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Watched Bad Timing (Nic Roeg, 1980) for the first time today. Another film that passed me by because of alcohol. Any film that starts with Tom Waits' "Invitation To The Blues" is onto a winner anyway. And with Harvey Keitel and Denholm Elliot, it could hardly miss. Fractured, complex, and not helped by Art Garfunkel in the lead, but still marvellously watchable.
May. 7th, 2005
Hi Lo Omaha? Not for me
May. 7th, 2005 05:38 pmFor reasons that I won't go into in too great a detail, I played three tables of Omaha Hi-Lo 25c-50c for an hour. well, bascially, it was because Mike said that this was how he cleared off his bonus. Not sure how. I played for an hour and managed to accumulated a grand total of 10 (ten) points. AT that rate I would have to three-table for 60 hours to work off the bonus. I don't think so.
And I think I lost $20 as well. I was playing fairly tightly, but I suspect that I just don't really get the game. I know the theory (so, please, no explanations, I won't miss the game at all) and I even have a feel for when it is right to call and when it is right to jam (apparently the thing that most players find the hardest to get the hang of). Where I go wrong is in not having a winning hand (let alone a scooping hand) at the end. While other people were walking away with half the pots with, as far as I could see, total crap, I was getting royally stuffed both ways with the second nuts in either direction. Or I would have a massive draw to the nuts in BOTH directions, with five players still in, and I would miss both ways. Probably a bit of bad luck. Anyway, having decided that it "wasn't for me" it took me precisel;y one hand to win it back at the $5-$10 (and it was a bluff!)
Although I know that it is a cardinal sin, I'm doing a bit of hitting and running at the $5-$10. Although this is not good long-term strategy, it's a very good way to rebuild battered confidence. A $40 here and a $30 there, and, so long as you don't hit the inevitable occasional stinker too soon, you soon get quite a bit of money back and, more importantly, some confidence in your play.
And I think I lost $20 as well. I was playing fairly tightly, but I suspect that I just don't really get the game. I know the theory (so, please, no explanations, I won't miss the game at all) and I even have a feel for when it is right to call and when it is right to jam (apparently the thing that most players find the hardest to get the hang of). Where I go wrong is in not having a winning hand (let alone a scooping hand) at the end. While other people were walking away with half the pots with, as far as I could see, total crap, I was getting royally stuffed both ways with the second nuts in either direction. Or I would have a massive draw to the nuts in BOTH directions, with five players still in, and I would miss both ways. Probably a bit of bad luck. Anyway, having decided that it "wasn't for me" it took me precisel;y one hand to win it back at the $5-$10 (and it was a bluff!)
Although I know that it is a cardinal sin, I'm doing a bit of hitting and running at the $5-$10. Although this is not good long-term strategy, it's a very good way to rebuild battered confidence. A $40 here and a $30 there, and, so long as you don't hit the inevitable occasional stinker too soon, you soon get quite a bit of money back and, more importantly, some confidence in your play.
I see that shredders are the new big seller. Is everyone secretly hiding tawdry secrets that they don't want the press to get hold of? No, of course not. They are panicking at the scare stories of "identity theft". What they don't realize is that most of them have finances of such outstanding tediousness that no-one would want to steal their identity anyway. And those that are in danger, well, shredding credit card bills won't make any difference.
Identity theft is not complex. Foraging in bins isn't necessary. You can find out about a person through the purchase of information available on CD and supplied by such underground organisations as BT, Experian and the local Council. A few applications later and you have got someone else's identity, with a photo ID. Not that most of these zeroes have anything to worry about, but shredders are about as useful as water filters here.
Identity theft is not complex. Foraging in bins isn't necessary. You can find out about a person through the purchase of information available on CD and supplied by such underground organisations as BT, Experian and the local Council. A few applications later and you have got someone else's identity, with a photo ID. Not that most of these zeroes have anything to worry about, but shredders are about as useful as water filters here.