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Quote from: RED-DOG on May 30, 2008, 07:57:26 PM
Myleene Class and that bird with the poodle haircut. You would, wouldn't you?
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Events commemorate Gypsy culture.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7430069.stm
I'm sure you already know about this Red.
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Carlsberg don't do bad beat stories.....
....And neither do I as a rule, but I thought this one was a doozy.
I have gone to DTD for the £100 freeze and I have gone bust is the first level, so I have decided to play cash for a while.
I sit down at a £1/2 Hold'em table and Con 'The Dazzling Cornelius' Cronin sat to my immediate left. We play a few hands, Con is jamming pots as usual. Then we come to Con's big blind, (My Small blind) several players limp. I look down and find
I just make up the blinds and Con immediately shouts "Raise" and slams a large stack of chips on to the table. everyone passes. I ask for a count, it's £70 and I call thinking he is all in. I turn over my cards and Con lifts his arm to show me that he still has chips behind. (For the record, Con had made absolutely no attempt to hide them, I just didn't see them.
Now that I have exposed my hand, I can no longer bet, I can only call. The flop comes
I can't bet, Con checks.
Turn
I can't bet, Con checks.
River
I can't bet, Con goes all in for his remaining £80.
I fear the worst, but feel I have to call.
Con has
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Quote from: Tonji on June 01, 2008, 11:44:45 PM
Events commemorate Gypsy culture.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7430069.stm
I'm sure you already know about this Red.
Yes. Mrs Red is putting together a presentation (and swearing at windows powerpoint) as we speak.
Thank you for the heads up though, I find it really touching that people think of me and take the time to point these things out.
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Quote from: RED-DOG on June 02, 2008, 12:06:52 AM
Carlsberg don't do bad beat stories.....
....And neither do I as a rule, but I thought this one was a doozy.
I have gone to
DT
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for the £100 freeze and I have gone bust is the first level, so I have decided to play cash for a while.
I sit down at a £1/2 Hold'em table and Con 'The Dazzling Cornelius' Cronin sat to my immediate left. We play a few hands, Con is jamming pots as usual. Then we come to Con's big blind, (My Small blind) several players limp. I look down and find
I just make up the blinds and Con immediately shouts "Raise" and slams a large stack of chips on to the table. everyone passes. I ask for a count, it's £70 and I call thinking he is all in. I turn over my cards and Con lifts his arm to show me that he still has chips behind. (For the record, Con had made absolutely no attempt to hide them, I just didn't see them.
Now that I have exposed my hand, I can no longer bet, I can only call. The flop comes
I can't bet, Con checks.
Turn
I can't bet, Con checks.
River
I can't bet, Con goes all in for his remaining £80.
I fear the worst, but feel I have to call.
Con has
Bumped into Con in Birmingham - some character.
And yes, that bad beat is a cracker - unlucky.
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Why did you put them on their backs in a cash game anyway?
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Quote from: relaedgc on June 04, 2008, 06:26:06 AM
Why did you put them on their backs in a cash game anyway?
Con and I have butted heads many many times over the years, we are great friends but we have very contrasting styles and we take the piss out of each other's game mercilessly.
Had Con been all in as I thought, he would have loved to put his J2 on there backs alongside my AQ and then give me the rub down when he sucked out.
The other thing is, I'm not one of those coy players who is reluctant to show their cards. Rather than conceal my hands, I like people to see what I'm playing, because then I know what my table image is and can play accordingly. (Does that make sense?)
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Quote from: RED-DOG on June 04, 2008, 09:53:05 AM
The other thing is, I'm not one of those coy players who is reluctant to show their cards. Rather than conceal my hands, I like people to see what I'm playing, because then I know what my table image is and can play accordingly. (Does that make sense?)
Rather than having to guess what people have noticed about your play (and thus guess how they perceive you) you'd rather know what they know about you so you have a better idea of how you're perceived.
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Quote from: AndrewT on June 04, 2008, 10:05:17 AM
Quote from: RED-DOG on June 04, 2008, 09:53:05 AM
The other thing is, I'm not one of those coy players who is reluctant to show their cards. Rather than conceal my hands, I like people to see what I'm playing, because then I know what my table image is and can play accordingly. (Does that make sense?)
Rather than having to guess what people have noticed about your play (and thus guess how they perceive you) you'd rather know what they know about you so you have a better idea of how you're perceived.
Correct! I wish I could have put it as succinctly as that
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I bust out of the £200 at Blackpool early doors, so by way of a consolation I bought myself some fish & chips.
It was a beautiful evening, so I strolled across the road to where the steps of the newly constructed promenade led down to the now almost deserted shore. What could be nicer than a starlit dinner on the beach?
It was truly stunning. Behind me in the gathering darkness were the neon lights of the arcades and the muted babble of excited voices, in front of me was the Irish sea. If you discounted the ship on the horizon, and the small sailboat towing it's phosphorous wake toward a berth further up the coast, the sea looked exactly as it must have done for millenia. The small waves of the ebb tide rushing forward before slowly retreating, leaving assorted gulls to work the high water mark.
For all that beauty, I departed the beach with a heavy heart. The retreating tide soon left me a reminder of man's callous indifference to the world his children will inherit.
Why people can't take just a few seconds to put their litter in one of the bins provided is beyond my comprehension.
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A couple of weeks ago I was out for a walk when I noticed these two stone gateposts. The more I looked at them, the more puzzling I found them.
Why, when wood was so plentiful would someone bother to cut a huge piece of stone into the shape of a gatepost, bore a hole for the hinge bolt, lug it into position, and then do it all over again to make a matching one for the other side of the gate?
I wonder how old they are?
Did their longevity justify the time and effort that went into making them?
Was this once the gateway to something more important than just a field?
So many questions.....
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Why, when wood was so plentiful would someone bother to cut a huge piece of stone
Reminded me of a peach of a programme about Stonehenge that was aired for the first time on National Geographic the other night. Prof. Mike Parker Pearson who works out of Sheffield University has researched the area and put forward some fascinating new theories. His evidence suggests there were two henges in existence at the time, one made of stone and one made of wood. The woodhenge was a house of the living where marriages etc were conducted and the stonehenge was a house of the dead where elite members of the community were buried. He believes the materials used were symbolic, wood is temporary and will eventually rot and decay just like life, but stone will last forever and symbolises eternal life in the spirit world. Up till now people thought stonehenge was either a calender or a temple to worship the sun.
Now these stones weigh around 45 tons each and were transported across 20 miles of undulating country around 5,000 years ago. Quite a task when simpler alternatives were available. People seem to bother to do things right if it matters enough to them.
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I think its often the case that these old stone gateposts were salvaged from old buildings.
During the 20th Century hundreds of English Country Houses were demolished. Canny local farmers quickly salvaged any usable stone for there own use.
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Mantis's story is fascinating, I'm going to research it a bit if I can.
As an explanation, I like Tonji's excellent and plausible "canny farmer" theory. I'm going with that unless someone knows better.
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It's generally accepted that the stone for Stonehenge came from Pembrokeshire (in fact, I think analysis has shown it could only have come from there). This is 200 miles from Stonehenge, but we don't know if the stone was transported all the way by man (quite an undertaking) or whether it was moved by glaciers during an ice age and dumped near the site.
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