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One of the things that a Londoner learns from a very young age is that people of different cultures have very different concepts of personal space. While some cultures seem happy to talk to you from a mere six inches away, others become uncomfortable if you encroach within a foot-and-a-half.
Of course, people who come from far more homogenaeous backgrounds are unaware that this "comfort zone" exists, because everyone in the place in which they were brought up had roughly the same concept of a comfort zone.
One of the characteristics of the several social dysfunctionalities we currently bundle together under the catch-all word "autistic" is an underdeveloped concept of a "comfort zone". But this lack of awareness spreads throughout society. It goes as far as people actually being unaware why another person might make them uncomfortable. If they thought about it, it might be something like "he doesn't maintain eye-contact as long as I do", or "he fails to provide the proper verbal cues to make me aware that I am being listened to" or "he keeps moving away from me" (the last usually being an instinctive reaction to the speaker's habit of moving too close!). If you are in a a bar and you spot two people talking, one of whom has a comfort zone of about 11 inches, and the other has one of 18 inches, then, as the evening progresses, you can see them move along the bar, with one person constantly leaning in, and the other constantly leaning back.
One of the most amazing pieces of self-description I come across is from people (suaually, I fear, women) who describe themselves as "tactile". Well, ok, but do they realize that some people read or hear that word and go "ugggh". "I'm a very touchy-feely kind of person", they say. Well, fine, I hope you don't mind if I fuck off now...
of course, "Seinfeld" had a masterful episode on just this matter.
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As was the case last year, Full Tilt proves to be the site of death for me in October and November. Fortunately, other sites dominate my playing activity this year, so the impact has been small. But you know that things are going badly when you get some poncy short-stack all in pre-flop with AQs vs AJo and your feelings of foreboding are confirmed by the Jack on the river.
Here was an interesting one from NO IQ (done from memory).
Hero is UTG with $140
Passive player is MP1 with $200
Villain (14%/12%) is MP3 with $200
8-handed
Blinds of $1-$2
I pick up As Kd and raise to $6
Passive player calls
Villain reraises to $22.
I call (I've been known to reraise in this position - it tends to depend on the nature of the reraiser and the likeihood of them CBing).
Passive player calls
$66 in pot. I have $118 behind.
Flop comes Kh 7s 4s
I check.
Passive player checks
Villain bets $50
I reraise all in to $118.
Passive player folds.
Villain goes into tank (some habits never change....). Then folds.
The alternative line is to three-raise it pre-flop and, if just called, go all-in on any flop. I'm not sure that there's much difference at this level in EV between the two.
A second alternative line which, for want of a bettter phrase, I'll call the "Ed Miller wait-to-see-flop" line, might be to limp UTG and reraise any raise behind you (if it comes). Some people might be comfortable with tat route, but I find that it gets me (and opponents who try it when I am around) into big trouble.
Of course, people who come from far more homogenaeous backgrounds are unaware that this "comfort zone" exists, because everyone in the place in which they were brought up had roughly the same concept of a comfort zone.
One of the characteristics of the several social dysfunctionalities we currently bundle together under the catch-all word "autistic" is an underdeveloped concept of a "comfort zone". But this lack of awareness spreads throughout society. It goes as far as people actually being unaware why another person might make them uncomfortable. If they thought about it, it might be something like "he doesn't maintain eye-contact as long as I do", or "he fails to provide the proper verbal cues to make me aware that I am being listened to" or "he keeps moving away from me" (the last usually being an instinctive reaction to the speaker's habit of moving too close!). If you are in a a bar and you spot two people talking, one of whom has a comfort zone of about 11 inches, and the other has one of 18 inches, then, as the evening progresses, you can see them move along the bar, with one person constantly leaning in, and the other constantly leaning back.
One of the most amazing pieces of self-description I come across is from people (suaually, I fear, women) who describe themselves as "tactile". Well, ok, but do they realize that some people read or hear that word and go "ugggh". "I'm a very touchy-feely kind of person", they say. Well, fine, I hope you don't mind if I fuck off now...
of course, "Seinfeld" had a masterful episode on just this matter.
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As was the case last year, Full Tilt proves to be the site of death for me in October and November. Fortunately, other sites dominate my playing activity this year, so the impact has been small. But you know that things are going badly when you get some poncy short-stack all in pre-flop with AQs vs AJo and your feelings of foreboding are confirmed by the Jack on the river.
Here was an interesting one from NO IQ (done from memory).
Hero is UTG with $140
Passive player is MP1 with $200
Villain (14%/12%) is MP3 with $200
8-handed
Blinds of $1-$2
I pick up As Kd and raise to $6
Passive player calls
Villain reraises to $22.
I call (I've been known to reraise in this position - it tends to depend on the nature of the reraiser and the likeihood of them CBing).
Passive player calls
$66 in pot. I have $118 behind.
Flop comes Kh 7s 4s
I check.
Passive player checks
Villain bets $50
I reraise all in to $118.
Passive player folds.
Villain goes into tank (some habits never change....). Then folds.
The alternative line is to three-raise it pre-flop and, if just called, go all-in on any flop. I'm not sure that there's much difference at this level in EV between the two.
A second alternative line which, for want of a bettter phrase, I'll call the "Ed Miller wait-to-see-flop" line, might be to limp UTG and reraise any raise behind you (if it comes). Some people might be comfortable with tat route, but I find that it gets me (and opponents who try it when I am around) into big trouble.
