Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[RED-DOG]

Does my call with a four-card straight count as meta-game?

[action man]

if she leads the flop for 900+ im out of there, thats how close it was lol, from my experience very seldom see AK lead out for so little in relation to the pot in this spot.

[action man]

i would like to add how well maria played the hand, calling 2 big bets when in front and got screwed on the river.

[   ] i used her chips like a true champion

[Claw75]

Claw had the most torrid evening, everything went wrong for her. She accidentally dropped 2 oversize (500) chips in instead of 3 x 100 chips to make a call, & the geezer behind seized on her error in a flash & Shoved, & she had to Pass, & every time she found a hand, she got pushed around. She eventually busted with a huge draw that missed. I felt quite sorry for her - she's out of form, & I fancy she needed a result. Cruel game when you're running bad.
 

I was kicking myself over that one all night - with the amount I had behind (and a rebuy left) the rest of my chips should have been in in a flash, but I was still beating myself up over the mistake and passed too quickly without weighing up the situtation.  As you said, I've had a run of bad luck lately.  Normally the bad luck doesn't affect me, but the longer it's gone on it's started to get to me and I find myself playing scared.  Feels like a bit of a vicious circle at the moment - a result or two would give me some confidence back, but I can't see myself getting any results playing as I am just now.

well done on cashing - £170 better than a kick in the teeth!

[tikay]

Claw had the most torrid evening, everything went wrong for her. She accidentally dropped 2 oversize (500) chips in instead of 3 x 100 chips to make a call, & the geezer behind seized on her error in a flash & Shoved, & she had to Pass, & every time she found a hand, she got pushed around. She eventually busted with a huge draw that missed. I felt quite sorry for her - she's out of form, & I fancy she needed a result. Cruel game when you're running bad.
 

I was kicking myself over that one all night - with the amount I had behind (and a rebuy left) the rest of my chips should have been in in a flash, but I was still beating myself up over the mistake and passed too quickly without weighing up the situtation.  As you said, I've had a run of bad luck lately.  Normally the bad luck doesn't affect me, but the longer it's gone on it's started to get to me and I find myself playing scared.  Feels like a bit of a vicious circle at the moment - a result or two would give me some confidence back, but I can't see myself getting any results playing as I am just now.

well done on cashing - £170 better than a kick in the teeth!

Confidence (lack of) - yup, know the feeling.

I did think you might well have called after that mistaken over-bet, given your stack, the rebuy behind, & what was in the middle, but I could not comment during the hand. It's true - you insta-passed, & maybe a few moments thought you'd have thought different.

Still, you play good, & your "form" will return soon enough, & you'll revel in the luxury of hands holding up then.

The guy who insta pushed against you soon Busted, he got caught Raising with air once too often, & skulked away, tail between legs.

It was a very odd table at first. The Bookie in Seat One kept Over-Betting everything, (1,000 into a 125 Pot!) & it's tough to play against that if you can't find something to take him on with. But he donked the lot off sharpish, & inevitably. If you can dodge the nutters in the first few Levels, it's a lot easier from there on in. I made a move against the Bookie with 4 high, & he called me all the way, & took the pot down with 4th pair, 7 kicker.......oops.

You asked me about Alternates for the APAT Event this weekend - it's mentioned in the Post in "APAT News". Hope to see you there.

[tikay]

What's the time?

It's amazing the little things we take for granted, & how times (times!) change so rapidly.

If we want to know the time, we.....

Look at our watch - we all have one.

Look at the clock on the wall.

Hover our mouse over the thingy in the corner of our PC.

Look at the Sky Menu

Look at the clock in our car.

Look at the clock on our Moby.

Look at Teletext.

And a dozen other ways.

Not so many years ago, we had to ring a thing called "TIM" (dial 123), aka "The Speaking Clock". It was spiffing, or so we thought. "At the third stroke, it will be four twenty nine, & 30 seconds. Beep - beep - BEEP". It was almost an Institution, & everyone knew about it, & must have made British Telecom tens of £millions down the years. It began in 1936.

The "narrators" became quite big personalities in their own right - "ooh, that's the Speaking Clock girl" they'd say, & she got to open Fetes & suchlike.

It eas via the Speaking Clock that I first heard about "leap seconds" - not to be confused with Leap Years. (Which are considerably longer).
 
Amazingly, it still exists, as I learned today. (I mislaid my watch, & the clock on my Moby is way too small to read). And it's still there!

Even more bizarre, there is a web-page "Speaking Clock". It shows a clock, which "speaks".........hmm. It's here -

http://www.accurist123.com/

It's not "proper time, it's "Accurist Time". That site must get trillions of hits. Maybe.

I researched it a bit, & was gobstruck to see what a worldwide phenomonen Speaking Clocks via the telephone are - almost every "civilised" Country has one. Who uses them?

How times change. (Yup, an Andrew-style pun there).

Here's a Speaking Clock Lady.

[tikay]

...and the original Speaking Clock" clock.......

[kinboshi]

I thought Accurist sponsored the official speaking clock service now?

[tikay]

I thought Accurist sponsored the official speaking clock service now?

They sure do.

[booder]

Look at our watch - we all have one.

i don't

[Claw75]

Look at our watch - we all have one.

i don't

I have one somewhere but never wear one.  I know less and less people that actually wear watches nowadays as most people carry a mobile phone.

[tikay]

This "time" fixation came to me after thinking about how wristwatches have evolved in my time.

They began (in my time....) as mechanical (& rather beautifully engineered) "wind-up" watches. Then came those watches where if you shook your wrist, the watch "self-wound", followed by battery-operated wristwatches. At first, the batteries lasted 6 or 9 months, now they are quartz thingies, & last seemingly forever.

We also went through that daftest of phases - LED digital watches. At first, due to short battery-life, to tell the time you had to press a button! Handy when you were carrying two suitcases......

But gradually, they evolved to what we have now - ultra-reliable, last-for-life, smart & efficient timepieces, though without the inner beauty of an old Swiss timepiece. (Which, so often, had to be "regulated" because they lost or gained time).

But suddenly, there's a new fashion in wristwatches - have you seen them? Great big alarm-clock sized things, which look seriously goofy, but apparently, they are well expensive & every cool guy has to have one.

The fickleness of fashion.

[Jon MW]

Look at our watch - we all have one.

i don't

Neither do I.

And I've been in offices plenty of times when the speaking clock has been phoned.

Occasionally this is to check the accuracy of the server clock - but it's usually because 2 people are arguing about what the correct time is and neither will back down.

[tikay]

Look at our watch - we all have one.

i don't

I have one somewhere but never wear one.  I know less and less people that actually wear watches nowadays as most people carry a mobile phone.

Well I carry a Moby, but without a magnifying glass, it's impossible to tell the time. My old moby had a lovely clock on it, great big numbers.

I want it back.

[tikay]

Look at our watch - we all have one.

i don't

Yeds, but Norfolk has yet to understand the concept of time.