RaceCafe..#1...Tipsters Thread.... Share Your Fancies For Fun...Lets See Who The Best Tipsters Here Are.

LastOf40

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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Cubes in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp GRAND FINAL Sat May 12 entries here   
    Happy to be in the final ?
    You betcha!
    Remember these ? .......
     The Table after ROUND 6
    1st 11 Five No Trumps* $7045.20
    2nd 11 The Dark Horses* $6690.20
    3rd 9 Mainly Dollarz* $6834.40
    4th 9 Ad Augusta $6559.00
    5th 9 The Royle Family $6152.00
    6th 8 Betza Grand* $6656.20
    7th 8 The Rubiks* $6285.60
    8th 6 Lay Down Misere* $6280.60

     The Table after ROUND 9
    1st 18 The Dark Horses* $9680.60
    2nd 17 The Royle Family $9295.00
    3rd 16 Ad Augusta $9491.60
    4th 15 Betza Grand $9187.60
    5th 14 Mainly Dollarz $9705.20
    6th 12 The Rubiks $9489.20
    7th 11 Five No Trumps $8960.20
    8th 9 Lay Down Misere $8823.00
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Peter Jenkins in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp GRAND FINAL Sat May 12 entries here   
    Happy to be in the final ?
    You betcha!
    Remember these ? .......
     The Table after ROUND 6
    1st 11 Five No Trumps* $7045.20
    2nd 11 The Dark Horses* $6690.20
    3rd 9 Mainly Dollarz* $6834.40
    4th 9 Ad Augusta $6559.00
    5th 9 The Royle Family $6152.00
    6th 8 Betza Grand* $6656.20
    7th 8 The Rubiks* $6285.60
    8th 6 Lay Down Misere* $6280.60

     The Table after ROUND 9
    1st 18 The Dark Horses* $9680.60
    2nd 17 The Royle Family $9295.00
    3rd 16 Ad Augusta $9491.60
    4th 15 Betza Grand $9187.60
    5th 14 Mainly Dollarz $9705.20
    6th 12 The Rubiks $9489.20
    7th 11 Five No Trumps $8960.20
    8th 9 Lay Down Misere $8823.00
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Cubes in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp GRAND FINAL Sat May 12 entries here   
    Hesi's selections:
    R1  1, 8
    R2  6, 9
    R3  1, 3
    R4  7, 8
    R5  1, 2
    R6  2, 5 BB
    R7  1, 8
    R8  5, 14
    R9  1, 12
    R10 1, 3 BB
    Good luck Rosina, a formidable opponent
    One last big effort Rubiks
    Thanks as always PJ
    ======================================================
    LastOf40s hopefuls:
    R1:  1, 5 BB
    R2:  6, 7
    R3:  9, 11
    R4:  2, 8
    R5:  2, 11
    R6:  2, 5
    R7:  1, 4
    R8:  5, 14
    R9:  1, 2 BB
    R10: 1, 10
    Good luck Korio
    None of those roughies please.
    Thanks PJ for another few months of great entertainment.
    Geoff
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    LastOf40 reacted to skelly in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp GRAND FINAL Sat May 12 entries here   
    And so it comes to this... the final roll of the dice. Unfortunately, of all weeks, I've had to pick pretty much blind. It's a method which went very badly a few weeks back, so advantage to Cubes.
    Now that I've deftly taken control of underdog status, here's some picks...
    R1 - 1,9
    R2 - 1,6
    R3 - 3,5
    R4 - 2,7 BB
    R5 - 6,11
    R6 - 2,5
    R7 - 8,12
    R8 - 1,3
    R9 - 1,12 BB
    R10 - 3,13
    Good luck to Cubes, thanks for administering the competition PJ, and c'mon the Dark Horses!
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    LastOf40 reacted to Cubes in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp GRAND FINAL Sat May 12 entries here   
    Tarquin , who is Cubes' mate and also the Dean of Mathematics at the University of Hokitika , reckons the result will be 3 - 2 .
    He hasn't calculated which team is the home team however .
    Mrs Cubes , who is Cubes' wife , reckons the result will be that more jobs get done around the farm after 16 weeks of getting behindness on the chores from The Cubemeister .
     
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Cubes in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp GRAND FINAL Sat May 12 entries here   
    Only one match counts, and as we are in the final it can't have been the two previous matches in the Round Robin against the Dark Horses.
    All the pressure is on the Dark Horses, timed run, clean slate and all that....
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Sir Castleton in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp GRAND FINAL Sat May 12 entries here   
    Only one match counts, and as we are in the final it can't have been the two previous matches in the Round Robin against the Dark Horses.
    All the pressure is on the Dark Horses, timed run, clean slate and all that....
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    LastOf40 reacted to Peter Jenkins in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Results Thread   
    Editorial.....
    I have been asked by a number of people including the owners of both sites (this one and the "new" one) where I will operate my Super Comps from in future. In short I have not made a decision or given an answer to anyone.
    I understand the issues involved in what has caused a break-away site and also the grievances of the current site owner. I don't want to enter into a debate on either of those here.
    I find it sad that I am basically being asked to CHOOSE between one site or the other not only by the owners of the sites but by their supporters. Quite frankly the more pressure which is poured on me from either faction the less likely I will be to continue with the super comps at all. I hope you can understand my reaction. At the end of the day the comps are about having fun both for participants and for myself, the organizer. Once the fun is gone, it's like a marriage, what's the point ?
    It was pointed out to me by someone else recently that the Super Comps (now in operation for somewhere around a decade) are actually an institution or to put it another way, a community. Something many people look forward to each week, a ritual not huge in it's importance but significant in it's place in people's familiar routine every week. Modesty has perhaps prevented me from acknowledging this in the past. For this reason and my own enjoyment I would like to see the Super Comps continue until I am no longer able to because of time or personal constraints.
    What frustrates me most about the current situation is that both site owners want exclusivity. I understand that for them, the sites are a business but they sometimes miss the point that for participants it is for enjoyment and entertainment only. Personally I don't want to be restricted to one site exclusively and therefore excluded from the other. I think that position is draconian and bordering on social facism. Unfortunately the behaviour of some participants has steeled the owners into this position. If there were 5 similar sites I would like the opportunity to participate at all 5. Imagine if Coles (Kiwis think Countdown) and Woolies each insisted that you could only shop with them at the exclusion of the other store. Would you be happy about that ? I think not.
    Each site (and the comps that are included on them) should stand alone and attract participation based on their appeal. Personally I find some comps simply too complicated or badly organized which for me means I can't be bothered participating. I have limited time on a Saturday morning (who would have guessed) so this also cuts down spare time for me to participate. 
    At this stage I have not made a decision. I also have the option of running the comps via say Facebook or even Brian's regular comp site. I don't want to offend anyone but at the same time if i get subjected to much more pressure on where to host future comps I will just go dog and jack it in. 
    Please comment if you wish, but be respectful to the site owner (as per the rules of participation). 
     
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    LastOf40 reacted to Cubes in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Results Thread   
    Mrs Cubes reminded Cubity to be a good sport and give some Shout Outs to the Minor Prems "Ad Augustas"...
    Catalano....former Thunderbird #1...Scott...in Professor Jenkins first ever draft format.....Cubes first ever draft pick......
    8 and 6 going into the semi.....All you did was pick the first 4 winners and the last....Both BB's come home ....quinella in the 2nd....
    Tough to defend a 92-1 shot
    Wrinkles.....caused the Cubemeister and the Kloppinator serious aggrevation.....$504 in a semi-final.....wisdom there foresure....
    Howie..legend..'nuff said
    Tom/Turny...BB play in the last...Minor premier....class all the way...bad luck  up against Lastof40 who in all  PJcompetitioningness has probably the bestest recordness...
    Casper....Picked the first , quinella the second , BB quinella the third , picked the fourth...put The Cubemeister in a two hundred buck hole.....
    Awesome comp , just joking Howie , five lead changes ,  a semi-final for the ages....
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Cubes in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Results Thread   
    Tom, you have undergone a name change?
    It has taken a while to correlate the site names versus first names that PJ uses, and now you have thrown another curly in for the next comp. I had got used to Tom Turkey (Turny) to help remember.
    Things were looking a little dire at about R5 yesterday. We were -200 on 3 matches and looking at the head of a fairly large python. Then Roland produced one of those $91 winners that made Catalano's day and things swung from there. Sorry Cat, many of us have been there - often! Howie's "rooster to feather duster" quote sprung to mind.
    So we are happy to be in the final. Two weeks ago we were 5th and would have been happy to have got in the finals. So we are claiming major underdog status and hope Roland has another biggie hand grenade to toss in the Dark Horses direction next week. Rotorua & Morphetteville seem the ideal place for those
    I suspect Skelly is looking at Cubemeister's last race winner yesterday (again)  and thinking.. (sensored).
    A big thanks to Howie for keeping us entertained yesterday. He was ever the optimist right up until the end. I am surprised a quick R11 was not added to the program yesterday.
    Geoff
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Cubes in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Semi-Finals Sat May 5 entries here   
    R1: 11, 12
    R2: 7, 8 BB
    R3: 2, 10
    R4: 2, 9
    R5: 2, 6
    R6: 1, 3
    R7: 7, 10
    R8: 5, 7 BB
    R9: 3, 6
    R10: 1, 9
    Good luck Tom
    Thanks PJ
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Right first time in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Semi-Finals Sat May 5 entries here   
    R1: 11, 12
    R2: 7, 8 BB
    R3: 2, 10
    R4: 2, 9
    R5: 2, 6
    R6: 1, 3
    R7: 7, 10
    R8: 5, 7 BB
    R9: 3, 6
    R10: 1, 9
    Good luck Tom
    Thanks PJ
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from rayzor_ in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Results Thread   
    And he has the same horse that will sink me and the Rubiks. You join the dots....
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Koriokaramea in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Round 14 Sat Apr 28 entries here   
    R1: 4, 5
    R2: 1, 2
    R3: 2, 4
    R4: 6, 7
    R5: 6, 8 BB
    R6: 9, 10 BB
    R7: 3, 4
    R8: 1, 5
    R9: 2, 13
    R10: 5, 6
    Good luck Pete
    One of us is going to make it to the finish.
    Thanks PJ
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Cubes in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Round 14 Sat Apr 28 entries here   
    R1: 4, 5
    R2: 1, 2
    R3: 2, 4
    R4: 6, 7
    R5: 6, 8 BB
    R6: 9, 10 BB
    R7: 3, 4
    R8: 1, 5
    R9: 2, 13
    R10: 5, 6
    Good luck Pete
    One of us is going to make it to the finish.
    Thanks PJ
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from N1MUE in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Round 13 Sat Apr 21 entries here   
    at least you made it to the straight. I am leaning over the rail at the end of the back straight. 
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from pete in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Round 13 Sat Apr 21 entries here   
    at least you made it to the straight. I am leaning over the rail at the end of the back straight. 
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from globederby12 in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Results Thread   
    talking of which... any results from last week's Ad Augusta swab/enquiry ?
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from The Crucible in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Round 13 Sat Apr 21 entries here   
    Well there goes any remote hope I had . The only time I missed both BB races was when Howie pointed that I got a good share of BB races.
    I wouldn't take any of my quinellas either now people. I bet TC is doing cartwheels as we speak!
    I like his logic on North v South except that apart from Tauranga racecourse the place I dislike the most is Pukekohe. It is the type of place that Basil Brush wins. And remember that day we were there and that horse whose name escapes me, with form of 21-0-0-0 won! (and never placed again).  I am predicting a big Sir Castleton score for us this week.
    Still being positive, ALL the pressure is on TC this week and no one expects me to get close. Better go and look at the fields. I suppose Winx is not running down at Puke?
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Right first time in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Round 13 Sat Apr 21 entries here   
    Well there goes any remote hope I had . The only time I missed both BB races was when Howie pointed that I got a good share of BB races.
    I wouldn't take any of my quinellas either now people. I bet TC is doing cartwheels as we speak!
    I like his logic on North v South except that apart from Tauranga racecourse the place I dislike the most is Pukekohe. It is the type of place that Basil Brush wins. And remember that day we were there and that horse whose name escapes me, with form of 21-0-0-0 won! (and never placed again).  I am predicting a big Sir Castleton score for us this week.
    Still being positive, ALL the pressure is on TC this week and no one expects me to get close. Better go and look at the fields. I suppose Winx is not running down at Puke?
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    LastOf40 reacted to Brown Fox in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Round 13 Sat Apr 21 entries here   
    The type of place " Basil Brush" wins!!!!!?
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Right first time in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Round 11 Sat Apr 7 entries here   
    R1: 3, 4
    R2: 4, 5
    R3: 3, 4
    R4: 6, 12
    R5: 1, 3 BB
    R6: 2, 8
    R7: 3, 5 BB
    R8: 1, 8
    R9: 1, 3
    R10:  3, 9
    Good luck Graeme
    thanks PJ
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Cubes in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Round 11 Sat Apr 7 entries here   
    R1: 3, 4
    R2: 4, 5
    R3: 3, 4
    R4: 6, 12
    R5: 1, 3 BB
    R6: 2, 8
    R7: 3, 5 BB
    R8: 1, 8
    R9: 1, 3
    R10:  3, 9
    Good luck Graeme
    thanks PJ
  24. Haha
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    LastOf40 got a reaction from Right first time in Summer-Autumn Trans-Tasman Super Comp Results Thread   
    Got the ladder ready and ended up sliding down a snake... sounds dodgy and I bet Howie is involved somehow