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Police Nab Nobby Beach Man With Penis In Pasta Jar
A man caught near Nobbys Beach with his penis in a pasta sauce jar led police on a 20 kmh car chase
GM Ford And Crysler Keep The American Dream Burning
Greenpeace shares in the GM dream of jets and burning fuel all round
Baseball For Jesus And Jews In Hell
That's something we say around the house frequently. "We're one day closer to Heaven"
Paddy Power Cancels Us Election
PADDY Power calls off Us election til 2010:
Posted: 11th, October 2008 | In: Poker And Casino, Politicians, Race For The White House, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
What Not To Do When You Win The Lottery
Ianthe Fullagar, of Ravenglass, w2ins £7million on the Lottery.
The 18-year-old, who hid her winning ticket in her bra, is organising an Egyptian holiday and wants a Ford Ka.
The saddest story of the day…
Thanks June…
Posted: 30th, September 2008 | In: Poker And Casino, Strange But True, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Poker Is Not A Sport Of Courage, Conviction And Confidence
ACCORDING to the Poker Stars advert poker “is a sport of courage, conviction and confidence.”
Yeah, poker is a sport. Who knew that those slobs sat round a table counting bits of plastic were sportsmen?
The Advertising Standards Authority sees the ad and begs to differ.
The ASA tells the poker operator to take the posters down, leaving us to wonder which bit of their claim was the most ludicrous?
Posted: 28th, September 2008 | In: Online-PR, Poker And Casino | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
“WOMEN seem to make naturally good poker players, because we’re good at reading body language and non-verbal communication, interestingly enough what half of the game is about.”
Who said that?
With no hint of irony that is the considered opinion of one Abi Titmuss, a woman for whom non-verbal communication is a speciality, it being the root of her fame.
According to Titmuss, who for those of without access to a search engine is the one former Blue Peter presenter John Leslie made out with earlier (on camera), poker is 50 per cent tells, tics and touch.
Posted: 7th, July 2008 | In: Poker And Casino, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Barack Obama’s Little Queen Of Spades
IN Las Vegas for the WSOP, Barack Obama arrives.
There is no escape. But what’s that in his pocket?
The Obama campaign is in Vegas for a “Change That Works for You” rally.
Change is what Obama is about. He talks about change all the time. He never changes talking about change and may only change when the change has come.
Before Vegas, Obama has been in New Mexico, where he’s asked what lucky charms he carries on him.
“I try to select a number on any given day,” says Obama, who
changes his lucky charms, as he must.
During the course of the campaign, he says he has collected “probably 50, maybe 100″ good luck trinkets, including, we trust, Anorak’s lucky badger’s head.
His spokesman Robert Gibbs then asks Obama if he could borrow the lucky poker chip for the evening’s trip to Vegas. “I might let you take it down,” says Obama.
Ok, with some jokes, a little embellishment and a punchline, it might make good anecdote. But the point is not so much that Obama relies of superstition for victory, but that he would lend anyone his lucky token.
As Robert Johnson told us:
Posted: 24th, June 2008 | In: Barack Obama, Poker And Casino, Politicians, Race For The White House, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Financial Spread Betting: HBOS, Sterling Surges And Consumer Spending
HBOS, the country’s biggest mortgage lender, says it expects the number of houses sold across the country this year to fall by 45%.
And those houses that do sell will do so for “up to 9%” less than now.
Citigroup expects house prices to drop by 20% and volumes 50% by the end of 2009. HBOS and Citigroup are depressed. Banks are as bout as loved as, well, bankers. Shares in both banks are way down the on the year.
Posted: 20th, June 2008 | In: Money, Poker And Casino | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
CAN you learn to play poker from a book?
If poker theory as useful as poker practical?
Daniel Negreanu has new book out. It’s titled “Power Hold’em Strategy”.
It says here: “You’ll learn how to play hold’em with cards you never would have played before — and with fantastic results.”
The blurb stop just short of: read this and win-win-win at poker, but there will be “fantastic results”. So maybe…
Negreanu is little less bold:
“When you apply the advice we’ve given you to your own game, I have no doubt that you will improve rapidly. Equally important, this book should help you understand the mindset of small-ball players so that when you face off against one, you won’t be confused by his approach. Instead, you will be able to exploit him.”
In other words: with this book you will have a bit more knowledge then Joe Shmo and should defeat him.
Unless, of course, he’s read Hold’em Wisdom for all Players by Daniel Negreanu or More Hold’em Wisdom for all Players by Daniel Negreanu.
Or played online, like Marc Coupar, who has ditched his career to become a pro poker player.
Says he: “It started out as just a hobby but pretty much from the start I was winning a lot. I read a few theory books but I’ve just honed my own style of play and it has been really successful.
You can learn to player from books? But can you learn to be any good..?
Posted: 19th, June 2008 | In: Poker And Casino, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Australians Spend More On Gambling Than On Food
DID you know that Australians spend far more on gambling than they do on food?
In 2006-07, the land Down Under spent almost AS$91.5 million, or AS$4350 per head, on food, Bureau of Statistics figures say.
But in 2005-06 adults spent AS$148 million - an average of $9491 each - on gambling. These figures do also include tourists, although they, one presumes, eat, too.
Is this because food in Australia is cheap – how much can insects and fizzy urine cost?
But people with a cause interpret the figures differently, and Family First senator Steve Fielding says it shows people are spending too much on gambling.
Says he: “The Rudd Government can halve the number of problem gamblers by supporting Family First’s poker machine plans. This would, over time, get poker machines out of our local clubs and pubs and restrict pokies to racetracks and casinos.”
But are Australians gambling too much? Or eating too little..?
Posted: 12th, June 2008 | In: Poker And Casino, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
