"The Downswings of Property and Poker"

[claypole]

Just sat and read this from start to finish - absolute genius.  I'm a similar age and can relate to so many of the characters, stories, spin ups, coups - but whilst more than happy to share them over a few beers not sure I'd post them on a diary.  Keep it up mate, I am hooked.  Out of interest, did you get married here or Slovakia - my best mate married a Slovak, Gabi and I was best man and had the most amazing wedding in Bratislava in 2007, was brilliant.  My sSlovak now stretchs to Dobra Dobra - prob not how you spell it.

[Eso Kral]

one more post today pls

QUOTING BEFORE HE DELETES IT ^^^^   Vinny and Greeky must be jealous they dont get Dubai asking for more!!

[tikay]

Always heard good things with regards to Mickey and lending/borrowing- been told he is very fair, and obviously he is old school punter- used to be bookie at dogs when John Shipley was the biggest punter there apparently

I love Mickey to bits especially when he takes you to the side to tell you the stories about his Gold and Ruby ring that has been in and out of hock more times thanTikay says EPIC on Sky poker and shows you the newspaper article of when he was one of the first uk players to go to vegas!!  Legend

Lol, he must have carried that newspaper for nigh 20 years.

He sometimes brings in an A4 manilla envelope, with all sorts of newspsaper cuttings in it. And he always tells the story of "the worst outdraw ever ever ever" in the 1991 WSOP, when the case 6 or whatever did him.

If there was one thing I could change about MW, it's his addiction to telling bad-beat stories, but there are worse faults to have. I have to bite my tongue when the youngsters serial mock him on the Updates, I think that's rather sad.

GREAT Diary Mr Slovakian A-K, loving it, keep it coming.

[Eso Kral]

MONEY LENDING

Needing to fund my habit if i had no money i had no-one to turn to interms of banks or friends or family as they had all been nipped and knew they were lending money that would be used for the wrong reasons but i had through my job met and dealt with many property investors who didnt know my past and only knew me as Richard the Agent.

So i took a big gamble and turned to a Chinese investor who had recently bought a property through us that he had made some money on and i asked him if he knew anyone who would lend some money for a 2 month period obv i knew it would cost and bluffed that i was buying a property in the midlands and didnt want to miss out on it but was a few thousand short on the deposit.

He said he would lend me the money but the interest on what i borrowed was 20% per month so on the 5k i had to pay 1k at the end of the calendar month and if i didnt pay the balance at the end of the next month it was another 1k obv if i paid him 3k the balance was 3k and the inerest would be £600 next month and so on till the figure was clear. He also made it pretty clear that if i didnt pay someone would be knocking on the door and it wouldnt be him!!

The next day he turns up with 5k and im now indebted to him, I was earning good money and had winning days as well so it was a case of making sure i had the grand at the end of the month and topped it up and within 3 months i had cleared this off and had some spare capital so i knew he would lend again and over the next year or so if i was ever light or needed to find money quickly he was a good source to have and he knew i was never ever late with a payment until....  one day i was at the end of my money in the bank and there was probably 20 days left till payday plus Cheltenham was coming up and being a sucker for the big meetings borrowed the most i had ever lent off him which was 10k.

Now this figure is quite scary as that means finding 2k in interest per month plus a bit off the capital plus im paying rent my other debts inlcuding the kitchen loan still and my 20k bank loan but being commission paid i know 1month in advance what i will be paid but after that its down to getting deals through. The first month was fine as i had had a bumper month and managed to pay off 4k so the balance was 8k but the next month i just about scraped the 2k together knocking a couple of other payments instead as HSBC dont put you in the concrete that builds motorway bridges if you knock them.

But my commission for the following month was abysmal and knowing what i was going to earn that month meant it was going to be a very difficult phone call and subsequent visit for someone....

[Eso Kral]

Just sat and read this from start to finish - absolute genius.  I'm a similar age and can relate to so many of the characters, stories, spin ups, coups - but whilst more than happy to share them over a few beers not sure I'd post them on a diary.  Keep it up mate, I am hooked.  Out of interest, did you get married here or Slovakia - my best mate married a Slovak, Gabi and I was best man and had the most amazing wedding in Bratislava in 2007, was brilliant.  My sSlovak now stretchs to Dobra Dobra - prob not how you spell it.

Lolz nearly Claypole, yeah we got married on May 9th 2009 and got married at the Cerveny Kamen (Red Rock) Castle just outside of Bratislava with 45 English people travelling over who spoke no Slovak obv and 50 Slovaks who spoke no English but more of that later in the diary as it was paid for courtesy of a season long football acca from the lovely Totesport even though they tried to welch out of the £9k payment for an £80 bet on a technicality..

Slovak weddings pwn ours hands down you start eating drinking and dancing at 3-4pm in afternoon and the ceremony finishes at 5-6am when the band stop playing and the bride and groom are always the last to leave!!

[DungBeetle]

This really is an excellent read - well done!

[Eso Kral]

This really is an excellent read - well done!

Thx dont worry i get really boring in about 2 years when i lost 3 fingers for non payment and got a king charles cavalier (tri colour) obv 

[Dubai]

You gotta finish the story now haha

[redarmi]

I haven't been this excited about a next installment since The Wire......

[millidonk]

abso immense stuff, was hand in hand with you until your last entry, now you have massively knocked it up a few levels. Can't wait til the next part.

Eso Kral the Movie

[millidonk]

I haven't been this excited about a next installment since The Shield......

[Eso Kral]

Just sat and read this from start to finish - absolute genius.  I'm a similar age and can relate to so many of the characters, stories, spin ups, coups - but whilst more than happy to share them over a few beers not sure I'd post them on a diary.  Keep it up mate, I am hooked.  Out of interest, did you get married here or Slovakia - my best mate married a Slovak, Gabi and I was best man and had the most amazing wedding in Bratislava in 2007, was brilliant.  My sSlovak now stretchs to Dobra Dobra - prob not how you spell it.

Just re-read this cheeky 47 is in no way similar age 

[Eso Kral]

Always heard good things with regards to Mickey and lending/borrowing- been told he is very fair, and obviously he is old school punter- used to be bookie at dogs when John Shipley was the biggest punter there apparently

I love Mickey to bits especially when he takes you to the side to tell you the stories about his Gold and Ruby ring that has been in and out of hock more times thanTikay says EPIC on Sky poker and shows you the newspaper article of when he was one of the first uk players to go to vegas!!  Legend

Lol, he must have carried that newspaper for nigh 20 years.

He sometimes brings in an A4 manilla envelope, with all sorts of newspsaper cuttings in it. And he always tells the story of "the worst outdraw ever ever ever" in the 1991 WSOP, when the case 6 or whatever did him.

If there was one thing I could change about MW, it's his addiction to telling bad-beat stories, but there are worse faults to have. I have to bite my tongue when the youngsters serial mock him on the Updates, I think that's rather sad.

GREAT Diary Mr Slovakian A-K, loving it, keep it coming.

Thx Tikay yeah forgot about the envelope

[Eso Kral]

You gotta finish the story now haha

Just like women Dave keep em wanting more!!

[claypole]

Just sat and read this from start to finish - absolute genius.  I'm a similar age and can relate to so many of the characters, stories, spin ups, coups - but whilst more than happy to share them over a few beers not sure I'd post them on a diary.  Keep it up mate, I am hooked.  Out of interest, did you get married here or Slovakia - my best mate married a Slovak, Gabi and I was best man and had the most amazing wedding in Bratislava in 2007, was brilliant.  My sSlovak now stretchs to Dobra Dobra - prob not how you spell it.

Lolz nearly Claypole, yeah we got married on May 9th 2009 and got married at the Cerveny Kamen (Red Rock) Castle just outside of Bratislava with 45 English people travelling over who spoke no Slovak obv and 50 Slovaks who spoke no English but more of that later in the diary as it was paid for courtesy of a season long football acca from the lovely Totesport even though they tried to welch out of the £9k payment for an £80 bet on a technicality..

Slovak weddings pwn ours hands down you start eating drinking and dancing at 3-4pm in afternoon and the ceremony finishes at 5-6am when the band stop playing and the bride and groom are always the last to leave!!

Ewan Gabs got married in Castle, I was a typical male best man so don't know if it was that one - from memory it was fab, but did't feel like what we would call a castle.  We had the same, 45 Brits and we took over The Raddisson in the square - and all made it a week trip - it was incred.  You're right about the wedding - loads of little traditional things and Ewan had to put his foot dowen and limit gabs to two or three of them - I remember them smashing something and having to clean it up tohgether and some ridiculous ceromony with hats and shit at the end of the night - we were all battered and in absolute etitices and Gabs hasnt properly forgiven us to this day for videos we made with me commentating going "What the f*** is all this about and Ewan looks a cock in that hat".  Love Slovakia and - in a sweeping sterotypical judgement all Slovakians lol - great bunch of people from my experiences and fit as which helps