Gardening project update 2
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It’s been 20 days since I posted a piece about my gardening project which means that it is about time for an update. In line with my previous update I will write something poker related first since this is after all a blog mostly about poker.
A couple of days ago I played in a 6000$ guaranteed Multi table tournament on Titan poker which is my favorite site for tournament poker. We were down to 33 from around 1200. Average is about 80000 chips. Blinds are 2000/4000. I have 70000 chips.
I pick up AK suited (hearts, the best suit possible) in SB. BB has me covered with 108000 chips.
UTG+1 raises all in for 40000 chips, the next player who is short stacked also calls.
Do you fold AKs in this situation, do you call, or do you push all in? Let’s have a discussion in the comment section of this post.
Now back to the garden:
As you may have read from my Twitter updates we have had a lot of rain lately which has been really bad news for our little garden. First of all, most of our new summer flower seedlings apparently are not designed for heavy rain (if you are reading this Mother Nature please take notes; you didn’t do a good job on these particular species). Whenever it rains heavily they are all flattened to the ground. Here’s where our second major problem has come into play. Snails. Apparently snails have some kind of radar / sensory organ that can detect flattened seedlings. Each morning after heavy rain I have killed up to 25 snails that were having a feast in our garden. Unfortunately the rumor of our yummy garden has spread; now I have to deal with snails every morning even though it hasn’t rained. It’s not all bad news…..I have devised a very cruel and efficient way of killing the snails involving pair of toothpicks.
I also suspect that the massive amount of rain we have had lately is also responsible for the appearance of multiple brown patches on our tomato plants. However this may also be due to some disease that I don’t know about. The life of a hobby Gardner is challenging to say the least.
The main bed of our garden. The Sweet Peas (Lathyrus odoratus) are coming along nicely along the fence. Quite a few of the summer flower seedlings have survived the continuous snail attack.
Our two tomato plants
Close up of the biggest tomato we have right now. I estimate that it will be ripe in 3 weeks time. Notice the brown patches on the leaves I mentioned before. Does anyone know what this is?
Our small summer bed. The seedlings come from a packet of mixed summer flower seeds. There’s a whole bunch of different plants there. It will be fun to see what they look like later.
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I’m going to kick the commenting off with a new poker hand:
2,5 hours into the 35000$ guaranteed tourney on Titan poker. The average is about 12000 and I have 20000 chips. Blinds are 150/300.
I pick up JJ in BB. UTG who has me covered raises to 1200. A small stack player with 4500 pushes all in in medium position.
What do you do?
Call, push or fold.
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I have been doing some damage control in our garden today after 10cm rain in just two days. I think I succeeded 
Wow, collect some of that rain and save the water bill. Have you got spuds in? The best tip I’ve got is get some good free soil from a local stables, well rotted manure is the nuts!
I will definitely use manure once I get a bigger garden where I can start growing vegetables. I’m afraid we are limited by the size of our current garden to only growing summer flowers and tomatoes in pots : -)
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