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[cashman]

Dear John,

Are you looking forward to getting beaten by all 3 England teams at the home international tournament?

Yours,

St George

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Dear St

Yes indeed, I am looking to this event. Given the record of England teams in APAT competitions, the scenario you suggest would appear unlikely. However, I would be pleased to see England do well this time.

Doing well is, of course, a relative thing. For England, this means not being last yet again. And this is where the organizers have played a blinder on your behalf. With three teams in the competition, it is already guaranteed that two England teams won"t finish bottom, so you are already ahead of your average result in previous events. Congratulations are therefore due to you for what is already England"s best result ever.

John

Well said John. I love it.

+1

[MintTrav]

[MintTrav]

I have a fossil, which I found in my garden. It looks like this:



The three long sections are about the size of my first three fingers together. At first, I thought it was a fossilized foot of some sort, but it turned out to be the entire creature.

It is a trilobite and it is old. Think of something very old - it"s older than that. This thing is 400 million years old. I don"t know anything else that is as old as that. Actually, I found it five years ago, so it"s 400 million and five years old now. They have never been found in Portsmouth before.

I might bring him for a day out at an APAT tournament. He hasn"t seen much of the world outside my garden for the last 400 million and five years and loads of stuff has changed in that time. He could always earn his keep as a card protector.

[pokerpops]

I have a fossil, which I found in my garden. It looks like this:



The three long sections are about the size of my first three fingers together. At first, I thought it was a fossilized foot of some sort, but it turned out to be the entire creature.

It is a trilobite and it is old. Think of something very old - it"s older than that. This thing is 400 million years old. I don"t know anything else that is as old as that. Actually, I found it five years ago, so it"s 400 million and five years old now. They have never been found in Portsmouth before.

I might bring him for a day out at an APAT tournament. He hasn"t seen much of the world outside my garden for the last 400 million and five years and loads of stuff has changed in that time. He could always earn his keep as a card protector.

That"s a serious wow find and using a fossil as a card protector didn"t do Greg Raymer any harm...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Raymer

[MintTrav]

I was playing quite a few Stud, Razz, etc tournaments on Stars a while ago but got a bit out of the habit lately so it was good to get back in the saddle tonight:

PokerStars Tournament #641130706, Limit Razz
Buy-In: $10.00/$2.50/$1.00 USD
22 players
Total Prize Pool: $220.00 USD
Tournament started 2012/11/15 23:50:00 WET [2012/11/15 18:50:00 ET]

Dear MintTrav,

You finished the tournament in 1st place. A USD 110.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 98.76 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/

You have also received USD 17.50 in Knockout Bounties for this tournament. You won bounties for the following players: Max__1303DE, fillkill123, Raingardian, baumholz28, Pentire, Samantux, MintTrav
Note: As you won the tournament, you also won your own bounty.

Whee! The MicroMillions Razz is on 25 Nov $4+.40. Might put up a staking thread for it. 10% = 50c?

[Waz1892]

I have a fossil, which I found in my garden. It looks like this:



The three long sections are about the size of my first three fingers together. At first, I thought it was a fossilized foot of some sort, but it turned out to be the entire creature.

It is a trilobite and it is old. Think of something very old - it"s older than that. This thing is 400 million years old. I don"t know anything else that is as old as that. Actually, I found it five years ago, so it"s 400 million and five years old now. They have never been found in Portsmouth before.

I might bring him for a day out at an APAT tournament. He hasn"t seen much of the world outside my garden for the last 400 million and five years and loads of stuff has changed in that time. He could always earn his keep as a card protector.

Have you informed anyone of the find? Natural History museum for example?

I would and I"d certainly get it valued

[Jon MW]

I"m working from memory but I think trilobyte fossils are very common.

That"s not to say that one in particularly good condition might be a bit more special - or that I"m just remembering wrongly  

[SirPercival]

Personally I would keep it but it might be worth a buy-in or 2

http://www.fossilsforsale.co.uk/trilobites.htm

[AJDUK]

Whee! The MicroMillions Razz is on 25 Nov $4+.40. Might put up a staking thread for it. 10% = 50c?

5% for me please John

[KarmaDope]

Whee! The MicroMillions Razz is on 25 Nov $4+.40. Might put up a staking thread for it. 10% = 50c?

5% for me please John

Rest.

[MintTrav]

Yeah Waz, I took it to the local Natural History Museum. It enjoyed that so I"m taking it to a poker tournament next.

It"s true - they"re not that rare, though most are found in Morocco or US and a few other places, but not Portsmouth. Of course, it might not be native - someone could have brought it from America and lost it or it might have escaped and got lost in the garden. All the ones on that link are stuck to rock, whereas mine is free to move about. I don"t know if that makes it more or less special, probably neither.

I thought the museum would be straight on the phone to London, saying that they had the most amazing discovery in history. Instead, they took some photos and said "enjoy your fossil". They emailed me a few days later to confirm that it"s a Calymene, for those who are well up on Trilobites.

[AAroddersAA]

Dear John

I have been given the job of representing Wales at an event in Stoke on Friday.

Part of this role seems to be that I have to wear Welsh colours. This would normally be a great thing but last time I tried to enter a casino wearing a Welsh football top I was refused entry due to being drunk (which I am fairly sure I wasn"t). Further inspection of the facts seem to reveal that said Welsh top may have been the cause of me not being allowed on the premise.

With this in mind I am concerned that the team will not be allowed to compete in the said colours, and I believe it may be a cunning plan to prevent Wales winning the event, can you help me with what to do here as I seem to be in a bit of a pickle.

Many thanks

Red, Green and Glory

[Paulie_D]

Dear Red, Green and Glory,

I have spoken to the casino management and it appears that any such offending clothing will only be made available to your upon entering the casino on the first occasion.

Clearly, the casino cannot restrict your entry on the grounds of something you MIGHT wear although being Welsh it"s quite likely that you will be wearing something objectionable anyway.

Just don"t sneak outside for a break, though.

Yours,

John.

[SirPercival]

Dear John,

I have been a regular reader of your blog for some time and wanted to thank you for what I consider an interesting and informative read.

I am concerned however that recently your standard of reply has dropped significantly. Please reassure me that you haven"t delegated the task of replying to your readers to some administrator. It would be such a shame if your recent fame and fortune has made you lose sight of those who look up to you.

Yours,

A fan.

[MintTrav]

Dear John,

I have been a regular reader of your blog for some time and wanted to thank you for what I consider an interesting and informative read.

I am concerned however that recently your standard of reply has dropped significantly. Please reassure me that you haven"t delegated the task of replying to your readers to some administrator. It would be such a shame if your recent fame and fortune has made you lose sight of those who look up to you.

Yours,

A fan.

Dear A

Delegation and outsourcing are part of the modern environment and there is very little we can (or should) do to slow their continued expansion. When you place a contract, the actual work is rarely undertaken by the principal you place it with. This is not the first time that a question on this thread has been answered by someone else and I am happy for this to continue. There are still some unanswered questions if you go back a couple of pages. Why not pick one and answer it yourself?

John