Tikay and the Egg Timer

[bolt pp]

Tightend, that's the stuff I was trying to tell her.  She just looked really bored and said she had to go 

 

she was probably happy to hear you go on about a cactus after you told her you had something to tell her about you long prickly green thing

[tikay]

Oh my good grief........

I've had a rough day on blonde, but Sark to the rescue.

I shall dream of Sark, the Lady, & the Cactus chat up line tonight.

The risk Dial - coming up next......

Chatting to a girl about potting a cactus, indeed......

The man is a comic genius. Watch out Red, you have a rival.

[tikay]

"The Risk/Reward Dial", as discussed on PNL.

Firstly, it's a mental visualisation thing.

There are times in comps when you SHOULD take risks, times when you should NOT.

Imagine, say, AA, & you are a very thin on chips. You NEED to get paid well, & properly. So you play them a bit "slower" than optimum. Because you NEED to attract some customers, so you can 2xup or even 3xup. In doing so, you have deliberately increased the risk of losing with them. You have increased the risk. (By necessity). You have turned up the Risk/Reward Dial.

Or the other way round. Cruising along nicely, average chips, getting near the money, you don't wanna mess about. So you don't get cute, you play them strong. Result, less chance of a Customer, but you have reduced the risk of losing with them. You have turned the Risk/Reward Dial to minimum.

It's no different to life. Safe & sound, or go for it. The Risk/Reward Dial works everywhere.

It works for ME, but I'm not suggesting it works for others. I have loads of these little, maybe daft, psychological tricks I use when playing poker, especially online.

If I enter a 60 runner online comp, with 10 getting paid, I pile 60 chips in a stack, & move them to another stack each time someone busts out. The chip 10 from the bottom is a different colour - thats the "in the money" chip. As one stack decreases, & the "bust out" stack increases, it's a visual boost to how I am doing.

So I can visualise my progress better. (In a real cardroom I can SEE my progress easily).

Laugh all you like, but it works for me. And I make money in online comps.

Not sure how we get the damn Cactus in here though. You've got me beat there Sark.

Next up, the egg-timer.

[RED-DOG]

The man is a comic genius. Watch out Red, you have a rival.

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[tikay]

My "egg-timer".

I don't recall discussing this on PNL, but I may have.

I have another mental visualisation trick - the Egg-Timer. But this is not Poker, it's life.

I am x-ty-x years old. My family all die youngish. (None, bar one, lived over 60).

Put simply, my egg-timer is running out. So I make decisions in life based on that. "I might as well" sort of thing.

Actually, EVERYBODY'S Egg-Timer is running out. Some faster than others, that's all.

Folks make different decisions at different times of life.

Lets not get into the smoking debate right now, but if I were 20, or 30, or 40 or even 50, I'd give up. Because it KILLS. With a mere few grains of sand left in the egg-timer, hey, what the hell?

Applies to everybody though. It APALLS me to see peeps in unhappy relationships, or moaning about this, that & the other, their job, their poker beats, their nagging wife/husband, it really does. That egg-timer never stops, & every day unhappy, is a day wasted, a day lost. You can't get them back! So if anyone pi**es me about needlessly, & wastes my precious grains of sand, I get seriously tetchy. And of something in your life makes you unhappy, well, ffs, DO something about it - the egg-timer never stops.

That's my egg-timer thing. You asked, I answered. Now, this cactus is troubling me. What was the chat up line? "Do you fancy some John Innes No 3, sweetheart?". Must try that.

[Ironside]

If I enter a 60 runner online comp, with 10 getting paid, I pile 60 chips in a stack, & move them to another stack each time someone busts out. The chip 10 from the bottom is a different colour - thats the "in the money" chip. As one stack decreases, & the "bust out" stack increases, it's a visual boost to how I am doing.

So I can visualise my progress better. (In a real cardroom I can SEE my progress easily).

Laugh all you like, but it works for me. And I make money in online comps.

you nearly had me till i realised you have never had 60 chips in your life

[RED-DOG]

Ok, we all have egg timers. They all contain different amounts of sand, and they are all opaque.

Some egg timers get broken before the sand has had time to get going, let alone run out. Others, despite or because of poor materials, continue to dribble damp, sticky grains for ages

You should enjoy your life because you DON'T know how much sand there is left, not because you think you DO.

[Sark79]

Thanks, Tikay and the Blondites for the answer ( Tikay and the Blondites sounds like a pop group  )

I appreciate the time you spent writing that bit tikay.  That is the sort of thing I kind of remember you discussing on PNL, but I didn't get the full gist of it first time round.  I really feel it will help me when I play, so I am going to borrow it for next time I play a mtt. 

That's Interesting RED

[byronkincaid]

I am x-ty-x years old

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Kendall

You'll live years longer, even if you stop at age 65, study says

http://www.no-smoking.org/june02/06-04-02-3.html

Lets not get into the smoking debate right now

links (soon to be) removed by tikay ? 

[tikay]

I shall contact wikipedia & ask them to correct my D-O-B.

Or I'll maybe just sue them.

This is an outrage.

[Colchester Kev]

LOL get them to correct this bit as well ...


Kendall's early time on the poker circuit was shared with Julian "Yo-Yo" Thew and Ian Oldershaw.

In 2003 Kendall finished in the money of three tournemants, scooping over $5,000. His highest finish was at the £100 pot limit Omaha event at the Napoleons Owlerton Casino, Sheffield on 12 June 2003. He finished 5th out of 69 entries and HAD  94 rebuys

[tikay]

Correct it - why? I did have 94 rebuys, or was it 95?

Clearly, Kev has never played a Sheffield Rebuy......

[ifm]

LOL get them to correct this bit as well ...


Kendall's early time on the poker circuit was shared with Julian "Yo-Yo" Thew and Ian Oldershaw.

In 2003 Kendall finished in the money of three tournemants, scooping over $5,000. His highest finish was at the £100 pot limit Omaha event at the Napoleons Owlerton Casino, Sheffield on 12 June 2003. He finished 5th out of 69 entries and HAD  94 rebuys

Done

[Claw75]

LOL get them to correct this bit as well ...


Kendall's early time on the poker circuit was shared with Julian "Yo-Yo" Thew and Ian Oldershaw.

In 2003 Kendall finished in the money of three tournemants, scooping over $5,000. His highest finish was at the £100 pot limit Omaha event at the Napoleons Owlerton Casino, Sheffield on 12 June 2003. He finished 5th out of 69 entries and HAD  94 rebuys

Done

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