Life Is Just Tiring Sometimes
Jun. 8th, 2005 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksWell, the man came round to look at the ceiling, and he said that he and a labourer could manage it in a "long day" (this means working after 3pm in building-speak, I think). Unfortunately, I have to empty the room. Now, emptying my office will not be easy. Just emptying it of the contents will be hard enough, but taking out the furniture and the entire top row of shelves (which circumnavigate the room apart from the chimney-breast) kind of eliminates any planned poker-playing, shopping, reading, or eating on Sunday.
Here's the crack:
And then the following weekend, I shall be doing my impersonation of the grand Old Duke of York in reverse, by marching the books and shelves back up again.
I'm finally stripping the paint from the last unstripped door in the house (although the bannisters still await a long, long job). THe upshot was that I was so knackered by half-past-seven that I went to bed, with the inevitable result that I woke up at 1.30am. Got up, played half an hour on Party to knock of some bonus dollars, and then treated myself to a relaxing half-hour on Ultimate playing low-stakes $50 max buy-in Omaha.
My god, these players can be bad. I picked up $8 without going near a showdown or seeing anything approaching a set or a straight (rock on the button and the check-raise from the small blind, I say). But a couple of hands in which I wasn't playing almost took my breath away.
The most notable was where the board came something like TS 6S KH and the pre-flop raiser on the button bet the pot, to be called by one player. Turn brought the QS, putting a possible straight and a possible flush out there. MP2 checked and button bet pot again. MP2 promptly reraised all-in, clearly indicating the nut flush, and Button called like a shot, presumably indicating King flush or a set on the chase.
River was a rag. MP2 promptly turned over a hand where the only relevant cards in a pile of tat were the four and five of spades, giving him about as ropey a flush as you can imagine, while the button turned out to have the monstrous (in one sense of the word, anyway) top two-pair with a gutshot straight draw. Dreadful, truly dreadful. And this was something like a sixty-buck pot.
One might claim that MP2 knew about the button's style (which seemed to consist of grossly overrating absolutely anything) but even then he had no right calling the bet on the flop. Unfortunately I couldn't pick up the right hand or situation to make hay.
My average in 25c-50c PLO so far is $67 per 100 hands over 900 hands. I haven't run this through the standard deviation checker yet, because it's still a small sample (particularly for PLO) and I know that I've had the best side of the luck right the way through. Lucky that the cards have no memory :-)
Here's the crack:
And then the following weekend, I shall be doing my impersonation of the grand Old Duke of York in reverse, by marching the books and shelves back up again.
I'm finally stripping the paint from the last unstripped door in the house (although the bannisters still await a long, long job). THe upshot was that I was so knackered by half-past-seven that I went to bed, with the inevitable result that I woke up at 1.30am. Got up, played half an hour on Party to knock of some bonus dollars, and then treated myself to a relaxing half-hour on Ultimate playing low-stakes $50 max buy-in Omaha.
My god, these players can be bad. I picked up $8 without going near a showdown or seeing anything approaching a set or a straight (rock on the button and the check-raise from the small blind, I say). But a couple of hands in which I wasn't playing almost took my breath away.
The most notable was where the board came something like TS 6S KH and the pre-flop raiser on the button bet the pot, to be called by one player. Turn brought the QS, putting a possible straight and a possible flush out there. MP2 checked and button bet pot again. MP2 promptly reraised all-in, clearly indicating the nut flush, and Button called like a shot, presumably indicating King flush or a set on the chase.
River was a rag. MP2 promptly turned over a hand where the only relevant cards in a pile of tat were the four and five of spades, giving him about as ropey a flush as you can imagine, while the button turned out to have the monstrous (in one sense of the word, anyway) top two-pair with a gutshot straight draw. Dreadful, truly dreadful. And this was something like a sixty-buck pot.
One might claim that MP2 knew about the button's style (which seemed to consist of grossly overrating absolutely anything) but even then he had no right calling the bet on the flop. Unfortunately I couldn't pick up the right hand or situation to make hay.
My average in 25c-50c PLO so far is $67 per 100 hands over 900 hands. I haven't run this through the standard deviation checker yet, because it's still a small sample (particularly for PLO) and I know that I've had the best side of the luck right the way through. Lucky that the cards have no memory :-)
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I was reading this
Date: 2005-06-08 07:30 pm (UTC)1st Hand: I post immediately behind the button,
Dealt to irchex [ 5c 2d Td 3c ] How fast can I fold this ?
Three limpers, I check, SB completes, BB checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9c, 4h, Ad ]
Uh-oh, now I've got reasonable draw, I suppose I'm going to have play this.
HoLeeCoww bets [$0.75].
TheGame888 calls [$0.75].
almomo raises [$4.5].
irchex calls [$4.5]. Told you so.
RogerMexico folds.
chipper0201 folds.
HoLeeCoww calls [$3.75].
TheGame888 folds.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3d ] Now I'm holding the nut straight, but my only available improvement is non-nut flush, and a small overcard could kill my straight.
almomo bets [$15].
irchex is all-In [$20.25] Discourage caller I think, and get it in before I have to guess when a D comes on the river.
HoLeeCoww folds.
almomo is all-In [$1.4]
** Dealing River ** [ 5d ]
almomo shows [ Ac, 8s, 2c, 9h ] a straight, ace to five.
irchex shows [ 5c, 2d, Td, 3c ] a flush, ace high.
irchex wins $3.85 from side pot #1 with a flush, ace high.
irchex wins $46.15 from the main pot with a flush, ace high.
Hmmm, I'm 35% on the flop against this opponent, and 87.5% on the turn. What are these people thinking of. What was HoLeeCow playing with?
Do I care, or do I just take the money?
At the other table, I'm losing $15 when an opponent calls $7.3 all in to a $15 pot, with only 27.8% equity. Gotta keep this guy playing too.
Even worse:
#Game No : 2175452549
***** Hand History for Game 2175452549 *****
$25 PL Omaha Hi - Wednesday, June 08, 15:21:28 EDT 2005
Table Table 37075 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: RogerMexico ( $39.1 )
Seat 3: HoLeeCoww ( $13.8 )
Seat 4: poker1971 ( $30.1 )
Seat 9: irchex ( $52.15 )
Seat 7: mschneid ( $26 )
Seat 8: bvoro ( $24.65 )
Seat 6: aldogsu ( $24.6 )
Seat 2: hsb1000 ( $23.3 )
Seat 5: sarah366 ( $23.7 )
Seat 10: jermijones ( $24.75 )
sarah366 posts small blind [$0.1].
aldogsu posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to irchex [ 8h Th Ah As ]
mschneid folds.
bvoro calls [$0.25].
irchex raises [$1.1].
jermijones folds.
RogerMexico folds.
hsb1000 folds.
HoLeeCoww folds.
poker1971 folds.
sarah366 raises [$2.9].
aldogsu calls [$2.75].
bvoro calls [$2.75].
irchex raises [$13.9].
sarah366 calls [$12].
aldogsu calls [$12].
bvoro is all-In [$21.65]
irchex is all-In [$37.15]
sarah366 is all-In [$8.7]
aldogsu is all-In [$9.6]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3h, 4c, Kd ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8d ]
irchex shows [ 8h, Th, Ah, As ] a pair of aces. 41.35%
sarah366 shows [ Qc, 6d, 4s, Ad ] a flush, ace high. 28.37%
aldogsu shows [ Jh, Td, Kh, 9d ] a flush, king high. 17.61%
bvoro doesn't show [ Qd, Kc, 9h, Js ] a pair of kings. 12.68%
irchex wins $27.5 from side pot #3 with a pair of aces.
irchex wins $0.1 from side pot #2 with a pair of aces.
aldogsu wins $2.7 from side pot #1 with a flush, king high.
sarah366 wins $91.8 from the main pot with a flush, ace high with ace kicker.
Keep on truckin' guys.