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Vote early, vote often
May. 4th, 2006 05:21 amIt's local election day today and the Labour and LibDem parties have continued their blitz on the ward. I'm tempted to split my votes between them on the grounds that, if you have three votes, you might as well use them wisely. Look at this, I'm a genuine "make up my mind at the last minute" voter. Never been known before.
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And so the second series of "Lost" kicks off in the UK -- gloriously incomprehensible, and now with added non-linearity. The "end" of episode one only reappeared two-thirds of the way through episode two. The obvious candidate to blame for thrusting this style into the mainstream is Pulp Fiction, although I'm sure that it had been used many times before by directors with less of a flare for publicity.
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I've actually had a couple of interesting three-way hands recently (one went right, one went wrong) which I might post, as they neatly illustrate some recent points made. Although the end of last month/start of this contained a couple of, well, fairly horrible days, I've been pleased with my game. Three improvements: (1) Not trying to "run over" a game after suffering a couple of bad beats; (2) Not making anywhere near as many crying calls - being willing to pass top pair on the river (I did some analysis on this to confirm that my hunch was correct); (3) exploiting the new craze for relentless value-betting.
These seem to be offering an improvement of a couple of bets an hour per table at the moment (i.e., I note the situations where they have saved me a bet), but you have to allow for the fact that every so often a crying call that you do not make would have won, which shifts back the gain by quite a lump.
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And so the second series of "Lost" kicks off in the UK -- gloriously incomprehensible, and now with added non-linearity. The "end" of episode one only reappeared two-thirds of the way through episode two. The obvious candidate to blame for thrusting this style into the mainstream is Pulp Fiction, although I'm sure that it had been used many times before by directors with less of a flare for publicity.
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I've actually had a couple of interesting three-way hands recently (one went right, one went wrong) which I might post, as they neatly illustrate some recent points made. Although the end of last month/start of this contained a couple of, well, fairly horrible days, I've been pleased with my game. Three improvements: (1) Not trying to "run over" a game after suffering a couple of bad beats; (2) Not making anywhere near as many crying calls - being willing to pass top pair on the river (I did some analysis on this to confirm that my hunch was correct); (3) exploiting the new craze for relentless value-betting.
These seem to be offering an improvement of a couple of bets an hour per table at the moment (i.e., I note the situations where they have saved me a bet), but you have to allow for the fact that every so often a crying call that you do not make would have won, which shifts back the gain by quite a lump.
