boston legal

even though it wasn't really boston legal's fault, i lost most of what little respect i still had for the show when it got nominated for a best drama emmy over the wire. i still have a season pass for it on my tivo, and tonight i caught an old episode.

can someone please explain to me how all of these people get cases and make final arguments before a judge within a week? i am a lawyer and i don't understand! is this just tv world, like when mexican brothers on 24 speak to each other in english?

congrats

to miami don for his 27th place finish in 750k. and to bayne for finishing itm. i will have to add links in when i get home b/c i forgot i can't put links on blogger in safari and don't have time to download firefox right now. so far new mac is working brilliantly, i just haven't remembered to download all my old programs.

had lovely dinner at the delano last night and didn't return to hotel till after 1, so i missed don's run, and my plans to play poker were foiled.

goin to miami

i'm off to miami for the night, but have ample time before my flight leaves so i thought i'd post. i got here mad early b/c you never know about traffic, and i did not fully realize that laguardia is less than a half hour away. first score was logging onto internet and realizing that i was in the rtr freeroll. i ran into AA twice, and then went out when i jammed on a pf raiser w/ T9s. he had 88, and i flopped a T but of course the river was an 8. however, i was able to play comfortably from the "admirals club." i'm booked on first class, so i rolled up hoping they'd let me in, but i was told that you have to be a member, and simply flying first class isn't good enough. but then the woman smiled at me and said, you know what, you can just go in. i never even showed my boarding pass! i'm going to have to remember that as a strategy the next time i want to chill at the bar and watch some football.

speaking of football, i am en fuego in my yahoo league. i picked up chatman after losing ronnie brown, but benched him for earnest graham. even still, i'm ahead with four players still playing, and the only way i lose is if andre davis goes absolutely nuts in the second half. sadly things are not as rosy in the blogger league. anderson continues to score me some massive points, an chatman picked up 9. but my guys are no match for hines ward and antonio gates, who just went nuts today. :( seriously, gates scored 21 points in first half? and my te, shockey, scored 2 points the whole game! sorta wishing i'd kept brady now.

i'm finishing up a $5 sng right now (in the money, woot) and then i'll probably review some paperwork about my case before heading down to the gate. we get into miami after 9pm, so my plan is to settle in, maybe play a little poker, and hit bed. weeeeee, just hit royal flush w/ JTs.

nearly forgot, i finished first in a wall street poker tournament on friday night, which was cool. hu was a coin flip, i had QTs v. his A6, and i flopped a T. i raised in position and he jammed. it was a loose call by me, but last time i went hu at wall street i played my butt off and lost to a guy who hit a gut shot on the river, so i figured if i was gonna come in second i'd rather do it quickly. i then lost about half my profits in the cash game. i truly can't remember a cash session where i was THAT card dead. ever. one pocket pair. flop all undercards two hearts. i cbet, player 1 raises, player 2 re-raises. i have to fold. player 1 barely had me beat but folded to re-raise, and player 2 never showed but he had darko and flopped straight.

played me some wii baseball last night and now my right back/shoulder is in some massive pain. i even tried stretching beforehand this time. i am kicking some ass! my score is in the high 600s now, and i can't seem to lose!

four things

four jobs i've held:

1) lawyer
2) web/tech manager
3) bartender
4) asst to talent agent

four films i can watch over and over:

1) elf
2) office space
3) dazed and confused
4) shawshank redemption
4.5) american beauty

four tv shows i watch:

1) wire
2) weeds
3) 30 rock
4) heroes
4.5) 24
4.75) battlestar galactica (thanks astin, for reminding me about this formerly beloved show)

four places i've lived:

1) nyc
2) amsterdam
3) san francisco
4) minneapolis

four of my favorite foods:

1) sashimi (esp salmon and toro)
2) joe's fresh salted mozzerella (from joe's on sullivan street)
3) penne arrabiatta
4) gyoza
4.5) sour punch straws

four websites i visit daily:

1) www.bloglines.com/myblogs
2) www.gmail.com
3) www.nytimes.com
4) www.gawker.com
4.5) hammerplayer.blogspot.com

four favorite colors:

1) orange
2) green
3) black
4) grey

four places i'd like to be right now:

1) amsterdam
2) melbourne
3) bruce springsteen concert
4) poker room

four names i like but wouldn't name kids (what a strange category!):

1) owen
2) tyler
3) carson
4) tilda

four favorite books:

1) secret history by donna tartt
2) cryptonomicon by neal stephenson (perfect for all you math geeks out there!)
3) wind up bird chronicle by haruki murakami
4) prayer for owen meany by john irving

444

technically this will be my 445th post, but i like 444 better. i've taken a bit of a blogging hiatus, mostly b/c i was out of town and tired. i commuted a couple days this week to the warehouse and it just about killed me, since it followed a night of 2 hours of sleep before my asylum client's immigration interview. i am happy to report that it seemed to go well, and although we don't get a decision until november 5th i am confident that he will be granted asylum. woot!

i've been playing poker, but not very well. i played in the big game and donked off all my chips to twoblackaces who completely tilted my raising me every time with his position. i have to work on the tilting thing. don't remember how i donked out of math, but i was dead tired and probably should not have been playing anyway. i missed the mookie to go see my favorite band. they rocked, as always, though the sound at webster hall was not as good as i remembered. i sold my tickets for last night's show and played chasers instead. i believe i just squeaked into the top quarter, but could not pick up hands to save my life, and went out when i overplayed pocket 5s (stupid presto!). action folded around to me on the button, and i made standard 3x raise. bb re-raised me, and i assumed he thought i was making a move and was just trying to defend. nope, he had KK. as hoy told me later in im, even if he didn't have a pair, i was still essentially coin flipping for my tournament life, and i clearly need to learn to lay down hands that are most likely dominated by anything. presto is only gold for this guy.

bayne keeps bugging me to do that stupid ten things that alan tagged the entire world to do weeks ago, so that's in the works, and i'm also gonna do that four thing posted by fuel and kat.

i got to see ig in nyc a few weeks ago when we went to brunch, and i have to say it's a blast to meet bloggers in my neck of the woods, especially when they bring their moms! she's playing in the ladies' event this w/e at foxwoods, good luck!!

i am going to play live tonight, so i'll miss donkament, and i'm still trying to figure out a halloween costume for a party tomorrow night. i will probably be boring and not dress up, although a work friend i ran into on the subway this morning suggested i be a "card shark." does that mean i just dress as myself? hehehehe. aforementioned work friend is going to be in vegas the same weekend as me in december, except he is going to see celine dion, which i find absolutely hilarious. hopefully i'll find some time to meet up with him out there.

i forgot how much i enjoy posting! have a lovely day and an excellent weekend!

bbtwo is gonna rule

it was the big news on all the blogs today, and i learned via text message confirming some previous rumors. was glad for heads up since i was stuck in a dirty warehouse with only bberry internet access. al has all the details right here, and huge props to him for being the superb organizer and hooking us up w/ such amazing prizes. the grand prize for toc is trip to australia which would RULE! i love melbourne, and i might have a shot if only i could win one of these blogger tournaments (yes, i know i won donkarama, but totally different buy in/structure).



the first event is this sunday hosted by don, and i'm psyched to watch some football and play some poker!

so frustrated

i played a $5 rebuy super sat into the $150 ftops 8 sat. i spent $20 including the add on, and on my way to a seat had kaja next to me for awhile. i doubled him up once when he jammed on my bb and i had K4, but was not the one to take him out.

i don't remember too many hands from the $150 satellite, but that is because i am still steaming from my 5th place exit. yup, four paid, and i went out 5th. i became a short stack on this hand.



i watched one guy who was down to about 600 at the final table somehow become the chip leader. that was sick. then a big stack jammed on my bb. the sb to my right would have about 600 more in chips than me once i was the sb, and even though i thought about folding, i had AT and decided to pray that i could double up. the jammer had 73 and of course the flop came 73x. i picked up a straight draw on the turn, but instead he rivered his full house and i was out on the bubble.





i cashed for $355 and also busted pearljammed, so hoping that's good for another $150. but i'm still feeling really sick about it. i could fold there and hope i pick up a better hand, or hope the other shortie jams first and loses. sigh.



that poker blogger tournament on stars was sick for me also. i had about 50k in chips, and was out in about 4 minutes. i raised too little w/ my KK, and when A flopped i put out cbet and stupidly (horribly) called a jam. he had A3 for not one but two pair, and i jammed a few hands later and was done. pretty annoyed at myself on that b/c i considered jamming w/ KK, and in any event i should have raised way more. unbelievable that a dude limps w/ A3 utg and then i play so stupidly that keep him around to make two pair.

fantasy football

as a "noob" at fantasy football, i have been making many mistakes. the biggest thus far was thinking that i'd set it up so that i'd have a claim on kevin curtis, since wayne had a bye this week. i left for lunch secure in the knowledge that curtis would be mine, but when i returned i discovered that none of my claims had gone through and alan, sitting at his desk right at 12:30, somehow grabbed him. needless to say i was not happy.

now that i see curtis has 17 points in first half i am even more frustrated. so far my decision to start anderson over mcnabb seems to be working out, but who knows what will happen in second half. i am playing the leader in fantasy football league who also had number 1 draft pick, so i definitely could have used curtis' points.

must. check. internet.

i am having a rough time being away on business since i am going through internet access withdrawal. i can check bloglines and gmail on my blackberry, but it's not the same. and yes, i was only away two days last week. this week it's gonna be four, so as a result i doubt i'll be doing much blogging. i am hoping to borrow a laptop so i can play some poker in the evenings, but that remains to be seen.

i've been doing pretty well at the $20 sngs, and have cashed in first or second 4 out of last 5. cash has also been going better, and with just over 8300 hands my bb/100 is 8.12. this is still a really small sample, and i do not understand how people get 2k hands in one session -- i guess my sessions are not long enough, since my average is an hour and a quarter.

i'm going to play in that pokerstars blogger freeroll today, and then i'm off to jersey. have a great week!

bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce

in 2002, my first year of law school, a friend of mine in minneapolis worked for target (corporate), and was doing a rotation in the music department. due to some connections, he had an extra ticket to see bruce springsteen. even though i'm from jersey, i was never a big bruce fan. i got behind glory days back in the day, but quickly tired of it, and thought born in the usa was played out. that didn't stop me from playing up my jersey connection and doing everything in my power to convince him that i "deserved" that ticket. score! we grabbed a few beers in st. paul and headed over to the xcel center. i had no idea what i was walking into.

it was "the rising" tour, and i didn't know any of the songs. what i discovered was that from the moment he started playing, i was hooked. he went from one jamming rock song to the next, and during the slow songs (i've never been a big fan of slow ballads) i went out w/ my friend while he smoked. it sounds over the top, but it was a religious experience and during that concert i felt feelings about music that i had never known.

after the concert, i obviously ran out and bought a lot of his albums, including the rising, which is one of my favorites. anyone who knows me is aware that i'm a sucker for a good hook, and bruce provides them in abundance. the thing that most people don't realize is how incredible he is live. i maintain that you have not lived until you've seen bruce live. listening to badlands while 30k+ pump their arms and sing along w/ you and bruce w/ gleeful abandon always brings tears to my eyes. i've seen him over ten times now (i know, that's nothing) and wish i could go to every concert he performs. for now the sirius e street band channel will have to suffice.

i bought a ticket from a friend of a friend for tonight's show behind the stage, but then discovered that ticketmaster dumped a bunch of good seats early this afternoon. i scooped up a better seat, but sadly couldn't sell my original. it's cool, though, i loved my seat and it was totally worth it. i went by myself, which i know lots of people would never do, but i never mind. obviously it's always fun to have a friend at a show, but the few people i know who like bruce weren't down to trek to jersey, and i love the music so it's no big deal.

last year when i was living in the netherlands i saw the seeger sessions tour in rotterdam. i am definitely an e street girl at heart, but i was on the floor, the equivalent of 10 rows back, and it was amazing. here's a picture:



he is playing next week at madison square garden, and i'm going to do everything in my power to score tix to the show. bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce.

haymaker and sally/crackhouse tourney

supergirl wrote about our movie excursion on saturday here, and i realized i forgot to mention. a friend from law school made a movie, and the nyc premiere was this past saturday. the trailers are cool and you can see them here.

i enjoyed the movie, especially the super cool graphics in between scenes, and as ck says the writing and performances were terrific. i admit that i suffered a bit from dark theater/not enough sleep friday night syndrome, whereby my eyes seemed to will themselves shut from time to time, but it was not out of boredom!!! (said friend's girlfriend/actress in movie was sitting next to me).

following movie we stopped for a quick drink/dinner w/ an omaha shark and then headed out to bk. upon our arrival at the subway stop we ran into this newly blond guy. nobody seems to like his dye job but me, cause i think he looks way hot w/ his blond hair. he does not look like he has gained much weight since the last time i saw him, but maybe it is all hidden muscle.

i started off slow, and got uber lucky in a few hands. dawn was to my left and raised utg and i called from bb w/ sooooooooted cards. we checked to river and she flipped over K high. the next time she raised utg i also called w/ my sooooted A8 (had momentary post-it lapse) and somehow cracked her AA. it was great play on her part b/c i did not believe her utg raise showed strength, but i believe i rivered a flush w/ QJT9 on board. woooot. i ended up rebuying when i chased a flush draw that not only didn't complete, but which i was drawing dead for b/c dude w/ higher flush draw also called.

i made it to the final table w/ a decent amount of chips, but donked them away on a hand i cannot recall. when we were four-handed i got pocket 4s (my crackhouse nemesis hand - remember when i jammed on jordan's Ks) THREE TIMES! wtf! i called a small raise each time and each time the board came w/ scary overs and no 4. GRRRRRR. i was too scared to play any of them too strongly b/c i knew if i jammed into higher pair like last time i would not forgive myself. i did myself in when i jammed from sb w/ QT and got called by A6. this was horrible move, and another situation where i did not entirely realize how many chips i had. i thought i was way shorter, and could have easily just called there, rather than risking all my chips.

i doubled my tournament profit playing cash. don't remember hands, apart from making flush and two pair in a couple hands. by the time we were finished i could barely keep my round eyes open, but was able to stay awake long enough to enjoy a nice diner bfast before bed.

sunday consisted of tv, football and poker, which was fun. tonight i'm off to a yankees game, tomorrow night is bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce in jersey (wooot!), wednesday night is drinks w/ a college friend, and i may have to stay in jersey thursday night for work. busy week, but if my new pute comes in time i will bring my laptop to jersey and maybe play online. otherwise i may just donk around a bit once i get home from various plans.

gotta give a shout out to apple. i hate that my old ipod broke only a month after applecare ended, but i've had some problems w/ my macbook and it's always been super easy to get an appt at the apple store, and now that it's my third problem they are having me send my old one back overnight, and then sending me a brand new macbook. my model has been replaced w/ a better one, so i am basically getting a newer, nicer pute. yay! hopefully this one will connect to my wireless so i can occasionally take a break from playing at my desk.

like you care. peace out.

ff and tv

so i lost this week's fantasy football match up by 1 point. yes, 1 point. if my starting quarterback had scored only TWO FUCKING POINTS i would have won, but i started my only qb who was playing this week, jon "asstard" kitna, and he scored me exactly ZERO. had i started the giants d rather than the texans d i also could have won. ARGH!

was very excited for fnl debut on friday, and it was some good shit. i forgot how much i enjoy the characters and the acting, but did not love the end of the episode. as a nyer article that work friend charlie pointed out, it will be interesting to see how they fit what happened into the greater story arc over the season.

the premiere of 30 rock on the other hand was FANTASTIC. that show makes me laugh so hard, and i just don't understand how millions of people are giving it a pass. click on this link and give it a shot. you know you like seinfeld. do it for seinfeld!! some of the "seinfeldvision" snippets are hilarious, especially the milf island one. throughout the episode i was having flashbacks to arrested development, and i'm wondering if the humor is just too esoteric for most viewers. you've got no excuse for not watching if you're off for columbus day.

was less impressed by this past week's episode of gossip girl, though i will continue to tivo it and see how it rolls along. have not yet watched chuck, but find myself looking forward to sitting down and watching the first three episodes in a sitting. hopefully this coming weekend. i also tivoed dirty sexy money and pushing daisies, but have not watched either. i am watching pushing daisies b/c of lee pace. he was in wonderfalls (an INCREDIBLY underrated show that was cancelled after one season -- i discovered it on dvd and so can you). given how badly i've been running at poker maybe taking a few nights off for quality tv time is a good idea. it will have to wait until thursday night, though, cause this week is super packed.

really?

check out last week's episode of 30 rock for some fantastic seinfeld "really?" moments. best one occurs on the elevator w/ kenneth. seriously, it's well worth the 22 minutes!

i also saw a link to another snl "really!?!" segment last night regarding larry craig, via crooksandliars. when i saw the michael vick one awhile back (which still makes me laugh and laugh) i hadn't realized it was a regular segment.

on a roll

of playing very badly and taking rough beats. i still call too much, and do not read other players that well. yesterday i thought w/ every ounce of my being that the dude who check raised me on the flop was full of shit, but instead of jamming (this is cash) i folded. i felt like i couldn't go over the top of him b/c all i had was A high (AQ, blech). he showed QJs (he had flush draw cause flop came w/ two diamonds) so i would have had to dodge a diamond or a J. a lot of my beats have been smaller pairs hitting a set over my bigger pairs, and i just can't seem to lay down the KK on a raggedy flop on the off chance some luckbox flopped a set. rather than burden you all w/ further details i'll just post some shots. the last one was a sick suckout of my own.

i HATE AK in cash

i played with the wall street poker crew last night, and as usual had fun. i came in third in the first tournament when i somewhat luckbunnied my way into the money. we were four handed (all chicas, girl power, woot) when i was in the bb. ck, to my right was in the small blind and it was folded to her. she thought for a bit and then went all in. this to me seemed like she had a marginal hand and just wasn't sure if she should be pushing. i determined that if i had any two decent cards, i was calling. i looked down at jackace and instacalled, she flipped over A5, and my hand held up. i could see where she was torn, b/c while A high looks pretty, if it's dominated it's dominated. i used to push all in when i played in a'dam w/ A rag a lot when i got short, and it almost never came through for me.

the next hand i was on the button and had KT. i have stopped playing this hand very often, but figured three-handed it was worth a raise. i had been raising a lot (and not showing, though i was raising w/ mostly pairs and two big paint cards) and abbie pushed over the top for 2800 more. (i had raised to 1800, blinds were 300/600). i couldn't lay it down and she showed AQ and i lost when a Q flopped (though i did flop an oesd). then i was down to just under 2k and two hands later called a raise w/ my piddly T8 which did not improve.

cash was another story. i am not a great cash player, and am learning, but i tend to make one move that obliterates me. it came late in the evening last night and my stack deterioration happened in two different hands. the first there were about six limpers, and i looked down in sb at AK. i think in hindsight i should maybe just complete (well, we were playing 1/1, so check). but w/ all those players i figured if an A or K did flop, i wanted to know i was good, so i popped it to 10. two callers, including darko, who decided last night i had a target on me and spent a lot of time talking shit to me. he's a very good cash player and shockingly it did not tilt me, b/c i figured if i ever got a hand on him i'd be able to make some money. sadly, quite the opposite was to happen, as the flop came Q9x. it checked around to me (hmmmm, i guess i was on button) and i made a pot size bet. this was a mistake. first off, i should have figured the checks could mean monster. secondly, there was no need for me to bet pot. i could have bet a smaller amount to find out where i was at. the player in b/w darko and i went all in for 9 on top. darko talked some smack, and repeatedly told me my AK was no good before shoving (w/ his 99 for middle set.) i folded, obviously, but lost $40 in the pot. i had been ahead for most of the night (except for an early dip) but this brought me down to about a 100 in chips (bought in for 130).

i am not sure why darko put me on a hand before he shoved, but i guess it was moot. i was not calling any kind of raise, so why not call the 9 more and hope an A or K comes so he can really clean me out? i think this sort of thinking is what got me in trouble w/ my KK hand w/ bayne yesterday (online) where he limp called a big raise w/ A4s, hit a 4 on the flop, and then luckboxed his way into trip 4s on the turn. his luckboxery knows no bounds. as i commented on his blog, i should have isolated the shortie all in post-flop and gotten bayne out of the hand, but omg, how could i know he'd hit one of the only four outs that would unequivocally win him the pot (he had more due to backdoor flush and potential straight -- other dude had an A, so there were only two left out there).

but i digress. i knew i was going to leave soon, and finally looked down at JJ. i decided this was the hand for me, and i was going to go broke w/ it (smart huh). there was a small raise from the co, i popped it to 11, and jaime (bb?) re-raised me to 30. at this point he was sort of screaming AA, but i could not trust my read (donkey!) and pushed all in for my remaining 75 or so. he instacalled (w/ his AA, woo hoo) and even though we ran business after i turned a gut shot, it was no matter. i took my leave after that, and came home to watch tv.

ha! who am i kidding. i needed points. POINTS! i, like alan and bayne, have found myself acting like a sucker for these stupid ironman points. unlike at wall street poker, it was a profitable night. i won myself a tier 1 token, but donked out early of a $6 turbo sng. i jumped in a $20 sng and took third. i also took third earlier in one, after bubbling two the other day for 4th place in both. soon maybe i will take first or second!

i played some cash, and ended up 2.5 buy ins, which for me is really good. i have had about five decent winning sessions in a row (including the one where bayne essentially stacked me w/ his trip 4s) and have been feeling fairly confident in my online cash game lately. i have been playing tighter, and laying down hands when i think i'm beat. i'm definitely not making as much money as i could, though, as i played flopped quad 9s horribly last night. i was thisclose to betting the flop, when there was a potential straight on the board, along with two diamonds for a flush, but i chickened out and it checked around again. i re-raised a bet on the river but only got one caller, who made his flush on the river. i should have made him pay to draw and rep straight (as bayne pointed out) and i may have even got re-raised by him on turn or river. damn. even the player who called me insulted my play, and since he was on tilt from an earlier play where he flopped a set of 5s (presto!) and i didn't lay down my AA only to river a higher set, i should have stacked him there. :(

i have a fairly busy saturday, and didn't make plans for tonight (uber dork!), so i may stop by kat's donkarama once again (repeat?!).

oh, i nearly forgot. congrats to alan for his runner up finish in the huc. he is so proud it's his gchat status.

have a great weekend!

sc won't hear alabama sex toy case

this is old news, i guess they declined to hear it earlier in the week, but i just read about it today via crooksandliars.

i wrote a paper in law school analyzing the various decisions of the district court and 11th circuit, and was hoping the sc would review the morality basis upon which the last district court ruling upheld the law. i thought that after lawrence morality could not be a rational basis for upholding a law of this kind, but apparently the sc does not agree with me. damn.

a sensible republican???

video of ron paul at republican presidential debate advocating an end to the war on drugs via drug war rant.



there was a great nytimes magazine profile of him a few months ago, i think you can read it here.

so punny

from an analysis of heroes by michael slezak on ew's popwatch blog.

"Sendhil Ramamurthy (Mohinder, center): As I've noted before, somebody's Mo-hindering my enjoyment of Heroes."

he's mo-hindering my enjoyment also. hehehehe. puns are funny.

my post of nothing (and yay wpbt)

my sirius just buzzed, letting me know that one of my "s-seek" songs is playing on a channel. i can program some small number of songs so that anytime they play on a channel i receive an alert. i need it to be triple or quadruple the size, but i'll take what i can get. sometimes i ignore the song, but sirius doesn't play "we used to be friends" by the dandy warhols all that often. half the time i'm listening to left of center anyway, but i had howard stern on.

for those who don't know (um, that would be every one of my small audience of readers) this was the theme of veronica mars (rip), an awesome tv show, and by far the best show to grace the cw network. (gilmore girls was good before it moved to cw, and gossip girl is showing some early potential, but it's no vm). i am a little wistful every time i hear the song, and just this morning saw my mom at breakfast and urged her to watch the dvd of season 1 that i so graciously loaned her before i went to a'dam (well over a year ago). in her defense, she did watch the wire and sped through it in record time, because once she started watching, she couldn't stop. (ahem, readers, GO WATCH THE WIRE).

after fuel's post yesterday i priced flights to vancouver for that poker tournament over thanksgiving, but i do not have a spare $2500 for the buy in. :(

normally i spend thanksgiving with my parents at one cousin or another's house, but this year my parents are going to egypt. i was supposed to go w/ them, but don't have enough vacation days, and i know i'll make it there some other time. i have been contemplating a trip somewhere since i have the days off, but thanksgiving is an expensive time to fly, and i'm going to be using up the remainder of my vacay days for the poker blogger gathering in december. so i guess it will be good ole jersey for me!

as for wpbt, my hotel and flight are booked, so it's a done deal. hurray! ck and i are staying at harrah's, which is close to ip. looking forward to seeing some old friends, some new friends, and a retard. i arrive wed night and leave mon night, so a good amount of time to get my poker on and drink the bloggers under the table.

some poker content -- i lost to set over set yesterday, but unlike my horrible Qs over 6s hand, this one i called only called a raise to $4 pf, but my set of 9s was no match for the set of Ks. argh! i thought i had him! on the bright side i hit a set of 8s against KK at a different table and held up, so can't complain too much.

i repeated an old mistake and got stacked when my AQ hit a top pair of Qs against a set of Qs. awesome! i am convinced that i have the ability deep within me to stop needlessly spewing chips with tptk, but it is a long hard slog.

freeroll

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