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Bennydip2 (X Files) "The Truth Is Out There"?

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  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: Bennydip2 (X Files) "The Truth Is Out There"?:
    hi baz u ok m8, 
    Posted by mickjenn1
    Hi Mick  sorry  i'm late replying ...yes were fine this end, having a busy couple of days what with work and poker !!

    Hope your ok ... i'll be reading some of your post tomorrow to catch up,    :))  benny
  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
    Thank you,  Mike and Rich  .  ..



    Mike if your going to play poker .. the first thing you need  is  .....





      a  sense of Humour  !!!... keeps me going when the cards are running cold,

      or  if I'm in the Poker Hospital


    Oh ohhh here come the Nurse !!...... eeek !!!!

  • bobcat52bobcat52 Member Posts: 568
    edited January 2010
    This little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?
    "Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way:

    I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me Capitalism.
    Your Mom, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the Government. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the People. The nanny [babysitter], we'll consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we'll call him the Future.

    Now, think about that and see if that makes sense." So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said.

    Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room.

    Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.

    The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now." The father says, "Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about."

    The little boy replies, "Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the future is in deep sh*t."
  • mickjenn1mickjenn1 Member Posts: 740
    edited January 2010
    hi baz u ok m8, 
  • bobcat52bobcat52 Member Posts: 568
    edited January 2010
    In the cemetary i saw four men carrying a coffin around. When i passed 3 hours later the same men were still there carrying the same coffin.

    I thought to myself "They've lost the plot."
  • Sky_RichSky_Rich Member Posts: 3,837
    edited January 2010
    Hey guys,

    although quite amusing, some of these jokes could be seen as offensive to certain people and i have had to remove a couple. i hate to be a party poope r  but please keep things clean!

    thanks for being understanding.

    Rich
  • KnackersYaKnackersYa Member Posts: 468
    edited January 2010
    An airline captain was breaking in a new blonde stewardess. The route they were flying had a layover in another city. Upon their arrival, the captain showed the stewardess the best place for airline personnel to eat, shop and stay overnight.

    The next morning, as the pilot was preparing the crew for the day's route, he noticed the new stewardess was missing. He knew which room she was in at the hotel and called her up wondering what happened. She answered the phone, crying, and said she couldn't get out of her room. "You can't get out of your room?" the captain asked, "Why not?"

    The stewardess replied: "There are only three doors in here," she sobbed, "one is the bathroom, one is the closet, and one has a sign on it that says 'Do Not Disturb'!"
  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
    Ohhh,    Rich  who's complaining ...'the suites' !!

    luv  the jokes  Bob and Knackers ... hehehehe
  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
     'THE KID' part 4

     Whatever Ungar's problems, it seemed to be a given that he'd put in a good effort to defend his World Series crown. He checked into Binion's Horseshoe on April 17, intending to rest up and get acclimated for the championship event three and a half weeks later. Billy Baxter, who once again funded Ungar's $10,000 entry fee, suggested he get himself warmed up with a couple preliminary tournaments. But Ungar waved him away and said, "I don't need that s hit."

    On the morning of May 11, the day the Series was slated to begin, Ungar's co c aine addiction was in full fl are, leaving him emotionally depressed, strung out, and physically wrecked. His right nostril was practically flush against his face. The tips of his fingers had been burned black from handling the hot end of a glass crack pipe. Bob Stupak, casino entrepreneur and occasional backer of Ungar's, had offered to provide a hairdresser and makeup artist to ensure that the drug addled star would look presentable, but Ungar never green-lighted them to come upstairs.

    Just minutes before the tournament's starting time, Ungar remembered, "I got showered and dressed. I put my clothes on. And then I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked terrible. I looked like I came from Auschwitz. That's when I knew I couldn't sit there and play for four days, for 10 hours a day, and put in a good performance. I wasn't geared up. I was physically out of it. The year took a toll on me." As the opening hand was being dealt, Ungar remained sequestered in his 12th floor room at the Horseshoe. Baxter managed to get back his $10,000 and the game went on without its defending champion.

    Ungar stopped speaking for a moment, maybe to replay the World Series nightmare in his mind. "Listen, not coming down to play in that tournament was criminal. I honestly think I could have won back-to-back if I was in decent shape. But I thought it would have been more embarrassing to have shown up looking the way I did than for me to stay in my room and not play. In the end, though, I disappointed everyone and, what's worse, I made everybody who's jealous of me happy."

    But maybe the horrible experience had given him perspective. If he walked away from the Horseshoe with a realization that some things are more important than the primitive act of winning money - like not letting down the very people who care about you - then it all could be worth it in the long run, couldn't it? Ungar considered the theory for a split second. "If there is more to life than gambling," he said, "I don't know that I'm able to enjoy it. And what I'm afraid of is that gambling ain't stimulating me lately. That's a bad sign."

    Several days after opening up at Arizona Charlie's, Ungar was having dinner with his ex-wife, Madelaine, and daughter Stephanie at the Sahara Casino and Hotel, a mid-level place on the Strip with a low-stakes poker room. Stephanie, 16 at the time, was a lovely, intelligent girl who had endured a lot of disappointment and heartache from her father. At that moment, though, she was thrilled to be with him. "We've spent a whole week together," she gushed. Most importantly, he appeared to be completely straight. "People introduce themselves to my dad and say that it's a pleasure to meet him. We walk around holding hands, and everybody is so happy to see my dad with me."

    When they strolled into the Sahara's poker room, Ungar's dentist was there, messing around in a low-stakes, 30-person freeze-out with a $22 buy-in and a first prize of a few hundred dollars. Just for kicks, maybe showing off his star patient, the dentist requested that Ungar pull up a chair and enter the event. Considering that Ungar's more obvious poker milieu would have been the Horseshoe or the Mirage, where, at the time, games ranked among the highest in town, this was a bit of a comedown. But, as a favor to the man who had built a bridge for the front of his mouth, Ungar dispatched his ex-wife to the blackjack pit and accepted the invitation.

    He wound up signing 40 autographs, and a crowd of some 200 railbirds formed around a tournament that would ordinarily have generated no interest whatsoever.

    Goosed by the crowd and glad to be back in action, Ungar played aggressively and hard, as if psychologically making up for the World Series he had missed. "It came down to me and this old man," Ungar recalled. "I had $12,000 in tournament chips in front of me. He had $400. Then he outdrew me for seven pots in a row and won the thing."

    Ungar was initially upset about losing. Then the man told him, "You made my life, Mr. Ungar. I can tell my children, my grandchildren, and everybody else that I beat you."

    After shaking the man's hand, Ungar said to him, "If I can make your life, I'm tickled that I lost."

    This encounter provided a rare glimpse at Ungar's sentimental side, but, sadly, it didn't augur long-term change. A couple of weeks later, he convinced a doctor to prescribe narcotic painkillers and found himself backsliding into drug dependency. Following a disagreement with his girlfriend, he bashed her in the face with a telephone. She kicked him out of her house and called the police. He went to stay with a friend, someone said, but nobody seemed able to find nd him.

    Mike Sexton hinted that Puggy Pearson might have a lead. Puggy had met Ungar two days before at Sam's Town Hotel and Casino, and had lent him $500. "He didn't look too damned good," Puggy said. "Stuey was sitting there on the bench, next to a guy who claimed to be his plumber. Stu gave me his word, on his daughter's life, that he would pay me back $500 in two days, which is today. I lay 100-to-1 that I don't hear from him until he needs me again. But that's okay." Puggy sighed. Then he added, "Stuey's all right."

    A day later, Ungar was back at Binion's Horseshoe, registered on someone else's credit card. Speaking over the phone and sounding lucid, he said, "I'm gonna start playing. I'm waiting to see a friend of mine who's got money for me. Then I go to the Mirage."

    Despite vows to resume his once brilliant career, Ungar maintained a ghostly poker-room presence during the summer and into the fall of 1998. Billy Baxter lent him 25 grand and he used it to play $30/$60 Hold 'Em. But his heart was no longer in it. Inferior players beat him in headsup matches, and co c aine retook its place at the center of Ungar's life. He continually phoned the Mirage poker room, trying to scare up money from old friends, but nobody would take his calls.

    Then, in November 1998, things seemed ready to turn around yet again. Ungar signed a contract with hotelier Bob Stupak, agreeing that Stupak would pay off Ungar's debts and finance tournament-play in exchange for a piece of Ungar's future winnings. Stupak even assigned a bodyguard named Dave to look after Ungar and make sure he stayed away from drugs. However, on November 20th, Ungar convinced Dave that he had to take his daughter to a birthday dinner.

    Dave cut him loose on that Friday afternoon, and Ungar checked into the Oasis Motel, a notorious short time s e x joint on the northern end of Las Vegas Boulevard. He paid cash for a single night and claimed the Mirage as his permanent residence on the check-in form. Earlier in the day Stupak had given him a $10,000 advance, as "walking-around money."

    The next morning, after Ungar failed to check out of his room on time, an Oasis employee knocked on the door, entered the room, and found him lying face down in bed, shaking. Apparently in no condition to leave, Ungar asked to see the hotel manager, then slipped the manager a $100 bill for a second night. "Can you close the window?" Ungar asked. "I'm cold." The manager looked up and noticed that the window was tightly shut.

    Twenty-four hours later, on November 22nd, Stu "The Kid" Ungar was found lying in the same faced own position on the mattress - but this time he was dead. Eight hundred eighty-two dollars, all that Ungar had to his name, was in his pants pockets. Police found the room to be clean of drugs and paraphernalia.

    According to a Clark County spokesman, the official cause of Ungar's death was coronary arterial sclerosis brought on by his lifestyle. Essentially, the arteries around his heart hardened and would not allow blood to circulate. Ungar's passing was ruled accidental, even though co c aine, Percodan, and methadone were found in his blood.

    Maybe the dope in Ungar's system reflected a final binge before he checked into the motel with the intention of kicking his habit for good. Maybe he sensed that the end was near and wanted to die alone, in peace. Or maybe something more nefarious transpired.

    A longtime friend of Ungar's claims to know what happened. "Stuey bought a bunch of crack and picked up two hookers who like to troll near the Oasis," says the friend. "Once they found out how much money Stuey had on him" - presumably a good chunk of Stupak's $10,000 - "he was as good as dead. They pushed him to smoke enough so that he went into convulsions - which Stuey was prone to do. The convulsions came, they took most of the money, and left Stuey for dead."

    Ungar's funeral was presided over by a rabbi and financed by Bob Stupak. The ceremony was a who's who of no-limit players, and Stupak reportedly hit them up for donations to help cover the burial costs.

    Days later, at the big-money tables around town, cards were dealt, millions were won and lost, and the games rolled on unabated by the passing of poker's ultimate supernova. ♠

    the end
  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
    This story was   most tragic yet it showed what a great player Stu Unger was.

    In my time playing i sat with (the late)  Hamish Sha,       who was another  player that was almost unplayable but such a pleasure to have been at the same table with him .

    There  are many players who bring this great game to light,
                   
                             Stu Unger was    "The Best"

                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLSeS0NLCu4
  • Huck_NallHuck_Nall Member Posts: 216
    edited January 2010

    This was some bad beat I served up on you Barry. Sorry m8.
    However, what were you doing calling my reraise?
    FlashFlush Small blind  15.00 15.00 4605.00
    tallboy Big blind  30.00 45.00 4480.00
      Your hole cards
    • A
    • A
         
    CFC302 Fold     
    Huck_Nall Raise  90.00 135.00 4720.00
    bennydip2 Raise  150.00 285.00 4120.00
    phil12uk Fold     
    FlashFlush Fold     
    tallboy Call  120.00 405.00 4360.00
    Huck_Nall Raise  420.00 825.00 4300.00
    bennydip2 Call  360.00 1185.00 3760.00
    tallboy Fold     
    Flop
       
    • 10
    • Q
    • Q
         
    Huck_Nall Bet  888.75 2073.75 3411.25
    bennydip2 Call  888.75 2962.50 2871.25
    Turn
       
    • 3
         
    Huck_Nall Bet  2962.50 5925.00 448.75
    bennydip2 All-in  2871.25 8796.25 0.00
    River
       
    • A
         
    Huck_Nall Show
    • A
    • A
       
    bennydip2 Show
    • K
    • Q
       
    Huck_Nall Win Full House, Aces and Queens 8796.25  9245.00
  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
     (Event 20 deepstack) Well Huck, it's like this, after 'Tall boy' called  (Very good player) I know there are some big hands our but your re-raise pr-flop and with what i had invested already, i was going to see the flop !!  It was early and i'm in for just over 1/5 of my chips !!  If i miss well no harm done it's a deep stack long blinds structure and i can get back from that position.
    My game is all about seeing flops early, and playing the turn not the flop, so when i hit a monster. and you bet the the flop there's no point in me re-raising, i now know what you have AA KK JJ 10 10, your not passing, i just want you to bet again on the turn, (3) and you do .. we are all-in and glk to you you hit the river Ace.. (2 outer)
    It was one of those hands that once the pre-flop betting was done (1/5 of our stacks in) The rest was always going in !!
    Ya lucky fish ....hehehee   glk Huck (top man)

      Benny on a good day !!!  hahaaa
  • scotty77scotty77 Member Posts: 4,970
    edited January 2010
    hi benny sir - would appreciate if you could take a look at my live poker thread and if you could pass on one or two bits of advice i would be very grateful sir.

    was a shame that we didn't get to sit on the same table at Luton, when do you think you will next making an appearence there??

    I was gonna play cash and maybe that 100 tournie on Sunday but now Sky commitmentz have taken priority.

    cheers
  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
    Scotty, ..from what ive seen...there's nothing i can  teach you !!   You've got the lot  !!

    My best advice is .."Get it quietly" !!  It's dosen't do, to wind players up, ... ....glk 
  • scotty77scotty77 Member Posts: 4,970
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: Bennydip2 (X Files) "The Truth Is Out There"?:
    Scotty, ..from what ive seen...there's nothing i can  teach you !!   You've got the lot  !! My best advice is .."Get it quietly" !!  It's dosen't do, to wind players up, ... ....glk 
    Posted by bennydip2
    dont be silly, im a newbie that needs advice :(

    i run so bad live its untrue

    and how do u know that i play naive and arrogant you wasn't at my table, i was actually a good boy apart from maybe one comment?!?!  I do mess up witht he chips and action and stuff sometimes cos im so used to the mouse haha....
  • bobcat52bobcat52 Member Posts: 568
    edited January 2010
    I consider myself well and truly chastised Rich.

    Shall I beat myself with birch twigs as penance for being naughty or shall i just slap myself on the wrists a couple of times?
  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
    Yes ... Bobcat   you naughty boy  ... here's one for you !! Should be ok with the censor ?

    A man met a beautiful blonde lady and decided he wanted to marry her right-away.
    She said,
    'But we don't know anything about each other.'
    He said,
    'That's all right, we'll learn about each other as we go along.'

    So she consented, they were married, and off they went on a honeymoon at a very nice resort.
    One morning they were lying by the pool, when he got up off of his  towel,
    climbed up to the 10 meter board and did a two and a half  tuck, followed by three rotations
    in the pike position, at which  point he straightened out and cut the water like a knife.
    After a few more demonstrations, he came back and lay down on the towel.

    She said,
     'That was incredible!' 
    He said,
     'I used to be an Olympic diving champion. You see, I told you we'd learn more about each other as we went along.'
    So she got up, jumped in the pool and started doing lengths.
    After seventy-five lengths she climbed out of the pool, lay down on her  towel and was hardly out of breath.
    He said,
    'That was incredible! Were you an Olympic endurance swimmer?' 

    'No,' she said, 










    'I was a pros titute in Liverpool but I worked both sides of the Mersey  !!!!

     
  • bobcat52bobcat52 Member Posts: 568
    edited January 2010
    tee hee hee........
  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
                               hahahaaaaa   i like them !!! ..very  good Goldon
  • bennydip2bennydip2 Member Posts: 2,093
    edited January 2010
     Never Ending Tale !
    If, like me, you’re really stupid, you will see the world through metaphors derived solely from dumb TV shows of the Sixties and Seventies.
    Because, you see, life is like   "Runaround" -  the ITV kids game show hosted by a pre-Eastenders Mike Read.
     
    After the loveable cockney asked a question, the hordes of kids would have to “runaround” three sections of the game-board.
    Two would be right and one would be wrong, and you got a yellow ball if you stood in the right area.
    Much jostling would ensue as the kids chose safety in numbers, assuming that the more people who stood in an area the better the chance of them collectively having the right answer.     And normally this worked.
     
    But there was always one kid who would dart between the three sections, following and then abandoning the flow, making complex but futile judgements about his probability of success as the blinding lights flashed and the sirens hooted.
    At the moment of revelation, this one kid would invariably be occupying a section all on his own.
    As the answer was revealed he would desperately try to jump next door but would soon be spotted by the cybernetically enhanced eyes of Mr Read.
    Mike Read would whisk you away with a clip on the ear (this was 1975)
    and declare to the laughing masses      “What a wally!”

    Some of us have been standing in that wrong segment for most of our adult lives, sometimes trying to jump into adjacent squares but then changing our minds and sticking to our so-called principles.
    While all the time a voice of gruff fatherly authority shouts beerily down our lugholes with a Readian equal emphasis on each syllable ---    “What A Wa Lee!”
    You could try and jump next door with all the other kids, but if you’re stupid like me you’ll stay in your lonely segment, hoping that, despite the overwhelming evidence, you’ve made the right decision.
    You just had to be different, didn’t you?

    Welcome home my friends, to the tale that never ends - welcome to My Stupid Life.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   

     Let me introduce you to ..(the late)  Mr Mike Reid !!

                                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRWD4ZODOU0


    glk  benny :))
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