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Ticking Away
Aug. 9th, 2006 09:11 amI had loads of ideas of thing to type in the past 12 hours, but they all frittered away. When time pressure is, like, shit, other things get thrust out of the memory bank. That's the problem with the "improve your memory" books (like the "how to get people to do what you want them to do" books). They tend to require either (a) dedication, (b) practice (c) time or (d) a natural inclination. When you aren't really in possession of any of these, it's tough.
Played the new Fionn Regan album. Only one listening and I wasn't in the best of moods (it was on the way to work). But, well, Dublin-based singer-songwriter who sounds like a large number of others who have emerged over the past couple of years, many of whom are better. Sufjan Stevens is the first that springs to mind, although Regan's publicity machine prefers to compare him to Woody Guthrie (dead), Nick Drake (dead) and Neil Young (over 60), which shows what kind of time-warp the Irish publicity machine is locked in. How about Damien Rice, Ballboy, and Destroyer?
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I'm running bad at Full Tilt (it's okay, I'm running well at Party). You know that you are running bad when, in your first 2000 hands, you get Kings 10 times, and two of those times you are up against pocket aces. (win percentage with KK, 50%)
And, with pocket aces, the win rate of 70% looks okay, except that two of the 10 times I've had Aces I have been in the big blind and it has been folded round to me. Three other times I raised with Aces and everyone passed, meaning that I just picked up the blinds. Once I won a decent pot, and the other I won a smallish pot. The other three times I got outdrawn.
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Played the new Fionn Regan album. Only one listening and I wasn't in the best of moods (it was on the way to work). But, well, Dublin-based singer-songwriter who sounds like a large number of others who have emerged over the past couple of years, many of whom are better. Sufjan Stevens is the first that springs to mind, although Regan's publicity machine prefers to compare him to Woody Guthrie (dead), Nick Drake (dead) and Neil Young (over 60), which shows what kind of time-warp the Irish publicity machine is locked in. How about Damien Rice, Ballboy, and Destroyer?
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I'm running bad at Full Tilt (it's okay, I'm running well at Party). You know that you are running bad when, in your first 2000 hands, you get Kings 10 times, and two of those times you are up against pocket aces. (win percentage with KK, 50%)
And, with pocket aces, the win rate of 70% looks okay, except that two of the 10 times I've had Aces I have been in the big blind and it has been folded round to me. Three other times I raised with Aces and everyone passed, meaning that I just picked up the blinds. Once I won a decent pot, and the other I won a smallish pot. The other three times I got outdrawn.
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