Life Imitates Art

14 January 2009 - Czech government EU sculpture shows France as a nation on strike

29 January 2009 - France goes on strike… again

It's Le National Sport, apparently !

Sick ?

I feel like crap at the moment, last night about 7.30 I started feeling a bit light headed and I've been weak since. It's nothing to do with getting my KK cracked by AK again either ! I'm either not getting enough sleep or it’s eating all these salads for lunch is making me all girly, perhaps both !

The tournaments are kicking are my butt in the middle stages. Push-monkeys who think a coinflip or worse is a good situation to be in keep hitting against me, and there is little I can do to stop it. It's frustrating, but there are times when you are forced to play for stacks preflop, though I would prefer to make moves on the board where I can actually put a little style into it and work my reads. Not sure I have the energy to play tonight, depends how easy I can make my day at work.

Update : Had lunch, feel better, I'm having a very quiet day making up words to fill in project documents for those above.

Game On !

Fail

I said in my last post that I'm immune to bad beat tilt, I've been to an place with bad beats that makes all others irrelevant, what I didn't say is that I am sensitive to self-destruct tilt. This form of tilt occurs when I play a hand quickly, stupidly and for many or all of my chips. Yesterday it occurred in the 4th hour of the 3582 entrant $5 tournament on Stars.

I had been playing well, finding some really good spots to win chips my cards didn't deserve and then, SLAM!, complacency or carelessness saw me throw chips away and myself out of the game in a snap-call when I HAD to be beaten. The maddening part of course was that I didn't even think about his history or any of his stats before making the call.

In the cold light of today I can see this put on tilt, I went from playing really good to just playing my cards. It was like a fog had descended over the table. I couldn't see my opponents cards anymore and I was full out doubts about my own. I played another 6 tournaments feeling like that. Muppet ! My final attempt at winning something on Sunday was a $5 SNG. We got down to 4 players. I was allin with 10 10 and got bubbled by A Q.

I watched the start of the new series of LOST, if you've never seen it, the following explains why you never should -

"Hurley tells his mom they all lied about what happened after the crash. He tells her about the island – the crash, the smoke monster, The Others, hatches, the button every 108 minutes, the Dharma Initiative, the freighter, the boat, the six of them left."

Say WTF ?

"Hurley: "The rest of the people who were on the plane. They’re still on that island."
He cries.
His mom grabs his arm. "I believe you. I don’t understand you, but I believe you.""

Nobody understands you LOST, and only a few still believe you, please leave now. I feel dumber everytime I accidentally see you on TV.

At least we have action-packed 24 to entertain us tonight.

Cowboy up, Tan, Cowboy up

Warning : this is a bad beat post.

Just an example of how bad I am running about 2/3rds of the way into any tourney I play at the moment, I'm fine with this because as you know I am immune to bad beat tilt, but some are a little harder than others to suck up and move on !

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Seat 1: mikller ($17348)
Seat 2: itgetsme ($16165)
Seat 3: jsinte ($9615) -
Seat 4: !Walhalla024 ($8289) -
Seat 5: TanOrpheus ($12305) -
Seat 6: bacu7 ($8398)
Seat 7: kifinas33 ($21385)
Seat 8: tikatika2727 ($31816)
Seat 9: seasquirrel ($7410)


PRE-FLOP:

!Walhalla024 posts small blind $400
TanOrpheus posts BIG blind $800
Dealt To: TanOrpheus


ANTE mikller ($75)
ANTE itgetsme ($75)
ANTE jsinte ($75)
ANTE !Walhalla024 ($75)
ANTE TanOrpheus ($75)
ANTE bacu7 ($75)
ANTE kifinas33 ($75)
ANTE tikatika2727 ($75)
ANTE seasquirrel ($75)
FOLD bacu7
FOLD kifinas33
FOLD tikatika2727
FOLD seasquirrel
RAISE mikller ($2400)
FOLD itgetsme
FOLD jsinte
RAISE !Walhalla024 ($8214)
RAISE TanOrpheus ($12230)
CALL mikller ($9830)


FLOP:

Pot: $34549




TURN:

Pot: $34549




RIVER:

Pot: $34549




SHOWDOWN:
TanOrpheus:

mikller:

!Walhalla024:


TanOrpheus collected $8032 from side pot 1!Walhalla024 collected $25317 from main pot

SUMMARY:
Total pot: $33349Main pot: $25317
Side pot: $8032
Rake: $0

Final Board:


Seat 1: mikller showed [Qc Tc] and lost with high card Queen - Net Gain/Loss: ($-12305)

Seat 2: itgetsme folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($-75)
Seat 3: jsinte button folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($-75)
Seat 4: !Walhalla024 small blind showed [5d 7d] and won 25317 with a straight, Four to Eight - Net Gain/Loss: ($17028)

Seat 5: TanOrpheus big blind showed [Kh Kd] and won 8032 with a pair of Kings - Net Gain/Loss: ($-2673)
Seat 6: bacu7 folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($-75)
Seat 7: kifinas33 folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($-75)
Seat 8: tikatika2727 folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($-75)
Seat 9: seasquirrel folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($-75)


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!Walhalla024's push isn't as bad as this looks, mikller had been donking around a lot, and we both had 'history' with him, the push-back was presumably intended to get him to fold.

Next hand - Dealt to TanOrpheus [9c 3d] - TanOrpheus: folds

Then -
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Seat 1: mikller ($4968)
Seat 2: itgetsme ($16015)
Seat 3: jsinte ($9465)
Seat 4: !Walhalla024 ($25242)
Seat 5: TanOrpheus ($7557) -
Seat 6: bacu7 ($9323) -
Seat 7: kifinas33 ($21235) -
Seat 8: tikatika2727 ($31666)
Seat 9: seasquirrel ($7260)


PRE-FLOP:

bacu7 posts small blind $400
kifinas33 posts BIG blind $800
Dealt To: TanOrpheus


ANTE mikller ($75)
ANTE itgetsme ($75)
ANTE jsinte ($75)
ANTE !Walhalla024 ($75)
ANTE TanOrpheus ($75)
ANTE bacu7 ($75)
ANTE kifinas33 ($75)
ANTE tikatika2727 ($75)
ANTE seasquirrel ($75)
RAISE tikatika2727 ($2300)
FOLD seasquirrel
FOLD mikller
FOLD itgetsme
FOLD jsinte
FOLD !Walhalla024
RAISE TanOrpheus ($7482)
FOLD bacu7
FOLD kifinas33
CALL tikatika2727 ($5182)


FLOP:

Pot: $16839


TanOrpheus said, "KK no good tonite :("

TURN:

Pot: $16839





RIVER:

Pot: $16839



TanOrpheus said, "gg"
!Walhalla024 said, "jsus"
!Walhalla024 said, "why learn poker"

SHOWDOWN:
tikatika2727:

TanOrpheus:


tikatika2727 collected $16839 from main pot

SUMMARY:
Total pot: $16839 Rake: $0

Final Board:


Seat 1: mikller folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($-75)
Seat 2: itgetsme folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($-75)
Seat 3: jsinte folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($-75)
Seat 4: !Walhalla024 folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($-75)
Seat 5: TanOrpheus button showed [Kd Kc] and lost with a pair of Kings - Net Gain/Loss: ($-5257)
Seat 6: bacu7 small blind folded before Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-475)
Seat 7: kifinas33 big blind folded before Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-875)
Seat 8: tikatika2727 showed [Ks Ac] and won 16839 with a pair of Aces - Net Gain/Loss: ($9282)

Seat 9: seasquirrel folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($-75)


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