

I lay awake for half an hour or so, staring into the darkness, thinking deep thoughts, as you do. I thought about my daughters. 'The girls'. They would be starting their day soon, some going to work, some getting kids ready for school, and I would start worrying about them driving on icy roads.

Such good girls. I'm so proud of them.

I thought about Mrs Red, and the lifetime we've spent together, the joy and the heartache we've shared. For some reason, my mind went back to our courting days, and a Chinese take-away in Newark. I wasn't a very adventurous eater back then, so we would get a huge bag of chips and chicken, peas & gravy in a foil carton and we would eat it in the cab of my lorry. Cost - 49p, or 60p if you included a bottle of Coke.

The gravy from that take-away was amazing. like nothing I had ever tasted before. The only problem was getting the bloody stuff into your mouth. The meal didn't come with a fork or a spoon or anything, so we used to have to try to find a flattish chip and use it as a scoop.

Ever practical, I solved the problem by pinching one of my mam's spoons from home and stashing it in the lorry, which worked fine the first time, but Mrs Red wouldn't allow me to use it the next time because it hadn't been washed up.

Fast forward 36 years and she's mellowed a little. Nowadays, she lets me get away with things like that. Not!

I thought about the update thread and how much fun it was.  I count every day as a good day. I wake up and think 'well that's a result for a start', but yesterday was one that I'll remember for a while.

I thought about the picture of a grinding bike that Guy posted, and then of course I thought about my dad. making a grinding bike just for old times sake was his last project before he died. It came about when I posted on this thread about a grinding bike that Tony and I had stumbled across in a museum in Luton while waiting for a poker tournament to start.

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

It's light now. I get up and make Mrs Red and I a brew. I add the milk, and pick up a teaspoon that is sitting on the kitchen worktop, it's the one I used for my last cuppa before bed. A stern voice comes floating in from the bedroom... "Use a clean spoon!"

I drop the spoon into the washing up bowl and glance out of the kitchen window, just in time to see a goldfinch on the teasel.  

[tikay]

How DO you do that?

Another astonishing Post Tom, within the last 999 pages there have been countless such Posts by you, each & every one of which is way beyond anyone here could even begin to think, never mind write.

You are a wonderful tale-teller, but it comes from the heart.

We saw yesterday just how loved you are here - & quite right too.

This might be the only time I utter these words this year, you know me well enough, but "Merry Christmas", & continued health & happiness (forgot money, who needs it?) to you, Mrs Red, the Girls, & Mum, in 2012.

xx