Prose from a Poshboy

[mondatoo]

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U doubled 6 vs a 4 or a 5 then. Many witnesses.

That's a good double if it's vs 4 or 5 mate. Because the banker needed
minimum of 2 cards to made a hand . I am a blackjack pro long time ago till
I have to give up and do Fish & Chips instead. Mehhhhhhhh

Not surprised you had to give up if you think that's a good double . -ev doubling anything <9 whatever the dealer's got. Chance of a dealer busting a 4 is 40%, a 5 is 42%.

wrong:

soft 3, soft 4, soft 5 soft 6, soft 7 and soft 8 are all doubles vs certain dealer cards. I guess thats >9 tho coz its really 13/14/15/16/17/18

Yes, wasn't talking about soft totals at all. You double them as there is a decent chance of finding a winning 18+ on the double even if the dealer doesn't bust. Was only a couple of weeks ago I posted the strategy chart. Don't want to pollute an excellent diary with another blackjack discussion.

Alex - in terms of P+S cameras, I'd be looking at Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Fuji. Given you don't want to be lugging around anything too expensive, the one you linked to looks fine to me. Will do the job. Suggest you get 2-3 memory cards, swap them regularly, and try and work out some kind of backup strategy if possible. Not an Apple person but I think you can connect to Ipad and upload to cloud if you get decent wifi? That way if you lose the camera you won't lose all your photos, given you're out there for quite a while.

Edit: Beaten to that advice by David. NH sir.

Google Drive is a good option if you're not an apple person.  Plenty of free space and very easy to use.

Oh, I'm fine, but thanks. My non-Apple tablet has both a card reader and multiple USB sockets, so I just plug in an external drive and copy photos across. If I wanted to do that on any of the late Mr Jobs' products, either a) I can't or b) I have to buy some ridiculously priced proprietary accessories. And I need no access to a data connection.

I'm an Apple hater. And proud of it.

Oh I c

[rex008]

Can't remember off the top of my head mate but a lot of guys at work have the same 'hardcore' waterproof to 10m, shockproof and dropproof cameras and I think they were 12mp and about £110 ..

They absolutely LOVE them and tue underwater pics are epic.

Agree 3x 4gb cards and I personally prefer the 'higher speed' 15mb/ sec transfer rate.  Make sure you get a photo-stitch program so you can take sick panoramics and make sure you take them all portrait style and take an extra one or two (5+ photos) Makes them bigger and much much sexier imo.

Sorry for yet another thread hijack, but do you remember the make/model of the waterproof camera you're talking about?

Oh, and talking of panoramics, there are cameras these days where you just hold them up and sweep round slowly and it does the panorama for you. Very very cool.

I think this guy might be even posher than Alex:

[BBC] Other automatic sweep panorama manufacturers are available[/BBC]

[kinboshi]

My android phone does the sweepy panoramic thing. Ain't Google brilliant!?

[bobAlike]

My android phone does the sweepy panoramic thing. Ain't Google brilliant!?

So does my iPhone and my iPad. Don't you just love Apple.

[DMorgan]

So do my eyes

Woooo DNA

[neeko]

So do my eyes

Woooo DNA

Nooooo.   god did that lol

[smashedagain]

I've spent almost 12months total in SAmerica, SEAsia and Africa Herbie, I'm not a travel fish ty

[RED-DOG]

So do my eyes

Woooo DNA

Deserves more love.

[cambridgealex]

Have some words to say about David Blackburn who I briefly played with in the Grand Prix today. Tanking doing a blog Vicky Coren style about this guy. I don't think it's a very smart idea but she's pretty smart and she did it. Hmm I'll sleep on it I think.

[Eso Kral]

 

Alex has gone soooo contraversial in his old age

[cambridgealex]

Don't need to sleep on it. Awful idea. Stato put it best: "random dude in grand prix in "being a dickhead" shocker".

The comp was pretty unpleasant to play. My first table was reasonably friendly, but there was so many nasty people on the others, no etiquette, consideration, manners. Wouldn't play again.

[TL900]

Don't need to sleep on it. Awful idea. Stato put it best: "random dude in grand prix in "being a dickhead" shocker".

The comp was pretty unpleasant to play. My first table was reasonably friendly, but there was so many nasty people on the others, no etiquette, consideration, manners. Wouldn't play again.

I noticed this aswell, alot of angry people

[Tal]

Has the increase in prize/entry money heightened tensions or has the comp itself just acted like a donkey-magnet?

[cambridgealex]

Has the increase in prize/entry money heightened tensions or has the comp itself just acted like a donkey-magnet?

donkey magnet. far better overall clientele in the usual £150, £500, £1k comps they run there. And indeed any of the evening £15, or £50 comps. These grand prix attract some real treats

[tonytats]

Pigeon magnet ,take a big net imo