I'll save you the apologies and whatever. If you're reading this right now, you are really desperate for content... :)
I guess it's been a bit, but you know that and you all have similar reasons, except those of you who are just deranged enough to write because you actually have something of value to say.
It turns out I went and bought one of these today:
I've wanted a Mercedes for a long time and this one fell in to my lap. The kicker is that I'm flying up to St. Paul on Friday and driving it back to Georgia. My journey will take me through Madison, Chicago, Indy and Nashville. I figured I'd let you know in case my route takes me through your parts. Feel free to comment here or contact me otherwise if you want a visit.
I'm looking forward to Mastodon weekend after that, as I will run/walk my crippled fat ass through the 5K then find a place place I can get as horizontal as possible.
It has been a long month since we've last heard from your hero. The wife and I have a fabu trip to Costa Rica two and a half weeks ago...geez that feels like months ago. We had an adventurous week full of canopy touring, river rafting, site seeing, and walking....LOTS of walking. Maybe one of these days I'll actually take the time to post some pics, but hey, who am I kidding?
Work proceeded to squarely kick me in the junk upon my return and I have had my head down since.
I managed to play in a few of the BBT4 events, but I just suck. I made a decent run at the Big Game, but got way too tight after I accumulated a nice stack from a turned nut flush draw and a pre-flop AK vs Hammer dual that held up.
Tonight I go to my first live Baseball game of the season. My son and his baseball team get to go onto the field before the game for some sort of fund raiser award.
Speaking of the Braves, I think what they did to Tom Glavine is just despicable. I've never held Schuerholtz in very high regard and now I think he is just trash. Tom is absolutely one of the best Braves of all time and to string him along then make up some BS about his ability is just plain false. Plain and simple the greedy fuckers didn't want to pay the 1 million roster bonus he earned by rehabbing and getting ready to pitch. So in short, the Braves upper management can bite me. They've shown they have no interest in how they look to the fans of their team.
This time I came into the final table as the leader and gave it up with about 4 players left. With three left, Smokkee had a nice lead on the table and I was second. I pushed QQ and was called by wwonka's AT which obviously turned into a FH for him. The very next hand I pushed AJ and smokk doublled me up with AT. I took my time and finally got a few hands in a row. After a bit, I was in the BB with 2Td and faced a 3x raise vs smokk...I decided to see a flop. I flopped 2P on a 5d Tc 2c board with smokkee holding K7c. I check called the push and dodged all his outs.
Willwonka and I both mentioned deja-vu since we were in this spot just a couple weeks ago. I played the hammer on the first hand of heads up and wwonka just had no chance... I got TT, AQ, AA and finished him off with JTd vs Jx. Good times.
Next week everyone gets their change to tilt waffles as he has a bounty on his head, so sign up early and we'll see you Thursday if I can make it.
I know all the Matrix tourneys are all the rage right now on Full Tilt. I refuse to deposit there anymore just out of sheer hard-headedness, so I've been plying my trade on Stars for the past couple of weeks. I happened upon their 'double or nothing' SNG's and I'm loving them (enable doom switch now).
The table starts with ten and if you manage to outlast 5 of your opponents, you double up! (minus the vigorish)
I'm currently on fire with these all the way up to the $100 level, I have cashed in every single attempt. As you would imagine the play is generally frog's ass tight in the early stages. I usually will take a stab with an open range early on to accumulate a few chips for the mid-levels when the table decides to wake up. Take note, these are turbos and the ante' starts up around the 50/100 level. These are great for me, since I can usually slate only about an hour or so to play.
I would be interested in hitting up the re-buy donkfest set up by Numb, so let me know if you'd like some cash on Stars and we can swap.
BTW....I am continuing to cross post at www.iam23skidoo.com. I will move there exclusively in December.
Cheers all, sorry I'm not posting often I just don't have much to say.
I know all the Matrix tourneys are all the rage right now on Full Tilt. I refuse to deposit there anymore just out of sheer hard-headedness, so I've been plying my trade on Stars for the past couple of weeks. I happened upon their 'double or nothing' SNG's and I'm loving them (enable doom switch now).
The table starts with ten and if you manage to outlast 5 of your opponents, you double up! (minus the vigorish)
I'm currently on fire with these all the way up to the $100 level, I have cashed in every single attempt. As you would imagine the play is generally frog's ass tight in the early stages. I usually will take a stab with an open range early on to accumulate a few chips for the mid-levels when the table decides to wake up. Take note, these are turbos and the ante' starts up around the 50/100 level. These are great for me, since I can usually slate only about an hour or so to play.
I would be interested in hitting up the re-buy donkfest set up by Numb and Dank, so let me know if you'd like some cash on Stars and we can swap.
Cheers all, sorry I'm not posting often I just don't have much to say.
Can we just go start a new America somewhere else?
Use some Common Sense. We need to find a viable way out of this hole, Washington will not help us.
I also played the Riverchasers last night and won the damn thing. Here are just a few examples of cardrackery.
Hand 12 - Presto Sucks Full Tilt Poker Game #8323166237: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 20/40 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:12:02 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 5: iam23skidoo (3,265) Seat 6: cemfredmd (3,090) Dealt to iam23skidoo [7s 8d] cemfredmd raises to 80 muhctim calls 80 iam23skidoo calls 40 *** FLOP *** [4h 7d 8h] iam23skidoo checks cemfredmd bets 80 iam23skidoo calls 80 *** TURN *** [4h 7d 8h] [4d] cemfredmd bets 80 iam23skidoo raises to 200 cemfredmd calls 120 *** RIVER *** [4h 7d 8h 4d] [2s] iam23skidoo bets 40 cemfredmd calls 40 *** SHOW DOWN *** iam23skidoo shows [7s 8d] two pair, Eights and Sevens Board: [4h 7d 8h 4d 2s] Seat 5: iam23skidoo (big blind) showed [7s 8d] and won (900) with two pair, Eights and Sevens Seat 6: cemfredmd mucked [5c 5d] - two pair, Fives and Fours
Hand 14 - Flush Draw no goot.
Full Tilt Poker Game #8323196120: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 20/40 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:14:16 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 3: NumbBono (2,915) Seat 5: iam23skidoo (3,625) *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Kh Qh] NumbBono raises to 120 iam23skidoo raises to 240 NumbBono calls 120 *** FLOP *** [5s Qs Jc] NumbBono checks iam23skidoo bets 500 NumbBono calls 500 *** TURN *** [5s Qs Jc] [Jh] NumbBono checks iam23skidoo checks *** RIVER *** [5s Qs Jc Jh] [3c] NumbBono checks iam23skidoo checks iam23skidoo shows [Kh Qh] two pair, Queens and Jacks iam23skidoo wins the pot (1,540) with two pair, Queens and Jacks Seat 3: NumbBono mucked [Ks 4s] - a pair of Jacks Seat 5: iam23skidoo (button) showed [Kh Qh] and won (1,540) with two pair, Queens and Jacks
Hand 32 - PP GOOT
Full Tilt Poker Game #8323381890: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:28:06 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 5: iam23skidoo (3,965) Seat 7: muhctim (3,135) *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [6s 6d] iam23skidoo raises to 350 muhctim calls 250 *** FLOP *** [Qd 9h Qc] iam23skidoo bets 650 Uncalled bet of 650 returned to iam23skidoo
Hand 33 - BS or Big Slick?
Full Tilt Poker Game #8323396467: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:29:10 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 5: iam23skidoo (4,365) Seat 6: cemfredmd (2,335) Seat 8: pktqueenz4me (2,807) *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Ac Ks] iam23skidoo raises to 200 cemfredmd calls 175 pktqueenz4me calls 150 *** FLOP *** [Ad 4h 8s] iam23skidoo bets 500 cemfredmd raises to 2,135, and is all in iam23skidoo calls 1,635 cemfredmd shows [Jd Ah] iam23skidoo shows [Ac Ks] *** RIVER *** [Ad 4h 8s 4s] [8d] iam23skidoo wins the pot (4,920) with two pair, Aces and Eights Seat 5: iam23skidoo (button) showed [Ac Ks] and won (4,920) with two pair, Aces and Eights Seat 6: cemfredmd (small blind) showed [Jd Ah] and lost with two pair, Aces and Eights
Hand 35 ... from the clutches of defeat. At least I said I'm sorry.
Full Tilt Poker Game #8323421187: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 30/60 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:31:00 ET - 2008/10/02
Seat 3: NumbBono (1,885) Seat 5: iam23skidoo (7,250) *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Ah Js] NumbBono raises to 180 madbrooklyn folds iam23skidoo raises to 630 muhctim folds pktqueenz4me folds BamBamCan folds twoblackaces folds NumbBono has 15 seconds left to act NumbBono raises to 1,885, and is all in iam23skidoo has 15 seconds left to act iam23skidoo: sorry.. iam23skidoo calls 1,255 NumbBono shows [Ac Qh] iam23skidoo shows [Ah Js] *** FLOP *** [6s Ad Th] *** TURN *** [6s Ad Th] [Td] *** RIVER *** [6s Ad Th Td] [Tc] NumbBono ties for the pot (1,930) with a full house, Tens full of Aces iam23skidoo ties for the pot (1,930) with a full house, Tens full of Aces Seat 3: NumbBono showed [Ac Qh] and won (1,930) with a full house, Tens full of Aces Seat 5: iam23skidoo showed [Ah Js] and won (1,930) with a full house, Tens full of Aces
Hand 45 JJ is ok.
Full Tilt Poker Game #8323614526: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:45:21 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 2: twoblackaces (4,565) Seat 5: iam23skidoo (7,295) *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Jh Js] twoblackaces raises to 240 iam23skidoo calls 160 *** FLOP *** [8d 3s Td] iam23skidoo has 15 seconds left to act iam23skidoo bets 400 twoblackaces calls 400 *** TURN *** [8d 3s Td] [Jc] iam23skidoo has 15 seconds left to act iam23skidoo bets 880 Uncalled bet of 880 returned to iam23skidoo iam23skidoo wins the pot (1,320)
Hand 61 donk aa
Full Tilt Poker Game #8323745247: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 50/100 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:54:48 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 2: twoblackaces (4,985) Seat 5: iam23skidoo (7,595) iam23skidoo posts the small blind of 50 muhctim posts the big blind of 100 The button is in seat #4 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Ac Ah] twoblackaces raises to 300 iam23skidoo calls 250 *** FLOP *** [7s 8s 5c] iam23skidoo bets 200 twoblackaces calls 200 *** TURN *** [7s 8s 5c] [2c] iam23skidoo bets 500 twoblackaces calls 500 *** RIVER *** [7s 8s 5c 2c] [8d] iam23skidoo shows [Ac Ah] two pair, Aces and Eights
Hand 71 - obfv
Full Tilt Poker Game #8323883421: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 60/120 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:04:58 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 2: twoblackaces (3,835) Seat 5: iam23skidoo (9,170) *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Ah Kd] BamBamCan folds twoblackaces raises to 360 iam23skidoo raises to 1,200 twoblackaces calls 840 *** FLOP *** [As 4c 6s] iam23skidoo bets 7,970, and is all in Uncalled bet of 7,970 returned to iam23skidoo
75 - 76 no play
Full Tilt Poker Game #8323931948: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 60/120 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:08:35 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 5: iam23skidoo (9,930) Seat 7: muhctim (3,280) *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Js Jd] iam23skidoo raises to 420 muhctim has 15 seconds left to act Uncalled bet of 300 returned to iam23skidoo Seat 5: iam23skidoo collected (300), mucked
Full Tilt Poker Game #8323937843: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 60/120 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:09:02 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 2: twoblackaces (3,575) Seat 4: madbrooklyn (2,070) Seat 5: iam23skidoo (10,110) Seat 7: muhctim (3,280) Seat 9: BamBamCan (7,965) *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Kd As] muhctim folds BamBamCan folds twoblackaces folds madbrooklyn folds Uncalled bet of 60 returned to iam23skidoo iam23skidoo wins the pot (120) Seat 5: iam23skidoo (big blind) collected (120), mucked
and... hand 86
Full Tilt Poker Game #8324025573: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 80/160 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:15:35 ET - 2008/10/02 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Qs Ah] iam23skidoo raises to 640 muhctim folds BamBamCan folds twoblackaces folds madbrooklyn folds Uncalled bet of 480 returned to iam23skidoo
Hand 98....geez
Full Tilt Poker Game #8324087719: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 80/160 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:20:12 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 2: twoblackaces (5,090) Seat 4: madbrooklyn (2,070) Seat 5: iam23skidoo (7,005) Seat 7: muhctim (2,500) Seat 9: BamBamCan (10,335) The button is in seat #9 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Kh Ks] iam23skidoo has 15 seconds left to act iam23skidoo raises to 640 muhctim folds BamBamCan has 15 seconds left to act BamBamCan folds twoblackaces folds madbrooklyn folds Uncalled bet of 480 returned to iam23skidoo iam23skidoo mucks iam23skidoo wins the pot (400)
Hand 103 Hieeya! Amazing TBA doesn't re-raise the river.
Full Tilt Poker Game #8324110536: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 80/160 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:21:54 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 2: twoblackaces (5,010) Seat 5: iam23skidoo (7,005) Dealt to iam23skidoo [Tc Jc] iam23skidoo calls 160 BamBamCan has 15 seconds left to act BamBamCan folds twoblackaces checks *** FLOP *** [Ad 5c 7c] twoblackaces checks iam23skidoo checks *** TURN *** [Ad 5c 7c] [4c] twoblackaces checks iam23skidoo checks *** RIVER *** [Ad 5c 7c 4c] [6h] twoblackaces checks iam23skidoo bets 400 twoblackaces calls 400 *** SHOW DOWN *** iam23skidoo shows [Tc Jc] a flush, Jack high iam23skidoo wins the pot (1,200) with a flush, Jack high Board: [Ad 5c 7c 4c 6h] Seat 2: twoblackaces (big blind) mucked [As 3d] - a straight, Seven high Seat 5: iam23skidoo showed [Tc Jc] and won (1,200) with a flush, Jack high
Hand #127 HAMMER TIME
Full Tilt Poker Game #8324274552: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:34:09 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 5: iam23skidoo (7,305) Seat 9: BamBamCan (16,285) muhctim posts the small blind of 100 BamBamCan posts the big blind of 200 The button is in seat #5 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [2d 7c] iam23skidoo raises to 800 BamBamCan calls 600 *** FLOP *** [4d 6c Ah] BamBamCan has 15 seconds left to act BamBamCan bets 600 iam23skidoo raises to 1,400 Uncalled bet of 800 returned to iam23skidoo iam23skidoo shows [2d 7c] Ace Seven high iam23skidoo wins the pot (2,900) Seat 5: iam23skidoo (button) collected (2,900)
Hand 132. DOH....yay!
Full Tilt Poker Game #8324296545: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 120/240 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:35:49 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 5: iam23skidoo (8,395) Seat 9: BamBamCan (14,735) muhctim posts the small blind of 120 BamBamCan posts the big blind of 240 The button is in seat #5 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [6d 6s] madbrooklyn folds iam23skidoo raises to 720 muhctim: ok gl muhctim has 15 seconds left to act muhctim raises to 1,545, and is all in BamBamCan has 15 seconds left to act BamBamCan: jebus BamBamCan folds iam23skidoo: u2 iam23skidoo calls 825 muhctim shows [8d 8c] iam23skidoo shows [6d 6s] *** FLOP *** [6h Qc Kh] *** TURN *** [6h Qc Kh] [5s] *** RIVER *** [6h Qc Kh 5s] [3d] muhctim shows a pair of Eights iam23skidoo shows three of a kind, Sixes iam23skidoo wins the pot (3,430) with three of a kind, Sixes iam23skidoo: doh
Hand 148 AA overplay
Full Tilt Poker Game #8324344713: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 120/240 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:39:29 ET - 2008/10/02 BamBamCan: YUP ! Seat 4: madbrooklyn (2,660) Seat 5: iam23skidoo (12,500) Seat 9: BamBamCan (11,840) *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Ah As] iam23skidoo raises to 720 BamBamCan has 15 seconds left to act BamBamCan raises to 1,200 iam23skidoo: lol iam23skidoo has 15 seconds left to act iam23skidoo raises to 3,675 iam23skidoo wins the pot (2,475)
Hand 163 ...ok I'm making up hand numbers...you got me. Priced in??
Full Tilt Poker Game #8324459154: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 150/300 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:48:19 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 4: madbrooklyn (3,860) Seat 5: iam23skidoo (11,770) Seat 9: BamBamCan (11,370) BamBamCan posts the small blind of 150 madbrooklyn posts the big blind of 300 The button is in seat #5 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Qh 5h] iam23skidoo raises to 1,125 BamBamCan folds madbrooklyn raises to 3,835, and is all in iam23skidoo has 15 seconds left to act iam23skidoo: suckout on iam23skidoo calls 2,710 madbrooklyn shows [7c 8c] iam23skidoo shows [Qh 5h] *** FLOP *** [3s Qc 6s] madbrooklyn: nh *** TURN *** [3s Qc 6s] [As] *** RIVER *** [3s Qc 6s As] [Th] iam23skidoo wins the pot (7,895) with a pair of Queens
Hand 169 Third Pair can NEVAR lose.
Full Tilt Poker Game #8324472457: Riverchasers Online Tour (62582923), Table 1 - 150/300 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:49:21 ET - 2008/10/02 Seat 5: iam23skidoo (15,480) Seat 9: BamBamCan (11,520) iam23skidoo antes 25 BamBamCan antes 25 iam23skidoo posts the small blind of 150 BamBamCan posts the big blind of 300 The button is in seat #5 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to iam23skidoo [Ah 3s] iam23skidoo calls 150 BamBamCan has 15 seconds left to act BamBamCan raises to 1,050 iam23skidoo calls 750 *** FLOP *** [9c 5h 3d] BamBamCan bets 10,445, and is all in iam23skidoo calls 10,445 BamBamCan shows [Jh Ac] iam23skidoo shows [Ah 3s] *** TURN *** [9c 5h 3d] [7h] *** RIVER *** [9c 5h 3d 7h] [Kc] iam23skidoo wins the pot (23,040) with a pair of Threes BamBamCan: lol Seat 5: iam23skidoo (small blind) showed [Ah 3s] and won (23,040) with a pair of Threes Seat 9: BamBamCan (big blind) showed [Jh Ac] and lost with Ace King high
If you've read this far, I commend you and clearly you have too much free time.
Attention: I will begin cross-posting at www.iam23skidoo.com I'm still busy tweaking(ie. learning CSS) some of the functionality, but it's ready enough.
My 12 readers might want to update your feeds over there as I will begin posting there exclusively in '09
Once again I found myself alone for the evening. The wife has been neck-up in school stuff for the last few weeks and doesn't look to slow down for the rest of the semester. Her hard work has resulted in some spare time for me after the kids go to bed. Obviously I'm gonna take the opportunity to sling some cards.
I saw a 3+ rebuy to the 50/50 and figure what the hell. My only self induced exception was that I would not rebuy more than 5 times. I decided to start with the minimum of 1000 chips, and never rebought until the add-on.
At the same time I saw a 3K guarantee that was about to start with a little overlay, so I decided to join that as well. Then I realized it was limit. DOH. I buckled in and played G-cox tight until I accumulated some chippies.
The rebuy was easy and I got my 50+5 with a few minutes left of registration into the 50/50. I decided to cash out and take the T$ to focus on the LHE since I was hovering in the top 10 for a good bit.
I hit the final table as the short stack, but built up to 3rd in chips, unfortunately I sniffed out a bluff that ran into a straight and petered out in 5th.
So mark that about $30 invested turned into about $300. I'll take that on any night.
Here's a pic of the 3k final table.
Also a hearty congrats to Dusty who was busy taking down a $3 PLO MTT...Talk about ROI!
I joined the Riverchasers late last night and donked it up real good.
About the third hand I see is QQ. I ended up calling a push and ran into KK. My donkey powers were fully engaged though and I rivered a flush and bad beat Rich.
I had a bunch of fun from there and lead the tourney until we got close to the FT. I went on card-dirge tilt and gave some chips away only to flame out in 6th. Donkaments are so much fun.
I dabbled in 5/10 Limit Stud/8 for a bit, bought in for $200, floundered down to about $80 and built donked it back up to about $350 before closing out the night.
I want to send a hearty good luck to my friends and everyone else in the Houston/Galveston area. Sit tight, and don't panic, and NEVER forget your towel.
Have a good weekend folks, I'm hosting poker at the house tonight for my neighbors and a couple of bloggers have joined the fray, should be a good time!!
I haven't pumped one of these out in a while, so what the hell.
Friday night was my monthly game in the hood. I had a slight scare when I couldn't get into the clubhouse at first. Something was fishy with our 'awesome' new card key system and no one could get in. I called the wife, since she is on the board and she came up and tried to get into the hide-a-key, but that wasn't working either. Finally she had the bright idea of getting a key fob from the lifeguard and it worked flawlessly.
We got the $20 tourney started around 8:30 and played down to 2 players who split. Butch came down to show the n'hood donks how disciplined tight play can win. Even though my 56c sucked out on his KK when I was getting short.
We followed that up with a 1/1 $100 max rotation of OH/8 and NLH. I completely obliterated the table and ended +300 after dropping some cash in the donk wild card games that JewFro likes to play.
Saturday morning came early as the wife had to go take a test and I was working on about 5 hours of sleep and a 12 pack of beer. YAY. MasterP had a baseball tryout for the travel baseball team. His first at bat he got plunked in the left elbow, and that pretty much killed his tryout. He gutted through pitching (not well) for an inning and made it to bat for another try, in ovbious pain.
I'm not sure how these coaches evaluate 9-10 year old talent...I'm really glad I don't have to. regardless of weather he makes the travel team, he'll be signed up for Fall Ball. The kid has an insatiable thurst for playing any sports and to my great satisfaction he is a good ball player and loves watching it too.
We had the Olympics on for the a couple hours when we got home, and he is just amazed at all of it, its really cool to see him so jazzed about these sports. He has a deep appreciation for how good all these atheletes are and really wants to be the best athelete he can.
We spent the rest of the day at the pool as the neighborhood had a luau. There were no hula girls, no roast pig (or poi), and no damn pina colada's or anything. lame The higlight of the festivities was the dunk tank woo hoo!
Saturday night we finished off by watching a movie at the baseball field. Its all for the kids, you know. We watched Nim's island, which was about cute and stupid enough to make me puke.
Sunday afternoon was spent watching more Olympics and going to spend all my poker winnings on school crap for the kids. They went back to school this AM, putting me back on the early schedule until June. Good times.
PS - Don't forget to sign up for the pickem and head to head leagues before the season starts. If I get more interest in the H2H league I can push back the draft if need be. It is currenlty set for 8/21 at 9:30 PM.
I damn sure am! And if I have to see any more of Favre's stupid mug on the TV I'm going to pop a capillary.
I've set up a Pick'em League and a 12 Team Head TO head league at Yahoo so I can take your money in something I actually have some skill at.
The Pickem League is $10 and the payout will depend on the number of players I get.
The Head To Head league will be $20 and is capped at 12 players. The top 3 teams will pay out.
Here's the info you need, please send me a GMAIL at 23skidoo with your Fulltilt or Pokerstars ID and your team or pick set name, so I can keep it all straight.
BOOOOOOOOOM!
PICK EM
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In order to join the group, just go to Pro Football Pick'em, click the "Sign Up" button (or "Create or Join Group" if you are a returning user). From there, follow the path to join an existing private group and when prompted, enter the following information...
In order to join the league, follow the link above or go to game front page, click the "Sign Up Now" or "Get Another Team" button and follow the links to "Join a Custom League". When prompted, enter the League ID# and password below.
Sorry for the delay, I have been in various states of druggedness and sleep for the better part of 2 weeks now. I get my MRI results tomorrow and have been in pain for too darn long.
The source of my pain and misery is obviously my own damn fault. I took a few liberties with a Jet ski that I was not fully in tune with and managed to flip the thing over as I was taking a hard left turn.
I leaned heavily into the turn, but the wind and choppy water threw me a challenge. At the apex of the turn my right knee finally gave way under the torque. As I fell off, my toe managed to get a little stuck in the rail and helped to pull my leg a little further away from my body.
I was in horrible pain and struggling to get the Jetski turned back over. My mind went back to Gary's "its real damn hard to turn these things over" statement and cursed myself for being a moran.
I did manage to get the thing tipped over, but it was waterlogged by that time and Gary Hasslehoff was on the way. Now I imagined myself in the hospital in west egypt Oklahoma signing over a $xxxx.xx to Gary for a jetski.
Thanks to some very helpful East Cobb locals we got the Jetski pulled onto the trailer, drained it, and sent it on its merry way.
We returned to the house and got ready for deer burgers. I just about OD'd on pain killers, slept through most of dinner, then held it together long enough to split the lake tournament with surf.
Afterwards we played a little cash game where I played my usual loosish game and amassed a pretty healthy stack. Two hands i remember was sucking out vs Maudie (or Special K) with J6o, and pushing with 77 preflop geting called by SpecialK and his AK. He flopped broadway and I runner runnered a FH. Good times.
That would be the last winning poker for me for the trip.
I sucked it up and limped around the rest of the visit, it was really painful, but the drinks were flowing. Truly my favorite time of the trip was sitting around the lakehouse on Saturday night, drinking copius amounts of whiskey and just chatting with the boys. That's the stuff you can not remanufacture. No matter how hard you try.
Saturday was the big tourney, and I was raring to go. Unfortunately a 8 hour sit and go doesnt necessarily fit my nature and I went down in 6th place. I donated another 2 buyins in the cash game playing my particular style of drunken donery, but you just can't buy that kind of fun in my opinion.
I do have some pictues on flickr, if you want to see them. I stole some from kat too. I have to add you as a freind to see the pics, so drop me a line or leave a comment if you want.
Wish me luck at the Doctor tomorrow and you have yourself a good weekend!
I'll give you a summary of what I can remember from the weekend. I'm not sure how long this will be so bear with me.
Thursday morning I had to ride into work with the wife. Her minivan has had its final problem and I refused to fix it.
I got to the airport a little early so I obviously found the nearest bar and camped out for a few. I finished a few beers and went to the gate with about 30 minutes to spare. I figured I would plug on the laptop and watch a bit of my movie before I got on the plane. Wouldn't you know it, my dumb ass managed to forget the fucking plug to my laptop (again).
I tried to not let it bother me, last year I was able to find a CompUSA to get a new plug. Somehow I managed to forget that CompUSA went out of business.
I had a non eventful flight in which my battery died. I landed and came down the stealthy side of the terminal, but Gary had a bead on me from way down.
Everyone came out to get me, which was pretty cool. For the first time I met Joanada, Buddy, and Surf's wife 'peaches' as she was dubbed by OOOSSSSUUUU.
Off we went OZZIES to meet Ms Maudie and to partake in the worlds best chicken fried steak. This served as a great stomach base for the next 24hrs or so.
The whole gang caravan'd to Riverwind casino, where we all sat down for a little freindly 1/2. My high water mark was about 310, but I managed to piss almost all that away by 6pm rolled around. By then everyone was ready to hit the lake, except for MsMaudie who stole my mojo and ran her 2nd buy in up to about 5.
We hit the crows nest and Buddy was attacked by a paddle wielding maniac. I personally think she took it easy on him. I managed to find myself lying in the grass at one point and dumping IT from the golf cart at another. I can't say I didn't enjoy that a little.
Tragedy tried desperately to get out of our bet around 4am, but when I wouldn't let him, he went inside to pass out throw up for an hour or so and left me alone, resulting in his disputable 'win' of our last longer.
Friday morning I felt fairly human, we awaited the return of MsMaudie and the intro to SpecialK, fresh from Iraq.
OSU entertianed us for a good bit by his kitty hunting prowess, but finally the gang was assembled and we were ready to hit the lake.
Tomorrow I'll enthrall you with my death defying antics on the JetSki as well as the poker table... stay tuned.
I'm done for now..I'll finish up with a hearty thanks to all those who planned, helped and came to this little event. It is certainly my cup of tea.
My brain will slowly start regurgitating memories from this weekend. It took me about as long to fly from Oklahoma as it did for Surf and Peaches to drive. YAY.
At least I didn't get stuck in Washington like poor little Kitty.
I am nursing a bit of a wound, the doctor says I most likely tore my ACL. I go to get an MRI tomorrow. For now, the meds are keeping my head even foggier than it was 3 days ago.
I'm gently trying to urge myself to be productive here on my little space in the internets.
As most of you know, once you take some time off from anything it's pretty hard to jump back into the game. Since writing for me is mostly catharsis, I need to push ahead when I'm feeling blogged down or blah.
Right now I'm not particularly motivated to write other than for the sake of writing, so I will just plug away and you folks will just have to bear with me.
I finally got around to downloading Firefox 3, and I've been tweaking it a little here and there. I don't know if it is actually faster. It does feel that way, but possibly that is because I deleted about 6 add-ons that I wasn't really using. I've downloaded my third theme now and can't find one better than the Default so far. I imagine a lot of developers are still tweaking things for FF3. So does anyone have any suggestions for add-ons or themes?
I flung come cards over at PokerStars a good bit last week and luckboxed into some decent sized scores for myself. I'd like to get some $$$ off there and don't want to wait the 15-?? days to get a check, so if anyone wants to trade Paypal or FT $ let me know. It's really weird how I can do so well on one site and burn $ at another. There must be something tied to full moons and the mating rituals of the West African Spotted Drunken Lemur.
Its time to FLY.....
Next week I'll be back in NY. I'm hoping the NYC crew finds the time to get together and sling some cards on Monday or Tuesday. At least you guys know I'm not afraid to donate by now.....
The week after that is OKIE VEGAS. I'm once again very excited for this years festivities not excluding eating a chicken fried steak as big as my head , check-raising locals, and passing out on the nearest chair (doh).
Thanks for stoppng by and see you (you know who you are) soon!!!
I was a waiter and bartender for a good period of my 20's and early 30's. I worked at crappy Bar and Grill's to Five Star resorts. In all paces there comes a period of time when your demand for time out measures your ability to give it.
A waiter can react in two different ways to getting in the weeds.
1) Get buried. 2) Focus.
I'm not gonna lie, I've been buried before. It is usually not tied to a problem with my abilities to cope, but correlates to situations beyond my control. (slow kitchen, too many tables at the same time, demanding customers....)
As I learned to be a waiter, I learned tricks to getting myself out of the weeds. The best formula is to focus. Draw a map in your head and get there, don't let anything get in your way. If something trips you up you just push a little harder.
So the last three weeks I had a few projects converge upon me, hectic family schedule, travel, and the inevitable crowbar thrown in for good measure.
Without going in to too many boring details, I have emerged unscathed. I just had to put my head down and keep plugging away. Ticking off the bullet points, testing, fixing, breaking, fixing, testing..... you get the picture.
So this is a long intro to say, in case you have missed my witty banter over the past 4-5 weeks, sorry I've been away and I will try to be a better blogger.
Since you've last seen your hero he's gone through several challenging work and non work related episodes, including:
Traveling all over mid-Georgia with my All-Star Baseball playing son. This team won't be going to the world series, but it has been a good experience for him.
Working till 4AM one morning I fall asleep at the wheel driving home. I miraculously only hurt my car. 4 New wheels: $600, Tie Rods, tires, and misc broken stuff: $1800; My health: priceless.
Flamed out in the BBT3 TOC. I got too many marginal cards and tried to play them.
The wife has once again joined the workforce. She got a great offer to work for the gubment until she finishes off her Law degree. This complicates day to day stuff as the kids will go to 'summer camp' during the day until school starts, but they seem pretty keen on the idea of doing stuff rather than going to the pool everyday.
Took a 3 day trip to NY and got to see nary a blogger :(. I had precious little time on this trip, so it was probably for the best.
Thats about covers the major stuff. I'll be taking a short day today and I'll get a day off tomorrow to drive to south Georgia and attend my family reunion. My family reunion is akin to a blogger weekend with less cards and more food and booze.
I'm heading out to NY again 6/30-7/2 and hopefully can meet up with a representative or two from the NY crew then. I'll send you guys an email soon since I got such a raucous response last time.
It's bad enough being sick, it's 10 times worse being sick and not being able to curl up in our own bed and go to sleep.
I'm pretty sure I have a sinus infection now. My head feels like its filled with hot oatmeal. The capper is I'm out of town and no one is here to feed me soup. wah.
Like a trooper I made it out to WSP last night. It was a small, but lively group and we played dealers choice mixed games. It reminded me of Cat's home game, but at 20x the stakes. Fun was had.
I attempted to self medicate and enjoy myself, mission accomplished. I was also hoping to erase some of the losses I've had at WSP the last few times here. No such luck, it is quite possible I over medicated.
Big thanks to Jamie for setting up the game on an off night and thanks to the NYdegenerateswhocame and relieved me of my $. See you next time!
