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peterbirksI managed about 10 minutes of the new Late Night Poker last night before I switched off in frustration. I know that tournaments are different from cash games, but early on in the tournament you must have at least a decent resemblance to proper cash-grame play. If that's the case, then a Swedish guy's play of QQ pre-flop (cold-called a raise from an aggressiveplayer), on the flop (led out on an all-low flop) and on the turn (checked when a King came) left me confident that I haven't got much to worry about at the $100 buy-in level just yet.
I awaited the commentators' disparaging comments, but they were not forthcoming. Indeed, more venom was reserved for Roy Brindley's call of a raise with QJo -- something which didn't strike me as too bad. The word "dominated" was used (opponent had KQ) but, as we know, 'domninated' is often no worse than 30% (he was probably about 28% here), which gives you good implied odds if you can get in relatively cheaply and in position.
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I was looking at the breaking news section last night when I spotted that French oil company Total had been thwacked with a massive penalty over the sinking of the oil tanker Erika in 1999. I knew that there was an insurance angle here , so I went hunting.
Unfortunately, googling the words Total Erika generated a significant number of hits, but few of them related to sinking oil tankers.
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I awaited the commentators' disparaging comments, but they were not forthcoming. Indeed, more venom was reserved for Roy Brindley's call of a raise with QJo -- something which didn't strike me as too bad. The word "dominated" was used (opponent had KQ) but, as we know, 'domninated' is often no worse than 30% (he was probably about 28% here), which gives you good implied odds if you can get in relatively cheaply and in position.
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I was looking at the breaking news section last night when I spotted that French oil company Total had been thwacked with a massive penalty over the sinking of the oil tanker Erika in 1999. I knew that there was an insurance angle here , so I went hunting.
Unfortunately, googling the words Total Erika generated a significant number of hits, but few of them related to sinking oil tankers.
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Date: 2008-01-17 10:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-17 10:55 am (UTC)PJ