Squid's In: In the Well with Sam Grafton

[pleno1]

do you pay voluntary tax?

[TightEnd]

You talk hands, strategy and situations with your peers.

Does this "academy" approach to learning offset them knowing more about you/how you play/your ranges/apporaches at the table, assuming you cross swords (especially in the UK live, and online) events with the likes of Cody, Lewis, Perrins, Trigg, mcCorkell etc quite frequently?   

[strak33]

First 3 old skool garage tracks that come to mind?

[Tal]

First 3 old skool garage tracks that come to mind?

Sick question.

 

[The Squid]

1. I don't really get this question. What do you mean by play?

As in, you are up to perform a charade]/i]. What are you going yo do? Film? Book? Whatever.

Anything except TV I guess.

[collster]

Was there a defining moment from which you turned pro?

[The Squid]

Last band you saw? Last festival you went to? Future festival plans? Favourite act from Edinburgh fringe?

Only band I really fanboy hard is Foals. Last band I went to see waf Freddy and the Hoares who are really small at the moment but really good.

At the fringe saw so many great acts. Guess the best known one is Daniel Kitson, his stand up is really great and his one man show is fantastic. I'm not saying anything particularly original here as he's literally the darling of the festival. Noel fielding lived in flat below me first Summer I was in Edinburgh before he was big and I saw him a few times live, that was memorable. Also remember 'Def Poetry Jam' first summer and also 'My Name is Rachel Corrie' from my last summer there. It made me absolutely bawl from like half way through until the end.

[The Squid]

how much £ would you have to be paid to never play another hand of poker?

£850k. Enough for a nice house and to go back to Uni and it's gg.

Would miss the cards SO much though.

[The Squid]

First 3 old skool garage tracks that come to mind?

Kele Le Roc 'My Love'
That track where the hook is 'I don't smoke the reefer'
MJ Cole Crazy Love

[The Squid]

Last festival you went to? Future festival plans?

This is something that's got massively bumped of the agenda since poker took over my life and it's a real shame. I remember the year before I played my first WSOP  I went Isle of Wight festival and then to Bestival two weeks later. Saw Jay-Z, Strokes, Dizzee Rascal, Florence and the Machine. Was so good, but now Vegas just dominates the Summer completely.

[SuuPRlim]

how much £ would you have to be paid to never play another hand of poker?

£850k. Enough for a nice house and to go back to Uni and it's gg.

Would miss the cards SO much though.

Wow. Im shocked I thought figure would be £3,500,000 bad read.

[redarmi]

First 3 old skool garage tracks that come to mind?

Kele Le Roc 'My Love'
That track where the hook is 'I don't smoke the reefer'
MJ Cole Crazy Love

This track just started playing on my ipad as I read this......freaky......

[theprawnidentity]

how much £ would you have to be paid to never play another hand of poker?

£850k. Enough for a nice house and to go back to Uni and it's gg.

Would miss the cards SO much though.

Wow. Im shocked I thought figure would be £3,500,000 bad read.

Good job you weren't the brain for this.  I would have taken the under at 1.5 easy.

[ralph cifaretto]

hey sam (i lost my old account but am a long time lurker)

yeah to follow up, a post above. where do you stand on tax? like, i'm not a video maker yet or a winning player. but hope to be. i live in the uk, but have no idea about financial stuff like that. are you self-employed? do you only pay tax on runitonce vids? if you coach (how much btw?), do you have to pay tax on that? do you have an accountant who handles all this while you get on with the tweeting?

another q: any innovative vids lined up for a rio series? i suppose you're a bit constrained due to the structure of mtt's (although that maybe an incorrect assumption in addition to this), as well as there being a more wide variety of potentially winning playing styles in cash games than mtt's.

cheers 4 doing the well bro

[GreekStein]

hey sam (i lost my old account but am a long time lurker)

at least you chose an EXCELLENT new name!