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MintTrav:
Like the rest of you, I am devastated to learn that The Captain and Tennille are to be divorced, after more than 40 years together. We need to support each other at times like this.
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Matt D:
MintTrav:
Stopped off at The Vic on the way back from Stoke and played a 19-runner £30 rebuy GUKPT satellite. Banked tyvm. I should just play at The Vic all the time; it is by far my winningest venue. I played a 10-runner STT satellite a couple of years ago and won a seat in that year"s GUKPT ME, though the actual event didn"t work out. I also won a 70-runner MTT and an APAT there, and I crashed in another APAT. So this one brings the running score to 4/6 (albeit two of which had tiny fields). My game selection remains as crap as ever, though. I am due to play an LPPL game online on Saturday night, which should be interesting if I"m still in the live game (yeah, I know - won"t be a problem, etc).
This is in stark contrast to my bogey venue, DTD, where I can never win a blasted thing. I have played no end of tournaments there, but never seem to get very far, whether it is an APAT event or one of their own. I"m probably the only person who is delighted that the WCOAP is taking place elsewhere this time.
It"s all very strange. I have no doubt that the venue thing is an illusion - random occurrences showing some repetition, and I am seeing a pattern that doesn"t really exist. I wonder whether other people find the same thing with venues.
MintTrav:
I"ve been reading the novel Crystal by Katie Price, which I found in a drawer at some company. I recommend this inspirational work, which does a brilliant job of portraying life in our post-modern world. Be warned, though, that it is not an easy read. This book is quite challenging and you may need to stop and absorb what has been presented, probably re-reading certain chapters to grasp them more fully before moving on to the next.
Here is a short extract, to give you a flavour of what to expect, but you will only obtain the full benefit by reading the entire work:
"I"m single at the moment actually", Crystal replied, trying to sound casual. "How about your girlfriend?" She wanted to double-check that he wasn"t with Eve any more. She actually felt herself blush and hoped it was dark enough for Jake not to have noticed. She didn"t think she was the blushing type, but Jake seemed to be having quite an effect on her. "I"m single too." He was looking right at her and Crystal gazed back at him. This was very promising.
Published by Century.
MintTrav:
So, had a fun day at the GUKPT. I had Willie Tann on my right in seat 3, I was in 4, Alan Vinson in 1, so there was plenty of catching up done. Tann was a lot of fun. He knows everybody, and they all came to touch the garment of the great man. I didn"t know most of them, but those I recognised who came to our table to pay homage included Padraig Parkinson, Boris Becker, Bambos Xanthos and a Boatman.
There were a couple of bizarre incidents. Simon Trumper arrived with his second bullet. On his first hand, he raised my BB from 200 to 5400. He told me straight away that it was a mistake and he had mixed up the 25 and 5000 chips cos he"s colour-blind. Christ. I was mulling over whether it would be considered bad form and I would be disowned by the poker community if I shoved over it. T2 didn"t seem the best option if he called though. As it happened, Tann shipped anyway. Back to Trumper, who says "Oh well, let"s compound the mistake by calling". He wasn"t in such bad shape with 99 against AQ, but he was down to 2500 after the board came xA22x. Hmmmm. A while later, with BB 600, Tann raised. "Thirteen thousand". He puts in 1,300, but the dealer makes him put in the 13k. No-one calls this time. Keith Hawkins came to seat 1 halfway through and told me about his days in Portsmouth.
I was short-stacked all day and, in the end, crawled through to Day 2 with an pathetic embarrassment of chips that I wouldn"t glorify by calling it a stack. I was expecting to be eliminated any minute for at least the last four hours, but somehow didn"t get put out of my misery.
I suspect I"m not long for this game today. I appear to be on a table of mostly shorter stacks, though not many as short as me. Got one of the chip-leaders to my immediate left though.
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