I love Crich, but that road that plunges downhill from Crich to Bullbridge scares the life out of me. When you get to the A610 at the bottom of the hill, the options are limited ahead of you - one seriously big wall.
A lot of new stuff is far from an improvement architecturally However ABS with cars is good 😊
Yep, I think the wall wins most of its battles
Trying to find somewhere inbetween us Is tough. Little Eaton is very nice but quite a bit closer to me. Crich ticks all boxes. I’m also a bit disgruntled by Horsley Lodge at present. The course has gone from wonderful condition to very poor over the last couple of years. That and the fact that the owner is doing his damnest to close down Mickleover Golf Club has led me to look at other courses. Matlock Golf club is only 7 miles away from Crich
The first is testing enough at 434 yards. A playing partner made it tougher one round. He hit the slats at the front of the tee. We dived for cover as it came flying back at us. Pretty tough start to the round when your 2nd shot is from 70 yards further away than where you started the hole
I used to enjoy playing High Peak even though I never played well there. Strange. For a few years I was a member at Cavendish on the other side of Buxton. Shortish course but very interesting greens.
I used to enjoy playing High Peak even though I never played well there. Strange. For a few years I was a member at Cavendish on the other side of Buxton. Shortish course but very interesting greens.
I like Buxton High Peak but Cavendish is really really nice As you know it’s a Mackenzie course and you can see the similarities with some of the greens
Easiest 1st tee in the world SHOULD be the 1st at the Old Course at St Andrews. Straight drive on a massive fairway, as it is both the 1st and 18th fairways. The trouble is that there are always loads of people watching.
Rumour has it that someone on the 1st tee shanked it so badly that the ball ended up in the 18th hole, whereupon he claimed the first ever "round in 1"...
Easiest 1st tee in the world SHOULD be the 1st at the Old Course at St Andrews. Straight drive on a massive fairway, as it is both the 1st and 18th fairways. The trouble is that there are always loads of people watching.
Rumour has it that someone on the 1st tee shanked it so badly that the ball ended up in the 18th hole, whereupon he claimed the first ever "round in 1"...
Could only do that if he was a LEFTIE....... Phil Mick. ??
Easiest 1st tee in the world SHOULD be the 1st at the Old Course at St Andrews. Straight drive on a massive fairway, as it is both the 1st and 18th fairways. The trouble is that there are always loads of people watching.
Rumour has it that someone on the 1st tee shanked it so badly that the ball ended up in the 18th hole, whereupon he claimed the first ever "round in 1"...
Could only do that if he was a LEFTIE....... Phil Mick. ??
My money would have been an American wearing tartan trousers...
I used to enjoy playing High Peak even though I never played well there. Strange. For a few years I was a member at Cavendish on the other side of Buxton. Shortish course but very interesting greens.
It's been a very long time indeed since I played there but the greens used to be super fast.
I used to enjoy playing High Peak even though I never played well there. Strange. For a few years I was a member at Cavendish on the other side of Buxton. Shortish course but very interesting greens.
It's been a very long time indeed since I played there but the greens used to be super fast.
Yes, as Jac said, designed by Alastair Mackenzie like Augusta National. Fast and undulating.
Bust 4 mtts in what’s become the usual fashion of late
KK v JJ Top pair v a flush draw that wanted to put all his chips in AA v 10 8 ainpf My personal favourite was the £3 rebuy for a huge stack 88 v 66 and I flopped the 8 I thought, I bet he makes a straight. And he did
Mtts are just bollockks
I’m pretty sure I lost more Dyms than I won. But I got lucky and won nearly all my 9 £11s Think I had a 6 streak which obv won’t be enough
Played a bit of cash and got gifted a couple of buy ins
Poker was completely toss and I thought it needed dumping But I think I’ll stick with poker a while longer and if things go well and I can make £36 a night when I think I’ve run bad then then we may start going steady
Well Dyms are a bag of shiit. People call shoves for 18 bigs with 10 4 etc and get there Also from what I can gather I’ve gone from leading the £5.50 leaderboard and £280 to well down the list.
However mtts are quite pleasant Just came 2nd in the 9.30 £11bh to save the night Heads up there was only one winner. Nishg runs rather well. A 10 and trip Aces seems fine heads up. Unfortunately he had K10 and flopped the straight I then made 2 pair next hand and he turned his flush
Gg me
But still a good surprising result given how the early part of the evening went
Is online poker really struggling compared with this time last year? with 5 years ago? with 10 years ago? Is Sky struggling more than the other sites or are they in a similar position?
Or are they actually doing just fine and i only see what’s in my bubble?
I notice Dym traffic at regular games has dried up at stakes above a tenner. I appreciate that turbos have taken away a lot of this traffic though
Cash i don’t really know how it’s performing against previous years?
I may be wrong on this one but after last summer i don’t think the gtds were increased as has happened previously for the different seasons? Have gtds actually been lowered during this winter? I think they may have but again i could be wrong
Do gtds really matter? Not to me but i understand that they do to many players Someone suggested having deliberate overlay in mtts. While i recognise that could be the road to ruin is it possible that the losses there get outweighed by extra people playing on Sky who may not normally?
Globally, online poker has been in slow decline for some years I believe, with cash games, easily the biggest component, being the worst affected.
The position is exacerbated in Sky Poker due to the uncertainty & complication caused by the Corporate situation. ('Stars etc).
Generally, as far as I can recall, Guarantees have remained largely unchanged this winter.
The relationship between Guarantees & number of runners is a very weird thing, I could write a book on the oddities of that. We are all different, but to me personally it would not make a dot of difference if the Guarantee was, say, £10,000 or £12,000.
Live poker in the UK? No idea. There's no central database to measure that. I certainly don't think it's being helped by events with 4 or 5 Day 1's & unlimited re-entries, which of course strongly favours the better players. I don't begrudge the better players having that advantage, not at all, good luck to them, but it means many would-be "Live" players no longer play live.
I think that’s a good point about live poker It does put me off a little. More so that it takes more than one day to play many tournaments
For people working and with families it’s tough to justify spending Friday to Sunday playing poker live.
Everything’s about getting a good balance I guess. I think some things were far better 15/20 years ago but equally some of the stuff was really bad
I think any game involving money is going to acquire the shady characters. Certainly a higher % 15 years ago to what it is now.
Self deal was not good. That’s a good change. It’s very rare you see self dealing these days. It was pretty amusing though seeing people trying to deal off the bottom whilst also eating their free meal and dealing and playing at the same time.
The structures were awful
Standard staring stack was 2000 with 25/50 blinds with a 30 minute clock
But there was some good stuff too
The poker boom meant that each and every night there were a 100+ runners This created some fantastic prize pools. With so many games being rebuys and the structures dictating that people gambled early you could be playing for 3 or 4 grand on most nights for a relatively low outlay Most of the rebuys were £20 so back then I’d hope to get a stack early and then hang on until the rebuy period was over The best game was the £50 single rebuy and add on they had on Thursday nights. That was proper deepstack stuff too, 5k starting 😊
I liked that you could be playing for decent sums and start at 7pm and be done by 1 or 2am
The structures are obviously way better now at places like DTD although for my local casino and I guess it’s the same with others I don’t like the obsession with giving you a trillion chips but huge blinds and 15 or 20 minute clocks
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However ABS with cars is good 😊
Yep, I think the wall wins most of its battles
Trying to find somewhere inbetween us Is tough. Little Eaton is very nice but quite a bit closer to me.
Crich ticks all boxes.
I’m also a bit disgruntled by Horsley Lodge at present. The course has gone from wonderful condition to very poor over the last couple of years. That and the fact that the owner is doing his damnest to close down Mickleover Golf Club has led me to look at other courses.
Matlock Golf club is only 7 miles away from Crich
I seem to recall Matlock Golf Course is very hilly, but I might be wrong. It had a brook or river running right through it too?
There's one course up that part of the world that crosses a road twice, but I can't remember which one.
Ahh yes, Buxton High Peak. It has or had a whole load of holes with OOB.
The first is testing enough at 434 yards. A playing partner made it tougher one round. He hit the slats at the front of the tee. We dived for cover as it came flying back at us.
Pretty tough start to the round when your 2nd shot is from 70 yards further away than where you started the hole
He says it was the most nervous he'd ever been on a first tee and duly topped his tee shot 100 yards down the fairway, most embarrassing.
He then hit his 200+ yard second shot to within 6 inches for his birdie. Face saved!
Strange.
For a few years I was a member at Cavendish on the other side of Buxton.
Shortish course but very interesting greens.
As you know it’s a Mackenzie course and you can see the similarities with some of the greens
Straight drive on a massive fairway, as it is both the 1st and 18th fairways.
The trouble is that there are always loads of people watching.
Rumour has it that someone on the 1st tee shanked it so badly that the ball ended up in the 18th hole, whereupon he claimed the first ever "round in 1"...
It's been a very long time indeed since I played there but the greens used to be super fast.
Fast and undulating.
Didn’t watch it as I was getting heavily inebriated out out. Sounds like I made the right decision from the match report
I won £36
Not sure how
Bust 4 mtts in what’s become the usual fashion of late
KK v JJ
Top pair v a flush draw that wanted to put all his chips in
AA v 10 8 ainpf
My personal favourite was the £3 rebuy for a huge stack
88 v 66 and I flopped the 8
I thought, I bet he makes a straight. And he did
Mtts are just bollockks
I’m pretty sure I lost more Dyms than I won. But I got lucky and won nearly all my 9 £11s
Think I had a 6 streak which obv won’t be enough
Played a bit of cash and got gifted a couple of buy ins
Poker was completely toss and I thought it needed dumping
But
I think I’ll stick with poker a while longer and if things go well and I can make £36 a night when I think I’ve run bad then then we may start going steady
Also from what I can gather I’ve gone from leading the £5.50 leaderboard and £280 to well down the list.
However mtts are quite pleasant
Just came 2nd in the 9.30 £11bh to save the night
Heads up there was only one winner. Nishg runs rather well. A 10 and trip Aces seems fine heads up. Unfortunately he had K10 and flopped the straight
I then made 2 pair next hand and he turned his flush
Gg me
But still a good surprising result given how the early part of the evening went
£31 up
Back to work tomorrow ☹️
I wonder if anyone has the answers
Is online poker really struggling compared with this time last year? with 5 years ago? with 10 years ago?
Is Sky struggling more than the other sites or are they in a similar position?
Or are they actually doing just fine and i only see what’s in my bubble?
I notice Dym traffic at regular games has dried up at stakes above a tenner. I appreciate that turbos have taken away a lot of this traffic though
Cash i don’t really know how it’s performing against previous years?
I may be wrong on this one but after last summer i don’t think the gtds were increased as has happened previously for the different seasons?
Have gtds actually been lowered during this winter? I think they may have but again i could be wrong
Do gtds really matter? Not to me but i understand that they do to many players
Someone suggested having deliberate overlay in mtts. While i recognise that could be the road to ruin is it possible that the losses there get outweighed by extra people playing on Sky who may not normally?
How is live poker performing in the UK?
Cripes, lot of questions there Paul.
Globally, online poker has been in slow decline for some years I believe, with cash games, easily the biggest component, being the worst affected.
The position is exacerbated in Sky Poker due to the uncertainty & complication caused by the Corporate situation. ('Stars etc).
Generally, as far as I can recall, Guarantees have remained largely unchanged this winter.
The relationship between Guarantees & number of runners is a very weird thing, I could write a book on the oddities of that. We are all different, but to me personally it would not make a dot of difference if the Guarantee was, say, £10,000 or £12,000.
Live poker in the UK? No idea. There's no central database to measure that. I certainly don't think it's being helped by events with 4 or 5 Day 1's & unlimited re-entries, which of course strongly favours the better players. I don't begrudge the better players having that advantage, not at all, good luck to them, but it means many would-be "Live" players no longer play live.
It does put me off a little. More so that it takes more than one day to play many tournaments
For people working and with families it’s tough to justify spending Friday to Sunday playing poker live.
Everything’s about getting a good balance I guess.
I think some things were far better 15/20 years ago but equally some of the stuff was really bad
I think any game involving money is going to acquire the shady characters. Certainly a higher % 15 years ago to what it is now.
Self deal was not good.
That’s a good change. It’s very rare you see self dealing these days.
It was pretty amusing though seeing people trying to deal off the bottom whilst also eating their free meal and dealing and playing at the same time.
The structures were awful
Standard staring stack was 2000 with 25/50 blinds with a 30 minute clock
But there was some good stuff too
The poker boom meant that each and every night there were a 100+ runners
This created some fantastic prize pools.
With so many games being rebuys and the structures dictating that people gambled early you could be playing for 3 or 4 grand on most nights for a relatively low outlay
Most of the rebuys were £20 so back then I’d hope to get a stack early and then hang on until the rebuy period was over
The best game was the £50 single rebuy and add on they had on Thursday nights. That was proper deepstack stuff too, 5k starting 😊
I liked that you could be playing for decent sums and start at 7pm and be done by 1 or 2am
The structures are obviously way better now at places like DTD although for my local casino and I guess it’s the same with others I don’t like the obsession with giving you a trillion chips but huge blinds and 15 or 20 minute clocks