gotta listen to grandma.
in reference to first sentence in previous post: come to think about it, great minds do not think alike; great minds think independently and orginally which is what makes them "great". by the same token, i will stick with 'small minds think alike'.
poker is off to a great start for 09, i might add. i have gotten even tighter than i was before and it is paying off quite well.
three times today i saw someone not raise with aces and it bit them in the ass each time and one of those times was a big pot for me.
i have cold-called under the gun with a pair of 5's hoping to get into an unraised pot to see a flop looking for, of course, another 5. my thinking on small pairs is to always call with them in unraised pot and, if enough callers, a small raised pot because those small sets can win huge pots. anyway....sure enough the betting goes all the way around with 6 callers and no raise. flop comes 5d, 7c, Jc. cool. i am under gun and there is only 12 dollars in the pot. i bet ten dollars and next player raises to 30 dollars and there is one other caller and then back to me. the pot now contains 82 dollars and i make it 100 to go or a 70 dollar raise. next guy abandons his aces (he showed them to another player before he threw them away, just so people would know he folded them.) and it is back to the woman at the other end of the table so we are looking straight at each other. she hesitates and hesitates and finally calls. next card is the Qd which is perfect for me, no straight and no flush is possible at this time. i go all in. once again, she hesitates and says, "i'm on a draw." i just look at her. she calls. she misses. i double up. the guy with the aces says, "you haven't played a hand and now raise me, i knew i was beat." he misplayed his aces by not raising but he did pick up on that i truly had not been in a hand since i sit down which was about 45 minutes earlier and that, obviously, i am not a maniac. he discounted ace jack on my part or two pair, why? i wouldn't play ace jack that way and there was no way in hell i was playing jack - 7 or even worse, 5-7 because i was under the gun. (the woman had a small flush draw) now if he had raised preflop i wouldn't have been in that hand and he would have won. now whether it was a big win or not doesn't matter, he wouldn't have lost any money with them. gotta listen to grandma...ALWAYS raise with aces. grandma didn't fuck around and neither should you.
we had maniacs at the table. one guy raised with 5-7 off suit on the button, got reraised, called and pulled a straight out of his ass on the river. side note: he ended up losing all his money. surprise!
i'll tell you something i have never put in print before. i have studied and thought about what is commonly called "the Lord's prayer" for well over thirty years now. it was by understanding it and the effect that had on my life that allowed me to have the courage to become a comic.
the only person outside of my family who i have ever spoken about this to in depth was bill hicks. (well and steve epstein but you guys don't know steve) to talk about it in depth on this blog is something that i haven't resolved yet in my mind. it is such a part of me because i really do think about it almost every fucking day but i am still of two minds on this.
anyway, last night i was talking to rhonda about this feeling of creativity welling up in me and she is quite excited about it as well. just what i am going to do as a stage show, i don't know yet nor do i know where i will do it but it will, more than likely involve scotty may and if at all possible, kenny moore. the music adds so much to the show.
sure, i close for now.
peace to us all.