tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340510062011-12-15T15:51:12.282+13:00The train will be calling at... <b>BAD BEAT CENTRAL</b> This is all about RedGoldYardie's rounding experiences, pure and uncut. If you don't know what rounding is, you could do worse than to watch the great movie <i>Rounders</i>, starring Matt Damon. RedGoldYardie is a player in a popular Internet cardroom and is on the way towards a serious rounding career... he hopes! May your cards be live and your pots be monsters! Don't gloat, don't complain, stay silent and play the game.R.W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13973390577274021615noreply@blogger.comBlogger571100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34051006.post-23646666152088959842009-10-01T21:17:00.002+13:002009-10-01T21:19:37.536+13:00

Now on Twitter! Follow RedGoldYardie's rounding in the form of concise tweets! They are more liable to be updated more regularly than the longwinded main blog. Enjoy!

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Now, anyone who knows me from Adam will realize I'm not much of a superstitious person, generally speaking. True true. But one can't help but find it weird that on the weekend following Kylie's birthday (she's my childhood celebrity crush, embarrassed as I was at the time, though I'm happy to confess now) I had a nice little run of luck at the casino:- a solid win in cash games ($60/$100 table!),

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Today's NLH tip: while weakness often translates into fold equity, at least against tight (or tightish) players, a read of vulnerability does not necessarily translate into weakness. Some opponents are timid enough (unless they hold the nuts at the river) that they will always appear/be afraid of something, yet if you try to bluff them they will sigh and call with their two pair, flopped straight

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...and still getting two-outed as usual. :) (A quick flashback to this is always sobering.)I've been busy at the tables etc. and there are many stories to tell from both sides of the "ditch" (Tasman Sea for laypeople), but I'll keep things brief for now.Last weekend when playing 2/3 NLH cash games at Crown in Melbin I made a bit of coin but suffered a brutal bad beat in an $814 pot when my KK was

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Recently I've put the ploy of betting more than the size of the pot to good use. Normally it is excessive, a kind of amateurish "beginner's play", along the lines of the poor player who just likes to go all-in hastily (for a genuinely poor player it's not a horrible strategy though; Dan Harrington seems overly critical of hasty all ins sometimes). But if you expect a "reasonable" chance of your

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So far, my brief toedipping into Kiwi cash poker has been kinda lucky. I've played two Friday night sessions at Skycity Auckland, hauling in about $500 in the bargain. All they normally spread is NLH, so that's what I'm playing.A lot of that money has thus far sad to say it been won by luck more than skill. Last night there was a key hand where I believe I was outplayed but rescued by a lucky

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Well, that was a week at Crown and $1.500 down.I don't seem to get very lucky at Crown, for some reason, but let's ditch the superstition. It's not as though I'm there all the time, and in gambling the long run is, after all, a very long period of time, by definition.I eased myself into the action gently this time by playing the electronic dealerless PokerPro no-limit tables. It's a kind of a

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After cancelling a short break in Cairns at the last minute due to practicalities, thus forfeiting my airfare thither, my rebooked Tuesday afternoon flight to Melbin has just been cancelled and so at the time of writing I'm stuck on a "courtesy" (sic) bus reeking slightly of stale urine, heading for the Gold Coast where I've been allocated a seat on the evening flight, coupled with (apparently)

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...is not to bluff at all?The marvelous book Small Stakes Hold'em by Sklansky, Malmuth and Miller does not even dedicate a chapter to bluffing the way its Advanced Players sister book does. This is almost without doubt because many "small stakes" games (usually including the 10/20 games found in Queensland casinos) are full of fish who call anything that moves, often even for a reraise. These

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A shark at the Trezh (call him N. if you may) has oft questioned me on the compatibility between my poker playing and committed faith, and it is a point which arouses the most intense of fascination and at the same time deep issues of morality, especially where Christianity and God's word are concerned.According to the Bible, greed is to be condemned:Do you not know that the unrighteous will not

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A brief talk about the evil vigorish, the (typically in real terms from 1 through about 15 percent) commission/percentage/cut/take/rake/drop/whatchamawannacallit taken by the house to pay for the upkeep of the poker lounge plus profits. (Some Queensland poker tables use a $1 per hand participation fee instead, which is even worse IMHO.) A casino or cardroom is, after all, a business and not a

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Slowly but surely I'm winding down from the "hyperdrive" poker action at Melbin's Crown Casino, home of the Las Vegas poker lounge, the world's biggest and best outside North America.The results were a little disappointing, but one should not be results-oriented. I won just enough money to feed myself for the two weeks I was in Melbin; I would have lasted much deeper into the $230 minor

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I can't win a dime at the Trezh lately. I just can't. Last weekend was dry as, and I've been largely cold-decked, and am about $1.400 in the hole over the last couple of weeks as a result.Tuesday night, however, the game was nice and juicy. Lots of loose calls, folks playing hands (even for reraises) as monstrous and powerful as J2 and T5: pretty good for a 10/20 table. But lousy luck prevented

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That is the question! No, Shakespeare didn't play poker, for obvious reasons, but this is decision a player frequently has to face. And it plays a particularly important rôle on fourth street in limit hold'em when bets have just doubled.In last night's game at the Trezh, after going through a lengthy card-dead period, I pick up pocket queens in late position. Before me there is limping, a raise

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This weekend just passed has been a bumper weekend for me at the Treasury. I played my usual 10/20 limit hold'em game on all three nights, especially Friday and Saturday, and by Monday morning exited the casino doors $1.650 richer than I was when I entered on Friday evening, palming off a beautiful large orange thousand dollar chip to prove it (the cashier near the poker area doesn't even accept

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Just as in many situations the most profitable (least unprofitable) poker play is to get out of a hand altogether by folding one's cards, the same logic can apply to the whole game in general. Top Las Vegas shark Roy Cooke wrote an article along these lines in Card Player magazine not so long ago. There are some days when you'd just be better off not playing at all. In my case, last night might

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There's been a significant delay since the previous post so an update is long overdue. At least there's something poker-related worthy of a mention.Away from the humdrum grinding of hustling in the 10/20 limit game at the Treasury Casino in Brisbane, I've been spending this week in the wet, tropical rainforest of Port Douglas to take a punt at the three-day Reef Shark Classic poker tournament,

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See the subject header: this is the paramount prime reason why, while I think being a card shark is one of the coolest careers in town, it's also the most hellish, and is why I would never recommend it to others directly, along with my morals against encouraging others to partake in "gambling" ventures. (Yes yes, we sharks of course are well aware that poker is not gambling in the normal sense,

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...life is motion, move on, like a wind that's always blowing, life is flowing, move on... (Move On, ABBA, 1977)The "disaster" is over and this is the aftermath. I'm flat broke. Not too broke to eat or play poker online, but broke by card shark standards.Thursday night at the Crown was tough - well, I didn't have to defend with a KJ against a bully, I chose to - but Saturday was no picnic either.

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Ah well, my 2007 Aussie Millions hopes are dashed.I played in the 8pm "Phase II" $220+30 satellite last night, but was (embarrassingly) busted out within a quarter of an hour. And astonishingly I was the third player at my table to do so, not the first! Here's what happened:I have about T1700 in chips with the blinds at 25/50 soon to be 50/100. An aggressive old geezer sitting a couple places

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Since last night I turned up for a party a whole day earlier than I was supposed to - yes, I'm such a smart guy, I know! :P - I had to find something useful to do of a Friday night while out on the town. So I couldn't resist the temptation to have a crack at the poker lounge in the Brisbane Treasury Casino. The last time I was in there the poker scene was dire, only four tables and little real

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It's off to the Aussie Millions for me next month... that's official!Okay, not quite that rosy: yes, I'm flying south to Melbin in the New Year, but I doubt I'll get into the main AM event since I don't have ten and a half grand floating around doing nothing - LOL. But I'll play a satellite and maybe some good side games and take it from there.See you at the AM - it's not so much a matter of

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How much do you bet that ViVaElPoT's got an Aussie girlfriend? ;)Runner runner and all...Big flush has little flushAgainst his bet to pay himBut little flush can't get awayFrom loose-aggressive mayhem!Hand #37040653-8442 at Monte Verde ($2/$4 Hold'em)Started at 01/Dec/06 01:32:49 ICEMAN 9 is at seat 0 with $147.75. Mr Equity 11 is at seat 1 with $123.25. ViVaElPoT is at seat 2 with

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Let me tell you about a hand. Not a real hand mind you, but a hypothetical one, for the purposes of illustrating the potential for being creative in no-limit hold'em and manipulating a weak opponent. I was pondering this yesterday, and thus was conceived this make-believe hold'em hand.Our hero is in the small blind looking at a 32 of spades. Hardly a wonderful starter at the best of times, but

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...after having busted out of the $100+9 Online Championship satellite just now, this little turnaround comes a distant but worthy second to the ultimate in life. What is so truly wonderful about online poker is illustrated rather nicely in the freedom I had to react the way I did when I saw that flop! Who needs a poker face when the other guy can't physically see you?On a strategic point, of

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This casts a whole new meaning on having your aces cracked! With two spades in my hand and other spades already out, I couldn't just put my lone opponent on a completed flush on fifth street. He could easily have been reraising on a worse hand - a frisky opponent might even have just a pair and a flush draw. My board didn't pair so the money went his way when all the cards were out. Rolled up,

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OK, this is an interesting hand - not just because I won a lot of money! The question is: did I do the right thing on the river? I checked the river to entice a bluff in case one of my opponents had a busted flush draw, but I subsequently suspected Ridin might have aces because of his weak minimum preflop raise, and figured he'd find it a toughie to lay down, hence the all-in sandbag move on the

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Bread'n'butter profit in NLH.Hand #35084234-71623 at El Dorado (No Limit Hold'em)Started at 14/Nov/06 00:03:12 johnnypoker1 is at seat 0 with $49.80. DaW8tr is at seat 1 with $45.50. moverdude is at seat 2 with $106. RedGoldYardie is at seat 3 with $108.15. eXcelon969 is at seat 4 with $47.95. sokly is at seat 5 with $29.50. JHarr1219 is at seat 6 with $100. mxyz

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And very worthy of it she is too!

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...to wish the world "straight flushes", to rip off Mike Caro's well known greeting. One reason for my inspired cheeriness is reading an article in Bluff Australasia magazine (the previous issue) about Sarah Bilney aka "Aussie Sarah", basically the most successful female Aussie poker shark ever. And I sheepishly confess to (AFAICR) not having even heard of her until yesterday - shocker! Anyway,

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No big breaks as yet, but last Friday (the 3rd) I did get a couple of smaller ones. First off, I finally received my visa to travel back to Australia soon - about bloody time, I say! On the poker scene, I played online in another $100+9 event and placed a beautiful fifth, grossing a win of US$932. A huge fortune it is not, and nor is it the huge career break I'm waiting/hoping for, but it

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Since I'm not in the midst of playing a real money tourney at the moment, but feel the need to contribute something to this blog, here are a few blindingly obvious thoughts about tilt."If a weak player has queens, and I have aces, and he catches a queen on the river, so he wins the money, OK?" - J. ChanSharks thrive on fish. Fish are the key source of profit. Rocks and maniacs can be beaten too,

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This arvo I played in a $100+9 buyin event online. Start bank $2500 with 5/10 blinds rising in 15 minute increments, so very slow and tight at first. A few blind hikes later, a contentious hand arises. I raise from a middle position with two nines in the hole, and it's passed around to the big blind who calls, so now I'm heads up with position, as well as decent cards. Not bad eh. Flop K9x,

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This is what happens when you've been using dial-up networking in a cold garage all day. :)

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Just now I was playing a $10+1 satellite to a big money event ($200k minimum prize pool), and doing really nicely: getting the run of the deck, premium hands, flopping sets and hitting all the time and most importantly of all getting these good hands paid off, so now I'm a big stack in great shape to get to the final table a winner. But then this...Hand #35765041-142 at Sat1030pmFeedB-003 (No

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Here's a good little example of fearlessness, value betting and not getting scared out by an aggressive bettor on fourth street. This rings especially true for shorthanded limit games, IMHO.PokerStars Game #6525305042: Hold'em Limit ($1/$2) - 2006/10/05 - 02:26:54 (ET)Table 'Rigilkent' 6-max Seat #4 is the buttonSeat 1: Blond D ($30.50 in chips)Seat 2: scratchplaya ($46.25 in chips)Seat 3:

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At the time of writing, I'm in bushy, sulfuric Rotorua, N. Island, New Zealand on a little NZ tour, and I got to play a little $10 winner-take-all private poker tourney in a local bar last night. The rules were a little screwy, in that raises smaller than the standard minimum were permitted, but otherwise it was just good old NL hold'em as we know it. The stacks were quite shallow, sadly, with

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So right now I'm in magnificently clean Auckland, New Zealand and I took part in a $100+10 buyin freezeout satellite event today at Skycity Casino. Sadly, I busted out somewhere around half way through the field - that's the way it often goes - but anyway, somewhere during the event, after a blind escalation or two, the following hand unfolded, which was probably the most interesting of the

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Heart having nothing whatsoever to do with hole card suits!Hand #35085278-1213 at Akincilar (No Limit Hold'em)Started at 16/Sep/06 03:04:44 hjpoker is at seat 0 with $97.50. halohysteria is at seat 1 with $110. mesanger is at seat 2 with $103.80. OleBulldog is at seat 3 with $18.50. -Staley- is at seat 4 with $100.35. RedGoldYardie is at seat 6 with $127. jimeny is at

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Think either of 'em dumped an ace? I do. Either way, another successful bluff.Hand #35085278-1205 at Akincilar (No Limit Hold'em)Started at 16/Sep/06 02:57:04 hjpoker is at seat 0 with $98.50. halohysteria is at seat 1 with $105.60. OleBulldog is at seat 3 with $22.50. -Staley- is at seat 4 with $94.85. metaljack007 is at seat 5 with $55.75. RedGoldYardie is at seat 6

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Flopped a full house and got busted. No slowplaying here.Hand #35085278-1123 at Akincilar (No Limit Hold'em)Started at 16/Sep/06 01:47:15 bankroll hog is at seat 0 with $25. Ezekiel 2517 is at seat 1 with $11.40. Seth_Cohen is at seat 2 with $87.10. william05 is at seat 4 with $16.80. TheBigEZ78 is at seat 5 with $54.50. RedGoldYardie is at seat 6 with $107.65.

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http://er-optimist.livejournal.com/19657.html

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Two classic bluffs.Hand #35084293-1001 at McKinney (No Limit Hold'em)Started at 14/Sep/06 00:08:54 sminer1100 is at seat 0 with $86.80. Ski_and_Play is at seat 1 with $96.45. ptw420 is at seat 2 with $43.35. Seattle Slew is at seat 3 with $98.25. SypherNexus is at seat 4 with $42.30. ChicagoPoker is at seat 5 with $72.85. RedGoldYardie is at seat 6 with $116.70.

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A nice little full game had just gone kinda shorthand all of a sudden, and this beaut of a hand unfolded:Hand #35085299-251 at Mexico City ($2/$4 Hold'em)Started at 13/Sep/06 22:56:22 feldbum is at seat 0 with $191. MicahS is at seat 1 with $162.50. aschlanser1 is at seat 2 with $75.75. barkley007 is at seat 3 with $47.75. bankshot is at seat 4 with $32.50. mcembe is at

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...it's taken plays like this to drive the action! Well at least it's money anyway.Hand #34295404-22360 at Pewaukee (No Limit Hold'em)Powered by UltimateBetStarted at 12/Sep/06 05:46:29 roundernick is at seat 0 with $56. claire123 is at seat 1 with $115.45. CptSchlauch is at seat 2 with $51.75. bad_turtle is at seat 3 with $100. jmb71 is at seat 4 with $142.35. conjenrick

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...the timing sure did suck. Here's a crazy all-in bluff (I was merely watching the show):Hand #34295404-22310 at Pewaukee (No Limit Hold'em)Powered by UltimateBetStarted at 12/Sep/06 04:48:47 DaleBlade is at seat 0 with $62.80. Louise E Anna is at seat 2 with $83.45. blaster is at seat 3 with $86.70. jmb71 is at seat 4 with $87.50. cARIoca73 is at seat 5 with $144.30.

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...as can be witnessed right here. I pegged the guy almost perfectly, but I figured he would respect my bet. That judgment was, however, erroneous. Shortly thereafter this bluff is advertised, I land in a very similar situation against another player at the table where I really do have it, but unfortunately he lays his hand down. That's the way life goes: it all beats getting broke.Hand #34295228

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See that link over on the right that says Bluffing with 72 offsuit? Well, here's a live example just played:Hand #34296340-21035 at Diamond Bar (No Limit Hold'em)Powered by UltimateBetStarted at 09/Sep/06 03:44:24 SPAIDER25 is at seat 0 with $69. sdiddy2100 is at seat 1 with $0 (sitting out). marlboro30 is at seat 2 with $7.80. kdoggiedog is at seat 3 with $28.65. RanDolphous

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In the first hand, did I make the laydown of the century? We'll never know, of course, but I felt at the time that it was the right move, albeit a tough one to make. Set over set is a relatively rare occurrence, but when an opponent - seemingly tight-passive - on whom you have position moves in over the top against you, you gotta start thinking seriously hard...The second hand is pretty wild

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...that he tried not to get broke with two queens. This is example of what he was talking about.Hand #34296153-28546 at Canberra (No Limit Hold'em)Powered by UltimateBetStarted at 07/Sep/06 03:10:17DJCBoston is at seat 0 with $116.75.RedGoldYardie is at seat 1 with $95.50.zuluman10 is at seat 2 with $272.70.jakemaka is at seat 3 with $0 (sitting out).Mbuzz is at seat 4 with $124.95.Spyderhouse is

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Note that I wasn't in this particular hand. Comments below.Hand #34295873-3341 at Lenoir (No Limit Hold'em)Powered by UltimateBetStarted at 05/Sep/06 03:18:42liam333 is at seat 0 with $36.80.-Staley- is at seat 1 with $103.75.RedGoldYardie is at seat 2 with $107.90.losingall is at seat 3 with $20.05.BodogMaven is at seat 4 with $105.05.chair back is at seat 5 with $61.60.gxs is at seat 6 with

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...but they're still bloody good all the same!Good thing the other guy didn't have AK or KK, hmm!Hand #34295828-19451 at Camas ($2/$4 Hold'em)Powered by UltimateBetStarted at 27/Aug/06 22:57:18akinumber1 is at seat 0 with $103.75.LuckDuzzit is at seat 1 with $333.50.MclMorizFAT is at seat 2 with $82.25.TheDude099 is at seat 3 with $60.50.RexManning is at seat 4 with $127.75.malc1 is at seat 5

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If no one else wants all that money, I'll have it, thanks very much...Hand #34295252-17394 at Forest Hills (No Limit Hold'em)Powered by UltimateBetStarted at 22/Aug/06 21:17:29dogcox is at seat 0 with $50.95.Marlin1357 is at seat 1 with $49.80.vegasdc is at seat 2 with $70.10.italiansouth is at seat 3 with $61.65.lachop22 is at seat 4 with $106.20.RedGoldYardie is at seat 5 with $94.15.The button

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I was just splashing around a little, hoping to make up for some earlier losses. Turned out my gamble paid off nicely: better than I expected, in fact!In the first hand, it has to be said that my opponent suffered a pretty brutal beat. But that's poker. He risked getting all his money in without the nuts, and lost the gamble, 'cause I was the one with the nuts. :)In the second hand, I simply

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This one goes back a couple of months or more.It was a shorthanded NL game with 50c and $1 (US) blinds, the stakes I normally currently play if I'm playing NL cash games. This Swedish bloke opened up front with a raise and it was passed around to me holding JJ in the BB. I reraised about triple and the Swede flat called my reraise. Flop came down a beautiful J62 offsuit. I checked, the Swede bet

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No comments by me on these per se, other than up here. Think of this as akin to those "No Comment" short newscasts on the Soviet TV station EuroNews. Let's just say that when your opponent thinks you're tilting from a bad beat (or a non-bad beat, whatever), you'll get plenty of action. Look at how the guy calls a pot-sized bet with just overcards on the last hand. The first hand was a bummer, but

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The train will be calling at... BAD BEAT CENTRALWelcome to RedGoldYardie's Rounding!Earlier, I decided to start toying with poker blogging on my LiveJournal, but now the poker-related articles and hand histories are beginning to pile up! So the idea of porting them across to a dedicated poker blog might just be a hand worth a raise. And yes, I am truly a fan of the movie Rounders, even though

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