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Jul. 21st, 2006 07:06 amPlaying Limit, day in, day out, is monotonous. That's the point about getting to the stage where you are fairly sure that you will make money in the long run. You've seen everything before. Nothing crops up that is new, and good luck or bad beats have no emotional impact, because you know that these things happen, and that they will happen again. MY AA got beat by an AK? Bleaah, it happens. My AK sucks out on an AA? Bleaah, it happens. Just about the only fun is seeing the guy with the AA go ballistic and assert that "Pokerdonks (insert name of site here) rewards bad play!!!!"
So last night I donked off some cash at lower limit games, just for some fun. I played properly (to the extent that I could), but I had no positive earn expectation. So, here's some feedback.
1) If anyone tells me to play short-handed, remind me to shoot them. I have no idea how long the short-run is in short-handed, but at 5-handed (often four) on Virgin, I couldn't do a thing right. Minus $14 at 50c-$1 over an hour or so.
2) 7-Stud. I am no good at 7-stud. Fun, though. Three hours at 50c-$1. Lost $28.
3) No Limit $50 buy-in. My first real attempt at the game, in the sense of buying in for the max and attempting to play a proper game. Very challenging. Continually coming up against "new" (for me) situations and having to cope on the fly. I've deliberately avoided the main NL books (Fox, Miller/Sklansky) even though they are on the bookshelf, as I want to get my own feeling for the game first. Once again, I have no idea whether I had good cards or bad or whether I played well or badly. I got AA once, in the small blind, with five limpers. Decided to go try to control pot size by checking. Is this wrong? Perhaps a 5*BB raise to get out most of my opponents? Unfortunately that seems to hold up the "I have Aces" sign.
Anyway, I lost $10 on that hand to a flop of 234 and 65s on the button. I bet out $2 and got two callers. I bet $4 on the turn of a Jack and get one caller. River brings potential flush and I check. Button bets $4 and I call. He has the 65.
Then I got 66 in the SB, completed with five limpers, and saw 964 two spades. I checked (possibly wrong, in retrospect), one person bet a dollar and got four callers. I've got about $30 in front of me and most opponents have something in that region. So I tried a $13 raise. Everyone folded. I think I should bet out something like $2 or $2.50 here, rather than check-raise. Or, if I do CR, it should be about $4.
I won a couple of pots by spotting that one player three to my right tended to overbet the pot in late without much, whereas he would bet low if he had the goods. With JJ in the big blind (checked by me again - is this right? Treat it as a middle pair?) The flop came Q83 rainbow. I check, two more checks, and button bets $5 into a $2 pot. I reraise him $9 and he calls. Whoops, I think. It then goes check check, check check, on turns of a 5 and a king. My Jacks are good.
Ended up winning $15 and concluded that, on Virgin $50 buy-in (and Virgin, being mainly European, probably plays very differently from the US sites), even though I do not know what I am doing, most of my opponents know rather less.
In three hours I saw only one serious all-in vs all-in (although there were a couple of short-stack nonsenses).
On a board of AA94 the money went in and 99 beat AK. Thus confirming that AK is probably the real danger hand (along with AA) when it comes to losing all your stack.
Since I seem incapable of beating the donkeys at limit on Virgin, and since it has no Pokertracker facility, perhaps I might give the $50 NL a few more goes. I think that I could two-table it -- any less gets me antsy for action.
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Coral Eurobet is dumping its US players. A few years ago Westminster Council got so fed up with the flyposting that was rampant in the district that it did not take the flyposters to court. It took record company executives in London to court, threatened them with Asbo orders and, in some cases, jail. The flyposting stopped.
Senior Executives in companies are, usually, a craven bunch of shits. Tell them that something is illegal and they will usualy ask whether the fine outweighs the profit.
However, threaten them with something personal such as, say, some jail time if they ever set foot on American soil, even in transit, and their bottoms flap as if there is no tomorrow. With Carruthers still "resting" in Dallas, the executives at Coral Eurobet probably had an emergency meeting in the middle of working out how to rearrange their travel plans so that a stop-off in the US was not necessary. Next thing you know, all US customers are unceremoniusly ditched.
There is no "courage" in the executive board room. They got where they are by keeping their noses clean and having no morals. Although I disagree with the US action on Internet gambling, it does at least have the positive side-effect of showing just how willing these tosspots are to stand up for what they said they believed in. I note that Coral Eurobet had no hesitation in allowing US customers (despite the dubious legality) while their own freedom was not under threat. And that, I think, says it all.
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So last night I donked off some cash at lower limit games, just for some fun. I played properly (to the extent that I could), but I had no positive earn expectation. So, here's some feedback.
1) If anyone tells me to play short-handed, remind me to shoot them. I have no idea how long the short-run is in short-handed, but at 5-handed (often four) on Virgin, I couldn't do a thing right. Minus $14 at 50c-$1 over an hour or so.
2) 7-Stud. I am no good at 7-stud. Fun, though. Three hours at 50c-$1. Lost $28.
3) No Limit $50 buy-in. My first real attempt at the game, in the sense of buying in for the max and attempting to play a proper game. Very challenging. Continually coming up against "new" (for me) situations and having to cope on the fly. I've deliberately avoided the main NL books (Fox, Miller/Sklansky) even though they are on the bookshelf, as I want to get my own feeling for the game first. Once again, I have no idea whether I had good cards or bad or whether I played well or badly. I got AA once, in the small blind, with five limpers. Decided to go try to control pot size by checking. Is this wrong? Perhaps a 5*BB raise to get out most of my opponents? Unfortunately that seems to hold up the "I have Aces" sign.
Anyway, I lost $10 on that hand to a flop of 234 and 65s on the button. I bet out $2 and got two callers. I bet $4 on the turn of a Jack and get one caller. River brings potential flush and I check. Button bets $4 and I call. He has the 65.
Then I got 66 in the SB, completed with five limpers, and saw 964 two spades. I checked (possibly wrong, in retrospect), one person bet a dollar and got four callers. I've got about $30 in front of me and most opponents have something in that region. So I tried a $13 raise. Everyone folded. I think I should bet out something like $2 or $2.50 here, rather than check-raise. Or, if I do CR, it should be about $4.
I won a couple of pots by spotting that one player three to my right tended to overbet the pot in late without much, whereas he would bet low if he had the goods. With JJ in the big blind (checked by me again - is this right? Treat it as a middle pair?) The flop came Q83 rainbow. I check, two more checks, and button bets $5 into a $2 pot. I reraise him $9 and he calls. Whoops, I think. It then goes check check, check check, on turns of a 5 and a king. My Jacks are good.
Ended up winning $15 and concluded that, on Virgin $50 buy-in (and Virgin, being mainly European, probably plays very differently from the US sites), even though I do not know what I am doing, most of my opponents know rather less.
In three hours I saw only one serious all-in vs all-in (although there were a couple of short-stack nonsenses).
On a board of AA94 the money went in and 99 beat AK. Thus confirming that AK is probably the real danger hand (along with AA) when it comes to losing all your stack.
Since I seem incapable of beating the donkeys at limit on Virgin, and since it has no Pokertracker facility, perhaps I might give the $50 NL a few more goes. I think that I could two-table it -- any less gets me antsy for action.
+++++++++++
Coral Eurobet is dumping its US players. A few years ago Westminster Council got so fed up with the flyposting that was rampant in the district that it did not take the flyposters to court. It took record company executives in London to court, threatened them with Asbo orders and, in some cases, jail. The flyposting stopped.
Senior Executives in companies are, usually, a craven bunch of shits. Tell them that something is illegal and they will usualy ask whether the fine outweighs the profit.
However, threaten them with something personal such as, say, some jail time if they ever set foot on American soil, even in transit, and their bottoms flap as if there is no tomorrow. With Carruthers still "resting" in Dallas, the executives at Coral Eurobet probably had an emergency meeting in the middle of working out how to rearrange their travel plans so that a stop-off in the US was not necessary. Next thing you know, all US customers are unceremoniusly ditched.
There is no "courage" in the executive board room. They got where they are by keeping their noses clean and having no morals. Although I disagree with the US action on Internet gambling, it does at least have the positive side-effect of showing just how willing these tosspots are to stand up for what they said they believed in. I note that Coral Eurobet had no hesitation in allowing US customers (despite the dubious legality) while their own freedom was not under threat. And that, I think, says it all.
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