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Don't Care What They Say
Sep. 9th, 2006 11:01 pmA Saturday evening ambling through the freerolls had their normal conclusions, a couple of medium-early exits, and then going out 31st of 450 in one of the silly 40FPP Pokerstars tournaments (5 places paid). I'm not sure what my ovelay is in these games, which have an entry fee valued at about 75 cents, but the way the opposition plays, I would think that I'd make a result about one tournament in 20. And that's another 4,000 FPPs. However, just playing them a couple of them a week means that it must remain an amateurish sideline.
Oh, when I said "normal conclusions", I should add that I once again proved my expertise in tournaments where most of the participants fail to turn up. The Silver Freeroll had four players at my table. Before the game kicked off I typed "anyone there?" to which only a couple replied.
I then typed "want to swap blinds?" to which there was no response. One of the guys raised and then a 4th person said, "I'm here too". Four players is a bit complicated for blind-swapping, as I know from my experience a few years ago when playing in those Pokerstars Sunday night tournaments with $100 first prize down to $10 for ninth, 800 entrants and only 200 turned up.
Anyway, a few minutes later the guy who had raised first hand said "let's hurry up and take the blinds of the people who haven't turned up", to which I replied that I had suggested that a while ago, at which point he had raised my BB, so I considered that all bets were off.
His reply was:
"I had a hand".
I quietly pointed out that it didn't work like that, and then proceeded to work my way back from a third of my original chip stack in the first level.
After that, making the money was a bit of a breeze, playing my own style, which is about as different from the Andy Ward or Richard Gryko style as you are ever likely to see. But, well, it works for me.
All ended in 200th place or thereabouts for the grand sum of $22. The only problem is, I have no way in which to record this in my figures, since I don't play tournaments. It will have to go down as a bonus, I suppose.
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I've spent the fifth anniversary of 11/9 revisiting 25th Hour, another Spike Lee masterpiece, starring Ed Norton and featuring the incomparable Philip Seymour Hoffman (it's always nice to have spotted an actor before the mainstream catches on).
25th Hour is clearly Lee's response to nine-eleven, and it contains New York's equivalent to James Bolam's comments in a pub in "Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads". This time its Ed Norton's polemic against anyone and everyone in New York, on the eve of him starting a seven-year stretch for drug dealing. This speech is pivotal to the movie and in a way it foreshadows the plot of Crash. Lee works outside the studio system and apparently pays his actors peanuts, but that doesn't stop him producing some of the most important films of the past 20 years.
Lee's film on the levees breaking should, I hope, be on UK TV before the end of the year. Eagerly awaited.
Oh, when I said "normal conclusions", I should add that I once again proved my expertise in tournaments where most of the participants fail to turn up. The Silver Freeroll had four players at my table. Before the game kicked off I typed "anyone there?" to which only a couple replied.
I then typed "want to swap blinds?" to which there was no response. One of the guys raised and then a 4th person said, "I'm here too". Four players is a bit complicated for blind-swapping, as I know from my experience a few years ago when playing in those Pokerstars Sunday night tournaments with $100 first prize down to $10 for ninth, 800 entrants and only 200 turned up.
Anyway, a few minutes later the guy who had raised first hand said "let's hurry up and take the blinds of the people who haven't turned up", to which I replied that I had suggested that a while ago, at which point he had raised my BB, so I considered that all bets were off.
His reply was:
"I had a hand".
I quietly pointed out that it didn't work like that, and then proceeded to work my way back from a third of my original chip stack in the first level.
After that, making the money was a bit of a breeze, playing my own style, which is about as different from the Andy Ward or Richard Gryko style as you are ever likely to see. But, well, it works for me.
All ended in 200th place or thereabouts for the grand sum of $22. The only problem is, I have no way in which to record this in my figures, since I don't play tournaments. It will have to go down as a bonus, I suppose.
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I've spent the fifth anniversary of 11/9 revisiting 25th Hour, another Spike Lee masterpiece, starring Ed Norton and featuring the incomparable Philip Seymour Hoffman (it's always nice to have spotted an actor before the mainstream catches on).
25th Hour is clearly Lee's response to nine-eleven, and it contains New York's equivalent to James Bolam's comments in a pub in "Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads". This time its Ed Norton's polemic against anyone and everyone in New York, on the eve of him starting a seven-year stretch for drug dealing. This speech is pivotal to the movie and in a way it foreshadows the plot of Crash. Lee works outside the studio system and apparently pays his actors peanuts, but that doesn't stop him producing some of the most important films of the past 20 years.
Lee's film on the levees breaking should, I hope, be on UK TV before the end of the year. Eagerly awaited.
