VICTORY FOR SEMFEL WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WOOOOOOOOO

Its 2:05 am, Thursday 19th of June and I'm happy.
I just played 6 hours straight of online poker.
Played over 400 hands....
Outlasted a field of 2700 players to come first.

Had an EXTREMELY lucky start - some idiots quadrupled me up in a single hand.
My lowest point was about 8 big blinds, with my top being 4 500 000 chips (from a starting stack of 1500)
Played a very good middle game, adapting to my opponents (weather they're idiots or not, tight/loose etc)
I had awesome patience. (6 hours of it)
I played sort of badly after a big hand when it got to Heads up, the last hand was probably a bit too much of a loose play, but I did go in with an advantage and won.
I never went to any show down an underdog (i was very happy with this)
And funnily my biggest pay offs weren't aces (which i got 3x over the night, but never won moer than 3bb off anyone since bb and sb folded to small raise...

I played position very well.
Played a solid tight aggressive game.

So what did i win after 6 hours of grinding?
$15!
... could have worked for an hour to get that.

A Certain Loss of Identity... and a Fak social cell idea!

Share the love was a good team bonding experience, it was easy to tell how much we'd grown as a team, the start of the day you would have heard something like

"...
...
mark?"

"I'm Alex, I'm the one with the hat,"

I gave my hat to Mark to see if we could trick them or not.

"Semwhat?"
'Seinfeld whatever,"

Tonight I played poker at DY RSL came 15th out of a field of about 120, i pulled a bad beat on the bounty I all in out of position (short stacked like 3x bb) QTs I raise all in, bounty player calls with Ace's i hit straight on turn. Ouch.

But the good news is Tiger said he was addicted to facebook poker.
Maybe a poker day/night tournament would be a good fakulti social cell idea (from tiger)

Reading Players and my experiences

Poker is a fun game to play. I mean, I'm terrible at it, and do not often win money, but I really enjoy playing it.

I remember seeing some youtube video about "Poker teaching life skills." I thought hey thats funny, but sadly true, a perfect poker player would make a good salesman, assuming they weren't completely addicted to gambling and sports betting (a reality for pro poker players), they know when to apply pressure to get more money out of a situation, they know when they are beat, they know when the person is disgusted or in love with the price. Useful isnt it?

Whats this got to do with frisbee?

Well for starters, after playing poker a lot of the game is playing off the player, laying down bottom pair against an all in raise doesn't take a lot of skill, but to be able to fold a full house to a higher full house takes some skill.

One thing since playing poker, is that I watch people a lot more, and try to understand what they're thinking when they're playing, from the way they sit, fidget, look and talk.

It works in frisbee too. I mean I know good players can anticipate cuts, but I've never properly been able to do this so the first time I did was a really good experience.

One of my happy memories from the Youth Training camp marking a player near the endzone. He faked one way, and then ran the other, I didn't bite on the first fake, and on the run, I didn't follow him but just run straight to the spot I knew he wanted. I didn't think about it this time, and I stopped the cut as he stood there with no where to go.

Not very special sounding, but for it me it was the first time I'd ever done something like this. I'd played enough with him to know which was a fake and which one was his real move, and when he did I knew where he wanted to go before he started moving becuase I was able to think from his perspective about it.

Not very advanced, but still a special moment for me... it should have happened sooner.

I'm going to focus on making this part of my D game.

It also means less running which I love!!