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Long, rambly post that goes nowhere.
Yesterday was a public holiday here and it was great fun.
Posting the "bad beats" in my previous blog entry was the best thing ever, since I got lots of replies about how they weren't bad beats at all but bad play and I definitely learnt a lot from that. Got some responses to my cry for help as well. So yesterday Lachlan was kind enough to sweat/coach me and I learnt a ton from it. As suspected, NL10 takes a completely different mindset and approach from NL5, and what's very +EV at NL5 is -EV at NL10. The difference in stack sizes relative to the blinds, the difference in skill level, the huge variety of players from maniacs to nits at the same tables all combines to make for such a very different experience.
Call it coaching, sweating or just friendly advice, but as someone who gives private tuition for extra income, I think getting lessons helps enormously for everything from poker to pastry-making. Posting hands is great, but there are so many things I was doing that I thought were "normal" which turned out to be bad. And if you don't know what you should change, you can't even start to change it.
I wasn't able to put Lachlan's teachings into practice on my own because after the session my wife and I went to the nursery and bought a shitload of stuff for our roof terrace, including 40 kilos of pebbles. Before heading home we decided to have dinner at Singapore's most famous roti prata shop, mentioned in someone else's blog: http://www.foodieparadise.sg/?p=90
For those who don't know what roti prata is, it's an Indian bread that is pan fried in ghee, a form of clarified butter. Ghee is almost 100% saturated fat, and a single roti prata about the size of a palm-sized pancake has about 350 calories (a big mac has 540), so you can imagine how fucking good it tastes. I had three, and one of those three had an egg in it, which adds another couple of hundred calories or so (my wife outdid me. She had egg on two out of her three. Girls who pick at their food are no fun). There was mutton and chicken curry to go along. We also had a cup of teh tarik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh_tarik) each, which contains a ton of sugar and condensed milk and almost tastes like dessert. Fucking awesome dinner that will cause massive heart failure for anyone over the age of fifty.
Worked it all off over the next two hours hauling forty kilos of pebbles, 10 kilos of soil and 6 shrubs up a flight of stairs, then repotting the shrubs and landscaping with the pebbles. Exhausting work! I could barely wake up for work today and my entire body aches. When I recover enough to lift my camera I'll post pictures.
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Aphelion United States. May 02 2008 02:17. Posts 267 | | |
I lived in Singapore for 9 years. Your post gives me a serious feel of nostalgia, keep them coming! |
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lachlan Australia. May 02 2008 03:28. Posts 6991 | | |
glad i could help, and that dinner sounds great :D |
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