"Success is on the cards"
So far this week I've been into work everyday (I had the last two days off). Hopefully this trend doesn't continue.
Friday (Revisit): At work Ant-Man (first appearance) loaned me the wrestling DVDs 'One Night Stand 2006' (Including 'Barely Legal' the first ECW pay-per-view) and 'Summerslam 2003'. I watched 'Summerslam' as soon as I got home.
Sunday (26/11): Bolton 3 - Arsenal 1. Arsenal has not won away to Bolton since 2002. Before I saw the end of this match I had to go to work. I missed the last 13 minutes of play. After work I went out with K-Man to get some more PS2 games. We got 'Kingdom Hearts', 'God of War', 'Soul Calibur 3', and 'Resident Evil 4' before we split up. He went to meet up with one of his friends (and ended up bringing home 'GTA: San Andreas' and 'GTA: Liberty City Stories'. Whereas I went out to Chadstone and found myself a copy of 'Final Fantasy X'.
Monday (27/11): Worked. Found out that today is Saturns birthday.
Tuesday (): Went out for very late lunch with Saturn (3:30pm). We went to L'Aperitivo in Elsternwick, then we went on to work to try and pay for the christmas party - we met with failure. After we seperated I went to see 'The Descent' with Blur at the Jam Factory. I got to sit next to a screamer - I swear, my ears are still ringing.
Wednesday (): Watched 'Barely Legal' (1997 ECW pay-per-view) and 'One Night Stand' (June 2006 ECW pay-per-view). Went to try and get comics (paid for the christmas party on my way) - met with failure. So I continued on to Borders at the Jam Factory where I got myself two books - 'American Gods' and 'Stardust' both by Niel Gaiman. When I got home my Dad called and asked me to get him a keno ticket (which I did) - I wasn't happy about it (I missed RAW).
I went out to play poker again. The first hand was massive and two players were left with fifty in chips (I wasn't one of them) and one of them was the next big blind - forcing him all in. Almost everyone dropped out of the hand because one of his 'friends' scared us off with a rather large bet. I don't know the exact hands but it took the river for The all-in to win it. Three hands later and everyone was still in meaning that I had already improved on last week. But then Husband and Wife went at It and the Husband came off second best (or rather dead last) and was knocked out of the table (I think it was two pair vs one pair). Then in the next hand the same woman knocked out the girl who lost the second hand - complaining that she had just knocked out her two favourite people. Then it was my turn. The nineth hand saw me get pocket kings - unfortunately at that stage I had $400 in chips as the short stack, and bet $200 before the flop (a $100 raise - doubling the big blind). Two players stayed in and the flop came up J/7/3 so I went all in and both players called me. Next card was another 3 giving me two pair. The other two went all-in, leaving one player with $100. We flipped our cards - the guy with $100 left had A/9 - nothing, and the other one had A/7 giving him two pair 7's and 3's. And do you know what the last card was? Of course, an Ace came up, and for the second week in a row I lost to an Ace on the river when I had a pocket pair.
Thursday (6am): Fulham vs Arsenal at 6:45am.
Review:
The Descent:
I was surprised by how good this film was - though I didn't like the 'awakening' sequences (when characters appear to wake up but aren't - something happens and then they do wake up) because this film, I think, doesn't really need them. It works weel enough without them and the crazy lady we can understand is crazy and we don't need these sequences to tell us that. 4/5.
Final Thought: You'd have thought I had a chance with K/K but apparently not.
Friday (Revisit): At work Ant-Man (first appearance) loaned me the wrestling DVDs 'One Night Stand 2006' (Including 'Barely Legal' the first ECW pay-per-view) and 'Summerslam 2003'. I watched 'Summerslam' as soon as I got home.
Sunday (26/11): Bolton 3 - Arsenal 1. Arsenal has not won away to Bolton since 2002. Before I saw the end of this match I had to go to work. I missed the last 13 minutes of play. After work I went out with K-Man to get some more PS2 games. We got 'Kingdom Hearts', 'God of War', 'Soul Calibur 3', and 'Resident Evil 4' before we split up. He went to meet up with one of his friends (and ended up bringing home 'GTA: San Andreas' and 'GTA: Liberty City Stories'. Whereas I went out to Chadstone and found myself a copy of 'Final Fantasy X'.
Monday (27/11): Worked. Found out that today is Saturns birthday.
Tuesday (): Went out for very late lunch with Saturn (3:30pm). We went to L'Aperitivo in Elsternwick, then we went on to work to try and pay for the christmas party - we met with failure. After we seperated I went to see 'The Descent' with Blur at the Jam Factory. I got to sit next to a screamer - I swear, my ears are still ringing.
Wednesday (): Watched 'Barely Legal' (1997 ECW pay-per-view) and 'One Night Stand' (June 2006 ECW pay-per-view). Went to try and get comics (paid for the christmas party on my way) - met with failure. So I continued on to Borders at the Jam Factory where I got myself two books - 'American Gods' and 'Stardust' both by Niel Gaiman. When I got home my Dad called and asked me to get him a keno ticket (which I did) - I wasn't happy about it (I missed RAW).
I went out to play poker again. The first hand was massive and two players were left with fifty in chips (I wasn't one of them) and one of them was the next big blind - forcing him all in. Almost everyone dropped out of the hand because one of his 'friends' scared us off with a rather large bet. I don't know the exact hands but it took the river for The all-in to win it. Three hands later and everyone was still in meaning that I had already improved on last week. But then Husband and Wife went at It and the Husband came off second best (or rather dead last) and was knocked out of the table (I think it was two pair vs one pair). Then in the next hand the same woman knocked out the girl who lost the second hand - complaining that she had just knocked out her two favourite people. Then it was my turn. The nineth hand saw me get pocket kings - unfortunately at that stage I had $400 in chips as the short stack, and bet $200 before the flop (a $100 raise - doubling the big blind). Two players stayed in and the flop came up J/7/3 so I went all in and both players called me. Next card was another 3 giving me two pair. The other two went all-in, leaving one player with $100. We flipped our cards - the guy with $100 left had A/9 - nothing, and the other one had A/7 giving him two pair 7's and 3's. And do you know what the last card was? Of course, an Ace came up, and for the second week in a row I lost to an Ace on the river when I had a pocket pair.
Thursday (6am): Fulham vs Arsenal at 6:45am.
Review:
The Descent:
I was surprised by how good this film was - though I didn't like the 'awakening' sequences (when characters appear to wake up but aren't - something happens and then they do wake up) because this film, I think, doesn't really need them. It works weel enough without them and the crazy lady we can understand is crazy and we don't need these sequences to tell us that. 4/5.
Final Thought: You'd have thought I had a chance with K/K but apparently not.
posted by Baltasar at 11:03 AM
2 Comments:
hey i've just noticed, but KK should be my signature hand.
anyhow tough beat. probably not much you can do about it, though maybe if you're low on chips and you don't want someone else to get lucky you just force them all in from the start. makes them take a chance from a weaker position, rather than when they're already commited to the pot and sort of forced to call you.
oh on another note, i saw casino royale the other night. fairly good movie.
tis all
KK
yeah, all i can suggest in that situation is push all your chips in from the start. doubling the big blind is incorrect play as it potentially gives those with an ace the right implied odds to call. to push all your chips in before the flop is a stronger play because otherwise, when the flop comes, if you don't hit anything, you're pot committed. a tough situation in any case, but there is a chance u could have scared off the A-7 with an all-in play.
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