Life Will Chime
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peterbirksSimon Hoggart had a piece in yesterday’s Guardian about a trip to Moorfields’ Eye Hospital, which led him to muse on things that you don’t really want to hear the surgeon say to you while performing the operations (or when just about to start). I believe that this line of thought was set off by the question that one person reported of:
This was a slightly interesting coincidence, because in two of my three visits to the dental surgeon in the past six weeks, I heard at one of them the following (as he failed for the third time to get the chain to bond to my tooth)
to which I would obviously have replied that it wasn’t doing a lot for mine, either, except that I couldn’t, because my mouth was jammed open as he tried to get the lightcure to stick the metal to the tooth “just one more time”.
For the second journey we had the same problem. I discovered this when the surgeon said (and these were his exact words).
which really isn’t what you want to hear.
I’m now well-read (God bless the Internet) in many of the academic papers on exposure and bonding. And, in case John W wants to know how it turned out, the surgeon (who really was a very nice young chap) built a base of composite, stuck the chain to that, then built the composite around the side as usual, and then put an extra layer of composite on top, just to make sure. On the plus side, this worked. On the minus side, it made stitching it up a bit problematic, ‘cos there was so much stuff in there.
As if to compound the problems, it turns out this particular palatally impacted canine is “behind” the incisor, and twisted, so it needs to be pulled sideways, downwards, and rotated. This led my dentist to mutter the words, as she began to attach the pulling wire to the chain:
Once again, not precisely the phrase that you want to hear.
All most entertaining.
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I really think that Carling should only put on its Reading and Leeds festival when Glastonbury is cancelled. There’s some excellent music there but, gawd, it eats into my time.
Performances of interest so far:
Coventry’s The Enemy, live, are far more like The Jam than is indicated by their record “We’ll Live And Die In These Towns” (a fine album, btw). A scintillating performance for someone my age, who can remember those live performances from the young Paul Weller. The backlash against them is already in full force, but Tom Clarke is more than a mere reincarnation of Weller and The Enemy are more than Jam-copyists. After all, I remember when the Jam were accused of being derivative of The Who.
Panic At The Disco seem to have shot from small stage to main stage in an incredibly short time. I’m never quite sure why some bands manage this and others, who are equally talented, fail.
Patrick Wolf is marvellous — one of those peculiarly English performers in the mold of Julian Cope. You can never imagine him moving from the smaller tents to the main stage, but things which you could never imagine do sometimes happen.
Enter Shikari, from Gallowayland St Albans, are of a style that I would expect to dislike, but have an interesting delivery that crosses hardcore with electronica (and no, that’s not a good description, either). There are echoes of The Automatic with added synth sounds. At the start of the set I thought “a pile of shite”, but they won me round by the end.
And, finally, a nod to Brooklyn and the older performers. The Hold Steady, whom I’ve been a fan of for some time, seem to have overcome their less than screenstar looks and pop-star image to win over the British populus, and are headlining tonight. Rock on guys. They deserve it. And, yes, it is Springsteenesque. But if you do it well, there’s nothing wrong with that.
Well, the $4.5k good run over the past 15 weeks has well and truly come to an end. I’m on a $500 downswing and a $700 downswing on IP (although $400 of that is at $200 buy-in PLO).
Another 180 hands this morning saw a $220 loss, but I wasn’t unhappy with the result. That’s less than 2 standard deviations per 100 hands, so is quite within “running bad” territory. And I did run bad. I’ll stick with the $200 buy-ins, although I might come up against the irritating fact that I might run out of money on the NoIQ site.
That’ll teach me to take some money out.... Darned cash-out curses.....
I’ll print some of the good news, just to cheer myself up.
The following two hands deploy a technique I’m hesitant to use at $100 buy-in, because you need to have an opponent who is willing to CB as a matter of course, and who is willing to fold.
It’s best to have a reasonably tight image and to have indicated a willingness to give up your blinds when you do this. And it’s nice to have a hand that has some kind of defensive value to it. T7o is a bit weak, but I just felt that the time was right.
Opponent was something like 19%/5% over 80 hands or so. He appeared competent.
Texas Hold'em NL $1.00/$2.00
Seat 1: Hero ($250.75 in chips)
Seat 2: Buamange ($125.10 in chips)
Seat 3: finnishharmony ($66.40 in chips)
Seat 4: dongluhP ($40.00 in chips)
Seat 5: Villain ($256.93 in chips)
Seat 6: KomTi ($40.00 in chips)
Seat 7: nthead ($207.50 in chips)
Seat 8: Hoiberg88 ($48.90 in chips)
Seat 9: OptimusPrimat ($37.00 in chips) DEALER
Seat 10: foxtilt ($306.30 in chips)
foxtilt: Post SB $1.00
Hero: Post BB $2.00
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [7◊ T♡]
Buamange: Fold
finnishharmony: Fold
Villain: Raise $4.00
KomTi: Fold
nthead: Fold
Hoiberg88: Fold
OptimusPrimat: Fold
foxtilt: Fold
Hero: Call $2.00
*** FLOP *** [6♡ A◊ Q♠]
Hero: Check
Villain: Bet $6.00
Opponents should really bet a set amount if an Ace flops, on the grounds that I will fold to anything of half the pot or more if I don’t have an ace, while I will probably call anything up to pot size if I do have an ace. However, players still tend to bet slightly smaller amounts if they miss and slightly bigger amounts if they hit. I reckoned that this was just on the side of “I missed”.
Hero: Raise $15.00
Villain: Fold
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $28.95 Rake $1.05
Hero: wins $28.95
I was really following my nose here and banking on opponent being less than 50% to have an Ace. Some TAGs would actually fold a bad Ace here, but that’s insane. Opponent really should call at least this raise if he has a queen. So I suspect that he did have a low pair.
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Similar hand, different table. This play is less risky, I think
NL $1.00/$2.00
Seat 1: Villain ($177.80 in chips)
Seat 3: KomTi ($44.00 in chips)
Seat 4: hyperaggrofjuno ($232.65 in chips)
Seat 5: coknoze ($321.44 in chips)
Seat 6: nthead ($154.80 in chips) DEALER
Seat 8: cramaset ($76.10 in chips)
Seat 9: Hero ($124.17 in chips)
Seat 10: mlk2003 ($200.60 in chips)
cramaset: Post SB $1.00
Hero: Post BB $2.00
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Q♡ A♠]
mlk2003: Fold
Villain: Raise $6.00
KomTi: Fold
hyperaggrofjuno: Fold
coknoze: Fold
nthead: Fold
cramaset: Fold
Hero: Call $4.00
A bigger raise from an earlier position, but this guy is tightish-passive and it was still only 3x BB. His range is probably AK-Ajs or a pair of nines or better. Perhaps 10s or better.
*** FLOP *** [6♣ 3♡ J♡]
Hero: Check
Villain: Bet $8.00
Hero: Raise $25.00
Villain: Fold
What can opponent have that he will call/reraise here? AA to QQ I reckon. He’s not aggressive enough to play his AK here. If he has 10s or 9s; he should take off a card, but, once again, the size of the flop bet was tentative. If he’d put in $10 or $11 (or, best, a pot size bet), I’m far less likely to make this play. For a start, by doing so I leave myself less ammunition in reserve.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $44.55 Rake $1.45
Hero: wins $44.55
I try to limit my use of these check-raises, picking my players and making a note of my likely table image rather than worrying about the hand I am holding. And even then it’s important not to overuse it. Opponent has to believe it’s more likely that you’ve hit than not.
What do I do in either of these cases if opponent flat-calls the check-raise? Depends on the turn card and the speed with which opponent calls. But from what I’ve seen, these tight players only call the CR in these situations if they are very comfortable.
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This was an interesting hand. I’ll leave part of it blank and complete the listing later in the week.
NL $1.00/$2.00
Table Baoro
Seat 1: ratseht ($222.55 in chips)
Seat 2: KH01 ($84.85 in chips)
Seat 4: Villain ($118.81 in chips)
Seat 5: Hero ($278.95 in chips) DEALER
Seat 6: kortal2a ($82.28 in chips)
Seat 7: chrg ($85.35 in chips)
Seat 9: rakdar ($93.95 in chips)
Seat 10: JPhil007 ($200.00 in chips)
kortal2a: Post SB $1.00
chrg: Post BB $2.00
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Villain [? ?]
Dealt to Hero [CQ S9]
JPhil007: Sitout
rakdar: Fold
ratseht: Fold
KH01: Fold
Villain: Call $2.00
Hero: Call $2.00
kortal2a: Call $1.00
chrg: Check
Limper was very loose-passive. 50%/2%. The problem with players like this is that being over-aggressive against them with debatable hands (like mine here) can get you into trouble as they donk-call you to victory.
*** FLOP *** [6◊ Q♠ 3♣]
kortal2a: Check
chrg: Check
Villain: Bet $2.00
Hero: ??
Raise, call, or fold?
Plans for play on turn and river?
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And, finally, I got away from one! Opponent generously (and foolishly) flashed his hand. I had only been sat down for a few minutes.
Texas Hold'em NL $1.00/$2.00
Seat 1: Villain ($193.00 in chips)
Seat 3: finnishharmony ($23.00 in chips)
Seat 4: KomTi ($38.00 in chips)
Seat 5: mikknud ($74.50 in chips)
Seat 6: Hoiberg88 ($40.00 in chips)
Seat 7: Villain ($408.95 in chips) DEALER
Seat 8: OptimusPrimat ($64.10 in chips)
Seat 9: Hero ($198.00 in chips)
Seat 10: hompe6 ($101.00 in chips)
OptimusPrimat: Post SB $1.00
Hero: Post BB $2.00
Hoiberg88: Post BB $3.00
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [A♣ A♠]
Dealt to Villain [Q♡ Q♣]
hompe6: Fold
Villain: Fold
finnishharmony: Call $2.00
KomTi: Fold
mikknud: Fold
Hoiberg88: Check
Villain: Call $2.00
OptimusPrimat: Call $1.00
Hero: Raise $11.00
Reasonably lumpy. Looking for just one opponent.
finnishharmony: Fold
Hoiberg88: Fold
Villain: Call $11.00
OptimusPrimat: Fold
Good.
*** FLOP *** [2♣ T♠ Q◊]
Rainbow. KJ a danger draw, set of twos or 10s, and that’s about it. I feel comfortable and confident
Hero: Bet $22.00
Villain: Raise $44.00
Hero: Call $22.00
Now I’m not so confident. Could be a raise on a draw, could be a set. Mini-raises are the biggest alarm bells going
*** TURN *** [8◊]
Hero: Check
Villain: Bet $66.00
That’s enough for me.
Hero: Fold
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $184.00 Rake $3.00
Villain: wins $184.00
But what the hell was the guy doing, limping on the button, with QQ? If I have lots of opponents like that at this level, I will be happy. However, I got away for a $55 loss rather than a $198 stack-off. I was pleased with myself.
Oh, and watch out for OptimusPrimat. He conveniently “disconnected” with AK on a rag flop against my pair of fours.
All of the above hands were part “feeling my way” at the higher level, and, looking at them, I’m still not happy. Some worked, some didn’t, but so much of the game is knowing how a level “plays”.
”Now, which eye was it again?”
This was a slightly interesting coincidence, because in two of my three visits to the dental surgeon in the past six weeks, I heard at one of them the following (as he failed for the third time to get the chain to bond to my tooth)
”This is doing my stress level no good at all.”
to which I would obviously have replied that it wasn’t doing a lot for mine, either, except that I couldn’t, because my mouth was jammed open as he tried to get the lightcure to stick the metal to the tooth “just one more time”.
For the second journey we had the same problem. I discovered this when the surgeon said (and these were his exact words).
”I don’t understand. I’m doing everything right.”
which really isn’t what you want to hear.
I’m now well-read (God bless the Internet) in many of the academic papers on exposure and bonding. And, in case John W wants to know how it turned out, the surgeon (who really was a very nice young chap) built a base of composite, stuck the chain to that, then built the composite around the side as usual, and then put an extra layer of composite on top, just to make sure. On the plus side, this worked. On the minus side, it made stitching it up a bit problematic, ‘cos there was so much stuff in there.
As if to compound the problems, it turns out this particular palatally impacted canine is “behind” the incisor, and twisted, so it needs to be pulled sideways, downwards, and rotated. This led my dentist to mutter the words, as she began to attach the pulling wire to the chain:
“Hmm, let’s try something different”.
Once again, not precisely the phrase that you want to hear.
All most entertaining.
++++++++++
I really think that Carling should only put on its Reading and Leeds festival when Glastonbury is cancelled. There’s some excellent music there but, gawd, it eats into my time.
Performances of interest so far:
Coventry’s The Enemy, live, are far more like The Jam than is indicated by their record “We’ll Live And Die In These Towns” (a fine album, btw). A scintillating performance for someone my age, who can remember those live performances from the young Paul Weller. The backlash against them is already in full force, but Tom Clarke is more than a mere reincarnation of Weller and The Enemy are more than Jam-copyists. After all, I remember when the Jam were accused of being derivative of The Who.
Panic At The Disco seem to have shot from small stage to main stage in an incredibly short time. I’m never quite sure why some bands manage this and others, who are equally talented, fail.
Patrick Wolf is marvellous — one of those peculiarly English performers in the mold of Julian Cope. You can never imagine him moving from the smaller tents to the main stage, but things which you could never imagine do sometimes happen.
Enter Shikari, from Gallowayland St Albans, are of a style that I would expect to dislike, but have an interesting delivery that crosses hardcore with electronica (and no, that’s not a good description, either). There are echoes of The Automatic with added synth sounds. At the start of the set I thought “a pile of shite”, but they won me round by the end.
And, finally, a nod to Brooklyn and the older performers. The Hold Steady, whom I’ve been a fan of for some time, seem to have overcome their less than screenstar looks and pop-star image to win over the British populus, and are headlining tonight. Rock on guys. They deserve it. And, yes, it is Springsteenesque. But if you do it well, there’s nothing wrong with that.
Well, the $4.5k good run over the past 15 weeks has well and truly come to an end. I’m on a $500 downswing and a $700 downswing on IP (although $400 of that is at $200 buy-in PLO).
Another 180 hands this morning saw a $220 loss, but I wasn’t unhappy with the result. That’s less than 2 standard deviations per 100 hands, so is quite within “running bad” territory. And I did run bad. I’ll stick with the $200 buy-ins, although I might come up against the irritating fact that I might run out of money on the NoIQ site.
That’ll teach me to take some money out.... Darned cash-out curses.....
I’ll print some of the good news, just to cheer myself up.
The following two hands deploy a technique I’m hesitant to use at $100 buy-in, because you need to have an opponent who is willing to CB as a matter of course, and who is willing to fold.
It’s best to have a reasonably tight image and to have indicated a willingness to give up your blinds when you do this. And it’s nice to have a hand that has some kind of defensive value to it. T7o is a bit weak, but I just felt that the time was right.
Opponent was something like 19%/5% over 80 hands or so. He appeared competent.
Texas Hold'em NL $1.00/$2.00
Seat 1: Hero ($250.75 in chips)
Seat 2: Buamange ($125.10 in chips)
Seat 3: finnishharmony ($66.40 in chips)
Seat 4: dongluhP ($40.00 in chips)
Seat 5: Villain ($256.93 in chips)
Seat 6: KomTi ($40.00 in chips)
Seat 7: nthead ($207.50 in chips)
Seat 8: Hoiberg88 ($48.90 in chips)
Seat 9: OptimusPrimat ($37.00 in chips) DEALER
Seat 10: foxtilt ($306.30 in chips)
foxtilt: Post SB $1.00
Hero: Post BB $2.00
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [7◊ T♡]
Buamange: Fold
finnishharmony: Fold
Villain: Raise $4.00
KomTi: Fold
nthead: Fold
Hoiberg88: Fold
OptimusPrimat: Fold
foxtilt: Fold
Hero: Call $2.00
*** FLOP *** [6♡ A◊ Q♠]
Hero: Check
Villain: Bet $6.00
Opponents should really bet a set amount if an Ace flops, on the grounds that I will fold to anything of half the pot or more if I don’t have an ace, while I will probably call anything up to pot size if I do have an ace. However, players still tend to bet slightly smaller amounts if they miss and slightly bigger amounts if they hit. I reckoned that this was just on the side of “I missed”.
Hero: Raise $15.00
Villain: Fold
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $28.95 Rake $1.05
Hero: wins $28.95
I was really following my nose here and banking on opponent being less than 50% to have an Ace. Some TAGs would actually fold a bad Ace here, but that’s insane. Opponent really should call at least this raise if he has a queen. So I suspect that he did have a low pair.
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Similar hand, different table. This play is less risky, I think
NL $1.00/$2.00
Seat 1: Villain ($177.80 in chips)
Seat 3: KomTi ($44.00 in chips)
Seat 4: hyperaggrofjuno ($232.65 in chips)
Seat 5: coknoze ($321.44 in chips)
Seat 6: nthead ($154.80 in chips) DEALER
Seat 8: cramaset ($76.10 in chips)
Seat 9: Hero ($124.17 in chips)
Seat 10: mlk2003 ($200.60 in chips)
cramaset: Post SB $1.00
Hero: Post BB $2.00
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Q♡ A♠]
mlk2003: Fold
Villain: Raise $6.00
KomTi: Fold
hyperaggrofjuno: Fold
coknoze: Fold
nthead: Fold
cramaset: Fold
Hero: Call $4.00
A bigger raise from an earlier position, but this guy is tightish-passive and it was still only 3x BB. His range is probably AK-Ajs or a pair of nines or better. Perhaps 10s or better.
*** FLOP *** [6♣ 3♡ J♡]
Hero: Check
Villain: Bet $8.00
Hero: Raise $25.00
Villain: Fold
What can opponent have that he will call/reraise here? AA to QQ I reckon. He’s not aggressive enough to play his AK here. If he has 10s or 9s; he should take off a card, but, once again, the size of the flop bet was tentative. If he’d put in $10 or $11 (or, best, a pot size bet), I’m far less likely to make this play. For a start, by doing so I leave myself less ammunition in reserve.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $44.55 Rake $1.45
Hero: wins $44.55
I try to limit my use of these check-raises, picking my players and making a note of my likely table image rather than worrying about the hand I am holding. And even then it’s important not to overuse it. Opponent has to believe it’s more likely that you’ve hit than not.
What do I do in either of these cases if opponent flat-calls the check-raise? Depends on the turn card and the speed with which opponent calls. But from what I’ve seen, these tight players only call the CR in these situations if they are very comfortable.
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This was an interesting hand. I’ll leave part of it blank and complete the listing later in the week.
NL $1.00/$2.00
Table Baoro
Seat 1: ratseht ($222.55 in chips)
Seat 2: KH01 ($84.85 in chips)
Seat 4: Villain ($118.81 in chips)
Seat 5: Hero ($278.95 in chips) DEALER
Seat 6: kortal2a ($82.28 in chips)
Seat 7: chrg ($85.35 in chips)
Seat 9: rakdar ($93.95 in chips)
Seat 10: JPhil007 ($200.00 in chips)
kortal2a: Post SB $1.00
chrg: Post BB $2.00
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Villain [? ?]
Dealt to Hero [CQ S9]
JPhil007: Sitout
rakdar: Fold
ratseht: Fold
KH01: Fold
Villain: Call $2.00
Hero: Call $2.00
kortal2a: Call $1.00
chrg: Check
Limper was very loose-passive. 50%/2%. The problem with players like this is that being over-aggressive against them with debatable hands (like mine here) can get you into trouble as they donk-call you to victory.
*** FLOP *** [6◊ Q♠ 3♣]
kortal2a: Check
chrg: Check
Villain: Bet $2.00
Hero: ??
Raise, call, or fold?
Plans for play on turn and river?
_________________
And, finally, I got away from one! Opponent generously (and foolishly) flashed his hand. I had only been sat down for a few minutes.
Texas Hold'em NL $1.00/$2.00
Seat 1: Villain ($193.00 in chips)
Seat 3: finnishharmony ($23.00 in chips)
Seat 4: KomTi ($38.00 in chips)
Seat 5: mikknud ($74.50 in chips)
Seat 6: Hoiberg88 ($40.00 in chips)
Seat 7: Villain ($408.95 in chips) DEALER
Seat 8: OptimusPrimat ($64.10 in chips)
Seat 9: Hero ($198.00 in chips)
Seat 10: hompe6 ($101.00 in chips)
OptimusPrimat: Post SB $1.00
Hero: Post BB $2.00
Hoiberg88: Post BB $3.00
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [A♣ A♠]
Dealt to Villain [Q♡ Q♣]
hompe6: Fold
Villain: Fold
finnishharmony: Call $2.00
KomTi: Fold
mikknud: Fold
Hoiberg88: Check
Villain: Call $2.00
OptimusPrimat: Call $1.00
Hero: Raise $11.00
Reasonably lumpy. Looking for just one opponent.
finnishharmony: Fold
Hoiberg88: Fold
Villain: Call $11.00
OptimusPrimat: Fold
Good.
*** FLOP *** [2♣ T♠ Q◊]
Rainbow. KJ a danger draw, set of twos or 10s, and that’s about it. I feel comfortable and confident
Hero: Bet $22.00
Villain: Raise $44.00
Hero: Call $22.00
Now I’m not so confident. Could be a raise on a draw, could be a set. Mini-raises are the biggest alarm bells going
*** TURN *** [8◊]
Hero: Check
Villain: Bet $66.00
That’s enough for me.
Hero: Fold
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $184.00 Rake $3.00
Villain: wins $184.00
But what the hell was the guy doing, limping on the button, with QQ? If I have lots of opponents like that at this level, I will be happy. However, I got away for a $55 loss rather than a $198 stack-off. I was pleased with myself.
Oh, and watch out for OptimusPrimat. He conveniently “disconnected” with AK on a rag flop against my pair of fours.
All of the above hands were part “feeling my way” at the higher level, and, looking at them, I’m still not happy. Some worked, some didn’t, but so much of the game is knowing how a level “plays”.
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