Friday 13th
May. 13th, 2005 07:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksI'm taking delivery of a Dell computer today and even I, as unsuperstitious as they come, think that this might be tempting fate slightly. Meanwhile, my ceiling in the office continues to bend downwards, and the people I phoned to come and look at it haven't got back to me. On the plus side, my cold is (gradually) improving, although I seem to have lost my gym membership card. Puzzling, since all my other cards are safely where they should be.
I won $85 in half an hour on the $50 max buy-in PLO last night, with two hands that were almost hilarious. OK, the latter, where I flopped top set and, for some reason, was called for $25 by someone with what looked like little more than a non-nut flush draw and a gutshot straight, was simply bad play by my opponent (although, needless to say, he hit his flush on the turn and I needed (and got) the paired board to win it). But the first hand had me doubling my money against two $25 stacks after I raised with a top-two pair and was far from confident that I was in front even before they called. But, two of them called and my two-pair held up to win. I'll print the hand histories tonight.
And at $5-$10 the "Birks is a maniac" campaign is continuing on Party, where I raised on the button with KT off, was called in the big blind, and saw a flop of J-8-7 all clubs. I have the King of clubs. Big blind bets, I raise. He reraises. I cap it. Turn is something innocent like a red three. He checks, I bet, he calls. River is a red nine, giving me the straight. I bet, he calls. I win. "Nice river", mutters opponent sardonically, as I check the hand history and spot that he had KJ of hearts.
Manic? Well, yes, I suppose. But I did have 11 outs twice when it was capped on the flop. If opponent has AJ or QJ then I would have had 14 outs. Balance that against the 25% chance that the Ace was a club, and I guess that I have an estimated average of 13 outs when allowing for his complete range of hands (including T9 and two clubs). I'm quite happy to cap it on the flop in those circumstances, but observers will have concluded that I am a loose-aggressive lunatic. Fine by me. Should get me even more call downs when I actually have a hand.
That's also the kind of hand you need to get you flowing with more confidence.
I won $85 in half an hour on the $50 max buy-in PLO last night, with two hands that were almost hilarious. OK, the latter, where I flopped top set and, for some reason, was called for $25 by someone with what looked like little more than a non-nut flush draw and a gutshot straight, was simply bad play by my opponent (although, needless to say, he hit his flush on the turn and I needed (and got) the paired board to win it). But the first hand had me doubling my money against two $25 stacks after I raised with a top-two pair and was far from confident that I was in front even before they called. But, two of them called and my two-pair held up to win. I'll print the hand histories tonight.
And at $5-$10 the "Birks is a maniac" campaign is continuing on Party, where I raised on the button with KT off, was called in the big blind, and saw a flop of J-8-7 all clubs. I have the King of clubs. Big blind bets, I raise. He reraises. I cap it. Turn is something innocent like a red three. He checks, I bet, he calls. River is a red nine, giving me the straight. I bet, he calls. I win. "Nice river", mutters opponent sardonically, as I check the hand history and spot that he had KJ of hearts.
Manic? Well, yes, I suppose. But I did have 11 outs twice when it was capped on the flop. If opponent has AJ or QJ then I would have had 14 outs. Balance that against the 25% chance that the Ace was a club, and I guess that I have an estimated average of 13 outs when allowing for his complete range of hands (including T9 and two clubs). I'm quite happy to cap it on the flop in those circumstances, but observers will have concluded that I am a loose-aggressive lunatic. Fine by me. Should get me even more call downs when I actually have a hand.
That's also the kind of hand you need to get you flowing with more confidence.
