Blonde Poker Nominated for a Bluff British Poker Award - Vote!

[tikay]

I don't think they grasp the idea of what a blog actually is......what bad beat does it not blogging more advertising and whatever, however entertaining it may be. Blogs should be a warts and all hosh/posh of a poker player, non poker stories and all..

I don't think that is fair or true Mr Acid - yes, he DOES do some spammy BBP stuff - he has bills to pay, & I think thats fair enough, & we don't have to read them - but the vast bulk of his Blogs are not BBP-targeted.

I do take your point as to Blogs more generally. I just don't think the "spammy" part is always true in his case. He writes some decent spam-free stuff.

This was not a "Panel" Award, he was voted "Best Blogger". 

[Acidmouse]

Yes not slating his blogs, I have read a few and some really good insights into the game. Just not what I consider a true blog. I guess the millions that voted otherwise disagree

[tikay]

Yes not slating his blogs, I have read a few and some really good insights into the game. Just not what I consider a true blog. I guess the millions that voted otherwise disagree

Millions? Trillions, he told me.

The Social-Media thing seemed to be part of it, too, & he deffo Tweets some great one & two liners. 

Messrs Kimber, Marhrenholz, Channing & myself chewed the cud over Tweeting last night, & we all agreed that one of the most interesting Tweeters for real perceptive & insightful Tweets is Camel.  Perhaps we should nominate him for an Award next year.

We will pay him to attend, obv.

[smashedagain]

I love Neil's work but did not know it was a blog as such. Actionjack writes some of the funniest articles I read but I don't think they are blogs. Neil would have 100% been sincere about the lildave's comments. Lildave's is a pure blog written from the heart warts n all.

I agree with a lot of the awards and disagree with a few but that's the nature of nominations. Did you want me to sign up to the hendonmob forum and sabotage it  for next year

[tikay]

I love Neil's work but did not know it was a blog as such. Actionjack writes some of the funniest articles I read but I don't think they are blogs. Neil would have 100% been sincere about the lildave's comments. Lildave's is a pure blog written from the heart warts n all.

I agree with a lot of the awards and disagree with a few but that's the nature of nominations. Did you want me to sign up to the hendonmob forum and sabotage it  for next year

Can't fail, that. Undercover bull in a china shop.

[mouth]

Biggest load of nonsense = Bluff British Poker Awards

I would vote for this.

[AlunB]

Yes not slating his blogs, I have read a few and some really good insights into the game. Just not what I consider a true blog. I guess the millions that voted otherwise disagree

Millions? Trillions, he told me.

The Social-Media thing seemed to be part of it, too, & he deffo Tweets some great one & two liners. 

Messrs Kimber, Marhrenholz, Channing & myself chewed the cud over Tweeting last night, & we all agreed that one of the most interesting Tweeters for real perceptive & insightful Tweets is Camel.  Perhaps we should nominate him for an Award next year.

We will pay him to attend, obv.

Such a rub.

He was nominated in 2011.

[The Camel]

Yes not slating his blogs, I have read a few and some really good insights into the game. Just not what I consider a true blog. I guess the millions that voted otherwise disagree

Millions? Trillions, he told me.

The Social-Media thing seemed to be part of it, too, & he deffo Tweets some great one & two liners.  

Messrs Kimber, Marhrenholz, Channing & myself chewed the cud over Tweeting last night, & we all agreed that one of the most interesting Tweeters for real perceptive & insightful Tweets is Camel.  Perhaps we should nominate him for an Award next year.

We will pay him to attend, obv.

You're a funny guy.

Here are my favourite three tweets I've received (brags obv)

@KarlMahrenholz

@keiththecamel you're like the @Kevmath of uk poker. Slightly less factual, a bit more sarcasm but if you ever fancy playing a $200


@Dazmeeks

@keiththecamel I have absolutely no idea who you are but you are the most entertaining person I follow by miles who exactly are you?


@omahakrazy

@keiththecamel As usual. You're not wrong.




It's later now, so what was the "mini gripe"? (not going to let you get away with this!)

Agree about Lil Dav's blog btw. I spent a whole afternoon reading it the other day. It's brilliant.

[The Camel]

In the never ending quest for balance I also received these two:

@raymlondon

@keiththecamel proud to be British for the first time in thirty years? You sir are a prick


@raymlondon

@keiththecamel next time I'll leave out the sir and just cal you a PRICK. Prick.

[Ironside]

think i might have to start using twitter but can never get my head round it

[Bad Beat]

 I honestly think Lil Dave writes a brilliant blog and he would have been a worthy winner. The award was for "Best Blogger and Social Media". I think he would be the first to admit that I am much more active on Facebook and Twitter than he is, or would ever like to be.

 My blog has been going for seven years now. It gets sent to about 500 contacts in my address book and then appears on BBP and after a day or so on The Hendon Mob. It is a short essay on my life so I reckon that qualifies it as a blog. The current gap is the longest I have gone without writing one and it is an honest description of what I am up to at the time. A lot of what I am up to is going in the office and running BBP as well as speaking to staff and customers - I have been running it full time all this year. It's hard for me to describe my life without mentioning it.

 I do try VERY hard to not spam BBP in the blog in the same way that I try to NEVER write a hand that isn't either very funny or has a point that is part of the story. I definitely do mention if BBP has a live event and I've been working hard to sell tickets or if we just had one and it was great fun and I want to congratulate the winner or if we backed a guy in an event and he won - of course I would mention those things - it's a large part of my life. If you can find a blog where I mention the buy-in, date or time of an efvent BBP are having you deserve a big prize though.

 As for Facebook. I am a relentless spammer there. I have had, in my time, around 10,000 Facebook friends. Many of them want my time, many of them want my money, many of them I have never met and am never likely to meet. I own and run a poker business and they play poker. Thinking one move ahead, what would they expect me to use my Facebook account for.

[Bad Beat]

 Anyway - I was very proud to win.

 I personally loved Tikay's WSOP blogs, I always read Lil Dave within ten minutes of a new one coming up. I think Karl is hilarious on Twitter and I generally love all the people I followor I wouldn't follow them.

 This one was voted by people going to the website so being on TV and having Facebook and Twitter followers as well as a website where you can ask people to vote for you is always going to shorten your odds.

 I was on the players panel and it's a tricky job. When they ask you to rate the bar in the Derby casino and you have never even been to Derby it's tricky. I believe they had 50 players and many would have been columnists on the mag like Jeff Jaffa, Snoopy, myself, Nicky Power etc.

 Yes the awards are probably a load of bollocks. It's good for the industry though, nice feel-good stories. It's also a really good business. I wish I'd have thought of it. They get a sponsor for the night, everyone likes to turn up for free, the trophies are not expensive, they now have 5000+ emails to spam online casino stuff to, the website has click-through stuff which gives them affiliate revenue. Easy money.
 

[AlunB]

I think the amount of abuse and criticism Neil gets for running a business is utterly ridiculous. I was about to go off on a rant about poker players then, but realised where I was!  

His blog is also consistently excellent and is one of the few in poker I really look forward to reading and am genuinely excited when I see there is a new one. Lildave's is one of the others.

But they are both so different that's it's almost silly to compare them.

[Acidmouse]

It's a nice blend between poker and business spam. Not sure there has been any criticism of him or his blogs on here. I think the really interesting debate is what constitutes a blog, my idea differs from others and thankfully we can have a discussion about it civilly.  Neil really doesn't need to justify having a well read blog and a multi million pound business to us forum people we all wish we were a quid behind his riches

if u want a little heated debate lets talk about us not winning the best forum!

[AlunB]

It's a nice blend between poker and business spam. Not sure there has been any criticism of him or his blogs on here. I think the really interesting debate is what constitutes a blog, my idea differs from others and thankfully we can have a discussion about it civilly.  Neil really doesn't need to justify having a well read blog and a multi million pound business to us forum people we all wish we were a quid behind his riches

if u want a little heated debate lets talk about us not winning the best forum!

Sorry I wasn't talking about you and didn't mean that as a dig. I was referring more to some of the stuff I see on facebook, which just makes me despair of the poker world.