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1576  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Birthday poker - it works! on: February 13, 2008, 01:52:42 PM
Thanks all. Hoping it marks the start of a recovery, rather than the only day of the year I can actually win anything  Smiley
1577  Poker Forums / The Rail / Birthday poker - it works! on: February 13, 2008, 10:18:09 AM
There was a thread recently on here - somebody had been through a long downswing, and ended up coming back on their birthday. Well, same thing's just happened to me.

I'd describe myself as a lowish stakes recreational player with dreams of greatness Smiley. Been playing online for about 2.5 years, Party for 1, then Stars for last 1.5 after PP kicked the yanks off. Pretty much exclusively play $10-$30 STT/MTT and up until 6 months ago was pretty much breaking even, and having enough fun to make it money well spent. Last six months have been fairly horrendous - 2 long streaks of nothing, down about $1k, but it's the demoralisation that's been getting to me. Seems I was getting bad beats at the worst possible times over and over, confidence was well down, which I'll freely admit made my play worse.

It's my birthday today, so as I'm out with SWMBO tonight, thought I'd have a "birthday" session last night. Signed up for a $30/$3 3 table SNG and it turned into one of the weirdest tournaments I've played in. To give you an idea, in the whole thing, I had 6 pocket pairs. 5 of those were QQ, including 3 in 4 hands! And it seemed like the best hand just could not win. 90% of the time there was an allin, there was an unlikely outcome. Abig against Asmall was getting slaughtered. 22 won against JJ when he turned the wheel. AJ against AJ got flushed, etc etc etc. At one point I chatted that if I got 7-2 I'd get it all in, as it was guaranteed to win. Very next hand I got 6-2, chickened out, only to see 22A on the flop and 2 other players getting it all in with an A each! The chat on the final table was a repeating chorus of "OMG". Fortunately I was either out the way, or on the good side of most of these beats. My final winning hand was A10 against AQ when I spiked the 10 on the turn. So $300 win, which is the biggest I'd had for quite some time, and I was well chuffed.

Then I played a $10/$1 HORSE, which I've had a go in a few times. 168 players, was chip leader from 100 left to about 30, and I felt it was pretty much through good play rather than just getting lucky. There's a lot of dead money in these though, and I hoovered up quite a few chips early on from the limit cally-wallys. With 30 players left, I'd got 33000 chips to an average of 7000, 2nd place had 22000. Bubble was 24, which I sailed through. By this point it was around 750/1500/150, so even 30000 was only 20 big bets. Unfortunately got hurt against another big stack on a razz hand where I'd made a 7432A by fifth street only to see him make a 65432 on the end, which cost me about half my chips. Went through the entire Stud session without managing to play anything or steal anything while the antes were hoovered off me, and finally donked out in 18th getting it in on StudHL with A23 suited and not hitting anything, which was annoying, but made me a marvellous $3 profit Smiley. Anyway, it was another CASH, I was 2 for 2, and I am a happy man again Cheesy.

So, sorry for the ramble (as my debut non-Lounge post!), but it's my birthday and I'll ramble if I want to!

Play on your birthday! Guaranteed to work!

Andrew
1578  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Wii on: February 07, 2008, 09:45:38 AM
I've got the Carnival game. It's ok for £15. Wouldn't pay any more. About 30 mini-games basically. Kids like it - they can manage most of the games. As usual with this kind of thing, some of the games are fun, some not so fun.
1579  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Wii on: February 06, 2008, 10:03:09 AM
Zelda Ocarina of Time probably my fave. The Wii one took about 50 hours of gameplay, so you've got a few hours left yet Smiley. Once you've finished, take a look at Zack & Wiki Barbaros' Treasure. Started playing that a couple of days ago and it's brilliant - looks like a kids game but takes me back to Monkey Island or Sam & Max. And uses the Wii controller really well.
1580  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Selling a domain name on: February 06, 2008, 10:00:04 AM
Is it a generic name or one that is, or sounds similar to, a company name? If the latter, be very very careful; companies use this trick of asking for a price as the first stage in taking it off you in a trade name dispute.
If the former, it's like selling anything else - barter until you've got a price you're both happy with. If you aren't happy, don't sell it, simple as.
1581  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Book suggestions (For a 13 year old) on: February 06, 2008, 09:55:10 AM
I have to say I'm not a big fan of reading old stuff just cos it's old. I read vast amounts when I was young, and still do. Easily get through a book a week, and sometimes 2.
How about Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy? Main character is a girl around 13 YO. Ignore the film - the books are way way better (although I quite liked the film, but I'd already read the books). And once she's read them, you can read them as well - they work on many levels. Wonderful books.
I'd recommend anything by Terry Pratchett as well. Recent discworld stuff works on many levels as well - she may not get some of the satire in there, but you don't really have to to enjoy them.
How old is she? I'd recommend Iain Banks for some "grittier" reading, but there's some fairly adult stuff in a lot of his books.

Andrew
1582  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: H.O.R.S.E on: January 18, 2008, 10:11:33 AM
I've been playing a few HORSE tournaments online recently too. Cashed in my second one, 5/64, which I was pretty pleased with. It's a good fun introduction to some other games. Found I did well at H,R and S, not so good at O and E. Leaking badly in HiLo games. Was just playing too many hands. Decided to fold pretty much all Omaha hands without A2 in them and the leak there disappeared. Starting selection in Stud HiLo is really difficult to judge though.

Got me trying a couple of Razz tournaments after that too. Can get interesting, once the blinds have gone up a fair bit. Bit boring in the early stages though.

Andrew
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