Baron Luckbox's £10 Investment Plan
If you’re from the UK you will be familiar with the adverts… Carol Smillie is beaming at you waving wads of £50 notes, promising you riches for £10 a month and a free gift when you sign up for the investment plan. There is little doubt that these plans have performed pretty abysmally over the last few years, due to stock market conditions, the claw back needed to offer the free DVDs in the first place, and of course the need to cover Ms Smillie’s expenses.
Well I’ve discovered a better way. For a £10 upfront payment you can get a mighty 4000% return in 75 mins. See the e-mail below I just received from Carl Smillie’s fellow Scot, The Baron - I’m sure his luck will run out on Thursday though when I return to the cash tables ;)
“I went for an evening stroll on Sunday out my flat and up to Covent Garden.
18.40: The rain set in and I thought i’d take refuge in the Empire Casino and play a bit of poker for half an hour, only to find I had a bare scrumpled up £10 note in my pocket along with my keys: no wallet, no ID, nothing. I breezed in anyway and thought to try to make the minimum sit down i’d play a bit of roulette.
18.50: 2 Double ups in a row and I have £40. I place £10 on 19-36 to try to get up to £50, 23 comes in and i’m there…
18:55: Sit down with my £50 casino chips and give short stacked poker a go.
19:05: Muck first 6 hands before finding AKs. £1/£2, limp, limp raise to £15, I go all in. Fold all round to original raiser who umms and ahhs and makes the call with QJ. A high holds and i’m up to £107 from my paltry scrumpled £10 note 25 minutes earlier.
19.20: Playing pretty tight and find QQ. Couple of limpers, I raise to £15 in the cut-off and get 7 callers. Great. Flop comes A, A, Q though and it’s checked round to me. I check. Turn is a 4, again all checked round, and I fire off £45 and take it down there. Up to £210.
19.30: I find KK and limp in the cut-off along with everyone else hoping for a BB steal or hitting a disguised monster with my newly found wealth. Flop come 2,3,7 and I fire out £20 into the £20ish pot and get one caller. Turn is a 2 which I like a lot, fire out another £40 putting the guy all in and he calls with Q 7 and the river is no good. Up to £270.
19.40: I limp a multi called pre flop bet of £7 with Q 10 spades. Flop come As 10h 7s. Original bettor bets £30 into the £50ish pot, lots of folds and I push £100 putting him all on with my 2nd pair, good draw. This guy folded QQ faceup to me on a board of J, 8, 6 48 hours earlier, in retrospect I perhaps shouldn’t have pushed since my fold equity was small given he has since admitted having massive regrets about the laydown. He eventually calls, but I hit my flush out and I’m up to £420.
19.55: I call it a day 15 minutes later, buy myself 3 scoops of hagden daz belgium chocolate ice to celebrate and jump in a cab home. ”