Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

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Enjoying the updates (even though its like listening to a football match on the radio, just doesn't compare with being there) and good luck Tikay.

Thanks hhy,

Roll on Pep, eh?

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WARNING

At some point, I need to upload some holiday photos from the West Coast trip.

This one will only be of interest* to fans of Baseball, or Amtrak, but I thought it quite interesting, & shows how well they do these things in the USA. Not sure Network Rail would be quite so accommodating after a football match.

* Guess we may differ on "interesting".

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Naturally, I don't need much excuse to upload some of my photos of a typical Amtrak Coaster.

How beautiful is she?

Don't worry, I have several hundred more of these.

[Marky147]

Looks a bit nicer than the old boat that runs on the London-Waterloo line

[Karabiner]

Have you never travelled on the trans-Canadian trains Tony?

They're fantastic with dome-cars and everything even little steps that the porters bring onto the platform to get on and off like in late-era Westerns.

I'd have thought that three or four days coast-to-coast in a train from Montreal to Vancouver would be right up your street.

[bagel]

Tony, hope you are enjoying Vegas.

Do you still live on the river? I took a boat down the Thames on sunday to Hampton Court and enjoyed it thoroughly.  The ticket man pointed out Trevor Baylis' home with an old car in the garden. He invented the wind up radio, you know!  Maybe you are neighbours? He did not however recall which house belonged to SkyPoker's own Tikay.

Anyway, thought i would drop in and say hi.

that would be eel pie island,bang in middle of twickenham. spend quite a bit of time there , i met trevor for first time recently, chain smokes a pipe and tells lots of rude jokes.

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Here you go Tikay, a bit of engine porn to keep you motivated.

Rolls-Royce Trent 1000

Click to see full-size image.

[Tal]

That looks like the Mole in Thunderbirds.

What does the pointy bit do?

[Marky_Crash]

Unlucky the way you exited with the 'underhouse' Tikay.

It is a tough spot!

I feel if I was playing my best and deeply stacked I would check the flop against certain players as usually due to card removal a bet will lose them there and then as they 'shouldn't have much'. Also the ranges that do call/reraise will have a lot of 9's in them and we have a hand that is hard to improve and very hard to tell if opponent has improved so we can often be left check calling our chips off anyway. Deepstacked I prefer to underrep my hand on the flop to hopefully draw value out of flushes or straights that may get there on later streets. If the turn is a low card and opponent hasn't shown too much interest then I would pot it making them pay the max for any low draw. As you have underrepped your hand even strong players will often call the pot here especially if they have any hi draws accompanying their low draw (not realising they have little/no scoop potential as you have underrepped).

Against a calling station I would lead in the hope they just call with overpairs/backdoor draws and then look to check/call or check/raise if the flush lands on the board and let them offload chips.

I am guessing while you may not have been short stacked, you probably were not deep stacked and against an aggro player, as played it looks fine to get it in here. If he has quads then you think he would play it more cutely so I would rule that out which leaves the likely scenario in this situation that he has the 9 maybe with hearts. Many opponents will think the hearts have some value here even though they are obviously irrelevant. You do have the backdoor 'emergency low' to clutch at in worse case scenarios. IMO you would the majority of the time be against the 9 often with hearts here (sometimes he may have either a 2 or A in his hand too which would obviously be great) and would often double to 200k+, be in a great position and feel you played the hand well. I think to be overly harsh on this hand is to drift towards being results orientated.

Basically very deepstacked I wouldn't be wanting to bust here but with a short/medium stack versus an aggro player I feel getting away from this could mean we would be playing so tight it wouldn't be good long term for accumulating chips/outright winning MTT's.

As an aside, if he had raised in anyway preflop I wouldn't hesitate getting it all in on the flop as his range would be weighted even more towards cards we would want him to have, Aces & Twos with straggling nines, AA with hearts etc.

[Marky_Crash]

Scratch the part mentioning 2's as obviously these would be live outs versus an opponent's 9x. Still good if he had an ace/aces in his hand obviously as we are blocking his outs.

Sorry to 'derail' the train chat :-)

Hope you are having a great time!

Wish it was this month I was there, there seem to be quite a few oh8 MTT's but slimmer pickings next month.

GL in your next event!

[booder]

7 handed Big O today ?

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[Marky147]

Couldn't resist the Pleasure Pit

GL!

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7 handed Big O today ?

Exactly that, David.

Very weird format, not sure I have ever played such a thing before.

Anyway, off we go.