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One of the most popular games for new online poker players is Sit and Go Tournaments. The buy-ins can range from $5 to $5,000, and they typically last less than an hour. If you have the attention span, you can also play more than one table at once. Since a lot of people have watched no limit tournaments on TV, they want to play similar tournaments when the begin playing out. The Sit and Go Tournaments are great because they give you a chance to have fun while building your bankroll. Conversely, playing multi-table tournaments is not a good way to build a bankroll because there is too much variance. This article will guide you through sit and go strategy for low stakes sit and go’s.

Sit & Go Early Rounds

The blind are usually a small portion of your starting stack in the first two rounds. Many novice players in these tournaments make the mistake of not protecting their monsters hands like AA and KK pre-flop by making small raises. When the blinds are low, you should be playing suited connectors and suited gap connectors because it costs you a very small percentage of your stack. You are looking to hit a flop hard with 2 pair or to flop a strong draw. Often people under-bet the pot with top pair to keep people in the hand, so you often get a great price to draw to your straight or flush. Now when you have big hands like AA, KK, QQ, AK, AQ, and so forth, it’s key to play them correctly. With big pairs, you want to raise 3-4 times the big blind. Your ideal situation is to get 2-3 callers and isolate yourself with someone who flops top pair and is a 7 to 10 underdog against your overpair. The level of play in these tournaments is such that people will often commit themselves with top pair, even if they have a poor kicker. But remember, you want to narrow the field on the flop, don’t make bets so small that people with weak hands get the odds to call and chase you down. With big drawing hands like AK-AJ, KQ, etc… you still want to raise 3-4 times the big blind. If you don’t hit the flop, it’s ok to let these hands go, because you haven’t invested too much in the pot. When you hit top pair with any of the aforementioned hands, you will almost always have the best hand and should feel comfortable playing it for all your chips. Someone people will disagree with me here, but the level of play in these tournaments is quite poor and you want to take advantage of this.

Middle rounds

As the blinds go up, you starting hand selection should change a bit. Suited connectors are no longer profitable because not enough people are in the hand and the stakes are too large relative to people’s stacks to be playing these hands. Now you should tighten your standards up and playing the premium drawing hands and pairs 77 and bigger for a raise. The blinds become bigger, and there is nothing wrong with taking down an uncontested pot at this stage in the game. If you have a well above average stack, you can afford to wait for premium holdings. However if you are about average in terms of chip count, you will need to play some hands to build your stack. Remember that you don’t need pocket aces to go all in pre-flop against a raise. I would advocate moving in with any pocket pair of tens or higher or Ace-King and Ace-Queen at this stage of the game. These are strong hands and will often be a favorite if your opponent calls. Additionally, your opponent will often fold and you build your stack without having to show down the hand. Let’s take a look at why this approach is good. Let’s say you are on the button with pocket tens. The blinds are 100-200, and you have 900 chips. There are six players left. A player in middle position with 1400 chips makes a minimum raise to 400. If you just call, it’s difficult to navigate the flop because there might be overcards. However you are committing a large portion of your stack by calling in the first place, so you really can’t fold the hand. Now let’s say you move all in. Your opponent must think about folding hands like Ax, KQ, and lower pocket pairs, which leaves you in great shape. Sometimes he will call with these hands because of the pot odds and you are in great shape to double up. You are slightly ahead of hands like AK and AQ, and the dead money from the blinds makes this even more profitable for you. The only hands that you really don’t want to be up against are JJ-AA. This is why it’s better sometimes to just move in with a reasonably strong holding then to see a flop.

Late Stages of a Sit And Go Tournament

Now the blinds are getting very high in relation to the average stack size. You should not enter pots with marginal hands. Be VERY weary on confronting other big stacks without str

Birtukan Midekssa condemned to life in prison by a vengeful dictator, but unconquered.
Birtukan thrown into the dungeon of wrath and tears, but defiant.
Birtukan beaten, bludgeoned and bloodied, but unbowed.
Birtukan mocked, ridiculed and disrespected, but gracious.
Birtukan denounced, vilified, strong-armed and manhandled, but unafraid.
Ethiopia under the crushing ladies snow boots of soldiers of fortune.
Birtukan, Invictus!
Ethiopia, Invictus!

Birtukan Mideksa

I remember the 29 December 2008. Almost a year ago to the day, the only woman political party leader in Ethiopia’s 3,000-year history was manhandled and abducted to prison. Professor Mesfin Woldemariam, founder and former chairman of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council, was an eyewitness to the crime. He told the Voice of America that he was having a conversation with Birtukan and another person outside an office building when four unmarked official vehicles stormed on the scene. Approximately 10 armed men got out and surrounded Birtukan. They grabbed and dragged her into one of the vehicles. One of the thugs savagely assaulted the nearly 80-year old professor with the butt of his rifle. In seconds, Birtukan was snatched away to the infamous Kality Prison, and the professor to the hospital.

The facts leading up to the street abduction of Birtukan’s are not in dispute. On 10 December 2008 the ‘Federal Police Commissioner’ sent two District 12 policemen to order Birtukan to come to his office. She went thinking that he probably wanted to talk about her political party. He wanted to talk about her pardon which resulted in her release from prison in 2007. She questioned his authority to interrogate her on the matter. He mocked her and she left. On 24 December 2008, the ‘commissioner’ ordered her to appear in his office and gave her an ultimatum: Retract a statement she made in Sweden allegedly denying receipt of a pardon, or face immediate imprisonment.

Birtukan has never denied receiving a pardon. In Sweden where she allegedly denied the so-called pardon in a talk to a small group of supporters, she merely explained the legal and political circumstances surrounding the grant of pardon. In Q’ale (My Testimony), her last public statement issued a couple of days before her abduction, she made full acknowledgement of the so-called pardon:

‘I have not denied signing the document which the elders persuaded us to sign on 22 June 2006 for the sake of national reconciliation. How could it be said that I denied a pardon document I signed, and whose content I accepted? How is that a crime? Where is the mistake?’

The fact of the matter is that Birtukan was granted a bogus pardon for a bogus crime for which she was convicted in a kangaroo court. As it is said, ‘any excuse will serve the tyrant’; and for Zenawi to claim that he jailed Birtukan because she denied receiving a pardon is an insult only to his own intelligence. The real reasons have to do with incapacitating her from running in the 2010 elections, and thwarting her efforts to build a broad coalition of political parties to oppose his dictatorship. No doubt, he takes her outright defiance as a personal slight.

But who is Birtukan Midekksa? Dictator Zenawi not long ago proverbially characterised her to his rubberstamp parliament as a faddish hen that hanged herself. If we must indulge in animal metaphors to describe her, she is best characterised as a lioness fighting hordes of hyenas. She has always defined herself as an ordinary woman irrevocably committed to the rule of law, freedom, democracy and human rights. She understands her adversaries well. Days before her abduction, she told journalist Abiye Teklemariam, founding editor of the independent weekly Addis Neger, (which recently folded following the dictatorship’s relentless war on the independent press in Ethiopia):

‘You have to know that they are paper tigers. They are weak, but want to appear strong. They would think caging a woman with a three-year-old daughter who lives under their firm surveillance every day demonstrates their toughness… They forcefully make people hostage to their family and social commitments. They compel you to choose between freedom and family.’

Christmas is around the corner again. Do you get your plans, guys? What kind of gifts to choose for your girls this year? I believe that none of you want to race around desperately to find gifts in the last minute. Anyway neither your mother, nor your wife would like the gift you choose under that situation. Even your little daughter would show no interest in it. So you really need to take action in advance this year.

Here are top 5 Christmas gift ideas for you to choose Christmas presents for women. Hope they can help you largely.

Fifth: Art or Ornaments
Just as someone ever put it every woman is a born artist. Women love to decorate their house to create an inviting space. Look for something that is suitable for her. If she has lots of knick-knacks and country style furniture, then a landscape painting or print with a wooden frame will be the top choice. If she is interested in modern furniture and clear surfaces, then go for a modern abstract. As for ornaments, hand blown glass, hand carved wood, and top quality porcelain are all good choices. Just keep in mind that they also have to suit her taste.

Fourth: Perfume
Perfume sounds to be a good Christmas gift idea for women since all women want to be most charming and glamorous one in the public. Besides, perfume gives them some kind of identity. Yes, perfume is good, but the prerequisite is that you have to know exactly her style and get her favorite flavor. On the contrary, you are in big trouble.

Third: Jewelry
It is often said that jewelry is to woman what cigar is to man. Surly, women love jewellery which brings both elegance and glamour to them, no wonder that women like to regard jewelries as their best friends. However, if you plan to send a piece of jewelry to your girls, you have to think carefully, since not all jewelry is just right to their taste. Tiffany jewelry is perfect, but if you girl is sexy, hot, as well as a fan of Ed hardy clothing, and then tiffany jewelry should be your last choice. But if your girl is cute, lovely, and quite, both tiffany jewelry and links of London jewellery will be sound choice.
So before you choose jewelry for your girl, you’d better get her style and taste first.

Second: Kitchen Equipment
Women spend a lot of time in kitchen where they do various delicious food for us. So why not choose some superior utensils, funky gadgets, and authentic ingredients. And cookbooks by celerity chefs, gourmet ingredients are also perfect Christmas gift ideas.

First: Clothing, UGG mens casual boots for example
Nowadays, when we choose Christmas gifts, clothes are no longer in the list. We always strike to find something special and novel, which takes a lot of time. You may have the experience that something costing a lot of time of you to choose for you girls is not so welcomed as expected. Fell upset and frustrated? Actually, you can get amazing gifts in a simple way. That is to choose some special clothes for her, for instance UGG mens casual boots which can bring warmth and comfort to them the whole winter. So the key is the clothes you choose should be fashionable, distinctive, and useful.

In a word, the Christmas gifts you choose for your girls should follow their style and taste. Anyway, good luck, guys!

Many people are beginning their own affiliate marketing business as more of them realize the revenue potential that they can get online. One of the things that you need to know is that this business will require you to do work, and the main thing that you have to do is to determine the one main niche that you want to focus your venture in. Here are the 2 reasons why you should choose a niche market to begin your business.

The 1st reason is that when you concentrate on a niche, you will be able to stay out of the general markets that are very competitive. For example, if you decide on the ‘weight loss’ niche, you will be in a very difficult market. Instead of deciding on that, you might want to zoom in further and focus on ‘weight loss for older women’. When that is done, you will be targeting the group of older women, and you will be able to concentrate on giving them with specific information on how they can drop weight effectively.

The 2nd reason is that you will be able to get more profits from this focused market. Using the ‘weight loss for older women’ as an example, you will be able to get more money as you can focus more of your effort to get the information that is useful for older women where other competitors will not produce the useful information that you are giving. When you are able to provide unique content to your buyers, you will stand out from the competitors and the buyers will most likely purchase the product from you as you are knowledgeable.

These are the 2 reasons why you will need to begin your business in a targeted market. Stay committed on one unique niche and be very knowledgeable in it. Once you have become very knowledgeable in that small niche, you will be able to begin to branch out to the general market to make more profits. This will be the best way to grow your business.

A study done by Texas Christian University found that lizards and other cold blooded animals sun to keep themselves warm and to get vitamin D. Chameleons – like humans – get vitamin D two ways – from food or from producing it in their skin with UV radiation. One group of chameleons was fed crickets dusted with vitamin D. The other group was fed regular crickets. The two groups were then put in enclosures offering sun and shade. The chameleons fed the regular crickets compensated by increasing their UV exposure with mathematical accuracy – while humans get burned by UV math.  

A survey published in “Applied Animal Behavior Science” found that virtually all animals with conscious awareness – which eliminates such animals as jellyfish and sponges – are pleasure seekers when it comes to play, food, touch and sex. For example, herring gulls play drop-catch tossing clams and other small, heavy objects to each other. Jerrald Green iguanas will look for fresh, leafy lettuce when more nutritious reptile food has been provided. When wallowing hippopotamuses relax in watering holes, they’ll occasionally fall asleep. Electric fish seem to enjoy giving each other stimulating charges. Sometimes we forget the “i” in animal.

A study done by Swiss researchers gave six related species – red pandas, ferrets, genets, meerkats, mongooses and lions – water and solutions sweetened with natural or artificial sugars. If the animal drank more of the sweetened solutions in 24 hours, it was determined to be the animal’s preference. The lion drank only water, other species drank some of the naturally sweetened solutions, but the red pandas drank large amounts of the artificially sweetened solutions. Before this study only primates were known to have a taste for artificial sugars. Now when sugar substitutes are being tested, red pandas are likely to become guinea pigs.

A report done by the National Pest Management Association found that bedbugs have increased 71% in 5 years. They move in on suitcases or on used furniture. Although bedbugs can’t fly and emerge only at night, they can hide anywhere. Unfortunately, females produce about 500 offspring; and all bedbugs can live a year without feeding on the blood of warm bodies. Thankfully, they don’t transmit disease; but they are an allergy-causing problem. If you see clusters of tiny black fecal dots or one-quarter inch reddish brown discs of shed skin on a bed, it is time to hire licensed pest control. You have been bugged.