Bits and bobs
Jun. 30th, 2005 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksA good month (more details tomorrow night). And it looks like some bonus sessions will soon be appearing for July 4th (Ultimate's kicks in on Monday for 24 hours). And my new 19 inch monitor should arrive fairly soon.
The Chinese are definitely taking over in the US. Never mind buying oil and gas companies, Huffy, the maker of bikes, has just fallen into the hands of its creditors, the main one of which is, yes, a Chinese bank. This is just the start. Like I wrote, the Chinese have been buying T Bonds and company bonds in the US for many years. I wonder how many Ford bonds they hold?
I am seriously beginning to wonder whether there is any point posting stuff on the two main poker forums any more. It's clear that most players will remain stuck in the context of tournaments that once they get emotionally involved, they become more risk averse. One guy on Gutshot asserted (in response to my comment, "if you get knocked out, so what? There is another tournament tomorrow") "I play tournaments to win" as if my comment implied that I played tournaments with the aim of getting knocked out. What this guy seems to mean by "playing tournaments to win" is avoiding any 50:50 situation where he might get knocked out (even if the odds offered are 6-to-4). This is not playing tournaments to win in any way, shape, or form. It's playing tournaments not to get knocked out, which is not the same thing at all.
But, since these people can't (or won't) see the error of their ways, I think that I will just let them carry on.
And then another guy on The Hendon Mob recounted his play in the Late Night Poker knock out on Party. In essence, he made a play with KQ on a flop of Qxx, and was then raised back. Clearly it had utterly escaped his attention that this was a possibility, because he was now the famous "pot-committed". He called and duly went out to AQ. For god's sake, when will these people think more than one bet ahead? If he had done that he could have either check-folded, check-called, or smacked all of his money in first.
The guy had four possible ways to play the hand and, like so many tournament players in this situation, chose absolutely the worst.
I couldn't even be bothered to post about this one. In a sense, it cheered me up. As DY pointed out, most of them really are utterly clueless, and my major mistake this past year has been giving players at quite high stakes far too much credit.
The Chinese are definitely taking over in the US. Never mind buying oil and gas companies, Huffy, the maker of bikes, has just fallen into the hands of its creditors, the main one of which is, yes, a Chinese bank. This is just the start. Like I wrote, the Chinese have been buying T Bonds and company bonds in the US for many years. I wonder how many Ford bonds they hold?
I am seriously beginning to wonder whether there is any point posting stuff on the two main poker forums any more. It's clear that most players will remain stuck in the context of tournaments that once they get emotionally involved, they become more risk averse. One guy on Gutshot asserted (in response to my comment, "if you get knocked out, so what? There is another tournament tomorrow") "I play tournaments to win" as if my comment implied that I played tournaments with the aim of getting knocked out. What this guy seems to mean by "playing tournaments to win" is avoiding any 50:50 situation where he might get knocked out (even if the odds offered are 6-to-4). This is not playing tournaments to win in any way, shape, or form. It's playing tournaments not to get knocked out, which is not the same thing at all.
But, since these people can't (or won't) see the error of their ways, I think that I will just let them carry on.
And then another guy on The Hendon Mob recounted his play in the Late Night Poker knock out on Party. In essence, he made a play with KQ on a flop of Qxx, and was then raised back. Clearly it had utterly escaped his attention that this was a possibility, because he was now the famous "pot-committed". He called and duly went out to AQ. For god's sake, when will these people think more than one bet ahead? If he had done that he could have either check-folded, check-called, or smacked all of his money in first.
The guy had four possible ways to play the hand and, like so many tournament players in this situation, chose absolutely the worst.
I couldn't even be bothered to post about this one. In a sense, it cheered me up. As DY pointed out, most of them really are utterly clueless, and my major mistake this past year has been giving players at quite high stakes far too much credit.
