Coolness

My awesome co-worker Dee met Barack Obama when he came to our school to speak on Martin Luther King Jr. Day about 7 years ago. Dee was one of the nominees for our institution's Martin Luther King Jr. Award, so she was able to have picture taken with him. I just helped her scan the photo into her comp today so she can send copies to all of her family members.


Pretty cool to have a picture of yourself with any President, but with this one in particular it's a hell of a lot of awesome. Seven years later, and he's the most important politician in the world. :-)

ABCD...INFP

I was a psych major in college, so I am somewhat familiar with the whole MBTI/"determing your personality type" subject. I think everyone who has taken Psych 101 had to take the Myers-Briggs test at least once. I never really put much stock in stuff like that, though. The actual Myers-Briggs research is pretty cool, but as is the problem with almost all personality psych research, the true findings get buried and subsumed by pop psychology (even in the introductory level psychology classes themselves). And then there's the whole unpleasant offshoot of the pop psych aspect, that of people trying to make a buck off of telling you how wonderful you are deep down inside and how you're really in the wrong career path and oh yeah, just pay us $49.95 and we will give you a nice little home-grown test to determine exactly what you should do with your life. And if you pay another $19.95, maybe we'll even throw in some graphs to show you what a unique person you are.

That said, though, for some reason tonight I was motivated to read some stuff about my (best guess, anyway) Myers-Briggs personality type, INFP (introverted intuitive feeling perceiving). And it's kinda frightening how well these describe me:
http://similarminds.com/jung/infp.html
http://www.murraystate.edu/secsv/fye/INFP.htm
If I had to try to write some blurb about my personality, I really couldn't do any better than that.

I once read that there is an abnormally high concentration of INTJ types among poker players. Makes sense, I guess (although it makes me picture a bunch of Sklansky type limit nerds...I wonder if there is a difference between the average personality type of limit and no limit players).

In other news, we got about 4 inches of snow today. Generally this makes me happy, as I love the snow (seriously, in my dream world Chicago would have 3 feet of snow on the ground for the whole winter), but when the snow starts coming down in the afternoon and you have to drive home in rush hour traffic, it gets pretty annoying.My usually 15-20 minute drive home would have taken me about 1.5 hrs today...I say would have, as my car broke down 2/3rds of the way home. (As they say on 30 Rock, "Blergh!") I've been driving this car ever since I was 15 and on a driver's permit...so 13 yrs now (yikes!)...and I had never before had it break down on me. So, of course, my life being what it is, I get to have my first break down in the middle of the worst snowstorm so far this winter. Heh. I really can't complain, though. The engine lasted long enough for me to make it into a strip mall parking lot and then I called my dad to come and rescue me with his nice big 4-wheel-drive SUV. I even got to spend the intervening time waiting for him in the local pet shop, which is my general idea of a fun outing. (Yeah, INFP, we're not really the wild and crazy fun type.)

Can't Complain

I have entitled this graph The Learning Curve:



Moved up to PLO200 this weekend and so far the results have been agreeable. Nothing like running like God to boost your confidence in a game. I have also been reading Jeff Hwang's PLO book. I think I finally have starting hand values down pat (only took me, what, 3 months?). I am now on to more advanced concepts like "how to know when you are drawing dead" and "bluffing might actually be possible in this game, on occasion."

Favorite hand of the day, which I will entitle Inducing the Bluff:

Full Tilt Poker Game #9475134378: Table Coburn (6 max) - $1/$2 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 16:28:41 ET - 2008/12/13
Seat 1: willpga ($501.80)
Seat 2: famouslastwords ($227.25)
Seat 3: BOTSLAYER ($200)
Seat 4: Skyscrapers ($375.30)
Seat 5: schwingk ($57.30)
Seat 6: Emaninch ($343.15)
Skyscrapers posts the small blind of $1
schwingk posts the big blind of $2
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to famouslastwords [7c Jh Th Qs]
Emaninch calls $2
willpga folds
famouslastwords raises to $9
BOTSLAYER folds
Skyscrapers folds
schwingk folds
Emaninch calls $7
*** FLOP *** [3d Kd 8c]
Emaninch checks
famouslastwords bets $14
Emaninch calls $14
*** TURN *** [3d Kd 8c] [7h]
Emaninch checks
famouslastwords has 15 seconds left to act
famouslastwords bets $38
Emaninch calls $38
*** RIVER *** [3d Kd 8c 7h] [7s]
Emaninch checks
famouslastwords bets $2
Emaninch raises to $131
famouslastwords has 15 seconds left to act
famouslastwords calls $129
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Emaninch shows [5h 9s 2d Ac] a pair of Sevens
famouslastwords shows [7c Jh Th Qs] three of a kind, Sevens
famouslastwords wins the pot ($384) with three of a kind, Sevens
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $387 | Rake $3
Board: [3d Kd 8c 7h 7s]
Seat 1: willpga didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: famouslastwords showed [7c Jh Th Qs] and won ($384) with three of a kind, Sevens
Seat 3: BOTSLAYER (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: Skyscrapers (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: schwingk (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: Emaninch showed [5h 9s 2d Ac] and lost with a pair of Sevens

It may just be the luckbox talking, but the PLO games are so good that I don't know if I'll ever go back to NLH. Well, we'll see. I do kind of miss knowing what my equity is in a hand without having to go online and calculate it.

More later.

Anger Management, or Why I am not the Cubs GM

Woke up this morning to some annoying news -- the Cubs traded for the Marlins closer and aren't planning to re-sign Kerry Wood. This pisses me off, as Wood has long been my favorite Cub. I understand the reasoning behind it, and I'm not a big fan of giving closers huge contracts in general, but still. This is Wood. He's supposed to be a Cub. I want the Cubs to be in a position to get to the World Series, but I want Wood to be part of it. He deserves it.

It's pretty ironic, too, considering Wood posted a sparkling 1.08 WHIP last year, the best of his career. IMO, WHIP is by far the best stat we have to measure a pitcher's effectiveness. I see a pitcher with anything below 1.15 and I start salivating. (If you really want to see me start drooling, bring up Greg Maddux's stats from the late 80s/early 90s.) OK, this is kind of gross imagery. I'll stop.

Anyway, I am going to be depressed to see Wood in a different club's uniform. He's been a Cub for 10 years (ten years! God, time goes by fast). I've told my friends this story a lot, but I always like to claim that I should have been at his 20K game in 1998. I was a senior in high school at the time and one of the sports editors of our school yearbook. (BTW, 1998 yearbook = best designed yearbook Central ever put out, I guarantee it).

So, as spring rolled around and we were putting the finishing touches on the book, our yearbook advisor decided that we had earned a field trip. She entertained suggestions from us, and mine was obviously that we should go to a Cubs game. But I guess she thought she wouldn't be able to pass that off as educational enough, so we ended up going to the Museum of Modern Art (where, it turned out, one of the halls had a huge exhibit up dedicated to vaginas--well, I'm sure it had some kind of thematic meaning beyond that, but all I remember 10 years later is looking at lots and lots of vaginas and thinking, "why am I not at the Cubs game?"). Then we spent the afternoon at Watertower Place (fancy shopping mall on Michigan Ave)--highly educational of course. That day was May 6, 1998. On the way back, in the bus, I listened to the game in disbelief as Wood racked up strikeout after strikeout and got home just in time to see the ninth inning on TV (and Wood's postgame interview, where he shoke like a leaf as he held the headpiece to his ear).

The next day one of the many articles about the game in the Tribune was a little blurb about how the tickets from that game had become instant collectibles and were already selling for a couple hundred bucks a piece. Just to be cruel, I brought it in to show to everyone in my yearbook office.

Anyway, ever since that day, Wood has been my (and I'm sure thousands of other fans')favorite Cub. I'm gonna miss him.

P.S. Looking for a photo of Wood's 20K game, I stumbled upon this site, where someone I've never heard of reviews pitching mechanics. Really interesting stuff.

Also, I am so proud to see that he listed Greg Maddux as someone who has superb mechanics. When I taught myself how to pitch when I was a kid, I modeled my windup and pitching motion after what I saw Maddux do, as he was my favorite Cub at the time. As I grew up, and he left the Cubs, I completely forgot that I had learned how to pitch from watching him. You can imagine how shocked I was in 2004, as Maddux returned to the Cubs and I watched him closely for the first time since I was about ten years old, to realize that I had the exact same windup and delivery as him. It was one of those bizarre moments of suddenly recalling a memory you didn't know existed, as my brain leapt back over a decade to an image of myself standing in the middle of my family room, mimicking his motion as closely as possible with every pitch projected on the TV in front of me.

Sadly, I never progressed past the windup stage of pitching knowledge, so my childhood repertoire of pitches consisted of one 40 mph fastball, over and over. Hey, I could hit a target, at least! I guess I should be thankful that I didn't model myself after Mitch Williams.

The Fish is Me

I am still a huge fish in PLO. This is sad, as I have spent about a month now working on my game. Well, playing anyway. I haven't watched enough videos recently, because it's more fun to play than to learn (yes, I am the perfect fish). My recent mode seems to be: get home from work, eat dinner, play 4 tables of PLO50 on my laptop while watching an episode of something on HULU in the corner of my screen. Not the most profitable session type for me, but it has been kinda relaxing and enjoyable to play the "lunch-money" stakes again. And now I've gotten myself addicted to PLO, so while I recognize that I do suck quite badly at it, I'm gonna keep working on it and hopefully pull myself up into the "competent small stakes player" realm in the near future.

I am pretty curious what my PLO stats are like, but since I've been playing mostly on the laptop (a Mac), I haven't bothered with buying Pokertracker Omaha. My brother has promised to help me fix up my desktop comp when he's home for Thanksgiving, so I think I'll get it then and import all my hands. I'm guessing I'm playing too LAGGy, like 30/20/4, and winning at something sad like 1ptbb/100 (at least, I think I don't have a negative winrate--would be pretty depressing to find out otherwise. It's kinda hard to keep track when I'm jumping back and forth between my normal NL games and the PLO).

The main thing I've learned the hard way about the difference between PLO and NLH is the suckiness of pocket pairs in PLO. Still hasn't quite sunk in, though. Last night I was watching a video where the pro mucked crappy kings (like KK38r) from the SB against a BTN open without a second thought, and I was like, "Oh shit, I'm supposed to be folding there?!?" Weird game.

The nice thing about the PLO setup I have going right now is that I have been able to watch a shit-ton of stuff on hulu.com. The other night I even had this bizarre dream that I was going to open the first hulu review site (I actually looked this up afterwards and learned that there already is at least one of these--so sad, dream self). I'll have to settle for reviewing stuff in my blog instead.

So far on hulu I have watched:

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia -- great, great show. One of the funniest shows I've seen, in fact. I have my coworker's son to thank for recommending it to me. Best description of it I've heard is "Seinfeld on crack."

Friday Night Lights -- This show really grew on me. I was depressed when I got through the second season and realized hulu didn't have any more episodes. The show kept doing ridiculous, soap-opera-y things to the characters, but never enough at one time to completely sink the plotline. This show does get some extra points in my book b/c of all the hot guys on it.

The O.C. -- Yeah, I can't really believe I watched this show either. Don't know what came over me. It pretty much sucked as badly as could be expected. The scenery was nice, though (lots of mansions and beaches to keep my mind off the plot). And Peter Gallagher's eyebrows amuse me. As do storylines about the macho, bully kid walking in on his supposedly-straight dad making out with his male friend at his car dealership.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents -- There are a ton of these on hulu; took me like 2 weeks to get through them all. They all kind of blend together after a while, but the intro/outro bits by Hitchcock were always amusing. Three out of four episodes seemed to involve either one spouse poisoning the other for their insurance money or someone killing their wealthy relative for their inheritance money. Good times, good times.

Alfred Hitchcock Hour -- I never realized before that this was a different show. Hitchcock Presents was a 30 min. show that ran in the late 50s; the Hitchcock Hour was an hour long show from the early 60s. So far I'm just partway through the first season of this show, but I am generally liking it better than "Presents." Dramas are much better suited to the hour format rather than half hour, IMO. Actually, the first episode of this show cracked me up b/c it was about poker (main character is secretly a pro gambler and his younger brother is a poker fish who thinks he is good, so the older brother decides to "school him" before he ruins his life or whatever)--and it was kinda surprising to hear that the term "fish" was in the poker lexicon even back then.

My favorite episode so far has been one called Hangover, starring Tony Randall:

The scene where he is fucking up his presentation to the ad execs is one of the most uncomfortable scenes I've ever watched. Just brutal.

A Rant

WTF is up with everyone using the term "drop" to mean when something is released? E.g., sentence I just read on another blog: "We're never shy about touting an open-source, highly-extendable browser, so feel free to try it out when it drops." That has to be the most retarded slang I've ever seen. And I keep coming across it everywhere -- new albums don't get released anymore, they "drop." WTF is wrong with this world?!?

On a slightly more important note, I am pretty bummed about this Prop 8 nonsense in California. What a juxtaposition--we elect our first multiracial President on the same day that this piece of codified bigotry gets passed. It never ceases to amaze me how close-minded people can be. Who the fuck cares if your church defines marriage as between a man and a woman? Go hang out in your intolerant little church, then. But don't push your religious views onto the rest of society and the government. And don't tell me you or your church are accepting of gay people even though you voted for prop 8, as if merely acknowledging their existence is some great accomplishment of tolerance. If you were accepting of gay people, you certainly wouldn't be asking the government to deny them the same rights as you or me. And, no, same rights does not mean "the right for a man to marry a woman." It means the right for one person to marry whichever other damn person they wish. Consenting adult & consenting adult. This is not rocket science, guys. It's basic human decency. You want to tell someone else who they are allowed to marry? Seriously. Say that to my face.

OK, that topic gets me a bit riled up. I guess I'll save my poker thoughts for later.

The Power of Obama

Full Tilt was running a 3x points special for election night, so I put in a solid NLH session for the first time in several weeks. I guess my luckbox and my NL skills are a bit rusty. I may have set a personal record for number of times I bluffed into the nuts. Someone needs to remind me that I do better as a nit.

Obama is making his victory speech now, though, and I can't stop smiling. What's a couple of buyins on a night like this? (although, in retrospect, I definitely should have gone down to Grant Park for the celebration and skipped the poker grinding--results oriented thinking much?) It's all pretty amazing, though. If someone had asked me a couple years ago when there would be the first non-white President, my estimate would have been a few decades from now. But apparently America is a better country than I gave it credit for. I'm proud. I'm excited to see what President Obama will accomplish. And, most of all, I can't wait until we look back on Obama as one of the greatest presidents in US history, and my mom has to admit that she is the worst judge of character in our family. I'm going to bed smiling, dammit. I'll worry about my stupid poker leaks later.

Omaha is fun

I can't seem to find any hand history converter that works for omaha. Bah.

Full Tilt Poker Game #8540077646: Table Monte (6 max) - $0.25/$0.50 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 0:32:45 ET - 2008/10/18
Seat 1: famouslastwords ($94.30)
Seat 2: AceHogan ($127.50)
Seat 3: SOPHIE13 ($24.70)
Seat 4: GustavoCPA ($50.20)
Seat 5: FTrusdell ($139.80)
Seat 6: Chmielarz ($49.25)
GustavoCPA has 5 seconds left to act
GustavoCPA stands up
GustavoCPA has timed out
FTrusdell posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to famouslastwords [8h Th 7s 9d]
Chmielarz folds
famouslastwords raises to $1.50
AceHogan calls $1.50
SOPHIE13 calls $1.50
FTrusdell calls $1
*** FLOP *** [8s 7h 2c]
FTrusdell bets $6
famouslastwords has 15 seconds left to act
famouslastwords raises to $18
AceHogan folds
SOPHIE13 calls $18
FTrusdell folds
*** TURN *** [8s 7h 2c] [8d]
famouslastwords bets $24
SOPHIE13 calls $5.20, and is all in
famouslastwords shows [8h Th 7s 9d]
SOPHIE13 shows [6d Ad Qs Ac]
Uncalled bet of $18.80 returned to famouslastwords
*** RIVER *** [8s 7h 2c 8d] [Ah]
famouslastwords shows a full house, Eights full of Sevens
SOPHIE13 shows a full house, Aces full of Eights
SOPHIE13 wins the pot ($55.50) with a full house, Aces full of Eights
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $58.40 | Rake $2.90
Board: [8s 7h 2c 8d Ah]
Seat 1: famouslastwords showed [8h Th 7s 9d] and lost with a full house, Eights full of Sevens
Seat 2: AceHogan folded on the Flop
Seat 3: SOPHIE13 (button) showed [6d Ad Qs Ac] and won ($55.50) with a full house, Aces full of Eights
Seat 4: GustavoCPA (small blind) is sitting out
Seat 5: FTrusdell (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Chmielarz didn't bet (folded)

Full Tilt Poker Game #8540155305: Table Monte (6 max) - $0.25/$0.50 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 0:38:44 ET - 2008/10/18
Seat 1: famouslastwords ($67.85)
Seat 2: AceHogan ($123.50)
Seat 3: SOPHIE13 ($104.95)
Seat 4: ShipIt26 ($50.20)
Seat 5: FTrusdell ($83.95)
Seat 6: Chmielarz ($48.50)
FTrusdell posts the small blind of $0.25
Chmielarz posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to famouslastwords [7h 5d 8c 9h]
famouslastwords raises to $1.75
AceHogan folds
SOPHIE13 calls $1.75
ShipIt26 folds
FTrusdell calls $1.50
Chmielarz folds
*** FLOP *** [5s 5c Qc]
FTrusdell checks
ShipIt26 is feeling happy
famouslastwords has 15 seconds left to act
famouslastwords bets $4.50
SOPHIE13 folds
FTrusdell calls $4.50
*** TURN *** [5s 5c Qc] [4s]
FTrusdell checks
famouslastwords bets $12.50
FTrusdell calls $12.50
*** RIVER *** [5s 5c Qc 4s] [Qs]
FTrusdell checks
famouslastwords checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
famouslastwords shows [7h 5d 8c 9h] three of a kind, Fives
FTrusdell shows [Js Kc 8s Kd] a flush, Queen high
FTrusdell wins the pot ($37.80) with a flush, Queen high
famouslastwords adds $0.90
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $39.75 | Rake $1.95
Board: [5s 5c Qc 4s Qs]
Seat 1: famouslastwords showed [7h 5d 8c 9h] and lost with three of a kind, Fives
Seat 2: AceHogan didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: SOPHIE13 folded on the Flop
Seat 4: ShipIt26 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: FTrusdell (small blind) showed [Js Kc 8s Kd] and won ($37.80) with a flush, Queen high
Seat 6: Chmielarz (big blind) folded before the Flop

Full Tilt Poker Game #8540224989: Table Toy (6 max) - $0.25/$0.50 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 0:44:11 ET - 2008/10/18
Seat 1: dbanner14 ($206.75)
Seat 2: bluefalken777 ($30.05)
Seat 3: Chmielarz ($49.25)
Seat 4: AceHogan ($50)
Seat 5: Yoinkavich ($40.20)
Seat 6: famouslastwords ($102)
Yoinkavich posts the small blind of $0.25
famouslastwords posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to famouslastwords [Qc 4c Qd Kc]
dbanner14 has 15 seconds left to act
dbanner14 calls $0.50
bluefalken777 folds
Chmielarz folds
AceHogan folds
Yoinkavich calls $0.25
famouslastwords raises to $2
dbanner14 calls $1.50
Yoinkavich calls $1.50
*** FLOP *** [Ah Qh 9c]
Yoinkavich checks
famouslastwords bets $6
dbanner14 raises to $24
Yoinkavich folds
famouslastwords has 15 seconds left to act
famouslastwords raises to $78
dbanner14 raises to $204.75, and is all in
famouslastwords calls $22, and is all in
dbanner14 shows [2c Ad 6h As]
famouslastwords shows [Qc 4c Qd Kc]
Uncalled bet of $104.75 returned to dbanner14
*** TURN *** [Ah Qh 9c] [8c]
*** RIVER *** [Ah Qh 9c 8c] [Kh]
dbanner14 shows three of a kind, Aces
famouslastwords shows three of a kind, Queens
dbanner14 wins the pot ($203) with three of a kind, Aces
famouslastwords adds $50
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $206 | Rake $3
Board: [Ah Qh 9c 8c Kh]
Seat 1: dbanner14 showed [2c Ad 6h As] and won ($203) with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 2: bluefalken777 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: Chmielarz didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: AceHogan (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: Yoinkavich (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: famouslastwords (big blind) showed [Qc 4c Qd Kc] and lost with three of a kind, Queens

I totally misplayed that last hand. Double bah.

Hulu.com

I must be out of the loop, 'cause I just found out about this site and apparently it's been around since March. Anyway, it has a bunch of TV shows and even some movies that you can stream on it. Very clean layout, works well, has every episode of Arrested Development. I am never going to get any work done again ever.

I have been rocking the heads-up games lately on Pokerstars. Er, rather I would be rocking them if I didn't keep getting stacked in hands like these:

Poker Stars, $1/$2 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

Hero (SB): $375.25 (187.6 bb)
BB: $605.15 (302.6 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is SB with Qs Qh
Hero raises to $6, BB raises to $22, Hero raises to $72, BB raises to $210, Hero raises to $375.25 and is all-in, BB calls $165.25
Flop: ($750.50) 7h 5s Kh
Turn: ($750.50) 2d
River: ($750.50) 3h
Results: $750.50 pot ($0.50 rake)
BB showed Ah 4s (a straight, Ace to Five) and won $750 ($374.75 net)
Hero mucked Qs Qh (a pair of Queens) and lost (-$375.25 net)


Other than hands like that, and some random what-the-fuck-was-I-thinking hands (which obviously bother me way more than the bad beats, since it's my fault the money ain't shipping my way), HU has been fun, and I'm slowly but surely getting better at it. I wish I could say the same for PLO, which is just ugh. Still very much an omaha fish. Maybe someday I'll get it.

P.S. Another cool thing about hulu.com is they allow you to embed their videos on your own site. Here's my favorite episode of Arrested Development, "Pier Pressure":

Plz hold one time!

Also, is there a Darwin award category for business ideas? If so, I think this guy deserves a nomination. Quote from article:

Gioia would unwind by playing poker online in his hotel room at night. But that was very different from sitting at a table with other players and handling real cards.

For example, his three-of-a-kind and full-house hands frequently got topped.

“I even got beat with a straight flush by a higher straight flush — things I’d never seen at a real table,” Gioia said. ...

And so he started Gioia Systems LLC. His biggest challenge was how to differentiate his site from the fast-growing number of popular Internet poker sites.

“The answer was almost instantaneous: Play with a real deck of cards,” he said.

The funny thing is, people are so dumb that this might just be the perfect marketing angle for online poker. And think of the type of players this site would attract -- my god, I might have to sign up myself!

Time for Thanks

I just wanted to give a quick thanks to Barney Frank for existing and being so fucking cool.

His new bill, HR 6870, passed its committee vote today. Yeah, yeah, it's not much, but it's about the best news in online poker in the past two years. Baby steps.

More later.

LOL

Missed Obama's speech 'cause I was watching the Cubs game and grinding out some hands. But the night turned out pretty well anyway--Cubs won a great game and I ran pretty damn hot:

Here is my favorite hand of the night. I totally was looking at some other table and thought I had QQ. Was so confused why I didn't win the hand till I looked back at the hand history:

FullTiltPoker Game #7843175567: Table Double Arrow - $3/$6 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:37:13 ET - 2008/08/28
Seat 1: famouslastwords ($600)
Seat 2: madman460 ($1,238.15)
Seat 3: luckmasheen ($294)
Seat 4: moproblems ($1,197)
Seat 5: Gman-NJ ($636.45)
Seat 6: mazzler ($600)
Seat 7: Superquade ($131.30)
Seat 8: Timid Flower ($615)
Seat 9: hoytbuck ($459.95)
mazzler posts the small blind of $3
Superquade posts the big blind of $6
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to famouslastwords [6h 8h]
Timid Flower folds
hoytbuck folds
famouslastwords raises to $21
madman460 folds
luckmasheen folds
moproblems folds
Gman-NJ folds
mazzler has 15 seconds left to act
mazzler adds $3
mazzler folds
Superquade raises to $131.30, and is all in
famouslastwords calls $110.30
Superquade shows [Jc Jh]
famouslastwords shows [6h 8h]
*** FLOP *** [7s 9s Kh]
*** TURN *** [7s 9s Kh] [2d]
*** RIVER *** [7s 9s Kh 2d] [Kc]
Superquade shows two pair, Kings and Jacks
famouslastwords shows a pair of Kings
Superquade wins the pot ($262.60) with two pair, Kings and Jacks
famouslastwords adds $131.30
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $265.60 | Rake $3
Board: [7s 9s Kh 2d Kc]
Seat 1: famouslastwords showed [6h 8h] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 2: madman460 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: luckmasheen didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: moproblems didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: Gman-NJ (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: mazzler (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: Superquade (big blind) showed [Jc Jh] and won ($262.60) with two pair, Kings and Jacks
Seat 8: Timid Flower didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: hoytbuck didn't bet (folded

I can never get too angry about my random misclicks; they are rather hilarious. I especially like when I accidentally minbet the flop with a good hand and my opponent raises me big and I get to come over the top of him (or even better, put in a min 3bet). Fun times and not bad for building a spazzy table image either.

Quotable

I like this. Just came across it on 2p2. Appeals to the misanthrope in me:

Everybody will eventually run worse than they thought was possible. The difference between a winner and a loser is that the latter thinks they do not deserve it.

--from a very old thread

Seriously, though, what is it with poker players and complaining? NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR BAD BEAT STORY. Sigh, I gotta stop reading BBV.

Argh!

Apparently these are very difficult instructions for people to follow:

Please make sure that you open the attachments with the appropriate program (Adobe Acrobat Reader) so that the formatting remains correct--do not open them with Microsoft Word or the "view attachment" feature in Groupwise.

Aimee Mann

going to see Aimee Mann at Ravinia on Aug. 31st and I am excited. Her album that she released this summer has quickly become one of my favorite albums of all time. Here is a b-side from it (how this didn't make the final cut, I have no idea):
Boomp3.com

Funny Sequence of Hands

<3 Weekend Poker. The following hands were all played last night against the same villain, whose name will be changed to protect his right to donk around in anonymity (cue Dragnet music):
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HAND #1
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Poker Stars, $1/$2 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 7 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (UTG): $430.50
UTG+1: $181
MP: $198
CO: $187.70
BTN: $374
SB: $202
Crazy Weekend Donk: $550.65


Pre-Flop: dealt to Hero (UTG)
Hero raises to $8, UTG+1 folds, MP raises to $26, 3 folds,
Crazy Weekend Donk calls $24, Hero raises to $88, MP folds,
Crazy Weekend Donk raises to $150, Hero raises to $430.50 and is All-In,
Crazy Weekend Donk calls $280.50

Flop: ($888) (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


Turn: ($888) (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


River: ($888) (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


Results: $888 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero mucked and LOST (-$430.50 NET)
Crazy Weekend Donk showed (three of a kind, Kings) and WON $885 (+$454.50 NET)


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HAND #2
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Poker Stars, $1/$2 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 9 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (BTN): $254.55
SB: $196
BB: $178.60
UTG: $126
UTG+1: $191
UTG+2: $364.75
MP1: $113.25
Crazy Weekend Donk: $992.85
CO: $212.80


Pre-Flop: dealt to Hero (BTN)

4 folds, Crazy Weekend Donk calls $2, CO folds, Hero raises to $10, 2 folds, Crazy Weekend Donk raises to $18, Hero calls $8

Flop: ($39) (2 Players)
Crazy Weekend Donk bets $32, Hero raises to $236.55 and is All-In, Crazy Weekend Donk calls $204.55

Turn: ($512.10) (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


River: ($512.10) (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


Results: $512.10 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero mucked and LOST (-$254.55 NET)
Crazy Weekend Donk showed (a flush, Ace high) and WON $509.10 (+$254.55 NET)


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HAND #3
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Poker Stars, $1/$2 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 8 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter


Hero (CO): $534.30
BTN: $196
SB: $179.80
BB: $178
UTG: $202.40
UTG+1: $195.40
Crazy Weekend Donk: $1,101.75
MP2: $312.55


Pre-Flop: dealt to Hero (CO)

2 folds, Crazy Weekend Donk raises to $4, MP2 folds, Hero raises to $22, 3 folds, Crazy Weekend Donk raises to $40, Hero raises to $125, Crazy Weekend Donk calls $85

Flop: ($253) (2 Players)
Crazy Weekend Donk bets $976.75 and is All-In, Hero calls $409.30 and is All-In

Turn: ($1,071.60) (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


River: ($1,071.60) (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


Results: $1,071.60 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed (a pair of Kings) and WON $1,068.60 (+$534.30 NET)
Crazy Weekend Donk showed (high card Ace) and LOST (-$534.30 NET)


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HAND #4
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Poker Stars, $1/$2 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 8 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter


Hero (UTG+1): $1,071.60
MP1: $196
MP2: $178.80
CO: $173
BTN: $199.40
SB: $198.15
Crazy Weekend Donk: $567.45
UTG: $312.55


Pre-Flop: dealt to Hero (UTG+1)

UTG folds, Hero raises to $8, 2 folds, CO calls $8, 2 folds, Crazy Weekend Donk raises to $86, Hero raises to $1,071.60 and is All-In, CO folds, Crazy Weekend Donk calls $481.45 and is All-In

Flop: ($1,143.90) (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


Turn: ($1,143.90) (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


River: ($1,143.90) (2 Players - 1 is All-In)


Results: $1,143.90 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed (a flush, Ace high) and WON $1,140.90 (+$573.45 NET)
Crazy Weekend Donk showed (a flush, Jack high) and LOST (-$567.45 NET)