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why i don't have to empty my penny jar - 2009-11-18
i could sure go for a nice maytag bleu cheese souffle right about now - 2009-11-17
2012, or i for one welcome our new satsuma overlords - 2009-11-16
the beautiful butterflies of bolivia - 2009-11-15
what this country needs is a good five cent cigar and a good five dollar coin, if you asked me, which you probably didn't - 2009-11-14
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By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets.
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A bibliography of my published books and stories.
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| The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill blog by Mark Bittner about feral Cherry-Headed Conures in San Francisco. |
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an index to my poker pages
2009-01-18 - 11:23 a.m.
I don't think that the world is exactly crying out for another poker blog, but if anyone is interested, I'll have an index to my poker discussion entries on this page. I'm a former professional blackjack player, and I've only been playing poker seriously for two years, so if my plays amuse, amaze, and entertain, then sorry about that. There are a million better places to go to learn how to actually play the durn hands.
Limit Hold 'Em (generally 30/60 or lower limits) -
My First Royal Flush -- $2/4 full ring. "I flopped it, guys."
- The Seven Dooey Game -- 30/60 full ring post defense. It isn't often you get a chance to play 72 and beat the crap out of the guys who are playing aces.
- Set Over Set, or if I flop trip Qs over trip 8s, aggressive/clueless is the right kind of opponent to have. 15/30 full ring, with the gal we're all there to play acting immediately after me.
- Battle of the Overpairs -- that old wheeze about AA vs. KK vs. QQ? Not funny.
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Two variation plays with pocket pairs -- a three-bet with pocket 3s and a limp/re-raise with pocket 8s -- er, maybe don't try that pocket 3 play at home.
- A straight flush humor hand from a weak 15/30 game.
- Amuse 'em and amaze 'em with the sooted one-gapper three bet, from a good 30/60 game.
- Fun with pocket deuces in a 30/60 9-handed family pot.
- How to get paid off with quads -- If you don't want to click to find out, the short version is, have a maniac in the game on your button when you arrange to get the quad threes in question.
- Mason Malmuth follows his own advice to never look directly at crazy people, gosh, is crazy people, ME???
- Stealing with ATC on the button -- how to play 63 offsuit in a 30/60 limit hold em game if you have teh crazy.
- More stealing at 30/60 LHE, but at least this time I have an offsuit one-gapper, the mighty 64 of offsuitedness.
- I get brutalized when I flop trip Queens out of position in 30/60 LHE, but it could have been worse.
- I'm a terrible human being for betting and raising with the best hand, so what are you going to do?
- Small stakes -- 5/10 cent LHE -- and I turn trip queens against a guy who may not even have a functioning pulse.
- 30/60 LHE -- big pot play with 54 sooted and black tens.
- 30/60 LHE -- squeezing out an extra bet on the river with AA against two opponents.
- 30/60 LHE -- two hands where I mess with the heads of good opponents, and in one of the hands I did the screwplay totally on purpose
- 30/60 LHE -- build a pot and get there on the river with your straight flush, it pays better.
- 30/60 LHE -- I
have more issues than National Geographic, or, the truth is, sometimes I feel pretty dirty.
- 20/40 LHE with a half kill -- a jackpot scam to get me to reveal my hand, and a legal if silly-looking steal based on the fact that I could easily read the jackpot player's hand.
- 20/40 LHE with a half kill back in some small mountain town where weak-tight play hasn't yet passed from fashion.
- 30/60 LHE -- making plays when you're struggling
- 5/10cent LHE -- the funny thing about playing for pennies is that it's probably the closest thing you'll get online to live 20/40 or 30/60
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