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Poker
I finally had a relatively successful session playing at Chumash again. It’s been a while since I’ve finished positive there. I played in their Sunday morning $60 buyin $10k Guaranteed tournament, and didn’t make the money. Afterwards, I played 3/6 for about 4 hours and made almost $250. I felt like I was playing really well, and the deck was hitting me over the head with good cards. I would have rather gotten them in the tournament, but I’ll take what I can get. I never got aces, but I got KK twice, QQ three times (it lost once), JJ twice (lost once). The times these hands lost, I didn’t get married to them and lose a lot of money. I also pulled off one pretty massive suckout, but I don’t think I played the hand terribly wrong. I had Q9 on the button, and limped in. Flop came KQx, small blind bets out, a bunch of callers, and I call as well. Turn is a 9, giving me two pair, but when the small blind checks, and someone in MP bets, I’m sure he has TJ for the straight. I call. River is a Q, for my full house. This time, the small blind bets out again, the straight raises, and I three bet it. Small blind thinks for a while, and folds (he later said he had a queen), and the guy in MP caps it. This guy did slowplay aces earlier, so it’s possible he has KK (or KQ) for a higher full house, but for one more bet, I have to call. He shows me the TJ I thought he had, and I win a huge pot. I also made one laydown I’m pretty proud of myself for. I was dealt A♣Q♣ on the button. Someone in early position raises, a caller to me, I call, as do both blinds. The flop looks good for me, a T♣Q♥4♥. The small blind bets, the big blind raises, and it’s three-bet before it gets to me. Suddenly, my top pair, top kicker isn’t looking so good. I say “time” and think about it for a while. I don’t know much about the guy who made the three-bet, but the big blind had been playing lots of crap hands preflop, and betting them hard when they hit. It’s very possible she has Q4, QT, or T4, even to the preflop raise. If she has T4, I’m not in terrible shape, but if she has two pair with the Q, I’m drawing to two aces (not the A♥). Finally, I muck, and tell the dealer to look at my cards when I do. He does, and gives me a look like I’m crazy. The turn was a third heart, and the river a blank. Someone made their flush, but I was beat when I folded, as the big blind did have T4 for two pair. After the big blind turned over her cards, the dealer asked me when I was giving lessons. My response was when I could start winning consistently. Overall, I was very happy with my cards, and how I played.
Congratulations to Ben Affleck for winning the California State Poker Championship. I bet the World Poker Tour is kicking themselves for not making this one of their events. A celebrity at the final table would probably make for good TV. Even if it didn’t, it certainly would have brought in viewers.
Pepsi Edge
Pepsi recently came out with a new mid-calorie soda called Pepsi Edge, to compete with Coke’s new C2. It has 70 calories per can, instead of the 150 in a can of regular Pepsi. I stopped at Ralph’s yesterday morning to pick up a new pair of sunglasses for the poker tournament (yes, I’m serious), and to get some caffeine. The bottles of Pepsi has just been put in the fridge, and were still warm, but the Pepsi Edge was cold, so I bought a bottle. I’m sure if I had them back to back, I could tell the difference, but having just the Edge, it tasted like it was supposed to. It didn’t taste bad, anyway, and there was no aftertaste that I could find. I definitely recommend it if you’re looking to cut calories but can’t stand the taste of diet soda.
Idiots
Airliner lands at wrong airport. Enough said.
Baseball
The Mets have won four games in a row, and have pulled back up to .500. They’re only 2.5 games out of first, and picked up a bat (although not a great one) in Richard Hidalgo. Hopefully, he can somehow return to anywhere close to his 2000 season, when he hit 44 homers and batted .314 for the Astros. He did pretty well last year, too, with 28 homers and a .309 average. This year isn’t looking so good, though.
Congrats to Ken Griffey, Jr. for finally reaching the 500 homer mark. He picked a good day to do it, too, on father’s day with his dad in the ballpark.
My fantasy team is doing far far better than last year, currently in third place. Last week, I went up against the first place team, and won 7.5-4.5. That was nice, but I was this close to winning 9-3, which would have been much nicer. Anyway, my offense still sucks, but my pitching is incredible (Mulder, Glavine, Zambrano, Gagne, Smoltz, Izzy). I’ve been rotating catchers and shortstops in and out, and my first baseman and outfield aren’t producing like they should. Hopefully, they’ll pick it up.
Gmail
I’ve been using Gmail for a few days now, and it seems pretty cool. I still get all my mail sent to an account at my own domain, and can check it (and get it forwarded to my Treo) with POP3, but I also have it forwarding to my Gmail account now. I’ve found I like their webmail interface better than I like Evolution, which is what I had been using. I’ve basically been reading all my mail at Google now.
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I love Gmail too. Do you think my review is accurate?
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oh, crap. It was northwest. My dad is a Northwest pilot.. good thing it wasn’t him!
p.s. that was really creepy, I don’t know what the odds of this happening are, but on my last comment the security code was the first 5 digits of my social security number. Weird, huh?