feed from thestoryteller blog 2008-07-08T09:25:06+01:00 fc 1.7.2 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://thestoryteller.liquidpoker.net thestoryteller

Over the three weeks I've been at NL25, I've noticed that the weekends seem really swingy. They're not humongous swings, they're just swings of one or two buyins up and down every half hour or so so that by Monday, I'm back almost exactly where I was on Friday. It's irritating because weekends are supposed to be God's gift to poker players. It's probably the way I'm playing. Earlier I lost 4 buy ins in a couple of minutes, back to back suckouts. I don't have a stoploss though, because I think losing four buy ins at 25NL really shouldn't be a big deal. If I were to quit everytime I tilted I wouldn't be playing very much, so I just forced myself to untilt and play through the pain. Made 2 of those buy ins back in the next half hour in time to catch the last bits of the 2x FPP/VPP promotion. I amuse myself by trying to rate my weekends on my swing scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being Asian breasts (not swingy), 4 being Tarzan (moderately swingy), 7 being Count Basie's Big Band (very swingy) and 10 being Christmas at the Texas Temple (yeehaw).

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Is this what is called a "tell"? [HAND=478099]

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I read a short fantasy story (I have never quite grown out of my teenage obsession with Fantasy) which mentions a group of sorceresses that enhance their learning by sending their spirits to other dimensions where time passes more quickly. Thus, their spirits acquire centuries of knowledge while their bodies take the equivalent of an afternoon nap. A way of cramming the learning and experience of several lifetimes into one. It makes me think of those pictures of 24 tabling poker players on huge monitors, effectively cramming the learning and experience, not to mention the money, of 24 lifetimes into 1, all without leaving this dimension. Of course it's been mentioned many times that internet players get to play more hands than live players. It still amazes me, though. If Frank Herbert were alive, would he have seen the Mentat training he alluded to vaguely in his Dune novels?