Bart(UK)

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I returned from Vegas in early March 2020, after a slightly unprofitable trip. Little did I know that, and wouldn't have believed you if you had told me, I wasn't going to play another live hand in 2020!
I've never considered myself as a winning online player. All of my successes have come on the live circuit. Not that I'm some sort of soul reader at the table, more due to the fact that I get too easily distracted when I'm sat in front of my laptop, and an annoying inability to multi-table. As such, my poker career (not really a career) is very much on hold. I've stopped reading poker books, watching poker videos, analysing my poker hands, because it's just not worth putting the hours in considering how little poker I'm playing.
My highlight of the week is the Punterslounge Poker League ( thank you Punterslounge). although it looks like some of you have been playing more online than  me.
So how is your Poker Love in the Time of Covid-19?

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

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

Welcome back TQM, deadlydave, Joe, missed you guys!
I hope to pop in and make the odd guest appearance in the league at some point too, been a difficult year for various reasons and just haven't had the time or heart to play at all, but I will return soon.

Welcome back TQM, deadlydave, Joe, missed you guys!
I hope to pop in and make the odd guest appearance in the league at some point too, been a difficult year for various reasons and just haven't had the time or heart to play at all, but I will return soon.

if you reg on the desktop client and then go to iphone or ipad client the tournament will be in the lobby which is handy.

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. 

Apologies for missing it, was in bed at 5:30pm and not in the hot-jiggedy way lol. 
Hopefully back next week if my back is back. 
Great to see a return to the top 3 for the legends that are slap & tickle, congrats all. ?

Apologies for missing it, was in bed at 5:30pm and not in the hot-jiggedy way lol. 
Hopefully back next week if my back is back. 
Great to see a return to the top 3 for the legends that are slap & tickle, congrats all. ?

It's taken me a few days to compose my thoughts on this matter.
I don't know Paul as well as a lot of you but over the years I have spent some time with him and found him to be the kindest of people.  I think I first met him in very odd circumstances where he managed to blag PL some seats at a mini poker tournament in the middle of Leicester Square with the world boxing champion - Evander Holyfield of all people - you couldn't really make it up if you tried!  Over the years I met Paul at many of the PL poker meet ups and got to know him much better - I guess as keen boozers we were destined to be drawn to the same fun pursuits!  I think i got on well with Paul as we both shared the view of having a good time and not taking poker too seriously in these events - it was all about the banter and shots!  This was to be a theme as I met up with Paul a few years later in Vegas where we spent some days enjoying all that Vegas could offer - beer pong, one armed ladies, 6ft long tequila slushies, $1k a hand blackjack and free flowing booze  - what was not to like!  This trip will always have very fond memories for me and i was very pleased to be able to spend some time with him at Birmingham recently at the PL meetup reminiscing about those times - him and Kayla i think were quite shocked that i had such a vivid memory and that i still had photograpghic evidence!
Paul will be missed by all that knew him.  He was a top bloke.  He was the sort of guy that you don't see for a whole year but then you meet up and pick up as if you just saw him yesterday.  Paul was a guy that loved to help people.  He helped me on several occasions when there was nothing he was getting in return other than a thanks.  I don't know a great deal about his business affairs but i do know that what he created with PL poker group was unique and will serve as his legacy.  We have a lot to thank him for. 
 
RIP Paul.
 

Well done everyone, great fun as always, more so given the larger turnouts, old school like it used to be
Huge thanks to Sir Puntalot for bringing us all together in these dark (but surprisingly very sunny) days and the incredible added value ?

Well done everyone, great fun as always, more so given the larger turnouts, old school like it used to be
Huge thanks to Sir Puntalot for bringing us all together in these dark (but surprisingly very sunny) days and the incredible added value ?

Well done everyone, great fun as always, more so given the larger turnouts, old school like it used to be
Huge thanks to Sir Puntalot for bringing us all together in these dark (but surprisingly very sunny) days and the incredible added value ?

Well done everyone, great fun as always, more so given the larger turnouts, old school like it used to be
Huge thanks to Sir Puntalot for bringing us all together in these dark (but surprisingly very sunny) days and the incredible added value ?

Well done everyone, great fun as always, more so given the larger turnouts, old school like it used to be
Huge thanks to Sir Puntalot for bringing us all together in these dark (but surprisingly very sunny) days and the incredible added value ?

Well done everyone!

@avongirl Double Prize money continues in May! 

Instructions for League Winners:
1st @pots11  £125 + PL Mug and Pens
2nd @John Anthony  £75
3rd @Rhino_Power  £50
Bounty x2 @Danshot £20
Bounty x1 @thebestthere £10
To claim please email [email protected] with the following:
Subject: Poker League
Message Content.
PL Username: *
PayPal Email: *
Prize Amount/Position: £125 (1st) / £75 (2nd) / £50 (3rd)
Winner (pots11) - please also provide address for PL Mug & Pens to be sent.
Payments are normally processed together for all our monthly competitions and may be up to 14 days after the end of the month. Well done everyone
@Sir Puntalot @BillyHills
(Added value winners to follow for our week 5 Fun week, next week, but didn't want to delay the main event winners.)
 

Fabulous turnout again for the final leg of the league, massive thank you to everyone who has joined in this month, hope you've all enjoyed it and come back for more
Well done to Bart who won the leg , but combined with other results on the night just fell short of making the podium.
All of our podium winners have put in super consistent performances over the month and are well deserved winners of the added value. Only one leg winner in there, the rest of us weekly winners falling short with our other weekly efforts.
So many congratulations to our league winner Pots11 (rathbone) with an awesome 1st, 2nd and 3rd in weekly results  ? ?
Second place goes to our regular John Anthony (SciTopus) with two 2nds and a 4th position ?
And in Third is Rhino_Power with 3 final table finishes, and no football to play!  ?
Special mention to Danshot who also had 3 FTs, along with 2 bounties. and thebestthere (Pamela1) with 1 bounty.
We have £20 added value to play for next week in our Fun week while we wait for May to appear. Details to follow.
 

An amazing turnout again , turns out I like chasing bounties cracking Helens 77 with J2o. 
See you all next week for the HORSE , well played everyone 

The fold-the-button contest, ooops, I mean the Heads-Up battle, went on for longer than anticipated ? well played guys 

Back in for the banter. Great to see a good turnout. 
Good luck everyone. I'm EnglandBart for the benefit of any new members joining us 

sign me up,, if I can  play  2nite  already in group my username on stars in init2winit28 good luck everyone 

Instead of PL mug and pens this month, can we have a PL loo roll and hand sanitiser?