In the last 48 hours I've only managed to put in 3 hours of poker. Just after posting the last update, I played one single table satellite. One 'interesting' hand, only as another indication of the value on offer over here. With blinds at 100/200 and 5 players left, I'm in the big blind with 5,000 chips, the small blind has similar. Folded round to him, he makes it 600, I call with Ad-5d. So far this player has acted weak with a strong hand, and acted strong with a weak holding. Now he is acting strong so I'm sure his hand is weak! The flop is 7-5-3 with two spades, and he strongly bets 1,000 into the 1,200 pot. I move all-in, happy to take the pot down now and not let him hit his probable overcards. He calls instantly, oops seems I got this read wrong, I can't possibly be winning here. Well he turns over A-2o (with the 2 of spades, lol). No gutshot 4 and no backdoor flush and I win the pot and go on to make a deal heads-up. As the A-2 man leaves the table another player says to me do you know who he is? Um, no, I reply, and he tells me he is a fairly famous actor/comedian called Norm Macdonald, I've still never heard of him but maybe somebody reading this has. I had a look at his Wikipedia profile here, I'm guessing he just got bored when he made the call and $500 means nothing to him.
