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MintTrav:
Tonight was the first chance I"ve had to see the Grosvenor in Gunwharf since it"s been refurbished and turned into a G. There is now a separate poker room with 10 ten-handed tables. However, there is a lot of space on the gaming floor and in the new show-bar, which they are intending to use for bigger tournaments. They have got a GUKPT this year, which I"ll definitely be playing (APAT please avoid the first weekend in June).
In tonight"s tournament, my play was pretty mediocre. Finished 5/66, not by adventurous play or even by sucking out good, but just by plain old waiting for a good hand and then doubling up with it. I haven"t tried that method for ages; maybe it"s time to resurrect it.
MintTrav:
I"ve been having a strange time online recently. I haven"t played any significant tournaments, just whatever I fancied as diversion at the time. They have all been $2-$3 Stud/Razz/Badugi 20-60 runner type things (mostly 20-30 runners) - just the sort of thing I usually cash in for fun and win quite often. The thing is - in the last dozen, I haven"t won any and I haven"t even cashed in any. I have never experienced a run like that in those games before. The only thing I have cashed in this year online was 3rd place in a 20 runner Omaha Hi-Lo.
Either I"ve got worse, they"ve got better or it"s just one of those things. Them getting better could mean an improvement in the abilities of the existing players or an influx of better ones. So far, I"m putting it down to it just being one of those things that happen from time to time. I"m still expecting a turnaround, but it is already very overdue.
[Live has been a different story. I cashed in a tournament on Thursday and last night I decided on a whim to go to Brighton for a change of scenery and play some cash there. So I popped over to the Brighton Grosvenor, played £1-£2 NLHE for a few hours and finished £380 up due to a combination of a soft table to start with, the tougher players who joined trying to bluff on various rivers and getting lots of good hands. TBH it was largely due to getting lots of good hands. Of course, it was just one night, but I think I"ll have to go back soon to see if it was random or whether it is a worthwhile trip to make from time to time.]
But the Stars Stud-type games are usually my most reliable consistent go-to. If that is gone I"ll need to rethink what I do. I"m sure(ish) it"ll come back, but I thought that after missing in 4 or 5 tournaments. At what point do I accept that something has changed? When I miss in 20 tournaments? 30? I"m not concerned yet, but we"ll see what happens.
MintTrav:
I see that the list of cities that have applied to host the World Gay Games [Gay Games X] in 2018 has been published. It is a list of many of the great cities of the world, including London. Boris Johnson and David Cameron have backed the London bid and are offering many of the Olympic facilities. As usual, Paris is in the running, along with Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It has recently been held in Sydney, Germany and various US cities, so they are not in contention this time.
There is one city in the list which seems a little surprising, to say the least. Competing with these great cities is Limerick. Limerick! Not even Dublin, which would be a stretch, but fecking Limerick. How ridiculous is that? From what I know of Limerick, it is pretty much a dump and has one of the highest crime rates in Ireland. My knowledge is 20 years out of date, so things may have changed, but I doubt it.
The full list of cities bidding to host Gay Games X:
Amsterdam
Limerick
London
Orlando
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Sao Paulo
duke3016:
--- Quote from: MintTrav on January 13, 2013, 20:41:56 PM ---
From what I know of Limerick, it is pretty much a dump and has one of the highest crime rates in Ireland. My knowledge is 20 years out of date, so things may have changed, but I doubt it.
--- End quote ---
It was, has been, and still is a dump, some things never change......
MintTrav:
Whee - chopped the Shuffles tournament HU tonight.
Boo - now 15 Stud-type tournaments on Stars without a cash.
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