I’ve managed to get myself on a really messed up sleeping schedule. I woke up at 5:30pm today and yesterday was the same. This always seems to happen to me when I don’t have obligations during the day. It’s really weird. Feels kinda vampiresque. When I go to sleep (7amish) it’s dark and when I wake up (5:30ish) its dark. Right now it’s 4am and feels like the afternoon to me. I think I need to make some sort of schedule or something.
I recently bought Ace on the River by Barry Greenstein and Weighing the Odds in Holdem Poker by King Yao. I finished Ace on the River in one reading session and the first 2/3 of it were pretty entertaining. Not really going to make you a better poker player , but entertaining the nonetheless. One of my favorite excerpts that made me lol:
1975, Las Vegas. Sarge Ferris, a high-stakes poker player, shot pool with someone who had very little money. After they had been playing for a while, a friend whispered to Sarge, “This guy’s got $200 to his name. You can’t beat him out of anything.” Sarge replied, “Yes I can. He’s got $40,200 now.”
The last 1/3 of the book was pretty much a joke IMO. Barry seems incredibly results oriented patting himself on the back for folding QQ on a AQ2 flop when a tight player 3 bet PF, checked flop, bet weak on turn, then shoved river. He also gives a hand where he says calling or going all in was the best play with QJs when he raised some tight guy coldcalled then a shorty went all in. He ended up folding and the tight guy called. Their hands? AA and QQ, but on the flop Barry would have made a flush and is like “yeah, in hindsight I think calling or going all in is the best play.” wtf?
Still only about 1/2 through the odds book. It’s kinda meh. Mostly for limit holdem. I’ll leave you with 100 funny quotes. 38 is quite good.
http://leftofzen.com/funny-quotes/2008/01/08/
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” – George Carlin