Combine swimming with Omaha; have a poker pool party. Put a floating table in the middle of the pool and play and swim at the same time. Earn money while exercising. When you get as old you are, you need to increase the efficiency of your time.

You can thank me later for this fee advice.

fee advice. freudian slip i suppose.

did you ever notice how the better players take a little more time on important poker decisions. its important on some hands to go through it again in your mind and some are very complicated.

when the weak player takes a long time it isnt to make the right decision. it is because he is agonizing over having to put a bunch of money in with a hand he doesnt like very much.

hopefully most dont take too long and ruin the game with stalling in cash games which has no real purpose.

over most of the u.s. its been and easy winter. let see what the spring brings us. hope it isnt too rainy.

with the virus spreading so quickly might be smart to pay attention if you are out in casinos. certainly dont sit close by someone with any symptoms.
if it gets really active and common then poker is definitely an out.

if someone makes runner runner flush on you you lose the pot. if the virus does the same you lose it all.

be careful

struggled for awhile in the pot limit omaha game. couldnt make any headway. lost most of my races. but kept head above water. lately got back on track. just tightened up a lot and capitalized on the last few plays perception of me. it works.

good game last night. lots of giant pots. got in one and had a tough decision on the end.
i hit a small flush and figured he had a straight by then. he checked to me on the river and i wasnt sure whether to bet it or not. felt it was good but he is known to check raise bluff there as well has having it.
being after what a reasonable bet would have been of which i wasnt sure he would call anyway i decided to check back. and of couse won the pot and he had the bigger straight.

still trying to figure out whether i should have bet and taken the chance he would raise and put me in or do what i did. as i didnt want to make a terrible decision on the river.

thats why against good players it is best to always have position and get most of your money in early if you can so you are not run off a pot. weaker players will not do that very often.

So much depends on the player. Some will always bet their flushes and check-raise their dry aces, and others will bet their dry aces and check-raise their big flushes. Sounds like you played it right.

he might not even have paid me off so it could have been a disaster bet for me. that went through my mind. and getting run off wasnt sounding like a good choice. he is the toughest player and makes very good decisions and plays. i try not to be in there with him without hands that cant be outplayed.

still no real prevalence of virus near where ive been. i do take it seriously and we all should.
even healthy younger people are being found to have lung damage. so it isnt clear that anyone is really safe form other than mild symptoms.

it will be interesting to see what poker changes are made but i suspect the wsop gets canceled or postponed.

Poker players need to be real careful. There have been 20 cases reported in Nevada. That could be because it hasn't got there yet, or it could be because their health department sucks and they haven't found them all. I'd be willing to bet on the latter, but don't know how to settle it.

Even if I were very young and very healthy, I think I'd keep out of the Vegas cardrooms. If you get lung damage young it haunts you the rest of your life.

yep well said. and gamble with your money as that is replaceable but not with your health.

I can't imagine going to a poker room now. Anywhere, really.

You can use this time to develop a better sense of imagination!

today i saw about 15 people mostly elderly at two picnic tables hugging each other as they came and went. i wondered how many will be dead soon.

and how many will infect another loved one that they end up killing.

what are these people thinking.

Seasons don't fear the reaper, nor do the wind or the elderly

no live poker anywhere for awhile. find something useful to do.
if you need to re read some old poker books and see if you find mistakes you are making you dont even think about.

You could also reread the Bible. It contains lots of gore, death, war, floods, famines, sinners and sodomites, and an end-of-the-world apocalypse to satisfy anyone's taste for a thrilling read.

no re-read for me as i havent read it in the first place. i am a realist and i havent seen anyone credible that was presenting it.

I should probably do this. I bet I'd find a few mistakes. But poker has been dead for a while locally, and I don't think there will be anything going on in Vegas this summer. I played some cheap hold 'em a couple of months ago, and did OK waiting for people to make mistakes for their stacks, but this small stack NL is something of a mystery to me. The better players seemed to play it like limit poker with a lot of moves early, but they did dumb stuff on the turn and especially the river.

sort stack is a lot of math and knowing when to commit and when not to against good players at the game.
against bad players just reading their hands and playing as such is usually the best play.
still the math comes in.

holed up for the time being as everyone else should do. young and old are dying from this and since there is not enough that even the hospital can do you dont want to end up there.
even superman was not invincible.

some of the banks are closed. and a few just have the drive thru window open.
most dont have too much money and are letting you deposit but not withdraw much cash.
just what you can get thru the atm.