Hospitals Suck

Jenny is in the hospital with pneumonia. I stayed with her last night. The hospital is almost totally full, and they didn't have any more sleeper chairs, so I spent the night sleeping on a bench of chairs I cobbled together. Jenny keeps telling me she's sorry, and I keep telling her that's dumb, it's not like she can control when she gets sick. She's stuck in here for another night or two. Fortunately for me, one of her parents will be staying tonight, so I'll be going home and playing with the dogs.

I am a giant fucking sturgeon

Saturday night, the blinds are low, 7 or 8 players (no one out), chip stacks about even. Things are called/folded around to me at the button-1, and I raise to 5 with KQo (from a BB of 1). Dealer calls and everyone else folds. Flop comes AAA, and Amanda (the dealer) makes a huge funny face. I have no idea if this means the flop hit her or if it's just in reaction to the 3 Aces, but I figure at worst (for me) she has a pocket pair to my overcards, discounting the possibility that she has the last A, so I get aggressive and go AI. In my mind, I want her to call with a pair smaller than Ks or Qs, and figure that's all she really can call with unless she has the 4th A. So the way I have it figured, I'm either gonna pick up $11+ when she folds or I'm in a coin flip, which I'd be happy to do to get a stack I can finally start being chip bully with. She quickly calls me and I'm feeling okay about things when I turn my KQ over, thinking "yeah, baby, coin flip time". She turns over Ace rag. Fuck me. Drawing dead, no way to hit a straight flush. I'm out of the tourney.

She PW\3D me! Lesson learned.

Those Olympics were special

I only had one really funny thing happen, but it was great! I was paired up with another guy (David) to take the athletes to the field. They were in the final heat of the 50m dash. One of the women, who was in her mid-40s, had decided that David was her new boyfriend. She kept telling me this, and I asked her if he had agreed to that. She said no, but that he had to be because he'd said he didn't have a wife or a girlfriend. Anyhow, she was babbling about all of this to me as David was attending to the needs of another member of the group. She was very clearly obsessed with this notion, so I thought I'd try to get her off of the notion and said "even though he doesn't have a wife or a girlfriend, how do you know he doesn't have a boyfriend?" She seemed to not make sense of this for a minute, then it looked like the figurative lightbulb flicked on and she proceeded to ask David if he had a boyfriend. David didn't appear to care for this too much, and asked if I'd put her up to it. I really didn't feel like I had, as it seemed like another thing that she would logically need to consider before procaiming that David was hers. Oh well. David is still pretty young (20) and goes to a Christian university, so I can see where his defensiveness was coming from. He took it well enough when I said that the only reason I put the question in her head was that there's no way to know what someone's sexual orientation is except to ask them.

So anyhow, that was funny, but the best part is when they finally got up to the start line. David's "girlfriend" had a false start and kept running for a second or two until the shouts of "false start, come back! come back!" finally drilled in to her head. She was all pissed off and quickly bounced/tottered back to the line, all the while shooting daggers from her eyes at the start official and yelling "shit asshole! shit asshole!" I just about died of laughter on the spot. The official looked at the non-disabled folks hanging around the start line and said "I guess she told me!"

One of the other volunteers got a movie of this with her digital camera. I gave her my email, and I hope she sends it to me. No sound, but still amusing. I'll post it if she comes through.

Fish fry tomorrow

Peter and Tonya's poker party is tomorrow. I'm looking forward to catching some fish, but am afraid that my ability to do so will be hindered by the fact that Tonya has asked me to organize the game. I hope the fact that I have to be tournament director as well as a player doesn't adversely effect my style.

So, whaddaya think? A reliance upon the power of positive thinking? Perhaps the picture in the post below doesn't properly encapsulate that thought.

Things to remember:
Make good starting hand selections.
Don't bluff the un-bluffable. Remember that clueless = un-bluffable.
Tight is right.
Two pair is not a license to print money.

If I do the above things, the table will be pwn3d! by me.

I get to play with retards

I am volunteering for the Special Olympics tomorrow morning. I'll be tasked with moving retards around so that they get to the proper events. I'm hoping to get some good stories out of it.


I think I can, I think I can...

You can be the president

I'd rather be the pope.
Not really. But I like the song.

Precious?

Put the fucking lotion in the basket!

People piss me off

Just kind of generally, actually, but they REALLY piss me off when they are in a position of power and fuck with someone else's rights.

Disturbing

Do you think that the use of land mines is a good idea? Check out the PSA in this article. Don't read the article first, just watch the video. WARNING: you can't un-watch something. This isn't a buckets of blood kind of gross-out thing, but it's chilling.

Hee hee hee!

Jenny will hate me for posting this, but I must! Go see the amazing Bonzai Kitten page!

Went to a movie last night.

I saw The Ring 2. It was pretty creepy, and made me jump a couple of times. IMNSHO, it was a pretty good horror flick. That, and Naomi Watts is a total MILF in it.

Game Over

So much for my spring break plans.

Saturday did in fact rock

It was fun. A new guy, Peter, showed up to play, and he brought his non-playing wife, Tonya. Peter is very nice, and so is his wife. I think we got him hooked on the poker bug. He won one of the tourneys. Two days after the party, T was trying to get ahold of me so that I'd bring chips and knowledge to a poker party THEY are holding in a couple weeks. Very, very sweet, baby. That is SO money. From what T says, the people they've invited have little in the way of poker experience.

I'm going to a fish fry!

Seriously, though, I also really like P&T. They are neat people, and going out to their place should be fun.

As far as my result from Sat, I'm up a little on the night. Jenny broke even, and seems to have discovered her poker brain. She's always had the guts, but she'd pick bad, bad spots. She's gotten a lot better. Heehee!

Air Filters

The Ionic Breeze is no good, according to Consumer Reports. CR won a libel suit brought against them by The Sharper Image for their trashing of the Ionic Breeze. Read the story...

Referral bonus

Not that anyone reads this blog, but if anyone does and they decide to start playing online poker, please list me as the referral. My player name is CutCard4, and I'm registered at several sites. Check with me first through the comments, as I may not be at the site you choose. I like Pacific, but that's only 'cause I can clear bonuses there playing in tournaments. Also, I like the interface at Caribbean Sun. 4 color decks rock! I'm also playing at Royal Vegas due to the free $10 they're handing out.

Got free money at Royal Vegas

$10 for signing up (with no deposit requirement) was credited to my account. I've played 1 SnG ($2+.50) with it, and took first place. The peeps over at RV are super fishy, at least for the 1 game I played in. I hope they're that easy the rest of the time.

Creepy

I want to read it.