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"We've got a small bit of bad news about the sparky, Pete".
('Sparky', btw, for you non-native English speakers, is an electrician)
"Oh yes", said I, with not a little dread. "And what might that be?"
"He's emigrated."
Well, as excuses for not turning up go, I guess that one is up with the best.
Apparently he was going to move to France in three weeks' time, but has instead decided to go on Friday. This means that project manager is running around like a blue-tongued fly searching for a man to move the light fitting, install the bulbs for the mirror, and (most importantly), put down the underfloor heating.
So it goes.
How many electricians does it take to move a light-fitting?
In my case, at least two.
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Although the month has not started off sensationally (up a few bucks, but not many big swings), I'm still feeling astonishingly comfortable with things at the $100 buy-in. Then again, three or four days of bad beats might batter that, so let's hope that that does not happen.
Part of the increase in comfort level is that I've finally narrowed down what I call the "default" ranges for "typical" afternoon players. Let's take one example. Limps in earlyish position for say, a 22%/3% player, are likely to be a pair up to nines (sometimes 10s) or Ax suited up to AJs (sometimes even AQs) and maybe AQo, or a suited connector.
If you raise in late position to these early limpers, they tend to fold preflop with most of these hands apart from the pairs, where they call, hoping that you have AK and that neither of these will flop.
If the flop comes down Aceless and Kingless, they call the continuation bet. If they've hit their set, they tend to mini-check-raise most flops.
I leave to the reader's imagination to work out various ways that this predictable line of play can be exploited, but there's an obvious one preflop if you are in late position (raise with suited connectors JT and up), and a more gambolly one post-flop (fire out a second barrel on the turn if player check-calls the flop on a rag board).
This combination of plays by our ABC 22/3 opponent also makes it rather rare that they check-call an Axx flop. Either they've hit a set and they mini-raise you, or they miss it and they fold (they would have folded Ax suited to the pre-flop raise). In fact, when I looked at a few hands where I raised in mid-to-late position with AK off, limper always folded to the continuation bet when an Ace or a king appeared on the board, except for once when he check-raised all-in.
('Sparky', btw, for you non-native English speakers, is an electrician)
"Oh yes", said I, with not a little dread. "And what might that be?"
"He's emigrated."
Well, as excuses for not turning up go, I guess that one is up with the best.
Apparently he was going to move to France in three weeks' time, but has instead decided to go on Friday. This means that project manager is running around like a blue-tongued fly searching for a man to move the light fitting, install the bulbs for the mirror, and (most importantly), put down the underfloor heating.
So it goes.
How many electricians does it take to move a light-fitting?
In my case, at least two.
+++++++++
Although the month has not started off sensationally (up a few bucks, but not many big swings), I'm still feeling astonishingly comfortable with things at the $100 buy-in. Then again, three or four days of bad beats might batter that, so let's hope that that does not happen.
Part of the increase in comfort level is that I've finally narrowed down what I call the "default" ranges for "typical" afternoon players. Let's take one example. Limps in earlyish position for say, a 22%/3% player, are likely to be a pair up to nines (sometimes 10s) or Ax suited up to AJs (sometimes even AQs) and maybe AQo, or a suited connector.
If you raise in late position to these early limpers, they tend to fold preflop with most of these hands apart from the pairs, where they call, hoping that you have AK and that neither of these will flop.
If the flop comes down Aceless and Kingless, they call the continuation bet. If they've hit their set, they tend to mini-check-raise most flops.
I leave to the reader's imagination to work out various ways that this predictable line of play can be exploited, but there's an obvious one preflop if you are in late position (raise with suited connectors JT and up), and a more gambolly one post-flop (fire out a second barrel on the turn if player check-calls the flop on a rag board).
This combination of plays by our ABC 22/3 opponent also makes it rather rare that they check-call an Axx flop. Either they've hit a set and they mini-raise you, or they miss it and they fold (they would have folded Ax suited to the pre-flop raise). In fact, when I looked at a few hands where I raised in mid-to-late position with AK off, limper always folded to the continuation bet when an Ace or a king appeared on the board, except for once when he check-raised all-in.
