I have a plan to make a good few chips fairly easily on FullTiltPoker.net. The only reason to do this, I will say in advance, is to get enough chips to play on tables were people play properly. I had a similar issue playing facebook poker until I could finally afford to play the bigger tables.
The technique is simple, get in the payout places a lot in a lot of tournements. Sounds time consuming? Not so much. I think I need about 30-40 minutes to set them all going and then come back 3 hours later for the final tables...
There are three things that make the above possible. One is a rule on FullTiltPoker where you can play in as many tournaments as you like at any one time. The second is a quirk of the small tournament where by people generally shove with any even quarter decent hand in the first couple of plays and the winner of that hand generally quads or quints his stack. The third and final thing about this is that the blind structure is so fast and vicious that once sitting on a decent stack like this you can set your 'sit out next hand' flag and walk away. You are pretty much guarenteed a final seat table and if you can sit for longer, probably a top 4/5 finish. Obviously, if you want to make a few more chips, play the final table and do what you can...
So. Get several, like lots, of tournaments going. Set the 'away' flag as soon as you hit the big win over the first two or three hands and come back later to go for the win!
I will let you know how I get on once I have a chance to put my plan into action!
Sunday 31 May 2009
Saturday 30 May 2009
Poker. But not as we know it!
Last night was the first (and possibly only) running of the Oxford TT (Two table) tournament at my brothers house. It was poker but really not how we know it.... I will just quickly say that although this article will read like Im a sore loser, I took it far better than a lot of other people would. I do, however, have a new found understanding of the blow-ups you see poker stars like Phil Hellmuth having on TV. I suppose I had better start this with a brief explaination of how I understand a players development as they learn more about poker.
A more experienced table of players will know pot odds and the approximate chances of winning in any given situation. As a result, they will be able to knowingly bet or raise appropriate amounts to force the opponents into tough decisions where they may even be able to pressure them into folding a hand.
Last night the 9 or so 'regular' players were joined by 5 extras ranging from other players who fancied a game to complete novices. And it is these people who were the fly in the ointment for the more experienced players last night.
I will give a brief rundown of my last hand in the game prior to busting out in 12th place!!! I am dealt Ace, Kind suited (Diamonds), statistically, the 3rd or 4th best possible starting hand. I raise 3 times the big blind pre flop. Now, at this point, normally, any player with a marginal or rag hand will naturally fold. Unfortunatly, the player to my right (one of the novices) decided to call with his 8S 6C off suit!!! So the flop comes out JH 7D 4D and I have a 'nut flush' draw so, being short stacked following my pre flop raise I push all in to try and either force the fold or boost my winnings should a diamond hit on the turn or river. This raise is a further 4 big blinds (£8). To my shock, he calls and turns those cards!!! Needless to say the luck was with him and the turn was a 5S giving him the straight! The river wasn't a diamond and that was that. A bad beat in a hand that really should have never gone to a showdown anyway.
That story is just one of many that happened last night. It is very telling that the normal people that you will see in the last 4 or 5 players were 4 or 5 of the first people out. The problem is that you simply cannot play poker against a player that doesn't know how to play poker. Told you it would sound like me being a sore loser.... But looking at the above, it doesn't take a genius to fold 8 6 offsuit to a big pre flop raise...
My (our) only soluce is that in the long run, these guys will loose playing as they do but it doesn't ease the frustration of last night. Once all the buy backs were in there was over £500 on offer to the winner and it is a nasty kick in the dick when you are beaten by luck in a hand that you shouldn't have been contesting.
Anyway, as Mr Pool said at the 11Pm break, "That's tournament poker" and, as my lovely, supportive, wife Legs said as I rolled into bed this morning at 1am.... "Suck it up!"
Just bites s'all... NEXT TIME!!!!
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A more experienced table of players will know pot odds and the approximate chances of winning in any given situation. As a result, they will be able to knowingly bet or raise appropriate amounts to force the opponents into tough decisions where they may even be able to pressure them into folding a hand.
Last night the 9 or so 'regular' players were joined by 5 extras ranging from other players who fancied a game to complete novices. And it is these people who were the fly in the ointment for the more experienced players last night.
I will give a brief rundown of my last hand in the game prior to busting out in 12th place!!! I am dealt Ace, Kind suited (Diamonds), statistically, the 3rd or 4th best possible starting hand. I raise 3 times the big blind pre flop. Now, at this point, normally, any player with a marginal or rag hand will naturally fold. Unfortunatly, the player to my right (one of the novices) decided to call with his 8S 6C off suit!!! So the flop comes out JH 7D 4D and I have a 'nut flush' draw so, being short stacked following my pre flop raise I push all in to try and either force the fold or boost my winnings should a diamond hit on the turn or river. This raise is a further 4 big blinds (£8). To my shock, he calls and turns those cards!!! Needless to say the luck was with him and the turn was a 5S giving him the straight! The river wasn't a diamond and that was that. A bad beat in a hand that really should have never gone to a showdown anyway.
That story is just one of many that happened last night. It is very telling that the normal people that you will see in the last 4 or 5 players were 4 or 5 of the first people out. The problem is that you simply cannot play poker against a player that doesn't know how to play poker. Told you it would sound like me being a sore loser.... But looking at the above, it doesn't take a genius to fold 8 6 offsuit to a big pre flop raise...
My (our) only soluce is that in the long run, these guys will loose playing as they do but it doesn't ease the frustration of last night. Once all the buy backs were in there was over £500 on offer to the winner and it is a nasty kick in the dick when you are beaten by luck in a hand that you shouldn't have been contesting.
Anyway, as Mr Pool said at the 11Pm break, "That's tournament poker" and, as my lovely, supportive, wife Legs said as I rolled into bed this morning at 1am.... "Suck it up!"
Just bites s'all... NEXT TIME!!!!
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Friday 29 May 2009
Tuesday 26 May 2009
Stoppit and Tidyup.
Or.... Kleerup and Tityup - Longing for lullabies. Brilliant.
Notice how he is almost stepping in time (Schtep In Time!!!)
Notice how he is almost stepping in time (Schtep In Time!!!)
World Series of Poker
So the World series of poker kicks off tomorrow.
Seeing nearly all poker sites are blocked in most workplaces I have found a site that isn't - http://www.thewsopblog.com and it also has an RSS feed so I can keep up without even going to the site - http://www.thewsopblog.com/feed
I will write a personal blog soon, so much to say but so little time to say it!
Wednesday 20 May 2009
Automating the facebook login....
It was meant to be so easy.
Using httpwebrequest and httpwebresponse to pass loging credentials - and an App ID - to the facebook login.php page and get back the redirection string. This includes an auth code in the address parameters and would allow me to create a valid facebook session away from the site.
I have tried very nearly everything in my knowledge and I am no nearer solving the problem.
The problem, I think, is that although I am allowing the redirect in my code it isn't actually getting there.
Normally, on login, it loads the same page and then redirects to the correct page but the response I am getting back is still the login.php page...
I have a feeling there are some cookies involved so I might take a quick trip down that road and report back....
The actual reason for doing this is becoming lost as the ability to do it goes away so once I am in and this is working I hope I find a good reason to go with it....
Using httpwebrequest and httpwebresponse to pass loging credentials - and an App ID - to the facebook login.php page and get back the redirection string. This includes an auth code in the address parameters and would allow me to create a valid facebook session away from the site.
I have tried very nearly everything in my knowledge and I am no nearer solving the problem.
The problem, I think, is that although I am allowing the redirect in my code it isn't actually getting there.
Normally, on login, it loads the same page and then redirects to the correct page but the response I am getting back is still the login.php page...
I have a feeling there are some cookies involved so I might take a quick trip down that road and report back....
The actual reason for doing this is becoming lost as the ability to do it goes away so once I am in and this is working I hope I find a good reason to go with it....
Tuesday 19 May 2009
grillymonk.co.uk
Decided that I am going to go for it with www.grillymonk.co.uk. It costs £70 a year to be a premium shop owner though so I am going to do it wisely, that is to say, create all my designs and shop css etc in the coming weeks BEFORE I pay. That way, once up and going I can just go for it uploading the stuff.
Should be a goer sometime over the summer.
Monday 18 May 2009
Mighty Pompey
Safe for another season in the Prem.
Tonights match no longer matters so we will probably loose.
...which is nice.
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Tonights match no longer matters so we will probably loose.
...which is nice.
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Sunday 17 May 2009
Tough times
Whoever said having a baby was easy was a lyin' hound!
The learning continues day by day. This weekend we have had the finger chewing combined with irritability and a huge and sudden drop in appetite. Otherwise known as teething the molars...
Of course, we only know this (hopefully) because it says so in a book but at least it answers the whole 'WHAT ARE WE DOING WRONG!!!?' questions that keep flooding our heads as Alfie only takes 2 spoons of dinner and then throws a benny.
Life. Goes. On.
Just hope his teeth are out soon. I suddenly feel bad about going to work and leaving legs in the minefield. I guess we just take it as it comes... I would certainly say that Alfie is now a 'normal' child
In non-baby news........ erm........ god how boring. The garden is getting on well and we have bitten the bullet with the house insulation. Currently the house is a little like a net curtain in as much as the wind whistles through it without pausing for thought at the walls/windows/doors. As such, I have made it my personal mission to try and exclude all drafts and actually make the house keep some of the heat the 'rads' pump into it. More news on this to follow in the coming weeks.
Got an order for a website from kruelintent.com so I have been working on that too.
There are simply not enough 'free' hours in the week. grillymonk.co.uk is falling by with no new designs now for a while. I think if I am going to go for it properly there I need to give spreadshirt some money and have a fully fledged proper shop so all I need to do is the designs - then they can go on whatever clothing the customers choose. Much easier but it costs me money to do it that way.... decisions decisions.
FullTiltPoker.net has become a nightly thing at the mo too in the build up to the big game on Friday. Hopedfully this practice will pay off as there is a big pot out there with my name on it!!
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The learning continues day by day. This weekend we have had the finger chewing combined with irritability and a huge and sudden drop in appetite. Otherwise known as teething the molars...
Of course, we only know this (hopefully) because it says so in a book but at least it answers the whole 'WHAT ARE WE DOING WRONG!!!?' questions that keep flooding our heads as Alfie only takes 2 spoons of dinner and then throws a benny.
Life. Goes. On.
Just hope his teeth are out soon. I suddenly feel bad about going to work and leaving legs in the minefield. I guess we just take it as it comes... I would certainly say that Alfie is now a 'normal' child
In non-baby news........ erm........ god how boring. The garden is getting on well and we have bitten the bullet with the house insulation. Currently the house is a little like a net curtain in as much as the wind whistles through it without pausing for thought at the walls/windows/doors. As such, I have made it my personal mission to try and exclude all drafts and actually make the house keep some of the heat the 'rads' pump into it. More news on this to follow in the coming weeks.
Got an order for a website from kruelintent.com so I have been working on that too.
There are simply not enough 'free' hours in the week. grillymonk.co.uk is falling by with no new designs now for a while. I think if I am going to go for it properly there I need to give spreadshirt some money and have a fully fledged proper shop so all I need to do is the designs - then they can go on whatever clothing the customers choose. Much easier but it costs me money to do it that way.... decisions decisions.
FullTiltPoker.net has become a nightly thing at the mo too in the build up to the big game on Friday. Hopedfully this practice will pay off as there is a big pot out there with my name on it!!
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Wednesday 13 May 2009
Formula One
This could be one to watch over the next week or two. Massive power struggle between a LOT of big money swingers.
bbc article
In my opinion, F1 should be no holds barred top of the tree technology and trying to hog tie it seems absurd...
Just my 2 pennies.
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bbc article
In my opinion, F1 should be no holds barred top of the tree technology and trying to hog tie it seems absurd...
Just my 2 pennies.
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Tuesday 5 May 2009
Bike seat
In other, less incendiary, news. We bought a bike seat for Alfie over the weekend too. Check it out here - http://www.hamax.com/?ItemID=1149&_Bicycle_Child_Seat
Should mean a roll out to a pub en famile is well in order come June/July.
Family politics
This post isn't going to be nice. I would just like to say a couple of things.
- I love all of my family.
- Family politics suck the root.
Why is it that logic goes out of the window when dealing with family politics? Let me paint the scene.
Having a son who is just coming back to full strength after an illness we are just getting his routine back on track. This routine, even at the best of times, rarely includes a 2 hour sleep. Babies in cars generally sleep like logs and so we did not make it down for a christening 2 hours drive away as we didn't want to put his routine in jeopardy. I phoned the father of the to-be-christened child and had a good chat about babies and that was that. He was happy that we wouldn't be down. So. The day of the Christening arrives and we get an option to drive 20 minutes down the road to watch a bike race my mate is riding in. We go. We have a good time.
So. Why didn't we go to the Christening?
- We are being (possibly over) protective of our son?
- We have a deep seated reason to not want to see the rest of our family?
hmmm.
I thought hard about whether to post this or not but ultimately, f**k it. If people want to make rash and incorrect assumptions about why we weren't somewhere then that is up to them. 2 out of 4 of my siblings decided, somehow, that the answer must be 2. Incredible. I think I might get an anti-family-politics t-shirt knocked up.
Sunday 3 May 2009
Bank holiday fun
On Saturday we went to Robinswood hill for a wonder around. It has a little farm there so we saw all the sheep and pigs etc and Alfie loved it. Also, randomly, discovered that Alfie finds stones dropping in water hilarious! I will add a link to the video in the comments on the forum and I will post the video link on facebook/twitter once it has finished uploading to my youtube page.
Today, we all went to the forest of dean to watch my workmate Rob cycle in the spring sportif. When we saw him early on he was running in 6th and looking strong! Fair play to him. I desperatly wanted to be there with him but with my fitness at an all time low I think I would have been left for dead!
TFIBHM tomorrow. :-)
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Today, we all went to the forest of dean to watch my workmate Rob cycle in the spring sportif. When we saw him early on he was running in 6th and looking strong! Fair play to him. I desperatly wanted to be there with him but with my fitness at an all time low I think I would have been left for dead!
TFIBHM tomorrow. :-)
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Friday 1 May 2009
Lawro
Portsmouth v Arsenal
It's a great time for Portsmouth to have this game with Arsenal's minds on pulling back a goal deficit to Manchester United in the Champions League. They could really put the seal on their season and cement their safety.
Arsenal have nothing really left to play for in the league now and Arsene Wenger may be tempted to try out some of his squad players.
Verdict: 2-1
match preview
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It's a great time for Portsmouth to have this game with Arsenal's minds on pulling back a goal deficit to Manchester United in the Champions League. They could really put the seal on their season and cement their safety.
Arsenal have nothing really left to play for in the league now and Arsene Wenger may be tempted to try out some of his squad players.
Verdict: 2-1
match preview
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