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Nov. 6th, 2010 10:24 am"Bellowhead, featuring Eric Clapton". Not something I thought I would ever see, but the EC was strumming along last night on Later With Jools to a stunning Bellowhead performance. I've been a fan of this band for a good few years (I actually had to head downstairs at HMV in Oxford Street to buy their album in about 2007, because they were not even included in the mainstream catalogue). These days they have got even better, managing that feat too often lacking in the self-satisfied "English Folk" movement, that of being tightly efficient musicians, rather than looking as if they are making it up as they go along.
Jools also featured Jonathan Jeremiah, who sounded like a very promising singer-songwriter in the making.
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It was the first Jools that I had watched in three weeks (although the others are recorded), partly because there's been a lot of TV on. Mad Men, The Event, and Downton Abbey, which I am finally catching up with (still a month or so behind, though). I've even failed to keep up with True Blood, but I'll get there eventually. A couple of weeks (well, three, actually, if you include the Christmas break) at home in December will help.
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In addition, I've been hammering away at Stars. The 10-12 tabling is going reasonably well, although inevitably this increases the number of tilt-inducing hands per day. My AAA lost to 777 yesterday when all of the money went in on the turn -- a $280 pot, and this morning my 888 was no good when I induced an all-in from KK, once again on the turn.
But the large number of hands means that the annoyance tends to go away fairly quickly. And, even better, there's usually a "bog-standard" hand to play, which reduces the number of "I'll do something different because I am bored" situations.
One new innovation this morning was to start colour-coding opponents against whom I had played more than 1k hands. If the opponent is up over that number of hands, he gets a 'purple', and if there are three or four or more of these at a table, I get up and leave.
This has taken over from my previous "VPIP%" parameter, because I noticed that the very tight tables are often quite profitable. The downside was that against 8 real nits it's too easy to become laggy, and then they snap you off at the knees. But, with 10-12 tables in a cascade style, you don't notice it, so you play your normal style. In addition, these nitty tables offer fewer 'tough' decisions, so they can be seen as a sort of bread-and butter backing to the three or four 'good' tables, where your EV is higher, but more player-specific decisions and more left-field moves are required.
October was good, helped by a nice end to the month when I had my run-good ten buy-in profit day. This month Stars has returned to the norm and I am in run-bad mode again, but I'm still only fractionally down, and I remain confident for the rest of the year.
Still not sure where to go in terms of poker next year. I've made some fairly radical changesin the past month, so I may stick with that. These days I'm finding 600 hands per hour no more strain than tiled 300 hands per hour. If my win-rate per 100 stays nearly the same, I'd be delighted. Oh, and running good next year on Stars would help, too.
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Was going to write something about QE2, but it's v complicated and I'd need to think about it for an hour or so.
Current feeling in the Birks camp is that there is actually an argument for momentum trading, but definitely only for 25% profit targets in the chosen field. Amazingly, I think that this could include gold over the next 12 months.
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Jools also featured Jonathan Jeremiah, who sounded like a very promising singer-songwriter in the making.
++++++++++
It was the first Jools that I had watched in three weeks (although the others are recorded), partly because there's been a lot of TV on. Mad Men, The Event, and Downton Abbey, which I am finally catching up with (still a month or so behind, though). I've even failed to keep up with True Blood, but I'll get there eventually. A couple of weeks (well, three, actually, if you include the Christmas break) at home in December will help.
++++++++++
In addition, I've been hammering away at Stars. The 10-12 tabling is going reasonably well, although inevitably this increases the number of tilt-inducing hands per day. My AAA lost to 777 yesterday when all of the money went in on the turn -- a $280 pot, and this morning my 888 was no good when I induced an all-in from KK, once again on the turn.
But the large number of hands means that the annoyance tends to go away fairly quickly. And, even better, there's usually a "bog-standard" hand to play, which reduces the number of "I'll do something different because I am bored" situations.
One new innovation this morning was to start colour-coding opponents against whom I had played more than 1k hands. If the opponent is up over that number of hands, he gets a 'purple', and if there are three or four or more of these at a table, I get up and leave.
This has taken over from my previous "VPIP%" parameter, because I noticed that the very tight tables are often quite profitable. The downside was that against 8 real nits it's too easy to become laggy, and then they snap you off at the knees. But, with 10-12 tables in a cascade style, you don't notice it, so you play your normal style. In addition, these nitty tables offer fewer 'tough' decisions, so they can be seen as a sort of bread-and butter backing to the three or four 'good' tables, where your EV is higher, but more player-specific decisions and more left-field moves are required.
October was good, helped by a nice end to the month when I had my run-good ten buy-in profit day. This month Stars has returned to the norm and I am in run-bad mode again, but I'm still only fractionally down, and I remain confident for the rest of the year.
Still not sure where to go in terms of poker next year. I've made some fairly radical changesin the past month, so I may stick with that. These days I'm finding 600 hands per hour no more strain than tiled 300 hands per hour. If my win-rate per 100 stays nearly the same, I'd be delighted. Oh, and running good next year on Stars would help, too.
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Was going to write something about QE2, but it's v complicated and I'd need to think about it for an hour or so.
Current feeling in the Birks camp is that there is actually an argument for momentum trading, but definitely only for 25% profit targets in the chosen field. Amazingly, I think that this could include gold over the next 12 months.
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