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We are entering what might be called the Birks grind season. This runs from the beginning of the summer school holidays to its end. At this point I do not take holidays from work, I do not take holidays from poker. I work to accumulate enough money to pay my bills for the rest of the year.
Which, I intend, will consist of at least two holidays, possibly three. That's a nice number of holidays to look forward to from September 1 to December 31, isn't it?
Possibilities:
A Spanish villa in early/mid September. May book one and invite some friends to come visit. How balla is that?
A solos trip to Morocco in November. This is a week that includes a night in a Bedouin tent, a trip on a camel, and a visit to the northern Sahara, "off-piste" (or whatever the desert equivalent of that is). Unique in that it would be my first visit to a country that I can never remember how to spell (there are others, btw; Lichtenstein, Andorra)
And a trip to LV in December. I'm trying to work out how to spend my soon-to-expire air miles on an upgrade, but it seems to me that if you book it online you just do so "on a promise". I may resort to the telephone on this one, although talking to Branston Inc Hyderabad will possibly not put me in the best of moods.
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It didn't take long for the Party Poker short-stackers to turn out in force (see my earlier post about the good rakeback deal). Mainly German, they seem to appear at between 5pm and 6pm CET, hanging around for four or five hours, indicating (to me) that they are mainly students.
More irritating than their existence (I actually like games where the manority of players is short-stacked) is their habit of sitting out when conditions are not perfect for them. It would definitely be nice if most of them suffered a fatal country-and-age-specific form of cancer....
The deep joy is to see their fury when they lose a 60:40 shot.
If you have to play these guys, try to get two immediately on your left and two immediately on your right. If the big stacks are sitting together on the other side of the table, you have a superb position, because effectively you can play deep-stack and short-stack simultaneously.
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Which, I intend, will consist of at least two holidays, possibly three. That's a nice number of holidays to look forward to from September 1 to December 31, isn't it?
Possibilities:
A Spanish villa in early/mid September. May book one and invite some friends to come visit. How balla is that?
A solos trip to Morocco in November. This is a week that includes a night in a Bedouin tent, a trip on a camel, and a visit to the northern Sahara, "off-piste" (or whatever the desert equivalent of that is). Unique in that it would be my first visit to a country that I can never remember how to spell (there are others, btw; Lichtenstein, Andorra)
And a trip to LV in December. I'm trying to work out how to spend my soon-to-expire air miles on an upgrade, but it seems to me that if you book it online you just do so "on a promise". I may resort to the telephone on this one, although talking to Branston Inc Hyderabad will possibly not put me in the best of moods.
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It didn't take long for the Party Poker short-stackers to turn out in force (see my earlier post about the good rakeback deal). Mainly German, they seem to appear at between 5pm and 6pm CET, hanging around for four or five hours, indicating (to me) that they are mainly students.
More irritating than their existence (I actually like games where the manority of players is short-stacked) is their habit of sitting out when conditions are not perfect for them. It would definitely be nice if most of them suffered a fatal country-and-age-specific form of cancer....
The deep joy is to see their fury when they lose a 60:40 shot.
If you have to play these guys, try to get two immediately on your left and two immediately on your right. If the big stacks are sitting together on the other side of the table, you have a superb position, because effectively you can play deep-stack and short-stack simultaneously.
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