A little birdy just called and told me that Junell and Morris were fairly successful in their play-poker-all-wednesday-night-then-crash-on-thursday-morning scheme. From what I understand they won $2500 between them last night and are now sleeping it off comfortably at Bellagio.
When I grow up I want to be those guys.
Most of you who are local receive these emails from a guy who promotes some games here in town. This one caught my interest because I didn’t think this guy spread anything like $3-6 or $4-8, which is what would typically be described as “low limit” in the poker world… But, wow! $10-20 is now considered to be “low limit”? If that’s the case I am really out of touch (and seriously underpaid)!
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To: Poker Players
From:
Subject: Houston Poker – Low Limit No Limit Tonight
Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 7:11AMHi Players :^)
Tonight:
Thursday: 6PM $1/$2 No LimitHoldem
Thursday: 6PM $10/$20 Limit Holdem
UPDATE: On second thought, maybe he’s saying that the $1-2 blinds in the No Limit game are relatively small compared to a $2-5 or $5-5 game, but still, $1-2 NL is not a small game to most people. I mean, the pot will be at least $15 or $20 preflop and bets will increase exponentially from there if people play correctly, you could easily be betting and raising $80 or more on the later streets. That’s not “Low Limit” to me, but maybe I’m just poor and out of touch.
This has nothing to do with poker, but for some reason I find it to be quite humorous. Who knew that “curious Mexicans” could be so funny?
SAN DIEGO —- Crowded by reporters and watched by curious Mexicans waiting to jump into the United States on Tuesday, four U.S. congressmen lobbied to ignore environmental concerns and finish building a bigger, “triple-layered” border fence.
The full article is here, but the picture and first paragraph are really all that matters.
The weekly mass emailing went out last night and there is one small correction – the table in the middle of the page shows the entries so far to the tournament and not the spaces remaining as was written. Sorry for any confusion. That’s the problem between emails and blogs – you can correct mistakes in your blog, but once the email is sent, it’s gone.
Intersing listing of odds, but it left off the odds of an Ace flopping when you hold KK: 100%
Sorry for the lack of posting, but working until 10 each night and every Saturday and Sunday AND running an NCAA pool AND making my wife feel like a widow takes time away from IAG. But that all ends tomorrow at 9pm PST when I land in LV. Be sure to check out results from the Friday April 30 tournament at this site.
I have 3 takers form taking a piece of me. Any other takers? email me today or call the cell phone Thursday, Friday.
I have started Harrington’s book and really like it. He talks about “what do they expect me to do here?” and factors that into his decisions, which is an angle I don’t typically spend a lot of time considering. An excellent application is that if you want to slowplay, but they expect you to bet anyway, go ahead and bet. Similiarly, if you want to bluff, but they expect you to check, then your bluff is more likely to be transparent. Sounds simple enough, but the way he writes it really spoke to my soul.
My soul? Did I really just say that? Oh my, I need to go to Vegas…
