Bad Beat Blog

Ace rag

Friday, 18 December 2009 07:03
Written by Simon Olsen
0 Comments
Print PDF
Share

I'm still amazed at the number of times I watch people confidently raise with Ace plus anything lower than 9, then easily win, often in a showdown. The only time I can play it is in big or small blind, and even then I'm ready to do the Snoop Dogg and "Drop it like it's hoooot!"

Last night at Bowlers I was sitting next to a guy claiming he doesn't play very much, just after he re-raised me triple my raise three times the blind, pre-flop. After I called, mainly because it was early and I had to establish confidence in my hole cards, a rainbow flop 3-J-9 is followed by his over-bet, not quite all-in. I drop my hole cards, taking a considerable whack to my clay bank account.

Read more... Add new comment

Putting together a team

Wednesday, 16 December 2009 12:20
Written by Simon Olsen
0 Comments
Print PDF
Share

Rather than go with the whole "Welcome to my Poker Blog", I'm just going to get straight into it, and hopefully over time, you'll fathom what kind of poker player I am. Besides, there has been an exciting development lately that I'm really excited about.

Last Thursday at work, during lunch *ahem*, because I never daydream at work *cough*, I was thinking how cool it would be to get a team together for one of the teams events in APL. I'd heard about them, but the last one that happened in July was right over my birthday, and we'd already planned to go to Splendour in the Grass. So I missed it.

Went to Bowlers for my usual APL Thursday freeroll, and low and behold, on the TV with the APL ads: Battle of the Regions!

Read more... Add new comment

SEO by AceSEF

Feed me 'Bad Beat Blog'

Feed Me 'Bad Beat Blog'

Twitter

  1. Spanners80 Edgey! RT @catrionarafael: Just saw a guy wearing a 3pc suit, bow tie, bowler hat and Harry Potter glasses. Ohyeah. about 2 hours
  2. Spanners80 Got another 4square user hot on my heels, but I'm still mayor of Cafe Olivetti. Thanks for the coffee! (@ Cafe Olivetti) about 7 hours
  3. fart_robot RT @Spanners80 Hmmmm. Do I need the "Fart for Free" App still?.... Better keep that one... FART ROBOT APPROVES. about 8 hours
  4. Spanners80 Hmmmm. Do I need the "Fart for Free" App still?.... Better keep that one... about 8 hours
  5. Peter Kommt Mit Twitter-Ticker powered by Peter Kommt Mit. unkonventionell reisen about 8 hours

@Spanners80