Intercepting the Phage...aka 'Cause we're Union Dagnabbit...aka 5 is a Magic Number (or is that Phi?)
Housecleaning Edit too important to risk putting at bottom of post:
cc: I can't comment on your site. WTF? It's eaten comments for about a week and I am sick of being the pigeon who keeps getting shocked while trying to get the peanut. I tried doing all the stuff I did to get to comment on Absinthetics, still no love. You are missin' out brotha - ask around! I await your solution.
Drizz: In the course of adding a link to you I noticed you spell Nickel as Nickle. Wiki taught me it isn't wrong, it's listed as an alternative in both OED and Webster's, but it's rare. What gives? Is it an oblique reference to a Japanese robotics programming language? Enquiring minds etc. etc.
Felicia: I naively changed my link to you to your livejournal site thinking this would let me comment. Unfortunately, your ultramax commenting security won't give me the time of day. You too are missing out on my important ruminations, and that doesn't seem right. Add me to your goddamned list of friends (whatever the hell that means) already!
Now back to the usual waste of space that passes for a post here.
And without further ado, a new segment here at Flights:
Monday Morning Mysteries of the Poker Blogosphere
- Five discontented musings based on posts and play encountered over the last week
1. Why is everyone hellbent on spreading the contagion that poker blogs are dying/should die?
Isn't it enough for someone who is mildly [and very understandably] fed up with the painful act of maintaining a hectic rate of posts, to take a break? Or if needed, just fess up and note that they are a little tired of their blog and everyone else's too. No Harm/No Foul to that, I say. Must it be that instead of a self-limited malaise, the 'sphere is experiencing a pandemic?
Well being a clinician by trade, I've given the current distemper some thought and come up with a possible cure. Anti-viral therapy, so to speak. I propose a writer's strike. Across the entire Poker Blogosphere. Next Monday, Sept. 27th 2006 should be No Post Day...aka Brief Respite to Recharge The Battery Day...aka A Perpindicular Turn in that Otherwise Long & Winding Road Known as Our Collective Poker Experience. [I could go on, but they just get longer, and you may have work to do.] Regardless of what unbelievable turn of events occurs next weekend, take Monday off. All of you. No post, and in its place a deep breath, perhaps an Om or two and a renewal of chi, if that's yer thing.
Then we all straighten our shirts and get back to the gritty business of complaining about the imbecile who killed our stack in the 30k by calling preflop with an unsuited one gapper and calling each pot-sized bet from our two pair until his gutshot completed on the river. Fucker. What? No, no...that was a hypothetical.
So that's the plan. The next time someone tells you there are no new ideas out there, you can send them my URL gratis. No Post Day: It's about bloody time.
2. How much work would it take for me to be able to participate in fantasy football?
I have to be honest; I like the game (Bills fan - it's a Toronto thing) and can still throw one with reasonable accuracy - but just don't follow it closely enough to make drafting anything less than intimidating. No big deal, but I didn't realize how closely poker/pokerblogging were intertwined with this other deviant subset of the American psyche. Isn't enough that we Canucks indulge one degeneracy after another of yours without it coming to this? Ah well, maybe next year...
3. Why does my overbet for value ALWAYS induce a fold?
I like the idea of this move in principle, but can't seem to pull it off. What magic mojo makes this goddamned thing work? Everytime I read one of Fuel's all-in's get called by the most suicidal holdings, I have to quell the desire to tear the hair out. Yeah, I'm talking about the short and curly's - not my fault if you eat while you read this tripe.
4. How long has waffles been a member here?
Yes, I stole this from Mookie, but it's so good it needs a nudge to get a life of its own going... Seriously dude. Weren't poker bloggers ghey enough fer ya?
5. How is it that Matt Maroon has written some of the best advice on blogging I've read?
No real beef with Maroon, but some of his stuff over the last year came across as pretty uncivil. So to read his thoughts on poker blogging and find them insightful and encouraging was a little surprising. The Black Adder in me can't help but wonder if he wrote it, or better if he was indulging a sense of irony that would have me standing and clapping. But even taken on face value, the post is worth the read. The careful addition of the word "Really" in the title gives a sly nod to the post a while back that some took notice of, and issue to.
Also, a big thanks to everyone for sharing their take on that hand last post. I have a long way to go before I am where I want to be as a player, but significant improvements have been made since I started blogging. As good a reason as any to keep this site (and all of yours) going.
Lastly, a quick but sincere tip of the cap to the Hobbit King.
See ya at MATH.
Laytah
cc: I can't comment on your site. WTF? It's eaten comments for about a week and I am sick of being the pigeon who keeps getting shocked while trying to get the peanut. I tried doing all the stuff I did to get to comment on Absinthetics, still no love. You are missin' out brotha - ask around! I await your solution.
Drizz: In the course of adding a link to you I noticed you spell Nickel as Nickle. Wiki taught me it isn't wrong, it's listed as an alternative in both OED and Webster's, but it's rare. What gives? Is it an oblique reference to a Japanese robotics programming language? Enquiring minds etc. etc.
Felicia: I naively changed my link to you to your livejournal site thinking this would let me comment. Unfortunately, your ultramax commenting security won't give me the time of day. You too are missing out on my important ruminations, and that doesn't seem right. Add me to your goddamned list of friends (whatever the hell that means) already!
Now back to the usual waste of space that passes for a post here.
And without further ado, a new segment here at Flights:
Monday Morning Mysteries of the Poker Blogosphere
- Five discontented musings based on posts and play encountered over the last week
1. Why is everyone hellbent on spreading the contagion that poker blogs are dying/should die?
Isn't it enough for someone who is mildly [and very understandably] fed up with the painful act of maintaining a hectic rate of posts, to take a break? Or if needed, just fess up and note that they are a little tired of their blog and everyone else's too. No Harm/No Foul to that, I say. Must it be that instead of a self-limited malaise, the 'sphere is experiencing a pandemic?
Well being a clinician by trade, I've given the current distemper some thought and come up with a possible cure. Anti-viral therapy, so to speak. I propose a writer's strike. Across the entire Poker Blogosphere. Next Monday, Sept. 27th 2006 should be No Post Day...aka Brief Respite to Recharge The Battery Day...aka A Perpindicular Turn in that Otherwise Long & Winding Road Known as Our Collective Poker Experience. [I could go on, but they just get longer, and you may have work to do.] Regardless of what unbelievable turn of events occurs next weekend, take Monday off. All of you. No post, and in its place a deep breath, perhaps an Om or two and a renewal of chi, if that's yer thing.
Then we all straighten our shirts and get back to the gritty business of complaining about the imbecile who killed our stack in the 30k by calling preflop with an unsuited one gapper and calling each pot-sized bet from our two pair until his gutshot completed on the river. Fucker. What? No, no...that was a hypothetical.
So that's the plan. The next time someone tells you there are no new ideas out there, you can send them my URL gratis. No Post Day: It's about bloody time.
2. How much work would it take for me to be able to participate in fantasy football?
I have to be honest; I like the game (Bills fan - it's a Toronto thing) and can still throw one with reasonable accuracy - but just don't follow it closely enough to make drafting anything less than intimidating. No big deal, but I didn't realize how closely poker/pokerblogging were intertwined with this other deviant subset of the American psyche. Isn't enough that we Canucks indulge one degeneracy after another of yours without it coming to this? Ah well, maybe next year...
3. Why does my overbet for value ALWAYS induce a fold?
I like the idea of this move in principle, but can't seem to pull it off. What magic mojo makes this goddamned thing work? Everytime I read one of Fuel's all-in's get called by the most suicidal holdings, I have to quell the desire to tear the hair out. Yeah, I'm talking about the short and curly's - not my fault if you eat while you read this tripe.
4. How long has waffles been a member here?
Yes, I stole this from Mookie, but it's so good it needs a nudge to get a life of its own going... Seriously dude. Weren't poker bloggers ghey enough fer ya?
5. How is it that Matt Maroon has written some of the best advice on blogging I've read?
No real beef with Maroon, but some of his stuff over the last year came across as pretty uncivil. So to read his thoughts on poker blogging and find them insightful and encouraging was a little surprising. The Black Adder in me can't help but wonder if he wrote it, or better if he was indulging a sense of irony that would have me standing and clapping. But even taken on face value, the post is worth the read. The careful addition of the word "Really" in the title gives a sly nod to the post a while back that some took notice of, and issue to.
Also, a big thanks to everyone for sharing their take on that hand last post. I have a long way to go before I am where I want to be as a player, but significant improvements have been made since I started blogging. As good a reason as any to keep this site (and all of yours) going.
Lastly, a quick but sincere tip of the cap to the Hobbit King.
See ya at MATH.
Laytah
posted by Iakaris aka I.A.K. at 11:06 AM
12 Comments:
People have to think you are retarded for the OBFV (overbet for value) to work. Players obviously give you too much credit. Selectively show hands to induce the OBFV calls later.
1) Shouldn't be too hard for 20 of us or so not to post on Monday. Most of us will just be trying to exist. ;)
2) I gave up on fantasy football because it was too much work. Playing in Pick 'Em leagues, however, is pretty damn easy and just as fun. Check 'em out and see if you like what you see.
3) Table image. If you can "get caught bluffing/playing badly" for cheap, then go for it. People don't say "awfukkit" on the river when they're playing against the rocks.
4) Longer than he probably wants to admit. Say, 20 years or so, at least.
5) Because you don't have to be a polite, social person in order to be an idiot savant at poker. Hellmuth proves that one.
hahhaha the waffles website just made my day...
1. Thankfully I don't read the blogs that spread all the poker blog dying rumors. Whoever did write that crap is probably some self-important small-penised tool anyway so they can fuck off.
2. Anybody can play fantasy football. What one hour of draft prep then 30 minutes a week for all team maintenance? Real ballas play fantasy baseball! Twenty hours of draft prep followed by 30 minutes per team of daily maintenance. Any pre-flop push monkey can play FF
3. Try the I smell weak underbet and see how often the posers/tools with TPTK either check-raise or re-raise. Nothing like they look on their face when you push on them after their cutsie play and they decide to push directly into your trap. Ah the trap and slow-play, such a lost art form.
4. Not sure but comb through the credits and Waffles may be the founder and webmaster.
5. I'm sure a thorough search throughout the blogosphere will find the work of Maroon as nothing more than a plagarism. No way that 5'2" 130 megalomanic put those thoughts to word.
JEV - LOL - I hope it's accidental that the grammar in your second sentence implies my opponents are wrongly assuming I am NOT a retard. But I get your point and will see if I refine my use of the OBFV.
Wolf - my first convert to No Post Day! I forgot about the BASH - yeah that'll def help too.
Rav - Mookie gets the credit, but I just HAD to...
D - Ah you Politician! 5 responses and 3 profoundly disturbing comments. I expected no less. When do we get to know what you REALLY think?
Ah you gotta love MiamiDon...telling it like he sees it. I gotta get back out to Vegas. Anyone know if there's gonna be another blogger gathering in December ?
Fantasy Football...once again Don has got it right. I know nothing but somehow have rivered two opponents like a true donk and am 2-0.
The sad/funny thing about Waffle's preferred poker site is that some of us will probably end up on there for some bonus whoring...again so many jokes so little time.
I too have had problems commenting on CC's blog. Linda (Table Tango) posted that the whole site was having problems with comments and that they are going to start working on them today I think.
Having met Mssr. Maroon, my read is that he's an extremely bright and very likeable person. Instinct tells me quite loyal as well. I didn't come close to spending enough time with him to witness the obvious edge he possesses, but his blog does a clear job of portraying it. One thing is certain: In the Poker Blogosphere, he's wildly successful. Who knew you could make real money off these things.
Dude there are many ways to induce the overbet call -- but honestly, the best way to do it is to only try it on the guys who can not fold TPTK. Target your peeps. Look for the tell-tale AA/KK/AK bet. Flop a big hand with crappy cards or decent ones that hit. You now have all the components for a proper overbet.
Just tell me your LJ nickname and I'll add you.
Nickelanddimes was taken, and due to my love for the English language and 2nd grade spelling abilities I went with the misspelling :)
And if I post on Monday, I didn't have a good enough time at the bash and went to work.
Outlook: doubtful
Felicia: I have to admit I have no idea how to join LJ but will work on it.
Matt: I think you know I was kidding about you not having written that post. As for my boy D, what can I say? everyone's entitled to an opinion.
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