Rummour i Heard last night

MickL

I Heard last night That 81 Merrion square is up for sale apparently been sold as a casino (With a License WTF is with that),, apparently it was advertised in one off yesterdays pappers

anyone else here anything about this

MrPillowTalk

It was advertised in yesterdays commercial property section Younges are selling it. It was advertised as for sale with planning permission for private members club i.e. casino/poker room. I meant to ring about it today but forgot, its a fine building but unlikely to be kept as a casino if sold, I would have thought its value as office space would create a greater rental income, but who knows.

MadsL

Heard a mystery consortium composed of Irish interweb players was interested....

MrPillowTalk

MadsL wrote:

Heard a mystery consortium composed of Irish interweb players was interested....

Never happen poker players are far too stupid to actually invest money in assetts, I know loads of players with loads of cash and not an assett to their name to fall back on its actually one of my serious pet peeves with good poker players, they are clever enough to beat poker and too stupid to beat life.

phantom_lord

yeah, when I win the open the first thing I'm gonna do is go out and buy a house. assets are the nuts.

BigCityBanker

phantom_lord wrote:

yeah, when I win the open the first thing I'm gonna do is go out and buy a house. assets are the nuts.

fcek that - a house will be well down my list after I win the open - after a few hundred pints of beer for me and everyone else, 2 taxi's of high class hookers, a big steak in shanahans for about 20 of us, more beer, champagne, TT, a few more horses, more hookers, and then a house!!!

(yn)

MrPillowTalk

lol

phantom_lord

BigCityBanker wrote:

fcek that - a house will be well down my list after I win the open - after a few hundred pints of beer for me and everyone else, 2 taxi's of high class hookers, a big steak in shanahans for about 20 of us, more beer, champagne, TT, a few more horses, more hookers, and then a house!!!

(yn)

I mean the first responsible thing i do obv bcb :rolleyes: ...after I organise the coke and hookers party for boards.

Doc Farrell

BigCityBanker wrote:

fcek that - a house will be well down my list after I win the open - after a few hundred pints of beer for me and everyone else, 2 taxi's of high class hookers, a big steak in shanahans for about 20 of us, more beer, champagne, TT, a few more horses, more hookers, and then a house!!!

(yn)

oh please let this man win the Open! And please let me go to this weekender!

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

BigCityBanker wrote:

fcek that - a house will be well down my list after I win the open - after a few hundred pints of beer for me and everyone else, 2 taxi's of high class hookers, a big steak in shanahans for about 20 of us, more beer, champagne, TT, a few more horses, more hookers, and then a house!!!

(yn)

sounds like a good plan to me

robinlacey

MrPillowTalk wrote:

Never happen poker players are far too stupid to actually invest money in assetts, I know loads of players with loads of cash and not an assett to their name to fall back on its actually one of my serious pet peeves with good poker players, they are clever enough to beat poker and too stupid to beat life.

out of curiosity what sort of assets have you invested in eoin?

i recently arranged to put all my money into some bank of ireland life investment package,but only because i wanted to be doing something with my money and knew it would be a while before i got around to doing anything about it by myself...

incidentally,i'm not convinced that investing in a casino club in dublin would be such a good asset,especially for poker players-we're in the middle of an unprecedented boom at the minute,but i think the time to invest in something is when a boom is just getting going,rather than midway through in the hopes that it keeps exceeding expectations.

this is a harsh life lesson i realised sometime around 1994 when i found myself sitting at home,surrounded by suddenly worthless piles of pogs.

Goodluck2me

robinlacey wrote:

this is a harsh life lesson i realised sometime around 1994 when i found myself sitting at home,surrounded by suddenly worthless piles of pogs.

lol - put them beside the top trumps so...

fiddlesticks

robinlacey wrote:

this is a harsh life lesson i realised sometime around 1994 when i found myself sitting at home,surrounded by suddenly worthless piles of pogs.

seriously lol, haha....:D
Glad to see I wasnt the only one!!

shaydy

BigCityBanker wrote:

fcek that - a house will be well down my list after I win the open - after a few hundred pints of beer for me and everyone else, 2 taxi's of high class hookers, a big steak in shanahans for about 20 of us, more beer, champagne, TT, a few more horses, more hookers, and then a house!!!

(yn)

Fcuk that, im selling my house!!! this by far a better plan lol

My backing will be for bcb in this years open, what a party!

patmac

MrPillowTalk wrote:

Never happen poker players are far too stupid to actually invest money in assetts, I know loads of players with loads of cash and not an assett to their name to fall back on its actually one of my serious pet peeves with good poker players, they are clever enough to beat poker and too stupid to beat life.

I object strongly to this generalisation I mean only last week I bought a Mars Bar And a packet of Crisps with the money I earned from Poker last year.

MrPillowTalk

robinlacey wrote:

out of curiosity what sort of assets have you invested in eoin?

i recently arranged to put all my money into some bank of ireland life investment package,but only because i wanted to be doing something with my money and knew it would be a while before i got around to doing anything about it by myself...

incidentally,i'm not convinced that investing in a casino club in dublin would be such a good asset,especially for poker players-we're in the middle of an unprecedented boom at the minute,but i think the time to invest in something is when a boom is just getting going,rather than midway through in the hopes that it keeps exceeding expectations.

this is a harsh life lesson i realised sometime around 1994 when i found myself sitting at home,surrounded by suddenly worthless piles of pogs.

Nearly everything I made last year I paid off my mortgage, I then used the equity to buy another house in Baldoyle with a site on the side that I have in for planning permission at the moment for another 3 bed detached.

At the moment Im looking into opening an off licence in Finglas with a freind of mine, and I intend to invest in some property in America this year probably Vegas or Chicago but wheither that happens or not depends on my free time I did intend to do it last year but it never happened.

I work in property development so I accept its easier for me than most, but still I think if players are doing well then they could do a lot worse than buying some property if you go bust you can allways borrow against the value of it or if worst comes to worst sell it on.

Still lol ing at the pogs, personally I took a bath when rollerblades suddenly became unfashionable :eek: who saw that coming?

Doc Farrell

interesting blog Eoin, unnervingly focused.
i don't think i have to ask you to stay away from the micro limit omaha tables...
good luck man,

what the hell are pogs?! still sounds funny.

DeVore

Diversification is the key imho, you can have all your money invested in businesses and not an asset to your name but so long as your businesses are not connected or homogenous then its not a bad plan. Hard assets (like houses etc) are almost always good (personally I believe we are heading towards a period that is the exception to that rule). They are like Gold too, in that they are nearly indestructible so long as you arent thick about insurance.
But being deep into the housing market and nothing else is just as bad as being into the poker market and nothing else.

What Eoin says is true though, a lot of people I know who are good players just dont cream it off and put it into something else. There are some notable exceptions but its wouldn't be polite to name names even if it was as a compliment.

DeV.