I hate finding a way to introduce my blog entries. There I've done it. Onto the content.
Last night I took part in a 45 player poker tournament on PokerStars, and finished third. This was despite going down to T$235 in the second level on a really crappy suck out. If you're interested you can read about that hand later, if not then just skip that section.
I think I played well in that game eventually going out by taking my AQ up against AK in third for a 600% profit.
Remember that poker is happening in the Kramer Quad on middle campus UCT on saturday at around 12:00. Also there's going to be a R35 satellite the R10 000 tournament next week, I'm definitely going to be playing in that.
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED AT THE OFFICE
Yes, this time it wasn't a bottle of granadilla juice that set off a chain of hilarious events, but a crap excel spread sheet with word puzzles claiming to be MENSA test. The puzzles took the form of "26 L of the A" with a solution of "26 letters of the alphabet". It was sent to everyone is my department by this guy who regularly send out crap emails about things like flesh eating banana bugs or weird coincidences that prove the universe is connected in strange and unbelievable ways or even amazing pictures of unlikely real life situations. These kind of emails generally just irritate me and sending back pages from Snopes and telling him to check his sources before sending this crap out.
Not being very good with these kind of word games I cheated a bit, broke the very simple protection on the spread sheet and found the hidden answers. In short order I copied and pasted all the correct answers into the spread sheet and mailed it back. Apparently getting more that 19 of the 30 correct indicated a genius level IQ, so I renamed the file "Imagenius.xls". This all took about five minutes and everybody in on the joke, three people, had a great laugh while this guy sat totally amazed, checking that I'd actually gotten them all right.
Fucking Hilarious
NEWS
There's no news today, this post is being written really late and I've got to go somewhere. Q.N.I.T.Y has made an interesting comment about the Brent Goldin shooting. I promise I'll have something to say about it tomorrow, I just don't have enough time right now.
CONTEST
Well, You've still got until Sunday to get your Bushism translations to me. Mail them to schpat@gmail.com and you could stand a chance of winning a R100 Gift Certificate.
THAT POKER HAND
Blinds were T$15/T$30, my chip stack was T$1275, I was in Late Position and dealt AKo. The player directly after the BB (mdartist) called for T$30 and it was folded to me. I put in a 1xBB raise and made it $60 to go. The SB and BB both call. The flop is
3d 3s Ts
The action is checked to me and being the last one to act I stick in a half pot sized bet of T$120. The reason I do this because I know that the flop has not made anybodies hand. If it had they would have bet, they're not just going to leave a flush draw sitting on the table to suck out on their pair of T's, set of 3's, set of T's. The only hand that they would not have minded getting drawn out on was quad 3's and the with the likelihood of that, they deserve to get paid. The SB and BB fold but mdartist senses a little weakness in the smallish bet and pushes his entire stack of T$830. Now in this guy had been in almost every hand since the beginning, only winning one of the in a showdown and in the last three hands he's pushed all in twice to steal the blinds on the flop. I decided to call him.
He shows 58o, I mean who the fuck shoves their entire hand on 58o with a flop like that and an aggressive bettor. He has no chance of having the high card so he's obviously hoping to make a pair which is a 7.5:1 shot with one card to come and 3:1 with two to come. Even with a 3:1 shot his pot odds where 0.7:1 and implied odds where 2.7:1, that's what he would have got if I'd called. Now if you're playing the odds you make sure that there is an overlay, your pot or implied odds must be greater than your chance of making a hand. Now I didn't work all those stats out in my head then, I just put them together now to show how bad a decision this guy made, he was obviously either gambling or, more likely, trying to make me fold. I suspected as much and that's why I called his bet, I had the better hand and my chances of winning were 75%, it was a good play. That's why it's even more frustrating when the turn came up a 5 and my hand didn't improve on the river. All In Arse Monkey sucked me out.
Well the very next hand I was dealt AKs and pushed, got two callers, including mdartist, and tripled up. I sat out a hand and was then dealt KK, I pushed on the flop and got 3 callers, again including mdartist. Woot Quadrupled my money. Two Hands later mdartist when out when his A6o whent up against AKs, it's just a pitty it wasn't me that took him out. That's what you get for being an AIAR!
Like I said I ended up third in the tournament and won $7 for a $6 profit, rock.
A MOVIE I WATCHED RECENTLY
The second movie I watched over easter was 'Monty Python's Holy Grail'. I know a lot of people are going to hate me for this, but I really didn't enjoy it that much. I've seen it about five times before, so the silliness was just silly and not really all that funny. Even the Witch = Duck didn't crack a smile. If you haven't seen this one, go rent it, otherwise it's not much funnier the second time round. I'd far rather recommend you get 'The Life of Brian' or 'The Meaning of Life'. In case you're wondering 'The Meaning of Life' is the better of the two.
That's about it for me
schpat out
Last night I took part in a 45 player poker tournament on PokerStars, and finished third. This was despite going down to T$235 in the second level on a really crappy suck out. If you're interested you can read about that hand later, if not then just skip that section.
I think I played well in that game eventually going out by taking my AQ up against AK in third for a 600% profit.
Remember that poker is happening in the Kramer Quad on middle campus UCT on saturday at around 12:00. Also there's going to be a R35 satellite the R10 000 tournament next week, I'm definitely going to be playing in that.
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED AT THE OFFICE
Yes, this time it wasn't a bottle of granadilla juice that set off a chain of hilarious events, but a crap excel spread sheet with word puzzles claiming to be MENSA test. The puzzles took the form of "26 L of the A" with a solution of "26 letters of the alphabet". It was sent to everyone is my department by this guy who regularly send out crap emails about things like flesh eating banana bugs or weird coincidences that prove the universe is connected in strange and unbelievable ways or even amazing pictures of unlikely real life situations. These kind of emails generally just irritate me and sending back pages from Snopes and telling him to check his sources before sending this crap out.
Not being very good with these kind of word games I cheated a bit, broke the very simple protection on the spread sheet and found the hidden answers. In short order I copied and pasted all the correct answers into the spread sheet and mailed it back. Apparently getting more that 19 of the 30 correct indicated a genius level IQ, so I renamed the file "Imagenius.xls". This all took about five minutes and everybody in on the joke, three people, had a great laugh while this guy sat totally amazed, checking that I'd actually gotten them all right.
Fucking Hilarious
NEWS
There's no news today, this post is being written really late and I've got to go somewhere. Q.N.I.T.Y has made an interesting comment about the Brent Goldin shooting. I promise I'll have something to say about it tomorrow, I just don't have enough time right now.
CONTEST
Well, You've still got until Sunday to get your Bushism translations to me. Mail them to schpat@gmail.com and you could stand a chance of winning a R100 Gift Certificate.
THAT POKER HAND
Blinds were T$15/T$30, my chip stack was T$1275, I was in Late Position and dealt AKo. The player directly after the BB (mdartist) called for T$30 and it was folded to me. I put in a 1xBB raise and made it $60 to go. The SB and BB both call. The flop is
3d 3s Ts
The action is checked to me and being the last one to act I stick in a half pot sized bet of T$120. The reason I do this because I know that the flop has not made anybodies hand. If it had they would have bet, they're not just going to leave a flush draw sitting on the table to suck out on their pair of T's, set of 3's, set of T's. The only hand that they would not have minded getting drawn out on was quad 3's and the with the likelihood of that, they deserve to get paid. The SB and BB fold but mdartist senses a little weakness in the smallish bet and pushes his entire stack of T$830. Now in this guy had been in almost every hand since the beginning, only winning one of the in a showdown and in the last three hands he's pushed all in twice to steal the blinds on the flop. I decided to call him.
He shows 58o, I mean who the fuck shoves their entire hand on 58o with a flop like that and an aggressive bettor. He has no chance of having the high card so he's obviously hoping to make a pair which is a 7.5:1 shot with one card to come and 3:1 with two to come. Even with a 3:1 shot his pot odds where 0.7:1 and implied odds where 2.7:1, that's what he would have got if I'd called. Now if you're playing the odds you make sure that there is an overlay, your pot or implied odds must be greater than your chance of making a hand. Now I didn't work all those stats out in my head then, I just put them together now to show how bad a decision this guy made, he was obviously either gambling or, more likely, trying to make me fold. I suspected as much and that's why I called his bet, I had the better hand and my chances of winning were 75%, it was a good play. That's why it's even more frustrating when the turn came up a 5 and my hand didn't improve on the river. All In Arse Monkey sucked me out.
Well the very next hand I was dealt AKs and pushed, got two callers, including mdartist, and tripled up. I sat out a hand and was then dealt KK, I pushed on the flop and got 3 callers, again including mdartist. Woot Quadrupled my money. Two Hands later mdartist when out when his A6o whent up against AKs, it's just a pitty it wasn't me that took him out. That's what you get for being an AIAR!
Like I said I ended up third in the tournament and won $7 for a $6 profit, rock.
A MOVIE I WATCHED RECENTLY
The second movie I watched over easter was 'Monty Python's Holy Grail'. I know a lot of people are going to hate me for this, but I really didn't enjoy it that much. I've seen it about five times before, so the silliness was just silly and not really all that funny. Even the Witch = Duck didn't crack a smile. If you haven't seen this one, go rent it, otherwise it's not much funnier the second time round. I'd far rather recommend you get 'The Life of Brian' or 'The Meaning of Life'. In case you're wondering 'The Meaning of Life' is the better of the two.
That's about it for me
schpat out
2 comments:
actually, i'd suggest going for the life of brian. the meaning of life isn't very funny, it's just a really good artistic (and EXTREMELY cynical) look at human nature. rather disturbing, actually. but then again, i'm just a human 'bean. of all the potential sperm, *i* made it!
btw - relative to the intelligence level of somebody who repeatedly sends out those kinds of email, someone like you who knows about snopes and can reverse engineer an excel sheet IS a bloody genius.
please shoot him in the knee for me.
I knew Brett Goldin. He was agreat guy, with amazing energy and always a smile and would not have hurt anyone else in the world. And its really fucking shit that stuff like that happens.
He happened to be getting ahead in life but that doesn't make him worth less than the slackers going nowhere or other random people.
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