hay tikay leader of the enemy..... should other players chip stacks affect the way i play??? i know its gd to keep an eye on them n pick who you wanna go up agenst but if you get pulled into a pot with some one with say a bigger chip stack should i play more defencivly or aggro??? Posted by D3ADH4ND5
Yes - absolutely, 100%!
There are a series of little boxes to tick before you play ANY hand, in any format, at any time.
These include Position, your hand, the VPIP of your Opponent, what you consider his holding to be, who might act after you, and the size of your stack relative to his/hers.
If you have, say, 10,000 chips & the Blinds are 200-400 (so you have 25 x BB), & a player with 12,000 sets you all-in, when you are holding 6-6 - that's an easy Pass.
But if he only has 2,000 chips, it's an easy Call - because.....
a) He cannot bust you, or do you much damage.
b) As he only has 5 x BB, his opening Range is VERY wide, he may have Ace-bit, or more likely, ATC. So that's an easy Call.
Same hand, 6-6, totally different optimal play - because of the relative stack sizes.
ALWAYS check your opponents stack size. Sometimes you see a player try to run a bluff against a player who is pot-committed - cannot Pass - how ridiculous is THAT! Make bluffs against stacks that can Pass, never against those who cannot!
So yes, it's high up on the Check-List of things to consider before playing any hand.
Late in a Tourney, it's ESSENTIAL to know relative stack sizes - absolutely essential, every single hand.
Greetings Legend!!!! My question is yesterday i enjoyed a superb day trip on board the Orient Express that travelled through North Wales,Mid Wales, Staffordshire,Shropshire and even to the deepest part of Herefordshire and i enjoyed the finest gourmet cuisine, fine wines and champagne!. Have i got one up over you by doing a train journey that you've never done? lol!!!! Also all the train journeys that you have done over the years whether it is in the UK or not, what has been your all time favourite train journey that you have enjoyed? My personal favourite including yesterday's exploits has to be when i was holidaying in Vienna 5 years ago and i took a train ride from Vienna International Airport to my hotel in the centre of Vienna and just some of the scenary that i went past was gorgeous and Vienna itself is a beautiful city and is also home to the world famous Concord Card Casino!!! (PS: I just want to make it perfectly clear that i am not a saddo and that i am NOT a train enthusiast but i would seriously recommend to anyone that you experience a first class trip on the Orient Express because it is awesome and the memories of the day/s will last forever i assure you on that!!!) Posted by OnlyOneCT
I'm jealous, though to be honest, The Orient Express does not float my boat.
Vienna - did you manage to visit, or play, at Concord Card Casino (CCC)? Until DTD opened, I thought CCC was arguably the world's finest Cardroom. In those days, Big TK - Thomas Kremser - was running the place, but he's moved on now, & runs Tourneys all over the world, including some of the EPT's. Marina, his petite wife, and a Dealer, whom he married in Vegas 3 years back, also worked there. Both of them are very fine players, by the way.
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : I am pleased to say I have never watched X-Factor, & I never will. I can't be doing with dumbed-down namby pamby dross. I an aware of Jedward, I think. Are they the two conceited little boys with not a shred of talent? About the same age as Nutter5932? X-Factor indeed, I can't believe grown-ups watch that unadulterated p o o. Posted by Tikay10
absolute quality reply!!! i was in stitches!!! nail bang on the head!! my daughters watch it, but not when i am about lol i make em go upstairs with the volume down too what a load of old TOSH!!!
Now this is a question for ya Boss! I replied to your x factor post and you had the word p o o in it and it posted fine. When i ncluded your post it would not let me have the word p o o an i had to space it out as per. Do you get special treatment in the words you can use on the forum or am i being singled out as " special treatment " ????
Greetings Legend!!!! My question is yesterday i enjoyed a superb day trip on board the Orient Express that travelled through North Wales,Mid Wales, Staffordshire,Shropshire and even to the deepest part of Herefordshire and i enjoyed the finest gourmet cuisine, fine wines and champagne!. Have i got one up over you by doing a train journey that you've never done? lol!!!! Also all the train journeys that you have done over the years whether it is in the UK or not, what has been your all time favourite train journey that you have enjoyed? My personal favourite including yesterday's exploits has to be when i was holidaying in Vienna 5 years ago and i took a train ride from Vienna International Airport to my hotel in the centre of Vienna and just some of the scenary that i went past was gorgeous and Vienna itself is a beautiful city and is also home to the world famous Concord Card Casino!!! (PS: I just want to make it perfectly clear that i am not a saddo and that i am NOT a train enthusiast but i would seriously recommend to anyone that you experience a first class trip on the Orient Express because it is awesome and the memories of the day/s will last forever i assure you on that!!!) Posted by OnlyOneCT
I'm afraid gourmet cuisine is wasted on me - steak & kidney pudding ftw - likewise fine wines & champagne, as I've been teetotal since I was 21.
Yes, you got me there - I've never done that journey.
My fave train journeys?
Paddington to Penzance, GWR, particularly the coastal stretch through Devon. The track between Dawlish Warren & Dawlish is easily my favourite, wonderful childhood memories.
Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley. Beautiful once it gets North of Donny. I often used to jump a train to Edinburgh in the morning, stay overnight at The Balmoral Hotel (attached to the Station) & get the early train back to London next morning, just for the sake of it.
Nice to Monte Carlo, SNCF. There is no airport in Monte Carlo, so you fly to Nice & then either get the Air Taxi (Helicopter), proper taxi (very exciting, it goes through about 30 tunnels, but the taxi-drivers are all mad), or Train. The Train runs right along the Med Coastline, & it's just beautiful.
Journey I want to do. The Caledonian Sleeper, Euston to Fort William. Diesel-hauled, slam-door stock - a must!
Also, any rail service north of Inverness would be a dream.
I'm gonna retire & do all those things. I actually retired about 6 years ago to do them, but it all went wrong somewhere.
Now this is a question for ya Boss! I replied to your x factor post and you had the word p o o in it and it posted fine. When i ncluded your post it would not let me have the word p o o an i had to space it out as per. Do you get special treatment in the words you can use on the forum or am i being singled out as " special treatment " ???? Posted by margatemaf
I don't know is the answer to that, but someone else PM'd me to point out the same thing, so I'll have to ask Sky-Rich.
In truth, what language is acceptable for me to use should be fine for you, & vice-versa.
So, until we know the answer, I'll refrain from using the p word, & replace it with doo-doo. Thats seems fair to me.
The same guy who told me about this also wrote to me today (not replied yet, sorry) about last night's Show, saying he enjoyed the banter about the plump lady & her grandma's frock. It was a true story, strangely. I never saw much of her after that convo, strangely enough.
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : I'm afraid gourmet cuisine is wasted on me - steak & kidney pudding ftw - likewise fine wines & champagne, as I've been teetotal since I was 21. Yes, you got me there - I've never done that journey. My fave train journeys? Paddington to Penzance, GWR, particularly the coastal stretch through Devon. The track between Dawlish Warren & Dawlish is easily my favourite, wonderful childhood memories. Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley. Beautiful once it gets North of Donny. I often used to jump a train to Edinburgh in the morning, stay overnight at The Balmoral Hotel (attached to the Station) & get the early train back to London next morning, just for the sake of it. Nice to Monte Carlo, SNCF. There is no airport in Monte Carlo, so you fly to Nice & then either get the Air Taxi (Helicopter), proper taxi (very exciting, it goes through about 30 tunnels, but the taxi-drivers are all mad), or Train. The Train runs right along the Med Coastline, & it's just beautiful. Journey I want to do. The Caledonian Sleeper, Euston to Fort William. Diesel-hauled, slam-door stock - a must! Also, any rail service north of Inverness would be a dream. I'm gonna retire & do all those things. I actually retired about 6 years ago to do them, but it all went wrong somewhere. Posted by Tikay10
Been fortunate to travel on these lines North of Inverness and recommend you do them over 3 days starting on East coast through Tain up to Wick and Thurso and then round to the west coast, spend a bit of time on Isle of Skye and Kyle of Lochalsh ending up at Fort William. It honestly is a different world between scenery and wildlife and very friendly people
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : I'm jealous, though to be honest, The Orient Express does not float my boat. Vienna - did you manage to visit, or play, at Concord Card Casino (CCC)? Until DTD opened, I thought CCC was arguably the world's finest Cardroom. In those days, Big TK - Thomas Kremser - was running the place, but he's moved on now, & runs Tourneys all over the world, including some of the EPT's. Marina, his petite wife, and a Dealer, whom he married in Vegas 3 years back, also worked there. Both of them are very fine players, by the way. I'll deal with fave Train Journeys seperately. Posted by Tikay10
I was fortunate enough to have a wonderful evening at the CCC on the penultimate night of my holiday as i made myself a promise that i had to go there (mainly because i heard several references made about the CCC made by Jesse May in the early days of Late Night Poker!) and i kept to my word and i must say not just with Vienna but the other parts of Austria i've visited (Salzburg and Innsbruck), it is without any question the most friendliest and classiest country i have EVER visited. The locals are some of the nicest people i have ever met and boy can they talk a good game of Poker!.
You do surprise me somewhat that the Orient Express does not float your boat because i honestly did think that with your major passion for Trains, i thought you may have stepped on board the OE sometime in your life.
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Been fortunate to travel on these lines North of Inverness and recommend you do them over 3 days starting on East coast through Tain up to Wick and Thurso and then round to the west coast, spend a bit of time on Isle of Skye and Kyle of Lochalsh ending up at Fort William. It honestly is a different world between scenery and wildlife and very friendly people Posted by Torryladd
Stop it!
Really, that was part of my reason for retiring early, to do all that. I'm particularly keen to do the West Coast of Scotland, having spent a good bit of time in Fort William & Ballaculish (sp?). I want to try & drive every yard of the Coast I can, including all the Islands, & the sticky-out bits like Campbelltown. Did you know Campbelltown has an Airport? And a Golf Club - Machnhanish Golf Club - it must be awesome to play there. And I will.
I've started planning it again recently, with the aid of google Maps, google Satellite, google Terrain & google Earth. What awesome tools they are, all free, too.
I'm a wildlife geek, too, birds especially, so it's gotta be done, & when the music stops for me here at Sky Poker, as it inevitably will one day, I'll be off up to Scotland like a shot.
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : I'm afraid gourmet cuisine is wasted on me - steak & kidney pudding ftw - likewise fine wines & champagne, as I've been teetotal since I was 21. Yes, you got me there - I've never done that journey. My fave train journeys? Paddington to Penzance, GWR, particularly the coastal stretch through Devon. The track between Dawlish Warren & Dawlish is easily my favourite, wonderful childhood memories. Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley. Beautiful once it gets North of Donny. I often used to jump a train to Edinburgh in the morning, stay overnight at The Balmoral Hotel (attached to the Station) & get the early train back to London next morning, just for the sake of it. Nice to Monte Carlo, SNCF. There is no airport in Monte Carlo, so you fly to Nice & then either get the Air Taxi (Helicopter), proper taxi (very exciting, it goes through about 30 tunnels, but the taxi-drivers are all mad), or Train. The Train runs right along the Med Coastline, & it's just beautiful. Journey I want to do. The Caledonian Sleeper, Euston to Fort William. Diesel-hauled, slam-door stock - a must! Also, any rail service north of Inverness would be a dream. I'm gonna retire & do all those things. I actually retired about 6 years ago to do them, but it all went wrong somewhere. Posted by Tikay10
Wow!!!.
Like i've said before, i'm not a person that has a major passion on Trains but by hearing great tales of all the trips you have done, i find it all REALLY fascinating stuff and it's certainly more interesting than watching that mindless and uneducated drivel that is the X-Factor!!!.
If you had a VERY tall fruit tree and no ladder, would you choose GREGHOGG or Thomas Kremser to help you pick the fruit from the top branches? Posted by MereNovice
Thomas Kremser - he's MUCH taller than Hoggers.
We have a pact - I call him Big TK, & he calls me Little TK. Sigh.
I like him very much, typically Austrian, perfect English, perfect manners, great sense of humour.
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : I was fortunate enough to have a wonderful evening at the CCC on the penultimate night of my holiday as i made myself a promise that i had to go there (mainly because i heard several references made about the CCC made by Jesse May in the early days of Late Night Poker!) and i kept to my word and i must say not just with Vienna but the other parts of Austria i've visited (Salzburg and Innsbruck), it is without any question the most friendliest and classiest country i have EVER visited. The locals are some of the nicest people i have ever met and boy can they talk a good game of Poker!. You do surprise me somewhat that the Orient Express does not float your boat because i honestly did think that with your major passion for Trains, i thought you may have stepped on board the OE sometime in your life. Posted by OnlyOneCT
Austria - yes, amazingly clean, too.
Orient Express - I've no idea why it does not turn me on. A bit commercial, I suppose, but it's never ticked any boxes for me, & I don't really know why.
Now, back to Vienna for one moment. (Love the Airport there btw, so spacious).
Now, let me ask YOU a question, & if you answer it "somewhere like", I'll tell you an extraordinary story about a WSOP Bracelet Winner, & a Vienna Taxi.
So - & think about this carefully - how many Taxis do you think there are in Vienna? (Roughly).
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Stop it! Really, that was part of my reason for retiring early, to do all that. I'm particularly keen to do the West Coast of Scotland, having spent a good bit of time in Fort William & Ballaculish (sp?). I want to try & drive every yard of the Coast I can, including all the Islands, & the sticky-out bits like Campbelltown. Did you know Campbelltown has an Airport? And a Golf Club - Machnhanish Golf Club - it must be awesome to play there. And I will. I've started planning it again recently, with the aid of google Maps, google Satellite, google Terrain & google Earth. What awesome tools they are, all free, too. I'm a wildlife geek, too, birds especially, so it's gotta be done, & when the music stops for me here at Sky Poker, as it inevitably will one day, I'll be off up to Scotland like a shot. Posted by Tikay10
One top tip then Tikay avoid lambing season when you do it, the little cuties are everywhere.
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Wow!!!. Like i've said before, i'm not a person that has a major passion on Trains but by hearing great tales of all the trips you have done, i find it all REALLY fascinating stuff and it's certainly more interesting than watching that mindless and uneducated drivel that is the X-Factor!!!. Posted by OnlyOneCT
I took the Air-Taxi from Monte Carlo to Nice once, as a guest of Marc Goodwin, after he finished 2nd or 3rd in the famous Monte Carlo Milliions won by Phil Ivey, when Phil did that steal re-steal re-re-steal thing against Paul Jackson. - never again, ugh. I nearly doo-doo'd myself.
That particular week in Monte Carlo would get a whole chapter in the unlikely event that I'd ever write a book. Dave Colclough, Marc Goodwin, Ram Vaswani, TonyG. Joe Beevers, bluffs & double bluffs, off-table nonsense, on-table tantrums, a grown man crying, a bust-up, & plenty more besides would all feature.
Marc Goodwin won a quarter of a million bucks (he had Shares in two others on the Final Table), & he had it in his hand-luggage, in cash. I had been Updating ther Event for my "other place", with Dave Colclough & Jen Mason - Jen is the UK's finest female player by a country mile, but she worked for me at the time, to earn a little money. (And it was little).
He'd promised Jen & I that we'd get the Air Taxi back to Nice the morning after, as well as giving us both a very handsome "drink" for Updating the Event so well. I HATE helicopters, but had no choice really.
After the Event had finished the night before, we'd all gone for a Meal - Phil Ivey, Paul Jackson, Dave Colclough, Jen, & a few others, but after the Meal, they all went for a drink, so I swerved it, & went back to my Hotel.
We assembled for the Heli-Trip at 9am the next morning, Marc, Jen & me, & it was clear Marc had been up all night, drinking. He was "tired & distressed" to say the least.
So at the Heli-port I gave him a surprise - a big fried breakfast, with runny fried eggs, the lot. He almost threw up on the spot.
Which was nothing compared to me when the Helicopter took off. It's only a 7 minute hop, but I don' think I took breath the whole way.
Never - never EVER again - will I get in a Helicopter.
TK - have you even been on the Trans-Siberian line? If so, what were your thoughts on it?
I'm of Russian descent, and was due to go there with my (now ex) Russain girlfriend about a year or so ago. It fell thru due to a number of medical problems I had, but its still one of my ambitions to go there. Just need to run deep in the Sunday Million one time?!
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There are a series of little boxes to tick before you play ANY hand, in any format, at any time.
These include Position, your hand, the VPIP of your Opponent, what you consider his holding to be, who might act after you, and the size of your stack relative to his/hers.
If you have, say, 10,000 chips & the Blinds are 200-400 (so you have 25 x BB), & a player with 12,000 sets you all-in, when you are holding 6-6 - that's an easy Pass.
But if he only has 2,000 chips, it's an easy Call - because.....
a) He cannot bust you, or do you much damage.
b) As he only has 5 x BB, his opening Range is VERY wide, he may have Ace-bit, or more likely, ATC. So that's an easy Call.
Same hand, 6-6, totally different optimal play - because of the relative stack sizes.
ALWAYS check your opponents stack size. Sometimes you see a player try to run a bluff against a player who is pot-committed - cannot Pass - how ridiculous is THAT! Make bluffs against stacks that can Pass, never against those who cannot!
So yes, it's high up on the Check-List of things to consider before playing any hand.
Late in a Tourney, it's ESSENTIAL to know relative stack sizes - absolutely essential, every single hand.
I am aware of Jedward, I think. Are they the two conceited little boys with not a shred of talent? About the same age as Nutter5932?
X-Factor indeed, I can't believe grown-ups watch that unadulterated poo.
Vienna - did you manage to visit, or play, at Concord Card Casino (CCC)? Until DTD opened, I thought CCC was arguably the world's finest Cardroom. In those days, Big TK - Thomas Kremser - was running the place, but he's moved on now, & runs Tourneys all over the world, including some of the EPT's. Marina, his petite wife, and a Dealer, whom he married in Vegas 3 years back, also worked there. Both of them are very fine players, by the way.
I'll deal with fave Train Journeys seperately.
Yes, you got me there - I've never done that journey.
My fave train journeys?
Paddington to Penzance, GWR, particularly the coastal stretch through Devon. The track between Dawlish Warren & Dawlish is easily my favourite, wonderful childhood memories.
Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley. Beautiful once it gets North of Donny. I often used to jump a train to Edinburgh in the morning, stay overnight at The Balmoral Hotel (attached to the Station) & get the early train back to London next morning, just for the sake of it.
Nice to Monte Carlo, SNCF. There is no airport in Monte Carlo, so you fly to Nice & then either get the Air Taxi (Helicopter), proper taxi (very exciting, it goes through about 30 tunnels, but the taxi-drivers are all mad), or Train. The Train runs right along the Med Coastline, & it's just beautiful.
Journey I want to do. The Caledonian Sleeper, Euston to Fort William. Diesel-hauled, slam-door stock - a must!
Also, any rail service north of Inverness would be a dream.
I'm gonna retire & do all those things. I actually retired about 6 years ago to do them, but it all went wrong somewhere.
In truth, what language is acceptable for me to use should be fine for you, & vice-versa.
So, until we know the answer, I'll refrain from using the p word, & replace it with doo-doo. Thats seems fair to me.
The same guy who told me about this also wrote to me today (not replied yet, sorry) about last night's Show, saying he enjoyed the banter about the plump lady & her grandma's frock. It was a true story, strangely. I never saw much of her after that convo, strangely enough.
You do surprise me somewhat that the Orient Express does not float your boat because i honestly did think that with your major passion for Trains, i thought you may have stepped on board the OE sometime in your life.
Really, that was part of my reason for retiring early, to do all that. I'm particularly keen to do the West Coast of Scotland, having spent a good bit of time in Fort William & Ballaculish (sp?). I want to try & drive every yard of the Coast I can, including all the Islands, & the sticky-out bits like Campbelltown. Did you know Campbelltown has an Airport? And a Golf Club - Machnhanish Golf Club - it must be awesome to play there. And I will.
I've started planning it again recently, with the aid of google Maps, google Satellite, google Terrain & google Earth. What awesome tools they are, all free, too.
I'm a wildlife geek, too, birds especially, so it's gotta be done, & when the music stops for me here at Sky Poker, as it inevitably will one day, I'll be off up to Scotland like a shot.
Like i've said before, i'm not a person that has a major passion on Trains but by hearing great tales of all the trips you have done, i find it all REALLY fascinating stuff and it's certainly more interesting than watching that mindless and uneducated drivel that is the X-Factor!!!.
We have a pact - I call him Big TK, & he calls me Little TK. Sigh.
I like him very much, typically Austrian, perfect English, perfect manners, great sense of humour.
Orient Express - I've no idea why it does not turn me on. A bit commercial, I suppose, but it's never ticked any boxes for me, & I don't really know why.
Now, back to Vienna for one moment. (Love the Airport there btw, so spacious).
Now, let me ask YOU a question, & if you answer it "somewhere like", I'll tell you an extraordinary story about a WSOP Bracelet Winner, & a Vienna Taxi.
So - & think about this carefully - how many Taxis do you think there are in Vienna? (Roughly).
One top tip then Tikay avoid lambing season when you do it, the little cuties are everywhere.
That particular week in Monte Carlo would get a whole chapter in the unlikely event that I'd ever write a book. Dave Colclough, Marc Goodwin, Ram Vaswani, TonyG. Joe Beevers, bluffs & double bluffs, off-table nonsense, on-table tantrums, a grown man crying, a bust-up, & plenty more besides would all feature.
Marc Goodwin won a quarter of a million bucks (he had Shares in two others on the Final Table), & he had it in his hand-luggage, in cash. I had been Updating ther Event for my "other place", with Dave Colclough & Jen Mason - Jen is the UK's finest female player by a country mile, but she worked for me at the time, to earn a little money. (And it was little).
He'd promised Jen & I that we'd get the Air Taxi back to Nice the morning after, as well as giving us both a very handsome "drink" for Updating the Event so well. I HATE helicopters, but had no choice really.
After the Event had finished the night before, we'd all gone for a Meal - Phil Ivey, Paul Jackson, Dave Colclough, Jen, & a few others, but after the Meal, they all went for a drink, so I swerved it, & went back to my Hotel.
We assembled for the Heli-Trip at 9am the next morning, Marc, Jen & me, & it was clear Marc had been up all night, drinking. He was "tired & distressed" to say the least.
So at the Heli-port I gave him a surprise - a big fried breakfast, with runny fried eggs, the lot. He almost threw up on the spot.
Which was nothing compared to me when the Helicopter took off. It's only a 7 minute hop, but I don' think I took breath the whole way.
Never - never EVER again - will I get in a Helicopter.
I'm of Russian descent, and was due to go there with my (now ex) Russain girlfriend about a year or so ago. It fell thru due to a number of medical problems I had, but its still one of my ambitions to go there. Just need to run deep in the Sunday Million one time?!
I love eveything about Scotland.*
* Inhabitants excepted.