Remembering The Good Old Days

[redsimon]

Moving the short stack

I'm on my phone so searching is a pain but someone post a link to the 'move the shortstack' thread.

That was AdamM's finest hour.

Another cracking rule was that if you missed three consecutive hands you paid double the BB on each subsequent hand with it being doubled again for every further hand that you were absent.

Bearing in mind that all of the games were pot-limit and one table might have an extra ten BB's in the middle that might or might not be included in a "pot" raise according to the TD, it is not surprising that some arguments ensued...

Pretty sure if you were missing they posted your blinds as normal and after second orbit missing then the posted a sb every hand as well rather than as you described

[Junior Senior]

Playing ten handed on all tables except the small ones that they cram in to sell more seats.... and the big one at the back they can get 13 on

[redsimon]

Odd chip denoms at Owlerton Naps. 25 50 100 and 200 chips if I recall

[redsimon]

Worst thing about the old days?

You had be dealt in on the first hand of the tournament or you were dq'ed.

Without that there'd be no Dusk Till Dawn though!

[Karabiner]

Moving the short stack

I'm on my phone so searching is a pain but someone post a link to the 'move the shortstack' thread.

That was AdamM's finest hour.

Another cracking rule was that if you missed three consecutive hands you paid double the BB on each subsequent hand with it being doubled again for every further hand that you were absent.

Bearing in mind that all of the games were pot-limit and one table might have an extra ten BB's in the middle that might or might not be included in a "pot" raise according to the TD, it is not surprising that some arguments ensued...

Pretty sure if you were missing they posted your blinds as normal and after second orbit missing then the posted a sb every hand as well rather than as you described

There were times when it doubled-up every hand Simon.

[redsimon]

Moving the short stack

I'm on my phone so searching is a pain but someone post a link to the 'move the shortstack' thread.

That was AdamM's finest hour.

Another cracking rule was that if you missed three consecutive hands you paid double the BB on each subsequent hand with it being doubled again for every further hand that you were absent.

Bearing in mind that all of the games were pot-limit and one table might have an extra ten BB's in the middle that might or might not be included in a "pot" raise according to the TD, it is not surprising that some arguments ensued...

Pretty sure if you were missing they posted your blinds as normal and after second orbit missing then the posted a sb every hand as well rather than as you described

There were times when it doubled-up every hand Simon.

When the stack got short enough did they move it

[Skippy]

These are hardly good old days, these are exactly the rules in Gala up until about 2 years ago. I used to like the self-deal tourneys too.

[lucky_scrote]

I remember when I was 18 I got bullied out of a decision that I knew was correct. In some £750'er in a festival I went allin and it folded round to that chap that owns the chicken shops from Walsall (Chicken Joe?). I looked up to the dealer and I said 28k and she nodded. Chicken Joe asked for a count and the dealer said "28k" without even calling it. Joe called and lost and then when my chips were counted I had 38k (I wasn't angling, just a pure mistake). Joe had almost the exact same stack as me but they let him keep 10k because I had said "28k" even though I had said all-in first.

There are many others, I have memories of one of my first ever live tourneys being in Luton and I had to play 11 or 12 handed for the first hour because they ran out of tables.

Everyone used to be old. Really old. Tikay used to bring the average DOWN and the table chat was dire.

Being a cocky 18 year old I refused a deal for the bubble when there were 11 left and it caused an uproar. I loved it and I'd do it again, although, nobody does that anymore.

The top heavy prizepools were hilarious and they used to be a lot worse before I started playing. Examples: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=23968 & http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=17920

[redsimon]

I remember when I was 18 I got bullied out of a decision that I knew was correct. In some £750'er in a festival I went allin and it folded round to that chap that owns the chicken shops from Walsall (Chicken Joe?). I looked up to the dealer and I said 28k and she nodded. Chicken Joe asked for a count and the dealer said "28k" without even calling it. Joe called and lost and then when my chips were counted I had 38k (I wasn't angling, just a pure mistake). Joe had almost the exact same stack as me but they let him keep 10k because I had said "28k" even though I had said all-in first.

There are many others, I have memories of one of my first ever live tourneys being in Luton and I had to play 11 or 12 handed for the first hour because they ran out of tables.

Everyone used to be old. Really old. Tikay used to bring the average DOWN and the table chat was dire.

Being a cocky 18 year old I refused a deal for the bubble when there were 11 left and it caused an uproar. I loved it and I'd do it again, although, nobody does that anymore.

The top heavy prizepools were hilarious and they used to be a lot worse before I started playing. Examples: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=23968 & http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=17920

84 entries x £100 and £11K to the winner, sounds good to me

[tikay]

I remember when I was 18 I got bullied out of a decision that I knew was correct. In some £750'er in a festival I went allin and it folded round to that chap that owns the chicken shops from Walsall (Chicken Joe?). I looked up to the dealer and I said 28k and she nodded. Chicken Joe asked for a count and the dealer said "28k" without even calling it. Joe called and lost and then when my chips were counted I had 38k (I wasn't angling, just a pure mistake). Joe had almost the exact same stack as me but they let him keep 10k because I had said "28k" even though I had said all-in first.

There are many others, I have memories of one of my first ever live tourneys being in Luton and I had to play 11 or 12 handed for the first hour because they ran out of tables.

Everyone used to be old. Really old. Tikay used to bring the average DOWN and the table chat was dire.

Being a cocky 18 year old I refused a deal for the bubble when there were 11 left and it caused an uproar. I loved it and I'd do it again, although, nobody does that anymore.

The top heavy prizepools were hilarious and they used to be a lot worse before I started playing. Examples: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=23968 & http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=17920

Chicken George. Think his brother may have been Joe, but without the chicken. Greek gentleman.

[lucky_scrote]

I remember when I was 18 I got bullied out of a decision that I knew was correct. In some £750'er in a festival I went allin and it folded round to that chap that owns the chicken shops from Walsall (Chicken Joe?). I looked up to the dealer and I said 28k and she nodded. Chicken Joe asked for a count and the dealer said "28k" without even calling it. Joe called and lost and then when my chips were counted I had 38k (I wasn't angling, just a pure mistake). Joe had almost the exact same stack as me but they let him keep 10k because I had said "28k" even though I had said all-in first.

There are many others, I have memories of one of my first ever live tourneys being in Luton and I had to play 11 or 12 handed for the first hour because they ran out of tables.

Everyone used to be old. Really old. Tikay used to bring the average DOWN and the table chat was dire.

Being a cocky 18 year old I refused a deal for the bubble when there were 11 left and it caused an uproar. I loved it and I'd do it again, although, nobody does that anymore.

The top heavy prizepools were hilarious and they used to be a lot worse before I started playing. Examples: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=23968 & http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=17920

Chicken George. Think his brother may have been Joe, but without the chicken. Greek gentleman.

Ahh yes. The tournament in Luton I mentioned that was 12 handed for myself was the first time I ever met you Tikay. I was at a table with yourself and Jen .

[Sheriff Fatman]

Not missed:
Self-deal tables.
Sticky chips - lifting the top one and having a stack of 10 come with it.
Smokers

Missed:
The old Luton Grosvenor - my first UK casino poker experience and the new place never had the same vibe for me (including the walk of death down the alley, which was character-building, to say the least!)
Vegas cardrooms with 90% of games available being limit holdem.
Jon Raab dropping trophies

[KarmaDope]

I'm glad that tournaments can start earlier than 5pm these days...

[Claw75]

forgot how funny the 'moving the shortstack' thread was  - given me a few lols this morning!

Can't remember if anyone who played 'village poker' at BB3 in Walsall is still around?  As I recall, the short stack at the start of a hand found themselves in the bb and dealing.  Good times

[Longines]

Those tiny round tables at the Vic and the near religious fervour with which the old boys enforced the shuffle-cut-deal pantomime.

1500 chip rebuys.

Smoking.



On the still miss it list is the 6O cash game at Walsall and the massed look of disdain when some young kid asked if they would open a hold em cash table