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Is there anything more infuriating than losing your keys when you are indoors? Lee Evans did a comedy sketch on it once, recreating your hapless fury as you try to retrace your steps.
I found them eventually. For no reasons whatsoever that I can fathom, and in a manner that completely passed by medium-term memory by, I had placed the keys in a jacket that I hardly ever wear, resting on the coat-rack, unused and unloved. I still can't figure out what possessed me to do this.
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You have to admire Zidane. If there was any doubt about this man being brought up in the poorer part of Marseilles, surely yesterday night's lunacy dispelled it. I mean, none of your Rooney-like weaselly standing on a man's balls and then, like some 13-year old bully in school, swearing blind that it didn't happen, or, if it did happen, it was an accident. No, for Zidane nothing less than a head-on butt in the chest will do. Getting someone sneakily might be the football way (perhaps this is one of the reasons I have so little respect for most of them) but it isn't the Zidane way. Give that man the cup, and all the medals, and tell all the cheaty-cheaties to sod off back to primary school where they can practise their "get someone else in trouble and fool the teacher" game to their hearts' content.
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I had an interesting hand on Saturday. As you know, one of my leaks is in multi-way pots, where sometimes I stay in when I should fold, and sometimes I fold when I should stay in. Fortunately this doesn't tend to cost me too much money, because I tend to play in games that aren't that often multi-way when it gets to the turn. Or, if they are, the decision is usually fairly clear-cut.
In this situation I am in MP2, a very loose-aggressive player is on the button, and an unknown quantity, but lookking like a standard 2-4 player (say, 22% seen flops, 8% raises) is in the big blind.
I pick up Ts Td , and I raise first in. Loose-aggressive player calls, as does the big blind.
Flop comes J54 two hearts. I bet and, as I expected, LAG on the button raises. Now, irritatingly, big blind calls. Already alarm bells are ringing. I call.
Turn brings a King of hearts, completing any heart flush draw, if it's out there.
Big blind checks. I check and LAG bets. Big blind calls without hesitation.
There is $31.50 in the pot and it's $4 to me. Do I call or fold?
If it had been a low card that came on the turn I would probably have called, but I felt that the King was too likely to have matched the Big Blind or (more likely) he was already matched with the Jack and did not want to give up his hand. If he had KJ, he really ought to raise here, but, hell, I've seen many a 2-4 player just call because they are scared of the flush already being out there.
Anyway, I fold. River brings a deuce, not a heart. Big blind checks, LAG bets, and Big blind calls.
LAG shows A5 of diamonds and wins the pot with a pair of fives. Big blind had Ace-four or something like that.
Where I went wrong here was in not allowing for the fact that Big Blind also knew that Mr LAG on the button could well be betting with nothing. If Big Blind were any good, he would realize that my presence in the hand meant that he was, in effect, making an overcall, but this was 2-4, so those kind of subtleties were beyond him. He just saw the bettor, knew that the bettor was a lag, and decided that, if I had AK, his fours were good. The combination of the two possibilities is small enough to make his play incorrect, but, because I assumed that he was playing basically correctly, he managed to get me to fold.
Note that he did not gain from this, since he still lost the pot. And, if he really thought that he was losing to me but beating the LAG, then he should raise on the flop or the turn rather than flat-call.
If there are any errors in this, hard luck, I'm doing it quite quickly in my head :-)
I found them eventually. For no reasons whatsoever that I can fathom, and in a manner that completely passed by medium-term memory by, I had placed the keys in a jacket that I hardly ever wear, resting on the coat-rack, unused and unloved. I still can't figure out what possessed me to do this.
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You have to admire Zidane. If there was any doubt about this man being brought up in the poorer part of Marseilles, surely yesterday night's lunacy dispelled it. I mean, none of your Rooney-like weaselly standing on a man's balls and then, like some 13-year old bully in school, swearing blind that it didn't happen, or, if it did happen, it was an accident. No, for Zidane nothing less than a head-on butt in the chest will do. Getting someone sneakily might be the football way (perhaps this is one of the reasons I have so little respect for most of them) but it isn't the Zidane way. Give that man the cup, and all the medals, and tell all the cheaty-cheaties to sod off back to primary school where they can practise their "get someone else in trouble and fool the teacher" game to their hearts' content.
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I had an interesting hand on Saturday. As you know, one of my leaks is in multi-way pots, where sometimes I stay in when I should fold, and sometimes I fold when I should stay in. Fortunately this doesn't tend to cost me too much money, because I tend to play in games that aren't that often multi-way when it gets to the turn. Or, if they are, the decision is usually fairly clear-cut.
In this situation I am in MP2, a very loose-aggressive player is on the button, and an unknown quantity, but lookking like a standard 2-4 player (say, 22% seen flops, 8% raises) is in the big blind.
I pick up Ts Td , and I raise first in. Loose-aggressive player calls, as does the big blind.
Flop comes J54 two hearts. I bet and, as I expected, LAG on the button raises. Now, irritatingly, big blind calls. Already alarm bells are ringing. I call.
Turn brings a King of hearts, completing any heart flush draw, if it's out there.
Big blind checks. I check and LAG bets. Big blind calls without hesitation.
There is $31.50 in the pot and it's $4 to me. Do I call or fold?
If it had been a low card that came on the turn I would probably have called, but I felt that the King was too likely to have matched the Big Blind or (more likely) he was already matched with the Jack and did not want to give up his hand. If he had KJ, he really ought to raise here, but, hell, I've seen many a 2-4 player just call because they are scared of the flush already being out there.
Anyway, I fold. River brings a deuce, not a heart. Big blind checks, LAG bets, and Big blind calls.
LAG shows A5 of diamonds and wins the pot with a pair of fives. Big blind had Ace-four or something like that.
Where I went wrong here was in not allowing for the fact that Big Blind also knew that Mr LAG on the button could well be betting with nothing. If Big Blind were any good, he would realize that my presence in the hand meant that he was, in effect, making an overcall, but this was 2-4, so those kind of subtleties were beyond him. He just saw the bettor, knew that the bettor was a lag, and decided that, if I had AK, his fours were good. The combination of the two possibilities is small enough to make his play incorrect, but, because I assumed that he was playing basically correctly, he managed to get me to fold.
Note that he did not gain from this, since he still lost the pot. And, if he really thought that he was losing to me but beating the LAG, then he should raise on the flop or the turn rather than flat-call.
If there are any errors in this, hard luck, I'm doing it quite quickly in my head :-)
