Poker Perambulation

I manage to be somewhat of that in any number of ways, donchano. I thought I’d cover a couple in today’s blog.

First, is the blog itself. I’m what passes for a hired gun. It was a way for Linda to live with my gross illiteracy and not have to proof the articles I had been doing. The agreement was for at least 3 blogs each week and I’ve consistently tried to exceed that. Early on I’d actually have three or more already written. After the time I’ve done this, it has gotten harder. Part of it is that I’m talking/thinking about ‘other’ types of poker. Most think about “The Cadillac of Poker” and I don’t play a lot of that these days. So, coming up with readable content is harder. And, of late, I’m not overly impressed with my results.

Second is the game. I’ve reported results and problems. I don’t play high but have moved up a bit. It as much to try to make this blog a bit more interesting as the other reasons. I’d sort of wimped out a bit on that, to boot. That $1 BB game has been a topsy-turvy ride that’s made me question things more than I should.

The thing is I play for ‘fun’ or what passes for it. We’ve been discussing that in a thread over in our forum you might want to view. It is coming up with the reasons we play. Mine have never been aimed at the get rich side. That makes it rather ghey or whatever some of the macho players want to say about it. I’ve never wanted to worry about bankroll management or knowing my big blind per 100 production. I think trying to make a living playing poker is the hardest of ways to get by. Some of those that are ‘professionals’ can’t really say poker with that. They have business managers and a revenue stream that is their true source of income.

I at least try to guess at other players reasoning at the tables I frequent. People play for a lot of reasons beside being a winning player. I do try to make that a part of my play; but, honestly, I too have some identified holes that I have no wish to plug. As, I occasionally move up, I have to plug them and it isn’t as much ‘fun’ as the normal way. That’s a total donkey situation but it is me.

If you’ve read me fairly regularly, you’ll see this as a reoccurring theme. I’m comfortable wearing my poker skin for the most part. So many aren’t. Others allow that variety to trouble their goals. If you’ve defined your goals properly, that shouldn’t be significant. If it is, you may have missed correctly defining your goals.

ADDENDUM:

Let me run the abstract to facts. I can use PokerTracker for that. (About the only halfway decent use I’ve found for the package.) Here’s the graph:

It is back to running positive. I dumped a $100+ at the $1 level while doing fairly well elsewhere. Now, am doing fairly well across the board. My goal of late has been winning session and ignoring the wish to grow from a small profit into a strong session. That’s seemed to work – at least for the moment.

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I saw on NPR that a lot of auto loans are “upside down” which is what many home loans are – owed being greater than current value. I not a financial guru but had friends that owned a Chevy agency. If you buy a car using normal financing, you prepay the interest. (Car: 10K + interest: 10K means you start off owing 20K) If you payoff, which happens often in refinancing for a new car, there is a Rule of 78s that kicks in. If you take a 1 year loan and pay it off after two months, you pay somewhere around 25% of the interest. At 6 months that is 75%. You are paying a huge penalty on installment loans with precharged interest when you need or decide to refinance.

If you have good credit, try to start a bank relationship. If you are redoing the kitchen or such, go to the bank and secure a personal note — good reasons go with the decision of the bank officer. Pay it off early. Work this account to give the bank a good history with you. Now, when you are ready for a new car or such, go to the bank and get a personal note. If you pay it early or want to get new wheels, there is no Rule of 78s penalty and you’re likely to keep your head above water. I’ve bought my cars this way and it has saved me a bunch.

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Another press release from Al Gore - Nobel Laurette?

The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.

Nope! This was the US Weather Bureau in 1922.

Read about global cooling here.

Could it be the only thing cooking is the numbers?

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