Had yesterday afternoon off to attend Becky’s sports day, but it was cancelled so caught up on some UKPOKERINFO work. I do wonder at what point we started to feel the need to attend our kid’s sport’s days? No one ever turned up to mine when I was a kid! Actually when did we start paying so much attention to our kid’s?
I spend at least 50 or 60 hours a week with Becky. When I was a kid I only ever seemed to see my Dad on our annual week in Great Yarmouth. Ok, that’s a slight exaggeration, I would also see him for two hours a week, between the time he woke up and the time he went to the pub on Saturday and Sunday.
I seem to spend huge amounts of time with my daughter, all day Saturday we went into town and on Sunday we went to the pictures, and I still felt guilty on Sunday for spending the early evening writing. Its weird, I just don’t think I’ll ever feel comfortable with the time I give her, nothing will ever be enough.
I think today’s parents probable concentrate far too much on there children, when I was a kid I was pretty much left to get on with it. You just don’t see kids out and about much on there own anymore, everyone’s too scared to let them out of sight.
It’s all bit hysterical isn’t it, I can’t believe there where any less nonce’s around in the seventies and eighties then there is now, we just seemed to accept certain realties like ‘You can’t watch them every hour of the day’ back then, nowadays parents are obsessive about knowing where there kids are every minute of every hour of every day.
I remember as a kid just disappearing all day with me mates, over the woods and that sort of thing during the holidays. Just don’t imagine that goes on much today, I’d be getting texts from me mum every five minutes to make sure I wasn’t on my way round Garry Glitter’s house to see his ‘kittens’.
I’ve started writing a film script, the idea just hit me like a ton of bricks and it’s fighting to get out. Mind you my last effort to write fiction went down like a hot dog in a mosque, the link’s here (The Home Game), please somebody read it and leave a comment!
ohh and I've qualified for the weekly Killarney final again, so better luck this time hopefully.
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Monday, 6 July 2009
Non-Stop Scribbling
Been busy all weekend, trying to keep on top of the UKPOKERINFO workload whilst looking after my daughter and being on call, we are having to put a lot of volume through the site at the moment following the re-launch. Looking good as well, it’s a strong team we have.
Wasn’t sure about my title for the Hellmuth WSOP 2009 entrance piece (here), should have gone with my initial idea for the headline, “Hellmuth redefine’s the term arsehole”.
Steve Holden completed an excellent interview about his experience with Black Belt Poker (here) and it is refreshingly honest; a big thanks to Steve.
On the poker front qualified for the Killarney festival weekly final in the week and played it last night, got dealt nothing but still managed to get within site of the prize, Squirmy railed me the whole way (well after he bombed out!) and he nagged me into playing well when I wasn’t really in the mood, had to keep nicking to stay afloat but eventually went for one too many. Such is life.
Wasn’t sure about my title for the Hellmuth WSOP 2009 entrance piece (here), should have gone with my initial idea for the headline, “Hellmuth redefine’s the term arsehole”.
Steve Holden completed an excellent interview about his experience with Black Belt Poker (here) and it is refreshingly honest; a big thanks to Steve.
On the poker front qualified for the Killarney festival weekly final in the week and played it last night, got dealt nothing but still managed to get within site of the prize, Squirmy railed me the whole way (well after he bombed out!) and he nagged me into playing well when I wasn’t really in the mood, had to keep nicking to stay afloat but eventually went for one too many. Such is life.
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Totally Made Up True Poker Conspiracies #1
Following the application of the UIGEA, the founders of Full Tilt Poker begin to find it increasingly difficult to move there profit back in to the US without breaking the law and exposing themselves to legal action. So they formulated a cunning plan, they picked a mid stakes player and rigged the RNG on the site to give him unbelievable good fortune, quickly he moved up to the highest stakes possible.
The Full Tilt head honcho’s begin to transfer all there profits into Gus Hansen’s account (I know bare with me) where he proceeds to play PLO for high stakes. Gus then does what he does best and spews off millions of dollars a day to the ‘new superstar’, at one point a low level employ inadvertently switches of the RNG fix and no one actually notices as Gus sucks at PLO so much. The ‘Superstar’ now has to find a way to transfer his money from the site to his American bank accounts, which he does via a number of semi legal transactions, thus taking all the risks.
With all his new found fame and wealth, poker’s latest ‘Superstar’ decides the only correct course of action is to move to Las Vegas where he could then also dominate the live high stakes poker scene at the Bellagio, like he does online. He proceeds to piss away every penny he earned in Bobby’s room to the high stakes players who play there, who just happen to be all be Full Tilt founding members.
So if you start to run super good on Full Tilt then watch out, you could be there next mark!
The Full Tilt head honcho’s begin to transfer all there profits into Gus Hansen’s account (I know bare with me) where he proceeds to play PLO for high stakes. Gus then does what he does best and spews off millions of dollars a day to the ‘new superstar’, at one point a low level employ inadvertently switches of the RNG fix and no one actually notices as Gus sucks at PLO so much. The ‘Superstar’ now has to find a way to transfer his money from the site to his American bank accounts, which he does via a number of semi legal transactions, thus taking all the risks.
With all his new found fame and wealth, poker’s latest ‘Superstar’ decides the only correct course of action is to move to Las Vegas where he could then also dominate the live high stakes poker scene at the Bellagio, like he does online. He proceeds to piss away every penny he earned in Bobby’s room to the high stakes players who play there, who just happen to be all be Full Tilt founding members.
So if you start to run super good on Full Tilt then watch out, you could be there next mark!
Friday, 26 June 2009
Totally Made Up True Poker Facts No1
Phil Hellmuth was once so enraged at a dealer after seeing his pocket aces cracked for a big pot, that he climbed on the poker table and pulled out his cock and socked the dealer in the jaw with his member. That dealer later became a junior senator for the state of Illinois and Americas 44th in total and first African American president, Barack Obama.
Online poker phenomenon Johnny Lodden is so popular in his home country of Norway that his image has been used to successfully market anything and everything! In fact the ‘Lodden popsicle’ a lemon flavoured frozen treat is the biggest selling lollipop in the Sørlandet region of the country.
Scotty Ngyuen's older brother played the actor in The Deer hunter who shout's "Di Di Mao" at the American prisoner's.
It’s a little known fact that Umberto Brenes is the dictator of Costa Rica, and he once had a man put to death for not properly respecting one of his raises.
Did you know Ross Boatman keeps a pet dragon locked in his basement and forces it to act as a cheap alternative to a water boiler.
Online poker phenomenon Johnny Lodden is so popular in his home country of Norway that his image has been used to successfully market anything and everything! In fact the ‘Lodden popsicle’ a lemon flavoured frozen treat is the biggest selling lollipop in the Sørlandet region of the country.
Scotty Ngyuen's older brother played the actor in The Deer hunter who shout's "Di Di Mao" at the American prisoner's.
It’s a little known fact that Umberto Brenes is the dictator of Costa Rica, and he once had a man put to death for not properly respecting one of his raises.
Did you know Ross Boatman keeps a pet dragon locked in his basement and forces it to act as a cheap alternative to a water boiler.
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Don’t ever, ever, ever rent out your sole property
Long weekend with Sunday being the wife’s birthday BBQ finds me in poor health this week, I can hardly walk, my knee’s completely fooked. I feel like one of those 12 years old geldings you see running at crappy race tracks like Southwell or Ponterfract, No good for stud and can’t keep up with even these useless plodders anymore… Glue factory next for me.
We are in the middle of a hellish property issue with the tenant of our flat in Essex. She is refusing any access to the property, has changed the locks and has stopped paying her portion of the rent. Notice to vacate passed on Friday and she is refusing to budge. Then yesterday we got a phone call from the letting agency asking for us to send a man around to clear out the chimney as a bird seem’s to have got stuck! The fucking cheek, sorry you fucker our tenancy agreement ended on Friday.
The wife’s been very depressed about it all, we seem to be treated like c*nts by all the agency’s now involved (the homeless agency are particular twats BTW), as if where some big property baron’s bullying this poor tenant, we have spoken to her once in five years and that was a polite two minute conversation to let her know we had decided to sell.
This is our only property, and it’s mortgaged to the hilt and we had to rent it to pay our bills. If we can’t sell, and it looks like our sale will now full through because we are having to get an eviction served (thousands more of our money to solicitors no doubt, after spending 16K to get the lease fixed) and she is refusing access for a survey then we ourselves will be out in the street come January. The letting agency are an absolute joke, if you’re under any perception that these people will assist and protect you then forget about it, that is a complete fallacy, they have been as useful as a cock flavoured lollipop.
Been running horrid in poker but breaking even! It’s very weird had top set over bottom set crushed twice all in on the flop, once by turned quads and the other by runner, runner four high flush! But for some reason I’m nicking enough here and there to make up for losing every big pot I play, so can’t grumble really. Looking to qualify for the Killarney poker festival this week, could use a lads holiday.
We are in the middle of a hellish property issue with the tenant of our flat in Essex. She is refusing any access to the property, has changed the locks and has stopped paying her portion of the rent. Notice to vacate passed on Friday and she is refusing to budge. Then yesterday we got a phone call from the letting agency asking for us to send a man around to clear out the chimney as a bird seem’s to have got stuck! The fucking cheek, sorry you fucker our tenancy agreement ended on Friday.
The wife’s been very depressed about it all, we seem to be treated like c*nts by all the agency’s now involved (the homeless agency are particular twats BTW), as if where some big property baron’s bullying this poor tenant, we have spoken to her once in five years and that was a polite two minute conversation to let her know we had decided to sell.
This is our only property, and it’s mortgaged to the hilt and we had to rent it to pay our bills. If we can’t sell, and it looks like our sale will now full through because we are having to get an eviction served (thousands more of our money to solicitors no doubt, after spending 16K to get the lease fixed) and she is refusing access for a survey then we ourselves will be out in the street come January. The letting agency are an absolute joke, if you’re under any perception that these people will assist and protect you then forget about it, that is a complete fallacy, they have been as useful as a cock flavoured lollipop.
Been running horrid in poker but breaking even! It’s very weird had top set over bottom set crushed twice all in on the flop, once by turned quads and the other by runner, runner four high flush! But for some reason I’m nicking enough here and there to make up for losing every big pot I play, so can’t grumble really. Looking to qualify for the Killarney poker festival this week, could use a lads holiday.
Friday, 19 June 2009
Having my cake and eating it
Some fella paid me for a link and an article mentioning his site with some money directly into an account; it’s on the cake network which is like stepping back to 2005 as the standard of play is delightfully poor. I’ve run up to a 2K this week, a 7th place in there nightly 10KG was good for about a ¼ of that and running sick good with some hilarious plays from my opponents. One hand that netted me two hundred dollars sticks in the mind,
Thursday, 18 June 2009
President Rejects Moves to Repeal Anti-Gaming laws
Stocks of all the major online gaming concerns fell sharply during after noon trading as a reaction to the news filtering out that the freshly re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is unlikely to repeal the laws that prevent ordinary citizens taking part in online gaming in Iran.
The largest site Poker Whores have been the worse affected publicly traded operator losing some 30% of there value in a two hour trading period with the downward trend expecting to continue this morning when the global trading markets reopen.
As a further reaction, online poker forums where overwhelmed yesterday afternoon after the story broke with online poker players threatening to give up the game largely due to the fact that the predicted and much anticipated return of ‘The Iranian fish’ was now unlikely to happen anytime soon.
We contacted the chairwoman of the Tehran Women’s Poker Association(TWPA) Mr’s Samrah Begum(name changed to protect her identity) for a local reaction, “This is just a disaster” she proclaimed, “We really thought this was going to happen this time” Samrah continued, “The rules preventing normal Iranians from pursuing there preferred pastime are draconian to say the least, I laugh when I see American players posting complaints on two plus two about the UIGEA because they have had there money confiscated by there government” she said ruefully, “Only last week one of our members had there hands confiscated by our government for playing online poker, lets see you insult someone’s mother in the chat box with no hands after that Yankee infidel”.
The largest site Poker Whores have been the worse affected publicly traded operator losing some 30% of there value in a two hour trading period with the downward trend expecting to continue this morning when the global trading markets reopen.
As a further reaction, online poker forums where overwhelmed yesterday afternoon after the story broke with online poker players threatening to give up the game largely due to the fact that the predicted and much anticipated return of ‘The Iranian fish’ was now unlikely to happen anytime soon.
We contacted the chairwoman of the Tehran Women’s Poker Association(TWPA) Mr’s Samrah Begum(name changed to protect her identity) for a local reaction, “This is just a disaster” she proclaimed, “We really thought this was going to happen this time” Samrah continued, “The rules preventing normal Iranians from pursuing there preferred pastime are draconian to say the least, I laugh when I see American players posting complaints on two plus two about the UIGEA because they have had there money confiscated by there government” she said ruefully, “Only last week one of our members had there hands confiscated by our government for playing online poker, lets see you insult someone’s mother in the chat box with no hands after that Yankee infidel”.
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