Sitting on the cruise ship right now, sipping coffee and just watching the ocean go by - it is not possible to put into words how relaxing this is to someone who hasn't done it. Do yourself a favor and put it on your bucket list.
I've also been blessed with a roommate who has been playing poker for almost 50 years and really seems to know his stuff. I was playing online this morning and started telling him about a hand I played and as soon as I said the preflop action he interrupted me and asked, "and what were their stacksizes? How had they been playing?" and other questions like that - I'm looking forward to spending the whole week picking his brain.
As far as the poker on the cruise, I decided to play LHE last night. I only played for about 2 hours, but I think I was the only player at the table who EVER raised before the flop. 4 to 7 people were seeing flops. The villains were playing tight passive postflop - I double-barrelled AJs OOP on a K37Ktt board, checked the river, villain checked behind, I turned over my AJs she turned over KQo. I just smiled, laughed and said WHOAH I just got ropeadoped
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Another funny moment was when I raised QJo on the button after 3 limpers, both blinds and all limpers called and I flopped 89Ttt. A 3rd of the suit hit the river but my hand held up. I turned it over and said, "I flopped a Johnny Chan". Everybody looked at me like, "HUH?" I said, "Who's seen the movie Rounders?!?!?!?" The dealer looked at me and said, "NEVER!" as obviously sarcastic as possible.
So anyway, I still have the itch to give shortstacking NLHE a try but as long as the 3/6 game is that juicy it's going to be hard for me to leave my safety net.
I'm going to keep posting until people tell me to shut up!