One of those moods...

You ever just get in one of those moods?

Where you wanna talk about something but don't feel like talking? Where you wanna do something but too lazy to do it? You know the type of mood that makes you want to punch something if it wasn't for the fact that you would actually have to have some passion to do so?

I'm in a funk lately and although I have suspicions where it is coming from I just don't want to deal with it. Maybe I will find a way around it but we all know what happens when you don't deal with things head on. Something gives.

I know this makes no sense...but I am a tad depressed lately. No WSOP seat for me, no Vegas fun with other bloggers, not really a whole lot to look forward to in the coming months for me. The fact that I have to get out of bed and come to this dead end job is killing me. If I had some outlet, some dream then it might not be so hard to come to grips with the fact my career is a joke.

I'm left to grind out some bonuses to rebuild my bankroll...no not because of tilt or busto or whatever...just because I decided to spend most of it. Looking back this was not such a wise move but I think I can rebuild it bigger than before. However it is a grind doing bonuses and such where all the rocks in the world are currently descending upon my table to annoy me and slow down my clearance rate.

I'm jumping from game to game because frankly I become bored with the "intracacies" of each game. You have the limit donks who either call with any pair or high card or chase whatever gutshot/backdoor/flush draw they seem to have right to the bitter end. Then you have the non limit donks willing to put their whole stack in the middle on either a bluff or a draw that always seems to hit when you have a monster hand.

But these are the people you are supposed to make money on...right? Well yeah but not as much money as people would have you believe. The half the time they catch their miracle 2 outer is the time I have the most money in the middle. The time they don't, they escape largely unscathed due to my proper milking tactics.

Yes I will bet a flush draw heavily if the occassion warrants it but if I'm doing that you bet it will be to the nut flush with top pair on board.

I did hit a straight flush this week, however not to be alarmed it was only on a micro table so the pot dragged was fairly limited.

I can't win a $22 NL SNG on PartyPoker to save my life, I have no idea why. Its not bad play its just a level where I run bad at, I've looked and magnified almost every hand. If I ever move off the 11s I will go right to the 33s because I have ran that bad there. I can win on Stars in the 20s but not on Party (where after looking through PT I have always been ahead on my last hand going all in). Not that it matters much I can't even run PP software anymore unless I buy a new computer...it really is hillarious that these people did that exactly. But hey they make more in an hour than I do in a day. Cheers!

Buy a new computer to play on Party Poker

Cannot believe it!

What a game what a series what a Cup.
Its hard to imagine a Canadian cheering for the Canes but no one appreciates the hardships I have saw this team through. The dismal years in Hartford where, although I wish they were still there, were denied a request for a simple new arena as the old one was simply falling apart. Drafting overrated players to see them fall apart and then flourish under a new team. Its sad really that my team is in a dismal market but they are my team and no one can take that away from me. The reality is if the team fails the market will eventually fail, its a fact that is difficult for me to accept. The fact that I love this team and its players has nothing to do with where they are located it has everything to do with who they are. Heck most of them are Canadians brought together by the simple fact they love to play hockey and want to hoist the cup and become embossed in a symbol of greatness by having their names on the cup.
As I watch game 7 thoughts and images going through my head...Some of Canes hoisting the cup some of Oilers hoisting the cup (shake it off man, shake it off).
The first goal I almost cried I was so happy...a lovely deflection which was long in the making after a 4-0 shutout/blowout in game 6. When you go that long without a goal you wonder if the drought will ever end. After that goal it was clear, the Canes came to play. They were throwing around bodies with disregard and skating faster than I have ever seen them skate. Of course always with a flair for the dramatics Edmonton put a goal in late and had me worried and the Canes had a goal not allowed that was clearly a goal. At that point in time where the disallowed goal I had wondered what was going on there until I saw a picture clearly showing the puck in the net. It seems as tho the Oil in their infinite wisdom had shovelled it out to make it look like it never went in. But alas we did not need the goal and we went on to win and make memories for me that will last a lifetime.
I have never been a fan of a Stanley Cup team, did not become a fan after they hoisted the cup (which is where the majority of Oiler fanbase came from) five times in a decade and did not abandon the team when they finished second last the previous season.

I will be attending the season opener to watch the hoisting of the Stanley Cup banner. It will be my first Canes game ever and will for sure be a great time. I'm still floating on cloud nine right now and its hard to believe it actually happened.

Your 2006 Stanley Cup Champions!!!

What a game...at times I thought I would die because of the excitement/nervousness. When it was all said and done the better team won and I went out and got drunk, etc. to celebrate.

WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Pokerstars blogger tourney...fate is usual

Yeah as usual in a tourney I get all my money in preflop with the best hand and of course the result is the 10% winner!! Riverstars is great for this....

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

1,370,754 games 0.234 secs 5,857,923 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity (%) win (%) tie (%)
Hand 1: 10.4866 % 10.01% 00.48% { AdKd }
Hand 2: 71.2863 % 70.81% 00.48% { AcAh }
Hand 3: 18.2271 % 18.11% 00.11% { QcQs }

Oh well its just a freeroll.

Canes better get it together tomorrow or this may be my last post ever.

UGGGGGGGGHHHHHh!!!

Do it today!

Really just fired up a couple SNGs on Riverstars...and no it didn't take the river to finish me off twice in a row with Queens against the same hand...the mighty ATo...one guy was even drawing to 2 As but didn't need em as you can see below I sent an inquiry to riverstars...I expect a form letter in return..LOL...That's all for today, big blogger tourney tomorrow I had no idea there were over a thousand poker blogs out there??? Wow...



PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t100 (5 handed)
UTG (t1230)
Hero (t1370)
Button (t3965)
SB (t5585)
BB (t1350)

[b]Preflop:[/b] Hero is in CO with Q:diamond: Q:spade:
[color:gray]UTG folds[/color], [color:red]Hero raises to t1370 (All-in)[/color], [color:gray]Button folds[/color], [color:gray]SB folds[/color], BB calls t1250 (All-in)

[b]Flop:[/b] (t2770) T:diamond: T:heart: 6:heart: (2 players)


[b]Turn:[/b] (t2770) 7:diamond: (2 players)


[b]River:[/b] (t2770) 7:club: (2 players)

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t150 (6 handed) [url=http://www.pregopoker.com/hhconv/convert]Converter on pregopoker.com[/url]

UTG (t3125)
UTG+1 (t385)
CO (t2515)
Button (t1970)
Hero (t2720)
BB (t2785)

[b]Preflop:[/b] Hero is in SB with Q:club: Q:heart:
[color:gray]UTG folds[/color], [color:gray]UTG+1 folds[/color], [color:gray]CO folds[/color], [color:gray]Button folds[/color], [color:red]Hero raises to t600[/color], BB calls t450

[b]Flop:[/b] (t1275) T:heart: 8:club: 6:diamond: (2 players)
[color:red]Hero bets t2120 (All-in)[/color], BB calls t2120

[b]Turn:[/b] (t5515) A:diamond: (2 players)


[b]River:[/b] (t5515) 4:spade: (2 players)

One more boys!

One more win...thats all I will say for now.

Bonus time at Party Poker..saw some usual donktastic moves but all in all finished up after clearing the bonus. I was up I think 3 or 4 buyins at once but alas got donked out of some pots later on. Still trying to rebuild by br on PokerStars, doing so-so thus far but haven't been over playing too much.

Had a fun weekend puking out my guts on Saturday morning...damn Denny's and their appealing mini burgers that were obviously tainted somehow. Had a fun time drinking what I could trying to recover and not eating until Sunday.

Not much else to report I think...my brain is still a little fried today it being Monday. Back later.

Clones not all their cracked up to be

I had a friend who for whatever reason was a clone. Whoever he hung out with he would become that person. He would like the same music, movies, sports teams, etc. until eventually that person got sick of him and then he would move on to a new one in the group to leech on to.

I think it was due to being afraid of being accepted for who you are. I can't respect this because I have come too far as a person and a human being to respect someone who is not themselves. Essentially I see them as lying to me every second I am with them and it makes me uncomfortable as they are really a phony.

So anyways this former "friend/clone" has created a riff in my current group of friends. Basically he has alienated every one of my friends at one time or another because of this behaviour. We have talked to him about it but either the message didn't come across clearly or he's just an idiot. There's a chance he will read this and I want him to understand where I am coming from.

I don't know how to explain his behaviour other than mega-annoying. He overpowers every conversation even if he isn't involved at all, he attempts to move in on friends of which he only has an association through me or another friend. This includes daily phone calls and constant unannounced drop-bys and invasion of space of both family and friends. He is exactly like Jim Carey in "The Cable Guy" which is funny because he used to work for a cable company but that is not how I met him.

Some days I don't feel like talking...I rarely answer my phone on the weekends and am mostly an intravert after drinking on Fridays with my friends. This is not behaviour that is condusive to a happy friendship with me.

If I say I don't like someone "He hates them". If I say I like some song on the radio he goes out buys the cd and plays it everyday in his car and then buys tickets to their concert. You got it...stalker like in nature towing the line between weird and weirder. I have no doubt if I let him carry on this way without cutting him off he would be wearing my skin as an overcoat attempting to be me.

Maybe I'm being a little harsh. But I had to be myself and get rid of this weirdo and associations with him even though it has been somewhat hard on my existing friendships that have been there long before he was ever in the country.

Its tough when someone has no life and decides to try and steal yours even though you know that could never happen. All I have to say is get your own life, this ones taken!

All being said this post makes me feel like a girl or uber-geigh.

Mookie final table

I finally made a god foresaken final table. And wouldn't you know it the donk of all donks SirWaffle himself was there. After letting him double me up a few times I could wait no longer and got blinded out in 4th. When it got down to four I didn't see a single quality hand nor an Ax or a Kx...I think I used that all up just before the bubble when I got QQ, KK and AA in relative succession. However SirWaffle could not repeat and thus I was left happy that there is a bit of justice in the poker world. (this is all tongue in cheak SirW but I think you can figure that out and if not I'll take some butter on ya next time, tough swallowing all that waffle batter dry) It was a good time thanks to Mookie again for setting it up.

If you have a religion you should change it..this is your new god:Two more victories...thats all I'll say.

Rebuild time

Time to rebuild my bankroll. Have been donking it away buying stuff and spending a little loosely. I'm going to take my stab at rebuilding it through Stars SNG's. Last round I took 100 and turned it into 400 so I wasn't too unhappy with that result. I only wish that would translate into some MTT wins but I guess I know better than that. Just gotta remember to get all my money in with the worst hand and river someone.

GO CANES GO! God the excitement is honestly killing me, Game 2 tonight...Rolie's out for Edmonton and got to read some hillarious articles about 1) how we intentionally injured their goalie (even though when you look at the replay it was clearly Bergeron's fault) and 2) how Brindy cheats on faceoffs. The latter one was the funniest ever, seriously. Just cuz a guy goes 82% on faceoffs he's cheating? This is the lamest thing I have ever heard from any opposing team. I could complain about the 10 or 12 elbows dished out during the game but we won, I'm happy. Just hopeful we can keep it up.

Will play in the Mookie tonight against my better judgement, something has to give in MTTs for me seriously. Only once in a PS MTT I got all in with a worse hand (and lost) otherwise its all in with the best hand and get killed by the doom switch known as pokerstars.