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WPT Borgata Cbetcasino Poker Open – What Up, D?

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Up here near Toronto, Canada, we’ve been getting a lot of broadcasts of classic poker matches. My feeling at first is one of being a bit cheated. But the truth is, like watching old football or hockey games, there’s something to be learned here. You can definitely learn something from watching these pros, especially their facial gestures. Who knows? One day you might go up against one of them yourself. And since they won’t know you from Adam’s left oxen, you’ll have the upper hand, if you play your cards right, literally speaking. Here’s a short summary of the the Texas Hold’Em match I watched last night

 

The 2 Ds – David Williams and Daniel Negreanu – squared off heads up at the World Poker Tour’s 2004 Borgata Poker Open, taped on Sep 22/04. Josh Arieh’s reckless play still took him to third place. DW (David Williams) was sporting dark sunglasses. These must have given him super-human psych strength, because he played a great Cbetcasino psychological game against DN (Daniel Negreanu), who had his cards written all over his face most of the time. Dude, get a pair of glasses. Your baby face and eyes give you away too often. You and Phil Ivey need lessons to achieve the granite-composure of Doyle Brunson.

 

Negreanu couldn’t even win on A-A (post-flop), beat by Williams ace-high straight. When Williams wasn’t getting great pairs pre-flop, he was psyching Negreanu out. What great play. Certainly more interesting than watching someone unplug a toilet. But DN’s K-K didn’t fail him, taking him back to the chip lead with a $3.4M pot. DW even removed his sunglasses before the turn and river cards.

 

The match see-sawed back forth. Then Negreanu got another A-A, but this time preflop. Except it only got …

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Gus Hansen launches Togel Hongkong Poker Champs

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I am really impressed with PokerChamps, the new online poker room that Gus Hansen has just launched. Gus is one of the new breed of poker champions. In recent years he has come storming on to the poker scene from Denmark via California to win WPT events at the Bellagio and the Commerce Casino.

 

You can choose how many tables you want to play in or watch simultaneously: simply select OneScreen, EnlargedScreen, DuoScreen or FourScreen. Set your screen resolution to 1152 x 864 first if you want to play 4 tables at once.

 

Another thing I like about PokerChamps is that it has some tables where the action has to be completed in seven seconds before a warning comes and then second seven seconds after that. These are marked with “T” for Turbo.

 

This reminds me of the World Speed Poker Championship, held in Estonia, where I recently played: the action there had to be completed in fifteen seconds, and it’s a rule that keeps players on their toes!

 

PokerChamps is masterminded by Gus Hansen, one of the new breed of poker champions. In recent years he has come storming on to the poker scene from Denmark via California in a really impressive way, winning the WPT events at both the Bellagio and the Commerce Casino.

 

Altogether, a slick enjoyable site which I strongly recommend for days when you are alert and keen to play multiple online poker games at speed. Other picks of mine among online poker rooms are PartyPoker and Pacificpoker followed by UltimateBet.

 

Togel Hongkong Poker legend Jack Binion to host tournament

 

Meanwhile the trial, Ted’s older brother, Jack Binion, the original host of the World Series of Poker at Binion’s Horseshoe, has signed on to host the …

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Basic Casino Extra Poker Lingo

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On of the first things a novice player will notice when playing, Casino Extra or studying, poker is the large number of slang terms the poker world uses.  While there are many more past this list, here is a list of many of the most common ones.

 

 

Back door: Hitting a lucky hand for the win: usually unintended.  Most common example is having a pair versus a better pair or trips, then hitting runner-runner for a flush.

 

Bad beat: A hand that is a huge favorite to win, but ends up losing (often to a back door)

 

Bubble: The area of a poker tournament when everyone is close to the cut off point for money, but not quite there.

 

Bust: Losing everything.

 

Calling station: A player who calls almost all the time no matter what.

 

Coin Toss: An all-in situation where both players have about a 50% chance of winning the hand.

 

Connectors: Pocket cards that connect in rank, for example 7-8 or Ace-King.

 

Cracked: To have the best starting Texas Hold’Em hand (pocket aces) beaten.

 

Crap Shoot: A table where the players are aggressive and the action is wild and crazy.

 

Dealer’s choice: A type of game (almost always a home game) where the seated players take turns deciding what game to play.  Choices often include Texas Hold ‘Em, Omaha and 7-Card Stud.

 

Drawing dead: A hand that is so badly beaten that no card or combination of cards can win for that player.

 

Free roll: A multi-table tournament that has no entry fee but still pays money to the top winners.

 

Heads up: When only two players are in a pot or game.

 

Hi/Lo: A game where half the …

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Harrah’s retain Pilson to negotiate deal with ESPN for for Best Bets Today

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The former president of CBS Sports, whose consulting firm has negotiated multibillion-dollar contracts on behalf of NASCAR and Major League Baseball, has been retained by Harrah’s Entertainment to help renegotiate an agreement with ESPN to televise the 2005 World Series of Poker.

Harrah’s, which acquired the long-standing poker tournament last year when it purchased Binion’s Horseshoe, expects to draw more than 5,000 entrants to the championship event this summer.

ESPN produced 22 hour-long episodes from last year’s World Series of Poker and a network spokeswoman said the 24-hour cable sports channel expects to air the same amount or more this year following the 36th annual event.

Recognizing the drawing power of televised poker and the game’s signature event, Harrah’s executives turned to Neal Pilson, who headed CBS Sports for 20 years, in an effort to make the most of the World Series of Poker.

Pilson Communications worked with NASCAR in negotiating a $2.4 billion network television agreement with the Fox, NBC and Turner networks and with the International Olympic Committee to structure its recent $2 billion network agreement with NBC.

“We’re gaming people and we thought it was best to bring in someone who understands television and can maximize the brand to its fullest potential,” Harrah’s spokesman Gary Thompson said. “We wanted someone with the expertise to negotiate the greatest value for the World Series of Poker.”

Pilson said interest in poker spans a variety of audiences and age groups, although he admitted it seems strange to refer to the game as a “sport” adding talks would initially be with ESPN exclusively, although he did not discount bringing other networks to the table for for Best Bets Today.

“ESPN is our primary partner, and they have been a good partner in the World Series of Poker,” Pilson said. “It …

Municipal Railway Album – trams, light rail & a few buses

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My friend Bob Young is an avid collector of postcards. For that reason, he acquired a large lever-arch postcard and photo album entitled “Municipal Railway Album – Volume II” and sub-titled “Street Railway Operations, Light Rail & Subsequent”. (“Subsequent” mostly meant a handful of buses.)

Sadly, the author’s name is unknown and so are the whereabouts of Volume 1 and any other volumes in the set. Whoever it was certainly knew their subject and seems to have been writing some time about 1990. The UK locations covered include Blackpool, Bolton, Glasgow, Sheffield, Tyne & Wear, Bexley and London. Melbourne, Australia, is also included.

It seemed a shame for the wider world, especially those people interested in trams, light rail and the history of public transport generally, not to have access to this substantial piece of work. I have therefore scanned it as a PDF file. The author had an annoying habit of typing right up to the edge of the over-wide pages, so apologies for the fact that occasionally the last letter in a word may be missing. Here’s the link to 132-page PDF file, which is about 42 MB in size and which is not text searchable but easy to browse through: Municipal Railway Album

I hope that you enjoy it and, if you have any information about who the author was, I’d be pleased to hear from you.…

Last Will & Testament of Dame Anastasia Mannock of Windsor

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Transcript of Public Record Office ref. PROB11/1556 Dame Anastasia Mannock 99

Transcribed July 1994 by Tony Hadland from photocopies

[Transcriber’s notes shown thus]

[Page 1 commences] 
This is the last Will and Testament of me Dame Anastasia Mannock of Windsor in the County of Berks Widow and relict of Sir Thomas Mannock late of Giffords Hall in the County of Suffolk Baronet decd in manner following that is to say I do hereby give & devise all that my Manor or Lordship or reputed Manor or Lordship of Metlyns [near Maxstoke Castle, Coleshill] in the County of Warwick with the Manor house Farms land tenements & heredits thereunto belonging And also all singular other the Messuages Farms Lands tenements and heredits which I am seized of or entitled to either at Law or in Equity in possession remainder or Expectancy in or within the several towns Fields Parishes or Precincts of Fillingly [Fillongley] Thustock [Shustoke] overfleet Hampstead [now part of Birmingham] & Stonely [Stoneleigh] in the said County of Warwick or elsewhere in Great Britain (excepting the Estates vested in me upon trust or by way of Mortgage) together with their & every of their rights members & appurts unto Nicholas Tuite Selby of Henrietta Street Covent Garden in the City & Liberty of Westminster Banker & John Wright of Henrietta Street aforesaid Banker their heirs To for & upon the several uses trusts interests & purposes & under and

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subject to the several powers provisions limitations and declarations hereinafter mentioned expressed & declared of & concerning the same that is to say To the use of my Nephew Andrew Du Moulin An Officer in His Majesty’s first Somerset Regiment of Militia & his Assigns for and during the term of his natural life And from & …

More about two 17th Century Catholic books

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By Nigel H. Sinnott, Sunshine, Victoria, Australia

“Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood
of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”
– John Milton, Areopagitica (1644).

In the June 1991 issue of Biblionews I recounted my discovery, as a boy in the 1950s, of two seventeenth-century books in a Nissen hut on what had been a Second World War aerodrome in north Oxfordshire.1 The airfield occupied a tract of land between the villages of Enstone, Great Tew and Sandford St. Martin, and extended to the hamlet of Gagingwell, where I lived.

The books were the Lyricorum Libri IV of Mathia Casimirus Sarbievius, or Fr. Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, S.J. (1595 – 1640), also known as Casimire2, published “ex Officina Plantiniana” (from the Plantin Workshop) by Balthasar Moretus3 of Antwerp in 1634, and a purportedly third edition of the Traité de la regale, perhaps by the Abbé Du Buisson, published by Nicolas Schouten of Cologne in 1681. The first book contained the Late Latin poetry of a celebrated Polish Jesuit; the second was a defence of the Bishop of “Pamies” (Pamiers, France), François Étienne de Caulet, who was involved in a protracted church-and-state dispute with King Louis XIV.

I thought it most unlikely that the books had simply been left behind by a serviceman at the end of the Second World War and, in view of the similarity of the vellum bindings, I assumed that the books must have come either from the private library of a local Recusant family or from a Catholic theological library. I made a few inquiries at the time of writing my earlier article, but nobody claimed the books or knew where …

New illustrated talk features heritage railways

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By request, Tony has created a new illustrated talk featuring eight heritage railways in five countries – the USA, Ireland, Wales, France and England. The talk is accompanied throughout by video recordings made by Tony during the last 14 years.

The railways featured are:

  • Mount Washington Cog Railway
  • Conway Scenic Railroad, New Hampshire
  • Dingle & Tralee Railway, Co. Kerry
  • Ffestiniog Railway, Snowdonia
  • Welsh Highland Railway, Snowdonia
  • Talyllyn Railway, Mid Wales
  • Baie de la Somme Railway, Picardie
  • Pockerley Waggonway, Beamish, Co. Durham

A full list of Tony’s talks can be found by clicking on the ‘Talks, Books & Biography’ tab at the top of this page and following the links.…

Bicycle Design: An Illustrated History – now officially published in the UK and Europe

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This post is about the new book that Professor Hans-Erhard Lessing and I have written on the history of bicycle design. The project has taken 8 years and I joined it in 2010. The book has had valuable input from a great many people in various countries, including the eminent cycle historians Nick Clayton (UK) and Gary Sanderson (USA). It’s a German-English-American co-production, with Hans-Erhard Lessing based in Germany, me in England and the publisher in the USA.

Although Amazon have been selling the book for some time, it was not officially published in the UK and Europe until Thursday 29th May. Here’s the press release in PDF form: Hadland_Lessing_book

You may also like to read MIT’s blog, in which Hans and I answer questions about the book:

http://www.mitpress.mit.edu/blog/five-minutes-tony-hadland-and-hans-erhard-lessing

You can order the book from MIT by using this link:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262026758

If you wish to order from Amazon.co.uk, you can use this link:

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75 years later, Steve takes on Tommy’s challenge

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My good pal Dave Minter tells me that Steve Abraham, a friend of his, is going for the Tommy Godwin annual mileage record. What’s that?

In 1939, Tommy Godwin from Stoke-on-Trent cycled 75,065 miles (120,805 km) in one year – more than anyone anywhere before or since. That’s an average of more than 205 miles a day, every day of the year. Tommy did it on a Raleigh with initially a 3-speed Sturmey-Archer hub gear and later one of the then very new 4-speed Sturmey hubs. Tommy used another recent Raleigh/Sturmey innovation, a Dynohub, to power his lights. Forget your carbon fibre – the bike was steel and so was the man. There’s more about him here: http://www.tommygodwin.com/the-challenge/

Dave Minter reckons Steve Abraham is the only rider in the UK capable of breaking Tommy’s 75 year old record. You can read more about Steve’s plans here: http://road.cc/content/news/137018-audax-uk-ace-steve-abraham-aims-tommy-godwins-unbreakable-year-record-2015

As Steve will have to take a year off work to make this attempt, he could do with financial support. Every little helps and I’ve just sent him a little donation myself. To find out more, visit his own record attempt website: http://www.oneyeartimetrial.org.uk where you can donate via PayPal and find out more about his plans.

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