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GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
edited April 2013 in Poker Chat
Hi, any more TSP qualifier tournaments left?

Also any update on when VLV starts?

sorry if answered during the last month - I tried catching up on the forum posts but with TommyD active on the forum again I didn't get any further than his.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 173,062
    edited April 2013

    Hi Geldy.

    There are no more Team Sky Poker Qualifiers, the last one was Sunday just gone.

    The VLV position is currently unresolved, as there are some technical issues to resolve.

    How was China? Tell us about the interesting things - the Railways, Trains, Bridges, that sort of stuff. And the food. Can you get Fray bentos Steak & Kidney Pie or Pudding there? Or KFC?     
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  • MattBatesMattBates Member Posts: 4,118
    edited April 2013
    In Response to Re: TSP qualifiers / VLV:
    Hi Geldy. There are no more Team Sky Poker Qualifiers, the last one was Sunday just gone. The VLV position is currently unresolved, as there are some technical issues to resolve. How was China? Tell us about the interesting things - the Railways, Trains, Bridges, that sort of stuff. And the food. Can you get Fray bentos Steak & Kidney Pie or Pudding there? Or KFC?  
    Posted by Tikay10
    No pressure with your responses Gedly but there are 2 picks left for TSP so a good train/bridge related post might put you to the top of Tikays list!
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  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited April 2013
    In Response to Re: TSP qualifiers / VLV:
    In Response to Re: TSP qualifiers / VLV : No pressure with your responses Gedly but there are 2 picks left for TSP so a good train/bridge related post might put you to the top of Tikays list!
    Posted by MattBates
    Thanks Matt. However Tikay doesn't need to be offering anything to get a response from me - have a few interesting stories which I am happy to share.
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  • Lambert180Lambert180 Member Posts: 12,197
    edited April 2013
    I'd be interested to hear Geldy.China is definitely on my list of places I'd love to visit, what parts of China did you get to?
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 173,062
    edited April 2013
    In Response to Re: TSP qualifiers / VLV:
    I'd be interested to hear Geldy.China is definitely on my list of places I'd love to visit, what parts of China did you get to?
    Posted by Lambert180
    Yeah, what train stations & airports did he visit?
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  • DUNMIDOSHDUNMIDOSH Member Posts: 1,473
    edited April 2013
    I travelled from
    Guangzhou - Hung Hom in 1994 
    They were laying a second track by hand, without machinery or lifting gear!
    100 labourers carrying 90m cwr, then welding it into position! 
    An eye opener compared to my dealings with the Area Civil Engineers Peterborough
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 173,062
    edited April 2013
    In Response to Re: TSP qualifiers / VLV:
    I travelled from Guangzhou - Hung Hom in 1994  They were laying a second track by hand, without machinery or lifting gear! 100 labourers carrying 90m cwr, then welding it into position!  An eye opener compared to my dealings with the Area Civil Engineers Peterborough
    Posted by DUNMIDOSH
    For the uniniated, such as JamieLou, "cwr" is "continuously welded rail".

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_(rail_transport)

    This site is a belter.

    http://www.grandadsez.co.uk/railways/continuous-rail.htm


    It begins.....


    Older readers (and those visiting heritage train sites such as the WaterCress line) will know that a train journey was (or is) punctuated with a rhythmic sound as the train's wheels went (goes) over rail joints. Clicka-click-click, Clicka-click-click, Clicka-click-click;
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  • percival09percival09 Member Posts: 3,804
    edited April 2013
    Sorry to interrupt your train trash talk, but I'd really appreciate it if the VLV packages make a return next year. Thanks
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  • Wacko90Wacko90 Member Posts: 906
    edited April 2013
    I was on an incredible train in Poland. So different to the UK! Travelled from a place called **** too! Definsitely interested to hear some stories of China, spill all Geldy!
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  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited April 2013
    Some context: spent the majority of my time in Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture in the province of Yunnan in the SW of China, bordering Laos & Burma. But travelled via Shanghai. Two totally different concepts of China. Yunnan province is one of the poorest areas of China, with over a third of the population belonging to ethnic minorities. Shanghai, meanwhile, is the largest city proper in the world, and China's most importand industrial and commercial city. Chalk & cheese, or in this case fresh air & dead pigs.
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  • percival09percival09 Member Posts: 3,804
    edited April 2013
    In Response to China:
    Some context: spent the majority of my time in Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture in the province of Yunnan in the SW of China, bordering Laos & Burma. But travelled via Shanghai. Two totally different concepts of China. Yunnan province is one of the poorest areas of China, with over a third of the population belonging to ethnic minorities. Shanghai, meanwhile, is the largest city proper in the world, and China's most importand industrial and commercial city. Chalk & cheese, or in this case fresh air & dead pigs.
    Posted by GELDY
    Everything that is wrong with the world in one sentence. Congratz
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  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited April 2013
    train stories from Shanghai & Yunnan

    Shanghai has the world's fastest train in regular commercial service - the maglev train from Pudong airport.

    Yunnan has the only metre-guage railway in China, the remnants of the Sino-Vietnamese railway built by the French
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  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited April 2013
    In Response to Re: China:
    In Response to China : Everything that is wrong with the world in one sentence. Congratz
    Posted by percival09
    how so - thanks to the Western financial crisis the world would be in a deep depression if it wasn't for the Chinese bailing us out? 
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  • rancidrancid Member Posts: 5,947
    edited April 2013
    Always wondered why leaves can stop trains running !
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  • percival09percival09 Member Posts: 3,804
    edited April 2013
    In Response to Re: China:
    In Response to Re: China : how so - thanks to the Western financial crisis the world would be in a deep depression if it wasn't for the Chinese bailing us out? 
    Posted by GELDY
    nothing wrong with China specifically - it's everyones problem now, thanks to the West. Globalisation and all that. Apparently money is more important than people. 
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  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited April 2013
    Shanghai maglev - so smooth - just beautiful

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  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited April 2013
    also smooth were the sharks swimming up & down, up & down, in the lounge bar we visited in Kunming.


    they were somewhat smoother than the lounge music. Thanks to shazam I now know my wife and I were listening to Richard Cheese's "Sunny side of the moon" at 4pm in the afternoon. Look it up - another great American import "xxx music". Thank goodness the staff couldn't speak English.

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  • FlyingDaggFlyingDagg Member Posts: 4,146
    edited April 2013
    A proper blog post would be fascinating Geldy if your up to it. 268 mph is mindboggling.
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  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited April 2013
    Food: You can get the best food in the world in China, whether Chinese or not. Even out of the big cities you can eat well - and you can eat badly as well!

    In Xishangbanna I turned down the donkey stew, but did eat the Ostrich Carpaccio. I was very sick the following day - but I truly don't think it was the Ostrich - more likely the tuna sashimi I had at dinner.

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  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited April 2013
    In Shanghai, you can get great European food as served at Jason Atherton's Table No 1. After all he is a Michelin starred protege of Gordon Ramsey. But under £20 for his 3 course lunch was crazy.



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