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Weighty matters
Oct. 5th, 2005 07:11 amI seem to have entered a period of stasis in weight-loss land. Although I am still going to the gym at least three times a week, and the cardio is improving, my weight remains stuck in the 11.5 to 11.8 sector, and has done so for two months now. I know that this is not unusual, but it remains irritating! There's still some fat to be got rid of, and it stubbornly refuses to go. Still, we must persevere.
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Very few poker hands to report at the moment because we are still at the start of a month-long experiment. I am triple-tabling at low stakes on Ultimate, including one or (if I'm feeling devilish) two short-handed tables. The ring games are low-stakes "kill" games, on the grounds that these games tend to attract the more gambling types.
I suppose I could print hand histories of stubbornly awful plays, but that appears to be the love of American bloggers (if I see one more "what about this donkey's play?" post in a blog I think I shall sink into catatonia). Curiously, the oddest occurrence repeated itself in 3-6 (twin-tabling) on Party. I was in the BB, someone posted. Everyone else folded, including small blind. I raised, and poster folded. This happened twice in two days (and is an indication of the nature of the daytime game on Party these days!).
Poster is getting odds of 10-to-3 if he calls, with position. I can't think of any two cards that I would dump in this situation, with the possible exception of K-2 off (my least favouritest hand in the global land). But, weak-tight is as weak-tight does. These guys are multi-tabling. They have clicked check-fold and moved on to the next table. Easy pickings.
My 6-handed play at low stakes has met with considerable success. I was somewhat put off trying this by Simon Galloway's postings. I am not comfortable with his style, but I felt that it was a style undeniably suited to short-handed. So, I decided to try MY style, which is a kind of straight bat against the LAG (as recommended by Caro) at low-stakes 6-handed. This is working very well, at the low levels, but will clearly need adapting as and when I move up in stakes. Other people's sense of rationality seems to get thrown out of the window when there are only six players. If it is passed round to you on the button, T6 off becomes no more a raising hand in 6-handed than it does in 10-handed -- well, not in my book, it doesn't. But to some people it appears that any hand is a raising hand on the button if it is passed round. Except that, of course, most people are raising machines, so it rarely does get passed round.
One guy (from Australia) was not only a raising machine, but also a wind-up merchant. He hadn't started picking on me, but I thought that I'd get in a pre-emptive strike to his "I'm gonna take your money, boy", style. Slapping down two grand on the table at 50c-$1 seemed to quieten him down. He left 15 minutes later.
Adiosta.
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Very few poker hands to report at the moment because we are still at the start of a month-long experiment. I am triple-tabling at low stakes on Ultimate, including one or (if I'm feeling devilish) two short-handed tables. The ring games are low-stakes "kill" games, on the grounds that these games tend to attract the more gambling types.
I suppose I could print hand histories of stubbornly awful plays, but that appears to be the love of American bloggers (if I see one more "what about this donkey's play?" post in a blog I think I shall sink into catatonia). Curiously, the oddest occurrence repeated itself in 3-6 (twin-tabling) on Party. I was in the BB, someone posted. Everyone else folded, including small blind. I raised, and poster folded. This happened twice in two days (and is an indication of the nature of the daytime game on Party these days!).
Poster is getting odds of 10-to-3 if he calls, with position. I can't think of any two cards that I would dump in this situation, with the possible exception of K-2 off (my least favouritest hand in the global land). But, weak-tight is as weak-tight does. These guys are multi-tabling. They have clicked check-fold and moved on to the next table. Easy pickings.
My 6-handed play at low stakes has met with considerable success. I was somewhat put off trying this by Simon Galloway's postings. I am not comfortable with his style, but I felt that it was a style undeniably suited to short-handed. So, I decided to try MY style, which is a kind of straight bat against the LAG (as recommended by Caro) at low-stakes 6-handed. This is working very well, at the low levels, but will clearly need adapting as and when I move up in stakes. Other people's sense of rationality seems to get thrown out of the window when there are only six players. If it is passed round to you on the button, T6 off becomes no more a raising hand in 6-handed than it does in 10-handed -- well, not in my book, it doesn't. But to some people it appears that any hand is a raising hand on the button if it is passed round. Except that, of course, most people are raising machines, so it rarely does get passed round.
One guy (from Australia) was not only a raising machine, but also a wind-up merchant. He hadn't started picking on me, but I thought that I'd get in a pre-emptive strike to his "I'm gonna take your money, boy", style. Slapping down two grand on the table at 50c-$1 seemed to quieten him down. He left 15 minutes later.
Adiosta.
