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Changing Times
Jun. 1st, 2009 01:22 pmIt's a sign of them, I tell you (changing times, that is) when the World Series of Poker can start and you don't even notice for four days. Admittedly, one of those days was the casino employees competition, shuffled to the start of the series to the slot that used to be reserved for the press competition, or the ladies' competition, or something else deemed not-very-important. However, that I actually didn't even notice the kick-off (shuffle-off? deal-off?) of a $40K event shows the extent to which Harrah's has develued the WSOP brand.
More frighteningly, Mr Channing got through to the money, cashed for $80k or thereabouts, and I just kind of went "huh huh". The money stakes have definitely gone up in the past three years or so. In 2004 I, and presumably Neil, would have gone "Wow!".
I moved through $25k "in play" at the weekend (money just sitting on various sites, rather than in Neteller or the dollar accounts) and said to myself "when it gets to $30k, I'll do something about it". It took me about three years to build up my first $5k. At the beginning the height of the ambition was to pay for a holiday. Now it's in the region of paying for a house.
I was getting a kind of hankering after the place (Las Vegas) at the weekend. I haven't been there for over two years now, which was the kind of break that I needed. I'll definitely go there in early December, I think. I might negotiate a poker rate at either the Wynn or the Venetian. If we're talking $5-$10 NL, I don't really want to play at the Bellagio anyway.
Then perhaps I might put $3k or so in play at the craps table (how hard can it be?) in the vague hope of getting the comps guys to notice me.
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Having backed Diversity to win the "Britain's Got Talent" televisual broadcast (and I doubt that I have ever seen such a mistitled programme) at 11 to 1, I'm now awaiting the pound to reach $1.68 before putting in a short position. I've missed all of this rise, despite telling Channing and Ward at DY's birthday meal in March that I was quite bullish on sterling.
The one plus I got out of this was that I've been playing on Littlewoods, which converts to and from sterling as you play. This means I gain if I am playing at rates such a £1:$1.40 and the rate then moves to £1:$1.63, because I keep all my poker records in dollars, so while I think that I have won $3,200 (say), because that's the amount of dollars that I won at the tables, the current conversion rate tells me that I have won $3,600.
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Minor idle thoughts: Guy Garvey from Elbow last night reminded me of John Shuttleworth's neighbour Ken ...
And when I see pictures of a young David Crosby, I am reminded of Brian Creese's son Matthew...
Oh, and new starlet Robyn, when you catch her in the right light and impose an 80s hairstyle on her, is surely the love-child of Tracy Ullman....
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More frighteningly, Mr Channing got through to the money, cashed for $80k or thereabouts, and I just kind of went "huh huh". The money stakes have definitely gone up in the past three years or so. In 2004 I, and presumably Neil, would have gone "Wow!".
I moved through $25k "in play" at the weekend (money just sitting on various sites, rather than in Neteller or the dollar accounts) and said to myself "when it gets to $30k, I'll do something about it". It took me about three years to build up my first $5k. At the beginning the height of the ambition was to pay for a holiday. Now it's in the region of paying for a house.
I was getting a kind of hankering after the place (Las Vegas) at the weekend. I haven't been there for over two years now, which was the kind of break that I needed. I'll definitely go there in early December, I think. I might negotiate a poker rate at either the Wynn or the Venetian. If we're talking $5-$10 NL, I don't really want to play at the Bellagio anyway.
Then perhaps I might put $3k or so in play at the craps table (how hard can it be?) in the vague hope of getting the comps guys to notice me.
+++++++++++++++
Having backed Diversity to win the "Britain's Got Talent" televisual broadcast (and I doubt that I have ever seen such a mistitled programme) at 11 to 1, I'm now awaiting the pound to reach $1.68 before putting in a short position. I've missed all of this rise, despite telling Channing and Ward at DY's birthday meal in March that I was quite bullish on sterling.
The one plus I got out of this was that I've been playing on Littlewoods, which converts to and from sterling as you play. This means I gain if I am playing at rates such a £1:$1.40 and the rate then moves to £1:$1.63, because I keep all my poker records in dollars, so while I think that I have won $3,200 (say), because that's the amount of dollars that I won at the tables, the current conversion rate tells me that I have won $3,600.
+++++++++++++
Minor idle thoughts: Guy Garvey from Elbow last night reminded me of John Shuttleworth's neighbour Ken ...
And when I see pictures of a young David Crosby, I am reminded of Brian Creese's son Matthew...
Oh, and new starlet Robyn, when you catch her in the right light and impose an 80s hairstyle on her, is surely the love-child of Tracy Ullman....
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