HCR - Dead End

Friday, March 31, 2006

I'm gonna lose it

Ok work is seriously driving me up a wall right now and I may go AWOL (but I have done that b4 so its no big deal and probably no one will notice). Its great when they setup meetings for no reason to discuss items that have no chance in being resolved simply by talking about them. It is at a desparation point for me and thoughts of taking over the family business has re-entered my head dangeriously.

It doesn't help that I am going to whine about how last night first I got KK all in against of course AA and lost...then immediately after I get AA all in against KK and lose again! I guess my birthday is no reason to believe I will win. Lost every coinflip and race I was in, thanks poker gods! (oh yeah and fuck you)

I am going to get so hammered tonight I might not even remember who I am tomorrow so if I go missing then this could be my last entry ever. It may be time to break my drinking puke free since 93 record...seriously. Look out toilet.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Happy Birthday to me!

Ok I'll try not to post too many more bad beat stories at length. Its my b-day today and really not a big deal as I'm not "feeling" it this year. I have on and off years...Some years I feel like celebrating some years I don't...make this a don't year but I will still get hammered tomorrow at someone else's expense cuz thats how we roll.

My bro finally signed his new contract with the bombers. I think I have only missed seeing one of his games that he played in (either on tv or in person) and I was out of town in Cali at that time. It was also his birthday on Monday (3 days, 3 years apart). He had a bad injury last year and he is bigger and faster this year (well not bigger than myself but hey he is my "little" brother). He gives me something to look forward to during the summer months...travelling with friends to the game, taking in strip clubs, getting hammered...oh the mammories!

I can't seem to make it past level 2 in the wsop sngs at party poker. I have made it to level 2 three times however busted near the bubble twice and the third I had a major hand cracked early. I took a portion of my bankroll and dedicated it towards this goal of mine to win any seat anywhere.

My company laid off a bunch of people in the east yesterday, unfortunately I did not get a package and have proven once again I am a cog in the wheel of profits they continue to generate off of me. Damn me and being a cog...I would like nothing more than at this point to not be given a choice and have a few month severance to ponder my future. But hey who doesn't want that?

Well I don't think I can divulge anymore besides my friend is coming down in May and we are gonna get hammered!!! She finally ridded herself of the parasite married cokehead loser and is ready to come to her senses and have some good ol fun. Love sucks everyone just remember you heard it here first, one way or another it "sucks".

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

The hand that tilted me.....donk wins it again

STEP 2 of a WSOP step sng at Party. I held the chip lead most of the time when it was down to three players. Donktastic is on my left and got here by pure fn suckout donk luck. And he was down to like 1500 chips at one point and doubled up twice at my pot odds calls with shit hands. Then this happens:

NL Texas Hold'em $55 Buy-in Trny:21475278 Level:6 Blinds(200/400) - Tuesday, March 28, 20:20:12 ET 2006
Table WSOP Step 2 #1186081 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 5: OKPlayer ( $6984 )
Seat 9: DONK ( $5384 )
Seat 2: HCR_33 ( $7632 )
Trny:21475278 Level:6
Blinds(200/400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HCR_33 [ Th Tc ]
HCR_33 raises [1600].
OKPlayer folds.
DONK calls [1200].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7d, 5d, 4s ]
DONK is all-In.
HCR_33 calls [3784].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2d ]
DONK shows [ 3d, Ad ] a flush, ace high.
HCR_33 shows [ Th, Tc ] a pair of tens.
DONK wins 10968 chips from the main pot with a flush, ace high.
fk me

OF COURSE! Well he knew he couldn't beat me by outplaying me he had to draw...which of course is exactly what happened. I am so on tilt right now it ain't funny and I am just starting the WWDN...nice..

Sunday, March 26, 2006

You tell me...

Actions speak louder than words so I will just outline the hand for you which essentially sent me packing in the second WPBT event. This just coming off a great party poker step 1 to the wsop where I came back from a low stack to win the whole thing.
I have KQ on the button there are three limpers (including the sb)
flop comes
Q58 (2 diamonds)
I bet out and get called by one. The rest fold.
Turn is K of diamonds. Making a flush possibility.
I bet the other person raises, I call.
River is a 4 of clubs.
I think I am beat here by the flush so I just check. He turns over 67 of clubs.
I don't know where to begin here...sorry man but I have no idea what you were doing with the raise on the K of diamonds. I'm just being honest. You had an open ended straight draw, so if I had the flush what does the raise do besides lose you more chips?? I give up. Nice...hand... sir...and I have to wait until after the break to get all my money in with AQo against JJ and QQ and it of course goes UI for another tourney finish out of the money and out of the points.

I am seriously thinking about dropping off the tourney scene altogether as I am not good at avoiding the 2 million things that will go wrong for me. If I ever get past that it doesn't matter because the crucial 1 or 2 suckouts you need to keep alive will not happen either. Mind you the tourney didn't cost me a dime after I ran over a few sngs at the aforementioned full tilt.

On a personal note went out for a while on Friday, saw a friend Dave who I hadn't seen in a long time. He is pictured in my profile picture on the right obviously I would be on the left then. I was leaving as I had to work early on Saturday but when he showed up I stayed around a bit longer and a few more drinks longer than I wanted.

So I was hurting just a bit the next day while I watched an upgrade/install go badly....To explain a there is a guy doing it that I just have zero confidence if problems arise he can resolve them. Whereas a man like myself I have no problem tackling issues head on and most of the time I come out ahead and looking good after I fix them. So a problem happens with the install and of course he cannot solve it. It looks like a permissions or rights issue but really this guy has no clue. He's a nice guy but seriously I think his heart isn't in it. Although to be fair mine isn't either its just I can get away with more slackass work because I make up for it in that ability to deliver quality work very quickly.

And to you bastards at the Playboy mansion...I hate you all....except Joe, he deserves this more than anyone I can think of.

Thursday, March 23, 2006

I'll take I suck for 100 Alex

Here is the answer:
AA and KK back to back.

What is getting knocked out in the first round of the HUC3 Alex?

Yes you are correct. Well to be fair the second hand I had 85 sooted...come on thats a heavy favorite against KK right? Oh only when its against me.

If I am gonna whine I am gonna make it good...
Great hand from pokerstars tonight as well...I get AA in LP and raise to 4XBB one caller. Flop comes 2Q5 rainbow. Nice...bet out pot size bet, get called. Turn is a 4. Put the lone caller all in for about 6 more dollars, he turns over? A3o...nice. But this was just a start. Get QQ called by A7 who calls all my pot sized bets on every street to hit an A on the river. No flush or straight possibilities for him just ride that Ace like its a fucken god send buddy. Hatin poker tonight!

On to personal issues my friend finally came to her senses and dumped the married cokehead. Oh and to top it off the way he ends it all with her...yeah you guessed it over an answering machine. I am pretty sure he is the moron calling with A3o and hitting a goddamn wheel.

Sup with that?

Ok...so I read about this story about a woman who had sex with a 14 year old student of hers. She has gotta be a cow right? No way this is her....Ok...first of all wtf is wrong with these people and where were these girls when I was growing up?? All I know is that if I had that teaching me the facts of life I would have been better off than learning from trial and error and porn.

I played in SirWaflleman's tourney last night and I had a good time and made the final table finishing sixth I think. I lost most of my chips on a dominated ace and had to push/fold the rest of the tourney. Introduced a few people to the silent assassins and had bdidde do the normal all in move when you get them that is customary in our home games.

Also played in the longest sit and go ever on Pokerstars which I ended up winning. Now to set this up normally I work out from 1.5-2.5 hours a night. So I start out with weights and move on to cardio. Usually in the cardio portion I fire up a sit and go and finish cardio when I am either out of the sit and go or I win. Well not last night. Eventually I found myself with 2 passives with a massive chip lead (around 10K to their around 2ks each). I could really push with any 2 and steal the blinds. And even when they did call I would have them dominated, unfortunately it resulted in a double up suckout or two but then it was back to stealing. I believe it lasted about 2 hours and by that time the SirWaffleman's tourney was starting and I can't 2 table on my laptop (without overlap). So I had to end my almost 3 hour workout and head to my main computer where the tourney had already started. Then I really had to take a shower because I was drenched in glorious man sweat but to finish this sng was a chore! Early I tried to take him out (he only had 2-3K in chips) with A4 but somehow he had A7 in the BB and I doubled him up. So I started playing his passive game and ended up taking another 1/2 hour just to dwindle him down and then take him out...I think I had KJ to his QJ and ended up both hitting a Jack on the flop. I think he checked, I bet and he moved all in. Gladly! Then I had to sit out from the tourney for a few while I took a much belated shower.

Tonight is the start (and maybe end) of the Headsup challenge on Full tilt. I like to think my headsup game is good but this is four handed and I am not that confident in my short handed game much. I definately need some work in that area. Headsup good short handed not good. I think I will just try to lay in wait and knock off a huge hand or 2. Boss just called, gotta explain what I have been doing for the past week even though its already done....uggghhh!

Monday, March 20, 2006

My Mistake

My first mistake was playing four other party poker tables while playing the blog tourney. I was trying to clear the bonuses on Party before the tourney started however didn't get her done. The positive thing that happened is I went on a tear and made back my buyins+2 that I lost on a horrible Saturday. Never play hungover is a sticky I should place on my monitor. It just ends up making you tilt when you get the donkey special bad beat put on you. Cleared the bonuses which was positive, however ended up putting too much money in the tourney on a low PP and ran into pocket Jacks. I did have a glorious suckout where I had AQ vs AK and hit a Q I believe on the turn. I thought the gods were on my side but they shut the door when I made that fatal mistake for a large portion of my 5000 chips and then ended up in push/fold mode. Finished 20th. It was strange that the only hands I ever seemed to get (with the exception of a set I hit early) were UTG. This sucks as when you raise you should only make it an amount where you can get away from a hand and not be too crippled. But then again you make it too small where the blinds are huge and then you are not protecting either. This is what I struggled with, that and the fact that I was on overload with all the party tables open. Congrats to Gracie, who I have not conversed with much, but from the indication on the other blogs really deserved to win.
I ended the night on party with a total donkey taking about a 30 dollar pot, limiting my good size heater. The guy calls a raise with 57o I believe...I had the hiltons. Flop was bricks with the exception that he hit a five. He calls down all my 3/4 pot size bets on every street to hit a five on the river as I put him all in. I have never seen play that bad in all my life. At the very least I am looking at a gutshot draw that came in or something of the sort. Oh well still a good day nonetheless. Gotta look at the positives not the negatives.

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Happy St. Hangover day


Holy cow, seriously considered quitting drinking today. I wasn't puking or anything like that (I can't remember the last time where drinking induced a vomit session) but I just felt horrible. Had an ok night last night but was kinda marred with an inevitable discussion with one of my friends which I won't really go into. Needless to say I barely remember what happened with the exception that I think I ran into people that I haven't seen in a while and couldn't remember their names. So I usually throw in the "Hows it going?" or "How you doin'?" We started out the night on a sour note and had the crabbiest waitress ever who had tree trunks for legs but yet wasn't really fat. Our food took 1.5 hours to arrive and yes I know its the busiest day of the year but her condescending nature just drove me up a wall. I saw her walk around many times doing nothing and carrying nothing but yet always looking confused. My friend to the right sent his food back as it was burnt beyond all recognition. He said to her "I don't want this." She replied "Why don't you want it". He says "It looks like garbage, would you eat that thing?". Obviously this pissed her off but managed to get out of it because the table behind us ordered the same thing. So she takes it to the back and yes comes back and gives the same plate to the table behind us. They had waited just as long for food and didn't send it back for fear of death by starvation because of a dumbass waitress. One of the guys that was hanging out with us decided it would be funny to fill his fries plate with all of the ketchup in the bottle. Juvenile yes but I don't blame him for trying to get her attention. She came back returned and said to him like a young mother would say to a two year old "Don't expect to get served a drink here in this building." Well that was it for me we headed upstairs to a different bar but the rest of my friends proceeded to wait for the manager and ended up getting a free pitcher. She also later accused us of throwing food at her and being "rude". Not sure who was the customer or the waitress here? Last time I checked the customer has a right to be rude unless your paying me to eat there. I can't believe in this day and age that customer service is still a rare commodity when dining out. We are generous tippers, obviously she didn't experience that part of our game last night due to her ragged bitchiness. Drank enough to make me sick of alcohol for a while...well at this moment anyways.
Suffering some sick beats today...My aces went 1/3 and kings are 1/2 all loses of course costing me buyins. For the first time I folded pocket rockets because of a raise and a reraise on a 9KK board. Turns out of course one player had a K the other had pocket nines. Wow days like this you really hate poker. I decided to try my luck in some sngs as I haven't played at party since they introduced the new tourney structure. Out of 4 I played in...I won 1 and placed 3 in another. The other two I was bounced fairly early with some more sick bad beats.
I will be taking part in the headsup challenge that the blog community is putting together. Should be a good time..also hopefully Iggy's WSOP tourney tomorrow on paradise poker. That is if there is enough players. Last time I checked there were only 20. Oh well should be a good time regardless. Have a good weekend, enjoy whats left of it.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Bad night - Suck it up buttercup

Bad night for poker, I will try to gloss over the bad beats I took (KK vs 86o in a NL game, QQ vs K8o in a sng...and no he didn't hit a king) tonight and instead post some crazy ass shit for you to digest.

I take part in the occassional post on 2+2 most of what I post is garbage, funny stuff or snide comments to someone's post. However there are some legendary threads over there which I have forwarded to friends who read the thing like a book. Its worth a laugh sometimes to reread the legends:

Banging chicks on myspace
Naked pics of her for $22
An incredible story from Dom the King IMO
For all you doubters for the above

Funny thing about the internet...it is a marvelous thing that connects you up with the world but yet it is leading to the degeneration of society and socialism as a whole. Seriously who bothers picking up the phone anymore when you got msn and who bothers with using a cel phone when you can txt message. Sometimes I just have to get my head outta my ass and do things in person because I can become detached from what online me is and what real me is.

I went through all this shit when my best friend died and I vowed to always be myself from that day forward not ever being someone I am not. I always view the person I was before that day happened as a different person, who had different relationships with people maybe he didn't really like or enjoy being around. I try to be honest with myself and if I don't like being around you I simply won't be around you. Its that simple, life is too short to waste on these trivial pursuits of being accepted by people you don't even like.

Online it is so easy to try to be something your not and everyone is guilty of that sometimes but the problem is that it bleeds into your real life. So next time you think of msning try picking up the damn phone unless it is long distance that is then your dumb, long distance phone calls are a scam. Just like the vacuumm hair cutter, airplane phone calls, hospital room telephones/tvs, taxes, insurance and Tony Little... all a big scam.
I will end this post with a top 5....top 5 things that bother me at work:
5) Phone calls
-I get a ton of phone calls from my boss asking me about this or that when really she should know all of this already. I spend half my day explaining what I am doing rather than doing it. I could do so much more if I could just do it instead of trying to explain it.
4) Stinky people
-Seriously, if you stink people should be allowed to put a note on your desk that says "You stink please investigate the problem and resolve asap." God forbid you get trapped in a closed space with this guy/girl and have to result to smelling your hand for an hour in order to not gag up your lunch.
3) Loud people
-What makes you want to talk so loud that everyone can hear about that rash you have on your upper thigh (which is probably your vagina but your imbellishing for obvious reasons)? People who make loud phone calls about personal matters, like is it that hard to take your cel phone outside and make the call there so I don't have to hear about how your snotty ass kid is not listening to the babysitter or what the fk your husband wants for dinner.
2) Idiot coworkers
-Most are not qualified to tie my fn shoe but yet they have a masters in whatever and 10 billion certifications. However they can't solve any problem on their own without someone else's assistance and then after getting said help tort out the following lines:
"Yeah I kinda new that anyways" or "Yeah I did that but it didn't work for me" Whatever shit for brains.
1) Cubicles
-Isn't it enough that we have live in a 5X5 cell for 8 hours a day did you have to cut down the walls to half size so you can see the tops of everyone's head for miles around like fricken gophers on a prairie grassland? Like did you really save that much money cutting them down from 3/4 walls to half walls? Maybe you could take that money that was saved on walls and actually give me monitors that don't take up my whole desk.
1) Meetings
-I know I have two number ones but its my blog I can do what I want. I love the self importance I get from these meetings that are not only a waste of time but explaining over and over again things which people will just ask you again about in 2 minutes after the meeting. Also people show up late or not at all with no real explanation, like you were really doing something more important than I was at that exact moment. Its always the same people too...what I do to entertain myself is put odds on whether someone will show up or be late. Yes thats how sad it is.

Well hope you all have a better week than me. Seeya at the tables.

Monday, March 13, 2006

Spoke too soon usual PS tourney result

Why did I think anything would be different? I call EP 50 chips with a pair of fours SirWafflman raises to 150 I call. Flop comes and I hit my set as a four hits the flop, however all hearts out there. I check to SW and he bets 550..I go all in. He turns over Jacks with no heart. I am golden right? Only 2 outs...turn...Jack and I am out in 40th.
Seriously I have no idea where this comes from but my 0-fer tourney streak is really truly a feat to be uh...proud of.

Cash games ok...tourneys=poison

The first in WPBT events and my game was on from the get go. Was doing well and at one point was top 5 in chips early however ended up not being able to lay down a huge draw. My main train of thought was that I had a double flush draw and I was already pot committed, plus blinds were already 150 and I only had around 1400 in chips left. Oh well out in 33rd place, next time I will not bank on a huge draw because we know it never seems to get there for me...skill not luck I tell myself, once you rely on luck you are outside looking in. Was still a good time, hopefully do better in the next event and actually get a point or two.
Maybe I will fair better in the DADI event tonight, will have to see...however my shorthanded game kinda blows but then again what part of my game doesn't?
On the personal front got hammered on Friday again! Played some poker at a friends house and I really don't remember what happened in that game, can't remember how I played or how I finished but it was fun. Went to a curling cabaret afterwards and got a ticket for 20 bucks which was a discount and my bud got in because we were good friends with the head of security who was on duty. Kinda wished I didn't pay the 20 bucks for my ticket but hey I didn't know he would be at the front door. Lots of lovely ladies around, at least from what I can remember, then again if the lights were up and I was sober they could have been transvestites for all I know.
Ok is it just me or does the new Pearl Jam song suck anus? I think I know while they call it WorldWide Suicide because I almost thought about ramming my truck into the next gas station just to end it all but I remembered I could turn the radio off. I have been hearing about it for the last 2 weeks or so and finally caught it on the radio....a little prelude here I rarely listen to the radio around here as it is absolutely horrible...Well the song was absolutely terrible IMO, now sorry to all you Pearl Jam fans out there I am offending. However it should serve as a solice to all Pearl Jam fans out there if KISS comes out with new material it might suck to 90% of the world and I will still probably love it.

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Pokerstars tourney blog

Here is a typical tournament for me, I think I needed to make more moves here early, but bluffing players that normally cannot be bluffed is not my strongpoint. Here is how it went down.
45 person 10 dollar SNG - Riverstars uh I mean Pokerstars
Level 1 - blinds 10/20
I get AK diamonds on the button - 2 limpers to me raise it to 5xbb
SB and BB fold, limper in MP folds. one caller next to the left of me...flop comes ten-j-8
turn is another 8 - guy checks to me
I think about betting but it is too early for aggression I check again
River Q - giving me the straight (phew!)
he bets 100, I raise to 320, now I could have went for more but the board is paired although I doubt he trapped me here...he calls and mucks a pair of 5's I take down my first pot.
Level 2 - 15/30 blinds
first move of the tourney get moved to a new table
Pick up KQ spades in the bb. Not crazy about this hand, 2 limpers, sb completes I check.
flop 4-T-4
everyone checks around turn
A
sb checks, I check, EP guy bets 30
EP+1 calls, sb folds, I decide to fold. River was another 4 of diamonds making three diamonds and a double paired board. Both players left in hand showdown Ace rag and split...note that for later.
Pick up a pair of sixes in LP already raised to me with 2 callers - 60 to call flop. I smooth call here nothing to prove really.
3-4-6 two hearts
Set!! But flush and straight draw is out, time to put pressure on!
The original raiser checks, EP+1 bets out 220, I raise to 520 2 others fold, last player left calls.
Turn is eight of clubs. He checks, I bet a good 750 which is a little over 3/4 pot size (pot around 1200 now). He goes over the top to put me all in...Here we go! He shows a pair of tens really the best I could hope for, no real draws but a 2 outer.
River was a 7, I double up and am second in chips.
Get moved to another table.
Level 3 - 25/50 blinds
30 players left
I get K5o in bb and its raised to me, I fold flop is
5-9-K
Damn! But I am not much into calling down 5X bb raise with off suit cards
In the sb pick up the hiltons
Its raised to me 3x bb I reraise to 450 he goes all in...I think he's making a move here but I don't have much to go on.
Damn...I gotta fold here he has me covered and I can't go out like this.
After seeing the next couple hands I am second guessing my decision as he calls off big raise with KQs and loses to AQ when nothing pairs anybody's cards. But I just got on the table and did not have that read yet.
Wow this is a loose table lost three players already.
Another wow he calls off a bunch of chips with QJ and loses to KJ definately shoulda called there.
Level 4 - 50/100 blinds
24 left
A5 hearts in the sb 3 limpers I complete flop comes
8-7-3 two clubs guy in EP bets the guy I folded my hiltons to goes all in. I doubt he has anything, but the other guy folds.
Level 5 - 75/150 blinds
Don't really get any real hands, wish I had the hiltons back.
Pick up kings UTG, raise to 600 everyone folds, darn.
we lose another player in a pocket pair battle 99 vs JJ
Jacks win as both hands are UI.
19 players left. I am sitting around 10th in chips, blinds are coming up.
I can't believe the donk to my left is stil in here, he makes a terrible call and takes down a pot with a pair of 3's on a horrid painted board. I don't know how he makes that call..seriously, but I wasn't involved so...
Level 6 100/200 blinds
Down to 2 tables
Need some hands here I am slipping...average is 3700 I am around 2700
84o..that ain't gonna do it.
J7o..nope
J2o...nuh-uh
T9o...maybe in late position not in MP...
k2o...come on...
AK vs QQ guy is all in with AK
AK catches a damn straight 2345...gawd...
17 players left
K3o UTG..not a chance
Break time. I have 2750 in chips avg is 3970
Gotta get a hand to double up on soon or else I will get blinded out.
Level 7 100/200 blinds ante 25
16 players left, I am sitting a great 14/16 in chips but if I double up I would be third so no worries.
64s in the sb...hmmm...tard to my left raises I decide to fold.
j9s he raises again on my button, I fold again, man I'm a pussy.
Betting ensues and he shows down an AJ and wins when he hits a jack.
Level 8 200/400 ante 25
tight times now...Any good hand pp or ace I am going all in
in the bb I pick up AJo with one guy raising and I go all in get called by nines
I go ui and lose out in 14th place. I suck at coin flips which is why I never win a tourney.

Friday, March 10, 2006

Time to amp up tourneys!

Lots of events going on. Playing in 2 tourneys this weekend. The first one is the first WPBT event on pokerstars March 12th. The next one is an DADI event on March 13th also on Pokerstars. Then I will be playing in IGGY's tourney on March 19th on Paradise for the $1500 WSOP seat. I have promised my wife I will be taking her to Vegas this year and this could be the opportunity I am looking for. If not oh well, will try to win a WSOP seat anyways or go down for the WPBT main event and meet all the bloggers. That is my goal this year to win a seat at some event, doesn't matter what one.
I was playing last night and needless to say not a good night for me, I think I dropped 1.5 buyins but I was playing really good and aggressive which is no consolation for me right now. Ran into sets with my Aces and Kings respectively after huge preflop bets. Obviously its really hard to push anyone off of a hand at micros which is why aces and kings rarely hold up. I am fine tuning my omaha game and think I have a good grasp of it. Last night in a pokerstars 9 seat sng we were down the final three and the guy on my left was getting pissy at my pot bets. However I was getting unreal cards and putting him on tilt. I went from 3rd to 1st in chips in a matter of minutes. I think however lost it when my jacks (double suited with an A and a rag) ran into kings on a ragged ass board. I had all sorts of draws and missed them all. I told the guy to relax we were ITM anyways what more could he ask for? I don't think its unreasonable when you are three handed in omaha to push the table around with good cards. Most of the times I would do pot sized bet preflop and if everyone stayed around pot sized bet on flop if I was good. I mean seriously whats wrong with that?
Lately I have been trying to find a new job, it seems as though I get into a rut everytime I get a new job and then eventually want to get out. Really I should not have left my previous place of employment but I was working for a total loser and couldn't stand him. I don't like consulting firms and never will. They don't value their employees and could care less if you left or they fired your ass out the door for some inane reason (and believe me if they wanna get rid of you it is easy to find some kind of violation). This is not the case where I work now, I have it pretty sweet. I can pretty much set my own hours (I don't wear a watch or punch a clock) however I have to put up with a bunch of idiots who I am convinced were all repeatedly dropped on their heads as children (or should be now as adults). Even how sweet it is (not!) I am always looking for something better, ideally I would like every second Friday off with four weeks of holidays along with a good pension and full benefits. I seriously considered taking over the family business at a time but to be honest I am too lazy. I mean like I workout 4-5 times a week so I am not that type of lazy but it would involve true dedication, hard work, no holidays ever and long workdays. I dont' think I could bring all that to the table. I am not sure I see a benefit there to owning your own business but just this moment someone reminded me that I wouldn't have to work with these momos (translation: morons).

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

WWDN Virgin

I never had the chance to take part in a WWDN so I did so last night. Got busted in 63rd when my kings ran into aces. Not bad, I'll take that over a bad beat that I usually suffer at PS doom switch expense anyday. At that point I was looking to double up my measly 900 chips after a bad run of flops. My highlight was finally raising the button with the hammer and picking up the blinds. I had a bad run of cards in the middle had AQo and AKo and raised in LP twice and here is both flops: 8-8-8 and T-T-T. Needless to say I have been popped one to many times with a lone 8 or ten for quads or a low/medium pocket pair and folded/cowered in a fetal position to a flop bet. If it wasn't Pokerstars I probably re-raise the bettor but I know better you devil!
Looking forward to taking part in the WPBT as mentioned on Pauly's blog and also looking forward to Iggy's tourneys he is setting up on PartyPoker for a seat at the 1500 dollar WSOP event. Should be a good year, I really have to polish up my tournament game. I will probably re-read Harrington again.
Oh and my friend took him back, yeah I can see it now, until they break up little/no contact I suspect. They guy is married and 17 years her elder and has more baggage than Peg Bundy on a 1 week road trip. Oh well, false hopes + false dreams + blind faith = broken hearted.

Monday, March 06, 2006

RIP Princess the Rabbit



My daughter's rabbit died yesterday and although it was only around a year she was pretty attached to it. I always had thought the rabbit had wheezed a bit too much and made weird noises however trips to the vet revealed nothing (yeah what do I know). I saw her just the night before and she was fine eating some broccolli or whatever was sitting there that night. They took her to the vet in the morning after she was having trouble breathing and died in the vets care probably 12 hours later. It was a funny rabbit with droopy ears and liked to hide in a cupboard at times. I am not much of a pet guy myself (ie selfish) but when my daughter is upset obviously thats what strikes a chord with me. However, there is some solice that she has another rabbit (which is kinda mean so she says) and a dog (god forbid if anything happens to that dog).

Played in SirWaffle's bday on fultilt (ahem...pokerstars after ft was down most of the day) and was a good time. Riverstars hit me again with the usual suckout on the river but hey I can't say I didn't see it coming. There is a reason why I limit my play there and its all in my head yes I know.

Rant time...ok you got these poker sites making millions upon millions of dollars do you think they could manage their site? Being an IT guy this really gets my goat (no I don't have a goat but if I did this would kill it) Lets take a look at the support on the top sites:
PartyPoker - Some kind of sick joke here folks. Their support I am convinced only sends copy and pasted form emails (actually received some with ) and you have to speak to at least 3 people to get a legitmate question answered. Then you get Ackmed or Bashalm or someone who could care less about answering your question and gives you whatever answer can get rid of you the fastest. I have received 3 different answers regarding the same question many times from different support people. Their site downtime and bugs when they upgraded was unprofessional and scary to say the least. After such time they did nothing to address/appease people who lost money in that time (buttons disappearing, people starting with more chips in sngs, small blind sitout and no post when you come back in on button, all your images being deleted in your program files directory, etc, etc.).
Pokerstars - No complaints with support there, prompt and professional, I have never had an issue (other than the doom suckout switch that happens everytime I play a MTT there)
Ultimate Bet - Did an upgrade just recently which resulted in DAYS of downtime. Are you serious? All I can picture is a bunch of monkeys like that careerbuilder commercial jumping around servers all freaking out not knowing what to do. Their explanation? Things will get better and improvements will be worth it. It was up yesterday...and what an Improvement!!....uh... you might want to actually make some changes to something in order for me to believe that crap. I don't mind play on the site however the upgrade that wasn't is mysterious and hillarious at the same time.
Full Tilt - How many times does this site go down? I have to seriously question a site which actually pays out the winners at the time of the server crash along with refunding everyone's buyin. I mean I like the policy, don't get me wrong, but they have done this many times over the course of the last six months. How can you really make any money with this happening more importantly you never see any emails talking about what they are going to do to address this problem.

I could go on but that is enough for me for today. Also one of my friends had a bad breakup and I'm trying to console and convince her he was an idiot. No doubt they will get back together and I will be outted Seinfeld-eske until they breakup again. Such is the circle of life.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Bombed by the Jag bomb!

Annual birthday drunk fest as a few of my friends have birthdays this past week so whenever your bday is it gets moved to the closest friday. This is where we celebrate and get hammered in the process. Now you'll have to excuse my memory because once it hits around the 9-10 pm mark usually my memory is all fuzzy and my night turns into a silent movie of sorts. Now it starts out innocent with some pitchers of Keiths and some greasy munchies. As the night progresses it turns into Jag (pronounced Yag) bombs (which for those not had the next day unpleasure its a shot of Jagrmeister dropped into into a glass of redbull) and bottlecaps (great shooter which is a shot of amaretto dropped into a glass of lime/7up) then into shooters I don't even know what they are and don't wanna know because I will never ever have those ones again (yeah right). It turned into one of those nights where you are worried you accidentally skipped out on a tab or something. Oh well the city is small enough I am sure I will be discovered eventually if I did. Funniest moment of the night is one of my buddies, who won the tourney on Noble on Thursday (Dakota2001) on the dance floor by himself doing a stripper dance. The night ended at a dance bar where I seem to remember we met up with a lot of people who I won't even remember talking to I am sure. Good times...uh I think.
I will be playing in the SirWaffle's bday tourney on fulltilt. Starts at 8:30 not sure what time that is here but I am sure I'll figure it out.



My Canes won again (3 of 3 since break!) and are on top of the NHL yet again with 88 points. For those of you that don't know I am a huge Carolina Hurricanes fan. Actually I am an old Hartford Whaler fan from way back when...however this year could be the year. Also please note that the Canes were the first team in the NHL to have rink girls. This became more popular after our 2002 run to the stanleycup.

In the poker world it seems as though I am more of a breakeven player lately. Luckily with bonuses and rakeback it works out ok but its frustrating when you get TPTK in good and get sucked out on. I try to save my all-ins for sets and flushes, etc. but its tough to remain disciplined when some LAG is walking over the table and hitting his miracle outs against you consistently. I have figured out a few things however...I suck at limit poker even though I have gotten better its still a suckers game for me. My good hands get sucked out on and my draws never come to fruition. NL is my main game although I am semi-good at Omaha, its just tough to find a good game online. I can hardly ever get deep stacked in a MTT as I am just too impatient and/or have that one bad suckout for all my chips.

I had my first berating at a table today. I have berated others but really rarely get berated here's how it went down. I get JTc -UTG...normally I fold this hand pf UTG however I was just sucked out on for 2pair (AK-me vs AJ-him) so I was on semi-tilt trying to make it up. Also I dispise min raises from any position. Anways I just call UTG, sb makes it 1.00 to go. I call and another guy (MP1) calls flop comes:
Ac 9h 3c
I check of course MP1 checks and SB makes it a dollar. Turn is:
2d
Ok now I know I am drawing to only clubs here but I know for a fact (well my facts anyways) that he doesn't have a club draw.
I check he bets $3 I decide my 9 outs are good enuff for me and smooth call. Pot is 8.50 so I'm not getting pot odds but expected odds are good if I hit my flush. River is:
Qc
Now I know I'm good here just gotta figure out how much he is willing to call, hopefully the Qc gave him 2 pair and I can get some coin back. He bets $2 (very weak of course with my draw coming in) I decide to raise to 7.50 and he calls - shows AKo. Then proceeds to go off. I did play the hand badly UTG JTc call is not great however if he makes it $2 I fold pf. I figure out who I am dealing with exactly when I tell him the min raise pf was not a good play and he has no idea what pf means. End of story.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Online tourney


Thanks to everyone that took part in the tourney to help out Leah. A few are donating their winnings to her she will definately appreciate it. I was disappointed with the turnout but Noble isn't a very popular site however a good time was had by all. My proudest moment was getting hammered by Pauly...uh that didn't come out right but I think you know what I mean. We have the same rule with ducks (aka silent assassins) on our table in hickville Sask. Pauly! I finished good my AQ got knocked by Iggy's 99 which was all good, I can now say Iggy knocked my butt out of a tourney!
Good times, I think the crew had more fun as this was our first real online tourney with the gang in there. Definately will have to try for something on PokerStars real soon.

Weekly home game

First of all if you are out there reading this go and sign up to help my friend with cancer:
www.noblepoker.com
thursday, March 2 (tonight) 7:30 pm EST
10+1 entry (fee goes to leah)
password: charity

Every week I play (well and drink, etc. of course!) at a friend's home game. Well I don't make it there every week but I try to go every so often. Anyways didn't finish in the money last night had 2 bubble exits in both games due to my impatient nature for the most part. But the cards were seriously live, saw two quad hands and a lot of four flush on the board as well. So it was a tough night all around for those of us that employ the tighter gameplan. One real bad hand that hurt was when I was in the BB with 94h and hit two pair on the flop. However two spades were on board and the turn was of course a spade. Oh well, damn big blind hands. Its all in good fun and its more of a get together than a serious poker game.

Thanks to Pauly, Iggy, Bob and DoubleA's for plugging the tourney on their sites! Really I am touched by the willingness to help a total stranger help a friend in need. May the Karma God shine upon you guys!