Earnhardt’s new paint scheme revealed for 2012 – Sep 21, 2011 – NASCAR.COM.
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From sailing, to football, to NASCAR, I’ll post about it when I feel like it.
Nice quick read on the poker strategy of bluffing from Logically Positive on tumblr:
One of the most important tools of playing a good poker game is bluffing. Bluffing is an artform; specifically, it is the art of lying. When you bluff, you’re trying to tell a story to your opponent. You’re trying to tell them the story of a hand you really don’t have, but you want them to believe you have. Although some players do this extremely well, most players, especially the ones you will encounter at a typical cash table, don’t. But there are some good steps you can take to become an expert bluffer.
First of all, when your bluff you have to ask yourself this one fundamental question: “What hand specifically am I trying to bluff?” This is an EXTREMELY important question when bluffing because if you don’t ask it, or you don’t know the answer, you’re just playing a like a donkey and any decent player will call your shit out.
Let’s say the board comes up A-8-9 suited. Chances are, if you’re bluffing you probably want to bluff the flush. How should you go about bluffing? Most people, on the flop, will try to raise it very big. Sometimes this alone is enough to scare off most players. But some people are ballsy, or they aren’t afraid to call you because they don’t quite believe you. The river comes up a 3 of diamonds, you get intimidated, and back off. You’ve gone about bluffing completely wrong, and now your opponent knows you’re full of shit and goes in for the kill, stealing all those chips you betted in your pathetic attempt at lying.
It is a good idea to raise large, but in general a bluff shouldn’t rely solely on your opponents folding then and there. As I said earlier, ask yourself “If I really had the flush, how would I play it?” Chances are, you’d want to bet for sure, but not by a huge ammount. Because you have the flush and it’s the best flush on the board, you want to extract chips out of your opponent because there are not many cards that can come up which will cost you the game, so you want to bleed your opponents as much as possible.
In my opinion, the proper way to bluff the flush in this scenario would be to make a decently large raise, probably around 50-75% of the pot. Then, on the turn, regardless of what comes up you bet a little higher. THAT is how you scare someone into thinking you have the flush. If you’re going to bluff, you have to have the conviction to see it through. A lot of players will call your initial bets becuase they probably think you are bluffing. But if you follow through, you will intimidate players and probably win the hand.
The moral of the story here is that a good bluff doesn’t rely solely on taking it all on the flop. A good bluff, because your playing it as if you actually have the flush, will try to pretend to bleed out your opponents over time and that will be more likely to make a bunch of players fold.
One thing to keep in mind though: when you have such a highly textured board as the A-8-9 suited, you don’t want to let the opponent see too many cards. In other words, make your bets such that they are so expensive that a player who is also bluffing would be intimidated out of paying to see that next card. This is especially important when bluffing because in the event someone actually does have the flush, you’re fucked.
Generally speaking bluffs work better on a flop where only 2/3 of the cards are suited, so that your large raise will scare off people with just one card of the same suit: exactly the same kinds of players you want to avoid letting see more cards.
Here’s a video of the roof collapsing at the Minnesota Vikings Metrodome stadium under the weight of snow.
Mexican reporter for TV Azteca, Ines Sainz, in the US following quarterback Mark Sanchez, is alleging the NY Jets sexually harassed her while she was in the team locker room. Now before we get into the merits of the allegations we should take a look at Ms. Sainz. Literally, so here’s a few pics before we talk about this.
Ok, If these Jets players aren’t able to keep their tongues in their mouths when faced with a smokin’ hot gal like this, then shame on them. I mean damn! She sure beats the hell out of American female football reporters, but that’s no excuse.
If I’d have been in the locker room with this former Miss. Universe contestant I sure wouldn’t be throwing footballs to her in an effort to make her bounce up and down. No way. I might have rolled a ball to her, but I’d never toss one. Never. That’s just rude. Rolling is much more civilized.
I find it interesting that allegations like these haven’t happened in years. Maybe since the 90′s. But here we are with a Babe in the locker room and BANG!
Maybe it has more to do with the appearance of other female locker room reporters that we haven’t had this problem in so long. I mean come on, most of those women couldn’t fill Sainz’s thong if they tried. Ok, ok, most of them would actually OVERFLOW the thong, but that wouldn’t look so hot.
I guess if you’ve read this far you deserve it from me to be serious here. The fact is, the Jets behavior, if true, was terrible. So what kind of punishment do the players deserve? Counceling? Fines? Suspensions? Please… I think they should be required to put a picture of Sainz, from the back so they can’t see her face, in their lockers so they have to see it each time they are in there and remember how bad they behaved around an attractive woman because that kind of behavior won’t win them a good wife. Maybe a bad one, but not a good one.
This lady rides her bike everywhere! We’ve seen her from the Oceanfront to Bayside.
Here she is in the middle of the intersection at Haygood Rd and Independence Blvd doing circles until traffic clears. No, she’s not the best at following the “Rules of the Road”.
One question tho, how the hell did she spot that penny????
Larry Pearson suffered a terrible car wreck at Bristol Motor Speedway Saturday night. With five laps remaining in his exhibition race, Pearson hit the side wall and was T-boned at a high speed by Charlie Glotzbach. According to the AP, a spokesman says Pearson is “awake and alert” after suffering a broken lower left ankle, right hand and pelvis. Surgery is scheduled for Saturday night.
Glotzbach was also hospitalized but listed in Good Condition.
