The Contest and an FYI
October 30, 2007
No, I’m not actually in Austalia, as much as I’d like to be. The previous post was for a BBTwo writing contest and the info for that can be found here. I’m so glad Hoyazo was a good sport about it, I don’t really believe he’s cursed in the Mookie! I haven’t heard from the other names I mentioned, but hopefully they realize it was all in good fun, too. 
Recently, I’ve been chatting with some of the bloggers, male and female, in the yahoo IM. I’ve always felt like an outsider when it comes to the other bloggers, but I’m starting to feel welcomed into the community now and I really appreciate it.
While my husband does play poker, he and I don’t really agree on many aspects of the game. Since we so often disagree about it, I basically stopped discussing poker with him. I’m not going to call him a bad player, just someone whose views I don’t agree with.
Once, I even posted a thread on 2 + 2 about a hand we were discussing, so he might see a better way to look at the hand in question. Well, he brushed me off, as well as the people who responded to the question. I pretty much gave up right there. LOL
The question was this: Would you play this hand?
He was playing in an online MTT, it was early into it and he was dealt A8o in early position. The UTG player raised it 3x and he asked me this, “Ok, what do you think, re-raise or just smooth call?”
My answer was, “Fold!” He told me I was crazy and called. He lost the hand.
We argued over that for quite some time, but didn’t get anywhere, so like I said, I gave up on talking to him about poker after a few more similar instances.
So it’s so nice to be able to talk to others who I can learn from, share a hand analysis or two and gain their perspective. Of course there’s always a glitch, as life is not perfect.
My glitch is the fact that my husband doesn’t like me to chat online. He has some insecure issues that stem from his first marriage and I don’t know if he’ll ever get over them. Although I’ve never given him any reason not to trust me, he continues to dig for stuff that isn’t there.
In order to keep the peace around here, I try to only chat when he is either not here or asleep. Maybe that seems wrong or sneaky of me, but if he knew, I probably wouldn’t have internet service any longer.
I know and my chat friends know that we are talking about poker and all is innocent, but trying to get him to believe that would be as pointless as trying to get him to fold that A8 hand.
So if any of you were wondering why I am cautious with my chatting, that is why. I’m not going behind his back for malicious intent, I’m not looking for greener pastures, I’m not looking to flirt. I’m looking to learn and improve my game; nothing more. Would he understand that? No, sadly he wouldn’t.
For the record, I love my husband, he’s good to me and my boys. There are no greener pastures as far as I’m concerned. I just wish he played poker a little better….:)
Well, there ya go. If there’s any gossip going around about why I can’t chat when my husband is here, hope I cleared that up for ya. If not, you’re not someone I want to chat with anyway.
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