Bedtime soon

Browsing Hands in Pokertracker whilst reading Daniel Clowes, whilst listening to David Bowie :-

Unusual Scandi play:-

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 376884169 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Friday, June 27, 18:01:48 GMT 2008
Table Amsterdam 144 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: nieren ( $2,020 )
Seat 2: INTillerMaN ( $2,714 )
INTillerMaN posts small blind [$10]
nieren posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to INTillerMaN [ A, K ]
INTillerMaN raises to [$60]
nieren raises to [$240]
INTillerMaN raises to [$720]
nieren calls [$480]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3, 4, Q ]
nieren checks
INTillerMaN bets [$1,080]
nieren goes all-in
nieren raises to [$1,300]
INTillerMaN calls [$220]
** Showdown **
nieren shows [ 2, 3 ]
INTillerMaN shows [ A, K ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ A ]
** Dealing River ** [ J ]
** Hand Conclusion **
INTillerMaN wins $4,039 from main pot with a pair of Aces
************ Game 376884169 ends ************

"Inside every teenage girl is a fountain, Inside every young pair of pants there's a mountain." - David Bowie
Really good value bet by him on the river. He made a bad play 30mins earlier and stacked me from behind, stuck in my head:-

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 376649064 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Friday, June 27, 03:31:51 GMT 2008
Table Boron 18 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of active players : 4
Seat 1: Lhlm ( $2,000 )
Seat 2: Foldy Moldy ( $4,691.66 )
Seat 4: Backdown8 ( $8,907.50 )
Seat 5: INTillerMaN ( $6,832.47 )
Seat 6: Lambohov ( $1,103.17 )
Foldy Moldy posts small blind [$10]
Backdown8 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to INTillerMaN [ Q, Q ]
INTillerMaN raises to [$70]
Lambohov folds
Foldy Moldy folds
Backdown8 raises to [$220]
INTillerMaN calls [$150]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5, 9, 6 ]
Backdown8 bets [$337.50]
INTillerMaN calls [$337.50]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3 ]
Backdown8 bets [$600]
INTillerMaN calls [$600]
** Dealing River ** [ 9 ]
Backdown8 bets [$1,743.75]
INTillerMaN calls [$1,743.75]
** Showdown **
Backdown8 shows [ K, K ] two pair, Kings and Nines
INTillerMaN mucks [ Q, Q ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Backdown8 wins $5,810.50 from main pot with two pair, Kings and Nines
************ Game 376649064 ends ************

Good interview with Barry Greenstein somewhere on Cardplayer website, some frank exchanges.

Bryce Paradis is a very insightful poker player, rare, some original thoughts and analysis mostly on Limit Poker over at Stoxtrader website.

Been Cycling recently, want to get fitter.

Le Dîner de cons(The Dinner Game) is a funny movie (I laughed out loud several times).

I watched Tenebrae with my good friend Steve Hamilton recently. We both got a kick out of it, forgot how good it was, not seen it in several years now. I correctly guessed it was made in 1982 based on architecture and music from the film. I did say late 70's in the first ten minutes but settled on 1982 by half way in. Good read! I think I'm getting addicted to late 70's architecture, I hope they don't start pulling that stuff down.

Diablo 3 has been announced by Blizzard. There is a 20 minute gameplay trailer you can stream from the site. Blizzard shit all over the competition.

Ronald Jenkees

This guy is insanely good. Going to buy his CD for sure. The retard stuff must be an act surely? Wonder what my friend thinks (Professional Jazz Pianist - Steve Hamilton). Comment Steve =)







It must be an ACT! More videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/ronaldjenkees Thanks for linkage Fred! You have your uses!

Ok it is an Act - No one uses this as a CD Cover unless it is an act :-

What the hell is wrong with you!

"do you guys know what the hell is wrong with tillerman?

this blog used to be great, it was all about videogame and poker. it was definitely the best blog ever.

now all you can see are stupid to youtube videos.

This is what we want to read:

1) top xbox 360 games you are playing, have you finished them? at what difficulty?

2) info about your poker bankrool, we want to know how much you are winning/losing a month. biggest downswing?

3) review of the new sc2 units: baneling, mothership, ...

hear ya soon"

One time deal for you since you are asking some questions that are obviously important to you and others around the world.

1. My most played XBOX 360 games:
Guitar Hero 2(Everything completed apart from last song on expert)
Dead Rising(Full complete with real ending)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance(Full complete)
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (Got some top 1000 Leaderboard scores before I got bored of it)
Rock Band(Skill level is currently, full complete on Drums on Medium, one song away from full complete on Hard, 24 songs complete on Expert, 2 Songs away from full complete with lead guitar on Expert)
Gears of War(Full complete)
Guitar Hero 3(Barely played, burnt out from GH2)
Test Drive Unlimited(Great game that I played a lot but decent amount of achivements left before I got bored)
Forza Motorsport 2(Got bored pretty quick but may come back to it)
Halo 3(Yawn fest, 1 hour play)
Kameo: Elements of Power (Half a complete before boredom)
Project Gotham Racing 4 (played it just enough to do slightly better than my friend so I could see him get angry after races, he quit me)
Need for Speed Most Wanted (Got stuck in this game, how you get stuck in a driving game I don't know)
Viva Pinata (Maybe 40% complete before boredom)
Saints Row (Maybe 25% before boredom)
Fight Night Round 3 (Got too hard too quick, too repetitive)
Perfect Dark Zero (Bored fast)
Mass Effect (Mass Zzzzz fest)

some other games I forget.

2. On a $100,000 upswing since I switched to heads up only. Was on a decent downswing before this though. Slow year so far. Mostly get action at $500/$1000 only, tough to get games going at $2000/$5000 unless I join other peoples games but even then they will mostly sit out and the ones who don't aren't worth playing anyway for the most part. Game selection makes you twiddle your thumbs a lot but it is pretty important. Not playing enough either. Biggest downswing is $100,000 - $175,000 which I've had two or three times in poker.

3. I think Starcraft 2 looks as if it is going to be great, fingers crossed it is significantly better than Warcraft 3 but even if it is only as good(doubtful) then it will still be a great game! If it equals or surpasses Starcraft/Broodwar I will be shocked. I can't judge the new units till I actually try them, a bit worried about units like the Mothership, they feel "Heroish", there were no hugely overpowered units in Starcraft. Guess I'll withhold judgment till Beta.

Next post is likely to be back to "stupid" you tube videos I'm afraid. If anything remotely interesting happens to me in poker or gaming I'll be sure to post here don't worry. Unfortunately it is going to be me judging the "interesting" criteria.

Thoughts?

Hopefully not as meaningless as the Spice Girls fifth song on their third album. Did they have a third album?

I have the greatest poker blog on the internet because it has fuck all to do with poker! Bookmark today!

Some music :-


Roygbiv by Boards of Canada, great video by random you tube guy that fits music nearly perfectly but not as good a version as Numerator Original from Closes Vol 1.

Life in Technicolor (Coldplay, Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends, only because Brian is producing and there is definitely something about Coldplay you want to embrace yet reject at the same time, its a dilemma I guess)
Disengage B (Fast forward for 30 seconds, Boards of Canada)
Lauras Theme (Angelo Badalmenti, which was amazingly playing randomly in a restaurant yesterday)
Lalene (Keith Jarrett, total classic)


Joni Mitchell - Tax Free. Lyrics please.


Classy and crazy as the funk monster baby. Herbie is the fucking man. "I'm Old Greggggggggggg"


Crazy good. Chick Corea Acoustik Band - Humpty Dumpty, Not for everyone.

Edinburgh

Was in Edinburgh staying for a few days last week staying with my good friend Steve Hamilton. Better play some poker today, major slacking all week. Well, I did play some poker whilst visiting Rory Matthews(Mafews) and Ben Bard in Edinburgh. Was really big game, £50 dealers choice, 90% 4 Card Omaha. I was of course crushing the game, stacking Mafews early and peeling turns and rivers to catch his obvious bluffs =). Joking. Not joking about him being a lucky bastard on last hand where the pot is of course inflated with a 4 way all in on flop. Didn't lose overall though. But he ended up winner, grrr. Nice pad, nice guys, fun time.

It was also Dario Argento week at Steves, one of the greatest horror movie directors ever, or just directors in my opinion. We only watched Phenomena(aka Creepers) and Deep Red(aka Profondo Rosso) but we both got a lot out of them. Next time I'll show him Tenebrae(aka Unsane) and Suspiria.

Oh yes, Indiana Jones 4 is a huge disappointment. Avoid at all costs. If you must see it then definitely go alone because anyone you are with will 100% lose all respect for your judgement. Lol. So shockingly awful.


Oh yeh, meant to post this before, I came across this randomly on youtube. I'm a big Chistopher Walken fan and this impression of him is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. "reduce! reduce that fat motherf*****r for as long as it takes! reduce! reduce!"


Oh yeh, saw this for the first time recently, very sick but hilarious if you have not seen it before. He has been around for a while.

Time to poker...

Friend Skydiving

This is my old room mate Tom "IceGod" Rhodes skydiving recently in the USA. Looks fun but I'd still never do it =) $100 for the jump and $80 for the video, the video is well worth it, they do a good job as you can see!

Amazing Hand

This is a real hand from today =)

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 363862990 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Sunday, June 01, 03:59:53 GMT 2008
Table Boron 24 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: PressTheSix ( $6,582 )
Seat 2: Hitter ( $1,010.75 )
Seat 3: ToOmUcHpOt ( $2,364 )
Seat 4: INTillerMaN ( $5,111.75 )
Seat 5: Kirderf ( $5,299.69 )
Seat 6: mortimer ( $5,488.68 )
PressTheSix posts small blind [$10]
Hitter posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to INTillerMaN [ A, 6 ]
ToOmUcHpOt folds
INTillerMaN raises to [$2,320]
Kirderf folds
mortimer goes all-in
mortimer raises to [$5,488.68]
PressTheSix folds
Hitter folds
INTillerMaN calls [$2,791.75]
INTillerMaN goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [$376.93] to mortimer
** Showdown **
INTillerMaN shows [ A, 6 ]
mortimer shows [ Q, Q ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ A, J, 4 ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3 ]
** Dealing River ** [ K ]
** Hand Conclusion **
INTillerMaN wins $10,250.50 from main pot with a pair of Aces
************ Game 363862990 ends ************