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Surely living in Luton with relatively cheap rent would be the logical choice if you want to play in London. With the added bonus of being able to play in Luton! ;-)

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09-13-2014 , 05:41 PM

#5477

joejoe1337

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 16,234

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Originally Posted by DickWhitman

£3k per month to live alone in Cambridge is crazy expensive!
Hope the place is a mansion.

Cambridge has incredibly high property prices in the city centre. That being said, £3k is quite a lot.

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Originally Posted by 2bad4u

Surely living in Luton with relatively cheap rent would be the logical choice if you want to play in London. With the added bonus of being able to play in Luton! ;-)

The rather large downside would be having to live in Luton though.

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09-13-2014 , 06:36 PM

#5478

karltom

newbie

Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 26

Day 2 tomorrow in hippodrome. Anyone else as lucky?

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09-13-2014 , 08:39 PM

#5479

Transcendence

grinder

Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 538

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Originally Posted by karltom

Day 2 tomorrow in hippodrome. Anyone else as lucky?

GL mate!! I punted my stack away within a couple of hours of sitting down on day 1..

Take it down!

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09-14-2014 , 05:12 AM

#5480

ReekReek

newbie

Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 28

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Originally Posted by xio8up

I am Really thinking Heavily, About moving to London. So I can get back into playing at pokerstars again. And doing some live play on weekends Thurs-Sun. Since you can no longer do it in the usa. I been trying to look up good places to rent out around Cambridge. Monthly rent prefer around 1500k up to 3k at the most.

St Albans or Harpenden might be worth looking into.

You're 15 minutes away from Central London on the train, 15 minutes from the Luton cardrooms going the other way, and it's where a large deal of London workers live so it's a nice place.

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09-14-2014 , 05:13 AM

#5481

Matt Crocker

old hand

Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,337

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Originally Posted by xio8up

You really don't need to move to London or Cambridge to achieve these goals. Many UK cities will be absolutely fine for live play and stuff to do and won't cost you nearly as much.

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09-14-2014 , 10:35 AM

#5482

xio8up

newbie

Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 27

Thanks will take a look around at some of these places.

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09-14-2014 , 06:18 PM

#5483

Sciolist

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 17,526

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Originally Posted by Matt Crocker

You really don't need to move to London or Cambridge to achieve these goals. Many UK cities will be absolutely fine for live play and stuff to do and won't cost you nearly as much.

Yes, but.... They're a bit ****

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09-15-2014 , 05:57 AM

#5484

m1l

journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 203

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Originally Posted by karltom

Day 2 tomorrow in hippodrome. Anyone else as lucky?

How did you do?

I ended up low 20's, which for the cards I had, was about all I could hope for, being card dead from level 6 to about 16!!!

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09-15-2014 , 07:54 AM

#5485

karltom

newbie

Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 26

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Originally Posted by m1l

How did you do?

I ended up low 20's, which for the cards I had, was about all I could hope for, being card dead from level 6 to about 16!!!

I was out after an hour in day 2., all in pre KK vs AKs, A on the flop. 100k pot when avg was about 70k. Pretty annoying but nothing you can do so happy with the play. It's a nice tournament, will play more these. I only play Omaha online so this is a nice change once and a while. Lot of recreational players so should do well in the long run.

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09-15-2014 , 08:01 AM

#5486

karltom

newbie

Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 26

Also played a bit 1/2 on Saturday after the tournament in the Empire (no Omaha games either Empire or Hippo). It is hilarious how bad the majority of the players were at the table. Had a guy who literally played every hand. Only played for an hour but can see why people play in these games rather than online. It's a shame that the place is such a dungeon though, Aspers, Hippo and Vic are all nicer venues. Also shame that Omaha doesn't run anywhere regularly other than in Vic.

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09-15-2014 , 01:19 PM

#5487

Parsons Grinder

veteran

Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 2,372

Played the Vic loyalty mtt at the weekend. 80k prize pool, awesome value. Not sure will be able to qualify this month though with work. Also, mtts make me stressed, can't say I enjoyed it despite the value.

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09-15-2014 , 01:33 PM

#5488

fazzers

adept

Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 910

anyone hear anymore on this?

didn't know there was a big regular game outside the vic or palm beach

anyone know what stakes and if its a game that anyone can turn up and play

http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2014/09...sion-15067.htm

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09-15-2014 , 01:50 PM

#5489

Matt Crocker

old hand

Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,337

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Originally Posted by Sciolist

Yes, but.... They're a bit ****

Bristol owns

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09-15-2014 , 01:54 PM

#5490

Jeedz

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 3,526

Nottingham, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Brighton to name a few would all be good cities to live in to play poker and do all the other stuff.

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09-15-2014 , 01:55 PM

#5491

Jeedz

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 3,526

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Originally Posted by fazzers

I knew Roland De Wolfe must still be around!

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09-15-2014 , 02:45 PM

#5492

fazzers

adept

Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 910

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Originally Posted by Jeedz

I knew Roland De Wolfe must still be around!

yep, did wonder where he went

would like to see/hear more info on this game, im guessing its at least 25/50, but could easily be 100/200 for someone to drop 180k in one night, even if they are a huge punter!

strange as i never heard anyone talk about this game

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09-15-2014 , 02:49 PM

#5493

Jeedz

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 3,526

The best games are the ones you don't really hear about. It's like these supposedly juicy private games (5/10+) that I hear snippets about from time to time.

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09-15-2014 , 03:57 PM

#5494

GeorgeCameron

Poker Room Rep

Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 21

I have only worked in London for a few months, but I have known about this game for years!

In the current incarnation, it's an invite only private game in Les A. £100/£200 - couldn't tell you the sit down.

They've moved around a few times, though.

You're basically not getting in to it ever, though. Hard enough to get membership in Les A alone!

Roland has been organising this game ever since you stopped hearing about him or seeing him - we must be talking at least five years. (So I remember being told at the Vic years ago).

Most people have probably forgotten about it.

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09-16-2014 , 06:01 AM

#5495

joejoe1337

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 16,234

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Originally Posted by Jeedz

Nottingham, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Brighton to name a few would all be good cities to live in to play poker and do all the other stuff.

Unfortunately there's not much bigger then 1/1 or 1/2 in the latter three, which is a shame a they're all awesome places to live.

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09-16-2014 , 08:24 AM

#5496

Parsons Grinder

veteran

Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 2,372

I've known about the game for years and was under the impression some of the older school UK pros hosted the game and controlled it. Be interesting to see what happens out of this.

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09-16-2014 , 06:24 PM

#5497

ChickenDave

banned

Join Date: Jun 2014 Posts: 504

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Originally Posted by GHSPoker

would you need a Les A membership to play in it, and are there any other similarly sized games you know of going on in LDN ?

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09-16-2014 , 06:32 PM

#5498

nick098

enthusiast

Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 59

nick gold was talking about a very big game in a hotel last year. But no pros allowed

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09-17-2014 , 04:19 AM

#5499

pokeraph

journeyman

Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 202

I am moving this week-end to London. Last call for poker grinders room/house sharing. Ty.

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09-17-2014 , 05:32 AM

#5500

Parsons Grinder

veteran

Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 2,372

Wish I could help but no dice. Happy to meet for a beer and talk poker though!

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