And we're up and running again (No worries ACB, I know exactly how that feels.... )

Mark, I think if you look at it with my old proverbial statistical glasses (I can't remember if they were the grey or rose-tinted ones, it was so long ago - I'll go with grey, but not as if it symbolises much), then of course the recovery counts for nothing at all. It was random, for starters, and the outcome was that he won £750, which on a £750-high game (I hate "£xx-high" though) would be fantastic but which obviously in these circumstances really wasn't. Statistically speaking, on his way to that £750, he could have hit the £15k mid-round and it wouldn't have made any difference at all.
But through the other glasses, the emotional, entertainment-biased lenses, "we all" like a good recovery, a comeback, a "phoenix from the ashes" job, to the extent that even when it's not completely followed through with - ie, the £15,000 here won - we applaud the player for his luck and supposed/perceived "skill" in executing his near-recovery, saying things like "ah, so close! Nearly did it!" and so on.

So the latter is where I was looking at Julius' semi-recovery from, despite my tendency to go with the facts, figures and statistics most of the time. Yeah, as I see it this was a pretty poor outcome to a game which began with promise; but I still would have liked to have been tuned in when he nearly got the OPW said recovery - some would argue - warranted.

As for £750, that's purely a matter of opinion obviously, and in turn opinion on this sort of thing is purely circumstantially-based. So because I don't currently have anything near £750 - I'm £8.83 overdrawn and worrying about that, to give some insight - it's a heck of a lot of money to me. I've never held half as much in my life. I do think whether you gauge it as a lot of money or not is affected largely by your own circumstances.

An unlucky game from the outset. Glimmers of hope here and there but ultimately it was not to be.

Julius played well under the circumstances, don't think he'll have too many regrets despite the outcome.