TillerMaN's Blog Spot

Thats not his hair!

2009-02-09T09:43:00.000Z

- Well done =)

X Factor?

2009-01-23T05:55:00.009Z

This is what Saturday nights used to be one generation ago =) Now we are corruputed with X Factor, Stritctly Come Dancing and Britain's(Or America's) got Talent. This is Eddie Fisher(Leading), Andy Williams and Bobby Darin showing us how it used to be done! Perfect Pitch, Rhythm, Timing, Charisma and Personality! Live of course :) I first saw this nearly one year ago and it still has less than 10,000 views on Youtube. Ridiculous!

Saddening in many ways =) Not one of the XFactor winners let alone XFactor wannabes would survive in the above clip without being embaressed to high heaven.

Another Saturday night show clip below from 1971 :- Neil Young in his Network TV Debut on the Johnny Cash Show. (I posted another version of this in August for anyone who is paying attention :) aka no one) :-

Silly how times have changed so harshly. Hopefully it is cyclic!

Another one from the Johnny Cash show, this time Ray Charles. Note how Johnny Cash nearly comes to tears when Ray Charles opens with an impromptu performance of Johnny Cash's classic - "Walk the Line". He then follow ups with an excellent version of Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire. You need to fast forward to 1.30 for the start. Bad editing =)

At the end of the day

2008-12-19T04:10:00.004Z

One of these is poker related - Honest! =)

Haha. I hate The Streets!

Thanks Steve!

POKER RELATED!!!

Charles Manson's Epic Question!

Tuff Fish takes on Mario

2008-11-24T18:23:00.000Z

So I was Superused after all!

2008-11-06T15:19:00.002Z

Dear Iain Girdwood,

As you may be aware, we have recently been engaged in an on-going investigation of allegations of unfair play at UltimateBet. The investigation determined that the cheating scheme was active and fully underway well before we purchased UltimateBet in October 2006. Furthermore, no one implicated in the cheating had ever been an employee of UltimateBet or of Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG, UltimateBet's current parent company. Consequently, we have been pursuing claims related to the cheating scandal against the previous owner of UltimateBet, Excapsa Software.

On November 3, 2008, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved a settlement of our claims against Excapsa Software. Under the terms of this settlement, Excapsa will pay Blast-Off Ltd., the Tokwiro-controlled company that originally acquired UltimateBet an amount of US$15 million. We intend to apply this settlement to the final round of refunds to customers who were victims of the cheating scheme. This favorable outcome before the courts validates our claims against UltimateBet's previous ownership with respect to the cheating scandal. We are very pleased with this outcome that benefits both our customers and our company.

Our investigation has concluded that your account ******* was victimized by the cheater. This account has been refunded for any losses against accounts associated with unfair play.

"Net loss" is the sum of the money that you lost to the accounts in question minus the sum of the money you won from them. On this basis, we have calculated that you are entitled to a refund in the amount of $5,579.00. If you have any questions about the refund process, please write to us at pokersecurity@ultimatebet.com or call (1.888.200.2933).

We want to express to you our sincere gratitude for your patience, loyalty, support, and your understanding that Tokwiro has acted, and continues to do everything it can to correct this situation. We also want to reiterate Tokwiro's and UltimateBet's commitment to providing a safe and secure environment for our players and our unwavering resolve to monitor our site security with every resource at our disposal.

Since the cheating was exposed in early 2008, we have worked tirelessly to understand what happened and how it happened; to ensure that it could never happen again; to refund our customers for their illegitimate losses at UltimateBet; and to pursue our claims against the former ownership that sold Tokwiro a business that exposed Tokwiro and our customers to illicit activity. With the November 3 Ontario Court decision in our favor, our claims against Excapsa are settled and our refunds to you and to all UltimateBet players who were affected by unfair play will be completed. This concludes our efforts for justice and compensation for Tokwiro and our customers affected by this cheating scandal.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

The UltimateBet Team

And I'm meant to trust it was for only $5579? I have no records of my play there from two years ago but I do remember a big downswing that busted my UB account there around that time. I remember not recognizing the Superuser account names that were posted at 2+2 but I guess this is proof that I regularly played with them. Sigh.

Various music I been listening too!

2008-10-27T01:38:00.015Z

Perhaps I will introduce you to just one thing you will get something out of then it will be a worthwhile post =) I been spending a sick amount of time getting new music recently, only problem is the amount of shite you have to wade through =) You also need to buy or download high quality versions because these youtube videos don't do much justice to some of this stuff.

Some people complain that Youtube videos seem to not start on my page occasionally and I experience this sometimes as well but it is always solved if I load my page up in Internet Explorer instead of Firefox. Don't know why Firefox has this problem sometimes =(

Various females singers I came across recently that I think are superb! :-

Omerta Bossa (Nicole Conte Version) - Isabelle Antena.
Youtube deleted Le Poisson Des Mers Du Sud which was what I wanted to show. Oh well.

Balloon Mood by Anja Garbarek - Daughter of Jazz Saxaphonist Jan Garbarek.

Phoenix by Cibelle.

Roots of Coincidence - Pat Metheny Group. Does sound like it should be a James Bond theme as a commenter noted. Definitely check it out as if you don't like regular Jazz this could hook even some metal heads =)! I want to go to one of their gigs ASAP!

The Truth Will Always Be - Pat Metheny - Just gold.

2HB - Roxy Music - Great stuff.

Bob Dylan - Highway 51 - From his debut album. Guitar in this has amazing energy not to mention his voice. He is ONLY 21 here!!!

Pat Metheny Group performing the superb tune - Jaco.

American Heartbeat by Survivor - Cheesy!. Lyrics a bit annoying but this is some classic 80s stuff! =) Survivor did the Rocky Music - Eye of the Tiger but you all know that =)

Been listening to A LOT of Iggy Pop recently. China Girl - A classic Co-written by Iggy and David Bowie and first appearing on Iggy's classic album The Idiot in 1977. Bowie's more familiar version was released in 1983 on his album Let's Dance. I like both versions a lot but Iggy's is certainly more raw and that has some extra appeal to me.

Sweet Sixteen by Iggy Pop. Check out when he sits on the drums at end, classic.

Rick James and Cold Blooded.

Eli Elezra 17 Accounts at FullTilt? WTF?

2008-10-17T23:01:00.007Z

Original Video- More videos at TinyPic

Remember a while back I was complaining about being one of the FIRST players ever on Fulltilt thus I never got a rakeback account. I tried to make a new account like one year ago(after requesting to get rakeback activated on my original one which they refused) and they emailed me saying this is not allowed, sorry there is nothing we can do etc etc. You are stuck with your original account with no rakeback. I don't play there on principle now mostly because of this.

Check out the footage above where Eli Elezra in front of Co-Owner of FullTilt Howard Lederer admits to having 17 accounts there? Uhm, if this isn't a joke then that is that is a pretty insane admission - obviously sanctioned by Lederer and Co if true.

Listen to Antonius complaining about getting no action and Elezra saying "I don't want Howard to hear but you need to be like me". Lederer looks like he knows whats up and gives a very slight head shake as if he is telling Elezra to STFU right now. Antonius then smiles and says "But we don't tell them" perhaps an admission he knows about his multiple accounts.

Cycling!

2008-10-13T11:55:00.009Z

On Sunday myself and my good friend Bob Mitchell went out cycling, training for our trip to France next summer to try and complete the L'Étape du Tour. The previous day we had taken Bob's two road bikes (one of which I'm getting to use) to get repaired and also went shopping for cycling gear which I was sadly lacking. One of the items we both invested in was an amazing watch - the Garmin Forerunner 405 which has built in GPS, Heart Beat Monitor and all sorts of other cool features. It is quite expensive but worth it if you regularly train and want to record routes/times/distance etc. Thanks to FoldyMoldy for recommending this watch to me!

The best feature however is being able to upload the entire training session to your computer and then upload the results to Google Earth. Below are several screenshots from our route on Sunday with some additional text notes on the image. You will need to click the images to get bigger pictures.

For anyone who has Google Earth and is interested here is the file which can be opened with Google Earth that contains all the info on our trip.

Our route mostly took place just outside of Paisley, the town where Bob lives. You can see from this screenshot the context of that with regards to Scotland.

This is the route we took which worked out at around 28 miles which is the longest we've done so far. We are doing our cycle training on mountain bikes during the winter and will switch to the road bikes in February when we will be able to do some 50-60 mile runs!

Bob and his wife Aileen live in a very beautiful and quiet part of Paisley called Castlehead. As you can see the cycle path we use actually runs directly behind Bob's house.

We took it easy for the first half of the route probably averaging around 12MPH building up to the second half which is predominantly uphill. You can see the kind of information that the watch is tracking here which is contained in every single little box which indicates every contact with the GPS Satellite in space. Information like Heart Rate, Distance traveled, Speed and Time elapsed.

Just one of the many picturesque spots you come across whilst cycling outside of the city in Scotland. Was a nice day for October too.

Lochwinnoch is home to a sailing club. Last time we cycled right down to it and saw people getting prepared to water ski etc. Really nice spot.

This is us arriving in Howwood, a medium sized village. We slowed right down just before it to reduce our heart rate so we could try and maximize our effort in the intense climb to the top of the hill. It is about one mile long. You can see in the screen shot that my maximum heart rate gets to 187BPM. I maintained that for at least half the climb. Bob got to 175BPM. You can work out your own maximum heart rate roughly with the formula - (220 - Current age). Mine is precisely right. My resting heart rate is around 70BPM and Bob's is around 50BPM (even though he hasn't been cycling for many years he still has his cyclists heart). Hopefully my resting heart rate will reduce over the next year also. The world record for resting heart rate is held by a former 5 time Tour De France winner - Miguel Indurain at 28BPM. I finished one minute and 20 seconds ahead of Bob. If he was typing he would say it is because I am naturally more built for climbing because of my light weight but I just say it is because I'm the best! =)

This is a spot further on when we had a minor crash which was all my fault. I was leading the pack (just two of us lol) and was admiring my new cycling shoes when I veered off into a ditch which took me and the bike to the tarmac. Bob seeing this happening shouts - "watch out", "what are you doingggggggggggggg....." as he crashes into my back and goes flying over his handle bars nearly landing on his feet(so he claims =)). I would of course cycled around him with my lighting fast reactions if it was the opposite way around :). I hurt my elbow, knee and hip but it was all minor scratches so we were able to continue soon after. It was my first crash =)

I had to put this in because I thought it was really funny that GPS captured it. You can see from this shot me pumping up a drag with a decent and continuous effort of 173BPM when I look behind and see Bob far behind. This is me going back to pick him up then continue on with him. (He is going to hate me) Haha!

Finally we reach the top of Glenford Brae which is a really intense and sheer descent which lasts only a few minutes. Because of our builds, I am naturally built for climbing and Bob is naturally built for descents. He always gets a good lead on long descents and can easily drop me. My maximum speed here was 41MPH and Bob's was 46.5MPH. I did brake more though as I need more practice with high speed descents especially at the sharper corners. He say's I am a pussy =)

It is only a further 10 minutes back to Bob's after the descent where we take a well earned rest after around three hours of cycling. GG!

Russ Hamilton officially implicated

2008-10-07T10:24:00.002Z

Former main event world champion Russ Hamilton has officially been named as one of the people involved in the theft and siphoning of up to $60 million dollars from Absolute Poker and her sister site Ultimate Bet. 60 minutes is going to air soon and will be focusing their investigations on Hamilton. Obviously there were numerous people involved, how many of his friends accounts were involved? This is just unreal, I hope the people involved get prosecuted and spend time behind bars!

http://www.gambling911.com/gambling-news/world-series-poker-winner-russ-hamilton-identified-absolute-poker-cheat-092908.html

Comedy

2008-09-24T04:57:00.001Z

Been lazy on the blog obviously. I switched to heads up for quite a while there and did decent sustaining 7-8bb/100 across all levels. However, there is way too much dead time and overall it is a bit of a time sink. Bigger profit per table is ok but not when you can only get 1 game going at medium limits over a 2-3 hour time period.

I have also over the past few months been switching between 3-4 tables of high limits ($2000 - $5000) and 9-10 tables of medium limits (Nearly all $1000). I'm trying to get a database of 100,000 hands together to try and see my true win rate doing 9-10 tables of 6 max. I might post my results when I'm done. Currently done 15500 hands with Holdem Manager.

In other news, my friend (Bob Mitchell) and myself have been doing quite a lot of physical training. He used to be in a cycling club many years ago and he has suggested a very arduous task for us. Next summer we are going to try to complete the L'Étape du Tour which is basically a Tour De France stage open to amatuers cyclists. Last year the stage was 167KM long with long tough uphill sections. Hope we make it, I'll keep you updated on physical progress. I have never been very fit in my life, to accomplish this almost guarantees I will need to be super fit so lets hope we can keep up the training regime from now until summer.

Now for some funny stuff I found on youtube and elsewhere. Perhaps you have not seen one or two things here, if so then I supplied you with gold. Enjoy.

Hicks vs Heckler - Never seen this before. Gold.

Richard Pryor being interviewed high as a kite which I'm going to guess was filmed during the making of Stir Crazy.

Dave Chappelle - All three parts of the Charlie Murphy - "I'm Rick James Bitch" hilarity. For anyone who doesn't know who Rick James is, he was quite famous for a while in the 70's, mostly for his song Superfreak which was sampled(ripped off) by MC Hammer in his massive hit "U Can't Touch this".

Matt Damon for President

2008-09-22T16:05:00.001Z

Vote Obama! I think we should take more political advice from Hollywood celebrities.

But seriously, vote Obama if you are American. I'd vote Ralph Nader!

You know Damon is right!

What can I dew!

2008-09-04T23:59:00.005Z

The classic Human vs Undead imbalance commentary by myself.

Captured for Youtube by Sigurd (thanks, good job!).

The game was played around 5 years ago and the game has been patched MANY MANY times since then. This version of the game bares no resemblance to what people play now. So no point discussing build orders and why I haven't got such and such as it is not even close to being similar to what you see now in Frozen Throne.

The imbalance was fixed in a patch not long after this game took place and around when I retired from Warcraft 3.

I believe the TillerMaN soundboards were made entirely from this commentary although I'm not sure about that.

I have had people say to me or type to me "What can I dew" more times than I've been dealt pocket Aces in poker =) Enjoy.

Part 1.

Part 2

Elky ex Starcraft gamer turned up for the Asian Poker Tour today dressed like the Joker. Funny stuff. Good make up job Elky =)

Poker

2008-09-04T11:11:00.003Z

Funny slow roll I found on youtube randomly featuring Raszi (Ex Starcraft gamer). I would be annoyed by this too as it looks like Raszi is short stacked pushing all in to pick up the blinds. Just ridiculous.

I also got back from the Scottish Championships which consists of a week of events but I only turned up for the two bigger ones. The £500 and £1000 events. I crashed out early in the £500 and got 17th in the £1000. Dean "Strops" Lyall a Scottish average standard ex gamer (Age of Empires) :) won both these events which is pretty impressive or lucky, depending on how you view these things I guess. I wasn't that disappointed with my results because I got to play a decent amount of cash in incredibly juicy games. The game was only £5/£5 blinds but I managed to take home £8000+(a lot of it coming from Dean himself who tried to mess with a champion ex gamer and realized he made a big mistake) in winnings in perhaps 6-7 hours of cash game play. I enjoyed my time in Edinburgh, getting to know some of the local regulars a bit more, it is a shame some stuff doesn't happen a bit more often in Scotland. Congrats Dean.

Some guy has managed to make the "What can I Dew" commentary into a video with original replay. It is too long to upload to youtube right now so I'm seeing about getting it split into two parts. Was funny watching the replay again. It really was harshly imbalanced back then. They did fix it not long after, shame I quit soon after.

Warcraft 3 Commentary and History

2008-08-22T03:36:00.009Z

I was the first gamer as far as I'm aware to do commentaries in gaming. They became very popular and then everyone started doing them with whole websites dedicated to commentaries on gaming. Now it is just common place. For poker players - I was a very well known gamer, having played all of Blizzards RTS titles to a high standard from Warcraft 2 through Starcraft and Broodwar and finally?(well maybe, Starcraft 2 soon) culminating in Warcraft 3.

Here is a "Real" commentary from me that someone put up. It is a 4v4 FFA and was done for fun. The context for non gamers is that I am playing with 7 other random Warcraft 3 players whose average skill level will be weak to average. It was done only for a change as most of my commentaries were very high level games and nearly always 1v1. As you will see if you actually watch this commentary I get bored halfway through and start killing my team mates to spice up the game, it was really quite entertaining and a lot of my random laughing is in response to the stuff they are typing to me, they start begging me to stop killing them at points :). The commentary is done live whilst playing the actual game which was much trickier than it looks. I used to get paid $600 for every two commentaries I made by a subscription site back then. I did make the most downloaded commentaries back then! Remember this is from at least 5-6 years ago and also that I have to type to the other players, commentate and actually play the game at the same time. It is a shame this is the only one someone has uploaded, I have none of the scores of commentaries I must have made. Some really great games too as I used to only commentate on stuff where something interesting or novel took place. If you have any, please upload them =)

I was youtubing for Sky(As far as I'm aware the best Warcraft 3 player these days?) the other day and came across this video where someone commentates on a game of his whilst somehow pretending I'm also commentating on the match with him. He keeps asking me questions throughout the replay. It is quite surreal to watch. Probably using that old soundboard someone put together several years ago although I'm not sure.

Part 1.

Part 2.

I just found most of my results from Warcraft 3. I only played Warcraft 3 : Reign of Chaos. I never played The Frozen Throne seriously at all and gave up soon after its release.

War3 Beta Tournament : 1st Place (Made me famous right at the start of Warcraft 3)
Intel Masters Championships : 1st Place (Really professionally run UK tournament that only lasted one year, they invested way too much money in it obviously).
VGA Tournament : 1st Place (Forget what this even was, some nationwide networked Lan Tournament I think).
Warcraft Replays Tournament : 1st Place (Shrug).
Gamefixx Tournament : 1st Place playing under a secret alias. $5000 for first though.
Campus Party 2003 : 1st Place (Some HUGE and I mean HUGE lan played in Spain - Valencia, my mum still uses the Spanish Laptop I won there).
World Cyber Games 2003 in Seoul Korea : Silver Medal in Team event (I had recently switched to Humans as yes they were imbalanced =)) I won my solo group Stage 4-0 but then faced Grubby(has been one of the most successful Warcraft 3 player of the last 5 years) in the very next round who I lost 2-1 too in amazingly close games. He then went on to face Insomnia who he lost too. Not very fair since Human was not our natural race. Insomnia of course won the whole thing! Myself and another UK player called Bond surprisingly came 2nd in the team event. I came up with some strategies on the same day that took us right through to the finals where we lost to Chinese Taipei (Taiwan).

I took up poker professionally literally after arriving back from Korea.

And finally here's a blooper I found. Me getting a little angry at my Demon Hunter dying in a spot that he should never die. Must have been random damage, spiking on each hit.

Just for the record I haven't played a single game of Warcraft III in over 4 years. I will be trying Starcraft 2 obviously.

Poker related youtube

2008-08-08T21:58:00.005Z

Came across this "POKER" related youtube video today. It might make you giggle, sure did for me. Poker is one of his passions! You won't look back!

Note the Salvador Dali painting on the wall. Good taste at least!

Bob

2008-08-06T15:46:00.002Z

My mum gave me the following link.

Enjoy Mr and Mrs Mitchell.

The band is the Drive by Truckers.

Another one by them below called "Where the Devil Don't Stay". Bit more punch!

I know some of you won't understand

2008-08-06T01:28:00.004Z

A lot of great art goes down the drain. - Johnny Cash show.

Been into Andy Kaufman for several years, Johnny Cash show again.

Joni Mitchell and Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash show.

Same song, same show with Bob Dylan.

Eric Clapton with Derek and the Dominos. Lol? Clapton guitar solo in the middle, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash do a trio with Clapton in the last two minutes.

Slighty lame? Early Carpenters? Don't care =)

Can you tell I've been watching the Johnny Cash show - 1969 - 1971. The musicians he had on this show is almost surreal. Highly recommended!

If you want this amazing DVD Collection you can get it at amazon :-

USA - Amazon USA

UK - Amazon UK

Some music from Friday.

2008-08-04T13:12:00.002Z

Had fun night on Friday as I was able to invite some friends up because my Sofas finally arrived. I have been sitting in office chairs for months. Not the most relaxing of times. =)

My good friend Bob Mitchell was over and as he was the only sober one he took charge of all musical duties. Lucky for him he picked some particularly good stuff I had never heard before.

The highlight for me was both of these Tim Buckley performances as although I have two Tim Buckley albums and enjoy him I had never heard these before. I'm much more of a fan now! He is the father of Jeff Buckley - both died tragically young.

Song to the Siren.

Dolphins from the Old Grey Whistle Test.

There was someone there on Friday who didn't see this, they know who they are =). I thought it was fantastic. You'll all think its soppy though =) Could they look more in love? Climax Blues Band!

Back

2008-07-31T13:05:00.004Z

I'll post more properly when I get my photos off my laptop, this one is from my friend Sophies facebook page. It is of me and my friend Rasmus enjoying the view from the top of Himmelbjerget in Denmark. Sick hot day.

Leonard Cohen

2008-07-17T14:33:00.004Z

So yesterday I went through to Edinburgh with my good friends Ann, Bob and his wife Aileen to see Leonard Cohen in concert. We went to Harvey Nichols for lunch which is now blacklisted. Poor service, average food and average surroundings. Bob even complained at the end. They got a 75p tip which should have been zero! Ann pointed out a very thin plain looking cardigan in the mens department on the way out jokingly saying I should get it. I looked at the price and nearly collapsed... £450. Lol?

We then moved onto the Balmoral hotel and into the Bollinger Bar for afternoon tea and some Pinot Grigot followed by French Martini's(they are nice!). They all had work the next day so there was no excess drinking, they are also respectable Lawyers/Clerks and would of course never do such things anyway =)

We took the long walk up to Edinburgh Castle for the concert which was stupendous. Leonard did a good collection of songs from obscure/modern to So Long Marianne and Suzanne. I even managed to have an argument with a silly woman in front of me who overheard me saying to Ann at the end of the first half that his most "famous" songs would be coming in the second half. She obviously thought she was some elitist Cohen fan and said something totally illogical like "you don't think these songs were good?" looking at me as if I was a first time listener and needed educating. My point was simple, his most popular songs would be coming in the second half and this was proven out with the performances of Suzanne, Sisters of Mercy and So Long Marianne which I told her were yet to come and were his most popular songs. I never said they were his best or greatest tracks just that they were his most popular/famous. Anyway, I got her to shut up eventually! When the songs I pointed out actually did come on(of course they were the only songs the crowd actually sang along to) she turned around and acknowledged the error of her ways with a simple but knowing nod to a true Cohen fan =)

Time for my obligatory youtube video links?

Suzanne above.

Famous Blue Raincoat below which he did not perform :(.

Leonard is the greatest and he was looking strong and fit. Many more years left in him thankfully.

Tomorrow I leave for Denmark to stay with my good friends Rasmus and Sophie in Copenhagen. I'll stay for a couple of days in Copenhagen with Rasmus where we will spend a good portion of our time at the casino playing poker trying to make some money. I hear the players are terrible but also that the rake is super high. Rasmus does well so it should be profitable! We then go on to join Sophie in Jutland for a time and then back to Copenhagen. I'll be there for 12 days. I'll be taking my laptop so I might even do some updates on the blog from there but hopefully not having to post about how I got destroyed at the casino.

I am also going to Las Vegas sometime in September with friends and am planning on seeing many shows this time and not spending so much time sitting playing poker as I did on my first trips to Vegas.

Perhaps he is nuts!

2008-07-15T15:51:00.003Z

This is a forum post from 2+2 which I thought was relevant due to my previous post which I thought was funny. If you read his blog he really is desperate sounding =) Poker is evil! :-

"This is my first post, its about Russel 'Dutch' Boyd, and I created my account to share the story. I met Boyd at a WPT party in Reno this year (had a good time with him). July 2, I run into DB in a hallway at the Rio.

SC 'Hey Dutch. Remember me from Reno?'
DB 'Yes. (dont think he did) How u doing?'
SC 'Great. Where you going? Going to play?'
DB 'I am going...to go get a bag of weed'
SC ' Dude. I got a J in my pocket. Ya wanna?'

So he says were going to 'his place' (I thought his Rio room maybe?), and I then realized he meant his home. I say, 'pay for the cab ride there, I'll pay for the ride back.' So we get in a cab at the Rio, we pull up to a nice condo, and HE JUMPS OUT. I pay the cabbie, while DB he appears to be locked out. Suddenly an unidentified young man lets DB in, and I tell the cabbie he can go. The young gun has 2 bracelets, has been awaken by DB (who seemed impaired in some way), and I feel bad for this guy (he is still in his boxers-and isn't REAL HAPPY).
So we go in for 15 minutes, say HI to the next door neighbor (another young gun with a bracelet-who's VERY DEEP in the 08 ME), and the last I heard, young gun #1 is calling for a cab, as he left his car at the casino the night before. DB and I smoke cigarettes outside, and HE SAYS 'Lets go'. I ask where and he says, 'My house.' I think this f***er lives across the street, and we begin to walk in 110 degree heat midday.
After a mile of me complaing and inquiring 'how far', he says 'Wanna get a cab?' HELL YES. 'Got a phone?' He botches 2 calls to the cab co., and I'm nearly beserk, as I grab the phone from him. We wait under a shade tree, and the cab arrives 15 minutes later...
Finally, we arrive at 'his house'. I initially decline the invite in, and he mumbles something like 'ah come in, theres my car, I'll take you back'. I make him promise, and I go in despite probably knowing better. We watch TV with his buddy sleeping on the couch, while DB strums guitar. I learn DBs been MIA for nearly 2 days. The live like pigs, and I finally say, "I'm just going to call a cab Dutch...you need your rest.' I call and ask a cab to come to X31X XinXa (left it out, but I know the address).
About this time, two guys and a girl, come in. I hang another 15 minutes, and one of the guys (I'll call him Lexus GUY) says, "Dude. Want a ride back to the Rio?' He seems whacked, but I save the cab ride this way (got at least $35 in DB in cabrides already) We hustle outta there before the cabbie shows AND

during the ride, I learn what his alterior motive is...

So, about halfway to the Rio, the guy says, 'How much cocaine did you give him (DB)?' Whoa! Im thrown for a loop. I tell the whole story, and tell him all DB has put me through, to which he says, "Well don't give him ANYTHING, EVER or let anyone else give him anything in the future" 'He's bipolar you know, and he's really crazy right now. We're thinking about admitting him, but I dont think he's really on anything today.' (damage control)
I can't stand it anymore. I say, "I say BS...he's f****d up dude', AND the guys tries more 'damage control' and says 'Come on man, that isn't a drug house or anything, AND I think YOUR the one's that f****d up!'
I have had enough at this point, and I get a little bass in my voice, "Hey jerkoff, I brought him home after he's been MIA for 2 days! I told you what he's put me through...YOU should be THANKING ME!' He calms down, I calm down, and creepy Lexus dude says, 'OK. OK, I believe you.' AND it gets tense again when I say 'I dont give a F**K what you believe...I'll get out right now MFer!' (considering just punching this creep in the face).
Finally we're at the Rio, I get out, and tell Lexus dude, 'Tell DB to call me and thank me later', to which he replies, 'Dutch won't even remember you when he comes to...see ya'.

DB isn't crazy...he's a con playing crazy, much like the Genovese Godfather Vicent 'The Chin' Gigante, ever since the Pokerspot online card site failed and bilked its customers out of nearly $500000. Talk about a waste of talent...he lost his backers a few days before the ME, and is now begging on his homepage for backers!

CHECK IT OUT

http://www.dutchboyd.com/

See you in St Louis DB next time your in town. Certainly looking foward to it! BECAUSE EVERYONE PAYS THEIR OWN WAY...GTFO!

Pokerspot interview

http://www.liveactionpoker.com/artic.../boyd-int.html"

Le Goût des autres

2008-07-14T04:44:00.007Z

The english translation is "It takes all Kinds" but in most places it is referred to as the "Taste of Others" which is an incorrect translation according to Nicolas in comments. Thanks Nicolas.

Anyway, I got a lot out of this movie and HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT to anyone who is reading.

Anne Alvaro is stunning in this movie and before all you fools google her image it is much more than looks I'm talking about =)

Directed by Agnès Jaoui it is a movie that could not be made outside of Europe. Enjoy if you decide to check it out.

Another movie I saw recently which I also recommend but not anywhere near as ferociously is "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" directed by Sidney Lumet of "Dog Day Afternoon" fame. Another superb performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman. It is not as perfect as the above movie mostly because of the poor ending as opposed to the aboves PERFECT ENDING but still, I thoroughly enjoyed it overall.

TJ Cookier

2008-07-10T19:08:00.002Z

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=244128

This did make me laugh out loud. Mostly the photoshopped third image down.

Some further epic photoshops in this thread. Here is a couple that I laughed out loud at :-

=)

2008-07-08T23:23:00.011Z

Continually edited and deleted blog posts till I drive myself crazy. Some of them were great!

Funny 2+2 Post

2008-07-07T17:00:00.003Z

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=242975

The part about the following post on 2+2 that made me laugh was the guy claiming Dutch Boyd is nuts is the same guy walking around with a stack of T/5 offsuit cards trying to get them signed by random celebrity poker players one of them being Dutch Boyd whose blog he actually reads and thinks is a real signature coup for his T5 deck of cards. I'd bet my roll the guy who posted this is American and clearly doesn't appreciate the irony of his own post and actions.

"(Yes, I realize the title of this thread is zero surprise)

long-ish story to follow....

Today at the wsop expo my buddy Mike and I saw Kenna James singing a country tune on the Aussie Millions karaoke setup. If that wasn't strange enough, the song ended with him and Dutch Boyd singing out the last chorus together.

After they finished, it looked to me like the perfect time to get Dutch to autograph a couple of playing cards (5-T offsuit....it's a "signature hand" of a home game I play in, and we have a ton of cards signed by a gajillion different pros...just for fun)

Me: "Dutch, you think you can sign a couple of cards for me?"
Dutch: "you want MY autograph?"
Me: "Yeah. I know who you are. I like to read your blog. Interesting stuff."
Dutch: "Right on"

(I hand him the cards)

Dutch: "What's with the five-ten?"
Me: "It's kind of a signature hand for a poker league I play with"

(I show him that I have a big stack of cards presorted into five-ten, hoping to assure him I'm not some douche who's just handing him 2 random cards out of a deck that have zero meaning)

Dutch: "Very cool. You know two red fives are my favorite hand. That's what I won my bracelet with"

(he then takes the stack of cards out of my hands and starts pulling out all the red fives - while holding them, he proceeds to sign the back of one of the cards, including with some sort of chinese looking symbol. He then puts the stack of red fives in his shirt pocket, hands me the signed card, turns his back to me and tells his girlfriend that he and Kenna want to go get high)

Me: "Hey there man, can I I have my cards back"
Dutch: "Do I own you money?"
Me: "Uhhh. No?"
Dutch: "Well autographs aren't free" (w/crazy eyes darting all around)

(turns his back to me again)

Me: "Dude, uhh, you must have me confused with someone else. How about you gimme my cards"

(turns back with a 'seriously I just may start throwing my own feces' sorta look on his face)

Dutch: "Well do you have a business card?"

Me: "What? Uhhh, Yeah, actually." (thinking this dude is fuggin nuts)

Dutch: "Well give me your business card, and I'll trade you these cards back"

(I whip out my business card and hand it to him)

Dutch: "Thanks man!" (hands me my cards along with a business card for the company that makes those electronic dealer buttons and goes back to talking to girlfriend about plans to go get high with Kenna)

To summarize: This dude is fuggin nuts. I can't even tell if he thought he was just being funny by trying to keep the cards, trying to be "tough" by keeping the cards, or just plain "I haven't taken my meds" Dutch. The whole experience made me and Mike walk away scratching our heads...."