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):
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