Cruise Chronicles, Day Two

[I KNOW IT]

Seeing your dress sense Tikay, have they hired you as the Cruise Comedian? or is it that they know you enjoy cruising

[tikay]

Saw Fari Badmansour on deck this morning. Fari is one of THE greatest Omaha players in the world, with several WSOP Omaha Final Tables to his name. Think he originates from Iran, not 100% on that, but he is softly spoken, and THE most polite and well-mannered guy you could ever wish to meet. Lives in Birmingham, of all places.

[Gamblor21]

So its safe to go back up to newcastle!

Wish James my best... and Jesse, i love the bandana!

Have a great time tikay!

And i completely agree with you about Fari, he came up to teesside/Newcastle last year and had a ball in the cash games. And cleaned up! He was at the blondebash sat in the cash game and suggested i sit down after i got knocked out... Him, the crazy chinese guy from walsall and jammer was'nt the bast place for me to put my money! Top guy!

Good luck

[tikay]

Meds - no, don't think they have done the draw yet.

I Know It - I refuse to bite.

Another face I saw last night was Bob Clarke, & he had the lovely Tracey with him. Tracey has had her long blonde hair cut MUCH shorter. She was wearing Bob's jacket, which I thought was odd, but after I got a "nice to see you hug" it transpired she had nothing on under it, her clean clothes were in her luggage which had not arrived yet. Long hug, that one.

[dik9]

You can tell you are in Holiday mode!! please give Fari my best wishes and tell him I will be working with Bonnie at Star City. THX

[meds]

a thought has just crossed my mind, after i won a place on the cruise and had to cancel last minute, i should stilll get mine and my missuses welcome packs, can u ask luke to sort that out for me, cheers

[ifm]

You can tell you are in Holiday mode!! please give Fari my best wishes and tell him I will be working with Bonnie at Star City. THX

Do tell Richard

[ifm]

And i completely agree with you about Fari, he came up to teesside/Newcastle last year and had a ball in the cash games. And cleaned up! He was at the blondebash sat in the cash game and suggested i sit down after i got knocked out... Him, the crazy chinese guy from walsall and jammer was'nt the bast place for me to put my money! Top guy!

He is VERY VERY good at all types of poker, proper nice fella too!
That cash game was interesting, i asked Chesney Jammer if he knew what he was doing in that game with Fari and mad Simon as i was a little concerned he might be a little over his head.
I had no idea if he was any good at the game himself but i know the other 2 very well.
Fari said afterwards that he was "a little up", dunno what that means!

[charmaine]

Have a great time TK xx

[ACE2M]

And i completely agree with you about Fari, he came up to teesside/Newcastle last year and had a ball in the cash games. And cleaned up! He was at the blondebash sat in the cash game and suggested i sit down after i got knocked out... Him, the crazy chinese guy from walsall and jammer was'nt the bast place for me to put my money! Top guy!

He is VERY VERY good at all types of poker, proper nice fella too!
That cash game was interesting, i asked Chesney Jammer if he knew what he was doing in that game with Fari and mad Simon as i was a little concerned he might be a little over his head.
I had no idea if he was any good at the game himself but i know the other 2 very well.
Fari said afterwards that he was "a little up", dunno what that means!

he rinsed a few quid out of me.

[paddyjim]

Good Luck Tikay!

If you see Stefan Ball, one of the Slough Palace gang, could you wish him luck too?

Cheers

Paddyjim

[Djinn]

Hi Tikay (and Paddyjim)

I didn't know Stefan was on the cruise!  Good luck to him, and of course our fearless newly-blonde(r) Updater In Chief... Just to let you all know that Tikay was busy getting his hair done for the occasion just prior to flying to Miami...can't do to have roots while on the seas.  It all sounds very exciting - good luck and I'll look forward to hearing about the action.

[tikay]

Well, thank you for all those kind words, & especially to Jen, who has exposed my secret - my hair is not naturally blonde, it's dyed. Damn that woman.

[madasahatstand]

where are the photos tikay? are you in the event?  good luck if so

mad

[tikay]

Got LOTS of Pics & stories for you, but first let me update you on how I am doing. The Tourney began at about 1.30pm Local, it's 4.30pm Local now, & it's break time.

My starting table had two notables, Daniel Larssson, two seats to my left, & Mad Marty Wilson, to my immediate right.

I can think of NO player in the world whom I'd LESS like sat two seats to my left, than Mr Larsson, he is fearless, & a very strong player indeed. We are playing a 1 hour clock, with 10,000 starting chips, & my table will break second, so I decide not to get involved with Daniel.

Marty is a different kettle of fish entirelly, he has a habit of moving all-in early doors, & I resolve to call him if he starts that malarky with me.

I felt very nervous for some reason, & decided to watch what happened for a few orbits.

I will Post this in bite size chunks, as although the internet connection is good - 100% as long as the ship moves in a straight line - when the ship changes course, the connection has to be reset.