Big counties - Like Cass County by Leech Lake - are Zoned North and South for Emerg. weather. During the tornado warnings up by Park Rapids, our fishing resort had lost power. We found out by transistor radio what was going on. We were on the other side of Leech lake well out of danger, but the lake was choppy as hell for fishing. :barf:
hay Kitch could you try and find a answer to this for me??????
I heard some where back a few weeks ago that almost all DVD burners are Lightscribe Capable and you see if you can find that and let me know!! someone said all you have to do is download the drivers to do it??
to much fun!! thats ok I just got called by some shithead that had 3 card flush draw and I had 3 of a kind and flush draw he calls my all in to hit his runner runner flush!!!!
I was at a friends 50th birthday Friday night and he received a hat that was like a visor with a fake hair comb-over skull cap in it.
It was flippin' hilarious.
I would like to find one for a different friend who is turning 50 in a couple weeks. I called the girlfriend but she didn't know who gave it to him. I have googled it and ebayed it and can not find it....can the great almighty Kitch help me find it?
A friend of mine (whom I've brought to some cooler events many years ago, so she's met Terry, Mom, MJ and a few others - I'm hoping to bring her to cooler events when I move back) - anyway, she just moved into a townhome in IGH. She wants to replace her countertops in the kitchen. She would like some ideas and advice on where to buy the countertops - a place with enough service that they will come out and measure, tell her options for better ways to do the countertop details (backsplash, sidesplash, bevels, etc.) than what she has now. Also, she will be looking for an experienced installer, so either a store who installs (and does it right) or has a list of recommended contractors.
Any of you Coolers who have been through this recently - any and all info about your experiences would be most welcome so she can figure out how to weed out the bad choices.
TodayÂ’s question (or a similar variation) is one IÂ’m commonly asked. In general form, it goes like this: IÂ’m winning in game X, but IÂ’ve recently tried game Y and IÂ’m struggling. WhatÂ’s up?
In more specific form, here is todayÂ’s question from Ed
I am writing you hoping that you will be able to advise me on what I could do to in regards to a dilemma I am facing with online poker. I am a fairly consistent home game winner and have placed in a few home tournaments. Now, IÂ’m not sure how youÂ’ll feel about the next bit of information I am about to drop on you. I play very low stakes - probably sub-micro stakes if such a classification existed. The home game blinds I play for are usually .05/.10 and have never exceeded .25/.50 - all no-limit.
I have attempted online play, currently at PokerStars, and have not had the success I’d hoped to. I’ve been trying my hand at the .01/.02 NL bloodbath games and usually don’t come out ahead after a session. I’ll go out on a limb and say that I do play tighter than most of the table and I do get aggressive when I feel I should. I do, however, seem to be prone to being trapped - betting my top two pair against flopped bottom set, for example. I know that trapping is an extremely important weapon in no-limit play and I can usually “smell” it when playing live. I have studied tells, profiling, hand reading, and the psychology of poker. I just can’t seem to apply it properly to online cash games.
I do alright in nine- or ten-handed Sit & Gos. But I just see so much more profit out there in the side games (especially for the small amount I have in my account).
I am more interested in the skill aspect than with trying to make a living at playing poker online - although I wouldnÂ’t not accept a huge pot. :wink:
I have been told (by people I play with at home games) that it is just how low I am playing and that if I could play higher IÂ’d clean up. (Thoughts on this?)
I guess my question (now that you know more about me than you probably want to) is that I donÂ’t know what the difference is that is causing such variance between my live home game winnings and my online losses. I have read many poker books and watched many videos. Nothing is really screaming at me and telling me where I need to adjust. Do you have any thoughts on this?
First of all, I feel just great about the stakes you play. The vast majority of poker players play at stakes like what youÂ’re talking about, and only a very small percentage play in the big, big, big games that get so much attention. So thatÂ’s a-ok with me. Now to try to answer your main question.
YouÂ’re doing fine in your home games, but youÂ’re struggling in the online $0.01-$0.02 games on PokerStars. WhatÂ’s going on? Well, I canÂ’t tell you exactly because IÂ’ve never watched you play, but I do have a few thoughts I can rattle off to you in no particular order.
1. Online poker tends to be tougher than live casino poker which tends to be tougher than home game poker. So you are moving from the venue where poker games tend to be easiest to beat (home games) and going to the venue where theyÂ’re hardest to beat (online). ItÂ’s only natural that youÂ’d go through some growing pains during that transition.
Online poker is, in general, the toughest for a couple of reasons. First is something you’ve alluded to above that good players can increase their edge by using physical information. When I play live, physical information informs my decision-making all the time. I make some laydowns live that I would never make online because I can “smell” the trouble as you put it. I also can attack weakness more live for the same reason. Assuming I can process and use this information better than my opponents, live games will be, relatively speaking, easier for me than online games.
Online games are also tougher simply because the players are better. I will admit that IÂ’ve never played a hand of $0.01-$0.02 on PokerStars. But IÂ’ve played plenty of $0.25-$0.50 and IÂ’ll tell you that many of the players that inhabit those limits online would more than hold their own in a $2-$5 live game. IÂ’m not saying theyÂ’re superstars by any stretch, but many of them would be competent live game players at the smaller stakes. Some of the $1-$2 regulars at Full Tilt would beat a $10-$20 live game without much trouble.
Add in the fact that the bad players tend to play 1 or 2 tables while the good players play 4-16 tables, and the games are very decidedly tougher online.
   2. Downswings are also bigger and more prolonged online. This is a simple consequence of the fact that the players are better and there’s no physical information to inform your decisions. While you play far more hands per hour online, you’ll win far more money per hand live. Also online games tend (in my experience) generally to be more aggressive than live games. This has exceptions, and I’ve played in some absolutely crazy live games. But I would guess the bad players in your average online game are more aggressive than the bad players in your average home game. When you win less money per hand, and you have to risk more money on average per hand (because the game is more aggressive), you expose yourself to much nastier downswings.
In roughly 5,000 live hands, I would expect to be down money only a small percentage of the time. In 5,000 online hands, I’m going to be down a much more significant percentage of the time. So where you might see yourself as a “steady” winner in your home game, over a similar period of online play your results will be more all over the map (and more often negative), even if you’re playing well in both settings.
   3. What your friend said about cleaning up if you moved up in stakes online is most certainly wrong. Online poker is tough these days. People who “clean up” in $1-$2 games online are quite sophisticated players. You can eek out a win at those limits if you’re tight and play ok, but if you have any aspirations of “cleaning up” you’ve got to be fairly sharp.
Even at $0.10-$0.25 (the lowest I’ve played online), you’re not going to win at a good clip unless you have a reasonable working knowledge of the game. And by “reasonable working knowledge” I basically mean that you have to know at least something about how to read hands.
   4. This brings me to the advice I have for you, Ed. I think you’re in exactly the right place for now, the $0.01-$0.02 games. First thing to do is to treat playing as a learning experience and not a competitive exercise. Don’t equate losing a pot or a session with failure. Losing is part of the game, just as integral an experience as winning. Your job isn’t to win. It’s to play as well as you can and learn from your mistakes. If you’re consistent about that, you’ll improve and so will your longterm results.
You described the game as a “bloodbath.” That’s presumably because it’s loose and fairly aggressive, so it often happens that you have, say, AK and flop an ace, and then lose a nice pot to someone who turned two pair or a straight with some raggedy preflop hand, correct?
If that’s what you meant, then all online no-limit is a bloodbath, from $0.01-$0.02 to $25-$50 and beyond. It’s just the nature of the game. You lose plenty of heartbreaking pots at the bigger stakes… the difference is you win fewer nice pots padded by the money of people getting it in with little chance. So don’t let the bloodbath get to you. Don’t get upset if the “donks” beat you in one pot or ten or a hundred. Because the donks will be beating you in pots for as long as you play the game, so you’d better get used to it. :smile:
Develop your postflop skills and hand reading. You said you play tighter than your opponents. I assume you mean that you play fewer preflop hands. ThatÂ’s great, but at no-limit that only gets you so far. The real money is made with postflop skills.
Say you have A9s and the flop comes 973 with two of a suit. You bet the flop and get called by a player. The turn is an offsuit Q. Your opponent checks. Do you bet or not, and if so, how much? And if you check, how do you plan to play on the river? My answer to the question depends the strength of my opponentÂ’s hand range on that turn and how heÂ’s likely to play those hands if I bet or check. As a quick example, if heÂ’s a really loose and bad player, I would go ahead and bet again, and then IÂ’d probably bet a third time on the river if the river card came below a 9 (especially 6 or below). I expect him to call me down with 9Â’s with a weaker kicker or 7Â’s or hands like 88.
But against other players, betting the turn and river after the Q comes down will get action primarily from hands that beat you. Therefore, you should check a street, and whether you check the turn or the river again depends on how your opponent will react to your bets, how often heÂ’ll try to bluff the river, and so forth. At every decision, you should have a picture of roughly what hands your opponent could have at this point, and have some idea of how heÂ’ll play each of those hands. If heÂ’s really loose and likes to call down light, then you know that and you bet those pairs of nines for value. If heÂ’s tighter, but likes to bluff, then you check your medium pairs to try to induce a bluff. ItÂ’s not all that simple, but thatÂ’s the basic idea.
If you get to the point where you have a fairly accurate picture of what your opponentsÂ’ ranges are, and you have a realistic model for how they tend to play the hands in that range, and you correctly put those together in your head to come up with your best course of action, then youÂ’ll be ready to take the online poker world by storm.
If you find yourself struggling online, then that’s what you should work on. At every decision point, think about what hands your opponents could have. “Hrmm, he check-called preflop and then check-called again on a T73 board with two diamonds. He could have two small diamonds, a ten with an ok kicker, a 7, a small pocket pair, 98, and maybe something like AJ that he decided to peel with on the flop.” If you bet a flop, and your opponent moves all-in, again figure out what hands you think he’d do that with. That’s a key no-limit skill, and it’s one you just have to practice, practice, practice.
Whew, that was a long answer. HereÂ’s my basic point. Online poker is tough, and IÂ’m not surprised that itÂ’s a bit of a difficult transition. But you donÂ’t need physical tells or tight opponents to succeed. Learn to think systematically through each decision. Even though you canÂ’t see your opponents face-to-face, they arenÂ’t playing randomly. Everything they do carries with it some information. Process that information, evaluate how your hand rates against their range of hands, and then figure out what action will net you the best outcome. Practice that process at every decision point, and soon enough youÂ’ll get the hang of it.
And be patient. Online poker can be nothing short of brutal even to the very best of players. DonÂ’t put your ego too far out on the line, and treat every session as a learning experience. ThatÂ’s how you can succeed.
"Stars twinkle because of turbulence in the atmosphere of the Earth. As the atmosphere churns, the light from the star is refracted in different directions. This causes the star's image to change slightly in brightness and position, hence "twinkle." This is one of the reasons the Hubble telescope is so successful: in space, there is no atmosphere to make the stars twinkle, allowing a much better image to be obtained.
Planets do not twinkle the way stars do. In fact, this is a good way of figuring out if a particular object you see in the sky is a planet or a star. The reason is that stars are so far away that they are essentially points of light on the sky, while planets actually have finite size. The size of a planet on the sky in a sense "averages out" the turbulent effects of the atmosphere, presenting a relatively stable image to the eye."
Generally, the brighter the magnitude (size, how much light an object gives off), the less a star blinks I think.
what I don't get though is that I can look in the sky and see a star twinkling but another near it is not. so if it's the Earths turbulance than why arn't they all twinkling?
Distance is a factor as well - less light "particles" reach us from faraway stars than our neighborhood planets. The ripple effect does happen with planets, too - but it's almost imperceptible to the naked eye.
it's not so much turbulance as it is heat waves. It's similar to what you see on the horizon when looking over a hot road, or a grill, the light passing through kind of shimmers and all the objects in the background get distorted.
Same idea, but on a much smaller scale. Some stars are more effected because of their present location, or distance from earth. The further away, the more pronounce the effect is.
The big story was not what happened inside the ropes. It's what went down across the street inside the Rain nightclub. Everyone was talking about it. Dealers. Players. Bloggers. Photographers. Floor people. Railbirds. Masseuses.
Dario blocked Bill Chen and sucked face with Isabelle. In front of several hundred people.
She was swapping spit with a scarf-wearing Porsche driving former Magic the Gathering player while a Michael Jackson song boomed over the bong-rattling sound system.
My hometown used to have their power station junction and (Cold War) emergency generator right downtown next to the post office. It was still in use up to about 1995. Next to the junction was an old house with a HUGE, beautiful oak tree. About twice a summer a squirrel would reach a bit too far for an acorn, and BRZZZAP!
They never cut down the tree - thank God - and the power junctions got moved to an underground spot further away.
Our place up north has all the wires underground. We lose power up there several times a year as evidenced by blinking clocks when we get back up there on Friday evenings.
Our place here in the city has everything hanging above ground and if we lose power here, its maybe once a year.
One would think the exposed to all the elements wires would cause more frequent outages than the buried ones.
Why would it be that the reality is different than one would expect?
Kitch any Chance you can find me Video file of this???
Tornado Strikes Edina
On June 14, 1981, a large Tornado struck Edina. The day started warm and humid in the Twin Cities with sunshine and temperatures quickly climbing into the low 80s by the noon hour. The Super cell thunderstorm that produced the tornado first brought large hail to Eden Prairie in the mid afternoon then a tornado developed over Edina and was difficult to see because it was wrapped in heavy rain. The tornado first hit the northeastern part of Edina around Arden Park and then moved into the 50th and France Ave area (downtown area).
Side note: The Edina Art Fair on 50th and France Ave had wrapped up the week before (June 7, 1981) - had the tornado struck at that time it could have injured thousands of people. The tornado then moved northeast into south Minneapolis around Lake Harriet and as it moved northeast toward Roseville it continued to get bigger and stronger.
According to the University of Minnesota - Department of Soil, Water, and Climate report this is a summary of the tornado:
Folks on the east side of the Twin Cities call it the "Har Mar Tornado" while others west of the Mississippi tend to prefer "Lake Harriet" or "Edina Tornado." No matter the name, it was the most significant tornado to hit the Twin Cities since the 1965 Fridley Mounds-View tornadoes.
Here's how the event unfolded. The National Weather Service posted a tornado watch at 3:00pm CDT. At 3:49pm a tornado touched down in Edina about 1/3 mile southwest of the intersection of France Avenue and 50th Street. The tornado followed a southwest-northeast track that brought it over Lake Harriet at about 3:52pm. Edina policeman William Barington reported the tornado at this time. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning and the area-wide siren activation was at 3:53PM. This activated 200 sirens in eastern Hennepin, Ramsey, and small portions of Anoka and Dakota Counties. The tornado continued its path northeast and lifted off the ground one black short of a mobile home park near Rice and South Owasso Boulevard at 4:15pm.
The path length was continuous for 15 miles over a 26-minute period. The path width varied from 75 yards to two and a half city blocks. Wind speeds varied from 80 mph in the narrow width areas to as high as 160 mph in the wider path areas. At a number of points only tree top damage was seen and at other points wide extensive damage was observed affecting buildings, trees, power lines and homes. At first the National Weather Service reported the event as three separate tornadoes, but after two days of surveying the damage, it was concluded that it was a single tornado that lifted up and down at times.
One of the hardest hit areas was the Har Mar Mall area. While the mall itself escaped serious damage; other businesses and homes in the area were hit hard. The regional State Farm Insurance agency lost its roof and many windows were smashed in businesses along Snelling Avenue. Numerous homes were damaged, especially north of Har Mar Mall. In all from Minneapolis to Lake Owasso 83 people were injured and one person was killed. 20-year-old Allen Wheeler was fishing along the shore of Lake Harriet when a tree fell on him. Another death occurred during the clean up and is not counted in the official tally. A man suffered a heart attack while clearing tree debris in Minneapolis.
Lt. Gov Lou Wangberg activated 120 National Guardsmen to prevent looting of damaged homes and businesses in Roseville. (Governor Al Quie was in Norway at the time.) The largest problem was from the throngs of sightseers who drove to view the damage and caused quite a hindrance to clean up activity. One homeowner posted a sign that said: "The residents bitterly resent your morbid curiosity. Why donÂ’t you stop gawking and go home."
The day after the tornado about a half dozen people showed up at the Minneapolis Red Cross Office for assistance. The Red Cross set up temporary shelters in Roseville and Minneapolis. No one showed up at the Roseville site and only one woman stayed the night the shelter in Minneapolis. Most people said the reason why they didnÂ’t stay the night in a shelter was because they were afraid of looters going through their homes while they were away.
This tornado hit during the start of the era when the local television stations heavily promoted their weathercasts with large staffs and considerable investments in technology. KSTP had just installed its Doppler Radar a month earlier and John Dooley observed the tornado while standing on the roof of the station. WCCO-TV supplied the helicopter for the survey after the tornado.
The tornado of June 14th was not the only storm to hit the Twin Cities that day. Strong thunderstorms dumped heavy rains at the airport that morning. The heaviest rain from the storm that spawned the tornado in the afternoon fell in a line about four to five miles northwest of the path of the tornado
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Tournament started - 2008/06/19 - 02:28:31 (ET)
Dear kiceman699,
You finished the tournament in 4th place.
I dont like 2hr games with 2 5 min breaks WoW but I lasted that long!! and got 4th I think thats good for a night!!
those dime games are nuts...crap shot even at that rate :smile:
I heard some where back a few weeks ago that almost all DVD burners are Lightscribe Capable and you see if you can find that and let me know!! someone said all you have to do is download the drivers to do it??
thank you!!
no youtube, ebay , etc..
I was at a friends 50th birthday Friday night and he received a hat that was like a visor with a fake hair comb-over skull cap in it.
It was flippin' hilarious.
I would like to find one for a different friend who is turning 50 in a couple weeks. I called the girlfriend but she didn't know who gave it to him. I have googled it and ebayed it and can not find it....can the great almighty Kitch help me find it?
A friend of mine (whom I've brought to some cooler events many years ago, so she's met Terry, Mom, MJ and a few others - I'm hoping to bring her to cooler events when I move back) - anyway, she just moved into a townhome in IGH. She wants to replace her countertops in the kitchen. She would like some ideas and advice on where to buy the countertops - a place with enough service that they will come out and measure, tell her options for better ways to do the countertop details (backsplash, sidesplash, bevels, etc.) than what she has now. Also, she will be looking for an experienced installer, so either a store who installs (and does it right) or has a list of recommended contractors.
Any of you Coolers who have been through this recently - any and all info about your experiences would be most welcome so she can figure out how to weed out the bad choices.
Thank you, in advance!!!
his thought was NO...strange coming from a guy who owns the biz...
he thought process was the avg. homeowner will replace countertops every 15 yrs...and for the price it can't be justified.
thats all i know...
if it was me...i'd look into ikea as an option.
http://www.spencersonline.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/products.browse/categoryID/f7f209f0-7d42-40cd-9725-92f5cbb40a30/
thats there web sit You can get lost there for a few!! lol
that was my thoughts also
http://www.partycheap.com/Over_the_Hill_Comb_over_King_Crown_p/n251968.htm
In more specific form, here is todayÂ’s question from Ed
I am writing you hoping that you will be able to advise me on what I could do to in regards to a dilemma I am facing with online poker. I am a fairly consistent home game winner and have placed in a few home tournaments. Now, IÂ’m not sure how youÂ’ll feel about the next bit of information I am about to drop on you. I play very low stakes - probably sub-micro stakes if such a classification existed. The home game blinds I play for are usually .05/.10 and have never exceeded .25/.50 - all no-limit.
I have attempted online play, currently at PokerStars, and have not had the success I’d hoped to. I’ve been trying my hand at the .01/.02 NL bloodbath games and usually don’t come out ahead after a session. I’ll go out on a limb and say that I do play tighter than most of the table and I do get aggressive when I feel I should. I do, however, seem to be prone to being trapped - betting my top two pair against flopped bottom set, for example. I know that trapping is an extremely important weapon in no-limit play and I can usually “smell” it when playing live. I have studied tells, profiling, hand reading, and the psychology of poker. I just can’t seem to apply it properly to online cash games.
I do alright in nine- or ten-handed Sit & Gos. But I just see so much more profit out there in the side games (especially for the small amount I have in my account).
I am more interested in the skill aspect than with trying to make a living at playing poker online - although I wouldnÂ’t not accept a huge pot. :wink:
I have been told (by people I play with at home games) that it is just how low I am playing and that if I could play higher IÂ’d clean up. (Thoughts on this?)
I guess my question (now that you know more about me than you probably want to) is that I donÂ’t know what the difference is that is causing such variance between my live home game winnings and my online losses. I have read many poker books and watched many videos. Nothing is really screaming at me and telling me where I need to adjust. Do you have any thoughts on this?
First of all, I feel just great about the stakes you play. The vast majority of poker players play at stakes like what youÂ’re talking about, and only a very small percentage play in the big, big, big games that get so much attention. So thatÂ’s a-ok with me. Now to try to answer your main question.
YouÂ’re doing fine in your home games, but youÂ’re struggling in the online $0.01-$0.02 games on PokerStars. WhatÂ’s going on? Well, I canÂ’t tell you exactly because IÂ’ve never watched you play, but I do have a few thoughts I can rattle off to you in no particular order.
1. Online poker tends to be tougher than live casino poker which tends to be tougher than home game poker. So you are moving from the venue where poker games tend to be easiest to beat (home games) and going to the venue where theyÂ’re hardest to beat (online). ItÂ’s only natural that youÂ’d go through some growing pains during that transition.
Online poker is, in general, the toughest for a couple of reasons. First is something you’ve alluded to above that good players can increase their edge by using physical information. When I play live, physical information informs my decision-making all the time. I make some laydowns live that I would never make online because I can “smell” the trouble as you put it. I also can attack weakness more live for the same reason. Assuming I can process and use this information better than my opponents, live games will be, relatively speaking, easier for me than online games.
Online games are also tougher simply because the players are better. I will admit that IÂ’ve never played a hand of $0.01-$0.02 on PokerStars. But IÂ’ve played plenty of $0.25-$0.50 and IÂ’ll tell you that many of the players that inhabit those limits online would more than hold their own in a $2-$5 live game. IÂ’m not saying theyÂ’re superstars by any stretch, but many of them would be competent live game players at the smaller stakes. Some of the $1-$2 regulars at Full Tilt would beat a $10-$20 live game without much trouble.
Add in the fact that the bad players tend to play 1 or 2 tables while the good players play 4-16 tables, and the games are very decidedly tougher online.
   2. Downswings are also bigger and more prolonged online. This is a simple consequence of the fact that the players are better and there’s no physical information to inform your decisions. While you play far more hands per hour online, you’ll win far more money per hand live. Also online games tend (in my experience) generally to be more aggressive than live games. This has exceptions, and I’ve played in some absolutely crazy live games. But I would guess the bad players in your average online game are more aggressive than the bad players in your average home game. When you win less money per hand, and you have to risk more money on average per hand (because the game is more aggressive), you expose yourself to much nastier downswings.
In roughly 5,000 live hands, I would expect to be down money only a small percentage of the time. In 5,000 online hands, I’m going to be down a much more significant percentage of the time. So where you might see yourself as a “steady” winner in your home game, over a similar period of online play your results will be more all over the map (and more often negative), even if you’re playing well in both settings.
   3. What your friend said about cleaning up if you moved up in stakes online is most certainly wrong. Online poker is tough these days. People who “clean up” in $1-$2 games online are quite sophisticated players. You can eek out a win at those limits if you’re tight and play ok, but if you have any aspirations of “cleaning up” you’ve got to be fairly sharp.
Even at $0.10-$0.25 (the lowest I’ve played online), you’re not going to win at a good clip unless you have a reasonable working knowledge of the game. And by “reasonable working knowledge” I basically mean that you have to know at least something about how to read hands.
   4. This brings me to the advice I have for you, Ed. I think you’re in exactly the right place for now, the $0.01-$0.02 games. First thing to do is to treat playing as a learning experience and not a competitive exercise. Don’t equate losing a pot or a session with failure. Losing is part of the game, just as integral an experience as winning. Your job isn’t to win. It’s to play as well as you can and learn from your mistakes. If you’re consistent about that, you’ll improve and so will your longterm results.
You described the game as a “bloodbath.” That’s presumably because it’s loose and fairly aggressive, so it often happens that you have, say, AK and flop an ace, and then lose a nice pot to someone who turned two pair or a straight with some raggedy preflop hand, correct?
If that’s what you meant, then all online no-limit is a bloodbath, from $0.01-$0.02 to $25-$50 and beyond. It’s just the nature of the game. You lose plenty of heartbreaking pots at the bigger stakes… the difference is you win fewer nice pots padded by the money of people getting it in with little chance. So don’t let the bloodbath get to you. Don’t get upset if the “donks” beat you in one pot or ten or a hundred. Because the donks will be beating you in pots for as long as you play the game, so you’d better get used to it. :smile:
Develop your postflop skills and hand reading. You said you play tighter than your opponents. I assume you mean that you play fewer preflop hands. ThatÂ’s great, but at no-limit that only gets you so far. The real money is made with postflop skills.
Say you have A9s and the flop comes 973 with two of a suit. You bet the flop and get called by a player. The turn is an offsuit Q. Your opponent checks. Do you bet or not, and if so, how much? And if you check, how do you plan to play on the river? My answer to the question depends the strength of my opponentÂ’s hand range on that turn and how heÂ’s likely to play those hands if I bet or check. As a quick example, if heÂ’s a really loose and bad player, I would go ahead and bet again, and then IÂ’d probably bet a third time on the river if the river card came below a 9 (especially 6 or below). I expect him to call me down with 9Â’s with a weaker kicker or 7Â’s or hands like 88.
But against other players, betting the turn and river after the Q comes down will get action primarily from hands that beat you. Therefore, you should check a street, and whether you check the turn or the river again depends on how your opponent will react to your bets, how often heÂ’ll try to bluff the river, and so forth. At every decision, you should have a picture of roughly what hands your opponent could have at this point, and have some idea of how heÂ’ll play each of those hands. If heÂ’s really loose and likes to call down light, then you know that and you bet those pairs of nines for value. If heÂ’s tighter, but likes to bluff, then you check your medium pairs to try to induce a bluff. ItÂ’s not all that simple, but thatÂ’s the basic idea.
If you get to the point where you have a fairly accurate picture of what your opponentsÂ’ ranges are, and you have a realistic model for how they tend to play the hands in that range, and you correctly put those together in your head to come up with your best course of action, then youÂ’ll be ready to take the online poker world by storm.
If you find yourself struggling online, then that’s what you should work on. At every decision point, think about what hands your opponents could have. “Hrmm, he check-called preflop and then check-called again on a T73 board with two diamonds. He could have two small diamonds, a ten with an ok kicker, a 7, a small pocket pair, 98, and maybe something like AJ that he decided to peel with on the flop.” If you bet a flop, and your opponent moves all-in, again figure out what hands you think he’d do that with. That’s a key no-limit skill, and it’s one you just have to practice, practice, practice.
Whew, that was a long answer. HereÂ’s my basic point. Online poker is tough, and IÂ’m not surprised that itÂ’s a bit of a difficult transition. But you donÂ’t need physical tells or tight opponents to succeed. Learn to think systematically through each decision. Even though you canÂ’t see your opponents face-to-face, they arenÂ’t playing randomly. Everything they do carries with it some information. Process that information, evaluate how your hand rates against their range of hands, and then figure out what action will net you the best outcome. Practice that process at every decision point, and soon enough youÂ’ll get the hang of it.
And be patient. Online poker can be nothing short of brutal even to the very best of players. DonÂ’t put your ego too far out on the line, and treat every session as a learning experience. ThatÂ’s how you can succeed.
"Stars twinkle because of turbulence in the atmosphere of the Earth. As the atmosphere churns, the light from the star is refracted in different directions. This causes the star's image to change slightly in brightness and position, hence "twinkle." This is one of the reasons the Hubble telescope is so successful: in space, there is no atmosphere to make the stars twinkle, allowing a much better image to be obtained.
Planets do not twinkle the way stars do. In fact, this is a good way of figuring out if a particular object you see in the sky is a planet or a star. The reason is that stars are so far away that they are essentially points of light on the sky, while planets actually have finite size. The size of a planet on the sky in a sense "averages out" the turbulent effects of the atmosphere, presenting a relatively stable image to the eye."
Generally, the brighter the magnitude (size, how much light an object gives off), the less a star blinks I think.
What exactly do you consult..? :wink:
I reserve all astronomy, weather and ham radio questions to KC...
if i answered that last question...
I would have said...its like a quarter in the bottom of a pool...
This phenomenon occurs because the water in the pool bends the path of light from the coin
what I don't get though is that I can look in the sky and see a star twinkling but another near it is not. so if it's the Earths turbulance than why arn't they all twinkling?
Same idea, but on a much smaller scale. Some stars are more effected because of their present location, or distance from earth. The further away, the more pronounce the effect is.
I 'like' Garfield alot! :wink:
Jon even looks like Kitch!! :sillygrin:
The big story was not what happened inside the ropes. It's what went down across the street inside the Rain nightclub. Everyone was talking about it. Dealers. Players. Bloggers. Photographers. Floor people. Railbirds. Masseuses.
Dario blocked Bill Chen and sucked face with Isabelle. In front of several hundred people.
She was swapping spit with a scarf-wearing Porsche driving former Magic the Gathering player while a Michael Jackson song boomed over the bong-rattling sound system.
cringe
a squirrel
looks like this morning's hasnt been processed yet.
They never cut down the tree - thank God - and the power junctions got moved to an underground spot further away.
Our place up north has all the wires underground. We lose power up there several times a year as evidenced by blinking clocks when we get back up there on Friday evenings.
Our place here in the city has everything hanging above ground and if we lose power here, its maybe once a year.
One would think the exposed to all the elements wires would cause more frequent outages than the buried ones.
Why would it be that the reality is different than one would expect?
Tornado Strikes Edina
On June 14, 1981, a large Tornado struck Edina. The day started warm and humid in the Twin Cities with sunshine and temperatures quickly climbing into the low 80s by the noon hour. The Super cell thunderstorm that produced the tornado first brought large hail to Eden Prairie in the mid afternoon then a tornado developed over Edina and was difficult to see because it was wrapped in heavy rain. The tornado first hit the northeastern part of Edina around Arden Park and then moved into the 50th and France Ave area (downtown area).
Side note: The Edina Art Fair on 50th and France Ave had wrapped up the week before (June 7, 1981) - had the tornado struck at that time it could have injured thousands of people. The tornado then moved northeast into south Minneapolis around Lake Harriet and as it moved northeast toward Roseville it continued to get bigger and stronger.
According to the University of Minnesota - Department of Soil, Water, and Climate report this is a summary of the tornado:
Folks on the east side of the Twin Cities call it the "Har Mar Tornado" while others west of the Mississippi tend to prefer "Lake Harriet" or "Edina Tornado." No matter the name, it was the most significant tornado to hit the Twin Cities since the 1965 Fridley Mounds-View tornadoes.
Here's how the event unfolded. The National Weather Service posted a tornado watch at 3:00pm CDT. At 3:49pm a tornado touched down in Edina about 1/3 mile southwest of the intersection of France Avenue and 50th Street. The tornado followed a southwest-northeast track that brought it over Lake Harriet at about 3:52pm. Edina policeman William Barington reported the tornado at this time. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning and the area-wide siren activation was at 3:53PM. This activated 200 sirens in eastern Hennepin, Ramsey, and small portions of Anoka and Dakota Counties. The tornado continued its path northeast and lifted off the ground one black short of a mobile home park near Rice and South Owasso Boulevard at 4:15pm.
The path length was continuous for 15 miles over a 26-minute period. The path width varied from 75 yards to two and a half city blocks. Wind speeds varied from 80 mph in the narrow width areas to as high as 160 mph in the wider path areas. At a number of points only tree top damage was seen and at other points wide extensive damage was observed affecting buildings, trees, power lines and homes. At first the National Weather Service reported the event as three separate tornadoes, but after two days of surveying the damage, it was concluded that it was a single tornado that lifted up and down at times.
One of the hardest hit areas was the Har Mar Mall area. While the mall itself escaped serious damage; other businesses and homes in the area were hit hard. The regional State Farm Insurance agency lost its roof and many windows were smashed in businesses along Snelling Avenue. Numerous homes were damaged, especially north of Har Mar Mall. In all from Minneapolis to Lake Owasso 83 people were injured and one person was killed. 20-year-old Allen Wheeler was fishing along the shore of Lake Harriet when a tree fell on him. Another death occurred during the clean up and is not counted in the official tally. A man suffered a heart attack while clearing tree debris in Minneapolis.
Lt. Gov Lou Wangberg activated 120 National Guardsmen to prevent looting of damaged homes and businesses in Roseville. (Governor Al Quie was in Norway at the time.) The largest problem was from the throngs of sightseers who drove to view the damage and caused quite a hindrance to clean up activity. One homeowner posted a sign that said: "The residents bitterly resent your morbid curiosity. Why donÂ’t you stop gawking and go home."
The day after the tornado about a half dozen people showed up at the Minneapolis Red Cross Office for assistance. The Red Cross set up temporary shelters in Roseville and Minneapolis. No one showed up at the Roseville site and only one woman stayed the night the shelter in Minneapolis. Most people said the reason why they didnÂ’t stay the night in a shelter was because they were afraid of looters going through their homes while they were away.
This tornado hit during the start of the era when the local television stations heavily promoted their weathercasts with large staffs and considerable investments in technology. KSTP had just installed its Doppler Radar a month earlier and John Dooley observed the tornado while standing on the roof of the station. WCCO-TV supplied the helicopter for the survey after the tornado.
The tornado of June 14th was not the only storm to hit the Twin Cities that day. Strong thunderstorms dumped heavy rains at the airport that morning. The heaviest rain from the storm that spawned the tornado in the afternoon fell in a line about four to five miles northwest of the path of the tornado