Well as of midnight I've got to 32k points for the month so on target. I did want to forge some breathing room but I guess it's never easy. Then again the fear of a lion loose in a neighbouring county did have me looking over my shoulder for most of the day. Posted by TommyD
I was in Southend on Sunday & didn't see nothing...
Great coaster review Tommy, might be going in Sept/Oct - my favourite ride was Rush the last time I went.
Was in run bad city yesterday & dropped near enough my whole month's bonus, so it's back to the lower league grind for me - was fun playing with u while it lasted, sigh.
Jingle. if you're going in October look into the Fright Night stuff. Don't know if it's your sort of thing but it could be immense.
Yeah I saw you on those tables mate, while I'm having a DYM mare this month and can't really offer any advice, if you look me up at DTD in a couple of weeks I'll tell you a few of the observations I had. I thought you had good fundamentals, you just need a couple of tweeks. Above £22 the blind levels often go to 200/400 and 300/600. It's a lot tougher as, with a couple of exceptions, you can't count on people playing it like actual poker and knocking each other out rather than play it like a DYM and have an affair with the fold button.
There was one other story from Thorpe Park I forgot to tell you. They have tons of stalls on the side. Things like climb the loopy ladder to win an oversized Teddy Bear (Never seen it done by a punter but the guys running these stalls do it with ease every time, I suspect shenanigans).
Well one of them was a duel type thing from Gladiators. Instead of the podiums you had an inflatable bridge eight feet in the air above a huge plastic inflatable crash mat. I'm just wandering by and I noticed a crowd drawn to this thing. I glance up and there was a middle aged Muslim couple getting ready to take to the field of combat. Well I just had to stop and watch. They smacked seven bells out of each other and were both laughing all the way through.
Shortly after I wondered why I stopped to watch the contest. Was it that seeing a very happy Muslim couple enjoying beating each other with inflated rubber was a very pleasant contrast to being told constantly by the Daily Mail end of the media that all Muslims are dour, humourless and hate Western culture? Was it the rub against the liberal argument that all Muslim women have their religious clothing forced upon them and are always subservient, third class citizens to the men in their family? Or was it the fact that a woman in a Burka flying through the air is just not something you see that often? I suspect a little of all three. On my first two points, I guess everyone has to always remind themselves that the truth is generally something in the middle between the ends of the press we hear on an hourly basis now and that every case, every family, is different. There are plenty of extreme examples and still much to be done for equality across all cultures and countries obviously, but things might just be headed in the right direction. I thought that and became hopefully, well that and if you get the chance to read the Daily Mail, don't.
Jingle. if you're going in October look into the Fright Night stuff. Don't know if it's your sort of thing but it could be immense. Yeah I saw you on those tables mate, while I'm having a DYM mare this month and can't really offer any advice, if you look me up at DTD in a couple of weeks I'll tell you a few of the observations I had. I thought you had good fundamentals, you just need a couple of tweeks. Above £22 the blind levels often go to 200/400 and 300/600. It's a lot tougher as, with a couple of exceptions, you can't count on people playing it like actual poker and knocking each other out rather than play it like a DYM and have an affair with the fold button. Posted by TommyD
Thanks Tommy, will be great to meet u in person - r u going this wkend to the £500 deepstack @ DTD Notts?
Hi Tommy, great diary had a look through it but unable to take it all in with their being so much!
Quick question, apologies if anyone has already asked this or has been covered but, I have just finished Univeristy with a degree in Sports Journalism 2:1. Having seen many doors closed with regards to work in the media I am beginning to look over at a career in teaching - Primary School.
I am aiming to take the next 'academic year' out to get as much expreience as I can before taking a PGCE course.
I see that you are a Secondary School Teacher, but I was wondering if you had any advice for me etc? How did you get to where you are now as a teacher, if you don't mind me asking.
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : Thanks Tommy, will be great to meet u in person - r u going this wkend to the £500 deepstack @ DTD Notts? Posted by JingleMa
No Jingle, gonna just save all the run good for the SPT final.
Hi Tommy, great diary had a look through it but unable to take it all in with their being so much! Quick question, apologies if anyone has already asked this or has been covered but, I have just finished Univeristy with a degree in Sports Journalism 2:1. Having seen many doors closed with regards to work in the media I am beginning to look over at a career in teaching - Primary School. I am aiming to take the next 'academic year' out to get as much expreience as I can before taking a PGCE course. I see that you are a Secondary School Teacher, but I was wondering if you had any advice for me etc? How did you get to where you are now as a teacher, if you don't mind me asking. Many thanks. Posted by KING2600
Cheers for the kind words King. I'll try to send you a PM over the weekend, probably Sunday. Or I might post it here. Can't right now, for the reasons in my next post.........
In the last 36 hours I have had to make up about 6k points. Managed it at about 10.30pm. Sick of poker right now. The first two thirds of the day and a half went fine but I just took a nasty variance spanking at DYMs where underpairs found a triplet, kings got taken into the woods and shot and I saw so many miracles I thought I was the only guy who was not a blood relative to either Penn or Teller. Still up in poker terms (before C4P) for the month, just no as good as it could or maybe should have been if I had played better.
Made my target though, not sure that if I had I stopped at 39k I would have more money in the grand scheme of things, really don't want to look it up as I live near too many bridges.
Going to finish up the main event and then shut down, still somehow in it. Doubt I'll touch a virtual card tomorrow, need a day off. I want to get on the forum a bit more, especially to reply to the 'Forum' thread on the forum but I think they deserve me to be at my best. Right now I'm tired and grouchy, time to reload the brain.
Well done on reaching your target Tommy, always nice to reach a goal.
Interested to hear your thoughts on the 'Forum' thread, I did post, but the more I tihnk about it, the more I'm torn about whether I agree with what I said or not. Ultimately it's supposed to be a fun place and to be fair I'd say 99% of the time it is.
Haven't been following your diary but nice achievement and wd for catching up with the points in the final day or so. Burnt out I imagine.
Btw, I was bored earlier and was checking sky players out on sharkscope and I found that you're the most profitable tournament player on sky.. I'm sure you know this lol but that must feel pretty good so congrats again.
Nice thread mate, mini points race?? What... thats not under the promotions tab.. wha the... I'm confused. Posted by TPTP123
Hey TP
When I say mini points race it was a target I set myself with about a week to go, nothing to do with SkyPoker. Just trying to take advantage of the 'Super Cash For Points' promotion they did run this month.
On a related note there is a disappointing low amount of people in the Russian Roulettes right now, that used to be great to see who was cramming at the last minute.
Haven't been following your diary but nice achievement and wd for catching up with the points in the final day or so. Burnt out I imagine. Btw, I was bored earlier and was checking sky players out on sharkscope and I found that you're the most profitable tournament player on sky.. I'm sure you know this lol but that must feel pretty good so congrats again. Posted by percival09
Hey Perce, cheers mate.
44 pages in and finally someone brings that up. Percy I could kiss you
I knew I was top ranked on that leaderboard last year and that I was in the mix this year. That Polo Mint star became somewhat of an obsession for me towards the end of the year. August 2011 was my single best MTT month on Sky IMO and I was suddenly in the race. There were plenty of very good players in and around the top spot (Beaneh, LJamesL, etc) for ages but we were all chasing SuperSnedd who was dominating for a long time. Unsurprising too, very good player. I had all but given up the ghost in the end and was a few grand behind him with a couples of days left. Then I luckboxed the UKOPS.
I'm more proud of my progression. Last year I put a heck of a lot of effort into getting better at MTTs. As you can see in the early days I was break even. It all came together and the effort paid off in spades. Yes I know I ran phenomenally well in those big MTTs last year, but there was effort behind it. I also do not think most profitable=best, I wouldn't even put myself in the top 20 MTT players on the site (check out Lumkming's graph and what level he plays, phe-nom-in-al). I play bigger games, run good in them and the results are great.
Haven't been following your diary but nice achievement and wd for catching up with the points in the final day or so. Burnt out I imagine. Btw, I was bored earlier and was checking sky players out on sharkscope and I found that you're the most profitable tournament player on sky.. I'm sure you know this lol but that must feel pretty good so congrats again. Posted by percival09
Wow really? I know Wacko90 is up there with a pretty sick ROI. He seems to bink in every big MTT
Well done on reaching your target Tommy, always nice to reach a goal. Interested to hear your thoughts on the 'Forum' thread, I did post, but the more I tihnk about it, the more I'm torn about whether I agree with what I said or not. Ultimately it's supposed to be a fun place and to be fair I'd say 99% of the time it is. Posted by Lambert180
Cheers Lambo
I will post in that thread, I think it is hugely important and am glad it's been started. But like I said, it's important and right now I don't think I am able to get my point across as clearly as it deserves.
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : Hey Perce, cheers mate. 44 pages in and finally someone brings that up. Percy I could kiss you I knew I was top ranked on that leaderboard last year and that I was in the mix this year. That Polo Mint star became somewhat of an obsession for me towards the end of the year. August 2011 was my single best MTT month on Sky IMO and I was suddenly in the race. There were plenty of very good players in and around the top spot (Beaneh, LJamesL, etc) for ages but we were all chasing SuperSnedd who was dominating for a long time. Unsurprising too, very good player. I had all but given up the ghost in the end and was a few grand behind him with a couples of days left. Then I luckboxed the UKOPS. I'm more proud of my progression. Last year I put a heck of a lot of effort into getting better at MTTs. As you can see in the early days I was break even. It all came together and the effort paid off in spades. Yes I know I ran phenomenally well in those big MTTs last year, but there was effort behind it. I also do not think most profitable=best, I wouldn't even put myself in the top 20 MTT players on the site (check out Lumkming's graph and what level he plays, phe-nom-in-al). I play bigger games, run good in them and the results are great. And now I have my polo mint star for always. Heart. Posted by TommyD
Erm, I did only mention it so I could possibly get my £80 back? Come on like you need it! Is there a send money feature on sky? Thanks.
Unbelievable work ethic to reach 40k poker points this month Tommy. I have a lot of respect for your game. Hopefully we'll bump into each other next week at the SPT. Best of luck in the future.
I have been a bit busy since Vegas and not had a chance to speak with you since then so will be good to have a catch up this weekend mate, anyway, for the time being, I see you are being lazy with your diary so I thought up some questions for you...
When are you back in school?
When will you be arriving at the SPT next weekend?
How many beers do you owe me?
Do you fancy buying me dinner friday evening?
How is your bro? (Bit of a legend, will he be attending an Spt in the near future?)
Will you go back to Vegas again?
When playing BJ, do you stick or spin on 16?
Who taught you how to latin dance?
Do you think you will outlast Gret on Saturday? (Considering Greg bust level 1 last year)
Are you happy with Spurs signings?
What do you think of AVB compared to 'Arry?
What are your future goals in life and poker?
When will you be getting married?
How many children do you want?
What would you choose...WSOP Bracelet in a $1k event or a WSOP ME FT appearance?
Play one game for England or one season with Spurs?
If offered a job as a football journalist for £5,000 less than your current wage, would you take it?
If you had a choice, would you be born as a boy or girl and why?
Favourite meal?
Latte or Cappuchino?
Thats all for now, so if you could answer those before you begin playing poker, thanks
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Great coaster review Tommy, might be going in Sept/Oct - my favourite ride was Rush the last time I went.
Was in run bad city yesterday & dropped near enough my whole month's bonus, so it's back to the lower league grind for me - was fun playing with u while it lasted, sigh.
Yeah I saw you on those tables mate, while I'm having a DYM mare this month and can't really offer any advice, if you look me up at DTD in a couple of weeks I'll tell you a few of the observations I had. I thought you had good fundamentals, you just need a couple of tweeks. Above £22 the blind levels often go to 200/400 and 300/600. It's a lot tougher as, with a couple of exceptions, you can't count on people playing it like actual poker and knocking each other out rather than play it like a DYM and have an affair with the fold button.
Well one of them was a duel type thing from Gladiators. Instead of the podiums you had an inflatable bridge eight feet in the air above a huge plastic inflatable crash mat. I'm just wandering by and I noticed a crowd drawn to this thing. I glance up and there was a middle aged Muslim couple getting ready to take to the field of combat. Well I just had to stop and watch. They smacked seven bells out of each other and were both laughing all the way through.
Shortly after I wondered why I stopped to watch the contest. Was it that seeing a very happy Muslim couple enjoying beating each other with inflated rubber was a very pleasant contrast to being told constantly by the Daily Mail end of the media that all Muslims are dour, humourless and hate Western culture? Was it the rub against the liberal argument that all Muslim women have their religious clothing forced upon them and are always subservient, third class citizens to the men in their family? Or was it the fact that a woman in a Burka flying through the air is just not something you see that often? I suspect a little of all three. On my first two points, I guess everyone has to always remind themselves that the truth is generally something in the middle between the ends of the press we hear on an hourly basis now and that every case, every family, is different. There are plenty of extreme examples and still much to be done for equality across all cultures and countries obviously, but things might just be headed in the right direction. I thought that and became hopefully, well that and if you get the chance to read the Daily Mail, don't.
Poker update, let myself down a little today and lost ground on the mini points race. Currently on 33.7k. Playing catch up now. Sort it out Tom.
In the last 36 hours I have had to make up about 6k points. Managed it at about 10.30pm. Sick of poker right now. The first two thirds of the day and a half went fine but I just took a nasty variance spanking at DYMs where underpairs found a triplet, kings got taken into the woods and shot and I saw so many miracles I thought I was the only guy who was not a blood relative to either Penn or Teller. Still up in poker terms (before C4P) for the month, just no as good as it could or maybe should have been if I had played better.
Made my target though, not sure that if I had I stopped at 39k I would have more money in the grand scheme of things, really don't want to look it up as I live near too many bridges.
Going to finish up the main event and then shut down, still somehow in it. Doubt I'll touch a virtual card tomorrow, need a day off. I want to get on the forum a bit more, especially to reply to the 'Forum' thread on the forum but I think they deserve me to be at my best. Right now I'm tired and grouchy, time to reload the brain.
Interested to hear your thoughts on the 'Forum' thread, I did post, but the more I tihnk about it, the more I'm torn about whether I agree with what I said or not. Ultimately it's supposed to be a fun place and to be fair I'd say 99% of the time it is.
When I say mini points race it was a target I set myself with about a week to go, nothing to do with SkyPoker. Just trying to take advantage of the 'Super Cash For Points' promotion they did run this month.
On a related note there is a disappointing low amount of people in the Russian Roulettes right now, that used to be great to see who was cramming at the last minute.
44 pages in and finally someone brings that up. Percy I could kiss you
I knew I was top ranked on that leaderboard last year and that I was in the mix this year. That Polo Mint star became somewhat of an obsession for me towards the end of the year. August 2011 was my single best MTT month on Sky IMO and I was suddenly in the race. There were plenty of very good players in and around the top spot (Beaneh, LJamesL, etc) for ages but we were all chasing SuperSnedd who was dominating for a long time. Unsurprising too, very good player. I had all but given up the ghost in the end and was a few grand behind him with a couples of days left. Then I luckboxed the UKOPS.
I'm more proud of my progression. Last year I put a heck of a lot of effort into getting better at MTTs. As you can see in the early days I was break even. It all came together and the effort paid off in spades. Yes I know I ran phenomenally well in those big MTTs last year, but there was effort behind it. I also do not think most profitable=best, I wouldn't even put myself in the top 20 MTT players on the site (check out Lumkming's graph and what level he plays, phe-nom-in-al). I play bigger games, run good in them and the results are great.
And now I have my polo mint star for always.
Heart.
I will post in that thread, I think it is hugely important and am glad it's been started. But like I said, it's important and right now I don't think I am able to get my point across as clearly as it deserves.
1) Build a set of shelves
2) Make a Lego X-Wing
I'm 34 for crying out loud.....
The irony is I need the shelves to put it on.