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Sep. 29th, 2007 01:50 pmBad Blood (http://badbloodonpoker.blogspot.com/) reports that another of the underground Carolina games that he occasionally attends got busted this week. The police, mindful of their responsibilities to society, offered the players the choice of a fine and leaving their money behind with the cops, or facing a trial and a possible year in jail. Clearly the Kazakhstan School of Police Training is working well in at least parts of the US.
A poster questioned that perhaps the cops are reading the blogs to find out where the games are. Bad Blood defied anyone to work out where a game was merely from it being called “The Gaelic Game”, Another wag posted: “would that be the game in Gaelic House on Gaelic Street?”
Thin pickings in most other places. The Youngster has been to Magaluf for a week, celebrating his stonking start to the month, while Pauly has been drinking his liver to death in Key West with Al Can’t Hang. Quality post from Pauly about a couple of less than salubrious strip clubs. Things are obviously different in the US, because I don’t imagine any girlfriend of mine being happy to read of my exploits in a strip club. Change, howerver, simply goes along to the strip club with Pauly, when she’s around. Quality. A very entertaining read on the lower echelons of the male entertainment industry. I particularly liked the club that cut songs off at two minutes and ten seconds, so that the strippers could get in more lap dances.
http://taopoker.blogspot.com/
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For fans of car crashes and what Jesse May calls “really broke”, head to BlueScouse (where else) at http://88percent.blogspot.com/. I haven’t even bothered to read the comments on Ed’s posts, because I know what they will all say.
If that isn’t enough for you, and if you want to make your $1.36 profit for the month (sorry, my $1.36 profit for the month) look more comforting, head over to the tales of Lucky Jim (luckyjimm.blogspot.com). Why oh why do these people play at levels utterly unsuited to their bankroll? OK, perhaps I do too (but I play at too low a level, which is at least sustainable, if incomprehensible to some other players) but when I see people putting their whole bankroll into a game where they have something like 30 big blinds, I just shake my head in disbelief. I have to remember this when I am making bets at the table. Although a bet to me of $24 into a $24 pot is mathematically the same as a bet of $3 into a $3 pot (I need more than a 33% chance to be winning for it to be right for me to call) for opponents, $24 is $24, eight times $3. For them. the actual cash value might be of significance, and it could cloud their mathematical judgement (they might say to themselves: “I think I’m right to call here, but I can’t afford to call and be wrong”).
I read an insteresting tale recently about a No Limit hand in a $100 buy-in game in Vegas. The interesting thing about it was that the player who recounted it was the perpetrator of the play, and he seemed rather proud of it.
Here, briefly, is how it works.
You hit the nut flush on the river. Opponent bets $20 into you, which you are fairly sure is some kind of value bet attempting to get a showdown cheaply – maybe two-pair. You now go into Academy Award mode and start thinking out loud about opponent’s hand, as if you have a hand that you might call with (say, TPTK). Eventually you ‘talk’ yourself into calling, and pick up a stack of 20 chips and put them into the pot, without saying anything. But the stack of chips consists of reds, not blues. You have put $100 in. Dealer (or opponent) says that this constitutes a raise.
You now go into Academy Award mode 2, and pretend that you just wanted to call. Dealer tells you what the rules are. You demand the pit boss. He tells you what the rules are. Your raise must stand.
Opponent now either puts in the $80, or perhaps more, if you are both sitting on more than the initial $100 buy-in – this is the MGM rinky-dink game — and you win money that you might not otherwise have won if you had put in a ‘straightforward’ raise of $80. Opponent storms off, calling you a four-letter word beginning with ‘C’, while dealer and all your other opponents merely think it.
My first question is, what kind of player would make this play?
Answer: A very young and inexperienced one with good technical skill and absolutely no concept of metagame. (BTW, the “accidental raise” play is about as old as me, I suspect. There isn’t much under the sun that is new.)
My second question is, what kind of player would then actually boast about the play on his blog?
Answer to that, have I none.
( some hands )
A poster questioned that perhaps the cops are reading the blogs to find out where the games are. Bad Blood defied anyone to work out where a game was merely from it being called “The Gaelic Game”, Another wag posted: “would that be the game in Gaelic House on Gaelic Street?”
Thin pickings in most other places. The Youngster has been to Magaluf for a week, celebrating his stonking start to the month, while Pauly has been drinking his liver to death in Key West with Al Can’t Hang. Quality post from Pauly about a couple of less than salubrious strip clubs. Things are obviously different in the US, because I don’t imagine any girlfriend of mine being happy to read of my exploits in a strip club. Change, howerver, simply goes along to the strip club with Pauly, when she’s around. Quality. A very entertaining read on the lower echelons of the male entertainment industry. I particularly liked the club that cut songs off at two minutes and ten seconds, so that the strippers could get in more lap dances.
http://taopoker.blogspot.com/
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For fans of car crashes and what Jesse May calls “really broke”, head to BlueScouse (where else) at http://88percent.blogspot.com/. I haven’t even bothered to read the comments on Ed’s posts, because I know what they will all say.
If that isn’t enough for you, and if you want to make your $1.36 profit for the month (sorry, my $1.36 profit for the month) look more comforting, head over to the tales of Lucky Jim (luckyjimm.blogspot.com). Why oh why do these people play at levels utterly unsuited to their bankroll? OK, perhaps I do too (but I play at too low a level, which is at least sustainable, if incomprehensible to some other players) but when I see people putting their whole bankroll into a game where they have something like 30 big blinds, I just shake my head in disbelief. I have to remember this when I am making bets at the table. Although a bet to me of $24 into a $24 pot is mathematically the same as a bet of $3 into a $3 pot (I need more than a 33% chance to be winning for it to be right for me to call) for opponents, $24 is $24, eight times $3. For them. the actual cash value might be of significance, and it could cloud their mathematical judgement (they might say to themselves: “I think I’m right to call here, but I can’t afford to call and be wrong”).
I read an insteresting tale recently about a No Limit hand in a $100 buy-in game in Vegas. The interesting thing about it was that the player who recounted it was the perpetrator of the play, and he seemed rather proud of it.
Here, briefly, is how it works.
You hit the nut flush on the river. Opponent bets $20 into you, which you are fairly sure is some kind of value bet attempting to get a showdown cheaply – maybe two-pair. You now go into Academy Award mode and start thinking out loud about opponent’s hand, as if you have a hand that you might call with (say, TPTK). Eventually you ‘talk’ yourself into calling, and pick up a stack of 20 chips and put them into the pot, without saying anything. But the stack of chips consists of reds, not blues. You have put $100 in. Dealer (or opponent) says that this constitutes a raise.
You now go into Academy Award mode 2, and pretend that you just wanted to call. Dealer tells you what the rules are. You demand the pit boss. He tells you what the rules are. Your raise must stand.
Opponent now either puts in the $80, or perhaps more, if you are both sitting on more than the initial $100 buy-in – this is the MGM rinky-dink game — and you win money that you might not otherwise have won if you had put in a ‘straightforward’ raise of $80. Opponent storms off, calling you a four-letter word beginning with ‘C’, while dealer and all your other opponents merely think it.
My first question is, what kind of player would make this play?
Answer: A very young and inexperienced one with good technical skill and absolutely no concept of metagame. (BTW, the “accidental raise” play is about as old as me, I suspect. There isn’t much under the sun that is new.)
My second question is, what kind of player would then actually boast about the play on his blog?
Answer to that, have I none.
( some hands )
