Funny 2+2 Post

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=242975

The part about the following post on 2+2 that made me laugh was the guy claiming Dutch Boyd is nuts is the same guy walking around with a stack of T/5 offsuit cards trying to get them signed by random celebrity poker players one of them being Dutch Boyd whose blog he actually reads and thinks is a real signature coup for his T5 deck of cards. I'd bet my roll the guy who posted this is American and clearly doesn't appreciate the irony of his own post and actions.

"(Yes, I realize the title of this thread is zero surprise)

long-ish story to follow....

Today at the wsop expo my buddy Mike and I saw Kenna James singing a country tune on the Aussie Millions karaoke setup. If that wasn't strange enough, the song ended with him and Dutch Boyd singing out the last chorus together.

After they finished, it looked to me like the perfect time to get Dutch to autograph a couple of playing cards (5-T offsuit....it's a "signature hand" of a home game I play in, and we have a ton of cards signed by a gajillion different pros...just for fun)

Me: "Dutch, you think you can sign a couple of cards for me?"
Dutch: "you want MY autograph?"
Me: "Yeah. I know who you are. I like to read your blog. Interesting stuff."
Dutch: "Right on"

(I hand him the cards)

Dutch: "What's with the five-ten?"
Me: "It's kind of a signature hand for a poker league I play with"

(I show him that I have a big stack of cards presorted into five-ten, hoping to assure him I'm not some douche who's just handing him 2 random cards out of a deck that have zero meaning)

Dutch: "Very cool. You know two red fives are my favorite hand. That's what I won my bracelet with"

(he then takes the stack of cards out of my hands and starts pulling out all the red fives - while holding them, he proceeds to sign the back of one of the cards, including with some sort of chinese looking symbol. He then puts the stack of red fives in his shirt pocket, hands me the signed card, turns his back to me and tells his girlfriend that he and Kenna want to go get high)

Me: "Hey there man, can I I have my cards back"
Dutch: "Do I own you money?"
Me: "Uhhh. No?"
Dutch: "Well autographs aren't free" (w/crazy eyes darting all around)

(turns his back to me again)

Me: "Dude, uhh, you must have me confused with someone else. How about you gimme my cards"

(turns back with a 'seriously I just may start throwing my own feces' sorta look on his face)

Dutch: "Well do you have a business card?"

Me: "What? Uhhh, Yeah, actually." (thinking this dude is fuggin nuts)

Dutch: "Well give me your business card, and I'll trade you these cards back"

(I whip out my business card and hand it to him)

Dutch: "Thanks man!" (hands me my cards along with a business card for the company that makes those electronic dealer buttons and goes back to talking to girlfriend about plans to go get high with Kenna)


To summarize: This dude is fuggin nuts. I can't even tell if he thought he was just being funny by trying to keep the cards, trying to be "tough" by keeping the cards, or just plain "I haven't taken my meds" Dutch. The whole experience made me and Mike walk away scratching our heads...."

Weird High Stakes Hand

A hand I noticed on the Highstakes database caught my eye recently. It is between Patrik Antonius and pr1nnyraid :-

It is $500/$1000 NL Holdem, Heads up. Stack sizes are $218,998 for Antoinus and $229,994 for pr1nnyraid. Previous history between them is important and also how the match was being played up until that point but obviously we are going to have to do without that information.

pr1nnyraid raises to $3000 and PA just calls. Pot size : $6000.

The flop comes JK5.

PA checks and pr1nnyraid bets $5000 which PA checkraises to $18,000. pr1nnyraid calls the raise creating a pot of $42,000.

The turn card is the 2.

PA bets $31,000 and pr1nnyraid calls creating a pot of $104,000.

The river comes the 7.

PA has $166,998 left and checks. pr1nnyraid overbets the pot with a $177,994 bet. PA check calls this over bet and shows AK. pr1nnyraid shows K9.

PA scoops the double stack sized pot with top pair, top kicker.

This hand is bizarre on so many levels. Discuss! Alternatively laugh at the following which is quite well done, poor Clonie, shes gets such a tough time on them forums =)

Bedtime soon

Browsing Hands in Pokertracker whilst reading Daniel Clowes, whilst listening to David Bowie :-

Unusual Scandi play:-

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 376884169 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Friday, June 27, 18:01:48 GMT 2008
Table Amsterdam 144 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: nieren ( $2,020 )
Seat 2: INTillerMaN ( $2,714 )
INTillerMaN posts small blind [$10]
nieren posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to INTillerMaN [ A, K ]
INTillerMaN raises to [$60]
nieren raises to [$240]
INTillerMaN raises to [$720]
nieren calls [$480]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3, 4, Q ]
nieren checks
INTillerMaN bets [$1,080]
nieren goes all-in
nieren raises to [$1,300]
INTillerMaN calls [$220]
** Showdown **
nieren shows [ 2, 3 ]
INTillerMaN shows [ A, K ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ A ]
** Dealing River ** [ J ]
** Hand Conclusion **
INTillerMaN wins $4,039 from main pot with a pair of Aces
************ Game 376884169 ends ************

"Inside every teenage girl is a fountain, Inside every young pair of pants there's a mountain." - David Bowie
Really good value bet by him on the river. He made a bad play 30mins earlier and stacked me from behind, stuck in my head:-

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 376649064 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Friday, June 27, 03:31:51 GMT 2008
Table Boron 18 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of active players : 4
Seat 1: Lhlm ( $2,000 )
Seat 2: Foldy Moldy ( $4,691.66 )
Seat 4: Backdown8 ( $8,907.50 )
Seat 5: INTillerMaN ( $6,832.47 )
Seat 6: Lambohov ( $1,103.17 )
Foldy Moldy posts small blind [$10]
Backdown8 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to INTillerMaN [ Q, Q ]
INTillerMaN raises to [$70]
Lambohov folds
Foldy Moldy folds
Backdown8 raises to [$220]
INTillerMaN calls [$150]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5, 9, 6 ]
Backdown8 bets [$337.50]
INTillerMaN calls [$337.50]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3 ]
Backdown8 bets [$600]
INTillerMaN calls [$600]
** Dealing River ** [ 9 ]
Backdown8 bets [$1,743.75]
INTillerMaN calls [$1,743.75]
** Showdown **
Backdown8 shows [ K, K ] two pair, Kings and Nines
INTillerMaN mucks [ Q, Q ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Backdown8 wins $5,810.50 from main pot with two pair, Kings and Nines
************ Game 376649064 ends ************

Good interview with Barry Greenstein somewhere on Cardplayer website, some frank exchanges.

Bryce Paradis is a very insightful poker player, rare, some original thoughts and analysis mostly on Limit Poker over at Stoxtrader website.

Been Cycling recently, want to get fitter.

Le Dîner de cons(The Dinner Game) is a funny movie (I laughed out loud several times).

I watched Tenebrae with my good friend Steve Hamilton recently. We both got a kick out of it, forgot how good it was, not seen it in several years now. I correctly guessed it was made in 1982 based on architecture and music from the film. I did say late 70's in the first ten minutes but settled on 1982 by half way in. Good read! I think I'm getting addicted to late 70's architecture, I hope they don't start pulling that stuff down.

Diablo 3 has been announced by Blizzard. There is a 20 minute gameplay trailer you can stream from the site. Blizzard shit all over the competition.

Ronald Jenkees

This guy is insanely good. Going to buy his CD for sure. The retard stuff must be an act surely? Wonder what my friend thinks (Professional Jazz Pianist - Steve Hamilton). Comment Steve =)







It must be an ACT! More videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/ronaldjenkees Thanks for linkage Fred! You have your uses!

Ok it is an Act - No one uses this as a CD Cover unless it is an act :-

What the hell is wrong with you!

"do you guys know what the hell is wrong with tillerman?

this blog used to be great, it was all about videogame and poker. it was definitely the best blog ever.

now all you can see are stupid to youtube videos.

This is what we want to read:

1) top xbox 360 games you are playing, have you finished them? at what difficulty?

2) info about your poker bankrool, we want to know how much you are winning/losing a month. biggest downswing?

3) review of the new sc2 units: baneling, mothership, ...

hear ya soon"

One time deal for you since you are asking some questions that are obviously important to you and others around the world.

1. My most played XBOX 360 games:
Guitar Hero 2(Everything completed apart from last song on expert)
Dead Rising(Full complete with real ending)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance(Full complete)
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (Got some top 1000 Leaderboard scores before I got bored of it)
Rock Band(Skill level is currently, full complete on Drums on Medium, one song away from full complete on Hard, 24 songs complete on Expert, 2 Songs away from full complete with lead guitar on Expert)
Gears of War(Full complete)
Guitar Hero 3(Barely played, burnt out from GH2)
Test Drive Unlimited(Great game that I played a lot but decent amount of achivements left before I got bored)
Forza Motorsport 2(Got bored pretty quick but may come back to it)
Halo 3(Yawn fest, 1 hour play)
Kameo: Elements of Power (Half a complete before boredom)
Project Gotham Racing 4 (played it just enough to do slightly better than my friend so I could see him get angry after races, he quit me)
Need for Speed Most Wanted (Got stuck in this game, how you get stuck in a driving game I don't know)
Viva Pinata (Maybe 40% complete before boredom)
Saints Row (Maybe 25% before boredom)
Fight Night Round 3 (Got too hard too quick, too repetitive)
Perfect Dark Zero (Bored fast)
Mass Effect (Mass Zzzzz fest)

some other games I forget.

2. On a $100,000 upswing since I switched to heads up only. Was on a decent downswing before this though. Slow year so far. Mostly get action at $500/$1000 only, tough to get games going at $2000/$5000 unless I join other peoples games but even then they will mostly sit out and the ones who don't aren't worth playing anyway for the most part. Game selection makes you twiddle your thumbs a lot but it is pretty important. Not playing enough either. Biggest downswing is $100,000 - $175,000 which I've had two or three times in poker.

3. I think Starcraft 2 looks as if it is going to be great, fingers crossed it is significantly better than Warcraft 3 but even if it is only as good(doubtful) then it will still be a great game! If it equals or surpasses Starcraft/Broodwar I will be shocked. I can't judge the new units till I actually try them, a bit worried about units like the Mothership, they feel "Heroish", there were no hugely overpowered units in Starcraft. Guess I'll withhold judgment till Beta.

Next post is likely to be back to "stupid" you tube videos I'm afraid. If anything remotely interesting happens to me in poker or gaming I'll be sure to post here don't worry. Unfortunately it is going to be me judging the "interesting" criteria.

Thoughts?

Hopefully not as meaningless as the Spice Girls fifth song on their third album. Did they have a third album?

I have the greatest poker blog on the internet because it has fuck all to do with poker! Bookmark today!

Some music :-


Roygbiv by Boards of Canada, great video by random you tube guy that fits music nearly perfectly but not as good a version as Numerator Original from Closes Vol 1.

Life in Technicolor (Coldplay, Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends, only because Brian is producing and there is definitely something about Coldplay you want to embrace yet reject at the same time, its a dilemma I guess)
Disengage B (Fast forward for 30 seconds, Boards of Canada)
Lauras Theme (Angelo Badalmenti, which was amazingly playing randomly in a restaurant yesterday)
Lalene (Keith Jarrett, total classic)


Joni Mitchell - Tax Free. Lyrics please.


Classy and crazy as the funk monster baby. Herbie is the fucking man. "I'm Old Greggggggggggg"


Crazy good. Chick Corea Acoustik Band - Humpty Dumpty, Not for everyone.

Edinburgh

Was in Edinburgh staying for a few days last week staying with my good friend Steve Hamilton. Better play some poker today, major slacking all week. Well, I did play some poker whilst visiting Rory Matthews(Mafews) and Ben Bard in Edinburgh. Was really big game, £50 dealers choice, 90% 4 Card Omaha. I was of course crushing the game, stacking Mafews early and peeling turns and rivers to catch his obvious bluffs =). Joking. Not joking about him being a lucky bastard on last hand where the pot is of course inflated with a 4 way all in on flop. Didn't lose overall though. But he ended up winner, grrr. Nice pad, nice guys, fun time.

It was also Dario Argento week at Steves, one of the greatest horror movie directors ever, or just directors in my opinion. We only watched Phenomena(aka Creepers) and Deep Red(aka Profondo Rosso) but we both got a lot out of them. Next time I'll show him Tenebrae(aka Unsane) and Suspiria.

Oh yes, Indiana Jones 4 is a huge disappointment. Avoid at all costs. If you must see it then definitely go alone because anyone you are with will 100% lose all respect for your judgement. Lol. So shockingly awful.


Oh yeh, meant to post this before, I came across this randomly on youtube. I'm a big Chistopher Walken fan and this impression of him is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. "reduce! reduce that fat motherf*****r for as long as it takes! reduce! reduce!"


Oh yeh, saw this for the first time recently, very sick but hilarious if you have not seen it before. He has been around for a while.

Time to poker...

Friend Skydiving

This is my old room mate Tom "IceGod" Rhodes skydiving recently in the USA. Looks fun but I'd still never do it =) $100 for the jump and $80 for the video, the video is well worth it, they do a good job as you can see!

Amazing Hand

This is a real hand from today =)

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 363862990 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Sunday, June 01, 03:59:53 GMT 2008
Table Boron 24 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: PressTheSix ( $6,582 )
Seat 2: Hitter ( $1,010.75 )
Seat 3: ToOmUcHpOt ( $2,364 )
Seat 4: INTillerMaN ( $5,111.75 )
Seat 5: Kirderf ( $5,299.69 )
Seat 6: mortimer ( $5,488.68 )
PressTheSix posts small blind [$10]
Hitter posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to INTillerMaN [ A, 6 ]
ToOmUcHpOt folds
INTillerMaN raises to [$2,320]
Kirderf folds
mortimer goes all-in
mortimer raises to [$5,488.68]
PressTheSix folds
Hitter folds
INTillerMaN calls [$2,791.75]
INTillerMaN goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [$376.93] to mortimer
** Showdown **
INTillerMaN shows [ A, 6 ]
mortimer shows [ Q, Q ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ A, J, 4 ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3 ]
** Dealing River ** [ K ]
** Hand Conclusion **
INTillerMaN wins $10,250.50 from main pot with a pair of Aces
************ Game 363862990 ends ************

Ultimatebet Admit Fraud!

http://www.ultimatebet.com/poker-news/2008/may/nionio-findings

Amazing development!

Check out the history here :- http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=99247

I withdrew all my money from UB not so long ago. Glad to see they have admitted responsibility and are taking care of this issue. I may well just redeposit now. I know they are refunding accounts because one of my friends was refunded 6500 yesterday!

Proxy Shame?

Pretty hard candidate if you ask me :-


Sounds half cut.

Some context for everyone that doesn't know this song, original by Tay Zonday, (Yes it is about racism) :-



Dr Pepper spot his youtube video and give him lots of money for the following :-



The best spoof of it :-



Thanks to my good friend Steve Hamilton for the Devilfish link =)

Real Hand

It is pretty rare for me to be in a spot like this where I am completely sure I am right but so weak based on the action in the hand. Once every month perhaps where I am utterly sure in a spot like this, worth sharing perhaps especially after the previous hands I posted =). This took place yesterday in one of my heads up sessions.

I haven't played ring for exactly one month now. 25,000 hands of heads up so far.

His stats were 48.9PFR, 57.72VPIP and 5.60 Aggro over a small number of hands (149), statistics in heads up are much more meaningful over a small number of hands than in ring. His stats indicate he is considerably looser than your average heads up opponent and more aggressive too. I usually adjust to my opponents style quickly, playing nearly always at least as loose as they do when I figure them out. To beat a "good" player with stats like these requires usually a very swingy match. 97% of players I play though with stats like this have big leaks so I can reduce variance quite a lot vs them. A top player like oh I don't know CTS will have similar stats to this except without the leaks.

Hand #Bleh at #Bleh (No Limit Hold'em)
Started at 20/May/08

Opponent is at seat 0 with $1075.
Me is at seat 1 with $1109.
The button is at seat 1.

Me posts the small blind of $5.
Opponent posts the big blind of $10.

Opponent: -- --
Me: 6 6

Pre-flop:

Me raises to $30. Opponent calls.

Flop (board: 2 A 5):

Opponent checks. Me bets $50. Opponent raises
to $170. Me re-raises to $290. Opponent goes
all-in for $1045. Me calls.

Turn (board: 2 A 5 6):

(no action in this round)

River (board: 2 A 5 6 8):

(no action in this round)

Showdown:

Opponent shows T J.
Opponent has T J A 6 8: ace high.
Me shows 6d 6s.
Me has 6 6 A 6 8: three sixes.

Hand #Bleh Summary:

$.50 is raked from a pot of $2150.
Me wins $2149.50 with three sixes.
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Poker Hands

To alleviate the posts and emails asking if I'm bust because I'm not posting about poker here are three hands that you guys may just find interesting, pretty confident of my play in the first two but on the third I'm just not sure :-

Your analysis in comments please :-

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 353261646 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em
Table Amsterdam 09 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: gpato ( $1,655 )
Seat 2: INTillerMaN ( $4,773 )
INTillerMaN posts small blind [$10]
gpato posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to INTillerMaN [ 8, 9 ]
INTillerMaN raises to [$60]
gpato raises to [$180]
INTillerMaN folds
Returning uncalled bet [$120] to gpato
** Hand Conclusion **
gpato wins $120 from main pot
************ Game 353261646 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 347524367 *****
NL $25/$50 Texas Hold'em
Table Dublin 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: RobVern ( $4,558 )
Seat 2: INTillerMaN ( $31,215.38 )
RobVern posts small blind [$25]
INTillerMaN posts big blind [$50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to INTillerMaN [ 2, 7 ]
RobVern folds
Returning uncalled bet [$25] to INTillerMaN
** Hand Conclusion **
INTillerMaN wins $50 from main pot
************ Game 347524367 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 355853232 *****
Table Amsterdam 06 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: B_Eagle ( $1,000 )
Seat 2: INTillerMaN ( $2,000 )
INTillerMaN posts small blind [$10]
B_Eagle posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to INTillerMaN [ 4, 7 ]
INTillerMaN raises to [$60]
B_Eagle calls [$40]
** Dealing Flop ** [ J, 3, K ]
B_Eagle bets [$120]
INTillerMaN folds
Returning uncalled bet [$120] to B_Eagle
** Hand Conclusion **
B_Eagle wins $119 from main pot
************ Game 355853232 ends ************

I don't know why (I love you)

Came across 4 amazing versions of this amazing Stevie Wonder song on Youtube, enjoy.

First the composers original album version :-


Live Version (Bad quality but still sounds insanely good) :-


Jill Scott (Expected to be disappointed but she nails it too) :-


Brand New Heavies (Wow, nailed also) :-

Grand Theft Auto 4

I'm not easily impressed by games, but if you own an XBOX360 or Playerstation 3 you should definitely purchase GTA4. At first, you will probably react the same as me and be slightly underwhelmed, feels like more of the same initially but trust me if you give it a good chance you will have a lot of fun with it. The attention to detail is mind blowing, even the comedians at the comedy club are funny. If this is what is possible today in gaming, in 10 years it is going to be mind blowing!

Man in Black part 20?

I know, I can't help myself as I've said before I am addicted to Johnny Cash, I have no idea why, I identify so much with this guy, I literally have nothing in common with him but I feel almost overwhelmingly linked to him sometimes. More footage from Johnny Cash at San Quentin. The interesting part about this footage is the song: "Orange Blossom Special"(first song in the above footage) does NOT appear on the CD of Johnny Cash at San Quentin. And in my opinion may just be the highlight of the concert. How this cannot be on the CD is beyond me, totally ridiculous oversight. "Hmmmm, what to remove from the CD, hmmm.....". Honestly, music executives or the powers that be that decide whats goes on these CD's must be brain dead, its the same deal when you listen to Best of CD's of lets say John Lennon or even Cat Stevens. Best of? Best of my ass, there are KEY SONGS MISSING ALWAYS.

If you don't like or appreciate Johnny Cash then you ain't welcome at my blog, so remove it from your bookmarks please, that may just well be most of you but I don't care! =)

Also, if you have the seen the movie "Walk the Line" where Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny Cash you may well have been put off the real man. Don't let this affect you because even though I enjoyed the movie a fair bit it is most certainly not an accurate portrayal of Johnny Cash's personality because I don't believe Mr Cash was in the least bit backward as portrayed in the movie by Phoenix, he is certainly portrayed as a country "numpty" in this movie with his uhms and ehms and slowness. However, it does adequately portray certain historical facts I was unfamiliar with especially his growing loving relationship with June Carter.


More footage above from the Grand Ole Opry with his wife June Carter from 1968! Contrast the above footage with the infamous "Hurt" video below recorded 35 years later where June is featured at points in the video still by his side.


Hurt :- June Carter died soon after this video was released, Johnny Cash died only 4 months later. I can't watch this video without crying. Although Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) wrote this song, this is one DEFINITE instance where an artist makes a song he did NOT write his own. Clearly great video editing also (Mark Romanek)! Everyone that is anyone has already seen Hurt a bazillion times already however have you listened to Cash's version of "The first time ever I saw your face" from the same album? "American IV"? Some of you perhaps not! Check out below and be prepared to be blown away, yet again, the definitive version!(remember he is clearing singing about June here):-

Insanely amazing

I've seen a lot of these Ted talks before and if you haven't you really should take an afternoon and check out a lot of them. Some of them are awe inspiring.

Anyway, not seen the one above before, it came courtesy of my good friend Steve Hamilton. It is all interesting but the most amazing part is from 4.15 to the end. The reverse is insane and I kind of want proof that is true and not faked. Hehe. Just got to trust it hasn't been through an editing program on someones computer =)

Negreanu Explodes

Haha, check out the above interview with Daniel Negreanu conducted by my Sik Tilt buddy Rury in Monte Carlo.

Moving Completed

Superuser
Pretty much finished moving in a couple of days ago to my new flat. Took a huge chunk out of my time with lots of problems along the way but the worst is over now. Kind of. Place is still a mess with things everywhere =) I'll do one small thing every day, at least I got my computer working again, was broken upon arrival, new power supply fixed that.

No Rent and No Mortgage is going to take some time to sink in but some of this grind has finally shown some fruits.

Back to playing soon.

The above picture came from my good friend Bob Mitchell's desktop, the caption is his, I guess they existed in the 16th century too!

Most Amazing Robot Ever?

Most impressive Robot I've ever seen. So close to animal like movement. Watch especially for when it reacts dynamically to being kicked or when losing its balance on ice. It is freaky to watch.

Japanese were the best, not anymore =) That's what military funding does for your output =)