Looking for Professional Gamblers

katieabyrne

Are you a professional gambler? Have you left your daytime job to play poker, bet on horseracing, football, etc? A leading Sunday newspaper would like to speak to you. If you're interested in taking part in this feature, email Katie @ katieabyrne@gmail.com.

Thanks.

Lafortezza

Hi katie, whats the newspaper? What sort of article will it be?

brianmc

katieabyrne wrote:

Are you a professional gambler? Have you left your daytime job to play poker, bet on horseracing, football, etc? A leading Sunday newspaper would like to speak to you. If you're interested in taking part in this feature, email Katie @ katieabyrne@gmail.com.

Thanks.

Run away! Run away!

58o

you can rest assured that no matter what newspaper this is in , you will have read it a 1000 times before. The word "epidemic" will crop up frequently, as will some story of a young lad running up xxxxx amount of debt on his parents credit card to feed the gamblor monster within.

dougee19

i just emailed her, we'll see how it goes
good laff

bops

dougee19 wrote:

i just emailed her, we'll see how it goes
good laff

OMG

phantom_lord

oh noz.

Ste05

dougee19 wrote:

i just emailed her, we'll see how it goes
good laff

:eek: So you play professionally??

brianmc

dougee19 wrote:

i just emailed her, we'll see how it goes
good laff

****

dougee19

yeah im a pro

pok3rplaya

Whats in it for me?

NickyOD

Be warned. The indo wil interview you for half an hour, ask you what you had for breakfast, then print the complete opposite of what you said.

Flushdraw

How many times do we have to tell you. Poker isn't gambling...

dougee19

Flushdraw wrote:

How many times do we have to tell you. Poker isn't gambling...

for some


:rolleyes:

DeVore

Will we have the opportunity to preview the piece to see if we want our names associated with it??

DeV.

LuckyLloyd

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Goodluck2me

i hope your thread isnt related to this...

Lafortezza

Well at least in Dougee we'll have a good representative :rolleyes:

Hopefully robinlacey or RT or someone will do it.

Chucky the tree

dougee looks quite possibly the worst candidate that could of put himself forward.

Ste05

If Douggee is really a professional than he's just levelling us with his other thread. If he's not a professional, hopefully the reporter will be able to see through him. I wouldn't worry about it TBH.

Chucky the tree

Ste05 wrote:

If Douggee is really a professional than he's just levelling us with his other thread. If he's not a professional, hopefully the reporter will be able to see through him. I wouldn't worry about it TBH.

meh. If its a sunday papaer chances are it will go likes this

Katie:"You professional gambler?"
Dougal: "Eh yea"
Katie: "grand"

Ste05

Chucky the tree wrote:

meh. If its a sunday papaer chances are it will go likes this

Katie:"You professional gambler?"
Dougal: "Eh yea"
Katie: "grand"

Yeah I know, but I'm hoping my post will make her a little wary, but I suppose it all depends on which paper it is I suppose.

Imposter

Ste05 wrote:

Yeah I know, but I'm hoping my post will make her a little wary, but I suppose it all depends on which paper it is I suppose.

Well it's obviously the one that uses gmail addresses so it's obviously run quite professionally!

careca

As the Amstel Beer ad goes

"This is gonna be great".

Hyzepher

She is probably free lance.

I would suggest that we do up our own article and approach a Sunday Newspaper to print it. That way we'll get the REAL story across and the paper will get an unique insight into the life of poker - far removed from the current public preception.

fabsoul

Hyzepher wrote:

She is probably free lance.

I would suggest that we do up our own article and approach a Sunday Newspaper to print it. That way we'll get the REAL story across and the paper will get an unique insight into the life of poker - far removed from the current public preception.

yes that the way go.

bops

Hyzepher wrote:

She is probably free lance.

I would suggest that we do up our own article and approach a Sunday Newspaper to print it. That way we'll get the REAL story across and the paper will get an unique insight into the life of poker - far removed from the current public preception.

lol as if a sunday paper would print a REAL story - donkaprints

DeadParrot

Hyzepher wrote:

She is probably free lance.

I would suggest that we do up our own article and approach a Sunday Newspaper to print it. That way we'll get the REAL story across and the paper will get an unique insight into the life of poker - far removed from the current public preception.

thats is actually a really good idea. I'd nominate El Stuntman as he seems quite an accomplished wordsmith. I'd offer to do it but to be honest, Im a lazy lazy man, plus the fact Im quite limited in live experience.

DeadParrot

oh yeah and donkaprints....classic

El Stuntman

DeadParrot wrote:

thats is actually a really good idea. I'd nominate El Stuntman as he seems quite an accomplished wordsmith. I'd offer to do it but to be honest, Im a lazy lazy man, plus the fact Im quite limited in live experience.

thanks very much Dead Parrot (I think)

I can do this in many formats:

News of the World (Shock! Horror! Phew, What a Scorcher!! + tits, lots of tits)

Sunday Indo (lots of pics of pretty chicks and zero content)

Sunday Times (right-wing scaremongering)

Mail (to-the-right-of-Hitler scaremongering. Won't someone please think of children?)

let me know etc

Killme00

El Stuntman wrote:

News of the World (Shock! Horror! Phew, What a Scorcher!! + tits, lots of tits)

More tits pls

Oh and your blog is very very funny Stuntman

DeadParrot

Poker Players, Pandemic or Profession?
A trip through the murky world of Dublin's Poker scene.

A hush falls over the table as Naomi, the Busty Polish waitress brings over another cup of tea. All the players eye her appreciatively. They know all it takes is one big win and they could have her. The last card is dealt face up...a 10 of spades, innocuous on its own but there is another 3 spades on the table and 2 or those cards can be made into a 'straight' or 'run' as well as a 'blue'. Welcome to the complicated and confusing environment of Dublin Poker. Men sit facing each other like statuesque samurai not giving an inch but risking their financial ruin, a world where sex, drugs, cards and drink are the currency and money is seemingly meaningless



jesus thats crap

bops

DeadParrot wrote:

...jesus thats crap

lol - it does sound a bit like the news of the world tho

how did you let yourself hit the post button?

smurph

dougee19 wrote:

yeah im a pro

Im sorry dougee19 but if your a professional card player than im a fu*ckin page 3 model.

As the Permanent TSB add says Lets's get real people

DeadParrot

I'd wasted 5 minutes writing it....I wasnt going back and starting again

Wreck

smurph wrote:

im a fu*ckin page 3 model.

Pics please.

Also El Stuntman, your blog is great.

Macspower

Hyzepher wrote:

She is probably free lance.

I would suggest that we do up our own article and approach a Sunday Newspaper to print it. That way we'll get the REAL story across and the paper will get an unique insight into the life of poker - far removed from the current public preception.

thas the way to go alright. anyone on here a journalist or a write that would volunteer for the job of writing the article

Mac

Ste05

Get El Stuntman carcking, all we need is a Headline and then work backwards from there. Seems like that's the way most Sunday Papers operate...

"Professional Gambler ruins Lives"

or

"A Noble Professsion: Gambling"

DeadParrot

if you are going tabloid-y we need aliteration, lots of it

smurph

Wreck wrote:

Pics please.

Also El Stuntman, your blog is great.

LMAO:D The only way i'd get on page 3 is fully clothed on April fools day.

Ste05

DeadParrot wrote:

if you are going tabloid-y we need aliteration, lots of it

So true...

5starpool

Lots of grizzled, grey haired, gamblers each seeking to gain advantage on this teak tough table. Meanwhile, the blonde, brash, boyish guys that look on are eagerly awating a chance to play with these poker professionals.

/ends pathetic alliteration section.

DeadParrot

*needs titiilation*

while wonderful willowy figures of womanhood serve drinks to these hollow eyed husks of men

El Stuntman

DeadParrot wrote:

while wonderful willowy figures of womanhood serve drinks to these hollow eyed husks of men

that's quite good actually

Solksjaer

A post from Lurksville!

The cards don't matter in this game as lady luck changes her mind every hand as to who she will seduce next. If you fall for this gal, you'll soon be sucking down jack Daniels and telling broken hearted tales to anyone who will listen. Nobdy will listen 'cause yer on your own chump, snap out of it. To attain victory in this game you need to revert back to playground tactics, you push the weak, you avoid the aggressors, you feign strength, you steal lunch money, then when you find your weapon of choice you hit them hard, REAL hard, the sort of hard that crushes a mans spirit. It's not a game for
ear damaged pretty boys wearing raybands, listening to electrocrap mixes on their IPlods spilling 50 Euro bills from their wallets onto the table to be devoured by the hungry pack with crocodile smiles ready to strip you to the bone.

Enter at your peril, Enter my grannys christmas 5 card draw game at the nursery home for the aged and evil......(the biscuits are good)

DeadParrot

El Stuntman wrote:

that's quite good actually

high praise indeed.