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Old 12-18-2005, 02:03 PM
FeliciaLee FeliciaLee is offline
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Okay, I know most of you couldn't care less. But for the one or two percent who have wondered what the heck is going on with me, and how I'm doing, I'll try to give a little update.

First off, I had to quit chemo halfway through. My veins collapsed and my labs were off the chart (one nurse said to me, jokingly, "I've seen dead people with better labs than yours!"). I would have had to have a little surgery in order to continue, at great risk of infection, and since my labs were so low anyway, the oncologist said I was getting close to the point where recurrence was equal to the risk of death by continuing. Some people were not meant for chemo, and I guess I'm one of them.

At any rate, since I took the most aggressive course of treatment from the beginning (bilateral radical mastectomies), I am considered "cancer-free" unless they find some stray cancer cells in the future.

Okay, so how did this effect my poker playing? Horribly. Which is one of the reasons I asked Beset to co-moderate both forums with me (Thanks, Beset!).

In fact, it is so painful to talk about, that I'd rather you read it yourself on my journal. There are no ads on my journal, I have no commercial interest in getting you there, I simply don't want to type it again, or even copy & paste.

http://felicialee.blogspot.com/2005/...lizations.html

It took me months to finally admit this. And then, when I did, I naturally started getting better, lol. I think some of the problem may have been the loss of capacity at sea. It is well documented that our capacity is severely limited while on a ship at sea (mostly this has to do with physical labor, as well as mental process, but it is a factor nevertheless).

So in the past week, I've slowly started coming around. Dyslexia-like symptoms seem to be fading. My passion for poker seems to be slowly returning. While I'm not ready to make a statement that "I'm back," I do think that my mental ability to play decent, rockish, nutpeddling poker might return, lol. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

In fact, Glenn and I are thinking about heading over to Tunica next month for some juicy cash games and I might even enter a tourney, due to the massive amount of chips we're given and the great structure.

http://felicialee.blogspot.com/2005/...ord-again.html

So that is where I stand right now. If you read my latest rant on how all-HE, all the time is hurting poker (in general), you'll see I'm back to my normal, incensed, nail-on-a-chalkboard grating self, haha.

I hope this means good things for the future! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Thanks for putting up with my update. And for those who didn't read all the way through, or want to find out more details on my journal, I'll close with my standard send off...

Blow me! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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Old 12-18-2005, 04:47 PM
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Hoping you come back fully, Felicia, and wishing you the best.
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Old 12-19-2005, 12:59 AM
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I'll admit I don't know you at all, but I know two things about you:

1. You're recovering from cancer.
2. You're a pretty solid moderator.

I wish you the best with the first, and I encourage you to continue the second. Good luck.
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Old 12-19-2005, 01:41 AM
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I was wondering where you've been, Felicia. It's good to know that you're recovering. Welcome back--this forum needs you as our babysitter. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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Old 12-19-2005, 03:48 PM
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Your participation has been greatly missed in the Stud forum as well.

I hope each day brings a better one than the day before.

Don
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Old 12-19-2005, 07:33 PM
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Felicia -

Hello again! [ QUOTE ]
So in the past week, I've slowly started coming around. Dyslexia-like symptoms seem to be fading. My passion for poker seems to be slowly returning. While I'm not ready to make a statement that "I'm back," I do think that my mental ability to play decent, rockish, nutpeddling poker might return,

[/ QUOTE ] I hope you continue to improve.

I played a session last week at Morango casino, which is just past Banning on the way to Palm Springs (CA). I had driven out there to visit an old friend for a few days and he wanted to play some poker. I thought he might have some fun playing Omaha-8 and we practiced for several hours, each playing five hands. Rather than telling him what hands to play, I showed him my hands as I folded them, explaining briefly why I had folded each of them. He caught on quickly and soon was playing like a "nutpeddling" rock.

It had not been my goal to teach him to play like a rock, but once he got to that stage, I thought it was safe to go into a casino with him. He's rich so that the money won or lost in a low-limit game would be immaterial, but somehow I still felt responsible. I know that it's pleasing to win but not usually much fun to lose and I wanted him to have a good time.

At any rate, we sat down in the game and the dealer gave us each five cards instead of the usual four. I had shown my friend how to play four-card Omaha-8, and that is what we had practiced. Oops. (I had never before played five-card Omaha-8 myself).

One important difference between the four-card and five-card games, I think, is that you're roughly one and a half times more likely to get dealt A2XYZ in a five handed game than you are to be dealt A2XY in a four handed game - as are all your opponents. Thus where you might expect A3XY to run into A2XY a bit less than half the time in an eight handed four-card game, A3XYZ will roughly run into A2XYZ roughly three times out of four in an eight handed five-card game. (Something like that).

I don't think one should exacly play any tighter in terms of the percentage of hands played, but you get dealt hands such that if you picked the best four out of the five cards, you'd have a good four-card hand more often in the five-card game than in the four-card game.

Seems sensible to play the better hands when you're dealt them, but get out of the way more often when you're not dealt them. That's just my first impression and shouldn't be taken as gospel.

I reflected that my friend had come away from our practice session playing actually a bit too tightly for a four-card Omaha-8 game, but he might be playing about right for the five-card game. And indeed things worked out fine with my friend having a good time.

I hope you have a good time playing poker too. Welcome back!

Buzz
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Old 12-20-2005, 12:46 AM
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I didn't know you before you went away but I enjoy your contributions to the forum - between fat ballz and ribbo it's turned into a star wars convention around here.

Glad to hear you're on the mend - and please keep posting! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Phil.
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Old 12-20-2005, 06:07 AM
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Always good to hear updates felica. As you know, I'm in your corner!
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