Variance?

I think I have just experienced my first session of down turn in variance. I have played AK and was beaten by 5,7o that hit 2 pair. I had QQ beaten by AA (I know this happens, but how often (Markelby, if your reading, let me know!)I had my pocket Aces beaten by trip 7s! and I have finished 4th in 3 STT and im not singing any more!

I think the upswing is going, erm, up! I finished 2nd in a £1+20p STT today on Will Hill and the HU was very frustrating, I was massive chip leader ywice with 2:1 and I got delt an Ace high hand, I go all in get called with a K high hand that pairs up on the flop, the I have a K high hand so I am all in again and I get called for the villain to show me an ace high hand that pairs up! GRRRR!

I thought I played well and am going to enter a MTT on will hill later and see if the MTT favours us poker academy members.

Also went to the doctors today as I have inflamed tendons in my right wrist, so you might notice a marked improvement in my typing, as I am slower and sometimes only one handes (cos of the pain you pervs!).

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An Absolute Cracking Cheese Sauce!

Cheesy darKPlay sauce

Ingredients:

1 large onion finely chopped
1 tsp lazy garlic (1 - 2 cloves)
3oz butter/marg
3 tbs plain flour
1 pint milk
5 desert spoons of plain yogurt
mixed herbs
9oz of grated Extra Mature cheddar
1/2 tsp nutmeg
Salt and pepper for seasoning


Method:
Take the yogurt and add the mixed herbs and allow to stand.

Fry the onion with the garlic until caramelised.

Melt the butter in a large pan and add the flour and stir into a paiste.

Gradualy add the milk stirring all the time until you have a smooth and battery sauce.

Aadd the yogurt and mix into the sauce, then add the rest of the milk.

Add the Nutmeg and mix until the sauce starts to simmer.

Remove from the heat and add the cheese, stir the cheese until most of it has melted then return to the heat.

When the sauce has started to bubble add the salt and pepper to taste.

Remove from the heat and serve with freshly cooked pasta or heated vegetables.

Please enjoy and let me know what you think!

This is an original recipe.

A cracking few days!

Poker world has come to visit me this week as I have been off work sick and I have passed the time playing a few freeroles, the odd MTT and many STT. I have not won much, but not lost much either.

I have finished 1st in one STT, 2nd in two STT 3rd in 4 STT (one of them a Limit game)

I played an incredible hand ($ kings) and got paid for it, but only finished 72nd THE BIG BUCK $1 MTT on Paradise Poker winning $1.20

I also had a game where my stack was reduced to 400ish when I was beaten by quad 7s to my nutflush, is that a bad beat? I had flopped the nut flush and he had hit his quad 7s on the turn?

I fifnished 3rd in that game, anothe prize paid to me!

Thanks for reading!

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What a bad day!

I've been of work today, looking after my wife after she had an operation last week. While she was out cold on the sofa I decided to have ago at the $1 BigBuck tourney on Paradise Poker. Here are some of my thoughts!

The majority of players must be newbies, within the first hour half the feild was removed (including myself) I had been delt AKo and had bet heavily pre-flop and thought I had done enough ewhen I paired the King on the flop, again I bet heavy concerned that there were 3 clubs out. However I had not taken into consideration the fishyness of the opponenet who had seen my 600 preflop bet hold 9c, Jc, whats that all about?

Oh well, it was only $1!

I can sit another $1,000,000 freerole maybe tomorrow, WestHam on Tellie tonight, so Poker will take a back seat.
Time for dinner me thinks.

PokerPlasm Freerole.

This was my 2nd entry to a PokerPlasm freerole Tourney, this time held at Titan Poker. The interface is OK to nuse with a few nice featues, one being that there is a marker on the scale that appears for you bets that indicates the current value of the pot, which is nicew.

The overall competition was excellent and the quality of play was surprisingly tough. There were some great characters at the table that helped the tournemant flow smoothly. Zonetrap and AliG were there throughout to keep the conversation going.

My only aim was to have a laugh and a joke, but once Im realised just how good the feild of players were I knew I had to adjust my aims for the night, Id made my 1st goal to get to the money, 15th place paid $2.50, so I amied for that. Once I had hit the bubble I changed my aim to hit the final tablr then I was pushing to finish in the top 5, which I just missed out on as I finished 6th, which I am very proud of as I was amongst some exceptional players.

I am looking forward to the next freerole and hope I can improve on my finishing position.

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You must be kidding me?!

This was a response to my earlier post:

Darkplay, do you think writing a hugely homophobic post and then saying "haha, it was all a joke" is acceptable? I think I'll stick to the poker threads from now on.

First let me take each part of you statement and answer the many questions it asks!

1 - Hugely homophobic - I cant see that what I have written is hugely homophobic, I can see it has some terms or phrases that might be considered offensive, but homophobic, no! I have not said in any way that to be homosexual is a bad or nasty thing in any form, you are confusing name calling with hatred. I have the ability to be able to reflect on a subject with an angle of humour whilst still remembering the seriousness of the subject at hand whilst I appreciate not everybody can do this, ,it is not for me to decide who can and cant seperate fact from fiction. Id also like to point out that star wars was not based on a realife story and aliens was all created on a film set and did not actually happen!.Sorry to be patronising, it would appear some people need it!

2 - do you think writing a hugely homophobic post and then saying "haha, it was all a joke" is acceptable - We covered the homophobic bit, but in my defense I could not be any clearer on where I stand, other to say It is as clear as clear can be! I do not dislike homosexuals! I wrote the peice as humour and accept not everyone will get it, understand it, or even appriciate it, but that is cool, I dont expect everyone to like it, that would be dull and boring!

What I actually said is HA HA its only a joke and Im not a homphobic, which is very different. I just dont think you have the same warped and twisted sense of humour I do and that is also fine.

Your post reflected on the similarity between the dislike of country music and homosexuals, where in fact there are none at all and your staement was flawed and inacurate, although I did not take offense Im sure many homosexuals would, being compaired to country music, especially as its famouse for all the rednecks and hill billies.

Im not even sure if you read everything I said, surely a person can have one view and write from another differing view, say Steven King for example, do we all think he is a mass murderer? I dont!

There, nuff said.

This is not serious and does not reflect my actual views!

This comment was in response to a thread at www.thepokeracademy.co.uk where another PA member said disliking Country music was akin to disliking homosexuals and not understanding was down to repression of our true feelings!

This was my response, but to better judhement I decdided not to post it there and post it here instead.

I am not a homosexual but do not have any ill feeling towards anyone for being homosexual, I would not impose my lifestyle onto anyone else and would not expect it to happen the other way around!

And if you find this offensive, log in tomorrow for my views on people who protest about freedom of speech whilst dressed as a suicide bomber!

This is where it starts:


Would shove it up your arse help you argument any further?

I dislike Country and weston equally and just cant get my head around it. My boss plays Johnny Cash and a few others I cant be arsed to remember and it always seems to make the clock go slower than it should.

However there are some cracking songs from that genre, as always the cream flots to the top, so I cant say I hate everything, just the majority.
In you analogy of hating Country is like hating Bum Bandits (no offense intended)Would you say the same for Death metle = Satan worshipers or in the Case of DnB = Drug taking pill heads (Stay with me people, I know its not a concrete argument (Im assuming a lot here, but I think one Metlehead can tell another!)).

What about 80s pop, Bronski beat and othe shirt lifting artists like boy George and pet shop boys, does this make me anti fudge nudger if I dont enjoy?

I dont think so! I dont mind being proved wrong here, although it would explain my wifes enjoyment of Marc Almond, heavy boots, braces and peicings oh, and trying to convince me that we should introduce another woman into our bedroom antics I wouldnt mind, but this woman is a munter! (sorry to all ugly lesbiens who cant get boyfriends).

PS

I have nothing against homosexuals be you a lady or a man, my comments were mearly a joke at your expense but in no way does it represent my actual views if you are either gay or lesbien.

PPS

If you are a lesbeien could you send me some "home Videos"
Now back to the Music (my boss is currently playing ELO)!

A limit game for me!

In the past I have found limit games as dull as watching paint dry. But lat night it all got a bit exciting.

I was playing on paradise poker and entered a $5+$1 game (that an extortionate rake if ever I saw one! 20%), anyhow, I found myself with $8 in the account and thought, Ill ever win millions or lose $8 and those are the odds I like.

The main lobby screen at paradise poker is very crowded and confusing, even after I had ordered the games into price entry I still managed to avoid all the omaha and hi/low but missed the limit game I ended up playing in. However on the plus side, I have never finished outside the money in a limit game, although the tactics are different, I still manage to get there.

The thing I find particulaly difficult with no limit is at the early stages you do get a lot of lunatics calling nearly every hand they have down to the river, when in a NL game you can push people off of pots with large raises or allins.

Once the blinds had reached 200/400 or 300/600 the game started to play like a proper game and I found this suited me a lot better, I finished in 2nd place after the chip leader took me down to 200 chips and I worked my way back up to massive chip leader and then the table s turned and he managed to keep ahaed and beat me with pocket 3s to my J high hand. I finished 2nd, which I thought was good cinsidering I sat down to the game accidently.

I think I will give limit another go tonight!

Who are the mentalists?

There has been a bit of a rebellion over at www.thepokeracademy.co.uk (PA) just recently and it effected me in quite an unuseal way, it made me reflect upon everything I say and do on that particular forum.

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY

When I first started to visit PA I found it a jovial place to visit for a light hearted but educational way of reassesing my game (which was rubbish). I consider myself to have an excellent sense of humour, but it would appear that not everyone appreciated it in the volumes in which I applied it.

Everything came to a head when one member (Satan1974) decided he would air his objections in quite an aggresive and offensive way. Now, Im not one to back down from an argument, and apart from one comment I made, I cant see what could possibly have offended what appeared to be a highly intelligent and articulate person such as Satan (whos post I found very informative and whos humour quite often had me giggling). I only defended my corner. It was very apparant that he was in the majority and Satan1974 decided he could no longer frequent the PA and prticipate with the rest of us, which I thought was very sad, but at the end of the day I really couldnt give a stuff. It is his choice and not one I or anyone else impossed on him.

His argument was that 'people' posted to many jokes that could have detracted from the main body of the post leading new comers to the forum and game to think that what we were joking about was actually the truth and the way things should be!

It is for this type of person that McDonalds cups have a cation on their coffee cups reading "Contains hot liquid"

And cans of peanuts have "Contains nuts" written on the side

"Mind your head" is another one and on a box of matches "Strike away from face" is needed for these people. We do not want these people at the PA. The sort of person who is going to be our money at the tables, we do not want them educated we want them pushing all in with J7 suited against our pocket 8s!

This does in no way reflect anyone elses opinion especially that of PA or PA members.

And in answer to the title of this post, if you dont know, its probably you!