Some interesting facts

Today I read in Discovery that statistically speaking, beautiful couples have daughters as their first child while engineers, mathematicians, violent & big people have sons. Since I am big, and an engineer I am assuming I am going to have a son.

Also, the other day I read in a book that left handed people get 15% higher salaries than a right handed person. No explanation was provided because they did not have one to offer. This explains a lot, since medieval ages, righties have been punishing lefties; I even remember a senior back home telling me how the nuns at school used to hit lefties with a ruler until they stopped using it. We lefties have been the envy of righties for centuries because we are smarter, why else would we get paid more for the same job 

I wonder if lefty poker players are more successful…

Superpowers

Yesterday night I was watching a show called ‘Heroes’. In this show a group of people discover they have unusual powers such as painting the future, immortality, flying, bending time in space and mind reading.

My question to you…as a poker player, what superpower would you chose?

I can confidently guess most of you would choose the power of mind reading. Indeed this is the power that would make you a great poker player, even maybe the greatest. As David Slansky wrote in his book ‘The Theory of Poker’:

Every time you play your hand different than if you could see their hands; they gain.
Every time you play your hand exactly the same as if you could see their hands; they loose.
Every time your opponent plays different than if they could see your hand; they loose.
Every time your opponent plays exactly the same as if they could see your hand; they win.

How a perferct play can be no good enough

Both players played the hand perfectly, but sometimes stuff like that happens in poker. Well i guess 10 grands well spend Hudson.

Listen to the dealer!!!

Everyone has a poker moment that he will remember forever. My first Kodak moment was my first winning at casino Niagara with a KJo against a QQ. I cashed out $1,200 that night.

Another moment was on Poker Extravaganza week. I was getting very bad hands, I think I got faces cards less than a dozen times in 3 hours. Then one hand came A6s, I was in the small blind, everyone limped in so I decided to bluff (I was getting really bored and I need to change my table image quick.). The blinds were 1-2. The pot had $19, so I raised it to $7; big blind folded, one guy reraised to $15, three other guys called so it was to me. So my pot odds were ~ 11-1, I thought that even if the odds where there, that I was beaten by a big pocket since there was a reraise and 3 calls, so I was going to fold when Gary – the dealer – said “Come on, you gotta play that hand look at the odds.”

I was surprised that a dealer would say that, I thought they were not allowed to give advice in the table. So I said to myself what the heck, just for Gary, so I called…. Guess what the flop came….

6 6 6

I flopped quads! I couldn’t believe it, I admit I got lucky but if I did not play that hand I would be on a tilt right then. So now the question was hiow do I get the most money out of them?
Since I was first to act, I called $5, my explanation was that if I checked and then called or raised they would know I have a hand but by calling with a small bet like that they would think I want to steal. So someone raised to $10 and everyone called, of course I called; the pot was up to $134. the turn came a brick, I bet $10, one guy calls, and everyone else folds, my mistake L - the pot became $154, the river came a J and when I checked the guy it looked like he liked that river so i knew he had a jack. He had $80 left but I was afraid if I go all-in he wouldn’t call so I just bet $45 assuming he would go all in since he would be pot committed. To my surprise he just calls – as I expected he had a full house 6s full of jacks. I made $244 in that hand which is not a lot compared to other hands but I liked the fact that I got lucky thanks to the dealer…hahaha
p.s. I tipped him $10.

Poker Extravaganza Week

Here is a summary of my Poker Extravaganza week. I don't talk about plays and hands, I MAY in a later post.


Day 1 & 2: -$170 ; was doing pretty good but t someone got really lucky and rivered my all-in full boat – the pot was $1200

Day 3: +$1,380 ; I got some marginal hands that I played to perfection and got me a lot of money. I lost a lot playing qualifiers for the WPT Canadian Open.

Day 4: - $290 ; after I made close to $800 in cash games in less than 3 hours, I went and played $330 qualifiers for the WPT Canadian Open

Day 5: No poker today – had an appointment with citizenship.

Day 6: +$850 ; pure solid poker

Days 7, 8 & 9: I dedicated these days for the tournament, after losing $500, I finally made it to the main event….I am going to the WPT Canadian Open J

Day 10: Today I wake up exhausted,I didn’t really know why but I was really exhausted. I checked my PDA and I had a tournament in the Nuttz poker club at U of T. It is an easy tournament; 50 people, buy-in 50 bucks and a lot of novice people. Then I looked myself in the mirror and I knew I was done poker for that week. My face was terrible; red puffy eyes, pale face as white as snow and my shirt was up side down.

So I decided not to play and give a call to Sophia. We agreed to go for Sushi. She got sushi and I got my favorite plate; sushi and lots of sashimi. After food we walked around and talked, later I met Mika and went to the mall.

Very unproductive day…poker-wise.