Fun Times, and teeth
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peterbirksInsanely played a roller-coaster game last night and was still playing below par. I dropped $300 on Pacific, but I don't think that there was a lot that I could do about it. I then came back via Littlewoods and at one point was looking at an $800 loss for the day. This included one hand where I managed to get stacked off for $280 -- not something I want to repeat in the near future.
I'll reprint some of the hands when I get home, but suffice to say that on that atrocious hand mentioned above, I got the guy to put in $60 on a flop where he was 8%, and another $80 on the turn when he was 10%. Since I had put in 50% of my stack, I made a crying call on the river for the other half. I'm still wondering about that decision.
What really riled was that the guy left with his $560, returning no more than 15 minutes later with $100, half the max buy-in. Clearly 888 has a relaxed attitude to rat-holing. He then proceeded to take another $80 off me when I flopped T9 on a board of JT9 and he had J9. I was beginning to doubt my read on the guy, until, acouple of hands later, he threw it all in (against someone else, obv) with 22 on a board of KKJxx. Opponent smooth-called with his KJ.
Anyhoo, perhaps I was in an odd mood, 'cos I carried on and, lo and behold, got back $200 with JhTh vs QdQs on a board of Ts 8h 7h. I'm always shoving all of the money in there, but it was comnforting to see on Pokerstove that I was indeed favourite.
A few hands later I picked up 99 and put in a 3x raise, calling the reraise to $18, and saw a flop that included a nine but could, just could, have been a replica of the previous hand (something like Td 9d 7s). So it was unsurprising that opponent was keen to get it all in with his pair of Queens. Kaching. Not often that I treat a day where $300 lost is a result, but it feels darned good after being $800 down.
That stretch of hands on Littlewoods was about as volatile a sequence as I have seen. The $200 BI table had at least four certified fish (one of them 83%/0%), and two of them couldn't stop hitting cards. Thus the six regulars were continually reloading (I ended up with $650 on the table for a grand total of $140 profit) and thus turning it into one of those rare genuine deep-stack online tables. Until shit-face left and returned with just $100, that is.
Quite a fun night, all in all. I want to play some more $200 like that, preferably when I'm not feeling ill.
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The British do seem to have a knack at PLO, don't they? I mean, Ben Grundy must be the best player in the world at short-handed PLO if pure online results are anything to go by. And the $2,500 PLO WSOP event has got Ben, Paul Parker, Surinder Sunar AND John Kabbaj in the final 18 or so. I'm going to funk for Parker and Grundy here. Grundy because he deserves a bracelet and rather wider recognition than he gets at the moment, and Paul Parker because.... Well, you just have to know the guy. It would just be hilarious. Paul turned up in a suit at Neil's 600K celebratory drink. His first words to Neil were reportedly "I know I'm in a suit, but I'm not on the nip..."
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The teeth are finished. For those of you willing to see the horrors of dental progress, click here.
Here's one of the only pix I have that show the shape of my teeth as was, this one from 2004. Note the badly misaligned number two tooth, the milk teeth still in the "c" position, and the narrowness of the arch at the top (i.e., only two teeth face forwards, all the others face to the side).
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The milk teeth have been extracted.
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This picture is about 15 months after the one above, including three operations on the right canine tooth to try to encourage it to come down, and two on the left canine tooth. Note that the arch is already wider and the bottom teeth are getting slightly straighter.
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The canines in the picture below have finally been pulled down. We're actually getting near the end of the line here with the orthodontist, although the cosmetic stuff is still to come.
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Below. The braces are off just in time for Monte Carlo, but the teeth-whitening took place afterwards. This might be a bit blurred. I took it with the phone camera.
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Below: The finished article. Four front veneers now in place. A little bit of whitening still required on some of the teeth. But, overall, I'm very happy with it.
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I'll reprint some of the hands when I get home, but suffice to say that on that atrocious hand mentioned above, I got the guy to put in $60 on a flop where he was 8%, and another $80 on the turn when he was 10%. Since I had put in 50% of my stack, I made a crying call on the river for the other half. I'm still wondering about that decision.
What really riled was that the guy left with his $560, returning no more than 15 minutes later with $100, half the max buy-in. Clearly 888 has a relaxed attitude to rat-holing. He then proceeded to take another $80 off me when I flopped T9 on a board of JT9 and he had J9. I was beginning to doubt my read on the guy, until, acouple of hands later, he threw it all in (against someone else, obv) with 22 on a board of KKJxx. Opponent smooth-called with his KJ.
Anyhoo, perhaps I was in an odd mood, 'cos I carried on and, lo and behold, got back $200 with JhTh vs QdQs on a board of Ts 8h 7h. I'm always shoving all of the money in there, but it was comnforting to see on Pokerstove that I was indeed favourite.
A few hands later I picked up 99 and put in a 3x raise, calling the reraise to $18, and saw a flop that included a nine but could, just could, have been a replica of the previous hand (something like Td 9d 7s). So it was unsurprising that opponent was keen to get it all in with his pair of Queens. Kaching. Not often that I treat a day where $300 lost is a result, but it feels darned good after being $800 down.
That stretch of hands on Littlewoods was about as volatile a sequence as I have seen. The $200 BI table had at least four certified fish (one of them 83%/0%), and two of them couldn't stop hitting cards. Thus the six regulars were continually reloading (I ended up with $650 on the table for a grand total of $140 profit) and thus turning it into one of those rare genuine deep-stack online tables. Until shit-face left and returned with just $100, that is.
Quite a fun night, all in all. I want to play some more $200 like that, preferably when I'm not feeling ill.
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The British do seem to have a knack at PLO, don't they? I mean, Ben Grundy must be the best player in the world at short-handed PLO if pure online results are anything to go by. And the $2,500 PLO WSOP event has got Ben, Paul Parker, Surinder Sunar AND John Kabbaj in the final 18 or so. I'm going to funk for Parker and Grundy here. Grundy because he deserves a bracelet and rather wider recognition than he gets at the moment, and Paul Parker because.... Well, you just have to know the guy. It would just be hilarious. Paul turned up in a suit at Neil's 600K celebratory drink. His first words to Neil were reportedly "I know I'm in a suit, but I'm not on the nip..."
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The teeth are finished. For those of you willing to see the horrors of dental progress, click here.
Here's one of the only pix I have that show the shape of my teeth as was, this one from 2004. Note the badly misaligned number two tooth, the milk teeth still in the "c" position, and the narrowness of the arch at the top (i.e., only two teeth face forwards, all the others face to the side).
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The milk teeth have been extracted.
________________________
This picture is about 15 months after the one above, including three operations on the right canine tooth to try to encourage it to come down, and two on the left canine tooth. Note that the arch is already wider and the bottom teeth are getting slightly straighter.
________________________
The canines in the picture below have finally been pulled down. We're actually getting near the end of the line here with the orthodontist, although the cosmetic stuff is still to come.
____________________________
Below. The braces are off just in time for Monte Carlo, but the teeth-whitening took place afterwards. This might be a bit blurred. I took it with the phone camera.
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Below: The finished article. Four front veneers now in place. A little bit of whitening still required on some of the teeth. But, overall, I'm very happy with it.
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Date: 2009-06-07 01:06 pm (UTC)And that's what counts.
You might recall that I have a big ol' overbite. Yours is the only case (not to make you self-conscious...) I can immediately think of in which an adult has worn braces for the first time. On the other hand, one of my US Friends recently went for about six months of InvisAlign, which (if I understand correctly) does a similar thing, but uses transparent plastic braces, which are replaced for progressively tighter ones every couple of weeks. They've been advertised over here recently, so I wonder if you know anything about their application in the UK.
Hurrah for lots of +EV decisions as well as lots of +real$ ones; keep making them!
teeth
Date: 2009-06-07 08:11 pm (UTC)John W
Re: teeth
Date: 2009-06-07 08:39 pm (UTC)Invisalign is promoted at my dentist's practice now. It kind of looks like a sequence of tough retainers. Having put on a retained after three weeks without one (they arrived after I went to Monaco), I would imagine that they would be just as uncomfortable as after each visit for the brace adjustment.
I would recommend the clear braces to anyone going for it. You'd be amazed how little notice people take of them.
PJ
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Date: 2009-06-18 05:04 pm (UTC)New York City Orthodontics (http://www.ueso.org)