maryportfuncity 10,657 Posted July 7, 2020 7 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: My self-interest is him not dying. Because that Poker Tourney leaderboard will take a hammering! So, which one of us rings him to ask how he's doing? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,051 Posted July 22, 2020 https://www.google.fr/amp/s/www.nme.com/news/music/the-cardiacs-tim-smith-has-died-at-the-age-of-59-2712830%3famp when I saw his name on the wiki page i thought it was Tom Smith... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Perhaps 1,425 Posted August 30, 2020 A mildly positive update on his progress was posted on Twitter 2 days ago: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JR976evil 909 Posted August 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Perhaps said: A mildly positive update on his progress was posted on Twitter 2 days ago: Drat Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,657 Posted August 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Perhaps said: A mildly positive update on his progress was posted on Twitter 2 days ago: You mean mildly positive for HIM You've seen the tonnage of DDP jokers riding on this, right? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted August 30, 2020 Has there ever been a deadpool in which someone got the full 100% hit rate? Apart from Advent Avalanche, MMMDP and the like... Because whoever wants to get there has to resist picking people like Tom Smith - those who seem to be fucked by all accounts, yet persist, and die 1-3 years later. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,480 Posted August 30, 2020 7 minutes ago, gcreptile said: Has there ever been a deadpool in which someone got the full 100% hit rate? Apart from Advent Avalanche, MMMDP and the like... Because whoever wants to get there has to resist picking people like Tom Smith - those who seem to be fucked by all accounts, yet persist, and die 1-3 years later. The closest I can recall is Spade's 2016 DDP team which got 18/20. If anyone can ever achieve the full house it'll be impressive to say the least. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,229 Posted August 30, 2020 I think if someone ever gets a 100% completion rate in a dead pool, it’ll be someone a bit flukey with their choices and not someone who puts in a ton of research tbh... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,109 Posted August 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Joey Russ said: I think if someone ever gets a 100% completion rate in a dead pool, it’ll be someone a bit flukey with their choices and not someone who puts in a ton of research tbh... Or a really clever serial killer. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Book 3,560 Posted October 31, 2020 49 today. Who would have thought that? Jokers gonna joke... 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YorkshireBanker 168 Posted December 30, 2020 Have a gut feeling Smith will be around long enough to be your 2022 joker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WEP 895 Posted December 30, 2020 My grandmother's neighbor always said, that dying people often wait for special events to come like their birthday. Tom, the finish line is crossed! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,657 Posted December 30, 2020 On 30/08/2020 at 15:41, gcreptile said: Has there ever been a deadpool in which someone got the full 100% hit rate? Apart from Advent Avalanche, MMMDP and the like... Because whoever wants to get there has to resist picking people like Tom Smith - those who seem to be fucked by all accounts, yet persist, and die 1-3 years later. So Rotten Ali - once a frequent poster and a genuine dead pooling legend (I know, I perused his vast folders of statistical research about a decade back at a DLCon) - almost did the dead pooling equivalent of a four minute mile or clean sweep. He was so named because at the time the world's biggest dead pool was the Rotten Dead Pool in the USA and nobody had done the full ten out of ten in that. Ali landed nine in a calendar year before his tenth pick died a few weeks after his competition ended. Nobody ever did the ten out of ten in that pool and they had somewhere well above 10,000 people competing at any one time. Not sure anyone has done a complete slam on a team of ten or twenty hereabouts either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,155 Posted December 30, 2020 Would love to hear from Ali, because what's happened with this Covid lark is pretty much what he predicted might happen with Ebola. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 6,109 Posted December 30, 2020 45 minutes ago, Toast said: Would love to hear from Ali, because what's happened with this Covid lark is pretty much what he predicted might happen with Ebola. He's still alive and well. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,657 Posted December 30, 2020 5 hours ago, Paul Bearer said: He's still alive and well. And remains a dead pooling legend - albeit a distant one these days Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,229 Posted January 1, 2021 I am genuinely gobsmacked that Tom Smith got removed from the list, ngl 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,608 Posted January 1, 2021 10 hours ago, Joey Russ said: I am genuinely gobsmacked that Tom Smith got removed from the list, ngl Me too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,608 Posted January 30, 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/55860080 Cancer now gone from the Brain, Liver and Lungs but he still needs Chemo every fortnight and might have to for the rest of his life. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joey Russ 7,229 Posted January 30, 2021 Imagine if this turns out to be a good call by the committee... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,657 Posted January 30, 2021 2 hours ago, Joey Russ said: Imagine if this turns out to be a good call by the committee... I'm trying not to given the reliance my various 2021 teams have on him Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,480 Posted August 20, 2021 OK, so for those of you not following the Tom Smith story in 2021, a quick resume. As noted in January by Crem, he started the year with good news. In March he was interviewed by the Times, where he told them he needed chemo every fortnight to keep the cancer at bay, as his cancer is currently wrapped around an important blood vessel and therefore surgery was risky and to be avoided unless urgently necessary life or death stuff. Quote Smith’s tumour is wrapped around a blood vessel, making surgery a complicated prospect. “If they operate, they have to stop the chemo, and it also increases the risk of it spreading,” he explains. “We’re still in that position of, ‘why take the risk now if it can potentially create other problems?’ Surgery is on the back burner for now A few weeks ago, the Times spoke to Matt Dawson and I didn't really pay attention until now to the note near the bottom of the article that Tom Smith had that surgery in July and is off chemo until the end of August as a result. Hmm. Watch this space for grimmer updates in the near future then. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,727 Posted August 20, 2021 17 minutes ago, msc said: OK, so for those of you not following the Tom Smith story in 2021, a quick resume. As noted in January by Crem, he started the year with good news. In March he was interviewed by the Times, where he told them he needed chemo every fortnight to keep the cancer at bay, as his cancer is currently wrapped around an important blood vessel and therefore surgery was risky and to be avoided unless urgently necessary life or death stuff. A few weeks ago, the Times spoke to Matt Dawson and I didn't really pay attention until now to the note near the bottom of the article that Tom Smith had that surgery in July and is off chemo until the end of August as a result. Hmm. Watch this space for grimmer updates in the near future then. Doesn’t feel like a this year death now though. 2 year’s jokers wasted on him. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,480 Posted August 20, 2021 8 minutes ago, Grim Up North said: Doesn’t feel like a this year death now though. 2 year’s jokers wasted on him. Oh famous last words but I think the Cmme have done a smart thing dropping him this year. But the juries out for 2022 now... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
De_Seal 3 Posted August 20, 2021 Number one next year or two houlda probably kept him on If he dies this year that would be iroinic considering he was one of 5 the other four are proably gonner in years to come. Lol Should have kept him and Piggot and Put King, Lloyd, Mann, Kumar, Mason, Muller and Locke. And also Arkin, Whale, Duke of Kent, Nicolas and Hopkins Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
