Poker Blog

A few days ago, I made a mistake in the $25k NL HU tournament on FTP in the opening round. A mistake which I should never make. There are many types of mistakes in poker, and I have made thousands of each in my life, surely. Making a poor read of someones range in a spot, of their timing, of their betsizing, or of their mindset. When I am trying to be creative, and testing out a play on someone when I am not sure it will work, and it fails, I rarely get upset.

I've been waiting to post about this for a little while now, but haven't actually been allowed to. The press releases came out today though, so here it is:

G4 ANNOUNCES NEW DOCU-SERIES

“2 MONTHS, $2 MILLION” PREMIERING AUGUST 2009

“2 Months, $2 Million” (“2M2MM”) Follows Four 20-Something Math Whizzes Determined to Make it

Big this Summer in the World of High Stakes Online Poker

Before we talk poker, I hope everyone has seen this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

Everything about it is perfect. The look of skepticism from the judges, the girl at 1:25 (who probably now feels like the biggest bitch in the world), Susan Boyle's total awkwardness and bizarre persona. It all adds up to just a great moment in time, which thankfully the internet allows us to cherish.

Nothing to post today, just this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUcYSR-Xl_E

After this winter, I've started to get a little better at skiing. This is convenient, as I may have no choice but to take refuge in the mountains at some point in my lifetime: http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/08/29/tidal.wave/index.html.

Cliff notes: A massive volcano eruption in the Canary Islands will cause the largest landslide ever, and thus cause the largest tsunami ever, wreaking havoc on North Africa, parts of Western Europe, and much of the Eastern coasts of the Americas. When? Some time between now and the next several hundred years.

Sucks for us.

The state of the NL poker economy is not dire, but it is certainly at its most bizarre state ever.

Game selection is at all time high level of nittiness. You simply hardly will ever see a reg playing another reg at any stakes between 2/4 and 200/400.

There is no such thing as 50/100, 100/200, 200/400 or 300/600. It just hardly ever exists anymore. There are the random hu matches that happen and the very occasional 6max games that run, but I'd be shocked if a total of 100k hands get played this year at all at those stakes on either full tilt or stars.

From now on, in an effort to improve my blogging, I MUST post a video or link to something in every post. It doesn't have to be related to my post, and it doesn't even have to be interesting. But if I don't, the first person to respond gets 100 dollars sent to them or their charity of choice.

Incompetence is far and away the most irritating thing in the world to me, except maybe mosquito bites. People who have a specific job to do, and fail miserably at it and cause other people problems, really ought to be lined up against a wall and shot. Well of course I don't believe they should be shot, but they should definitely not be allowed to reproduce.

I'd have to say that the amount of expert commentary on poker delivered from non expert poker players is non existent. Much in the same way I could not pretend to comment on a grand master level chess match, I do not think people who are not great players can comment adequately or truly understand what is going on at really high stakes games. When coming up with this analogy I thought to myself "Wow dani, great thought. now... are there any flaws to it?" And I soon realized that an easy counter analogy is professional sports.

It's fairly obvious to most readers that I don't put too much time into this blog. I go into waves of interest, ranging from total apathy, to actually dedicated time commitment. Thankfully, I am feeling very interested right now. Perhaps I would be more into it if I made it more personal, and stopped blogging about things so uncontroversial as Jeopardy and The Wire.