No squeaks, motherfucker!

From the Popbitch archives and to coincide with the death of the celebrity freak who made some decent music once...

Lord Delawdy writes:
"A friend of mine was in Los Angeles 79 thru 87.
Michael Jackson had had a huge hit with Off The
Wall, and was recording the follow up.

"The sessions were arranged for a very late start,
and, after a night on the town, my mate popped
around to the studio to see the producer.

"He got into the control room to find that
everyone's attention was fixed on the glass
window. On the other side, Quincy Jones was kicking
a pile of rags on the floor while shouting
"Silent, you motherf*cker! I said NO SQUEAKS!"

"It turned out the pile of rags was a gibbering
Michael Jackson. They were recording a new song
called Billie Jean, and Michael had decided
to fill every gap with his trademark whoops,
clicks and squeaks. Quincy, however, had decided
that the track would be a pared down.

"After several hours of trying to get the
singer to do what he wanted, and having consumed
large quantities of ragedust, Jones had finally
snapped and attacked the poor freak. Needless
to say, after the outburst, MJ sang the song
how he was told to, and the rest is history."”

Upswongs

After a rather lame attempt at donkamenting on Friday where I had a couple of small cashes, I have put an end to a big downswong playing HU cash in style by running disgustingly well (see above).

Some sample hands from a big winning session vs a hyper-LAG. He really couldn't put a hand down so it was a fun game. We had already got it in for two flips as he was 3 betting a retardedly high percentange of his hands when this came up:

***** Hand History for Game 1684094037 *****$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, June 20, 11:23:00 ET 2009Table Archibald (No DP Heads Up) (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Seat 3: Funology ( $132.73 USD )
Seat 8: Hoopberg ( $116.22 USD )
Hoopberg posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
Funology posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards**
Dealt to Hoopberg [ Ac 9s ]
Hoopberg raises [$1.25 USD]
Funology raises [$4.50 USD]
Hoopberg raises [$11.50 USD]Funology calls [$8.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6s, 2s, 9c ]
Funology checks
Hoopberg bets [$19.00 USD]
Funology raises [$38.00 USD]
Hoopberg raises [$84.22 USD
Funology calls [$65.22 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8h ]
**Dealing River ** [ 2c ]
Hoopberg wins $231.44 USD from main pot
Funology shows [9d, Td ]

Clearly I'm not thrilled about playing such a huge pot with such a mediocre hand but the board is draw heavy and he could have a lot of hands. Much like my PC, he was lagging rather badly.


Given the above, this hand is somewhat standard.

***** Hand History for Game 1684096316 *****$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, June 20, 11:25:00 ET 2009Table Archibald (No DP Heads Up) (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the buttonSeat
3: Funology ( $55.65 USD )
Seat 8: Hoopberg ( $225.44 USD )
Hoopberg posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
Funology posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hoopberg [ Qs 9h ]raises [$0.75 USD]
Funology raises [$3.50 USD]
Hoopberg calls [$3.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qc, Ad, Ah ]
Funology bets [$4.00 USD]
Hoopberg calls [$4.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3c ]
Funology bets [$9.00 USD]
Hoopberg raises [$18.00 USD]
Funology raises [$38.65 USD]
Hoopberg calls [$29.65 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
Hoopberg wins $110.30 USD from main pot
Funology shows [4h, 6d ]

I'm really enjoying the HU cash. Its very good for realising the value of position and for hand reading and assisting with thin value betting etc. As someone said elsewhere, the DogIsHead series is a revalation and I recommend it to anyone, HU player or otherwise.

The British Lions lost the first of the three tests vs the Saffers on Saturday. After getting destroyed by the South African pack for the first 50 mins the last 20 were incredibly exciting and we nearly snatched a win with some thrilling rugby in the last 20 minutes. I can only see a 3-0 series defeat now but the Lions games are a superb sporting spectacle and I am looking forward to the next test.

OMG HU HU

Its been a while, mainly as I have been on holiday. Anyways, I'll bang down a quick update, but I'm not feeling overly inspired.

1) Holiday. A week in Cyprus, a friend was getting married out there. It was great, I caught up with a lot of old friends, spent some time with Lucy and sank a good few beers. Even the EasyJet flight was borderline tolerable.

2) Pokers. I haven't really played many donkaments, but have dabbled with HU cash. This has really gone fairly well, I have ran well and people are prepared to stack off in absurd circumstances. I need to control my tilt, but I'm happy with the start and the rakeback deal makes a good contribution. The Deuces Cracked Dogisheadsup series really is superb and makes me realise just how far PXF has fallen. I need to cancel my subscription to PXF soon - even if it is cheap, the forum tilts me and a lot of the better guest pros are no longer around.

Back at work tomorrow, the 20/20 cricket World Cup is on and the U21 European Championships as well, to take the edge off things. I promised a better (well, less bad) post next time as this one is fairly lame.