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CONSUMER-FIRST ENERGY ACT OF 2008--MOTION TO PROCEED--Continued -- (Senate - June 10, 2008)
Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, to review where too many families are today in our great country, we have 324,000 people--324,000 people--who have lost good-paying American jobs just since this January. Just this January, not last January, not the January before or the January before but just in the last few months, 324,000 more Americans--middle-class Americans, working hard every day and trying to keep up with the gas prices, trying to keep up with the mortgage payment, pay for food, send the kids to college, probably having a bigger health care bill--have lost their job and gone, probably, on unemployment compensation to be able to help their family to be able to continue. And, Mr. President, 72,000 of those individuals and families impacted come from my great State of Michigan, with 49,000 jobs having been lost since May, 17,000 of those lost in Michigan since April.
At the same time, we all know gas prices are now at $4 and going up, foreclosures nationally are over 702,000 homes this year, with over 31,000 of those in Michigan.
All of that is to say that we have a picture now of middle-class Americans, of those who believe in America, who are and who have been working hard every day, who want the American Dream for themselves and their families finding themselves being hit over and over again with one cost after another.
Even those who have not lost their jobs are concerned that they may. Will the plant stay open? Will the employers keep the same number of people on when their costs are going up? Too many people have gone from $28 an hour to $14 an hour, or $30 an hour to $10 an hour.
What we are seeing across the country is people who are desperately concerned about their ability to keep their standard of living and to remain in the middle class of this country. In many cases they are desperately concerned about simply being able to put food on the table, being able to get the money to put the gas in the gas tank so they can go look for the next job.
With this backdrop--and with millions of Americans saying: What about me? What about my family? What about some kind of action that will help my family, and understand what we are going through right now? With all of that as a backdrop, what we have seen today, once again, is absolutely outrageous. It is absolutely outrageous. Two very important bills were brought forward where we simply asked to be able to proceed to discuss them, and once again the Republican minority has said no. They blocked everything, stopped everything. No. No.
There is no sense of urgency, no sense of urgency about gas prices, no sense of urgency about getting off of foreign oil and energy independence. There is no sense of urgency about what is happening to families every single day.
It is amazing to me, when we look at the numbers. We have in fact had so many Republican filibusters we have to Velcro the chart. In the interests of conservation, in the interests of not having to print up multiple charts a day and waste good old posterboard, we actually have had to Velcro the numbers because they change so much. Twice today--we have now well exceeded what was a 2-year high in previous Senates in the over 200-year history of our great country. We did that last year.
What does that mean? This all sounds like insider process kinds of things--it is just folks talking about partisan politics. The reality is we are talking about whether the Senate is going to be able to move forward to debate issues and solve problems that people care desperately about. They do not care whether this is an election year or not an election year. They don't want excuses. They want us to get something done because they are trying to figure out how in the world they are going to be able to keep things going and make ends meet for their family in this great country we call America.
We have seen 75 different times that there have been filibusters that have been blocking our ability to actually get something done. What was filibustered today? What efforts were made to block us today? First, a very important bill, the Consumer-First Energy Act, to take on what is happening on gas prices. I know, talking with my family, home this weekend--folks were looking at me, saying: What in the world is going on? What can be done?
We have put together legislation multiple times to address it, short term and long term, as it relates to gas prices which are so outrageously high. But over and over again we are blocked. Why? Because the oil companies do not like it. That is what this is about. Unfortunately, the oil companies do not want to see us move in the direction of being able to tackle issues of whether there is, in fact, price gouging; whether there are in fact issues around speculation; whether we are going to have competition with alternatives to oil. They do not want us to do that. They do not want us to tackle the issue of the tax subsidies they receive.
What we see instead of action, as we could have had today, we see this past week oil prices at $140 a barrel, almost twice the price from last year. It is almost twice the price from last year, and OPEC says it could be $200 this year. Think about that when you are trying to get to work, trying to maybe take the kids to camp for that week or maybe trying to go to the grocery store or go looking for work or maybe take mom or dad or the kids to the doctor. We are talking about a huge burden that is building up and up.
Unfortunately, while gas prices now go over $4 a gallon, we are seeing an effort to, one more time, block commonsense efforts to do something about it for the families of America. Unfortunately, on the other side of the aisle, there has been a desire to make sure that we continue big oil tax breaks rather than addressing what our families need. Last year the big oil companies pocketed $124 billion in profits. It is fine to make a profit. We want companies to do well, to make a profit. But we also want to make sure when that is happening they are reinvesting in the economy, reinvesting in creating more supply. We want them to be reinvesting in new energy. Unfortunately, that is not happening.
We also want to have tax policy that makes sense in terms of where we want to invest in new technologies. The oil companies are doing pretty well, I suggest, right now. I do not think my tax money or your tax money or the tax money of any of the folks here or any of the folks around the country needs to be used to incentivize big oil, which is exactly what is happening right now.
They are doing pretty well. We have been trying and we have been blocked through Republican filibusters, to take away subsidies, taxpayer subsidies for oil companies and move them over to subsidize new, growing industries, green options, alternative energy--wind, solar, advanced battery technologies, consumer tax credits to buy the next generation of vehicles, the next generation of appliances. Those are the kinds of tax credits that encourage people to focus on energy efficiency and conservation in their homes, those things that will move us in the right direction. That is what we have been trying to do. And we have been blocked.
The bill that was stopped also creates a permanent tax on windfall profits for the major oil companies. If they are not going to invest in America and invest in our future and buy the next airplane or put it into more big bonuses, then we need to have a windfall profits tax that will redirect those dollars back so we can take them and invest in the future.
I see our distinguished leader on the floor and I am going to suspend for a moment, if I might. I know he has some important business he needs to do.
I yield to our leader and ask that I later be recognized to continue my comments.
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Micah's Lucky Deer Foot is a plot item in Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening.
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- Found in a bag located in Knotwood Hills past the bridge, after the encounter with the Deepstalkers, right below the staircase.
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This property participates in Green Key (nogle), a program that measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy.
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You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
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Rollaway beds are available for MAD 700 per night
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Staff was friendly but the AC in the room did not work. Went down to reception 6 times (there was no instructions on the phone on how to call them) asking for it to be fixed. Maintenance man came to my room 3 times. Ended up sleeping at 10 a.m. The temperature that day was 108 Fahrenheit. Hotel is in a great location in the city but if I can't sleep then there is no point in coming back. Asked for some sort of compensation and was given none. Completely unacceptable
Rooms recently renovated. Doors were not working well. Staff was very helpful. They changed the rooms. Excellent breakfast.
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People Are Animals
Essay by: Kean Flynn
Status: Finished
Genre: Editorial and Opinion
This I believe.
There has been one principle that has governed my intellectual processes for several years now. To say that it stands at the core of my beliefs is an understatement. It gives shape to my worldview, reason to my actions, and credence to my words. It has yet to fail me. Through this lens, human beings as a whole have become transparent. I am no longer surprised by the actions of man, nor awestruck by his achievements. Thus, I share with you a hand to join me on this side.
My belief has two main facets: a "what" and a "why". So here I am to say, "The meaning of life is that it is meaningless." Life is a virgin canvas, onto which we stroke our experiences, written in blood. As we grow, we inevitably fill the canvas with a parade of color and hue. Out of this starburst, we find meaning. Life is meaningless, and this allows for us to denote our own purpose to our existence, so as to fulfill our own intimate, metaphysical inadequacies. We are a culture obsessed with self-actualization. If there ever was only one perfect, infallible vindication for consciousness as we know it, we have ironically annihilated it during our quest to find it. This leads me into the "why".
Mother Nature and Father Time have proved to be the only monarchy under whose control we must kneel. At heart, we are animals in the most basic sense of the word. We follow the laws that shape and direct the universe, whether we wish to or not. What purpose does emotion serve, other than to bond us together and secure our duration? Do we not inevitably die? We were born to evolve and promise the continuity of our species, allowed to survive so that we maintain a harmonious, stabilized kingdom on the planet. However, we have been dealt the gift of intelligence: a freak endowment that burgeoned chaotically until the children turned sword on the titans. A coup was staged. The natural order was cast on its head. Revolution and intrigue. At the top of the ranks stand Homo sapiens, just below the regal two, yet far above his fellow creatures. Now in a position of power, we have been given the tools to shape the world as we see fit and unwittingly stray from the cosmic course we were directed towards.
However, even in such a position, we retain traits that we acquired in our roots. While many may no longer see the world as the disorganized, bastardized realm we have raped it into, we still follow the customs of our natives. We collectivize, work in packs, and though we lost the call of the wild in the great usurp, we fight to survive under our own conditions.
So people have lost sight of the reason we're here. It is not an obscured mandate served by a veiled puppeteer, no, it is in our hands. We turned our back on nature, and it has returned us the favor. In light of this, we—neigh, you—must forge a unique purpose. It will not be handed to you.
This I believe.
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we are part of nature....we are only superior to other animals in our own environment.....put us into the jungle with no gun and we would not be a match for the evolved instincts of many other animals....these inventions such as the gun to protect ourselves were invented by precious few of us and even the spaceships that take us to other worlds are designed and operated by a very small elite in our species.....one on one we are not at the top of the chain of evolution....we as a species are very lucky that there are those amongst us that are head and shoulders above the rest of us...the great majority of us are really only freeloaders on the very small percentage superhumans who make the rest of us seem superior to other animals in the animal kingdom...there have been perhaps a dozen great intellects in the history of modern man...when we look at the crap that goes on in our society on a day to day basis and the wars and millions of people in jail around the world one can see the great uneveness in the development of our species....as an overall group i believe it is impossible to know where we really are when compared to other animals in the animal kingdom....we are such a mixed bag...take 100 people at random and you find a huge range of intelligence from the moronic to the clever....in the animal kingdom one lion or ape for instance has very much the same level of intelligence as the next one......
You're agreeing with me. Man can not survive in a natural environment, you're right. He must fashion weapons in order to survive because he has no fighting chance in the wild. Also, these weapons give us the superiority over any other creature. This horrid imbalance goes against every life cycle of species before us. The point of a one versus one confrontation is moot because we are a social, collectivist species like the ant. Our intelligence is supposed to behoove us not us an iron fist with which we can decide which species will die and which will live. Think back to our ancestors, hunting in packs to effectively utilize the intelligence given to them. However, upon the growth of intelligence, we have been able to outsmart our most fearsome predators through weaponry and tactics. The failure in our society is a result of or own inability to control ourselves. Our population has remained unchecked and allowed to grow outside of "survival of the fittest" and so our weakest and moderate members of society are allowed to survive, procreate and establish progeny with traits that otherwise might not thrive in a "state of nature," to quote Hobbes.
Homo sapiens are nothing special, we are another specie on this planet whose freakish intelligence allowed it to break the balance of nature and create its own version of nature. You say we are only strong in our own environment, but I retort that man's environment is not stable; we can go where we want, and if we bring some friends and some weaponry (including the fire we harnessed and the materials we create, down to the atomic bomb) and we have the potential to ruinously destroy any opposition.
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bpNichol is coming to the big screen, thanks to 15 years of work on the part of Justin Stephenson. You'll want to take a moment and head to the official site of The Complete Works to give the trailer a watch, but first a little about Nichol and the film in Stephenson's own word:
In the mid 1960s, bpNichol received international recognition for his concrete and sound poetry. In 1970, at the age of 26, he won the Governor General's Award for a collection of his poems. Over the course of his life, he created an voluminous and wide-ranging body of work that spanned many forms and concerns. He wrote poetry, stories, essays, operas, musicals, concrete poems, books and songs for kids, computer poems, sound poems, The Martyrology (a truly massive long poem), comic books, cartoons, TV shows like Fraggle Rock and Blizzard Island — a veritable catalog of genres, techniques and processes. Through his adventurous and rigorous writing practice he maintained a sense of playfulness, generosity and humour.
I discovered his work in the early 1990s. While waiting to return home for the summer after the university term had ended, I signed out The Martyrology series from the library. I read and reread these books; they were strange and mysterious, funny and deathly serious. The thing that really drew me to his work was that he overtly invited the reader to participate in the meaning in the text. The act of reading, my reading, became a subject of the work. The text happened on the page in my hands.
At the time, as a young aspiring artist, finding bpNichol's work was like finding a treasure. I was so captivated that I decided to send him a letter. I waited and waited for a response. I finally received a letter from Ellie Nichol telling me that he had passed away three years previously. She sent me a book and invited me to stay in touch.
Over the years, his work has been a constant presence and influence in my life and practice. In 1999, I decided to finally make a film based on his work. My initial idea was to create film translations of a selection of his works, and to structure the film like a book of poems. This initial impulse did not change and The Complete Works is the culmination of 15 years of reading and filmmaking.
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This year's The Lawyer Summit is a timely one, with a heavy focus on the practicalities of dealing with the credit crunch.
From 6 to 8 November 56 senior lawyers from 27 firms and 90 in-house counsel from 84 companies will be discussing problems and thrashing out solutions
in Berlin's Hotel Adlon Kempinski.
The event is held together by more than 15 breakout sessions, interspersed with time slots in which entrepreneurial partners can line up 'dates' with in-house counsel to pitch them ideas, rates and other propositions.
Old Mutual Asset Managers' Meekal Hashmi is leading a session entitled 'Blood on the carpet', which will examine the employment law issues that arise "when the mighty fall". The session is intended as a guide for in-house counsel tasked with removing directors.
"It will be a technical talk about how you can get rid of senior or board-level directors," said Hashmi. "There's an employment law process, but there are bigger amounts of money at stake with directors, so the risks are bigger."
Hashmi noted that at many large companies the process can be made simpler.
"In practice, if you were a chief finance officer at a big plc, you'd probably just call them into the office and march them out of the building and worry about it later," he said.
Usually in such cases, a compromise agreement would be signed that would close off any claims for unfair dismissal. But Hashmi warned that companies still need to be aware of the proper process.
Stephenson Harwood employment partner Anne Pritam is co-presenting the seminar with Hashmi, and acknowledged that there are no easy fixes.
"We'll be dealing with the legal implications of senior departures and boardroom dismissals," she said. "In some ways this is as important as the strategic problems that are encountered – not least because these things tend to happen incredibly quickly."
Pritam said, given the current economic climate, now is a good time to be examining these issues.
Some other session highlights
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• The evolution of the bar
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"It's certainly pretty topical," she said. "The performance of boards is certainly under a stronger spotlight than it has been in the past, and in the current climate is going to become more of a concern to in-house counsel."
Other sessions with a topical slant include that being led by Navigant Consulting's managing director Andrew Durant ;and ;associate director Andrew Webster, who will be examining internal fraud and looking into how best to prevent an "increasing business risk".
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The Obama Record: GOP White House contenders think the president is taking the country down the path to "European socialism." They're wrong. It could be something much more radical.
Eight years ago, virtually out of nowhere, Barack Obama burst onto the national political scene. Few knew this young politician from Chicago, who was trained as a community organizer and civil-rights lawyer.
Fewer still knew of his carefully calculated plans for using the democratic process to gain power and bring about "social change" on a large scale.
But gain it he did. And now — after his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and his 2008 presidential triumph — we've had a chance to see how that "change" looks. Obama has unleashed a juggernaut of legislation and regulations on industry that rival the New Deal in scope.
From the moment he stepped into office, Obama has used his power to redistribute capital and bring corporate America under state control. Among other things, he has:
Forced all large banks, including healthy ones, to take federal bailout money while forcing them to pass stress tests before they can get out from under state control.
Forced banks to renegotiate private mortgage contracts to forgive principal payments for customers while ordering the banks to liberalize their lending practices and even open branches in blighted and unprofitable areas outside their service area.
Signed sweeping regulations that give the state new authority to control the entire financial sector — from banks to hedge funds to insurance companies to even car dealers.
(The Dodd-Frank Act gives Obama unprecedented powers to monitor and redirect the capital flow of all financial firms, as well as adjust their capital requirements and even shut them down and restructure them.)
Renegotiated the terms of Detroit creditor contracts so autoworkers get preferential treatment at the expense of shareholders while preserving the high union cost structure that bankrupted GM and Chrysler.
("I owe those unions," Obama has said. "When their leaders call, I do my best to call them back right away. I got into politics to fight for these folks.")
Centralized control of the health care industry through 2,730 pages of new mandates that bring insurance companies and drugmakers under the supervision of the state and force the wealthy to subsidize the uninsured at a starting cost of $1.6 trillion.
Transferred an additional $1 trillion in private taxpayer wealth to welfare programs and public works projects, which have increased dependency on the state to record levels.
All of these measures put more power in the hands of the state and, in the case of health care, exert more control over the individual lives of Americans. As such, few are popular.
So how did Obama do it? Or more to the point, how did he get away with doing it?
By making capitalists the enemy of the people. By using media propaganda to convince enough people who lost their jobs or homes in the financial crisis that they were victims of Wall Street "exploitation."
And by fomenting class envy between "the 99%" of Americans he imagines as "struggling" and a nebulous 1% overclass of "millionaires and billionaires" and "fat cat bankers" he demonizes as "greedy."
"We can either settle for a country where a few people are doing very well and everybody else is having to just struggle to get by, or we can build an economy where everybody gets a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share," Obama said Feb. 21 from the White House.
"That's the economy that I want," he added. "Those who don't want it will be forced to pay their fair share."
History provides a harsh reminder of how such class warfare ends if carried out to its extreme.
Less than a century ago, the Bolshevik revolution in Russia portrayed a life-or-death "class struggle" between capitalists and workers. The Bolsheviks were inspired by Karl Marx, another trained lawyer who never spent a day in the private sector. They followed his 1848 blueprint for worker revolution, "The Communist Manifesto."
Marx argued that capitalism splits industrial society into two hostile camps: the "bourgeois" — whom he described as anyone employing a worker, owning a business or making money from investments — and the "proletariat" that he figured made up the other 90% of society. He claimed that the wealth controlled by the top 10% "exists solely due to its nonexistence in the hands of those (other) nine-tenths."
In other words, profits produced by merchants, entrepreneurs and investors don't really belong to them. Marx believed they were stolen from workers and that workers would one day rise up and, justifiably, "wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeois."
Turning the tables, the working class would then become the ruling class — though Marx believed this would happen in stages.
Socialism was the first or "lower" phase of communist society, he envisioned, where democracy and vestiges of capitalism are still present but only as a means to an end.
The final or "higher" phase of communism abandons state capitalism altogether and runs a centrally planned economy under a new constitution.
"Only then," Marx proclaimed, "can the narrow horizon of bourgeois law be left behind in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!"
Marx argued the dreams of the "individual" should be sacrificed for the "collective."
"Individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unite in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations." (Actually it wasn't Marx who said that — it was Obama, in a little-noticed 1995 interview he conducted with a liberal Chicago journal.)
Marx also called for abolishing the traditions, institutions and religions of the old order, arguing that the masses couldn't fully serve "the State" if they still clung to religion. (Again, hearing any echoes?)
The Bolsheviks struck in 1917. Their leader, V.I. Lenin, immediately declared war on banks, scapegoating "vile" and "greedy" bankers and merchants for all the problems of the underclass. His battle cry, as he seized banks and shops, was "Loot the looters!"
For the revolution to succeed, Lenin said he had to first control capital. And if he controlled banks, he could more easily control the industries they financed.
Nationalizing medicine was also key. If the communists controlled health care, Lenin said, they could own and control families — from cradle to grave.
Lenin's other main target was the education system. If the Reds socialized schooling, from kindergarten to college, they could brainwash the masses into serving the state instead of their own "selfish" interests.
By 1920, Lenin had established "free" universal health care (excluding the "deprived class" of merchants) and "free" higher education for all (except for the sons and daughters of merchants, who were blocked from college).
He also had succeeded in nationalizing all commercial banks as well as transportation.
How did the new ruling class finance (at least in the initial stages, before the USSR went bankrupt) its "fairer" economy? By soaking the rich with punitive taxes, redistributing their wealth and shaking down bankers. Sound familiar?
Such battle lines have, tragically, been redrawn in America, the same capitalist nation that defeated Soviet communism only two decades ago.
On one side are the people who create wealth. On the other are those who loot it.
This election, the most critical in American history, will decide who wins.


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Tournament Tactics - Float Play (Long)
That ET guy is so lucky, can you believe it ? That bugger final tabled both of the Online Forum Challenge tournies last weekend. He must run like God. I bet you wish you had that kind of luck.
Maybe. Maybe not. I have to admit that I do seem to be in a spell of positive variance right now, and my good hands are mostly holding up, 80/20s winning 80 per cent of the time, and so forth. I am no more proof against suckouts and beats than any other player.
But, if I do have something that some of our less experienced MTT players would also like to have, you won`t find it in the stars or the tea leaves. My edge comes from reading, from studying the game and from thinking about strategies and tactics. Let me share one of my thoughts with you:-
Tournament Tactics Float Play
You have mastered the fundamentals of the game and arrived at a sufficient standard that you can routinely survive in tournaments. No longer are you out in the first hour (barring the occasional bad beat).
The next frustration comes when trying to amass chips in the middle game. Will you get to the money with an average or above-average stack and be a serious final-table contender, or will you scrape past the bubble and just about manage to make your buyin back ?
Maybe you can get there occasionally, when the deck hits you in the face, but that will rarely be enough to make you a consistent money earner. To do that, you need to make your own luck by using advanced tactics to wring extra value from marginal situations. One of those advanced tactics is the float play.
In outline, the float play is a multi-street bluff which involves calling an opponent`s pre-flop raise, calling his continuation bet on the flop, then betting to steal the pot from him, should he check the turn.
It isn`t as complicated as it sounds. An example may help make the principles clearer:
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 20/40 Blinds (9 handed)
MP1 (t1960) MP2 (t1880) MP3 (t1760) CO (t3610) Hero (Button) (t1525) SB (t1690) BB (t1940) UTG (t2040) UTG+1 (t1725)
Hero's M: 25.42
Preflop: Hero is Button with 3 folds, MP2 bets t120, 2 folds, Hero calls t120, 2 folds
With a solid hand in position, calling the raise is standard
Flop: (t300) (2 players), MP2 bets t170, Hero calls t170
Missed the flop, but Villain`s bet of just over half the pot looks suspiciously like a standard continuation bet, lacking in conviction, so this is an ideal spot to float.
Turn: (t640) (2 players), MP2 checks, Hero bets t440, 1 fold
Total pot: t640
Sure enough, Villain checks the turn. My bet is tough for him to call unless he has a ten and scares him out of the pot.
The purpose of the exercise is to take advantage of a common leak found in the games of very many MTT players. These days, many players understand the importance of making a continuation bet following a pre-flop raise, but few are sufficiently aggressive to fire the second barrel. (In other words, to make a second attempt at the pot with a weak hand after the first has failed.) They are therefore exploitable. Here is another example:
Merge Network No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 75/150 Blinds (9 handed)
UTG+1 (t3289) MP1 (t8730) MP2 (t3513) Hero (MP3) (t5005) CO (t4113) Button (t4026) SB (t9853) BB (t4225) UTG (t3984)
Hero's M: 22.24
Preflop: Hero is MP3 with 2 folds, MP1 bets t450, 1 fold, Hero calls t450, 4 folds
Flop: (t1125) (2 players), MP1 bets t563, Hero calls t563
Turn: (t2251) (2 players), MP1 checks, Hero bets t1126, 1 fold
Total pot: t2251
Notice that, even though this is a different game on a different network with different players, the pattern of play is very similar indeed to the first example.
Float play works most effectively when you have position on your opponent. It is possible to float out of position, but much more risky. When in position, your opponent`s check on the turn is your cue to claim the pot. Without that information, you do not know whether the turn card may have improved your opponent`s hand and, if it has, betting into him may be a costly mistake.
You will normally want to be heads-up against a single opponent in order to make this play. The presence of a second opponent in the hand would be risky, because it would double the likelihood that one of them will catch a piece of the board and will not fold to your bet.
Beware of making this play too often at the same table. As shown in the examples above, the pattern of betting is quite distinctive. An opponent who is familiar with this play may spot that you are floating and may trap you by checking the turn to induce your bluff when he does, in fact, have a genuine hand. Obviously, this could result in the loss of a considerable part of your stack.
In order to help counter the above difficulty and to keep opponents guessing, there is much to be said for sometimes (possibly one time in three or thereabouts) following the same betting pattern when you have in reality hit the flop. For instance, in the second example above, imagine that your hand were a pair of tens, so that the flop gave you top set, the current nuts. Your natural inclination might be to raise Villain`s flop bet in order to get more chips in the middle and maximise the value of your hand. If you flat-call instead, and then bet the turn, you may turn the tables on an opponent who puts you on a float and will not lay down his overpair. A single hand of this kind, particularly if it goes to showdown so that all can see your hole cards, will help greatly to give you the table image of a solid player and to dispel any suspicion that you are making deceptive plays.
Always bear in mind, however, that (as it says in my signature) there is little point in trying sophisticated tactics on weak or unobservant opponents. These examples all come from mid-stakes tournaments and similar moves may not succeed in (for example) freerolls or where the standard of play is poor.
Your target, in order to give your float play the maximum chance of success, should be a player who has a high c-bet percentage, but who has shown sufficient awareness to be able to fold a hand. As is the case with any kind of bluff, you cannot expect to succeed with this play against a calling station.
Also, do not attempt to float a player who is weak-tight. His c-bet will almost certainly indicate that he has genuinely hit the flop, and you will not succeed. To be successful in MTTs beyond the first hour or two, you must carefully monitor and make notes on your opponents and play the players, not just the cards.
When you identify a likely target, you can make the float play with any two cards. Since you plan to take the pot on the turn and do not intend to go to a showdown, the strength of your hand is not particularly relevant. However, my personal preference (as shown in the examples here) is usually to play with something that has outs, such as two high cards, a small pair, or connectors. That way, I have chances to make a genuine hand, should the opponent play back at me.
I will close with a final example. Here, I call a raise in position with a small pair and miss the flop, but I take the pot anyway by floating (this is a not uncommon scenario, and can help to make set-mining a more profitable tactic):
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (8 handed)
MP1 (t2740) MP2 (t1540) Hero (CO) (t2610) Button (t1990) SB (t2125) BB (t4554) UTG (t1296) UTG+1 (t1875)
Hero's M: 34.80
Preflop: Hero is CO with 2 folds, MP1 bets t150, 1 fold, Hero calls t150, 3 folds
Flop: (t375) (2 players), MP1 bets t175, Hero calls t175
Turn: (t725) (2 players), MP1 checks, Hero bets t500, 1 fold
Total pot: t725
I am aware that this is a complex topic and, in my efforts to be reasonably brief, I may not have explained well. Please feel free to comment/question or post your own examples for discussion.
See you at the Final Table.
Very well written, thanks for sharing this with us Egon.
One question for you, when you suspect that villain is c-betting and hasn't connected with the flop, what factors would make you want to float rather than raise the flop right away?
How does stack size play into your floating? I mean this is fairly standard stuff in nl cash games but our effective stacks are generally much deeper so I was just wondering at what effective stack size do you think floating is no longer an option? Also what flop textures if any do you find best/worst for floating?
One reason to prefer to act on the flop would be if the the pre-flop raiser has position on me. In that case, if I feel he has missed, I will be likely to check-raise. Deferring my action until the turn has no benefit for me in this situation, because I must act first, and has the disadvantage of allowing the opponent another card.
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To roughly quantify - assuming a standard raise of 3bb preflop, the pot will contain 7-8bb including the blinds after action finishes. On the flop, Villain can be expected to raise 4-5bb, and I will call, making the pot now 17bb approx. My turn bet will be around 11-12bb, and opponent will now be faced with calling that amount. I will want him to have 20bb or more left in front of him, so that he still has a fully playable stack should he elect to give up this pot. It follows, therefore, that the stacks at the start of the hand would ideally have been approx 40+bb.
This is not an invariable rule, though. as witness the third of my three examples. It depends on your read as to how willing you feel the opponent will be to lay down a hand.
Thanks. One more question specifically about the last hand example you posted. What would you check back on the turn? I mean turning 55 into a bluff seems fine because our opponent has 6 outs almost always AND he may fold slightly better pairs but if you had TT there would you be checking behind and maybe trying to get another bet from your opponent on the river?
Thanks ET! I was using this play alot in the 2-11$ MTTs on stars with great success. I read it from Arnold Snyders book on fast tournaments but it applies equally to online. And this is a good reminder for me to use it again. ( I stopped sing it for a few weeks).
However, I did find that there seems to be days that these work and days they dont. In some games (even the FTOPs main event) I had 90% folds to a c bet!!!, and only got one double barrel when I tried this play. And other days I would get 20% folds to a c bet and I couldnt even pull the float once! Not player specific, not buyin specific, but DAY specific. Have you found this to be true for you? Some days everything you try works, and some days nothing works!
Very informative thread and i appreciate the thought that went into it. I realize now that i've probably been floated more times than i'd like to admit. I also realize the value of firing a second and sometimes third shot at the pot (even if you miss) to prevent plays like this.
Thanks. So is there any made hand less than TP that you would check behind on the turn? JJ? QQ?
Sorry if this is basic tourney 101 stuff but it's genuinely foreign to me because in a cash game I don't like turning a hand like TT into a bluff when we might be able to get some value on the river if we check the turn. I accept that tourney play is completely different but I'm just trying to gauge to what extent that's true.
Well written.
The golden nugget in this entire strategy is "Float play works most effectively when you have position on your opponent. It is possible to float out of position, but much more risky. "
Position is everything in this strategy - otherwise, you run the risk of betting into your opponent that may actually have a hand on you.
re: Poker & Tournament Tactics - Float Play (Long)
By the way, the key difference between Cash and MTT, in my opinion, is the fear factor. All MTT players are continuously aware that it only takes one error to trash all hopes of a positive outcome. This both forms and informs your own game and, conversely, can be used very effectively as a weapon against weak opponents, especially in the later stages.
This is a very informative post. I have actually made this play a few times in my poker life and it also has been done to me quite a few times in my poker life. I have never read about this play but just made the moves by paying attention to the players.
I would say when I have made the play it was usually on a board with nothing higher than a 10. Have you found better success pulling this move on a draw heavy board as opposed to a non-draw heavy board?
I think the tendencies of the opponent are more important to success than the actual cards. Having said that, it definitely helps if the turn card happens to be a scare card, so that one can represent having hit a big hand. For example, in the first hand in my OP, when the arrives on the turn and I bet, the opponent might easily consider, based on the play up to that point, that my hole cards could be Ace Ten, Jack Ten, or Ten Nine, which would be a monster.
First in response to this statement^^^^, I feel it was explained very well. Thanks for a great post.
I have been using this a lot lately, in SnG as well as MTT. Since I play mainly smaller stakes, I find it works a lot better in mid to higher blind play, as the players remaining have a better chance of observing what I am doing as opposed to playing their cards only. And the number of informed but weak players greatly outweighs the stronger more experienced player at these stakes, so this is a very +EV move. There are a large number of what I call wysiwyg players, so that check on the turn is almost always a sign of weakness, and can be easily exploited.
When you do hit, say, hit your set on the turn, how are you going to get more value out of a scared villain?
If you hit a monster, you might try checking the turn and then making a really large bet (pot size or larger, maybe all-in depending on stack sizes) on the river. A big river bet, especially if it doesn`t seem to follow logically after the turn action, can often be read as a bluff, an attempt to buy the pot. The opponent may be tempted to call with a fairly wide range.
re: Poker & Tournament Tactics - Float Play (Long)
What a truly awesome post.
In games I have played in, the villain has often fired the double barrel and even a triple barrel with as little as AK or Ax. Sometimes in these games it is hard to tell if they hit or if they are betting A high. How do we best combat this?
Very well written! Easy to read and comprehend. I have been looking for something like this to help improve my mid-game play. I feel this will be a big help in catapulting me to the next level. I always seem to get close to the bubble with a below average stack and barely make my buyin back. I am going to try this and see how it works out.....Keep up the good work and Thanks for the help.
If the opponent is that aggressive, wait until you hit a big hand yourself and then go to war with him for his stack. It won`t always work. Maniacs get dealt AA sometimes too, and you may be unlucky enough to pick the occasion when he really did have a hand, in which case you can only shrug and move on to the next tourney. There is no way to win them all.
Your hand doesn`t matter very much, since you are not going to a showdown unless something goes wrong. Therefore, there`s no very logical reason why you can`t float with 72o.
In practical terms, it`s unlikely that you would have called the raise preflop with 72o. You will usually have a hand with some kind of potential, but that might be similar to any of the ones you mention and any would be equally acceptable.
re: Poker & Tournament Tactics - Float Play (Long)
yeah i realize we're essentially stealing (even though we often are bluffing with the best hand). but sometimes villains get stubborn. I would assume that, in position, we would always try to float with big suited connectors that have some sort of backdoor potential, floating with a whiffed AK/AQ is obvious...
Same answer, really. There are players who, having identified a likely target for a float, will call that player the very next time he raises preflop without any regard to their own hand, purely in order to set up the float play. That always seems to me a little too much on the reckless side of LAG, and I generally start out preflop with a playable hand whose potential actually merits the call, thereby giving myself two ways to win. If I hit the flop, well and good. If not, I can consider the float.
My decision as to whether to float or whether to just lay it down after missing the flop will depend on the texture of the flop and my judgement as to whether the opponent missed. I am not looking to win a showdown, because my expectation is that the opponent is going to fold to my bet. Therefore my cards are not a significant factor in my decision at that stage of the hand.
Nice thread ET! but there's one thing you haven't covered...what if the opponent plays back at you at the turn with a call or even a raise? beluga theorem apart(since many players are aware of it now), do you continue your game on the river or do you accept the fact that you're caught and lay it down? I am aware that the type of card that falls on the river may affect this decision but do you usually bluff to the very end or do you give up on the river?
I don`t really have a definite strategy for that, as it`s a rare event. Much would depend on stack sizes. Often, in a tourney, you aren`t going to have the ammunition to make another powerful bluff and are constrained to give it up whether you want to or not.
Might be worth another shot if deep-stacked, especially since, if both players are deep-stacked, it`s usually early in the tourney. My general philosophy about that is that I don`t mind taking a shot early in the tourney before I have invested much time. At the start of a session, I will usually be playing 3 to 5 tournies simultaneously, and my aim is to cash in one or two of them. So, losing one in the early stages causes me no stress at all.


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