Bart(UK)
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Awesome, well played everyone
& congrats to the well deserved ???
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Pretty much been inactive since pre-covid, stems from personal circumstances largely but my real life frustration levels had increased to such an extent that I could no longer tolerate the tourney to tourney, day to day, month on month bad beats or be bothered putting in the hours for a less than 10% return. Both requirements for sustained play and previously enjoyed but somehow lost in recent years.
Think the lack of choice has changed a lot recently too, used to be fun trying to satellite into the UKPT, GUKPT, GPS live or sandboxing multiple online brands tournaments. Just doesn't seem the same anymore with PokerStars+1 or 2 other major brands. And of course everyone now tries pushing the 'flip' or 'turbo' variants. I'm old school, level playing field, no rebuys, decent structure.
I always much prefer online to live. Used to get easily bored by the (relatively) slow hand rate live and too easily distracted. Health issues made getting to venues difficult and often arrived tired out before what would inevitably be a full day of thinking lol.
Think age is also a factor, at my peak I could easilly 12-table STT's or 15-table MTT's, which became 'fun' when down to HU on 4 or 5 STT tables at once lol. Think the most I could manage now is 5 STT, or maybe 7 or 8 tournaments.
I do continue to be inspired by the likes of Leo and his boundless enthusiasm towards the grind though and pray that the long deserved big wins start arriving like buses for him.. and members as a whole.
To drag my wandering brain back somewhere close to being on topic, never say never, may return at some point, especially if lockdowns continue. Would be in line with what I've always done, trying to satellite in to stuff cheaply, no longer trust myself with proper buy ins ?
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MGM Resorts have made an $11bn (£8.1bn) offer for Entain, the former GVC Holdings, which itself picked up PartyPoker in recent years.
Entain owns the Ladbrokes, PartyPoker, Bwin, Eurobet, Coral, Gala poker brands together with Foxy Bingo.
Just the latest in attempts from Bricks & Mortar casinos to get a foothold in the online gaming sphere, heightened by the impact Covid has had on their core business.
I personally don't foresee any immediate concern for players/members, if approved which is far from guaranteed, MGM would likely run pretty much as is, other than the usual rebranding & consolidation of existing brands. Just my opinion, but posted to raise awareness amongst members.
Entain have stated the bid is too low, so may be one that rumbles on for a while.
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Logged into my PokerStars account for first time in months and have 3 Free Spin&Go tickets. Might have been around a while, so you may have already seen and used them or maybe just for inactive accounts? don't know.
Worth checking your accounts, opt-in required via the news popup on first logging in.
Naturally I spun 2x$0.25 & 1xRetry and didn't hang around long enough to win any of them, but hey you never know.
Commission on any £10k wins payable to me at....... yeah I'm joking but have fun & good luck.
Bart
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So guys, apologies for still not being around much personally, I'm trying to deal with a lot of stuff at the moment, some of which you will have already seen via facebook etc. I will continue to pop in when I can.
Purposely haven't read any ongoing discussion at the moment, but this is Punters Lounge, where open and honest discussion is always actively encouraged but lets sort things out amicably, calmly & respectfully with each other. We can look to change whatever isn't working for members, within the existing boundaries we have or seek/push new ones.
Only noticed yesterday that Helen had been unwell, sending all our love, thoughts & best wishes to her and Duncan. Her well being & recovery is all that matters right now.
Thanks to Dan for stepping in, please flag him or the usual suspects with anything that urgently needs to be looked at. For me at the moment the most effective way is flagging me personally on a PL Poker Club Facebook post.
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On 12/18/2019 at 12:08 PM, LIKE2FISH said:
I remember quite a few ago, someone on here, lived quite close to me in Bournemouth, if still an active member are you going up on Saturday afternoon?
If so I would be grateful for a ride up and down and would pay the fuel costs.
Many thanks, Leo
May have been me Leo, although not overly close, I'm north of Pompey.... although isn't everything come to think of it? ???
Looks like you're sorted now which is awesome, but let me know if things change.
Edit: I will be travelling up in the morning & staying over though.
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With the Genting hotel (which I was impressed with last time) seemingly already fully booked and before noticing Ian's post, I've booked into a b&b 1 train stop/short taxi/3 miles down the road.
Reviews/pics seem good although of course the room will be basic.
They do have a 2nd room if anyone is looking for a cheap option, £50 single occupancy of double room with breakfast, parking on the road. I've checked & they're happy for me to roll in merrily at 2am/3am although I've of course promised to be as quiet as I can be. It is however a PL do, so might just turn up for breakfast! ?
Message me for details.
Other hotel options locally still available from around £92 to £163 from the usual hotel comparison sites.
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Starting today, promo each day in order to win satellite tokens to the Online Millions with it's $20m guarantee (& $10,300 buyin!)
Today's requirement, assuming the same for everyone, is deposit at least $10 for a freeroll or all-in shootout token to win a $109 token.
Worth checking your accounts now and again for any added value.
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Team thing, if happening, was free entry, just supply team name and members taking part.
Max for 4 or 6 players, i forget now. No team event, just all play individually as normal, points allocated for deep run and totalled for all team players. Think prize used to be GUKPT tokens or exclusive restricted freeroll or similar.
Just to re-emphasize, may not be happening this year.
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So had a quick look, but can't actually find reference to there being a team prize this year, just the David vs Goliath thing.
Maybe it's not happening, but link to Goliath website for full schedule, structure, satellites and talk of online day 1's which might be new this time around.
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Well done guys!
Called away at 11th hour and only just home now, otherwise i would've been there to give you all a couple of extra points.
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gem, will drop you a pm as cannot seemingly transfer at the moment via Stars, need to work out what the potential problem is and/or find another way. It might be that you don't have the £sterling balance activated on your account, in which case I can attempt a transfer in either $ or €.
Just to reinforce what Sir Puntalot was saying, this is strictly a one-off in order to help a long-standing, very supportive member of the forum. In future it would appreciated if all added value transfers were made via the stated payment method to cut down on admin work.
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No longer active anywhere. GG looked pretty soft when I trialed the $5/10/15 tournaments for a while (+14% net ROI, grinding 6 to 8 a night).
Retirement from the game is less profitable but far less stressful 🤪
Hoping to do a little trip 'up ta-north' at some point in the summer, will try to meet up with a few people, if only for lunch. Likewise for the south-coast contingent.
Bart 👋