LV here we come
Mar. 15th, 2005 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksI fly to Vegas tomorrow, and I have no idea whether I will be updating this or not while I am there. Last night I woke up at 1am (having fallen asleep at about 8.30. I got up and played an hour on Ultimate, befre heading back to bed at about 3am. And then I was up again at 5.30am. So, needless to say, I'm a bit knackered at the moment. Just got back from the gym, but my heart wasn't in it.
Ultimate at 2am is a different place. I came across one of those rarities online in limit these days, a controlled maniac. I got a handle on him eventually and I will know how to play him the next time I see him, but he nipped me out of one pot by reraising from MP2 with Ace-Nine off (which was capped by another loose-aggressive player). I pitched my A-J off, which would have won. He also called my raise cold with Q9s and ripped up my KQ on a board of Q9642 or something. But he also knew when to get away from a hand, which made him dangerous.
Fortunately I picked up $70 on a ropy raise with AT off in second position. A flop that you like to see with three opponents is Ace-Ten-Ten. I led out, got raised in one spot. called, checked turn, late hand bets, I raise, he calls. River is bet, call. End of story.
Hank Greenberg resigned as boss of AIG last night after a board meeting on Sunday that probably resembled the last hours of Thatcher. He's been replaced by Michael Spanner, a good old Dagenham boy who left school at 16 and is now the most powerful foreign-born boss of a US company. This succession is a bit like Stalin dying and being replaced by Alan Sugar.
Ultimate at 2am is a different place. I came across one of those rarities online in limit these days, a controlled maniac. I got a handle on him eventually and I will know how to play him the next time I see him, but he nipped me out of one pot by reraising from MP2 with Ace-Nine off (which was capped by another loose-aggressive player). I pitched my A-J off, which would have won. He also called my raise cold with Q9s and ripped up my KQ on a board of Q9642 or something. But he also knew when to get away from a hand, which made him dangerous.
Fortunately I picked up $70 on a ropy raise with AT off in second position. A flop that you like to see with three opponents is Ace-Ten-Ten. I led out, got raised in one spot. called, checked turn, late hand bets, I raise, he calls. River is bet, call. End of story.
Hank Greenberg resigned as boss of AIG last night after a board meeting on Sunday that probably resembled the last hours of Thatcher. He's been replaced by Michael Spanner, a good old Dagenham boy who left school at 16 and is now the most powerful foreign-born boss of a US company. This succession is a bit like Stalin dying and being replaced by Alan Sugar.
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Date: 2005-03-15 08:33 pm (UTC)Some hotels via the TV is ok whilst others give a ridiculous resolution which can only be sponsored by Solpadeine.
I've heard there is now a decent internet cafe near Polo Towers on the strip - if you are in the Flamingo that may be an agreeable morning stroll...