Grrrr, bad poker day (but one good hand)
Yesterday sucked. Lost about 80 big bets. Fortunately I've done well this month, so I'm still up over $3k since Oct. 1. I did have a fun session yesterday, though. Playing 25/50 heads up, I've got my...
View ArticleA good poker day
My last post was complaining about a bad poker day. Recovery is easy, right? Just keep playing! If it were only that easy. But today it was: My first five figure day at limit poker - and I only played...
View ArticleWant to bet?
Bodog has a line on "What will Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck name their first-born child?" (at the bottom of the page.) They're offering 200:1 on "Bennifer". If anybody wants to make that bet, I'll...
View ArticleKa-ching!
It looks like I was ahead the entire time, but it sure was nice to hit the only turn card in the entire deck that I like:Briefly: AcAh, capped five ways preflop, capped five ways on the flop Kh 9d 2d,...
View ArticleInteresting river action
How often do you see this river action: Three handed, it goes bet call raise, call raise call, raise call call! The hand: I'm in the big blind, 3 handed 15/30 game. Button (decent player) raises, SB...
View ArticleWhat we had...
The holdings for yesterday's post are behind the cut. If you haven't guessed yet, please do! I had Th4h for a medium high flush. I put SBFish on nothing, and hoped the button would too - I really did...
View ArticleCat toys
Kids + Halloween = lots of candy around. So what do my cats decide? Lollipops are the toy of choice. To the extent that they get up on the table, knock over the halloween bags, pick up a lollipop, and...
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My new baby
Finally bought myself a new (to me) car. A little more comfortable than my beater '92 Dodge Dakota:1998 Audi A4 2.8l Quattro (that's AWD) 5spd, heated leather seats, Bose stereo package, etc.I've never...
View ArticleBored, but Vegas in Jan.
Pleasantly bored. I guess that's what a couple of beers on an empty stomach will do for you. I'm just kinda browsing the web, reading miscellaneous LiveJournal entries, etc. There are some neat people...
View ArticleA "fortune"
Gambling ring on reality TV smashed Five guys with inside knowledge made bets on reality TV and got away with $186,000. The article states "An Internet gambling site has smashed a betting scam that...
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I knew LiveJournal was incestuous...
... but this seems a bit extreme:I am a member of 2 cliques of size 8patrissimo, chrishartman, prock, undersupervised, jonathankaplan, hgfalling, sabyl, terrencechanrcfox, terrencechan, prock,...
View ArticleCancer's a bitch
My best friend from Jr. High and High School:John B. KoslickFormer resident John "Wolf" B. Koslick, 35, lost his battle with cancer Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006, at Samaritan Albany General Hospital.He was...
View ArticlePoker going well...
Well, given that I lost over 350 big bets (playing 30/60) Sunday-Wednesday last week. I'd say ending the last eight days with a pofit is pretty good.It amazes me that people used to be able to play pro...
View ArticleSay what?
Browsing the nutrition information while waiting far too long for a lousy dinner last night:% Daily value of Vitamin A:10 pc Chicken McNuggets: 420 pc Chicken McNuggets: 6% Daily value of Vitamin C:10...
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Wasting time on puzzles...
captaino posts some interesting math puzzles. In puzzle #10, he asks for a number where multiplying by 7 moves a 7 from the end to the beginning. (A short example with 4 is 4*102564=410256). I wasted...
View ArticleNothing exciting to say
Heh, like lots of others, I haven't been keeping up with blog posts lately. Never sure what I want to blog about. Poker's going well, that's a bit of an understatement. School's almost out, I have only...
View Article$1500 limit holdem WSOP (Event 4)
Full report of my $1500 WSOP limit holdem event.My first table has Shawn Sheikhan (http://www.bluffmagazine.com/players/playerBIOs.asp?playerID=919) at it, although he showed up late. He is as much of...
View ArticlePoker is fun...
Ahhhh, what a day.Mostly working on some programming projects, but after dinner the 100/200 game on stars looked great. I'd had a couple of glasses of wine, but it was THAT good. So I sat. And won. And...
View ArticleHappy Anniversary to me!
I've been married 15 years today. I forgot about my anniversary until yesterday, when my wife said "What are we doing for our anniversary tomorrow?"She wasn't mad.That's (part of) why I've been married...
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Meme
What the heck, I filled it out on tom_bayes LJ and answered yes to the last question, so I suppose I should put it here.1. Your Middle Name:2. Age:3. Single or Taken:4. Favorite Movie:5. Favorite...
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