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Mercury Rev -- Chasing A Bee

And of course I don't mind
Chasing a girl inside a car

70 fpp 10 man >> 210 fpp 20 man

imo.

Although this one hurt:

Poker Stars 70FPP No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t200/t400 Blinds + t25 - 3 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BTN): t6055         M = 8.97
SB: t7935         M = 11.76
BB: t1010         M = 1.50
Pre Flop: (t675) Hero is BTN with Q Q
Hero raises to t1200, SB calls t1000, BB calls t585 all in

Flop: (t3460) 5 6 2 (3 players - 1 is all in)
 SB bets t6710 all in, Hero calls t4830 all in

Turn: (t13120) J (3 players - 3 are all in)
River: (t13120) 9 (3 players - 3 are all in)

Final Pot: t13120

Hero shows Q Q (a pair of Queens)
SB shows 7 8 (a straight, Five to Nine)
BB shows A T (high card Ace)

SB wins t10090
SB wins t3030

No manies for 2nd place. :(

Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign

Well do you know where you belong?
And is your star sign ever wrong?

Mistakes were made

::sigh:: Tilted off my roll... again. Things were going so well too.

Oh well, plenty of FPPs with which to grind it all back. Weeeeeeeee....

Ween -- Back to Basom

Left to locate the last trace of waste
I picked it up and it was smiling
Just like the dancer who has lost her leg
She laughs alone but then she's crying

I'm about to tell you a story

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em $0.10 Ante - 9 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

UTG: $180.75
UTG+1: $123.50
UTG+2: $96.50
MP1: $115.90
MP2: $125.00
CO: $48.70
BTN: $164.95
SB: $17.30
Hero (BB): $76.00

Pre Flop: ($1.65) Hero is BB with XX
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $1.50, 1 fold, MP1 calls $1.50, MP2 calls $1.50, 3 folds, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($7.15) Q A T (4 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, MP1 bets $3, MP2 folds

It has a beginning

Hero raises to $9.50, UTG+1 folds, MP1 calls $6.50

Turn: ($26.15) 7 (2 players)

A middle

Hero bets $15.50, MP1 calls $15.50

River: ($57.15) 8 (2 players)

And an end

Hero bets $19

Fact or fiction? 

MP1 folds

Doesn't matter. It's all how I tell it.

Hero mucks 3 T
Hero wins $54.40
(Rake: $2.75)

Pick and choose
Sit and lose
All you different crews
Chicks and dudes
Who you think is really kickin' tunes?

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (HD)

No squealing, remember that it's all in your head

Deep tables: so far, so good

PokerStars new 100-250BB tables are working out for me so far. Now, I'm not playing the fool, pimping my ride, or whatever you want to call it and buying in for the maximum, but I'm not always leaving when my stack gets up there either. I'm running way above EV, but that I'm winning besides that makes sense to me, and especially as a LAGtard, I don't really have to adjust to RIO considerations as much -- I'm used to scraping the odds/equity barrel back at the old 50-100BB setup as it was.

Oh, and I just noticed Stars has added Knockout tournaments now too; the lack of them was the only reason I even kept a small roll on FTP. I pwn at knockouts!

This downswing shall be avenged!
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence ['04]

Depeche Mode -- Enjoy The Silence (2004 Matrix remix)

Bingo is serious bizness

Via Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird

On Jan. 29, more than 200 Alabama state troopers were amassed at 4 a.m. for the purpose of raiding several illegal bingo parlors. The raids were eventually called off, but a University of Alabama professor estimated the staging cost to the budget-shriveled state at $130,000. Said a spokesman for Gov. Bob Riley, "No matter what it costs, the law must be enforced." [Birmingham News-AP, 1-29-10]

Called it off? Aw, man, this could have been epic!

"Put down the chips grandma and step away from the table!"

 "You'll never take me alive copper!"

Everything counts in large amounts

Ugh, I'm such a fish.

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em $0.10 Ante - 9 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

MP2: $126.80
CO: $130.05
BTN: $108.30
Hero (SB): $112.60
BB: $128.60
UTG: $148.45
UTG+1: $61.60
UTG+2: $50.00
MP1: $125.00

Pre Flop: ($1.65) Hero is SB with 5 6
3 folds, MP1 raises to $2, 3 folds, Hero calls $1.75, 1 fold

Flop: ($5.40) 6 5 K (2 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets $4, Hero raises to $14, MP1 calls $10

OK, put villain on the flush draw. Fine, good luck sir.

Turn: ($33.40) J (2 players)

Hah, hah, you missed. No way he has KJ, if he does I'm paying it off. Time to extract!

Hero bets $25, MP1 calls $25

River: ($83.40) 7 (2 players)
FML. he got there. OK, will check/fold
Hero checks, MP1 bets $83.90 all in
Wait, wat? That looks so bluffy....
Hero calls $71.50 all in

Final Pot: $226.40
Hero shows 5 6 (two pair, Sixes and Fives)
MP1 shows T J (a flush, King high)
MP1 wins $223.40
(Rake: $3.00)
@#!$@$%^%@

 

Depeche Mode -- Everything Counts

OK, here's the techno remix for the kids out there

Drunkenmunky -- The Grabbing Hands (Depeche Mode cover)

The graph on the wall tells the story of it all

Bitters shortage over

I'm used to not being able to get a Manhattan made with bitters at your typical Boston dive bar, to point where I've been tempted to go out with my own bottle in my pocket, but I had no idea things had gotten to the point where you couldn't even buy the ingredients for a Manhattan in Manhattan. Problem fixed now, apparently, thanks to some investigative journalism by fellow Mass. resident Rachel Maddow:

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Weird casino dream

... all about the mechanics. The dream starts OK. I've taken the train from Boston to Rhode Island to the casino there (hey, a guy can dream right?) to play some Hold 'Em. It's late at night now and I've run up $800 into about 5K when the table breaks. So suddenly I'm alone in the poker area and I realize that I forgot to color up before the dealer left. But then I notice that the chip values and colors are all weird. My biggest chip is bright yellow and marked $2163; the next one is a brown plaid and worth $641. So I'm trying to add up my stack in my head and it's not going well at all. And since it's a dream, every time I go back to do the second count all the values of the chips have changed. The yellow one is now $2341 and the plaid one is like $619, etc. Finally I decide I should be able to just let the cage figure it all out, but now it occurs to me that, like an idiot, I don't even have a rack. So I just get over there in line with two big handfuls of a hundred all different colored and denominated chips piled together but the guy at the cage just isn't ready to deal with my mess at all, as if the casino's decisions about chip design are all somehow my fault. Finally I'm just pissed off about the whole situation so I head to the pit for some blackjack and slowly lose my whole roll à la Owning Mahoney. Disappointed, I slump off to the north bound train, where it turns out there's free slices of chocolate moose cake and a tall slinky blonde with no pants that wants to cuddle and that sort of cheers my spirits, but then, with the sight of the rising sun reflecting off of Boston's skyscrapers out of the train window, I wake up.

The weird thing is that I haven't even been to a casino in 8 years, so what the heck was that all about?

There's a shark shaped fin 
In the water of my dreams

Catherine Wheel -- Fripp

Too much is not enough

Another winning session!

LOL. 40 cents an hour baby!

Update 1:00PM: Two in a row, baby!

Hand ~#415 was the second biggest pot I've won since moving up to 50NL.


Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 7 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

MP: $35.65
CO: $50.95
BTN: $66.00
SB: $60.60
BB: $50.00
Hero (UTG): $50.00
UTG+1: $50.00

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is UTG with 8 6
Hero raises to $1.50, UTG+1 calls $1.50, MP calls $1.50, 2 folds, SB calls $1.25, BB calls $1

Flop: ($7.50) 5 7 T (5 players)
SB checks, BB bets $5.50, Hero calls $5.50, UTG+1 folds, MP calls $5.50, SB folds

Turn: ($24.00) Q (3 players)
BB bets $18.50, Hero calls $18.50, MP raises to $28.65 all in, BB calls $10.15, Hero calls $10.15

River: ($109.95) 3 (3 players - 1 is all in)
BB checks, Hero bets $14.35 all in, BB calls $14.35 all in

Final Pot: $138.65
MP shows Q A (a pair of Queens)
BB shows 5 7 (two pair, Sevens and Fives)
Hero shows 8 6 (a flush, Queen high)
Hero wins $28.70
Hero wins $106.95
(Rake: $3.00)