20p with no date is worth a small fortune!

Last year the royal mint brought out a brand new 20p coin with part of a sheild on it..

They made the mistake of using the casting die from the old 20p on the monarch side of the coin, consequently there is no date present.

These coins are in circulation but are rare, if you find one in your change then its worth £50-£80.

There are estimated to be between 100,000 and 200,000 of these coins in circulation. Given that there are 1,300,000,000 20p pieces in circulation it means that 1 in every 8667 is affected.


Good luck finding one people!

Still making a small fortune with skill games!

My skill gaming news!

Well, its been quite an awesome time for me in the world of skill gaming (aka my mini project on this blog). Only this week, I managed to bag myself a spot in the knock out rounds of the worldwinner w3 $100,000 tournament. It wasn't just any old spot either, it was the 1st place!. Have a look at the following picture to see what I mean!


That's a picture of me (shagwana) getting the 1st place slot in the qualifying round with only 3 odd min's left before qualifying closed!!. It was a right "Indiana Jones hat under the closing door" moment!.

This is an event were there is a week long qualifying round that only 32 people go through to a 5 round knockout. Each person in the knock out plays best of three and the winner proceeds to the next round. Prizes for the 32 who qualify range from $250 (last) to $30,000 (1st). All qualifier's will get a slice of the total prize fund depending on the finishing location in the competition.

And the news on the finishing position of myself is!...

3rd Place!!!

That's my biggest individual win yet, totaling $7,500! (around £5,000). Next year when this tournament comes around again I plan on being 1st!. Between now and then I have a lot of practicing to do.

Update on winnings

On another note, I felt it about time to give an update about my efforts in the skill gaming world. So have a look at this picture for proof of payment on the winnings I have received.


That's right, an whole shed load of money!. For more information on how I managed to make this, please see this previous post. Of notes on the above payment image, midasplayer.com is the old name for king.com, as you might notice I play a lot more on worldwinner then I do on other sites. The main reason for this is because it is simply more profitable!. I have also made a bit of money out of some other sites, that dont pay through paypal, so are not included in the above screenshot. GameDuell has payed me via moneybrokers.

Only over the last 8 months or so, my ability has really started to shine - sometimes I can get very high scores and it just seem to flow a lot smoother now then it has ever done. You can take that as proof in the pudding that practice does indeed make perfect!.

I am now actively trying to win the most amount of money for the least amount of time playing. In my mind, there is little to no point playing for 8hrs solid if you only make 50 notes, when I can play for 1hr and make 25!, I consider my spare time quite valuable (also to boot, the girlfriend would probably start nagging if I wasted my time like that!).

Other skill news

• World winner has a twitter page!, the link to this can be found right here. If your serious about playing games for profit, this is a must read.
• New skill gaming site (that I have yet to play on) is skill addiction. The thing that's different about this site, is its run by an existing skill gamer!. The owner is active on the cashgamers.net forums.
• CashGamers.net has become the center of all off site skill gaming news for all those who care!. Filled with controversial information and lively debate from other well known skill game players. If you need tips on how to play, then these are the people who can help you.
  

My other side

Now in a parting from the normal content of this blog, I just wanted to point you towards my other project that has been taking more of my time.

sublime games

I have just rebuilt that website, and now it hosts a much improved development diary for a game I am working on. If you feel like looking at something a little different, why dont you pop on over and have a look.

A new freebie and something I said I would do

Well this post is going to kill two birds with one stone, first off I just received a freebie from the great Internet.

It was from www.DLR.co.uk. Your going to wet yourselves when you see it!. It was a DLR Biro, red cap, jelly beans (eaten now) and a few pamphlets relating to DLR. I should be able to sell the cap to a train spotter, now all I need to do is find one!.

The second thing is I said I would do is say a little about myself when my blog reached 20 odd posts. So on the right you can see a picture of me with my new spanky free DLR cap on. Yeah, don't I look so cool, bet you wish you was me!. Anyways, my real name is Stephen Greener, from Plymouth (yet living in Derby) and incredibly good looking!.

I have a bit of a background in games programming, so much so that I am a published author of two commercial computer games. Those two are called "Revenge Of The Mutant Camels 2" and "Dr Franken" as published by Indigicon.

I am currently working on another game called Last Lap, a nice little car racing game. You can find more information about that over on my games site sublimegames. Currently this is only a development diary of the game as it gets built, should make for some interesting reading.

A small update

Just a quick note to say that this blog has just undergone a minor makeover. Changed a few colours and location of a few things. Have also added a few gadgets for news aggrogator sites to boost traffic.

On top of that I have converted one of my prizes into real cash, a whopping £5 for the DVD that was won here.

Now this might be something that would interest you, the adverts on this blog are generating me money every time someone clicks them!. Since I have added them I have earnt just over $50 (about £25). If you have a website yourself, AdSense is something that is well worth setting up.

I hope to get a few more posts up soon to show what I have been working on but as for now its time for my bed.