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[Fatcatstu]

Dear John,

Can you hurry up please, we all want to Play Omaha now.

Many thanks,

The rest of us

X

[MintTrav]

I had Quads and a Straight Flush in the same hand!

Flop quads, and then it improves. Pity no-one else could catch up. By the end it looked like someone must have filled something.

PokerStars Zoom Hand #91009892704:  Omaha Pot Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2012/12/19 20:38:48 WET [2012/12/19 15:38:48 ET]
Table "Thyestes" 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: MintTrav ($27.15 in chips)
Seat 2: masking1 ($18.02 in chips)
Seat 3: tsiripilas ($10.53 in chips)
Seat 4: p.s.newreg ($74.73 in chips)
Seat 5: Pokerfrat402 ($44.49 in chips)
Seat 6: I IS BETTER ($64.05 in chips)
masking1: posts small blind $0.10
tsiripilas: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MintTrav [ ]
p.s.newreg: folds
Pokerfrat402: folds
I IS BETTER: folds
MintTrav: raises $0.50 to $0.75
masking1: calls $0.65
tsiripilas: calls $0.50
*** FLOP *** [ ]
masking1: checks
tsiripilas: checks
MintTrav: checks
*** TURN *** [ ] []
masking1: checks
tsiripilas: bets $0.75
MintTrav: calls $0.75
masking1: calls $0.75
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
masking1: checks
tsiripilas: checks
MintTrav: bets $1.25
masking1: folds
tsiripilas: folds
Uncalled bet ($1.25) returned to MintTrav
MintTrav collected $4.30 from pot
MintTrav: doesn"t show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $4.50 | Rake $0.20
Board [ ]
Seat 1: MintTrav (button) collected ($4.30)
Seat 2: masking1 (small blind) folded on the River
Seat 3: tsiripilas (big blind) folded on the River
Seat 4: p.s.newreg folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 5: Pokerfrat402 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 6: I IS BETTER folded before Flop (didn"t bet)

[Swinebag]

Betting the flop there.

[MintTrav]

Betting the flop there.

Yeah, I know. Such a dry flop though. They may think I"ve probably missed, though they have probably missed too. I would like to bet there, but I was thinking that, in Zoom, they"ll just move on and not try to outplay me.

I could reraise the Turn and may have got a call, but I judged his bet as a stab for the pot with nothing, so I thought I"d let him have another try.

[MintTrav]

Dear John,

Can you hurry up please, we all want to Play Omaha now.

Many thanks,

The rest of us

X

Dear Stuart

We have now completed our Heads-Up game, so you can continue.

I"m not sure why you"re concerned - if you win a medal you"ll probably lose it anyway!

John

[MintTrav]

Tonight was the first chance I"ve had to see the Grosvenor in Gunwharf since it"s been refurbished and turned into a G. There is now a separate poker room with 10 ten-handed tables. However, there is a lot of space on the gaming floor and in the new show-bar, which they are intending to use for bigger tournaments. They have got a GUKPT this year, which I"ll definitely be playing (APAT please avoid the first weekend in June).

In tonight"s tournament, my play was pretty mediocre. Finished 5/66, not by adventurous play or even by sucking out good, but just by plain old waiting for a good hand and then doubling up with it. I haven"t tried that method for ages; maybe it"s time to resurrect it.

[MintTrav]

I"ve been having a strange time online recently. I haven"t played any significant tournaments, just whatever I fancied as diversion at the time. They have all been $2-$3 Stud/Razz/Badugi 20-60 runner type things (mostly 20-30 runners) - just the sort of thing I usually cash in for fun and win quite often. The thing is - in the last dozen, I haven"t won any and I haven"t even cashed in any. I have never experienced a run like that in those games before. The only thing I have cashed in this year online was 3rd place in a 20 runner Omaha Hi-Lo.

Either I"ve got worse, they"ve got better or it"s just one of those things. Them getting better could mean an improvement in the abilities of the existing players or an influx of better ones. So far, I"m putting it down to it just being one of those things that happen from time to time. I"m still expecting a turnaround, but it is already very overdue.

[Live has been a different story. I cashed in a tournament on Thursday and last night I decided on a whim to go to Brighton for a change of scenery and play some cash there. So I popped over to the Brighton Grosvenor, played £1-£2 NLHE for a few hours and finished £380 up due to a combination of a soft table to start with, the tougher players who joined trying to bluff on various rivers and getting lots of good hands. TBH it was largely due to getting lots of good hands. Of course, it was just one night, but I think I"ll have to go back soon to see if it was random or whether it is a worthwhile trip to make from time to time.]

But the Stars Stud-type games are usually my most reliable consistent go-to. If that is gone I"ll need to rethink what I do. I"m sure(ish) it"ll come back, but I thought that after missing in 4 or 5 tournaments. At what point do I accept that something has changed? When I miss in 20 tournaments? 30? I"m not concerned yet, but we"ll see what happens.

[MintTrav]

I see that the list of cities that have applied to host the World Gay Games [Gay Games X] in 2018 has been published. It is a list of many of the great cities of the world, including London. Boris Johnson and David Cameron have backed the London bid and are offering many of the Olympic facilities. As usual, Paris is in the running, along with Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It has recently been held in Sydney, Germany and various US cities, so they are not in contention this time.

There is one city in the list which seems a little surprising, to say the least. Competing with these great cities is Limerick. Limerick! Not even Dublin, which would be a stretch, but fecking Limerick. How ridiculous is that? From what I know of Limerick, it is pretty much a dump and has one of the highest crime rates in Ireland. My knowledge is 20 years out of date, so things may have changed, but I doubt it.

The full list of cities bidding to host Gay Games X:

Amsterdam
Limerick
London
Orlando
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Sao Paulo

[duke3016]

From what I know of Limerick, it is pretty much a dump and has one of the highest crime rates in Ireland. My knowledge is 20 years out of date, so things may have changed, but I doubt it.

It was, has been, and still is a dump, some things never change......

[MintTrav]

Whee - chopped the Shuffles tournament HU tonight.

Boo - now 15 Stud-type tournaments on Stars without a cash.

[AJDUK]

Whee - chopped the Shuffles tournament HU tonight.

Boo - now 15 Stud-type tournaments on Stars without a cash.

Variance; stick with it

[MintTrav]

So my younger daughter Rachel has arrived in England for a gap year. She was going to spend it as a Jilleroo, which is like a Jackeroo, which is basically a kind of cowboy, but instead she chose to come to England to work at a boarding school helping with younger children, the same as Rosie did. First reaction - "I can"t believe how cold it is". That was before temperatures went down this week. To rub it in, yesterday was Sydney"s hottest day ever.

Rachel - age 18, going on 11:

[Swinebag]

I think Brentwood was where Frank Lampard went to school.

Great for you to have her over for a while John.

[MintTrav]

Boo - now 15 Stud-type tournaments on Stars without a cash.

Variance; stick with it

Yeah, it seems you were right. I went 18 games without cashing, then very min cashed 6/45, then 3 more blanks. That was horrible. I didn"t really think that everything could have changed so dramatically, but when you have made 1 cash in 22 at your best games, you start to wonder.

Now suddenly it has all come back with a vengeance and at exactly the right time. From an exceptional number of misses straight to a ridiculous number of bullseyes - poker is pretty daft. I have been playing the satellites for the TCOOP Stud, Stud Hi-Lo & Razz in the last couple of days, and have been smashing them. Not just crawling over the line, but finishing 1st by a distance from 50-60 runners several times. Picked up 6 seats so far, so a few T$ up irrespective. These are only small-stakes $3 & $5 games with $27 seats for the winners, but it is good to turn that corner.

The main tournaments are on the next three nights and I am looking forward to them now. Obviously you can sink in any event but, on average, I should have reasonable hopes of going deep in one of the three.

[MintTrav]

Won a huge 3-way pot in the Stud. 34/1014 from 2407.