Merry Christmas

Dub13

I would like to wish all who read the Poker forum a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year.I hope you and your family's have a good Christmas and New Year.Special mention to the Mods and Tom,you have a thankless job but we appreciate you.

Stay away from the tables when you are drunk (this is not just for Doc).


Dub13

Shortstack

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all.

Mike and Teddy

roryc

I'll second that

Rory (and Tom's money )

shoutman

merry christmas peeps

mewso

Happy Christmas everyone. My letter to Santy has asked for a few minor things. I want a final table seat in the wsop 2006, to meet (and beat) more of the boards players in real life and finally to be able to out argue Hector just once next year. All in all I expect Santy to deliver on this but I did tell him that I would understand if the third one was just too much. See ye in the new year.

BigDragon

Have a good one everyone. Heres to another boards year of big wins and improving games. No 3 is a bit unrealistic Muso!!!!!

2006 Year of the Boards!! Fcuk FOS!

Doc Farrell

Seasons best wishes to you all. May you all have the finest of deals on final tables next year.

TacT

happy xmas all :v:

kincsem

Happy Christmas all

Aces to you. Trips to me.:)

See you all in the Fitz on Thursday.

NickyOD

Happy Christmas everyone. I asked Santa for a Russian bride but a DVD player as a back up pressie as I may have outdrawn too many people this year.

connie147

merry xmas from us all down here in the kingdom(the real capital). hope to meet up with some of ye at the irisk poker open in the citywest in January.
my only request for xmas was to get pocket jacks to hold up even once for me.
anyway, enjoy the festine season

Lafortezza

Happy Christmas everyone, I am going to eat so much turkey.

califano

Happy Christmas all.
As Tikay would say..."Its been emotional!"

ionapaul

Hope we all have a wonderful Christmas and a very prosperous New Year! It's lovely down in Galway right now...:)

White Knight

All i want for christmas are my 2 front teeth, no bad beats and helen chamberlain .. ahhhh ...

Happy Christmas one and all

ntlbell

Happy Christmas everyone and a happy new year.

Lplate

Merry Xmas to all... Helen Chamberlain would be perfect...pocket J's are an autofld Connie given my 100% failure rate with them in your club!!!

karlh

happy xmas all!

multi-tabling as i type. i feel kinda dirty.

happy birthday Jesus!

mob

happy christmas and merry new year to all

jimbling

merry christmas all ... enjoy the festivities

POKERKING

happy christmas and merry new year to all

Ollieboy

Merry Xmas to all and a Happy New Year and a big thank you to all for there support during the year.

Here's to a big 2006 for all.

MadsL

Merry Christmas to all. (I see the Fitz is open, lol!)*




* and yes, I managed to walk on by.......

Lex

Meeeerrrry Everyone!!

RasTa

Hehe anyone else get a few decks of cheap plastic cards ? Or who was playing online today ? Im wearing my fullhouse christmas boxer shorts and socks with a royal flush on them (present from the mammy :P)

Ste05

Belly full of turkey, ham and beer , lungs polluted with too many cigarettes, endless presents of poker paraphernalia (replaced socks, jocks and deoderent this year :rolleyes: ) Great day, hopefully everyone had a good one too

Lets hope we all have a profitable and totally +EV 2006 :rolleyes: .

wp and gl all,

Ste05

Rnger

Ste05 wrote:

Lets hope we all have a profitable and totally +EV 2006 :rolleyes:

Somebody had to say it

It finally leaked to the family that im a tad bit addicted to poker as the gifts i received show: super slick chipset in a brief case, automatic shuffler machine and loads of random poker books (I'm sorry most of them are absolute cack for people who dont play poker /scrouge)

Merry christmas to you and yours

Ste05

Rnger wrote:

loads of random poker books (I'm sorry most of them are absolute cack for people who dont play poker /scrouge)

So true, most of them are ready for the bin, and will be there tomorrow,:( although the GF managed to get lucky with Anthony Holden's Big Deal which I was going to get anyway....

And as for all the different types of Cards, etc. I didn't know so many existed. I got one pack with 3 bullet holes in them, and a leather pouch that attaches to your belt.

Amaru

Rnger wrote:

It finally leaked to the family that im a tad bit addicted to poker as the gifts i received show: super slick chipset in a brief case, automatic shuffler machine and loads of random poker books (I'm sorry most of them are absolute cack for people who dont play poker /scrouge)

See, you've got to be smart about these things, thats why i made a list of what to buy me if they were going to get me poker books. As of this morning, i now have TPFAP and the Cloutier championship series:D

Also, Ste, i'm reading Big Deal at the moment, and its not great. It's obvious the guy is more of a writer than a poker player, and as such there's too much description and not enough poker. Its also a little dated, being set in and around 1988, so there's no real insights on the current boom.

stephenoleary

Amaru wrote:

i'm reading Big Deal at the moment, and its not great. It's obvious the guy is more of a writer than a poker player, and as such there's too much description and not enough poker. Its also a little dated, being set in and around 1988, so there's no real insights on the current boom.

Its obvious the guy is more of a writer than a poker player? Much and all as I admire the many fine poker books written by players, few of them are truly great writers. Holden is, and his book, Big Deal, is excellent. For those without any interest in poker, it still manages to capture the interest of the reader, and I would not hesitate in recommending it to anyone. I got it as a presnt last Christmas, and it was finnished by New Years. Enjoy Steo.

Amaru

That's more what i mean though. It's geared more towards the person who doesn't play, so as somebody who does, he hasn't really gotten my attention, at least not yet. I'm only a couple of chapters in, so maybe my opinion will change by the end. As of right now though, it doesn't hold a candle to, say, Positively Fifth Street.

Rnger

I have to disagree. As the first poker novel I ever read, I very much enjoyed it. I loved reading about all the poker legends. Although you are right, it is geared more towards a begginer rather than an advanced player, which I was when I read it.

I got The Education of a Poker Player by Herbert Yardley today. Its mentioned as "the bible of poker" in Big Deal so I was happy with that... how wrong I was. If you think Big Deal is dated, think again. Its not terrible, theres a couple of tense poker hands. Im sure it was groundbreaking back in the 19th centuary but not anymore

5pin5

happy christmas to all

Mmmm_Lemony

Merry Chrimbo everyone. Jah bless.

Shortstack

RasTa wrote:

Im wearing my fullhouse christmas boxer shorts and socks with a royal flush on them (present from the mammy :P)

SNAP!

favourite present - The book of POO. Almost fell off the pan laughing when I had my XMAS ablutions. :v:

Most useful present - New wallet to hold the wads of cash I will be winning next year

Imposter

Happy Christmas and New Year everyone!

P.S. Why is it I can't beat people who refer to a flush as a blue and don't like burning cards as it somehow is too confusing?

karlh

playing a pub tourney over xmas were we?

Rnger

Imposter wrote:

...and don't like burning cards as it somehow is too confusing?

its too confusing to fix the board

Imposter

karlh wrote:

playing a pub tourney over xmas were we?

No brothers and other degenerates that happened by our house. Although I did renege on going to a 5-card draw 'classic' that was on locally.

Dub13

Imposter wrote:

P.S. Why is it I can't beat people who refer to a flush as a blue and don't like burning cards as it somehow is too confusing?

I once played a self deal tournament were one chap instead on burning 3 yes 3 cards every time...:eek: I called the 'tournament director' for abit of back up as nobody at the table had a clue.Tournament Director told me it was a dealers choice Texas hold-em event :rolleyes:

dingle

Although I don't post much I browse the postings here a couple of times a day and I've learned a lot in the few months since I discovered the site. Thanks to all the regular posters.

Happy New Year Everyone.