| Cracked |
[Mar. 8th, 2012|07:26 am] |
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| |  complacent | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Jack Guthrie, "Oakie Boogie" | ] |
Played at the Yukon last night. The player to my left rasied to 700, I shoved all-in with pockedt Aces. He turned over pocket Kings. A King came on the flop and another on the turn for quads. |
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| Going Out |
[Mar. 7th, 2012|09:00 am] |
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| | complacent | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Metallica, "Whiskey in the Jar" | ] |
Almost no game at Coach's (there are a bunch of new games starting up at Paul's the other side of the town), but a couple of players showed up late and we got a small game going. I went out with pocket 9's when a player who'd showed pocket Aces two hands before raised, a player between us re-raised, I called, and the first player shoved all his chips in, having both of us covered. I probably should have stayed out of this one, but I called. The raiser had pocket Aces (again!), the re-raiser had an Ace-Queen, and neither of our hands improved.
Moral: Even if you know you can beat the re-raiser, the three-better might be getting dealt Aces every other hand. |
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| Yukon Gold |
[Mar. 5th, 2012|09:05 am] |
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| | complacent | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Huey Lewis and the News, "Back in Time" | ] |
After a morning drive to Pueblo, I hit the afternoon game at the Yukon and took second place, although there's no arguing I should have done better.
With an A-K, I put in a raise pre-flop, only to have one of the blinds re-raise half of his stack. I decided to call, since I was about a coin flip to beat any underpairs. When two Queens and a small card hit the flop, the raiser checked to me. This was the point where I should have shoved all my chips in, since with my A-K almost even, adding in whatever the percentage expectation was that my opponent would fold his hand (a pair of 10s) to a bet that would cost him the rest of his stack should have made me a favorite to take down the pot. But instead I checked along and had to take the downside of the coin flip.
Maybe it's just as well, since he might have called with those 10s. As it was, I took the chip lead when a player who had accumulated a monster stack but wasn't doing anything with it made a mini-raise with pocket Kings and let me limp in with a 4-6 suited. When I hit a 6 with two 3s on the flop, he still wouldn't put a bet out that would cost me more than half of my remaining stack, so I called and picked up another 6 on the turn. I checked, he pushed me all-in, and voila, chip leader.
Once the two of us wound up heads-up, I made the mistake of not shoving in often enough with my good hands. When I had an A-Q on the small blind, I just limped in because the last several hands he'd been pushing all his chips in whenever I just called from that position, and I was hoping to pick off another one of those moves and take him out, but he never did it again. Rather than a canny positional play, I have to assume he just had great hands those times he did it. There's still no excuse for not pushing all-in a few hands later when I had an A-8 suited, and let him stay in with 2-3 offsuit and flop two pair.
Still, second place, a $15 bar tab. That'll buy a lot of wings. |
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| Red Tails in the Sunset |
[Mar. 2nd, 2012|09:27 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | complacent | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Dusty Springfield, "The Look of Love" | ] |
Our office had a visit yesterday from four members of the local chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen. (They wore matching maroon jackets. Like the Temptations!) They had some stories to tell, of the Southern-bred white commanding officers who denigrated their capabilities, for example, or of the Tuskegee officers who were arrested for trying to enter the whites-only officers' club.
One continued on to serve in Korea and Vietnam, in the latter conflict flying a C-130 that dropped propaganda; they called it the "bullshit bomber." It also saw duty dropping 15,000-pound bombs to clear helicopter landing pads. That's no bullshit. |
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| The Descendants |
[Mar. 1st, 2012|09:13 am] |
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| | complacent | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Debbie Gibson, "Shake My Love" | ] |
I like this notion of Rick Santorum that every American child should be home-schooled, because no child should be burdened with more than the average American remembers of algebra, trigonometry, physics, biology, history, or religious studies.
Of course, it would keep moms from having the free time to hang out in those nasty workplaces. |
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| A Thrill A Minute |
[Feb. 29th, 2012|02:51 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | complacent | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Bruce Hornsby, "Shadow Hand" | ] |
According to the morning paper, only 45 percent of the participants in the Michigan caucuses say they strongly supported the candidate they voted for (no, really?), 38 percent had reservations, and 15 percent just didn't like the alternatives. |
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| Hey, Phil, I Have Your DVD! |
[Feb. 28th, 2012|08:56 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | complacent | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Hold Steady, "Stay Positive" | ] |
Ah, poor Phil Hellmuth. I've been watching repeats of last year's World Series of Poker, which breezed right past me last year what with everything going on and all, and Phil had to settle for three second-place finishes, including the $50,000 entry Players' Championship, where he had a considerable lead before pushing all-in three times in a row on busted flush draws. (Everybody knows you should make sure you have enough chips to survive doing that five times, but I digress.) Then in the main event, he went out on the short stack, pushing all-in with pocket threes.
When will he finally claim that elusive 12th WSOP bracelet? Cheer up, Phil. Just look at Meryl Streep. |
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| The Bad Lay Down |
[Feb. 27th, 2012|09:45 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | complacent | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Robert Glasper, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" | ] |
Made a horrible play on a hand at Coach's Saturday night. I was in the small blind with pocket 9s, everyone folded to me and the big blind so I limped in for half price, and J.R. in the big blind raised it another $2000. I suspected my 9s were good enough, so I called. Two Queens and a King came on the flop, I checked, and J.R. pushed all his chips in. I told him he was full of it but I folded anyway. He turned over a 7-3 offsuit.
Now, in this situation, if you show any weakness at all the big blind should make a steal for the pot, so I had my choice of two moves here: Go ahead and shove all-in on top of his pre-flop raise, which means either he'd have to lay down his hand or we'd see if my 9s ended up best. Either way he'd hesitate to try that aggressive move on me next time this situation cropped up. Since as in turned out he was in fact making a total stone cold bluff, an even better move would have been to call, feign weakness again by checking the flop, then call his all-in move and double up, since if I went the other route I'd only get $2000 of his chips.
Why didn't I then? Because just a few hands earlier he'd moved all-in and turned over a pair of 10s. But that didn't matter. This had nothing to do with the cards and everything to do with position.
I still made it to the final table, then went out when I called a raise that pushed me all-in with pocket 7s on the small blind. The other player was making a play with a King-Queen, and there was only one player left to act behind me. Unfortunately he had pocket Kings standing between my 7s and my continued survival. |
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| Coach's |
[Feb. 25th, 2012|09:49 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | complacent | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Santana, "Samba Pa Ti" | ] |
Went out on the bubble for the final table at the Coach's tournament last night; shoved all in from the short stack when I flopped a pair, an opponent called me with an open-ended straight draw and hit her 7 on the river. At least I made her think about if for a few seconds. |
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| Svenska Filmindustri |
[Feb. 23rd, 2012|10:45 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | complacent | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Anton Karas, "The Third Man Theme" | ] |
Since subtitles seem to resolutely avoid my laptop and my DVD player, I could have used some simultaneous translation for the Criterion disc of Ingmar Bergman's The Magician, except that (1) I read the screenplay in my youth, so in theory I should have already known what was being said, and (2) Peter Cowie's analysis helped bring me up to speed on what the heck everyone was on about. |
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