As everyone in Chicago gets ready for the Bears/New Year's Simultaneous Party Fiasco, I wanted to wish you all a wonderful new year - hope 2007 is twice as good as 2006.
For my hometown, here are a couple of interesting stories from 2006.
For myself, a couple of brief images I remember from 2006:
- Getting a bottle of "The Admiral" as a cruel present down at ISU.
- "You wanna McWrestle?" - I had a funny sense of confidence confronting an intruder, on my birthday at Durty Nellie's.
- Hearing "clam-jacked" on the radio
- Walking 3 miles from the United Center before realizing we were a LONG way from Kingston Mines.
- Playing tour guide, host, and friend for a visitor over the summer.
- Taking the DC boys downstate for baseball - and goin' "out on the town" in beautiful Joliet, IL with a high-class bunch of baseball coaches.
- "I don't even KNOOW what you're talking about." - another birthday treasure that came during the confrontation with the stranger. Apparently he thought we were dissin' his lady. This phrase ended up living on for like, oh, how many months after?
- Seeing Australian Soccer hooligans for the first time - at a dive bar in Reno, Nevada with Sachs.
- Seeing the same hooligans dancing around on top of pool tables in the same bar - sans pants, moments later.
- Being the only person on earth to soak their phone and wallet in beer, then run as fast as possible and throw them both down 11 stories into a trash chute. If you don't know the story behind that - I'm sure I'll eventually publish it.
- Playing a round of golf with a man who was legally blind, had a block foot, and wore a rainbow pinwheel hat. For 3 hours. For only 8 holes.
- Watching another man try to save his clubs from rolling into a lake, and subsequently slipping and falling ass first into the lake.
- Hitting my best 4-iron of my life, 198 yards just short and right of the pin in the fringe, but was especially amazing considering it was on a hole with all sand to the right of the green, all lake in front of the green, and a graveyard right behind the green. It was my first and only successful attempt at navigating ghosts on the course.
- a rockin' show at LPZoo.
- 3 folding tables, one turkey, 6 family members, one studio apt. = thanksgiving dinner
- deciding it would be a good idea to try to get 4 jobs in one year.
- getting trucked playing pickup hoops before work, and leaving the emergency room 2 hours later with 8 stitches and a rediculous scar.
- doing about 10 public speaking engagements looking like frankenstein with those damn stitches
- michigan football weekend - family's first game and seeing us whup the badgers
- 6 hilarious hours of freezin cold baseball alumni weekend golf. Seeing Ali Husain slioe a shot 50 yards away from the hole, then look back at everyone laughing and saying "Hey I know, lets have a pizza making contest!" - possibly the funniest line of the year.
- The kid, Rosey, Leif, Zach, Lentz, Dooch, and a whole loaf of "Holla" - or however its spelled
- First year of life where I wasn't a baseball player. I didn't turn into a pumpkin.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Stupid 8
It wasn't so much that I was upset about the 8 on the river busting my KK, I was more upset that the 8 on the river decided to pick up my chair in a fit of furious rage, spin rapidly around like a wild-eyed centrifuge and fling my office chair halfway across the apartment!
Trust me, this is the REAL danger of online poker. The cards sometimes get up and start throwing your belongings willy nilly around neighboring empty spaces, without first assuming any inherent consequences!
Aside from this, though, it was a good day.
In case I never mentioned this - I started a brand new bankroll like 2 weeks ago.
Initial Down Payment - $60.
% +/- for December = + 432%
Method: strict aherence to a sit-n-go program.
buy-in levels < or = %15 of opening daily bankroll or less.
Moment of the month: After hitting a very very cold string, having a jerk make fun of me for raising 2X the pot after the flop and taking a small pot down. Already twitching with anger to begin with, I began a verbal vendetta against him at the table, trying to make him seem as stupid as possible, all the while check-raise trapping him with a set, getting him to push, and eliminating him on the way to winning the table.
ANYWAY. Have a wonderful New Year's Eve! Check out some of the new sports blogs I threw down the roll. There's a classic Bobby Knight video that I think I will re-post here eventually - until then, it is on one of the new blogs I've listed, so you can check it out for yourself.
Trust me, this is the REAL danger of online poker. The cards sometimes get up and start throwing your belongings willy nilly around neighboring empty spaces, without first assuming any inherent consequences!
Aside from this, though, it was a good day.
In case I never mentioned this - I started a brand new bankroll like 2 weeks ago.
Initial Down Payment - $60.
% +/- for December = + 432%
Method: strict aherence to a sit-n-go program.
buy-in levels < or = %15 of opening daily bankroll or less.
Moment of the month: After hitting a very very cold string, having a jerk make fun of me for raising 2X the pot after the flop and taking a small pot down. Already twitching with anger to begin with, I began a verbal vendetta against him at the table, trying to make him seem as stupid as possible, all the while check-raise trapping him with a set, getting him to push, and eliminating him on the way to winning the table.
ANYWAY. Have a wonderful New Year's Eve! Check out some of the new sports blogs I threw down the roll. There's a classic Bobby Knight video that I think I will re-post here eventually - until then, it is on one of the new blogs I've listed, so you can check it out for yourself.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Helium Blinds, Lose-Lose Calls, and Major Suckage.
So, if you can open up your imagination for a second. Join me at "a table"? You know where to find me, on the button. I'm seated here with a tough decision, and I don't really know how to play this one. I'm kinda middle-stacked, but these blinds are out of control. I don't think I can wait around much longer, and everytime someone else goes to make a move, what happens? Of course, split-pot. The guy over in the corner has just pushed all in. The look on his face says it all - you can almost smell the A-7 on him -- he's thinking to himself, "this garbage is the best thing I've seen all night". You'd think he was trying to lose these last few chips, just to make a point. The guy next to him, the chip leader by like, .002 chips, he's looking at his cards right now. Oh man, he's got a hand. This guy has been getting hands all night. Interestingly enough, I don't think he's doubled up one time yet. Not willing to blow it all on one hand, which I really don't understand. He's made like 3 sets and a pair of flushes in the past 30 minutes! He's reaching for his chips...wow. What's he thinking about? I'd bet everything I had that he had at least JJ right now. At least I would win ONE bet tonight. Oh man. I can't believe this. He's fiddling, fiddling. Muck. Wow. I don't understand, this was the time to take command. I wonder if he realizes that all it will take is 1 time around the blinds and 1 all-in showdown between two players to take him from 1st place to borderline 5th. The decision goes around. The next guy, how is he even still in this thing? He's got a little less chips than me, but he's split like 5 pots tonight with some lucky rivers. He's had worse kickers than a MAC football team and seems to think we are playing Hi/Lo Omaha half the time. Does he know we are only using 7 cards? Oh man, I can't believe it, he PUSHED. Jesus. There's no way he's got a hand, he wouldn't know what to do. He would probably ask to double down if he had a pocket pair. I take a quick glance to my left - the SB is going to be mucking faster than Richard Simmons without his ritalin. No way he can take this burden off of me. At this point, I'm prayin' the last guy to act before me has a hand. Please. He looks down at his cards. He's been pretty close to the vest all night, but its clear he can sniff out what's going on at this table. He's been re-raising and taking down pots from Capt. Wired-but-Nervous all night, and he's gleefully called a couple of retard bets from Mr. "Is this 5-card draw" to his right. For some reason, we've never been in a hand together, and I don't know why he doesn't have more chips than he does. Of course, he does have this lady next to him, giving him stern glares every once in a while, even occasionally telling him when to fold. Did I just see her steal a chip off the stack? Wait, did she just take two? I see him look down and begin to pu--wait, he's stopped. She just whispered something to him. He looks up- expressionless. Muck.
So then, its to me, and I look down to see what glorious two cards I might have this time.
First card. You know what it has to be - Ace of spades.
Exhale, a mini-novena. One time, please, one time!
Second card. 6 of clubs.
Wow.
No rockets, no suited, no connector or even a reasonable shot at anything other than two pair or a flopped set.
Fold - and I know what will happen. I won't see another two face cards till the blinds have raced past me like Princess Diana's chauffeur. But at least he would have the common courtesy to just kill me outright, instead of chopping off my arms and watching me bleed.
Call the push, and even in the 10% chance that the flop, turn and river actually help me for once, it would be like stealing from a blind kid and a leper and then joining Medinah CC with the money. Sure, I'd be golfing, but you could bet I wouldn't be able to get a foursome together there to play with "my kind."
Time's ticking. What to do? Either way ya go, you know it's lose/lose.
************************************************************************************
So I took a few on the chin the other night, and it kind of set me back to where I started a few weeks ago in my bankroll. There's nothing like losing with 10 10 and 9 9 over and over and over and over and over. And if that wasn't painful enough, I was consistently raising 4-7X the big blind when I had premium hands, trying to shake it down to at least 3 to the flop, and everytime I would somehow take 6 guys with me. It was like every table had 5 people that didn't care about their money, but were hellbent on making every starting hand I held essentially worthless everytime I bet, EXCEPT when I would catch trips or make a set on the turn. Then where did that aggressive play go? Completely would vanish. Heck, I would freakin' check to the river and people would just fold. It was one of those days where even when you won, you swear your stack got smaller. Heck, it was one of those days where every bad break someone ELSE got actually really screwed you in the end. One particular moment I recall was a poor fellow who was down to 60 chips with 4 people left at this particular table, and the wild-eyed loon who was chip leader (I was second at the time, with about half his stack) kept pushing this guy in with garbage, and the guy kept calling with KK and QQ or something premium, and before you knew it he was up to like 800 chips. Then, when I would get a hand like an 88 or a 77 that I could put this pesky small stack all-in with, big-stacked loon would PUSH ahead of me, forcing me to fold a marginally good hand, only to watch him blow it with 64 offsuit up against a 10J or something. THEN, when the 3rd biggest stack decided to push this lowstack in, after cursing out big-stacked loon for a while, he managed to somehow get rivered with QQ up against low stacked 44. It was another brutal beat, and the worst part was is that it essentially screwed me the most. I ended up pushing with AQ, of course got a caller with 10J, and after the second 10 fell on the turn, I decided it wasn't my day.
But anyway, such is the life. Who doesn't love sharing their "punch me" stories every once in a while? It's more fun to complain than to recall that $600 dollar suck-out I pulled in my first ever huge MT/NLT on Pacific Poker like 5000 years ago.
So yea, the mood was somber today until I found this little gem. Very funny - and dedicated to a cause that I couldn't agree more with. I wonder if they have old Morgan quotes stashed on there. Maybe the best is his claim about not knowing which direction the sun sets at Wrigley Field, because he "wasn't fimiliar with that park".
So then, its to me, and I look down to see what glorious two cards I might have this time.
First card. You know what it has to be - Ace of spades.
Exhale, a mini-novena. One time, please, one time!
Second card. 6 of clubs.
Wow.
No rockets, no suited, no connector or even a reasonable shot at anything other than two pair or a flopped set.
Fold - and I know what will happen. I won't see another two face cards till the blinds have raced past me like Princess Diana's chauffeur. But at least he would have the common courtesy to just kill me outright, instead of chopping off my arms and watching me bleed.
Call the push, and even in the 10% chance that the flop, turn and river actually help me for once, it would be like stealing from a blind kid and a leper and then joining Medinah CC with the money. Sure, I'd be golfing, but you could bet I wouldn't be able to get a foursome together there to play with "my kind."
Time's ticking. What to do? Either way ya go, you know it's lose/lose.
************************************************************************************
So I took a few on the chin the other night, and it kind of set me back to where I started a few weeks ago in my bankroll. There's nothing like losing with 10 10 and 9 9 over and over and over and over and over. And if that wasn't painful enough, I was consistently raising 4-7X the big blind when I had premium hands, trying to shake it down to at least 3 to the flop, and everytime I would somehow take 6 guys with me. It was like every table had 5 people that didn't care about their money, but were hellbent on making every starting hand I held essentially worthless everytime I bet, EXCEPT when I would catch trips or make a set on the turn. Then where did that aggressive play go? Completely would vanish. Heck, I would freakin' check to the river and people would just fold. It was one of those days where even when you won, you swear your stack got smaller. Heck, it was one of those days where every bad break someone ELSE got actually really screwed you in the end. One particular moment I recall was a poor fellow who was down to 60 chips with 4 people left at this particular table, and the wild-eyed loon who was chip leader (I was second at the time, with about half his stack) kept pushing this guy in with garbage, and the guy kept calling with KK and QQ or something premium, and before you knew it he was up to like 800 chips. Then, when I would get a hand like an 88 or a 77 that I could put this pesky small stack all-in with, big-stacked loon would PUSH ahead of me, forcing me to fold a marginally good hand, only to watch him blow it with 64 offsuit up against a 10J or something. THEN, when the 3rd biggest stack decided to push this lowstack in, after cursing out big-stacked loon for a while, he managed to somehow get rivered with QQ up against low stacked 44. It was another brutal beat, and the worst part was is that it essentially screwed me the most. I ended up pushing with AQ, of course got a caller with 10J, and after the second 10 fell on the turn, I decided it wasn't my day.
But anyway, such is the life. Who doesn't love sharing their "punch me" stories every once in a while? It's more fun to complain than to recall that $600 dollar suck-out I pulled in my first ever huge MT/NLT on Pacific Poker like 5000 years ago.
So yea, the mood was somber today until I found this little gem. Very funny - and dedicated to a cause that I couldn't agree more with. I wonder if they have old Morgan quotes stashed on there. Maybe the best is his claim about not knowing which direction the sun sets at Wrigley Field, because he "wasn't fimiliar with that park".
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Like Comin' Home
I'm back from Christmas weekend with the family. I will synthesize something here soon. Until then, please accept my sincere wishes for a merry Christmas! Also, please enjoy this little number. It is from the same guy who did the "Mr. Brightside" video I posted a bit ago. If you like his stuff, his name is "quiksilverboy" on YouTube - I highly recommend him - great stuff. I hope he appreciates this shameless plug.
Anyway, enjoy!
More Soon.
Lightning Crashes - Live
Anyway, enjoy!
More Soon.
Lightning Crashes - Live
Sunday, December 24, 2006
A Curious Problem
Every unique thought you have ever had?
It's already been thought of 100 times over.
As I wish you all a merry Christmas Eve from Indiana, I wanted to link up to the blog that currently still holds the name that I was hoping to have for this one.
The fact that there could be two drops in the bucket on the internet isn't terribly remarkable, but man o man, does he have to have that URL? I mean, it clearly hasn't been used in a while - Sept. 20th was the last post.
So...maybe for Christmas, I could get a lovely present from a fellow bucketdropper? A URL present if you will?
Coincidentally, its a pretty cool little page - lots of interesting stuff and posts that make you ponder. I encourage everyone to click on the link and check it out!
It's already been thought of 100 times over.
As I wish you all a merry Christmas Eve from Indiana, I wanted to link up to the blog that currently still holds the name that I was hoping to have for this one.
The fact that there could be two drops in the bucket on the internet isn't terribly remarkable, but man o man, does he have to have that URL? I mean, it clearly hasn't been used in a while - Sept. 20th was the last post.
So...maybe for Christmas, I could get a lovely present from a fellow bucketdropper? A URL present if you will?
Coincidentally, its a pretty cool little page - lots of interesting stuff and posts that make you ponder. I encourage everyone to click on the link and check it out!
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Gato No Tsukai (Silent Library) : The Funniest Videos You Should See Before 2007
Boo - not many comments about the tunes! I have to hold true to my word: no comments, no list.
Instead, I'll only do one. Well, its like 10, but really, its all one idea.
So, instead of a #1-23 like I had planned, I will give you the following videos, all under the rank, #1.
#1. Silent Library, or Gato No Tsukai
This isn't new to people overseas most likely, but I can tell you that this hasn't ever caught on in America. My God, if I can accomplish one thing with this page, I hope it is spread the popularity of this entirely genius and altogether hysterical game.
"Silent Library", or Gato No Tsukai, as it is known in Japan, is a simple little game. The following are some of the episodes that you can find (if you search hard) on YouTube. How nice of me to collect them all right here!
Enjoy.
Silent Library
Silent Library – 2001
Silent Library – 2002
If the 200,000 + hits on the original video on YouTube wasn't enough of a clue, the following videos are evidence that we aren't the first Americans to have the privilege of seeing this stuff. However, I feel that the number is tragically low. More people watch an average NHL game than that - and thats just wrong. Do what's right for humanity, and spread the word!!!
Who is interested in starting our own local chapter??
Silent Library - Reno
Silent Library - Dorm
Silent Library - Birthday
Silent Library - Arizona
Silent Library – Kids Version
A Bonus Extra Video - with a Silent Library Star.
And so, that is it. I hope you enjoyed these. Have an absolutely spectacular Christmas. May your yule log burn brightly.
Instead, I'll only do one. Well, its like 10, but really, its all one idea.
So, instead of a #1-23 like I had planned, I will give you the following videos, all under the rank, #1.
#1. Silent Library, or Gato No Tsukai
This isn't new to people overseas most likely, but I can tell you that this hasn't ever caught on in America. My God, if I can accomplish one thing with this page, I hope it is spread the popularity of this entirely genius and altogether hysterical game.
"Silent Library", or Gato No Tsukai, as it is known in Japan, is a simple little game. The following are some of the episodes that you can find (if you search hard) on YouTube. How nice of me to collect them all right here!
Enjoy.
Silent Library
Silent Library – 2001
Silent Library – 2002
If the 200,000 + hits on the original video on YouTube wasn't enough of a clue, the following videos are evidence that we aren't the first Americans to have the privilege of seeing this stuff. However, I feel that the number is tragically low. More people watch an average NHL game than that - and thats just wrong. Do what's right for humanity, and spread the word!!!
Who is interested in starting our own local chapter??
Silent Library - Reno
Silent Library - Dorm
Silent Library - Birthday
Silent Library - Arizona
Silent Library – Kids Version
A Bonus Extra Video - with a Silent Library Star.
And so, that is it. I hope you enjoyed these. Have an absolutely spectacular Christmas. May your yule log burn brightly.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
23 Videos You Should Check out Before the End of 2006
This post could have taken on many titles, the first of which that came to mind being, "This Blog's First Post that I would Actually Check out if I were You". Instead, though, I decided to go with the title above. When I was putting this together, I was trying to decide, "Should I do, like, 23 songs I love from 2006?" or "Should I do my favorite 23 songs of all-time?". While that was probably the line of thinking that inspired this post, those ideas are something that I fear are beyond my abilities. Instead, what follows are 23 videos, pretty much all music, that I feel you should check out. Some of the titles that are in this list aren't new to anybody - and I guess there's a good reason for that -- if something is well known, it has a chance of being pretty good. However, known or not, many of the following videos are pretty unique, and you probably haven't seen most of these before or heard many of the versions of these songs before. At least I hadn't, before I went out on my hunt to put this all together.
So without further ado, starting with #23 and going to #1, enjoy the following videos! I plan on doing a list of 23 funniest things I've seen on Youtube, too, but only if I get 5 comments/emails about this list. So if you like this, pass this on to someone you know to check it out, and if there's interest, I'd love to post the next list.
Enjoy!
Starting with a regular music video, this is a simply great song by a band that isn't too well known outside of Chicago. If you've never seen the video, though, check it out and get hooked.
#23. Time to Waste - Alkaline Trio
This isn't the last song I have in here from these guys. A very cool live cut.
# 22. A Message - Coldplay
Rolling Meadows, IL, is the hometown of these guys. There isn't much great audio in this clip, but I love seeing those few moments of live energy.
#21. Attention Attention - The Academy Is
"Oh you're reputation's so golden, you're never lonely, and you're never home"..A catchy lyric that for some reason always sticks with me. Enjoy.
#20 Leaving Town - Dexter Freebish
This clip should be way higher than #19. However, I am afraid you'll stop scrolling if you don't see the goods soon. Awesome live version.
#19.The Remedy - Jason Mraz
My favorite song by these guys - played very chill and acoustic.
#18. Hands Open - Snow Patrol
In honor of Christmas, one of the classic arrangements ever written.
#17. Canon - Pachabel
Remember this song? Nothing amazing musically maybe, but great video.
#16. Kick Some Ass - Stroke 9
Another pick that could be so much higher, but I can't wait. Listen to this arrangement - Dave Grohl is definitely a top 5 all-time musician.
#15. Everlong (New Arrangement) - Foo Fighters
You don't have to be a hip-hop fan to know something great when you hear it. One of my favorite songs of the year.
#14. Kick Push - Lupe Fiasco
Just the regular music video, but still a great song.
#13. A Lifetime - Better Than Ezra
Seeing this guy live is the only real way to see how good he really is.
#12. Chariot - Gavin DeGraw
Rarely do covers turn out better than the original. Shinedown does this better than Lynyrd, no question. Just a rediculously great live version.
#11. Simple Man - Shinedown
Note: I don't like this video. I like this song so much, that I put it in a list of videos, just so you could hear it if you never have before.
#10. Needs - Collective Soul
If there was a federal case made about why I wanted to learn piano, this would be my "Exhibit A". You'll love this song 100 times more after hearing it like this. #9. Mr. Brightside - The Killers
100's of people in this crowd realized that this song wasn't by Blues Traveler after all! Great live version.
#8. All For You - Sister Hazel
Weird ass video of an old song that's kick ass. Maybe its good this band broke up, because are a little out there, but hey, good stuff.
#7. Never Say Never - That Dog
This is for the ladies. Enjoy.
#6. Almost Honest - Josh Kelley
Great live version of another old, forgotten song that should be a classic. #5. Seeing Red - Unwritten Law
I'm dedicating this to the U-M hockey girls of 2004-05. You guys could sure party, and this song pretty much reminds me of those times every single time.
#4. Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
I was sitting on my couch, sometime in summer of 2005. I had nothing going on and I was flipping through the channels and came upon this -- I didn't like Coldplay that much before I saw this exact video. It took me about 1 second after listening to this to realize I was about to become a huge fan.
#3. Fix You - Coldplay
#2. Come and Go - Virginia Coalition - I cannot find a good video of this particular song. I have tried to attach an MP3 to this, however, that I hope you click on and can download. I don't know much else to say other than this song is brilliant. If the link doesn't work, immediately download this song on your own.
If you know me well, you are not the least bit surprised to see this at #1. In fact, if you thought I was putting anyone else at #1, you just haven't been paying attention the last 12 years.
#1. Say it Ain't So - Weezer
So without further ado, starting with #23 and going to #1, enjoy the following videos! I plan on doing a list of 23 funniest things I've seen on Youtube, too, but only if I get 5 comments/emails about this list. So if you like this, pass this on to someone you know to check it out, and if there's interest, I'd love to post the next list.
Enjoy!
Starting with a regular music video, this is a simply great song by a band that isn't too well known outside of Chicago. If you've never seen the video, though, check it out and get hooked.
#23. Time to Waste - Alkaline Trio
This isn't the last song I have in here from these guys. A very cool live cut.
# 22. A Message - Coldplay
Rolling Meadows, IL, is the hometown of these guys. There isn't much great audio in this clip, but I love seeing those few moments of live energy.
#21. Attention Attention - The Academy Is
"Oh you're reputation's so golden, you're never lonely, and you're never home"..A catchy lyric that for some reason always sticks with me. Enjoy.
#20 Leaving Town - Dexter Freebish
This clip should be way higher than #19. However, I am afraid you'll stop scrolling if you don't see the goods soon. Awesome live version.
#19.The Remedy - Jason Mraz
My favorite song by these guys - played very chill and acoustic.
#18. Hands Open - Snow Patrol
In honor of Christmas, one of the classic arrangements ever written.
#17. Canon - Pachabel
Remember this song? Nothing amazing musically maybe, but great video.
#16. Kick Some Ass - Stroke 9
Another pick that could be so much higher, but I can't wait. Listen to this arrangement - Dave Grohl is definitely a top 5 all-time musician.
#15. Everlong (New Arrangement) - Foo Fighters
You don't have to be a hip-hop fan to know something great when you hear it. One of my favorite songs of the year.
#14. Kick Push - Lupe Fiasco
Just the regular music video, but still a great song.
#13. A Lifetime - Better Than Ezra
Seeing this guy live is the only real way to see how good he really is.
#12. Chariot - Gavin DeGraw
Rarely do covers turn out better than the original. Shinedown does this better than Lynyrd, no question. Just a rediculously great live version.
#11. Simple Man - Shinedown
Note: I don't like this video. I like this song so much, that I put it in a list of videos, just so you could hear it if you never have before.
#10. Needs - Collective Soul
If there was a federal case made about why I wanted to learn piano, this would be my "Exhibit A". You'll love this song 100 times more after hearing it like this. #9. Mr. Brightside - The Killers
100's of people in this crowd realized that this song wasn't by Blues Traveler after all! Great live version.
#8. All For You - Sister Hazel
Weird ass video of an old song that's kick ass. Maybe its good this band broke up, because are a little out there, but hey, good stuff.
#7. Never Say Never - That Dog
This is for the ladies. Enjoy.
#6. Almost Honest - Josh Kelley
Great live version of another old, forgotten song that should be a classic. #5. Seeing Red - Unwritten Law
I'm dedicating this to the U-M hockey girls of 2004-05. You guys could sure party, and this song pretty much reminds me of those times every single time.
#4. Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
I was sitting on my couch, sometime in summer of 2005. I had nothing going on and I was flipping through the channels and came upon this -- I didn't like Coldplay that much before I saw this exact video. It took me about 1 second after listening to this to realize I was about to become a huge fan.
#3. Fix You - Coldplay
#2. Come and Go - Virginia Coalition - I cannot find a good video of this particular song. I have tried to attach an MP3 to this, however, that I hope you click on and can download. I don't know much else to say other than this song is brilliant. If the link doesn't work, immediately download this song on your own.
If you know me well, you are not the least bit surprised to see this at #1. In fact, if you thought I was putting anyone else at #1, you just haven't been paying attention the last 12 years.
#1. Say it Ain't So - Weezer
Monday, December 18, 2006
Post-Game Notes
I can't seem to get this shot to appear bigger on the site. Go to Crossfit.com and click on the picture (its on the front page) - it will enlarge. The expressions on the two girls' faces are priceless. Oh, if only every kid could have such awesome influences around them - goodbye, diabetes, hello, life!
So, the card game I played on Friday turned out to be a fun-filled event, but it didn't really resemble cards. Oh well, its not like it wasn't a great time. I don't care how serious you are about playing, if you can't enjoy an old-fashioned BS-fest for $10, with all the beer and pizza you can handle for 6 hours, than you my friend, are not a man.
I will be out of town starting Saturday, and there is a lot of stuff I want to get up here before I go. I've been trying to get links up the side of here with many of the bands I like (or I've been told out), but I'm still seriously lacking in content right now. It would be nice to have enough up by New Year's to allow anyone who stopped to check out the page to find a new band that they haven't heard of before.
I plan on getting a few end-of-year lists up here, too. I'm thinkin' a YouTube Top 23, a mp3/video (not sure which yet) Top 23, a Top 23 things to do in 2007, and another list that will be a surprise- but I think it could be a hit. We will see. I want to do it to help someone I used to know pretty well, but I am not entirely sure how to go about doing it. I'll explain what the hell I'm talking about when I begin that list. Anyway, until then, enjoy another plug from me for Crossfit, and see ya in a day.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Three things to leave you with
So, I decided I can write on a few things after all. I am about to engage in a live poker night for the first time in so so long. I'm beyond content. Anyway, before I go, let me share with you three things that I just can't stand anymore.
1. Credit cards for people with bad credit. I am seeing these ads everywhere.
If you go inside to get your order, you should get priority ahead of people in drive thru, if anything. Screw that. And if your car line gets too long to process the orders that way, then tough, hire someone smarter who can organize pre-made sandwiches and pre-timed fried foods in a more efficient fashion.
3. People spending 10 minutes circling the parking lot, looking for a close space to park next to the gym.
Someone agrees with me.
I'm not sure if I need to explain this one. You are attempting to pay money to use a facility that will increase your physical conditioning and well-being by engaging in activity. If you are trying to park as close as possible to this place of business, you might be getting a workout, but you are definitely not getting the POINT.
1. Credit cards for people with bad credit. I am seeing these ads everywhere.
Here's an example of one. Asses.
http://www.creditcards.com/bad-credit.php
First of all, if you sell these things, you're probably going to hell. Let's see, who should we make money off of.. I know! People who desperately need money! It is as bad as camping out overnight at the Goodwill Store in your finest, most expensive suit, the day before you know a bunch of needy individuals are going to be there shopping, and then once the place opens, breaking out $2,000, and buying every piece of clothing in the place. Then, you proceed walking the bags out, one by one into your SUV, as you pass the needy folks staring in disbelief and disappointment
2. Drive-thru people always taking precendent over me, standing in line to pick-up my to-go order from a fast-food place.
If you go inside to get your order, you should get priority ahead of people in drive thru, if anything. Screw that. And if your car line gets too long to process the orders that way, then tough, hire someone smarter who can organize pre-made sandwiches and pre-timed fried foods in a more efficient fashion.
3. People spending 10 minutes circling the parking lot, looking for a close space to park next to the gym.
Someone agrees with me.
I'm not sure if I need to explain this one. You are attempting to pay money to use a facility that will increase your physical conditioning and well-being by engaging in activity. If you are trying to park as close as possible to this place of business, you might be getting a workout, but you are definitely not getting the POINT.
If anyone out there is about to circle the parking lot at their gym for 10 minutes, then give up and go through a McDonald's drive-thru with their bad-credit credit card, and they get their food ahead of me, I will end you.
Fighting back after a bad beat
So I was all about to get started putting together some random things for the weekend, when I ended up getting a call telling me some very sad news. To my friend and his family, my thoughts are with you - I pray that this will lead to a truly inspirational story of triumph and recovery.
I had also planned on posting a couple of very funny videos I found on the Internet, including some a new invention that I think should hit the market sometime very soon. I then noticed that they all had a common theme in them, though, that in light of the incident that happened I really don't feel comfortable posting about this stuff yet.
The only thing I had planned on posting that I think I will is this link: http://www.jackdaniels.com/bottlechoose.asp
Why? Not because I like Jack Daniel's.
As all alcoholic beverage advertisement and information pieces have, this particular page also notes that those that imbibe should "always drink responsibly."
Drink Jack Daniel's responsibly?
Has anyone, EVER, in the history of alcohol, drunk Jack Daniel's responsibly? Is that even possible? Is there a tracable amount of JD that someone could consciously digest that would leave them in a state that they could effectively navigate a go-kart, much less a vehicle?
I have an idea to help solve this issue, but I'm going to hold off on it for now. All I'll say is...
It's isn't that drinking and driving can be tragic. It is always tragic.
I had also planned on posting a couple of very funny videos I found on the Internet, including some a new invention that I think should hit the market sometime very soon. I then noticed that they all had a common theme in them, though, that in light of the incident that happened I really don't feel comfortable posting about this stuff yet.
The only thing I had planned on posting that I think I will is this link: http://www.jackdaniels.com/bottlechoose.asp
Why? Not because I like Jack Daniel's.
As all alcoholic beverage advertisement and information pieces have, this particular page also notes that those that imbibe should "always drink responsibly."
Drink Jack Daniel's responsibly?
Has anyone, EVER, in the history of alcohol, drunk Jack Daniel's responsibly? Is that even possible? Is there a tracable amount of JD that someone could consciously digest that would leave them in a state that they could effectively navigate a go-kart, much less a vehicle?
I have an idea to help solve this issue, but I'm going to hold off on it for now. All I'll say is...
It's isn't that drinking and driving can be tragic. It is always tragic.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Mini-Charities and Forward Thinking
A different kind of charitable auction
Quite an interesting angle on charitable giving, don't you think?
Aside from the headline story in this little article/blog, I think this is an interesting post I found on two topics that are dear to me: The Freakonomics book that I enjoyed so thoroughly and highly recommend, and innovative and creative charities. Check out the comments left by some of the readers.
I will be harvesting many of the links you can find on this page for my own, so I hope you find something that piques your interest.
A wide variety of stuff to come - this is all for now.
Quite an interesting angle on charitable giving, don't you think?
Aside from the headline story in this little article/blog, I think this is an interesting post I found on two topics that are dear to me: The Freakonomics book that I enjoyed so thoroughly and highly recommend, and innovative and creative charities. Check out the comments left by some of the readers.
I will be harvesting many of the links you can find on this page for my own, so I hope you find something that piques your interest.
A wide variety of stuff to come - this is all for now.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Christmas Gift Ideas
Anyone you know tough to buy for this Christmas season? Here is a couple of ideas - Looking for someone to go on the Proffitt Sandwich run this month - anyone interested, let me know. If you don't know what it is, there's a link along the side of this page somewhere.
Thanks to a friend, who I totally stole this video link from.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Some rules for us to live by
So I've spent the last few posts having a little fun - teasing those of you who call raises looking for runner-runners, aces on the river, and other various suck-out specials. and I think most of us every once in a while feel like screaming when we see some of that harry-high-school BS take the money right out of our hands.
If you've never gotten into playing online, and had taken some impressions of the whole matter from my last few rants, I'd have to guess that I wouldn't exactly be doing much of a sales job on the whole thing. If you can blow 60 bucks on one day of bad beats and goofy card-god screw jobs, why is it worth risking anything on it at all?
But know that in the long haul, I've made a little extra spending CAYSH (as well as some sentimental purchases, i.e. first car) through the whole process, and typically you can do the same if you have the ability to do so.
Bankroll
There are a lot of ideas already out there on this matter. This is my feeling:
Don't buy in with $50 bucks and expect to cash out $500 by the end of the week.
Sometimes I think back to my $10 bucks to $850 buck run of a couple of years ago. You can't really think about that kind of stuff with any realistic expectation of it happening. These rediculous goals will get you into games that are too high limit for your bankroll (entering a $20 buck tourney with $50 bucks to work with).
Listen, only play with what you can afford to lose. Make it a goal to never put money in more than once. (I haven't put any in in almost a year). If you want to start out with $50, thats cool, but play with the expectation of winning 5-10 bucks in a week. Seriously, thats almost a %20 return, and that beats the hell out of any stock or bond, so look at it that way!
Also, a word on what type of games to play:
I will say this:
1. I hate cash games where buy in is $50 or less. This money means little to most of the people playing and it shows. You will either be up $100 in an hour, or out your whole $50. At least in my experience.
2. I never play re-buy/add-ons. Ever.
As for the rest? I am not sure, I think you can safely do about anything else. The low limit games will be wild, and bad beats will get you from time to time. But hey, it is also the 'easiest money', so there ya go.
Oh, and I would never ever get into this stuff without at least 15X20 banked in the limit you are playing. What I mean is this:
If you play $20 NL sit and go's, I'd think you should start with a minimum of $300-400. That way, ifyou lose 6-7 in a row, you can still win 3 and be right where you started. If you lose 6-7 in a row startin with $200-100, than, well, goodbye money.
As far as cash, if you have $400, than I'd get into cash games. If not, I personally wouldn't start getting involved at all, because no limit is small enough to be adequately backed by $100 or less.
Strategy: What to play
Determine what you are good at. Try to stick to it. I love tournaments. I think it was born from beginning my play with no real bankroll, without the ability to win any big stakes unless I won a HUGE tournament. So, my style is suited to knocking out bad players, winning a few big hands, trying to stay afloat long enough to make a run and becoming a factor to win the whole thing in the end. My style isn't that loose, so if I don't get cards I can lose a good deal of money from the blinds and loose calls in a cash game. Also, I rarely feel that much satisfaction winning 1%-10% of my starting bankroll at a table, which you need to learn to do in order to make consistent money in ring games. To steal a line from the Boo-yah! king, "Bulls make money, Bears make money, Hogs get slaughtered." So if you like to make steady cash and have the skill to handle big swings, be a cash game guy. If you like the challenge of bearing down to win the big prize, I'd suggest learning tournament play.
More on picking your games...
Once you realize what you are good at, I would suggest sticking to it. Let me give you a common mistake I make:
10$ NL sit-n-go, 3rd place
10$ NL sit-n-go, 2nd place
10$ NL sit-n-go, DNF
10$ NL sit-n-go, 1st place
30$ NL sit-n-go, DNF
so lets see, we won %60 that day. Took home a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place all within one day, and what is there to show for it?
Less than 25 bucks. Wanna see how?
(10+1)4 = 44
(30 +3) = 33
total spent = 77
$20 win
$30 win
$50 win
total winning = 100
+/- = $23
$23?? demoralizing!!! You just won %60 of your matches and only walked away with 30% profit.
True, one 1st place in the $30 game using the winnings from the other games would have been a BIG BIG gain. And once in a while, (if you are playing with winnings on the day) you can go ahead and do this, BUT, statistically, you're not likely to cash in %80 your tourneys in a day. The best guys are somewhere around %50 of them.
Had I stuck with the gameplan for the day:
$10 NL sit-n-go = 3rd place
$10 NL sit-n-go = 2nd place
$10 NL sit-n-go = DNF
$10 NL sit-n-go = 1st place
$10 NL sit-n-go = DNF
Winnings = $100
Spent = $55
+/- = $45
Almost %90 profit!
Again, you can try to cash in on a good day by increasing the limits you are playing sometimes, but realize its BAD ODDS. You're prowess at playing DOES make you a good contender to win at any level, but the laws of statistics can't be ignored, and no matter who you are, winning a big streak of games in a row isn't likely. All it is likely to do is make you angry you did all that winning and ended up with little to show for it. This could lead to going on tilt next time, trying to get back all that "imagined profit" you "should have had".
Anyway, any ideas of your own, feel free to comment and I will post them. I would continue, but I gotta run and see if I find any good Christmas presents for the family.....
If you are good at poker, you can make some money. If you think it's the lotto, it will end up being the lotto. And how many of your friends have won the lotto?
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Cheat at Poker. 100% Legal!
I am about to reveal to you a foolproof way to cheat at online poker. It's totally legal and can be used at a variety of sites, such as absolute, bodog..etc. Its been working now for too long, and I feel like I must finally put a kabash to this once and for all. This is no poker scam or computer program, this is most effective form of cheating available, and I trust that you all will use this information for the greater good, instead of evil (riiiiiiggghhhht hah).
What is this?
Its so simple, its painful.
Ready?
Yes. that's right. People are putting up pictures of hot girls as their "player faces" or "player pics" or whatever you call them. They are the images that show up around the table on the sites that allow for images.
How is this cheating? What are you suggesting? Are you suggesting that people will intentionally lose their money to players who they think are hot girls?
I am not suggesting that. I am telling you that. This is a fact.
I have many stories that completely prove this to be true, but my favorite is from a Multi-Table $50 NL/Hold-Em tourney I played a while ago. There were somewhere around 300 players in the tournament, and I ended up at a table with one player who had a picture up of a pretty attractive woman. Regardless of whether or not it was really her was besides the point.
This player, we will call her {pokergirl} - had about 1/10th the average stack with around 100 players left to go. She pushed a couple of times, even out of position, in a desperate attempt to hang around. Something kept happening.
Everyone would fold.
"NH {pokergirl}"
"{pokergirl}, where in TX are you from?"
"I'd like to see ya stick around {pokergirl}".
At first I didn't believe what I was seeing. People were folding in situations you HAD to call. People with big blinds out that were about 7/8ths the size of her whole stack. No matter what, she NEVER had to go all-in against more than one person.
Everytime someone would call her all-in, everyone after would fold religiously.
"Go {pokergirl}!"
"You are on one heckuva run baby!"
"VNH {pokergirl}"
"way to go!"
It was insane. After about an hour of this I realized, these people weren't even playing poker. I was sitting at a table of 9 (probably 10) grown men, all flirting with the photograph they saw on the screen.
"Aw thanks u guys!" she would say.
"u guyz are sweet!~@"
"nh {dumbass cracker} - ure quite a playa!"
{Pokergirl} was playing right into it, too. And loving every second of it. She/He stayed at around 1/10th - 1/15th the average stack, for WAY longer than humanly possible in a card game. Everytime someone had a chance to knock her out, it was folded. Everytime she was on the big blind, everyone became as active as Dan Harrington in a coma.
Not only were people acting directly into the interests of this {pokergirl}, but the dudes around the table even decided to have contests of manliness every 2 or 3 hands, where big stacks were going at each other with the ferocity of a wolverine, and the intelligence of a donkey.
I know poker players are often big dumb idiots. But even I never thought it would get to be this bad.
{pokergirl} never once had more chips than me at the table except once. She ended up finishing in 8th place -- not bad considering she should've been gone 3 hours before that. I ended up making a little coin as well, taking 12th place. But I left with a taste of injustice in my mouth, for I had seen the best con-job ever pulled at a poker table, and I hated {pokergirl} for it.
Why? Well, again, simple. I was mad that I didn't think of it first.
Giving your money away to a hot girl at the poker table will not help your chances of sleeping with her. Especially if the girl is 12,301 miles away, and also happens to be a 45 year-old balding man.
What is this?
Its so simple, its painful.
Ready?
Yes. that's right. People are putting up pictures of hot girls as their "player faces" or "player pics" or whatever you call them. They are the images that show up around the table on the sites that allow for images.
How is this cheating? What are you suggesting? Are you suggesting that people will intentionally lose their money to players who they think are hot girls?
I am not suggesting that. I am telling you that. This is a fact.
I have many stories that completely prove this to be true, but my favorite is from a Multi-Table $50 NL/Hold-Em tourney I played a while ago. There were somewhere around 300 players in the tournament, and I ended up at a table with one player who had a picture up of a pretty attractive woman. Regardless of whether or not it was really her was besides the point.
This player, we will call her {pokergirl} - had about 1/10th the average stack with around 100 players left to go. She pushed a couple of times, even out of position, in a desperate attempt to hang around. Something kept happening.
Everyone would fold.
"NH {pokergirl}"
"{pokergirl}, where in TX are you from?"
"I'd like to see ya stick around {pokergirl}".
At first I didn't believe what I was seeing. People were folding in situations you HAD to call. People with big blinds out that were about 7/8ths the size of her whole stack. No matter what, she NEVER had to go all-in against more than one person.
Everytime someone would call her all-in, everyone after would fold religiously.
"Go {pokergirl}!"
"You are on one heckuva run baby!"
"VNH {pokergirl}"
"way to go!"
It was insane. After about an hour of this I realized, these people weren't even playing poker. I was sitting at a table of 9 (probably 10) grown men, all flirting with the photograph they saw on the screen.
"Aw thanks u guys!" she would say.
"u guyz are sweet!~@"
"nh {dumbass cracker} - ure quite a playa!"
{Pokergirl} was playing right into it, too. And loving every second of it. She/He stayed at around 1/10th - 1/15th the average stack, for WAY longer than humanly possible in a card game. Everytime someone had a chance to knock her out, it was folded. Everytime she was on the big blind, everyone became as active as Dan Harrington in a coma.
Not only were people acting directly into the interests of this {pokergirl}, but the dudes around the table even decided to have contests of manliness every 2 or 3 hands, where big stacks were going at each other with the ferocity of a wolverine, and the intelligence of a donkey.
I know poker players are often big dumb idiots. But even I never thought it would get to be this bad.
{pokergirl} never once had more chips than me at the table except once. She ended up finishing in 8th place -- not bad considering she should've been gone 3 hours before that. I ended up making a little coin as well, taking 12th place. But I left with a taste of injustice in my mouth, for I had seen the best con-job ever pulled at a poker table, and I hated {pokergirl} for it.
Why? Well, again, simple. I was mad that I didn't think of it first.
Giving your money away to a hot girl at the poker table will not help your chances of sleeping with her. Especially if the girl is 12,301 miles away, and also happens to be a 45 year-old balding man.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
An Ode to the Skill of Online Poker Players: A Tale of 60 Dollars.
To those who recieved a portion of my 60 dollars last night, I bid you congratulations!
You, who called me with 10 4 offsuit, against my AQ suited, you stole the last 5 dollars from the gold rush bonanza that was my small bankroll yesterday evening. You got the last lucky buck from my brimming plethora of cowboy coin! You especially had me when that A 10 5 flop came, you knew exactly how to push my buttons! Whether it was the re-raise you called on the turn, where an 8 of clubs quietly clouded my visions of victory, or the mastery in which you called my 400 chip raise on the river, I can say little more than bravo. You never forgot that old mantra, "Call the pre-flop raise with any two, and wait for the 10 on the river save you."
But you, sir, were but a small winner in yesterday's who's who of poker genius and skill last evening. Others made off with much more of my foolish bounty! For instance, how about the owner of the K5 that hit on the river against my JJ! Whoever that savy smithy of cardsmanship was, you my friend, are an idol and an inspiration! The poise you showed when calling those lowly JJ preflop, 7 handed, was only surpassed by the ferocity you showed in your finishing "All-in" after the K on the river! Alas! I have forgotten your budda-like wisdom and grace while making the substantial blind calls on the turn and 4th street! Surely knowing I held top pair until the very end, you baited me and baited me until I couldn't help but fall for your irresistible K5 beartrap.
There is so many others, I wish I had the voice to boom my heartfelt praise upon you all from the highest mountain! I can at least take comfort knowing I was not befuddled and confounded by mere fools: you are all masters of your craft. I will take your lessons, oh poker prophets, and with great perseverence and persistence, I hope to one day achieve your levels of enlightenment. I realize this will take time, for I know I don't possess the guile nor the God-given ability to play 84 off-suit all in heads up, short-stacked after having tricked the opponent into thinking they had the match won by letting them call with AQ suited. Boy, when that 84 hit and won the pot, your moxy and grit showed through like no other. Imagine my surprise, however, when I learned that the skill you displayed in that hand was not reserved to a single showing! The 7J off suit seemed small at first against my A10, but as the cards fell down I realized that I was once again part of a plan much too grandiose for my short vision to fully comprehend. I'm guessing I was blessed enough to see a small glimpse of it, though, when later in the match I felt compelled to raise your "call" offering with KQ, only to be outrun to the finish line by K8.
Encore, Encore!!
When my 10 Q hit on the 10 Q 8 flop in the 6 handed $12 game, I was a bit down on my luck and waiting to strike back against the countless cash capers that had confounded me. In this particular case, my 400 chip raise to the man that had out lasted me with such great hands as Q4 suited and 610 of diamonds seemed like a noble effort to return some of the game's chips to their once rightful owner. But like a great poker legend, you knew when to put the hammer down. "J9 is all he can beat me with" I said to myself in a desperate attempt to win the prize, trying to feel a smile coming on inside over what I thought was an impending vict'ry.
The showdown was my instead to my demise, as your skillful CGI hands flipped over the winning hand, J9. My will dashed once again, I thought your play to be childish and reckless, one that relied simply on luck and a prayer. That was, until, I realized that you had called my 4X big blind raise before the flop! Ha, I truly am an apprentice, fine sir, and you, you are the master.
I do have one small crumb of hope however. It is this, though these poker lessons I have been taught are still above my current level of comprehension, another lesson of easier digestion has come to rest alongside. I've learned that when playing for such small fortunes as the ones I play for, card playing even as poorly novice as mine, catches enough lucky twists of fate to return a small profit.
When playing for less than $20 at a time, know that you will have days where you should be up $160, BUT some dickhead had a horseshoe up his ass.
You, who called me with 10 4 offsuit, against my AQ suited, you stole the last 5 dollars from the gold rush bonanza that was my small bankroll yesterday evening. You got the last lucky buck from my brimming plethora of cowboy coin! You especially had me when that A 10 5 flop came, you knew exactly how to push my buttons! Whether it was the re-raise you called on the turn, where an 8 of clubs quietly clouded my visions of victory, or the mastery in which you called my 400 chip raise on the river, I can say little more than bravo. You never forgot that old mantra, "Call the pre-flop raise with any two, and wait for the 10 on the river save you."
But you, sir, were but a small winner in yesterday's who's who of poker genius and skill last evening. Others made off with much more of my foolish bounty! For instance, how about the owner of the K5 that hit on the river against my JJ! Whoever that savy smithy of cardsmanship was, you my friend, are an idol and an inspiration! The poise you showed when calling those lowly JJ preflop, 7 handed, was only surpassed by the ferocity you showed in your finishing "All-in" after the K on the river! Alas! I have forgotten your budda-like wisdom and grace while making the substantial blind calls on the turn and 4th street! Surely knowing I held top pair until the very end, you baited me and baited me until I couldn't help but fall for your irresistible K5 beartrap.
There is so many others, I wish I had the voice to boom my heartfelt praise upon you all from the highest mountain! I can at least take comfort knowing I was not befuddled and confounded by mere fools: you are all masters of your craft. I will take your lessons, oh poker prophets, and with great perseverence and persistence, I hope to one day achieve your levels of enlightenment. I realize this will take time, for I know I don't possess the guile nor the God-given ability to play 84 off-suit all in heads up, short-stacked after having tricked the opponent into thinking they had the match won by letting them call with AQ suited. Boy, when that 84 hit and won the pot, your moxy and grit showed through like no other. Imagine my surprise, however, when I learned that the skill you displayed in that hand was not reserved to a single showing! The 7J off suit seemed small at first against my A10, but as the cards fell down I realized that I was once again part of a plan much too grandiose for my short vision to fully comprehend. I'm guessing I was blessed enough to see a small glimpse of it, though, when later in the match I felt compelled to raise your "call" offering with KQ, only to be outrun to the finish line by K8.
Encore, Encore!!
When my 10 Q hit on the 10 Q 8 flop in the 6 handed $12 game, I was a bit down on my luck and waiting to strike back against the countless cash capers that had confounded me. In this particular case, my 400 chip raise to the man that had out lasted me with such great hands as Q4 suited and 610 of diamonds seemed like a noble effort to return some of the game's chips to their once rightful owner. But like a great poker legend, you knew when to put the hammer down. "J9 is all he can beat me with" I said to myself in a desperate attempt to win the prize, trying to feel a smile coming on inside over what I thought was an impending vict'ry.
The showdown was my instead to my demise, as your skillful CGI hands flipped over the winning hand, J9. My will dashed once again, I thought your play to be childish and reckless, one that relied simply on luck and a prayer. That was, until, I realized that you had called my 4X big blind raise before the flop! Ha, I truly am an apprentice, fine sir, and you, you are the master.
I do have one small crumb of hope however. It is this, though these poker lessons I have been taught are still above my current level of comprehension, another lesson of easier digestion has come to rest alongside. I've learned that when playing for such small fortunes as the ones I play for, card playing even as poorly novice as mine, catches enough lucky twists of fate to return a small profit.
When playing for less than $20 at a time, know that you will have days where you should be up $160, BUT some dickhead had a horseshoe up his ass.
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