IG’s Football Picks - Week 2
September 16, 2007
Sunday GamesCAR>TEN>NO>STL>PIT>NYG>JAX>CIN >DAL >MIN >SEA>CHI>BAL>DEN>NE> >Monday game> > PHI> > POINTS - 35Before I make my picks I check out the Sagarin Rankings, and what the elite EPSN 9 pick, I read Miami Don’s overview, check out the injury repor…
Resonate
September 15, 2007
Warning: This is one of those really serious, personal posts. I’m reading a book called The Dogs of Babel and, last night, a couple of paragraphs really resonated with me. The book opens with a man finding out that his wife has died. The police belie…
Conspiracy Theory
September 14, 2007
I just read LJ’s post.. She hit quads 4x in 2 hours on Full Tilt and had 4 of a kind once. The odds of that happening to one person in that time span??? You math wizards figure it out. I’m an Accountant by training but rely on a calculater and my fin…
You cannot hide your inner geek!
September 14, 2007
I received an email today from Amazon promoting products that are “Recommended for You”. The products featured were 3 boxed sets of various seasons of Stargate SG1, the latest Harry Potter book, Stargate Atlantis the complete 1st season, and the Planet Earth DVD series.
Cleary, Amazon knows that I am a nerd.
I’m a tired tart this morning. Banky and I stayed up a little late last night watching Big Brother and celebrating my 2nd place finish in the season ending tourney for the Thursday league.
It took me awhile to get into the celebratory mode, because I was really disappointed not to win. I was On. My. Game. last night. It was one of those games where you’re totally in the flow. I was making correct decisions, and things were flowing my way. Despite not making any ‘huge’ hands (trips, straights, flushes), I was the chip leader (by a large margin) after the break. I was making good bets, raises and reraises, and I felt like I was in control of the table.
Unfortunately I had to call Banky’s all-in when I held AK (he was short stacked and went all-in with A9). It’s never fun busting your husband, but sometimes it has to be done.
My downfall came when we were 4 handed, and the blinds were incredibly high. I got two back-to-back good starting hands (AKs, and AJo). In both cases, I raised preflop and was called (by the same player), and made continuation bets when I missed, only to get raised both times. I gave up on the flop…but those bets both cost me a good percentage of my stack. The player I bet into is a very good player and giving him so many chips was a mistake. I couldn’t not play those hands – but the second time around, I think I could have forgone the continuation bet.
I ended up heads-up with that same player, and he had me at about a 6:1 chip disadvantage. We only played 5 hands heads-up. I won the blinds twice (once with KJ, once with AQ), folded twice, and lost when my pre-flop all-in with 88 lost to J10 when a 10 hit on the flop, followed by a J on the turn. Had my 88 held up, it would have been a very good heads-up match. But it wasn’t meant to be.
I’m pleased with my second place finish – but at the time I was disappointed to have come so close to a win.
Bad Beat Jackpots DO Happen Online
September 14, 2007
I got an IM from a friend tonight. He was typing in all caps using the word “DUDE” a lot. I didn’t think that it was possible to stutter on an instant message, but I swear I could tell that he was hyperventilating as he typed.
While I was downloading the image that he sent, his […]
Poker Software Heiress Center of Much Publicity
September 13, 2007
I’m trying hard to find a Britney / Poker connection so that I can continue writing about her here. Finally, I came accross this:
Britney Spears’ dad, brother launch poker software
Britney Spears arrived at the Palms Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas last Thursday, January 5, to support her father, Jamie Spears, and big brother, […]
Totally Unrelated to Poker
September 12, 2007
I already posted this on the surfergeeks.net page, but it deserves announcing here too.So I went to the Doctor on Monday. It was a nice hour long wait just to see him, only to be directed to the lab for a blood test. That itself only took 5 minutes max…