Originally posted by Gerv
I will be an active follower of your blog but also a learner since I can read some things I am going to face when I get older
A teenager
Want to know what you have to face? Here's something that I had to do for about an hour yesterday. Enjoy!
ENGLAND England England England England England England were shit!
Anyway, got that of my chest. Let's say no more about it. Nice BBQ. Nice company. At least we won the cricket.
Got back a while ago and find I actually do have time to play some poker, although my wife has plied me with alcohol again.
Edit: Played 12: 3 1sts, 3 2nds, 1 3rd. BR = $548. Would play some more but feel a bit too drunk. And please, don't be the person to lecture me about drinking and poker not mixing. I know! ♦
Forgot to mention that yesterday I also watched Jonathan Little's final recent video on 'Defending Your Blinds in MTTs', Was hoping that this would involve lots of scary 3betting and wimpy late position stealers folding in terror. Most of it seemed to involve calling in the big blind and 'using your hand reading skills out of position to take it away post flop'. My usual betting sequence in this situation is check/fold or check/reraise/fold, so maybe I can experiment with check/call, and postpone going belly up until the turn or river. Something to work on there.
Originally posted by jbpatzer
Want to know what you have to face? Here's something that I had to do for about an hour yesterday. Enjoy!
Did you cook with your children with this website =O
Oh man... 
Originally posted by Gerv
Originally posted by jbpatzer
Want to know what you have to face? Here's something that I had to do for about an hour yesterday. Enjoy!Did you cook with your children with this website =O
Oh man...
Only virtual cooking, but yes, my daughter and I took it in turns to do the activities. It's actually OK because she enjoys it so much.
i) Led Zep 3 is a better album than Led Zep 4. Discuss.
ii) One of the advantages of my job is that I don't really have to dress up for work, so I have shambled in in shorts and T shirt today as it's so hot. However, examining myself more closely, I find two small but noticeable holes in my T shirt. So much for my professorial gravitas! Question: Is it my wife's responsibility to look me over before I go to work to check for any fashion faux pas? She does it for the kids. Or perhaps you think I should be old enough to dress myself by now?
iii) Whilst eating my breakfast, two previously unconnected (in my mind) events from yesterday clonked together in my head. I watched the football sandwiched between my friend and his friend Chris, who apparently lives opposite and who I had never met before. He seemed (fortunately for me) to be a nice chap. During the first half, for reasons I can't remember, the conversation turned to rugby and I said, 'Rugby is a game for gentlemen with funny shaped balls.' (can't remember where I stole this from). Ha ha! During the second half, my friend noted that Chris had played rugby for England (I don't really follow rugby, so don't ask me who he is). I was duly impressed. Chris didn't really talk to me much after the football, which I put down to understandable disappointment over the result. I now realize this may not have been the entire reason.
Next time you're thinking of moaning when someone hits their one outer on the river, you might like to consider what the chances are of making an 'amusing' remark about rugby players and their genitals whilst sitting next to a famous one. Mind you, it could have been worse. I think Oscar Wilde once said 'Rugby is a game to be encouraged because it keeps 30 louts from making trouble in the town centre'. Good job it wasn't that one that popped into my head!
Originally posted by jbpatzer
Question: Is it my wife's responsibility to look me over before I go to work to check for any fashion faux pas?
Definitely. Or at least she should make sure that the topmost T-shirt in your wardrobe is fine and matches the topmost short there in color. That's the minimum, she should know that if she has a professor for husband.
Originally posted by hacacare
Originally posted by jbpatzer
Question: Is it my wife's responsibility to look me over before I go to work to check for any fashion faux pas?Definitely. Or at least she should make sure that the topmost T-shirt in your wardrobe is fine and matches the topmost short there in color. That's the minimum, she should know that if she has a professor for husband.
You're my new best friend! I will show her this. And she will hit me for sure.
Had a look at my play from last night's session and was pretty happy with it. Wasn't as much of a luckbox as I had thought at the time. Posted a couple of hands I'm not sure about on the <$5 SnG forum, and two hands that I found amusing are given below.
Maybe pushing A8o is a bit loose here, but this is just rubbing it in!
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 3.4 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
UTG (t1640)
Hero (MP) (t2470)
CO (t995)
Button (t4300)
SB (t2820)
BB (t2775)
Hero's M: 8.23
Preflop: Hero is MP with A
, 8
1 fold, Hero bets t2470 (All-In), CO calls t995 (All-In), Button calls t2470, 2 folds
Flop: (t6235) 4
, 5, 3 (3 players, 2 all-in)
Turn: (t6235) 10 (3 players, 2 all-in)
River: (t6235) Q (3 players, 2 all-in)
Total pot: t6235
Results:
Button had A
, 9 (high card, Ace).
Hero had A, 8 (high card, Ace).
CO had A, J (high card, Ace).
Outcome: Button won t2950, CO won t3285
Not sure limping from UTG is a good idea here! ♠_biggrin:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 3.4 Tournament, 50/100 Blinds (7 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
Button (t5253)
SB (t1457)
BB (t805)
UTG (t1150)
MP1 (t3325)
Hero (MP2) (t1795)
CO (t1215)
Hero's M: 11.97
Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 10, 10
UTG bets t300, 1 fold, Hero raises to t1795 (All-In), 3 folds, BB calls t705 (All-In), UTG calls t850 (All-In)
Flop: (t3155) 5, 7, J (3 players, 3 all-in)
Turn: (t3155) 7 (3 players, 3 all-in)
River: (t3155) Q (3 players, 3 all-in)
Total pot: t3155
Results:
BB had 9, 9 (two pair, nines and sevens).
UTG had 6, 6 (two pair, sevens and sixes).
Hero had 10, 10 (two pair, tens and sevens).
Outcome: Hero won t3155
nice blog and i really love your post ebout "Twiglight" ♦ have seen first two parts as one of my friends (girl) told me that books were great 
Originally posted by mrkaktus
nice blog and i really love your post ebout "Twiglight" ♦ have seen first two parts as one of my friends (girl) told me that books were great
Yes, it's strictly a chick flick in my view. Might just be for teenage girls I think, as I didn't get the impression that mrs jb was very impressed either! Surprised you got as far as seeing the second part. I hope you did it for the girl you went to the cinema with. Otherwise, I'm baffled! I wish he'd just shagged her then drunk her blood, as it would have spared us all any more whingey abstinence. ♦
Originally posted by jbpatzer
Originally posted by Hahaownedlolz
Originally posted by jbpatzer
Woo hoo! I have a signature. Thanks all!
Old people and computers... ♦
Lost for words. My father, who is 75 recently got his first computer, so don't get me started! Anyway, what is BBcode smartypants???
Since Hahaownedlolz clearly doesn't know what BBcode is, I can tell you all that, through the magic of Wikipedia, I have discovered that it stands for Bulletin Board code. Doh! Clearly I am computer-literate, and not a proper 'old person' after all! 
I also wanted to post this, which was sent to me by a friend last month, Apologies if you've seen it already, but it made me laugh so much I nearly wet myself. In fact I'm going to propose that lsminwm is a much better internet acronym that lol, rofl or lmao, and may use it at random spots in my blog in the future.
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The Darwins are out!!!!
Yes, it's that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
Here is the glorious winner:
1. When his 38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Provo , Utah would-be robber Jason Ellison did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.
And now, the honorable mentions:
2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.
3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.
4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped... Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies.. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.
5. A teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.
6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer... $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?]
7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly.. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.
8. As a female shopper exited a South Carolina convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."
9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti , Michigan at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away. [*A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]
10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on an Atlanta street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline, but he plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.
Hey jb,
Sorry I've only just discovered your blog, but as another middleaged Brit, married with kid, and who (guardedly) admits to owning an unseemly amount of chess books (rather lower BCF grade than yourself, though), I though I'd say hello.
I shall be following your progress and hoping you have enough playing time to make it happen.
-Tim
Originally posted by Tim64
Hey jb,Sorry I've only just discovered your blog, but as another middleaged Brit, married with kid, and who (guardedly) admits to owning an unseemly amount of chess books (rather lower BCF grade than yourself, though), I though I'd say hello.
I shall be following your progress and hoping you have enough playing time to make it happen.
-Tim
Hello. I've read some of your blog too. Very interesting. I think I'd rather be better at poker and worse at chess! Top chess tip: Alekhine's defence rules! 
Just watched Jonathan Little's latest video on 'Pot Control'. Best one so far I think. Maybe it's because it involves lots of check/calling, which a donk like me is always going to feel more comfortable with. I like his videos, because he comes across as a really nice chap, and also because he's always disagreeing with himself. e.g. 'I really think checking is the best line here. Oh! I bet! Well, that's not too bad either.' Lost count of how many times he does this. He's clearly very successful , so he must know what's what I suppose. Mind you, if I'm about to give a lecture, I tend to at least glance through the material first so that I don't get surprised half way through. I will be charitable and say that it just goes to show what a rich and varied game poker is, as there are so many different viable options at each point.
Top chess tip: Alekhine's defence rules!
Sure - give me 3 or 4 tempi to get my pawn centre in place. I'll bite ♠_biggrin:
Originally posted by Tim64
Top chess tip: Alekhine's defence rules!
Sure - give me 3 or 4 tempi to get my pawn centre in place. I'll bite ♠_biggrin:
1 e4 Nf6 2 e5 Nd5 3 d4 d6 4 c4 Nb6 5 f4 g5!
He he! ♠_evil:
Hello from yet another teenager, Brit, maths student and chess player ♦
I think I played with you a few times on the $3.40s, best of luck at the tables!
Fantastic blog, keep it going mate!
Originally posted by goldchess
Hello from yet another teenager, Brit, maths student and chess player ♦I think I played with you a few times on the $3.40s, best of luck at the tables!
Fantastic blog, keep it going mate!
I don't have the chat box on top when I play, so sorry if I was antisocial. Dare I ask which University you're at?
Managed to fit in two sets of 12 $3.40 turbos tonight. BR up to $571. Here's the graph since Sunday (3 sets of 12). Not too shabby I'd say! ♦ The plan is to try the $6.50s if and when the BR passes $600. The rake is soooo much less on these so I hope I get there soon.
I was using the England flag image in Pokerstars, but I now find it's not there any more since we've been knocked out. Have therefore switched allegiance to Brazil, and will be playing under their flag until they win!
