Saturday, March 25, 2006

Your vs You're




WOW! Seriously, even on the highly rated national TV show "Lost" they can mess this up.

Is it that difficult -

Your = Posessive form of you
You're = You are

That's it. Really.


I love Vince McMahon:

Ben Stiller's lost TV Pilot

Got thirty minutes? Ben Stiller made a pilot in 1999 featuring Jack Black and Owen Wilson. It's pretty funny.

Linky.

I like fighting....maybe you will too!

Interested in Fighting? Curious about UFC and MMA? Here are a few of my favourite fights....

Here are a couple of classics:

A legendary match (Frye v Takayama)

Fedor Vs Randleman (Includes HOLY CRAP~! moment)

Another great fight (Silva v Rampage 2)

Here is some good stuff from 2005:

Griffin v. Bonnar (I believe 2005's shootfight of the year)

My favorite fighter (Takanori Gomi) had 2 Fight of the year candidates:

Vs Azaredo (1)

Vs Kawajiri

Fighter of the year (2005) Mauricio Shogun's went through 4 scary top 10 opponents in 2005:

Vs Rampage

Vs Overeem

Vs Rog. Noguiera


Vs Arona


Monday, March 13, 2006

I'm fascinated with competitive scrabble.

Link

This is why I like poker.

Sit around long enough and people litterally give you their money:

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (5 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx



Button ($149.26)

SB ($46.64)

BB ($21.50)

UTG ($83.51)

Hero ($97.68)



Preflop: Hero is MP with Ac, Qc. SB posts a blind of $0.25.

UTG calls $0.50, Hero raises to $2, Button calls $2, SB (poster) calls $1.75, 1 fold, UTG calls $1.50.



Flop: ($8.50) 5c, 2c, Jc (4 players)

SB checks, UTG bets $0.5, Hero raises to $5, Button folds, SB calls $5, UTG folds.



Turn: ($19) Ts (2 players)

SB checks, Hero bets $10, SB calls $10.



River: ($39) 9h (2 players)

Hero calls $29.64.



Final Pot: $68.64



Results below:

SB has 3d Kc (high card, king).

Hero has Ac Qc (flush, ace high).

Outcome: Hero wins $68.64.


Ahhh spending other people's money....what will I buy?

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Ever wonder?

Ever wonder what 5,000 lbs of dead rattlesnakes would look like?

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

I need this!

Is it bad that I touched myself when I watched this video?

Monday, March 06, 2006

February gloom brings a March boom!

By request: another poker post!

So the poker tables were extremely unkind to me in February. I lost $300 in the first 2 weeks of the month....then took the rest of the month off.

I started playing again on March 1st, and I have been positively ON FIRE~! This is the hottest streak of my career. In February, I started listening to a new poker podcast starring Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, and also watching "Live at the Bike", a video show where they show a poker table in the commerce casino....if you want to learn about poker, I recommend both of these (and both are entertaining.) The video show is particularly good....If you watch poker on TV it only shows the big hands, but doesn't really show the grind of a cash game, so you can't learn as much - "Live at the Bike" shows every hand.

Tonight was an interesting night at the tables.

I sat down at the $50 No Limit tables and immediately noticed the player to my left had over $200. Must have been on quite a hot streak ($50 NL means you can only sit down with $50, so he had doubled, no, tripled, no QUADRUPLED up from his starting stack.) After several hands, I noticed another thing, he played EVERY SINGLE HAND (100% VPIP), rather aggressively, too.

I licked my chops, this is the kind of maniac that I eat alive. I promptly lost my $50 buy-in to this donkey:

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (6 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx



Hero ($51.20)

SB ($244.39)

BB ($59.50)

UTG ($21.15)

MP ($65.80)

CO ($49.25)



Preflop: Hero is Button with Ts, Tc. SB posts a blind of $0.25.

1 fold, MP raises to $2, 1 fold, Hero calls $2, SB (poster) calls $1.75, BB calls $1.50.



Flop: ($8) 8s, Jd, 5h (4 players)

SB checks, BB checks, MP checks, Hero bets $4, SB calls $4, BB folds, MP folds.



Turn: ($16) 7h (2 players)

SB checks, Hero bets $10, SB raises to $35, Hero calls $35.20 (All-In), SB calls $10.20.



River: ($106.40) Kc (2 players, 1 all-in)



Final Pot: $106.40



Results below:

SB has Jc 5d (two pair, jacks and fives).

Hero has Ts Tc (one pair, tens).

Outcome: SB wins $106.40.

His J5o beat my pair of 10's - and to be fair, I played the hand SO BADLY - more based on the way this guy had been shoving chips around - still, my call of his turn raise is absolutely HORRENDOUS. I should have been more patient, but instead I lost $50. OUCH! Down $50, but I knew there was money to be made from this guy, so I bought back in, and grinded for a half hour - then I got lucky:

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ Hero (6 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx



Hero ($56.85)

UTG ($188.57)

MP ($86.80)

CO ($53.55)

Button ($65.36)

SB ($93.34)



Preflop: Hero is BB with 6h, 6c. SB posts a blind of $0.25.

UTG calls $0.50, MP calls $0.50, CO raises to $3, Button calls $3, 1 fold, Hero calls $2.50, UTG raises to $14.5, MP folds, CO folds, Button folds, Hero calls $11.50.



Flop: ($35.75) 3h, 6s, 7d (2 players)

Hero checks, UTG bets $10, Hero raises to $25, UTG calls $15.



Turn: ($85.75) Kd (2 players)

Hero calls $17.35 (All-In), UTG calls $17.35.



River: ($120.45) Kh (2 players, 1 all-in)



Final Pot: $120.45



Results below:

Hero has 6h 6c (full house, sixes full of kings).

UTG has Qc As (one pair, kings).

Outcome: Hero wins $120.45.

I hate the guy's preflop re-raise, but he had done it a half dozen times, and showed really weak hands - so I decided to challenge him. I knew if I flopped a set, I would double up, and there was a good chance that I was better than a coinflip. Had I not flopped the set, I may have been in trouble. Can you believe his post flop calls? The guy was giving away chips.

Finally, I drove him into the poor house:

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ Hero (6 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx



Hero ($112.95)

UTG ($88.82)

MP ($84)

CO ($57.85)

Button ($67.66)

SB ($122.04)



Preflop: Hero is BB with Tc, Ac. SB posts a blind of $0.25.

UTG raises to $2, 2 folds, Button calls $2, 1 fold, Hero calls $1.50.



Flop: ($6.25) Ts, 5s, 7d (3 players)

Hero bets $10, UTG raises to $20, Button folds, Hero calls $100.95 (All-In), UTG calls $66.82 (All-In).



Turn: ($204.02) Jd (2 players, 2 all-in)



River: ($204.02) 4h (2 players, 2 all-in)



Final Pot: $204.02



Results in white below:

Hero has Tc Ac (one pair, tens).

UTG has 8s 8h (one pair, eights).

Outcome: Hero wins $204.02.

How poorly can you play a pair of eights? (It's actually almost identical to how I played my tens earlier - and lost, his call on the all-in was worse, but the similarities are strikingly similar.....I guess i have a little "donk" in me.)

Actually, analyzing the big pots tonight, I played poorly in the pots I won, and awful in the pot I lost....

If you are reading this hoping for poker strategy, my advice is: DON'T PLAY HOW I PLAYED - YOU WILL LOSE YOUR SHIRT. I made strange plays based on decent reads on the maniac at the table....I would not recommend making any of the plays from the above text - BEWARE!

So that's it for tonight....off to watch the apprentice. And 24.

Saturday, March 04, 2006

I know I sometimes post lame video links.....

But this one is not to be missed.

CLICK HERE!

I also love this race.

Friday, March 03, 2006

A great moment at the poker tables....

So, I noticed this player, "apaciorek" at the table and identified him as the "weak link" from whom I would be earning my money....I knew I'd have his number.

Then this hand hits:

***** Hand History for Game 3662128617 *****
$50 NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, March 03, 20:59:42 ET 2006
Table Bobble (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: mrsuprstr30 ( $41.26 )
Seat 3: stunicity ( $29.84 )
Seat 4: efnte ( $32.73 )
Seat 5: vet1219 ( $36.70 )
Seat 6: apaciorek ( $38.22 )
Seat 2: attractivetb ( $50.40 )
stunicity posts small blind [$0.25].
efnte posts big blind [$0.50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to attractivetb [ 5d 7d ]
vet1219 folds.
apaciorek calls [$0.50].
mrsuprstr30 folds.
attractivetb raises [$2].
stunicity folds.
efnte folds.
apaciorek calls [$1.50].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8c, Qd, 6s ]
apaciorek checks.
>You have options at Antara (No DP) Table!.
>You have options at Antara (No DP) Table!.
attractivetb bets [$3].
apaciorek calls [$3].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3c ]
>You have options at Antara (No DP) Table!.
apaciorek checks.
attractivetb bets [$7].
apaciorek raises [$14].
attractivetb calls [$7].
** Dealing River ** [ 5s ]
>You have options at Antara (No DP) Table!.
apaciorek is all-In [$19.22]
attractivetb folds.
apaciorek shows [ Ks, 4h ] high card king.
apaciorek wins $56.07 from the main pot with high card king.



I made a pretty big bluff on the turn, and should have folded when he came over the top...I didn't give him credit for a hand, but it was an awful call on my part. He also made an awful call on the preflop raise, and the flop bet - I also had only been playing and showing down premium hands, so if he was paying attention (he mustn't have been), he should have laid down K4o.

I was enraged when he showed me the bluff. (He was a bad player, making consistently bad plays, so the fact that he outplayed me ticked me off.) He definitely had me tilting.

So the next hand, I talked some smack (very uncharacteristic for me):




***** Hand History for Game 3662136691 *****
$50 NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, March 03, 21:00:48 ET 2006
Table Bobble (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: mrsuprstr30 ( $41.26 )
Seat 3: stunicity ( $29.59 )
Seat 4: efnte ( $32.23 )
Seat 6: apaciorek ( $56.07 )
Seat 2: attractivetb ( $31.40 )
efnte posts small blind [$0.25].
apaciorek posts big blind [$0.50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to attractivetb [ 9c 4d ]
mrsuprstr30: lololololol
mrsuprstr30 raises [$1].
attractivetb folds.
stunicity folds.
efnte calls [$0.75].
apaciorek calls [$0.50].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, 4c, 6d ]
efnte checks.
apaciorek checks.
mrsuprstr30 checks.
** Dealing Turn ** [ Td ]
efnte checks.
apaciorek checks.
attractivetb: I will have all of your money in 30 minutes
mrsuprstr30 checks.
** Dealing River ** [ Ad ]
efnte bets [$0.50].
>You have options at Antara (No DP) Table!.
apaciorek calls [$0.50].
mrsuprstr30 folds.
efnte shows [ 7d, 7h ] two pairs, sevens and sixes.
apaciorek doesn't show [ Kc, 8c ] a pair of sixes.
efnte wins $3.80 from the main pot with two pairs,


So 5 hands / 5 minutes later, I wake up with queens:



***** Hand History for Game 3662161751 *****
$50 NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, March 03, 21:04:05 ET 2006
Table Bobble (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: mrsuprstr30 ( $32.01 )
Seat 3: stunicity ( $35.24 )
Seat 4: efnte ( $30.28 )
Seat 6: apaciorek ( $53.32 )
Seat 2: attractivetb ( $56.95 )
Seat 5: Bozaghian ( $50 )
stunicity posts small blind [$0.25].
efnte posts big blind [$0.50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to attractivetb [ Qh Qd ]
apaciorek calls [$0.50].
>You have options at Antara (No DP) Table!.
mrsuprstr30 calls [$0.50].
attractivetb raises [$2].
stunicity calls [$1.75].
efnte folds.
apaciorek calls [$1.50].
>You have options at Antara (No DP) Table!.
mrsuprstr30 calls [$1.50].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9c, 3h, 6d ]
stunicity checks.
apaciorek checks.
>You have options at Antara (No DP) Table!.
mrsuprstr30 checks.
>You have options at Antara (No DP) Table!.
attractivetb bets [$8].
>You have options at Antara (No DP) Table!.
stunicity folds.
apaciorek calls [$8].
mrsuprstr30 folds.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5d ]
apaciorek checks.
attractivetb bets [$20].
apaciorek calls [$20].
** Dealing River ** [ Jc ]
apaciorek is all-In [$23.32]
attractivetb calls [$23.32].
apaciorek shows [ 9h, Kh ] a pair of nines.
attractivetb shows [ Qh, Qd ] a pair of queens.
attractivetb wins $109.14 from the main pot with a pair of queens.


It feels so good when your ominous predictions come true!

Thursday, March 02, 2006

My Soulmates

Same Birthday - Day month and year....now I have 2 soulmates!

One, and two.