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thinsy147:
Welcome to yet another blog........

This one won"t be all about poker though. It"ll be all about the exciting boring bits on the days when if anything good (or bad, or funny) ever happens!!

So, let me start by telling you a little about myself:



* I was born in Liverpool but never lived there.

* I spent the first 3 months of my life in Alder Hey Hospital. Alder Hey was retaining patients organs without parental consent between 1988-1995, which was brought to light during a public inquiry in 1999. Although my father is pretty convinced they removed a brain somewhere between June and September of 1971.

* I moved to Norfolk in 1977/8 with my parents due to my fathers new job!

* I raced motorbikes from the age of 9-13

* I"ve worked in the same job for the last 18 years!

* I have the occasional OCD moment!


My main interests besides poker are snooker, pool, going out and drinking. The majority of my posts on this blog will include these subjects. Here"s a quick summary of my success/failures so far:

Poker
Been playing for at least 8 years!
Played in 3 APAT events so far:
LUTON 2009 - finished 26th
NOTTINGHAM 2009 - finished badly
LUTON 2010 - finished 3rd

Snooker
Been playing for 25 years (coaching 10 years):
Highest Break - 136
Norfolk Singles - Runner-up in 1997/8


POOL
This is really just an opportunity to go out drinking with the lads! However I have managed to win the league singles competition a couple of times.

GOING OUT
Our local pub has regular bands playing and you can"t beat live music. This is also a good chance to partake in my next subject too.....

DRINKING
Cider/Vodka "n" lemonade

More to follow.......

PHIL_TC:
 ;D I was in a karaoke "band" in the 90"s called "Norfolk n Good" that ruined horribly songs and brought terror joy to the masses around Stockton .. good times :)

Good luck with the blog look forward to reading.

thinsy147:

Swinebag:
good start with the blog

whilst you are correct that calling off your stack on the bubble is bad, limping in pre is even worse. Just fold there, doesn"t matter that the short stack only has

AMRN:
In this situation, with a guy with last than 2xBB, I"m insta folding TJo in this spot. In fact I fold it so vehemently, I"m in danger of putting my forefinger right through the top of my mouse!

Even shoving in this spot is really bad - if we assume the big stack folds, the shortstack has to call his last 100 chips, and we are going to win the hand 55% of the time (TJo vs random hand). For the 45% of the time that we lose, we double him up and close the gap between us as shortstacks, and are in the BB next hand.     If the BB wakes up with a hand, and calls anything in the top 15% of his range, the shorty rubs his hands in glee and folds, and we are a 30% dog to bust out.

With such a shortstack in play, there is very little point us entering the hand with anything worse than top 5% - we risk our entire tournament equity, when it"s highly likely that folding here will get us into the money. If the shorty happens to double up, or the BB gives him a walk, we still have distance between our stack and the short stack.

If our seat positions were different, and we had the big stack on our right, we can shove over the shorty SB v BB every time..... but it just isn"t worth taking the risk of shoving through the big stack here. If our stack and the short stack are closer, or if we have fold equity over the shortstack (ie he has enough chips to fold), then shoving here is ok - but definitely not in the specific example.

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