Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Chili]

[Chili]

A treat for both the sexes, a deffo had to post before I go to sleep. Goodnight!

[booder]

 

[Compo]

A treat for both the sexes, a deffo had to post before I go to sleep. Goodnight!

Red Dog on summer tour

[boldie]

A treat for both the sexes, a deffo had to post before I go to sleep. Goodnight!

Red Dog on summer tour

Before he put on those pesky pounds?

[tikay]

I hope to resume my Diary very shortly. Been a bit pre-occupied the last few days, what with one thing & another.
 

[Karabiner]

I hope to resume my Diary very shortly. Been a bit pre-occupied the last few days, what with one thing & another.
 

Growing a goatee ?

[tikay]

Had a pleasant & relaxing break from what's been a really awful few days on blonde - well, nearly a week now - & went to DTD last night. Played the rebuy, played hopeless, & deservedly busted remarkably early by my standards.

Was pretty disappointed to learn that DTD have introduced Live Straddles. Not because it's a bad decision - it's a demand thing, so they are givng folks what they want, & that has to be good - but it just does not suit me to, on most occasions, sit in Live Straddle games. You know how it works, it becomes a Deep-Pocketed who has got the Biggest Dick Bingo game, costing £200 to take a flop. I just can't play that. On 6 or 7 occasions last night, it was £200 pre, so that's my DTD Dealers Choice career over.

And I'm just not sure it works in games such as Super-Stud. Badly, impossibly badly, imo.

But I suppose I'm just an oddity, but I do prefer to try & play the game with a touch of thought & apply such little ability I have to it. Paying £200 BEFORE 3rd street in Super-Stud just does not work for me, I'll never see a hand. And in Omaha, it becomes the same thing, amounts far beyond my means  to take a flop. I'm sorry, but that's just bingo to me. At those stakes - well, at ANY stakes really, I simply can't comprehend how larging up the pot to such an extent before every hand works - at least, not if we want to try & at least keep up the pretence that skill is involved.

I know it's just my personal take, & that does not make it a bad decision, just one I don't like, but I'll miss the DTD DC game very much.

[kenjude]

Catching up on some sleep I would've thought.

[77dave]

Has the demand for straddles come from the holdem players or the dealers choice players or just a mixture of everybody. If you have a word with Mother Hen he might adjust the straddles to holdem only games or as a compromise have it so only UTG can straddle in the p/l games.

[tikay]

I did have one really interesting decision in Super-Stud though, (yup, I actually managed to see 3rd street once for £60!) & it aroused much comment, & most seemed to think I got it wrong.

I was dealt.....

 

After much thought, I busted the wire-up & retained 

My thinking was "two ways to win, & more chance of the live scoop" that way. The wire-up, and I considered it vulnerable even if it housed up, could only win me half the Pot at best, though with most folks low-ing, that may be a tidy pot. 

Thoughts, please?

[77dave]

Depends of how many players are in the pot. How much you can re-raise and whether or not you think there is a bigger wire up out there. Nothing wrong with taking the A23 suited here just have to be willing to throw it away if you miss by 5th street.

[tikay]

Catching up on some sleep I would've thought.

What is this sleep thing?

Excuse my inability to remember, or put names to faces, but were you in Newcastle over the weekend, at the Virgin thing? It was a bit tiring, I confess......Huge fun though.

It's cheered me up no end that I've had a whole bunch of PM's & e-Mails complimenting me on my commentary up there. I did it a "bit different", because it's not really a spectator sport, & we ended up with an absolutely huge Rail. Happy Days. Even at my age, it's nice to have one's ego stroked now & then. If little else.

To be fair, if I can't commentate by now, after over 500 hours of commentating Live on Telly, it's about time I gave up. Got any jobs going at your place?

[redsimon]

I did have one really interesting decision in Super-Stud though, (yup, I actually managed to see 3rd street once for £60!) & it aroused much comment, & most seemed to think I got it wrong.

I was dealt.....

 

After much thought, I busted the wire-up & retained 

My thinking was "two ways to win, & more chance of the live scoop" that way. The wire-up, and I considered it vulnerable even if it housed up, could only win me half the Pot at best, though with most folks low-ing, that may be a tidy pot. 

Thoughts, please?

Keep A23 suited for sure, did you make a straight flush again?

[tikay]

Depends of how many players are in the pot. How much you can re-raise and whether or not you think there is a bigger wire up out there. Nothing wrong with taking the A23 suited here just have to be willing to throw it away if you miss by 5th street.

Always 6 or 7 minimum in the Pot. No amount of re-raising gets them out! And no way of telling, at that stage, if anyone else has a wire-up. I saw four wire-ups last night which were not raised pre. (Because the Live Straddle had larged it up already).