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Cash with Carlo (and Rich): ****official Saturday night live show thread****

RICHORFORDRICHORFORD Member Posts: 5,571
edited May 2011 in Poker Chat

Hi all,

 

OK, so tomorrow night is live on 865 from 9pm and at the helm will be the dapper chapper who's a bit of a sl..eek poker analyst: Carlo Citrone.

 

I've been charged with the task of keeping him ship-shape and in good order. And together, we're traversing the cash tables. Because it's Mastercash, baby!

 

More details to follow as I get them.

 

We're on at 9 so we fully understand that we'll have approximately ten viewers (all football widows) until the Champions League final finishes, but then you'll all be switching over en masse at the final whistle...won't you?

 

Our hot topic for the show is 

 

HEALTH REGIMES

 

OK- I've been on a bit of a mission recently- cutting down on bad stuff, finally making friends with the gym etc. And we know Carlo comes from a family of fitness fanatics. So this will be a topic we'll both have something to say about.

 

So- how about you? What's the silliest thing you've ever done in the name of trying to be healthy? Some crazy diet? Some ridiculous exercise? Did you promise yourself a treat if you abstained from tobacco, alcohol or chocolate for a certain number of days?

 

Any embarrassing gym incidents? What embarrassing music do you listen to whilst running or working out? 

Any health tips- good or bad?

 

Are you a total couch potato? What are your credentials? Who's the most fitness-obsessed amongst you? And conversely, who claims to be the laziest slob of the lot? Prove it!

 

There you go- I think we'll have some fun with this one and of course I'll be handing out TSP Classic entries on the night for the best ones.

 

Please get posting and I'll see you tomorrow at 9 (or whenever the Champions League final ends!)

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  • hurst05hurst05 Member Posts: 1,567
    edited May 2011
    i injured my knee which led to it inflating to 3x the size of my other, being unable to bend it at all and me being in pain 24/7. this however was not done as a result of exercise or the gym, i did it playing live poker at my local casino. standing up to go to the loo is a dangerous activity. 

    it does have some relation to the gym however. 2 days before i had just bought a months membership for my local gym. couldn't go for the entire duration! run worse. (pardon the pun)
  • RICHORFORDRICHORFORD Member Posts: 5,571
    edited May 2011
    Lol- love it Jamie!

    More of this please folks!
  • kaymackaymac Member Posts: 1,437
    edited May 2011

    My local pub ran a five a side team and during the winter we would go to the local sports centre as we couldn't play outside. First night it was on, only 3 people turned up and as it was too much hassle to set up the goals etc, we just raked about and starting playing around with the medicine ball, basketballs and random things we found. Sadly, for me the rugby ball came out, one of the guys suggested a lineout, he threw the ball I jumped and my "colleague" decided to barge me instead. Came down in a heap, over on my ankle, broke it, carted off to local hospital, in plaster for 6 weeks and have never played competitively since..... and that was 20 odd years ago...

    Keith
  • NoseyBonkNoseyBonk Member Posts: 6,186
    edited May 2011
    I've decided to 'sort myself out', part of which is reducing my alcohol intake, so I've switched from 568ml cans to 500ml cans. This is going to work up a sweat..!



  • spornybolspornybol Member Posts: 8,212
    edited May 2011
    playing a friendly football match against the local pub team i set up 3 goals, hit the post twice and the cross bar twice, so going for goal again i ran between two off their defenders in the box, where i got elbowed right in the face by both players, i went 6ft in the air but can not remember landing, when i came round i wanted to take penalty but they would not me so they dragged me off too hospital with a **** broken nose where i met my brother and dad, my brother did his ankle and my dad done his knee in the same match, so when the nurse came out and said MR FELL all three of use stood up, her face was a picture, when the docter did evenually see me all they did was, what looked like a tampon under my nose and sent me home, later that nite went to the pub and they missed that penalty, knew i should have taken it ? final score in the end was 3 in hospital and 11-9 too pub team
  • DrSharpDrSharp Member Posts: 1,213
    edited May 2011
    Best thing i ever saw in the gym? Me and a mate used to go and he went to warm up on the treadmill whilst i went in to an adjoining room on an exercise bike because the treadmill room was full. 2 minutes later, i heard a big bang and then a whoooooooooooooooosh, i looked sideways only to see my mate flying through the air past the doorway. He had tripped and fallen on the treadmill and it had thrown him 12 foot across the room. Everyone in the gym rushed to his aid as he landed crumpled against the wall apart from me who was struggling to breathe for laughing. I had to go home and not train because everytime i started again i just saw the image of my mate flying through the air past the doorway.

    He was ok, by the way, but he never went again!
  • AcidMan27AcidMan27 Member Posts: 3,752
    edited May 2011


    In Response to Re: Cash with Carlo (and Rich): ****official Saturday night live show thread****:
    Best thing i ever saw in the gym? Me and a mate used to go and he went to warm up on the treadmill whilst i went in to an adjoining room on an exercise bike because the treadmill room was full. 2 minutes later, i heard a big bang and then a whoooooooooooooooosh, i looked sideways only to see my mate flying through the air past the doorway. He had tripped and fallen on the treadmill and it had thrown him 12 foot across the room. Everyone in the gym rushed to his aid as he landed crumpled against the wall apart from me who was struggling to breathe for laughing. I had to go home and not train because everytime i started again i just saw the image of my mate flying through the air past the doorway. He was ok, by the way, but he never went again!
    Posted by DrSharp
    LOL, i've seen this a few times. That's why I stick to the bikes, much safer.
  • MMegabyteMMegabyte Member Posts: 334
    edited May 2011
    I used to play netball and usually play a particular position (goal attack) that allows you into the semi-circle around the net.

    One evening I was moved to centre and started charging in towards the net as usual, forgetting that I couldn't actually go over the semi-circle line. I remembered about a split-second in time, but someone had already passed to me.

    I stopped abruptly and an opposing team member tried to block the ball and elbowed me in the temple instead. I started to fall, the ball hit me in the face, and hitting the floor slammed my glasses into the bridge of my nose. When I woke up (at 11:30am) the next morning I sat up and discovered the floor was on the ceiling. A nice trip to the Manchester Royal Infirmary followed.

    Some years later I was playing 5-a-side with some colleagues. I shot the ball and it was saved. The goalie then - for reasons beyond my comprehension - attempted a massive clearance, which he cleared straight into my left eye. The force of the shot sent me backwards so fast I was on the floor before I knew what had happened. To my astonishment, nobody came over to see how I was, and my team seemed to be very happy. Turned out the ball had come off my face and gone straight past the goalie into the goal. I managed to get back to my feet and jog around for a few minutes, during which I scored again (with my feet) for a hat-trick. A couple of weeks later I was still in tremendous pain and a nice trip to Macclesfield A&E followed.

    On the way back from playing in an ice hockey match, in which I had managed not to get injured, I was in a massive car accident in which I came up out of my seat, hit the top of my head on the roof of the car and then, on coming back down, hit the back of head on the headrest (I was knocked out and don't remember it at all). The taste of blood in my mouth was what brought me around double-quick. A nice trip to Wythenshawe A&E followed.


    [Ironically, speaking of health, I am going in for an operation on 10th June but amazingly it is not related to being hit in the head!!]
  • 99919991 Member Posts: 107
    edited May 2011
    So I'm in the process of recovering from a serious muscle injury and have recently started to run again. In order to be safe, I'm staying on treadmill until I build up enough stamina to run outside again.

    Anyways, I run at night after work and the last three times I have gone to the gym, this nice older lady (probably 60 or so) has been walking on one of treadmills. Each time I see her I always say hi and she just smiles and doesn't say a word. So tonight, I get to the gym late as I couldn't get out of work. The only two people in the gym are me and this older lady.

    I again say hi and she smiles. So I take the treadmill next her and just as I begin to warm up, she leans over to me and says with a total straight face:

    "Since it's just the two of us. If you want to take your shirt off for your run, I won't mind"


    I say thanks very much, put my I-pod plugs in and never looked over the entire run!!!

    I would love a tsp classic seat tonight please rich as i am 11 points of my target for the month!
  • shipdchipsshipdchips Member Posts: 199
    edited May 2011
    Good evening

    Health regimes

    Would have to be spt Cardiff was looking at coming along to the event,however flight from Guernsey to Bristol/Bus to train station/train to Cardiff central/walk to hotel/hotel to venue/not even phil hellmuth turns up that late, that would have me fitter then Carlo lol.

    But would still love to come along to the event have a great show gents  
  • murray69murray69 Member Posts: 436
    edited May 2011
    HI Rich and Carlo,

    Im doing level 3 sport in coaching and fitness at college,
    one day in one our lessons we were told to do a mini triatholon, it consisted of doing silly amount of metres on the rowing machine, silly amount of metres on the bike and silly amount of metres on the treadmill. Anyway we did it in pairs as there wasnt enough equipment for us all at once. Anyway not many people had completed the circuit but this one guy in my class was doing well he was on the treadmill and asking us to put the speed on a higher level, then all of a sudden he started shouting i cant feel my legs and with that he just flew off the treadmill backwards smashed his face on the end of the treadmill and broke his nose. There was blood everywhere. haha i was that rubbish i didnt even make it past bike.
  • DeucesLiveDeucesLive Member Posts: 839
    edited May 2011
    Well, I've always been a bit of a fitness fanatic, but stepped it up in the last year since finishing uni- currently working as a labourer, play football twice a week, judo once + competitions, gym 3 times a week and cycling/running on the weekends and some evenings, depending on how I'm feeling. Just got back from a 10 mile cycle and 45 min gym set, great for getting in the zone for some poker!

    I actually think regular fitness really helps with poker, mindset is a massive part of the game, and a good hour's exercise gets me feeling mentally focused when it comes to a poker grind, as well as balancing my mood if I've had a bad day, or a bad session at the tables (if I have a big losing run at the tables I tend to go for a 2/3 mile run just to clear my head if it's affecting me).

    I'm not one of those that goes all out and refuses to touch anything bad for you, but I do moderate my diet somewhat- I avoid alcohol completely at home, and only drink when I'm out or in company (sadly, in those cases I tend to more than make up for abstinence elsewhere...) and same with food- if I'm at home, I tend to eat well and pick half decent choices when I'm out. But I do love me a nice greasy chicken burger+fries once in a while. <3

    Funny gym stories- well, most gyms have one of these- a complete fruitloop who turns up and does their level best to put everyone off by being a loud, obnoxious muppet who keeps chatting away to themselves. Our resident nutball turns up, mumbling to himself before eyeballing the mirror, bouncing up and down, and beginning his set. He then quotes chapters from the bible, pronounces that he's He-man, Alexander the Great, Bruce Willis and a host of other random people, before thumping the weights down triumphantly and flexing proudly in front of the mirror.

    Which might be moderately more impressive if he wasn't 9st soaking wet and built like Harry Potter.



  • TRIP5TRIP5 Member Posts: 3,618
    edited May 2011
    In Response to Re: Cash with Carlo (and Rich): ****official Saturday night live show thread****:
    I've decided to 'sort myself out', part of which is reducing my alcohol intake, so I've switched from 568ml cans to 500ml cans. This is going to work up a sweat..!
    Posted by NoseyBonk
    WIMP!!!!!

    xx

  • Sky_MandySky_Mandy Member Posts: 582
    edited May 2011
    I have a trampolining story, but I can't post it here as I am laughing too much by just thinking about it......I'm sure Richard Orford will oblige on the show.

  • lozgolozgo Member Posts: 1,124
    edited May 2011
    greeings gents.
    my regime consists of lots of sport.....watching it that is. in my mid twenties i got a knee full of football studs and my sporting career ended. anything more than a brisk walk leaves me limping now :( i used to be fairly fit..now i'm only fit for the knackers yard. the most work i do now is with my hands... poker, x-box, tv remote etc. still, could be worse i suppose.
    have fun tonight.
    laurie


    ps. quick question for carlo. is rich pinky or perky? you never made it clear, lol.
  • spornybolspornybol Member Posts: 8,212
    edited May 2011
    In Response to Re: Cash with Carlo (and Rich): ****official Saturday night live show thread****:
    I have a trampolining story, but I can't post it here as I am laughing too much by just thinking about it......I'm sure Richard Orford will oblige on the show.
    Posted by Sky_Mandy
    so you where bouncing on richard orford belly, ( that`s why he went on diet)
  • RICHORFORDRICHORFORD Member Posts: 5,571
    edited May 2011
    Awesome stories- this is a great topic tonight. Really funny stuff- gonna be hard to choose a winner!
  • 99919991 Member Posts: 107
    edited May 2011
    In Response to Re: Cash with Carlo (and Rich): ****official Saturday night live show thread****:
    Awesome stories- this is a great topic tonight. Really funny stuff- gonna be hard to choose a winner!
    Posted by RICHORFORD
    +1

    Not that hard Rich ;)
  • spornybolspornybol Member Posts: 8,212
    edited May 2011
    i have a lovely story about tryin getting out off bed while in hospital, don`t think you could say one air ?? lol
  • AcidMan27AcidMan27 Member Posts: 3,752
    edited May 2011
    Not sure i've got many funny fitness stories except for one i've already mentioned for a topic before.

    Basically it involved me being on standby for a sunday morning football league team, I went out for a few too many drinks one saturday evening and got a late call to play for the team.

    This ended up with me losing the contents of my stomach a few times during the match.

    I've also done all of the usual home gym regimes, and when I say regime, I mean go out and buy all of the equipment, use it for a month, get bored and then just use it all as an expensive clothes hanger.

    Since last year though i've cut down on drinking alcohol and stuck with using my exercise bike for 30mins in the morning and evening.

    It definetly helps to be fitter when playing long poker sessions.
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