Oh, and I’m in! Though it sounds like not this week…
I’m not going to be able to make it either. I’ll probably be stuck playing bingo (no, not for money) with the family. They don’t want to play poker either; I’ve already asked them. Sigh. Doubt I can make Saturday either. Shocking, I know. I am looking forward to next Thursday though.
Thanks for the answers to my raise amount question. Even though the BB is getting 3 to 1 on a 2.25x raise, and very, very few preflop situations in Hold 'Em have a 3-1 advantage (KK+, AKs, AKo, vs random is a touch worse than 3-1.), I can see the situation getting unpleasant for the blind with an aggressive player in position. With a flop check, 1/2 pot cbet, call or re-raise, and now you’ve invested anywhere from 3.75x to 8.75x to save your blind. Not fun. I suppose you could always try betting first with a small blocking bet and hope that holds up or wins the pot outright.
And the raiser only has to win 60%+ of the time for their 2.25x raise to be +ev, as opposed to 2/3 of the time with a 3x raise. While that edge is small, I’d think it tends to add up. Of course, when the blind re-raises you, it’s only 4.5x to call, vs 6x, assuming a 3x BB re-raise…
Fun game. Lots to think about.
I probably will not be around tomorrow night, but I will be around Saturday night.
Would that there was a bad Luigi game, though…
I can kill the scheduled tourney if ppl want to play something different.
Oddly, I am around. But I think I’m the only one…
Well, i could play as well, and opening PS, no one is registed.
No offense Maserschmidt, but I don’t want to play heads up. :o
Looks like you picked a bad week to want to play. Sorry.
Back in the old days, before we could schedule recurring tournaments, we never scheduled games on T-day because so few people could play.
Won’t be in tonight either. My parents have a knack for asking me to help them on thursdays.
Then again, as they treat me to their local trivia night, I can’t really say no.
I will get back to poker when I can. I don’t think my play will suffer.
[Cause lord knows I can’t play any worse.]
Thursday night bump. I PMed **Maserschmidt ** as a reminder. Lets get some players tonight!
- Hawk (welcome)
- MentalGuy (finally off his high horse)
- Dag Otto (I flushed him off his high burro)
- Ghosty (Mr (half) Bot)
- Ast (Miss Kitty Thundershirt)
- Frosty (crippled all game long)
- Missy (why did she get four bytches tonight?)
- NFM (back where I belong, after a slump)
the standings:
1 MentalGuy 80.9
2 Gray Ghost 68.4
3 Dag Otto 62.7
4 Frosted Glass 61.7
5 MissTake 57.8
6 notfrommensa 57.0
7 asterion 53.8
8 Craneop2 52.9
9 Yeticus Rex 44.7
10 cutebut dumb 44.7
11 Meeko 38.2
While I was at work last week drinking coffee and enjoying the contemplative peace of my office, the Maserschmidt family, fiendishly plotting at home, decided the entirety of Advent should be “screen free” (except for paying of bills or brief checking of email). So no poker for me until after Christmas. :smack:
And no screens, either, except for when they’re all out shopping. Like right now.
Alright you guys…sorry I wasn’t on last Thursday, I didn’t get home until an hour and a half after the start time.
Also, may I please ask for a little something of you?
Sorry Yeti; I had no idea this was going on. Spamming commencing now.
Maser, I think PokerStars works just fine on a tablet or smartphone. Just sayin’…
The family has decided - and I’m down with this - not to engage in screening behavior around each other until after Xmas, so it would still be hard to pull off with any particular device. But this just increases the anticipation!
Thursday evening bump.
Thursday 12/8/2011
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[li]Cyberhwk[/li][li]Mental Guy[/li][li]Asterion[/li][li]MissTake[/li][li]Gray Ghost[/li][li]NotFromMensa[/li][li]Dag Otto[/li][/ol]
Overall Standings:
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[li]MentalGuy 80.3 [/li][li]Gray Ghost 64.6 [/li][li]Cyberhwk 61.8 [/li][li]Frosted Glass 61.7 [/li][li]Dag Otto 59.0 [/li][li]MissTake 57.0 [/li][li]asterion 55.2 [/li][li]notfrommensa 54.3 [/li][li]Craneop2 52.9 [/li][li]Yeticus Rex 44.7 [/li][li]cutebut dumb 44.7 [/li][li]Meeko 38.2[/li][/ol]
Thanks, Hwk. I would have posted standings with a few comments:
Hwk becomes standings-eligible and leaps into third! Boo!
MG slips .6 point, but apparently has this quarter crushed.
Gainers: ast
Losers: MG, Gray, dag, missy, NFM
Bumpity Bump Bump
Today’s Results:
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[li]Cyberhwk[/li][li]Dag Otto[/li][li]Asterion[/li][li]Frosted Glass[/li][li]Miss Take[/li][li]Bootis[/li][li]Yeticus Rex[/li][li]Gray Ghost[/li][li]Mental Guy[/li][li]NotFromMensa[/li][li]Meeko[/li][/ol]
I’ll let Oslo recap the standings.