Bayne's Poker Suffering

Spanish Inquisition

2012-02-13T19:27:00.000-08:00

Grange is right no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Woops

2012-02-02T16:24:00.000-08:00

Apologies to Madam Josie. This weekend I loaded Black Chip Poker and used Rakeback.com bonus code for 1st deposit.

Yesterday was my 1st day as a "single Dad" since wife is out of town.

I did feel the need to take the day off work as I had to take wife to airport, kid to school, find Western Union Office to send 1st deposit, get some groceries and pick kid up.

Did end up doing some work as it is trivial to VPN to company and work easily. If company would let me play poker online I could have probably created a address and bank account in Hong Kong and VPN to Pokerstars. I miss my old jobs :)

The Western Union location I chose is across the border in San Jose. On my way to the Payday loan/check cashing establishment I did pass Baby Land Furniture which is right next door to the Pink Poodle. If this is a plan to give Dad's a place to relax while the expectant Mom's shop for furniture it is brilliant, what I wonder about is how much furniture do they sell with the big signs advertising "All Dude Dancers" in sight. I did bring it up with colleagues at lunch today and learned in nearby Fremont there is a church and strip club that share a parking lot. They apparently feel that their crowded hours are mutually exclusive and land costs are high enough that providing adequate parking is challenge.

I have played a little on BCP to get a feel for the User Interface. I like the 1/2, 2/3, 3/4 and Pot selections available in PLO. Play is bad enough that it may prove profitable.

Will wait a while to see how smoothly withdrawals go.

Can't Win

2012-01-29T22:26:00.000-08:00

Demon Daughter is a big fan of Nadal.

Although she is 17 and perfectly capable of operating DVR it is obviously my fault that I failed to record the Nadal-Federer semifinal.

I tried to make it up to her by recording the final and showing her I set it up for extra time.

Thank you Novak and Rafael for playing a match that I only managed to record until start of 5th set.

week 17

2011-12-30T19:09:00.000-08:00

Lions 1

49ers 16

Jets 2

Vikings 3

Pats 14

Saints 13

Eagles 12

Jaguars 4

Texans 11

Falcons 15

Steelers 10

Ravens 5

Broncos 9

Chargers 8

Cardinals 7

Giants 6

Back from :Lake Tahoe.

There was a little man made snow on Heavenly so wife and kid did go tubing. But temperature hit 62 day we left.

Rest of Picks

2011-12-18T08:25:00.000-08:00

Dolphins 3

Bears 1

Titans 6

Bengals 7

Saints 14

Giants12

Texans 5

Pats 13

Lions 4

Jets 8

Cardinals 2

Ravens 11

Steelers 9

Ni Hao

2011-12-14T08:46:00.000-08:00

Three of my picks for week:

Packers 16

Falcons 15

And in case I am drunk in Macau Saturday:

Cowboys 10

NFL Picks

2011-12-10T18:09:00.000-08:00

Steelers 16

Ravens 15

Packers 14

Patriots 13

Seahawks 12 (lord help me)

Jets 11

49ers 10

Saints 9

Falcons 8

Chargers 7

Cowboys 6

Lions 5

Bengals 4

Dolphins 3

Broncos 2

Bucs 1

It's Sunday at 10:00 am and I have to wait 16 hours for football.

Not that I am going to get to watch

No Threepeat

2011-11-28T19:34:00.001-08:00

Wedding Anniversary hits the 1st weekend of December, but even if WPBT was later in month I would be destined to miss as I will be in China most of month to make sure the manufacturing of latest design goes smoothly.

Company I work for is a big believer in Webex but being there is superior.

Have a good WPBT

My picks

2011-11-10T20:13:00.000-08:00

There is degen sports bettor at work who has been asking me all season about what to pick.

I told him early this year to bet the over every Georgia Tech game until it loses so he has been asking my opinion regularly and asked me why I don't bet since obviously I have no objections to gambling.

Rather than face wife' wrath for anything out of hand I decided I could play a 5 team parlay for $10 bucks each week.

1st week I was 3 of 5, 2nd I went for 6th but was 4 of 6 (half the picks were top 5 College teams each week and got burned). 3rd week Stanford, Falcons. 49ers, GB/SD over were easy winners and Bengals came through a sweat to complete the win.

Monday morning brought me high fives as little did I know dude at work always bets $50 so had backed up my $10 with his own $40.

For competition with Waffles picks are

Chargers 8

Eagles 16

Ravens 15

Packers 14

Dallas 13

Texans 12

Cowboys 11

Jacksonville 10

KC 9

Steelers 7

49ers 6

Browns 5

Dolphins 4

Carolina 3

Saints 2

Jets1

World Series Thoughts

2011-10-28T11:04:00.000-07:00

1.) If I am the Cardinals fan that already collected $125k on them winning NL and has $250 ticket on them winning the World Series I am betting $50k on the Rangers with the Money line and $75k on the Rangers getting 1 1/2 runs and hoping for a 1 run Cards victory.

2) That was quite a stomach punch game for Rangers last night, my expectation is Cardinals will carry the momentum into game tonight and pull off win especially in light of Hamilton being injured and Cruz limping in 11th.

3) Kudos to respect Cards fans showed to Pujols batting in what could have been his last at bat ever as a Cardinal (3 times) I could not help but think as they booed the intentional walk in his last at bat could there be a more fitting way for him to finish as a Cardinal?

Red Sox Implosion

2011-10-13T09:57:00.000-07:00

Heard Nomar quote this morning:

"If we want to go down the list... now we're hearing about Terry Francona, before Terry ... it was Johnny Damon, before him you had Derek Lowe, you had Pedro Martinez, you had Manny Ramirez, you had myself, then you had Mo Vaughn, then you had Roger Clemens, then you had Jim Rice, Carl Yastrzemski, and oh, by the way, one Ted Williams. So the list is pretty good, pretty prestigious, but it seems to happen. So there's a pattern. Is it all these guys that are bad or is there something more here."

Not sure if it was Rome or Cowherd that said in response, ~"People in New England are short and angry when young, eventually some get taller".

I was 16 when I started rooting for Red Sox as I had not lived near a Major League team prior to moving to Westford. I am quite disgusted by the treatment Francona has received in press. Only a matter of time before Theo gets trashed in press as well. I thought both would drink free forever.

Gone Fishin

2011-10-08T18:25:00.000-07:00

Best bit from TNT's around the NBA during the playoffs is Kenny Smith's 'Gone Fishin' pictures.

As a Red Sox fan I love when I watch A-Rod standing at the plate after a strikeout to end Yankee's season as the other team mobs the pitcher even if it has become a bit of a cliche. I am sure MiamiDon (now private and I am not invited WTF) and Steve are much happier than Hoy about the NLCS matchup but I did feel for Ryan Howard for the brutal way his season ended (maybe top 5 worst season end in baseball history).

I have also been waiting all weekend to see the Josie v. Waffles picks, certainly seems like Waffles has the better handle on the game weighting and suspect the wager is Josie will have to pick up waffle's laundry and return it all clean, pressed and neatly hing and folded.

Years ago a co-worker (Andrew) and I made a bet about project progress with our project manager about a milestone. I forgot what our punishment was if we lost but she made mistake of telling us what was at stake for us before we had figured out our side. We did not know what to ask for in stakes but Andrew's wife determined that if we won Bo had to dress up in 50s garb and serve us tea/coffee and get our lunch one day at work.

Hopefully waffles came up with something more evil and made sure there is no gag order.

Soon we will have a working kitchen

2011-10-04T21:18:00.000-07:00

The one aspect about the house that I knew I would someday replace was the oven. I believe it was original equipment when house was built in 1984.

Two burners were problematic but would sometimes heat but 1st time we used oven it failed.

On the positive side the Realtor and mortgage broker (who were probably very pleased to collect fees on a speedy purchase/close) got us a warranty on the appliances. Repair guy came out and determined it could be fixed with a few parts that had not been generally available this century so recommended replacement.

I was assuming we would try to work a deal to get some cash amount for a replacement and then let wife pick out upgrade she wanted. For 3 weeks now I have gotten to deal with wife being bat shit pissed while she dealt with insurance company and planned meals around a grill, toaster, microwave and waffle iron as cooking options.

Big win for us when the repair guy rejected the oven they chose because original had downdraft venting and he has to install to code. Cost of creating venting outweighed cost of oven upgrade.

They have come in and removed the old oven:

It is a little weird when you realize how close to the microwave you have stepped when pulling stuff out. Unfortunately hauling away the old oven is not included but I will get a hand truck and haul away when Santa CLara has their dispose of electronics day.

The final fight was my wife wanted radiant elements (right side in below picture) rather than coils. Insurance company was pain in the ass about this as well even with my wife offering to pay the cost difference. Jenn-Air is already planning to discontinue the coils so appliance store that insurance was using convinced insurance company that radiant elements were in stock and coils would need to be shipped.

They finally agreed we get the radiant elements once they receive a cashiers check for the cost difference. They were insistent about money order or cashiers check

Wife was heading to the bank this morning for $8 cashiers check.

Finish Line Reached

2011-08-29T23:00:00.000-07:00

With 2 days to spare we have removed last items from apartment and turned in keys. Saturday when I was over grabbing a few boxes (and making use of dumpster) there were 6 moving trucks in parking lot of ~200 unit complex. I think many of my former neighbors also believe "The Rent is too damn high"

It was a nice apartment and I would miss some of my neighbors but at this point there are only 3 neighbors left that we used to socialize with.

Unpacking is an adventure as this time we are going to open every box and make a decision to keep, donate, trash or shred then trash. I am also hanging pictures and a clock on wall as mindset is that we will be here a while (assuming I can remain employed)

Worst finds so far have been either a box that we moved from Petaluma 5 tears ago that only held documents that needed to be shredded, the ancient TIVO that does not understand digital TV or the HOV lane stickers for the Civic.

To be fair since the wife's main driving during HOV times was to deliver the demon child to school she was already car pool lane qualified without stickers or else I would have certainly looked a little harder for them. Now I think I want to find a massive SUV or Hummer to put them on since I don't see how it can be illegal to apply a sticker for a defunct program.

Worst non-finds are the power cable to XBox and phone.

If we get through remaining boxes and don't find phone this may be final tipping point to cancel land line to house. It is probably goner in 6 months anyway after we have made sure all the bills have change of address.

1st Night

2011-08-24T17:38:00.000-07:00

Move yesterday went rather smoothly, 3 dudes and a truck for $90/hour for an insured company that was registered with state of California seemed better than $40/day for U-Hail plus mileage plus hiring a few people at Home Depot since I would not have to lift anything.

Had no idea that 2 of 3 dudes would be older and all would be light but I guess they were wiry strong. Wife did think they dragged job along loading but in their defense they did fill the 24' truck.

We will still have to go back and forth to apartment a few times to pick up quite a few items but it is not that far out of way for my work commute.

Furniture does fit in dining room and living room as long as I give up recliner but wife was kind enough to allow it in Master Bedroom. Kid has also surrendered her TV due to lack of cable outlet so I have my own man cave corner in bedroom.

Now just need the boxes to unpack themselves.

I did make some discoveries as part of moving process:

1) I have not looked at my High School yearbook in at least 15 years. I opened it up before packing it and quickly discovered I actually have my younger brothers yearbook from my senior year.

2) I had a small wedding (~25 peeps) but at no point did 3 of the people in attendance appear in the 100s of photos. My Uncle I can understand as he did not let other people use his cameras but Sean and Kelly never appearing disappointed me.

Sean and Kelly got married ~3 years before E and myself and their wedding was the first time I introduced E to my college friends. Kelly was also 1st person I told about expecting demon child as I wanted to wait until April 1 to tell my parents and any co-workers and when I called her to ask Sean about watching Final Four that weekend Kelly had told me that she was pregnant so perfectly natural response that March 31st was "Congrats, E is pregnant too". Kelly and Sean did congratulate me but Sean's last words to me that evening were "Congrats but if this is an April Fool's prank you're a dick". We spent a lot of time together the next 4 years as having daughters 2 weeks apart did nothing to complicate our friendship until I lost touch with them when my brood relocated from Maryland to California.

Unfortunately Kelly had a seizure due to an AVM 2 weeks ago while vacationing with her family, 2 days later she had angiogram to confirm treatment and prepare for Surgery on Saturday but AVM hemorrhaged and took her life.

I feel for Sean's daughters as the Demon Child's words from 3 years ago are still deeply embedded. As she hugged her Mom three years ago she said "you scared me, I thought you were going to leave me with just him".

RIP Kelly

The Time Line

2011-08-08T16:49:00.000-07:00

July 3 - We receive letter from apartment manager informing us of terms for new lease we will face Sept 1.

July 4-7 - Many discussions with the wife. Lots of tension as I am simply unwilling to pay as much as they are asking to rent.

July 8 - Wife leaves town for a trip that was already planned but it gives us some cooling off time at a fortunate time. It is also 1st night that she is gone that it dawns on me that I could buy condo such as this, pay 3% down. Principle + Interest + PMI + HOA would be less than current rent. Additionally recovery point for down payment vs. 1012 rent was 19 months

July 9 - Wife is out of town so demon child and I go to look for new apartment. We look at The Domicilio which at the time was asking $250/month less than rent increase we were facing. Pluses were it was nice enough that wife would not whine. Negatives were that there were a lot of college students in place since it is adjacent to Santa Clara University. We also look at an apartment near demon's high school, wife will hate but kid could safely walk to high school.

I also present kid with idea of buying to get her buy in I take her here. Logistics are difficult but they had 1 home that was ready to move in so thought could time.

July 11 - Kid takes wife to see apartments we looked at as well as new homes. Wife is not offended by new home nor 1 apartment. But Domicilio is now asking $75 more/month.

July 12 - After explaining thinking about condo and how it makes more sense to buy than continue renting, wife gets enthused about looking for a house. Because she doesn't fucking listen she looks in Los Gatos.

July 16 - I meet with real estate agent (along with wife and demon who met him on 14th) , he is going to take us to see numerous houses in Los Gatos but we include one house in Santa Clara I am insistent upon and 2nd house in Santa Clara he finds. All houses in Los Gatos have multiple aspects demon hates, at least one aspect my wife hates, I am trying to be open minded but don't want to commute from Los Gatos. We see house in Santa Cara I wanted to see, wife likes. We see other Santa Clara house, it is comical how blatant it is that it is flip. Cheap paint, lowe's stickers still on windows, "loft added which is converted attic and stairs are as steep as pull down attic stairs. We decide to get reports on 1st Santa Clara house. Demon cheers. Wife may not listen to me but listens to Demon child downright giddy about not wanting to change schools.

July 19 - Offer made

July 22 - Counter accepted

Late July normal gathering of paperwork hassle to get loan approval, plus selling all stocks to make sure I have enough cash freed up for down payment.

Aug 5 - Papers signed, checks written, wire transfers completed.

Aug 8 - seller signs upon return from biz trip.

Aug 11 - keys.

Now really gambling

2011-07-25T20:50:00.001-07:00

I am in process of buying house (A).

My thinking originally was we would buy a condo, put 3% down pay the PMI and get 5/1 ARM which would get me Mortgage payment ~$600 less than apartment wanted for rent if we moved to upgraded unit (which we have to do within a year or move out). Advantage was thought I could walk away saving a few dollars at expense of credit rating if housing market out here continued to plummet.

Problem with a condo is you never know what you are going to deal with as far as resident below or above you goes. My latest downstairs neighbor seems nice enough but he smokes about once an hour, his wife doesn't let him smoke inside and he has not adhered to my polite request to warn us when he is lighting up so we can close sliding glass door and windows for a few minutes.

I would rather have the brothel back downstairs than have apartment smell like cigarettes.

Townhouse has only 2 neighbors no one below so we have solved the smoke problem.

What I can't help but think is I own the downside risk of home price until down payment is exhausted and I also need price to rise 6% to break even.

Other risk is to choose 5/1 ARM at 3.375% or 30 year fixed at 4.625%.

3rd risk is that wife won't spend too much money once we are in a "home"

On positive side demon child gets to stay in same High School and would live closer to her BFF as well as my tax adjust cost of housing is fixed at ~ what I was looking at for rent in a year.

A Job Opening and real estate observations

2011-07-12T23:17:00.000-07:00

My current job will probably have layoffs this months. A bunch of people accepted early retirement and I am not a numbers cruncher like some people but I assume that a one time write-off in the financial reporting will mean early retirements and layoffs will occur in same financial quarter.

Managers at work are going batshit trying to be make sure aspect of big project they are responsible for gets done ahead of restructuring makes work a little more stressful, but managers are always a bit stressed to make the deadlines that they had no clue how company could accomplish. Every engineering schedule is based on noting going wrong. My current project is first one that had schedule impacted by a tsunami.

I have decided with Timberwolves firing of Kurt Rambis I should apply to replace as I think it is nice raise and how hard can it be to do better than 32-132. Saying in baseball is team wins 50 games no matter what manager does, team loses 50 games no matter what manager does and it is other 50 games where manager earns his pay (154 game season made this saying a lot cleaner). Doing better than 20% seems trivial.

South Bay rental prices are a bit out of control. In general monthly rents are increasing by ~$400/month and a lot of apartments are refurbishing to add granite counters in kitchen as well as stainless steel appliances. I have no frkn clue why counter top and what surface you add art and notes to on refrigerator rates a rent premium.

My observation is washer/dryer in apartment is $400

Square footage over 800 is $20/sq ft/month

Granite + stainless is $300/month

Deal with current apartment is they want to jack rent $400/month but end of lease we have to either move out, move to another apartment in complex (that this year would cost $300/month more) or move out for a month where we refurbish.

This morning my wife tried to talk me into just sucking it up and renewing lease for year.

I countered with we should buy a condo a mile away because kid would go to same frkn bus stop and from prices I am seeing on zillow Mortgage + Insurance + HOA + Property tax would be $300/month less. I leave for work thinking it is no brainer decision and am frustrated wife is still arguing. Wife does decide when I leave for work go ahead and get condo if you want! I think this is case either where she has forgotten I do not understand subtlety or believes my trend of not paying full cable bill or cell bill each month has torpedoed credit rating.

At lunch I talk about condo pries vs. rental rates with co-workers. I work with engineers so OF COURSE none of us have wife's view of granite + stainless having any value.

Work hypothesis developed is people who paid $500-$600k for local condo are underwater and thus shortselling or walking away letting foreclosures happen since they can't refinance underwater properties and are now increasing rental demand. The math for buying these same condos in the $300-$400 range make it attractive for renters who can afford down payment to jump in.

This all prompts me to check credit rating, apply via web for loan pre-approval and try to find buyer broker.

I get home and much to my surprise wife has bought into idea with both feet and has lined up buyer broker. Little do I realize that her friend Sunny (who I have met) probably is involved in buying or selling house/month along my route to light rail station. I am quite oblivious but I swear her picture on real estate sign is a LOT different than she looks in person.

Happy 4th

2011-07-03T23:01:00.001-07:00

My wife finally decided it was okay to give away the family room furniture that has been sitting is storage for 5 years. 1st year was paid for by company that moved me down here which sadly enabled us to not make decisions that should have been made long ago. Clearing out a 10'x10'x10' space takes some time especially when mainly using a Prius to haul shit away but at this point I am probably 80% done and other than some golf clubs it is tempting to leave it unlocked and thank anyone that decides they want anything in there.

Best finds in the cleaning out are a bunch of old pictures:

This is from Kapalua in August 2008. In the golf cart are Rick Carlisle (driving) and Marc Ivaroni. They were going to Oahu the next week to help at Pete Newell Big Man camp and I was too much of a dumbass to get them to actually pose for a picture with me. At the time they were both assistant coaches in NBA but I talked to them more about ACC Basketball as I was at Tech when Rick was still at Virginia.

Wife and Demon child got to meet them as well as me and the Scottish gentlemen who I was paired with paid off our lost wagers (drinks afterwards I think only Scotsman had alcohol) as I think Rick shot just a few over par.

Per Josie request

2011-06-29T13:26:00.001-07:00

Year is almost half over, last few weeks have seen some downward movement after 2 month lull. This puts me at just short of halfway to goal just short of halfway through year but I figure I am not burning 30 calories/hour walking and unknown less in other activities since I am carrying less weight.

What Would you Do?

2011-06-29T11:14:00.000-07:00

After reading waffle's post on the subject as well as Rigg's I decided to post my own WWYD.

As a disclaimer I must point out that unlike these people I am not old enough to be eligible.

Company you work for has announced they are going to reduce $1 billion in expenses, you work in a group with a significant number of contractors that is still in key segment of companies business.

Those who are 50+ and with years at company added reach 60 are eligible to opt for early retirement which means getting X years pay plus Y years medical plus other incentives. (I don't feel it is right to post exact details put did find details here.)

You also get information that in the event you are laid off you will receive X/3 years pay and Y/4 years medical.

Math would indicate from numbers that intent is to reduce work force 5-10%.

1) Do you immediately look for another job?

2) Do you automatically take the retire offer even in absence of finding new job?

3) What odds would you need that you can find a new job within time period X to have sufficient pot odds?

Vegas Bound

2011-06-09T11:41:00.000-07:00

Youngest cousin (I have met) is getting married this summer. Bachelor Party is this weekend with base being Mandalay Bay.

I may play PLO Monday and if not Tuesday.

I am also comped into a Blackjack tournament so will have to play that. It is 1st so obviously it is play Blackjack but rest of strategy will be new. What I learned at my only craps tournament was my being 2nd shooter and rolling well did nothing for me as other people made more money than I. But what I learned playing craps with Recess was to use position to make sure I was collecting slightly more when table was good.

One thing for sure is I need a break from work. Was so psyched that boss started 3 week vacation Monday but fucker keeps emailing questions. I will not be checking email when I vacation.

Still No Poker

2011-05-26T19:57:00.000-07:00

Today marks 6 weeks without poker.

I do miss going to the Morgan Hill Tournament but the hosts schedule worked out that April tourney was his last until August and it is always 1st weekend of month. I am not sure I miss Online anymore. I might have felt compelled to play to maintain IronMan status as that was worth a bonus few bucks every month.

I only have one more month where I can drive solo in the HOV lanes. We own two hybrids bud sadly I misplaced stickers for wive's car when we got them. Will probably find when I get around to clearing out storage. There are no HOV lanes along my short commute route to work so will only miss stickers the few nights I head North after work to visit old co-workers.

I looked at a Tesla Roadster as I think the all electric vehicle stickers are still active but determined I can't sit in Roadster with roof on.

From workplace last quarterly report:

"We plan to also undertake certain cost control initiatives, such as a voluntary early retirement program, further workforce reductions and other restructuring activities. We expect to recognize a pretax charge in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 of between $0.5 billion and $1.1 billion in connection with the voluntary early retirement program, which amounts will be paid in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. At this time we cannot quantify the amount of further restructuring charges that we expect to recognize in future periods, as we are in the process of evaluating these activities."

I believe I have reasonable odds to not be part of "further workplace reductions" but it definitely makes work more tense plus sense I have played as much poker as I have I recognize that the risk is never zero.

No Poker, Only work

2011-05-02T13:31:00.000-07:00

The 15 days without poker left me with more time to sleep and sadly less urgency to leave work in time to register for the 7:20 (Pacific) Rush Super Turbo KO.

Eventually I will find another hobby and/or exercise more but last two weeks work has been busy as I am covering for co-worker who went to Mother-in-laws funeral (in Iran) so have departed closer to 9 each night.

The most important thing learned at work is that it may seem cool to name a project after a Marvel Comics theme but once you involve Canada trouble occurs.

There have been some holdups shipping from China to US and from US to Bangalore just because we put Project name on manifest.

Someone has some explaining to do to convince people that they really are just router boards rather than some mysterious Weapon X.

More bored than pissed

2011-04-23T22:31:00.000-07:00

It's Saturday Night.

Wife is already asleep, daughter has headphones on.

Shark's game is over.

Turbo Fiddy is underway and I can't play.

Bay 101 does not deal PLO.

Bay 101 here I come

2011-04-16T00:22:00.000-07:00

Was already having a bad day at work, had to go tell boss about a mistake on his project. I did not make the mistake that hoses schedule quite a bit but dude who made error is on Leave of Absence so I get to clean it up.

Email lit up with the DOJ news about end of online.

On positive I had mostly cashed out to go to Las Vegas last week.

On the bad side I have been on a heater since Tuesday.

I also took 2nd in an On-Demand Rush tourney for $399 and had double cash in 10:20 super turbo KO.

Only positive I can take from end of hobby is Waffles won't get to $10k so bet is mine biatch.

Vegas Weekend Report

2011-04-11T21:43:00.000-07:00

Tried to text Falstaff based on 2007 WPBT spread sheet. Got "dude you got wrong number" text.

Drank no beer to limit my carbohydrate intake. Jack and Diet Coke hits harder though.

Jack by the shot hits even harder (Recess idea, the shots at least).

Craps was burning money until MITCHELL starting hitting tens like it owed him money, rough estimate is 10 total including 4 in a row at end at Planet Hollywood.

Recess and I headed to IP to meet up with Don and others for dinner (hope Saturday was correct day), we settled in on a craps table with a few good shooters who were overly inked but don't think much were prison tattoos to wait. We had another good run at table. We switched to tequila after discovering my diamond status with Caesars allows Patron upgrade. But we may have neglected to tell Don et al to look for us at a craps table.

We gave up at 8:30 and headed to dinner needing to soak up some alcohol.

Recess Birthday Weekend

2011-04-08T01:12:00.000-07:00

Need a break from work before my new board comes in next week.

Wife and Demon are headed to SoCal to meet up with sister-in-law and 2 nieces.

Seems like a perfect weekend for Las Vegas.

Now if I could only figure out how to run like Jo C for the weekend and cardrack my way to a huge weekend

Not April fools hand

2011-03-31T23:25:00.000-07:00

PokerStars Game #60148422443: Tournament #381063394, $20.00+$0.96 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level I (15/30) - 2011/04/01 2:12:47 ET

Table '381063394 1' 10-max Seat #3 is the button

Seat 1: kappa hd (1500 in chips)

Seat 2: Valjini (1395 in chips) <---- Canadian

Seat 3: luckynice789 (1455 in chips)

Seat 4: RiCxor (1470 in chips) <---- Canadian

Seat 5: bayne_s (1500 in chips)

Seat 6: ICANTSNG (1500 in chips)

Seat 7: kalle8779 (1635 in chips)

Seat 8: iratenate (1470 in chips)

Seat 9: puhbaer (1500 in chips)

Seat 10: ok what ev (1575 in chips)

RiCxor: posts small blind 15

bayne_s: posts big blind 30

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [8s 9s]

ICANTSNG: folds

kalle8779: folds

iratenate: calls 30

puhbaer: folds

ok what ev: folds

kappa hd: folds

Valjini: raises 90 to 120

luckynice789: calls 120

RiCxor: folds

bayne_s: calls 90

iratenate: raises 270 to 390

Valjini: raises 1005 to 1395 and is all-in

luckynice789: folds

bayne_s: folds

iratenate: calls 1005

*** FLOP *** [6d Tc 7d]

*** TURN *** [6d Tc 7d] [Th]

*** RIVER *** [6d Tc 7d Th] [5h]

*** SHOW DOWN ***

iratenate: shows [Ah Ac] (two pair, Aces and Tens)

Valjini: shows [Ts Jd] (three of a kind, Tens) <---- Canadian

Valjini collected 3045 from pot

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 3045 | Rake 0

Board [6d Tc 7d Th 5h]

Seat 1: kappa hd folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 2: Valjini showed [Ts Jd] and won (3045) with three of a kind, Tens

Seat 3: luckynice789 (button) folded before Flop

Seat 4: RiCxor (small blind) folded before Flop

Seat 5: bayne_s (big blind) folded before Flop

Seat 6: ICANTSNG folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 7: kalle8779 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 8: iratenate showed [Ah Ac] and lost with two pair, Aces and Tens

Seat 9: puhbaer folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 10: ok what ev folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Not going to lie at this point I am annoyed at the Canadian donkey

PokerStars Game #60148508856: Tournament #381063394, $20.00+$0.96 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2011/04/01 2:17:30 ET

Table '381063394 1' 10-max Seat #9 is the button

Seat 1: kappa hd (1500 in chips)

Seat 2: Valjini (3335 in chips)

Seat 3: luckynice789 (1225 in chips)

Seat 4: RiCxor (1455 in chips) <---- Canadian

Seat 5: bayne_s (1365 in chips)

Seat 6: ICANTSNG (1450 in chips)

Seat 7: kalle8779 (1635 in chips)

Seat 9: puhbaer (1500 in chips)

Seat 10: ok what ev (1535 in chips)

ok what ev: posts small blind 25

kappa hd: posts big blind 50

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [9d 9c]

Valjini: folds

luckynice789: folds

RiCxor: raises 100 to 150

bayne_s: calls 150

ICANTSNG: folds

kalle8779: folds

puhbaer: folds

ok what ev: folds

kappa hd: folds

*** FLOP *** [5d 3s 9h]

RiCxor: bets 250<---- Canadian so I think w00t he has presto

bayne_s: calls 250

*** TURN *** [5d 3s 9h] [9s]

RiCxor: bets 600<---- Canadian must be presto

bayne_s: calls 600

*** RIVER *** [5d 3s 9h 9s] [3h]

RiCxor: bets 455 and is all-in

bayne_s: calls 365 and is all-in

Uncalled bet (90) returned to RiCxor

*** SHOW DOWN ***

RiCxor: shows [Ad 6d] (two pair, Nines and Threes)<---- not presto just Canadian

bayne_s: shows [9d 9c] (four of a kind, Nines)

bayne_s collected 2805 from pot

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 2805 | Rake 0

Board [5d 3s 9h 9s 3h]

Seat 1: kappa hd (big blind) folded before Flop

Seat 2: Valjini folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 3: luckynice789 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 4: RiCxor showed [Ad 6d] and lost with two pair, Nines and Threes

Seat 5: bayne_s showed [9d 9c] and won (2805) with four of a kind, Nines

Seat 6: ICANTSNG folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 7: kalle8779 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 9: puhbaer (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 10: ok what ev (small blind) folded before Flop

On monthly weight loss report front March was disappointing month only losing 2 pounds

I can play as well as Jo C too

2011-03-30T23:54:00.000-07:00

After being 1st to lose a flip to Texar in Dank I decided to play a SNG on Stars.

PokerStars Game #60096045586: Tournament #380720517, $20.00+$0.96 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level I (15/30) - 2011/03/31 2:12:58 ET

Table '380720517 1' 10-max Seat #1 is the button

Seat 1: magom1968 (1500 in chips)

Seat 2: SdJulia (1500 in chips)

Seat 3: PilaYourStac (1500 in chips)

Seat 4: JStephen (1500 in chips)

Seat 5: alde310 (1500 in chips)

Seat 6: jaysim19 (1500 in chips)

Seat 7: c_natsu (1500 in chips)

Seat 8: lakeman421 (1500 in chips)

Seat 9: Catchup666 (1500 in chips)

Seat 10: bayne_s (1500 in chips)

SdJulia: posts small blind 15

PilaYourStac: posts big blind 30

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [Ac Ad]

JStephen: raises 60 to 90

alde310: folds

jaysim19: folds

c_natsu: folds

lakeman421: folds

Catchup666: folds

bayne_s: raises 210 to 300

magom1968: folds

SdJulia: folds

PilaYourStac: folds

JStephen: calls 210

*** FLOP *** [Ah 2d Js]

JStephen: checks

bayne_s: bets 330

JStephen: calls 330

*** TURN *** [Ah 2d Js] [Kd]

JStephen: checks

bayne_s: bets 450

JStephen: raises 420 to 870 and is all-in

bayne_s: calls 420 and is all-in

*** RIVER *** [Ah 2d Js Kd] [5d]

*** SHOW DOWN ***

JStephen: shows [Ks Jh] (two pair, Kings and Jacks)

bayne_s: shows [Ac Ad] (three of a kind, Aces)

bayne_s collected 3045 from pot

JStephen finished the tournament in 10th place

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 3045 | Rake 0

Board [Ah 2d Js Kd 5d]

Seat 1: magom1968 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 2: SdJulia (small blind) folded before Flop

Seat 3: PilaYourStac (big blind) folded before Flop

Seat 4: JStephen showed [Ks Jh] and lost with two pair, Kings and Jacks

Seat 5: alde310 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 6: jaysim19 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 7: c_natsu folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 8: lakeman421 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 9: Catchup666 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 10: bayne_s showed [Ac Ad] and won (3045) with three of a kind, Aces

Dealt to bayne_s [Qc 4h]

bayne_s: folds

Dealt to bayne_s [As 2h]s

bayne_s: folds

Dealt to bayne_s [4d Jc]

bayne_s: folds

Dealt to bayne_s [Kd 8s]

bayne_s: folds

Dealt to bayne_s [Qc Jc]

bayne_s: folds

Dealt to bayne_s [Ac 3s]

bayne_s: folds

Dealt to bayne_s [2c 9s]

bayne_s: folds

Dealt to bayne_s [8s 8c] Button

bayne_s: raises 100 to 150

magom1968: calls 125

SdJulia: raises 350 to 500

bayne_s: calls 350

magom1968: folds

*** FLOP *** [8h Qh 9d]

SdJulia: bets 250

bayne_s: raises 750 to 1000

SdJulia: calls 735 and is all-in

Uncalled bet (15) returned to bayne_s

*** TURN *** [8h Qh 9d] [Ah]

*** RIVER *** [8h Qh 9d Ah] [Jc]

*** SHOW DOWN ***

SdJulia: shows [Qd Qc] (three of a kind, Queens)

bayne_s: shows [8s 8c] (three of a kind, Eights)

SdJulia collected 3120 from pot

Dealt to bayne_s [Kd Kh]

alde310: folds

jaysim19: folds

c_natsu: folds

lakeman421: folds

Catchup666: folds

bayne_s: raises 100 to 150

magom1968: folds

SdJulia: folds

PilaYourStac: folds

Uncalled bet (100) returned to bayne_s

bayne_s collected 125 from pot

bayne_s: doesn't show hand

Dealt to bayne_s [7h 6h]

bayne_s: folds

Dealt to bayne_s [Td Jh]

bayne_s: folds

Dealt to bayne_s [9d 4s]

bayne_s: folds

Dealt to bayne_s [Ah As]

bayne_s: raises 120 to 180

magom1968: folds

SdJulia: folds

PilaYourStac: folds

alde310: folds

jaysim19: folds

lakeman421: folds

Catchup666: calls 120

*** FLOP *** [Jh 5c 4h]

Catchup666: checks

bayne_s: bets 420

Catchup666: calls 420

*** TURN *** [Jh 5c 4h] [3s]

Catchup666: checks

bayne_s: bets 975 and is all-in

Catchup666: calls 975

*** RIVER *** [Jh 5c 4h 3s] [7s]

*** SHOW DOWN ***

Catchup666: shows [9c 9d] (a pair of Nines)

bayne_s: shows [Ah As] (a pair of Aces)

bayne_s collected 3180 from pot

Dealt to bayne_s [8c 3s]

bayne_s: folds

Uncalled bet (120) returned to PilaYourStac

PilaYourStac collected 150 from pot

PilaYourStac: doesn't show hand

PilaYourStac said, "you get AA very often dont you bayne"

*** SUMMARY ***

blind 80

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [As Th]

SdJulia: folds

PilaYourStac: folds

alde310: folds

jaysim19: folds

lakeman421: folds

bayne_s said, "but I also flop set under set a lot"

Catchup666: folds

bayne_s: folds

Uncalled bet (40) returned to magom1968

magom1968 collected 120 from pot

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [Kc Ks]

PilaYourStac: folds

bayne_s said, "I never run mediocre"

alde310: folds

jaysim19: folds

lakeman421: raises 160 to 240

Catchup666: raises 5 to 245 and is all-in

bayne_s: raises 1835 to 2080

magom1968: folds

SdJulia: raises 1555 to 3635 and is all-in

lakeman421: folds

bayne_s: calls 990 and is all-in

Uncalled bet (565) returned to SdJulia

*** FLOP *** [5c As Jc]

PilaYourStac said, "wow"

*** TURN *** [5c As Jc] [3d]

*** RIVER *** [5c As Jc 3d] [Td]

*** SHOW DOWN ***

SdJulia: shows [Qh Qc] (a pair of Queens)

bayne_s: shows [Kc Ks] (a pair of Kings)

bayne_s collected 5650 from side pot

Catchup666: shows [9s Ac] (a pair of Aces)

Catchup666 collected 1055 from main pot

big blind 80

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [6c Ah]

bayne_s said, "that was 2nd KK"

alde310: folds

PilaYourStac said, "killer"

jaysim19: folds

lakeman421: folds

PilaYourStac said, "man"

Catchup666: folds

bayne_s: folds

magom1968: folds

SdJulia: raises 160 to 240

PilaYourStac: folds

Uncalled bet (160) returned to SdJulia

SdJulia collected 200 from pot

SdJulia: doesn't show hand

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [Kd Ks]

jaysim19: folds

lakeman421: folds

PilaYourStac said, "bayne what cheat codes are you using"

Catchup666: folds

bayne_s: raises 160 to 240

magom1968: folds

SdJulia: raises 435 to 675 and is all-in

PilaYourStac: folds

alde310: raises 2025 to 2700 and is all-in

bayne_s: calls 2460

*** FLOP *** [4d 2d 5c]

PilaYourStac said, "wow"

*** TURN *** [4d 2d 5c] [Jc]

*** RIVER *** [4d 2d 5c Jc] [6s]

PilaYourStac said, "WOW"

*** SHOW DOWN ***

alde310: shows [8s 8d] (a pair of Eights)

bayne_s: shows [Kd Ks] (a pair of Kings)

bayne_s collected 4050 from side pot

SdJulia: shows [As Kc] (high card Ace)

bayne_s collected 2105 from main pot

alde310 finished the tournament in 7th place

SdJulia finished the tournament in 8th place

PokerStars Game #60096333169: Tournament #380720517, $20.00+$0.96 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level V (40/80) - 2011/03/31 2:27:40 ET

Table '380720517 1' 10-max Seat #3 is the button

Seat 1: magom1968 (1330 in chips)

Seat 3: PilaYourStac (1035 in chips)

Seat 6: jaysim19 (1345 in chips)

Seat 8: lakeman421 (1150 in chips)

Seat 9: Catchup666 (1045 in chips)

Seat 10: bayne_s (9095 in chips)

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [Ah 9h]

magom1968: folds

PilaYourStac: raises 610 to 710 and is all-in

jaysim19: folds

lakeman421: folds

Catchup666: folds

bayne_s: calls 610

*** FLOP *** [Jc 7c 6c]

*** TURN *** [Jc 7c 6c] [3s]

*** RIVER *** [Jc 7c 6c 3s] [6s]

*** SHOW DOWN ***

bayne_s: shows [Ah 9h] (a pair of Sixes)

PilaYourStac: shows [8c Kc] (a flush, King high)

PilaYourStac collected 1530 from pot

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 1530 | Rake 0

Board [Jc 7c 6c 3s 6s]

Seat 1: magom1968 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 3: PilaYourStac showed [8c Kc] and won (1530) with a flush, King high

Seat 6: jaysim19 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 8: lakeman421 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Seat 9: Catchup666 (small blind) folded before Flop

Seat 10: bayne_s (big blind) showed [Ah 9h] and lost with a pair of Sixes

PilaYourStac: shows [8d Ac] (three of a kind, Eights)

lakeman421: shows [3d 3c] (two pair, Eights and Threes)

PilaYourStac collected 2080 from pot

lakeman421 finished the tournament in 6th place

bayne_s wins the tournament and receives $76.54 - congratulations!

PilaYourStac finished the tournament in 2nd place and received $37.43.

jaysim19 finished the tournament in 3rd place and received $30.73.

magom1968 finished the tournament in 4th place and received $27.70.

Catchup666 finished the tournament in 5th place and received $27.60.

Donkey Island Tipping Point

2011-03-23T09:26:00.001-07:00

I will miss the Mookie to attend Sharks v Flames. So wanted to play but one of managers surrendered his seat in the Suite so I must experience Hockey like the fat cats.

Everyone who watches Survivor regularly knows that the safest person tonight is Muchtim.

The sole remaining member of a team always gets to decide which pair to swing the power to of the 4 man team. It is strategy played out every season since the 1st when Susan and Kelly went to a 2-2 tie with Rudy and Richard.

The lesson is figure out who your best bud is and throw your other two team members out as other goes next challenge and then it is you, best bud and much fighting for that last immunity and choosing heads up opponent.

Clearly if you are looking at vote to win Josie gets thrown under the bus. But if it comes down to playing Heads Up poker for the win you toss SmBoatDrinks.

More Restful Sleep Ahead

2011-03-16T21:18:00.000-07:00

I got home tilted from work but now I am very relaxed.

I think a little money should go to Japan and a little should go to craps.

Sleeping the sleep of the contented

2011-03-15T22:48:00.001-07:00

I played some Rush PLO, at times it does seem to have the same skill level requirements to play as craps as some ridiculous hands occurred but in my last 3 hands of evening I went:

Full Tilt Poker Game #29065695771: Table Vroom (6 max) - $0.50/$1 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 01:33:52 ET - 2011/03/16

Seat 1: bayne_s ($48.85)

Seat 2: mudda177 ($34.25)

Seat 3: RobertoSantiago ($34.30)

Seat 4: sabriel2014 ($358.25)

Seat 5: LonghornsNo1 ($378.70)

Seat 6: werneck22 ($94.55)

RobertoSantiago posts the small blind of $0.50

sabriel2014 posts the big blind of $1

The button is in seat #2

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [2s Ad 3h As]

LonghornsNo1 folds

werneck22 has 8 seconds left to act

werneck22 calls $1

bayne_s calls $1

mudda177 raises to $5.50

RobertoSantiago calls $5

sabriel2014 folds

werneck22 calls $4.50

bayne_s has 15 seconds left to act

bayne_s raises to $19 Bet size chosen so mudda177 could shove and I could still raise

mudda177 calls $13.50

RobertoSantiago raises to $34.30, and is all in

werneck22 calls $28.80

bayne_s raises to $48.85, and is all in

mudda177 calls $15.25, and is all in

werneck22 calls $14.55

bayne_s shows [2s Ad 3h As]

mudda177 shows [4d Td 5h Th]

RobertoSantiago shows [Kd Ks 7s Ah]

werneck22 shows [6s Jd 9s Js]

Not going to lie the rotator cuff may have suffered a slight injury from the fist pump.

Full Tilt Poker Game #29065713617: Table Vroom (6 max) - $0.50/$1 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 01:35:12 ET - 2011/03/16

Seat 1: RobertoSantiago ($152.70)

Seat 2: bayne_s ($163.75)

Seat 3: guinor ($17.80)

Seat 4: kowt ($40.50)

Seat 5: LonghornsNo1 ($382.35)

Seat 6: BigBadDevil ($100)

RobertoSantiago posts the small blind of $0.50

bayne_s posts the big blind of $1

The button is in seat #6

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [As Ad Th Jh]

guinor raises to $3.50

kowt calls $3.50

LonghornsNo1 has 15 seconds left to act

LonghornsNo1 calls $3.50

BigBadDevil folds

RobertoSantiago folds

bayne_s raises to $8 Bet size chosen so guinor could shove and I could still raise

guinor raises to $17.80, and is all in

kowt calls $14.30

LonghornsNo1 folds

bayne_s raises to $75.20

kowt has 15 seconds left to act

kowt calls $22.70, and is all in

bayne_s shows [As Ad Th Jh]

guinor shows [8c Ah Qh Qd]

kowt shows [Ac 7s 2c 8s]

Uncalled bet of $34.70 returned to bayne_s

*** FLOP *** [3d 9c 6s]

*** TURN *** [3d 9c 6s] [6d]

*** RIVER *** [3d 9c 6s 6d] [9d]

Decided to follow the George Costanza model and leave on a high note.

I sleep a lot better after win normally.

My Valentine's gift to wife was to do something about my snoring. Washington's Birthday weekend I was in a 'sleep study'. A fascinating process where 4 sensors were strapped to my legs, 3 to my chest, 6 more table to my face and 8 GLUED to my head. Nurse took ~45 minutes to get me all hooked up and used a heat gun to help the glue dry. Had a big rainbow ponytail of wires coming off the head.

My performance on test was spectacular as 2 hours into test they slapped mask like the one pictured on. I got my new CPAP last Thursday and my wife and daughter are sleeping a lot better.

Survivor

2011-03-06T21:55:00.001-08:00

Apparently Goat needed immunity as they turned on the creator last night.

Gpjacobs, Maloney and I had 35-40 BBs when we agreed to chop.$1 rebuy is brutal just for how deep everyone is late and am not really sure why a 26 peep private tourney pays 3 when an 18 SNG pays 4. Kat was unfortunate victim and it felt like she was in for the most buyins.

My key hands of night were picking up AA in BB and having Mr How to fold KK not fold 99 and then winning flip at final table against Kat.

March 1 Weight

2011-02-28T20:13:00.000-08:00

Warning there is a picture of feet again!

But not until bottom.

Goal for the year of 52 pounds still seems achievable but have finally figured out what "on pace" would mean.

A calorie deficit of 134750 works out to 449/day.

I found a chart that helps me examine impact of weight loss on calorie burn:

Activity (1-hour duration)	Weight of person and calories burned
	160 pounds (73 kilograms)	200 pounds (91 kilograms)	240 pounds (109 kilograms)

Walking, 3.5 mph

277

346

414

Thank god the chart seems linear so I will assume currently at 260 pounds I will burn 448 calories/hour and at 220 pounds I will 380 calories/hour. But for analysis purposes 410/hour should work as it would be burn over average weight if I reach goal.

Over the last 2 months (other than 2 weeks with calf injury) I walked 12 miles week to achieve calorie deficit of 5250/week so the walking portion of my week will drop from 1627 to 1435. Rest of activity should also consume 8% fewer calories at average weight which would still only be a shade over 400 calories/week hit on deficit.

I am comfortably on pace but long way to go.

Chess

2011-02-28T12:36:00.000-08:00

Bayne Waffles

1. e4 e5

2. Nf3 d6

Hate playing against Philidor so choose a rarely used line hoping to transpose.

3. c3

Waffles makes strange choice to move pawn twice in an opening

4. exd5 Qxd5

Now we are into some strange Scandinavian like variant where I can't harass Queen.

5. d4 Nc6

6. dxe5 if you are going to give me pawn it would be rude to decline

6 ..... Qxd1

7. Kxd1 b6

one of waffles other games opponent is crushing him after fianchetto of bishop

8. Bg5 mainly want to bring out Knight without blocking bishop, Bf4 probably better

8 .... f6

9. exf6 trading off overextended pawn to get 2 isolated pawns on waffles kingside

9... gxf6

10. Bf4 diagram

Ne5 - terrible move, just surrenders material

11. Nxe5 fxe5

12. Bxe5 Bg4+

13. Ke1 - terrible move Kc2 so if Bf5 Bd3

Rd8 - terrible move o-o-o clears K from e8 allowing for bishop pin

14. Bb5+ - f3 then take the rook on h8

Kf7

15. Bc4+ - f3 followed by taking Rook on h8 or at least winning Bishop on g5

Kg6

16. f3 Nf6

17. Kf2 Bc5+

18. Kg3 h5

19. Bxf6 Kxf6

20. fxg4 hxg4

21. Rf1+ - WTF

take the stupid pawn on g4 and just grind out connected passed pawn

Kg5

22. h4+ Rxh4

23. Na3 Rd2

24. Rf5+ Kxf5

25. Kxh4 Rxg2

26. Rf1+ Bf2+ my punishment for not taking pawn

27. Rxf2+ Rxf2

28. Kg3 Rxb2

29. Nb5 a6

30. Nxc7 Kg5

31. Bb3 a5

32. c4 Rb1

33. Nd5 Rf1

34. Nxb6 Rf3+

35. Kg2 Kf4

I think because UI can win with knight + Bishop I can grind out win if I find a way to force rook for pawn exchange

36. Nd5+ Ke4

37. Ne7 g3

38. c5 Rf2+

39. Kxg3 Ke3 1-0

Kudos to Goat

2011-02-23T21:17:00.000-08:00

I made an effort to get home in time to play the Mookie last night. 42 runners last night is a huge step to revitalizing blogger poker and the Survivor Poker has led to some awesome rants, some delusional smack talk, and a lot of chat and prop bets.

Also congrats to JamyHawk for being last Survivor (to quote Josie "Team Donkey may be stacked, but that's not because of YOU JamyHawk" for that I have to add you to blogroll.

Daytona

2011-02-21T09:11:00.000-08:00

Growing up in south I should be a bigger fan of Nascar, but I outgrew my need to drive fast when I spun my Ford Escort on I-95 when a retread wrapped around one of my front tires.

Only race I've watched in last 20 years prior to yesterday was the last few laps of Dale Earnhardt's career 10 years ago. There was just nothing spectacular about the crash to indicate that he had died when it happened until you realize the idea of the car body flying all over the place is to absorb the momentum and peel away for the drivers safety.

Watching Trevor Bayne win made for a funny day watching the sports crawler during day whenever they announced Daytona results.

Weekend can't get here fast enough

2011-02-18T15:53:00.000-08:00

I got a new task at work, have to be ready March 14 to begin testing. I am one of two HW engineers that will be heavily involved. Other dude has a pregnant wife with a March 13th due date.

Facebook really has changed the world, 1st Egypt then I learned of an Uncle's death yesterday from a cousin's Facebook status message. I tried to call mom immediately after but got no answer. She sent me an email 6 hours later letting me know of Scotty's passing. Death was unexpected but it shouldn't have been, he had a stroke a few years ago and was still drinking hard. I think the two tours in Vietnam haunted him until the end.

Running Props

2011-02-14T11:53:00.000-08:00

By now most of us have read:

Part I

Part II

about the running 70 miles in 24 hours prop bet.

After January 2007 when I watch 4 poker players wagering who would duck last on tail section of rivercat passing under bridges it is easy for me to believe anything is possible when too much money and testosterone is involved.

Grange has opted to shred Haseeb for his role in jeopardizing Ashton's health. I have to admit my 1st reaction to part 1 was to find one of my co-workers to ask him if he could run 70 miles in 24 hours. His answer was "I ran 112 a few years ago". Dude is currently training for the "Deathride" but he is planning to do this on a tandem bike with his 9 year old son.

I have no idea what drives my co-worker to push himself but he does it with no wagers involved.

Ashton and Haseeb are in a community where no one gets out of a bet for free so once the wager is made they do find themselves stuck seeing it through. I think Haseeb wrote his post because he is evaluating the moral implications of what transpired. It will be interesting to see what happens next for Ashton and Haseeb.

Single Parenting

2011-02-09T16:36:00.000-08:00

My wife went on a trip to LA returning during Super Bowl leaving me as a single parent (of sorts) for week. Other than an occasional rushed trip to school because someone missed the bus it really didn't seem that difficult.

I did have to prepare dish we brought along to Chako's Super Bowl gathering which featured a few genuine Cheeseheads and a Favre fan front running his way back into fold. Demon Child decided to wear her 49ers jersey to game which seemed strange to me but I decided to throw my Bucs jersey on as well to deflect any teasing. The wife and Demon are not the biggest sports fans in the world but daughter does like playing with puppy and wife got a restful nap during 2nd half. Decent game, it is nice that Super Bowls are not blowouts anymore (although I can speak from experience blowouts are better when you are a fan of team in lead).

I am not ashamed to admit I laughed out loud when this ad played:

Demon did not find ad nearly as funny but others in room may have appreciated.

I did ask daughter if she was going to issue a favorable report on Demon Daddy week. Her response was "Don't get your hopes up". Wife has noticed that although she has been back 3 days she has received no negative reports of the time so may not be so worried about how we will get along next trip.

Hopefully some day I will play poker again and have something worth writing about.

No feet

2011-02-01T08:54:00.000-08:00

Sorry Scott can't show progress from wager in weight loss. Having right foot on scale is painful and left supporting most of the weight lead to wide fluctuations in measured weight.

I do have picture of injured calf at bottom of post so those who did not like view of feet should stop reading now.

Last two weeks I have been taking a break from poker, work has been kicking my ass and have had a bad mindset from not being able to exercise. Today at lunchtime my walking returned to a normal gait. There is still a little bit of pain at random intervals and it feels like it is a stabilizing action that causes pain when there is a slight turn to a stride.

I do have IronMan bonus to clear so poker should resume tonight.

Years past I have cleared $600 bonus before 10th of January but at the moment only $150 cleared.

May give up Rush PLO which at times is just a bunch of people playing flush bingo.

The yellow tint is not due to lighting.

Goal 52 Pace

2011-01-26T07:16:00.001-08:00

This post started out to have a completely different theme. As of yesterday Morning I had lost 7 pounds this year but more significantly (to me) 40 pounds off my peak weight.

This is the 6th time I have lost 40 pounds while on a health kick but the 1st 3 times my starting weight was less than current weight. Being engineer I am trying to determine if I am really on pace to lose another 45 pounds by year end. When I started this quest in September my calorie burn on a day I walked was ~3700.

This week a walk home day looked like this:

Where Monday which only involves 1 mile walks to trolley stops looked like:

I was going to have to figure out a decaying calorie burn function and figure out if I was really on pace to lose 52 pounds because although I am ahead of 1 pound/week I can only assume my burn rate is also going to slowly drop another 300 calories/day at end.

Instead I will just complain about asshole who made me accelerate quickly and leap as he was not paying attention to pedestrians and missed by just a little bit but my calf has been in a knot since.

Yesterday I figured out I could walk but my gait was similar to chica in 4 inch heels that broke left heel, today I am down to 2 inch heels gait so I have hopes that some form of walking returns next week.

Edit: One of my co-workers visited to check on my injury. Bottom of calf is starting to turn purple. Since co-worker did Iron Man triathlon in 2003 with a broken clavicle I feel like a complete wimp.

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

2011-01-14T22:48:00.000-08:00

Bet Status unknown

2011-01-11T23:26:00.000-08:00

In light of waffle's gloating:

sirfwalgman: i had suits and shit

sirfwalgman: i fucking rejammed him too

sirfwalgman: fucking idiots

sirfwalgman: OMFG

sirfwalgman: AAQ8

sirfwalgman: DS

sirfwalgman: vs 45T8

sirfwalgman: and fucking ahole calls 51$ pre

sirfwalgman: and fucking flops 558

sirfwalgman: and now I am almost broke

sirfwalgman: wtf

i mean are you fucking kidding me?

sirfwalgman: 30 bucks behind

sirfwalgman: and he fucking does that shit and Full tilt pays him off

sirfwalgman: fucking riddiculous

Bayne: $51

Bayne: are you playing cash?

sirfwalgman: ya

sirfwalgman: 51$ pre

sirfwalgman: and fucking 30 behind

Bayne: I am thinking you have lost ground

sirfwalgman: and he is calling with that shit?

i realllllyyyyy hate these people

sirfwalgman: KKK

sirfwalgman: and I lose

sirfwalgman: to a J89 rivered gutter straight

sirfwalgman: J8T6

sirfwalgman: 79K board

sirfwalgman: I have KKA6

sirfwalgman: 2 outer J river

Bayne: J8T6 v KK on K97 flop is a flip

Bayne: if he has flush draw he is fav

sirfwalgman: not 8T6

sirfwalgman: and no flush

just an OESD

Bayne: " J8T6

sirfwalgman: 79K board

sirfwalgman: I have KKA6"

sirfwalgman: FU

Bayne: it is what you typed

sirfwalgman: FU

I think he starts his quest fresh when he get's ad money later this week.

Long Frkn Week

2011-01-07T14:37:00.001-08:00

12 days off then jumping cold turkey into 5 day work week has been brutal. Managers here are really pressing for us all to things debugged since we are "rested and refreshed".

Some of these same managers forgot to submit paperwork renewing contractors or extending co-ops so half the people I work with have no access to the internal network and it takes 2 days for paperwork to process and another 2 days for passwords to reset.

I also have to adjust to a whole new fresh group of co-ops helping out it the lab and somehow we ended up with group with similar names. So far I usually call one of them "Nautica" because that was shirt he was wearing 1st day, he seems resilient so far and rest of co-ops have decided this will be his nickname for time being.

Poker front has been a scuffle as I work to clear Iron Man bonus, I am +/- $10 of break even once I factor in rakeback and have ~$100 in uncredited bonus earned. Key as always is not to tilt off before bonus is cleared. No clearing bets as the points tard has retired from online poker.

Weight loss front I went from just prior to Thanksgiving to today at -10.4 pounds. Since wife was cooking christmas cookies a bit feels like a huge win. Nurse at doctor's office thought so too but she was concerned about my pulse, apparently there will always be some issue.

Happy New Years

2010-12-31T16:51:00.000-08:00

2010 was a pretty good year:

On job front, I have job that I like.

On Dad front as Demon Child has been consistently doing better in school, is healthy and happy.

On husband front wife is driving and back to pre-seizure form.

On health front I would rate year as a positive as although I received diabetes diagnosis it was caught early, it seems treatable and I already feel better after losing a few pounds.

Poker was a loser for the year but it is recreation

I have given careful consideration to what I want to do for resolutions. I thought about setting a goal for running (5k, 10k or half marathon) or to ski with family this year. Realized I have used my weight as an excuse to not do a lot of things and it has caused most of health problems so this year there will be just one resolution on the list.

1. I will lose 52 pounds in 2011.

Not a resolution but I will collect bet from waffles when he does not net $10k in poker winnings.

Adding for Scott (but as an anti-homage to F-Train):

Back Home

2010-12-29T22:56:00.000-08:00

The New Year's crowd started arriving in Lake Tahoe Tuesday. Average age in town dropped. Price to play in casino rose. It also started to snow, trip up in dry conditions 5 hours. Trip back with chain controls was 8 hours.

Temp in Tahoe when we were there was probably low 30s during day so returning to 43 degree Santa Clara does feel brutal, but lows in single digits next few days tell me we ran real well with weather.

Demon child had her ski lesson on the sunniest day which also saw 8 inches of fresh powder fall the night before. She got her confidence back with no falls (2 falls previous trip caused her to quit skiing after single run). She was excited and chatty about her lesson after and at dinner, wife enjoyed her day on the trails on snow shoes. They were both exhausted and turned in early.

I played a little call and chase poker in Harvey's poker room, I have no idea what kind of bet it must take to get take down a pot pre-flop as I saw people calling off stacks with 33-77 and QJs, I did not get many hands but did manage to be 5th caller to UTG raiser holding 99, 954 flop with 2 hearts got a lot of actionand took down a pot with top set against 2 flush chasers and 1 oesd when river 4 of hearts gave me boat to crush the two non-nut flushes.

I went up to room only to discover that wife a daughter were sleeping loudly, after hour of effort to sleep I gave up and got dressed and found craps table. It was amusing table as there were 3 young guys at my end of table who all rolled well but shared same quirk. None of them would take pass line odds when point was 4 or 10, Jason who was to my immediate left would also not bet odds on 5 or 9, he would bet full odds on 6 or 8. During roll where Ryan hit fire bet I asked dealer if I could place an odds bet for dealers behind Jason's pass bet 3rd time Ryan rolled for a 5. The other two youngsters were amused, dealers were more than happy but Jason thought that was too emasculating and finally placed odds bet (won 2 rolls later). Soon after my wife tracked me down, demon had told her "don't worry about daddy he is night owl". Since I had lot of green chips in front of me and it was obviously a fun table wife stuck around for a cup of hot tea, listened to Jason complain that I strong armed into betting more than he wanted and finally failed to cooler a craps table immediately. When dice came to me next I did pass and insist she wanted to pass as well and we let 3 young guys roll and wife and I headed back to room.

Last night in Tahoe I was forced to drop wife to 2nd worst shooter in rankings. A short asian woman standing 2 spots from stick managed to hit boxman with dice on 1st roll, had 3 rolls off table end and then managed to make boxman dodge another dice. Pit Boss had seen enough and issued warning "next roll on table or dice pass", she managed to roll craps or elven a few times making her dad some money on his horn bets before finally establishing point then out.

I set up X-Box and Kinect upon return and watched demon spend 30 minutes customizing her avatar to get it just right, it seemed so star trek next generation to wave hand to control things.

Christmas Day Craps

2010-12-26T08:26:00.000-08:00

We opened presents like a normal family. Daughter made snow angels on the beach. We ate together. But wife and I played 3 card poker and craps while demon watched a movie.

Wife was just going to watch until Kate on the stick talked her into it. I put $5 on the "Pass" for her and $10 on the "Don't pass" for me and said to Kate remember this was your idea. More to warn other players at table not to bet heavy.

Wife shook the dice furiously and fired, only one of the two dice that hit Kate hit the felt. 2nd roll scattered dealer money on far end but established point of eight.

3rd roll hit Kate and player next to stick but also left table.

4th roll was 7 and her turn ended with no one seriously injured.

I will now have to move Recess down in rankings to 2nd worst shooter.

Merry Christmas (A counterpoint)

2010-12-22T20:16:00.000-08:00

My little brother Mike is in the center. He is 6 inches shorter than me and was less than 120 pounds when he graduated from high school but has since ballooned up to 200 pounds. His similarities to Waffles are astounding most of the year , but he lives for Christmas. He does grow a beard every year and dyes it to accentuate the white and is a very much in demand Santa.

Obviously he does it for the attention.

Soon the Christmas season will sadly end and he will get less attention.

Demon child always gets giddy at Christmas and I gain my joy through her excitement. I worry that this will be the last year that she is giddy but each year she rallies. Last year was Disney this year will be in Tahoe so I will probably be offline for a week.

Happy Holidays
(fuck the PC it is commercial rather than religous holiday anymore)

Merry Christmas

Happy New Year

Sunday Poker explained in chat

2010-12-19T12:27:00.001-08:00

BlAcKaCiOuS: u didnt fold on that flop monkey?

Mr Monkeytilt: had 4 outs, how could i

In Vegas Aftermath

2010-12-15T17:26:00.000-08:00

After collecting my prize money I got myself a much needed sandwich. Terrible side effect of diagnosis is I eat less per meal but should eat a little more often and was starting to feel a little light headed.

Drizz (deliverer of 1st major final table wound) and I talked briefly, he still had a financial analysis paper to get done and asked me if I thought Don would deal. I told him I didn't think he would because he really wanted trophy and big influx into his bankroll now that he was back.

Drizz rushed back to table while I finished my sandwich where I learned that it was over and they had given Don 2nd place money, trophy and rest had split prize fund.

7 handed I would have probably agreed to those terms but I had 1 BB the only hand that was played 7 handed.

Headed back to IP at this point to meet Pauly and Iggy with Don and his celebration. Saawx Lover and StB and I decided life was too short to sit around IP Sports Bar listening to bad karaoke when I made my worst misplay of the weekend. StB had a nice roll and I failed to fully invest in the dip. His last roll I had $200 on the 4 but that was due to my nitty play of increasing bets. After the 7th 4 should have had $800, I also failed to leave until after a few shitty shooters (myself included).

I then joined Lightning for a very late inexpensive dinner and Josie came along. Although I lost the coinflip and had to pay I meal was cheaper than any of Garth's meals thanks to Lightbulb's senior discount.

There was some level of disbelief from them that I called Buddy from BB with 52o but holding 4 BBs, don't think it is right to fold to 1.5 BB raise. Especially at a level where antes were 1.33 BBs.

Did give Buddy a good sweat when I flopped a gutshot and turned a pair but Buddy rivered a higher pair. I still see that nasty 8 flipping over in my sleep.

We then moved onto other subjects:

1) Yes Demon Child knows that is her nickname.

2) Really she takes pride in it

3) ~~Not publishable~~

4) Family stuff

5) Travels

I then headed back to Harrahs where an old Cowboy watching 2 young guys arguing with dealer about payoff summed up my recent feelings about craps best "$3, they are arguing about $3,

It is the pissants that ruin a good craps table"

I will humbly admit that I will never be able to say pissant so it carries the disdain that a Texan can say it!

Sunday at Legasse's Stadium was good and I made an impulsively large bet on Patriots but left money on table by doing it as moneyline bet after listening to Pauly's insights.

Wish I had gone on to IP for late game but Southwest waited until 70 minutes before scheduled flight to let me know it was going to be 2 hours late.

Countdown to next gathering 358 days

2010 WPBT in the books.

2010-12-13T13:13:00.000-08:00

Thanks PokerStars for running the Luckbox Last Longer Challenge again!

Recess let me know Tuesday night that he would have to back out of joining Gnome and I in defending title. Last year Recess had filled in once Schaubs bailed last year and despite being informed of snark potential he did not change his mind.

Fate decided Thursday at IP Pai Gow table that Garth would sit to my right and was looking for a team. If I had known at time that Garth's blog had become Top Chef foodie blog rather than poker blog I may have made arrangements to join for dinner rather than on team.

A historic Pai Gow hand occurred when my 98 defeated dealers 97 and my J6542 defeated the dealer's J6532, sadly I would later lose to a J9 Pai Gow with a J875432 which I set poorly. New Pai Gow theory once best low hand is 87 it is time to play 32 and pray for the high.

Douchebag ~~Harrahs~~ Caesar's Entertainment hit a new low while Brad, Speaker, G-Rob and I were playing $15 Blackjack at only 3:2 Blackjack table in IP. Pit Boss came over and changed sign to $25 table but did inform us that we were grandfathered in until the end of the next 6 deck shoe.

Early in next shoe 1st base got a black jack and dealer paid him 6:5. We had failed to notice that Blackjack payout now read 6:5 and dealer said payouts were not grandfathered in prompting immediate cashout from the 4 of us. To new other pit boss credit the payout was changed to 3:2 but what the fuck does that say about IP that obviously from dealer reaction this is not the 1st time that IP has made what I feel is fundamental change to the game with limited notice.

Friday I talked to a few bloggers in MGM poker room and was tempted to sit into $1/$2 game until Brad mentioned he was still stuck with ~$1300 in chips in front of him. I made the worse EV move of going to MGM craps table. There was a dude that I saw sign for 2 $5k markers who would do nothing for long periods of time then bet $2k-$4k on Don't Pass. I was amused at first as 1st time I rolled I hit so many numbers he decided to pull the bet off and make it a place bet which he collected, then he waited for next shooter. Unfortunately his douchebag son would come up to table occasionally and shout "SEVEN" when a bet was down. Table would thin out and I would move to different table only to have this dude walk up later.

I went by poker room on craps tilt and could not find any bloggers so wandered North to blow off craps steam. When I got to Paris I decided to give craps another chance. Overall had a good run and saw something I had never previously seen at a craps table.

A dude who walked up to a $15 table bought in for $100 disrupting a decent run using 10x$1, 6x$5, 2x$10 and 2x$20 that had to be spread out for count. Shooter crapped out 2nd roll later.

Stick shoved the dice to same dude who immediately grabbed 3 dice and rolled. Dealers and Boxmen looked stunned but stick smoothly shoved back two of the dice and said "The point is 16 sir"

Saturday I had a nice leisurely walk to Aria had a bagel not really feeling on my game for poker.

Tournament started and I got dealt hammer in 1st BB. The addition of the Hammer Challenge led me to try to defend for the $50 prize snapped me into more focused play and also may have led to Alan calling me down when I flopped then showed down the mortal nutz two hands later, 887 flop Alan was torn on whether I had pocket 7s or was trying to win a 2nd hammer and failed to fold KK (if he had read my blog previously he would have known KK is a shit hand in tournies). It has been a while since I played live poker so sadly my hand was a bit trembly when my 87 sooooooooooted had gotten a pretty good flop.

I won a few hands early with 87s but really did not pick up a premium hand at my 1st table but had chipped up with a few steals and some connecting on flops.

I moved upstairs to 2nd table where I could check on Garth and Gnome at adjacent tables and watched Poison deliver some brutal beats accumulating a menagerie of bounties and a mountain of chips. The AJ > AQ after AQ flop sent Mattazuma searching for gnad ice. With ~45 left BuddyDank mentioned to me that team Dank and team Roach were only intact teams left. Soon after a relatively short Numbono shoved on my BB and I called thinking my KQ was sooted. I was honestly shocked to learn that they were both just black but happy when I cracked his A rag.

At this point Recess received a text "Team Roach last intact team"

I heard Joanada busted next and checked quickly on Garth and Gnome. Gnome had previously been around 6k but had closer to 100k as we broke, I was around 30k and Garth was still healthy at 18k which was a little above average at time.

Garth busted about 40th and took his fanboy self over to Craftsteak for a Kobe beef feast while Gnome and I ground forward. CJ came by and mentioned to Poison that Gnome or I had to go for her team to have a chance at the Last Longer so I could not raise her monstrous stack nor armada of bounties off a hand, but did accumulate a few chips against shorties jamming my blinds.

Have no idea who the bust out was that prompted CJ to come over and congratulate Gnome and I on our repeat last longer. We did quickly agree Garth should have trophy. Soon after MiamiDon did make comment that Gnome and I would play soft against each other sadly I may have made a strategic mistake by informing him we had already been paid.

I also remember little from the ~ 3 levels it took to get from 12 to 11 to finally 9.

The dynamic of 4 teams still being in contention for 2nd and 3rd brought roaching to new heights at other table as well as staggering number of shortie river saves.

Final table brought an unfortunate A-rag loss to Drizz' JJ, Buddy's A-rag rivering me after I made a 4:1 call and Dawn 4 flushing me out on river when she was a must call BB.

Lessons learned from tourney are I like Aria poker room and although many thought wine bottle was cool bounty, not everyone likes red wine.

Grats to Miami Don for making field I left behind say 'no mas' and declare him winner.

WPBT Eve

2010-12-08T16:39:00.000-08:00

see more Very Demotivational

Waffles sent me a link to poster above, I think he wanted to plant an idea in some random bloggers minds.

Recess Rampage has bailed on Team Roach so Gnome and I are looking for a 3rd to collect easy money with us in tourney.

Gnome arrives in Las Vegas 1st so will be point of contact to join.

My 1st KK fold pre-flop

2010-12-05T20:27:00.001-08:00

Steeler's saved me or screwed me over as Troy Polamalu forced fumble when sacking Flacco I looked away and did not see I was dealt KK. I had a little time on timer when I noticed so attempted raise. But apparently my reflexes have slowed introducing a 2nd definition for a "Lightning Fold".

Married a long time

2010-12-04T23:04:00.000-08:00

Took wife and demon child out to Plumed Horse for 17th anniversary.

Assistant manager at apartment complex made suggestion and it was across street from La Fondue which LJ had suggested previously.

We splurged and went with the chef's tasting menu for all of us. I was the only one that included the wine pairing.

Ahi Tuna Tartare
Tsar Nicoulai caviar, quail egg, brioche toast
NV Domaine chandon "Etloile" Rose, Napa- Sonoma

Black Pepper & Parmesan Souffle
Uni & Dungeness crab fondue
2008 South Coast Winery "GVR" Temecula, California

Seared Artisan Foie Gras
spicy molasses peanuts, Asian pear & vanilla gastrique
2007 Schloss-Shonborn "Nusbrunnen" Kabinett Riesling, Rheingau

Lobster Risotto with White Truffles

This was an add on course to normal tasting menu, I think white truffles retail for same price as cocaine.

Alaskan Black Cod
duck confit, Matsutaki mushroom, watercress
1998 Gevrey-Chambertin, Domaine Rene LeClerc, France

Mishima Ranch Kobe Beef
braised rutabaga, oxtail croquette
2006 Ridge "Santa Cruz Mountain" Cabernet Sauvignon-Merlot

Point Reyes Blue Cheese
pear mostarda, "graham cracker"
2007 Inniskillin Cabernet France "IceWine", Niagara Peninsula

Valrhona Chocolate Souffle
Conrado Farms fig creme anglaise
1977 Dow's Vintage Port, Portugal

Dinner took 3 hours and was quite tasty but to be honest I would not say no to a sandwich right now.

My takeaways from evening:

Daughter is high maintenance her response to her mothers suggestion she not go after truffles, caviar or Foie Gras in future was "If he doesn't have enough money for bill he can do dishes and I'll call Daddy for ride home", thankfully she thought rather than having me pay to bail date out of dishes "It is up to his daddy to get him out of dishwashing".

Wife's driving is rusty, some of our acceleration/braking sequences at lights was jarring. I need to either drink more or less.

WTF did this meal do to my blood glucose??? Should wait 25 minutes to take a reading.

John Gruden is a Genius

2010-11-29T19:52:00.000-08:00

During Monday Night Football as they were speculating about a team with worse record than 2008 Chargers winning NFC West Gruden said Commissioner should step in and change the rules if a 7-9 (or worse) team won the West.

Tampa goes 10-7 (4-0) against West shouldn't they go to playoffs instead of NFC West Winner.

Jaws thought one of the NFC West teams would get hot and get to 8-8 making issue moot.

I would not want my neighbors to know I think Jaws is right, 7 teams in NFC have 2 more wins than current NFC West leader, denying one the playoffs okay but 2 absurd.

w00t Weekend

2010-11-19T13:03:00.000-08:00

11 months after initial failure wife finally took written driving test and got her license back!

Marking time

2010-11-15T16:52:00.000-08:00

Las Vegas is still 3 weeks away.

My project manager at work is just relentless about pushing to get things done sooner so latest date for my board to be delivered to Cisco is December 9th instead of the December 15th date I was working towards this morning.

I have not checked to see if they have planned to deliver my board to Harrahs instead.

Poker front I just grind cheap Rush PLO enough to keep my "IronMan" status active. I am probably annoying people as I have found I prefer rat holing over building up a big stack only to get runnered after I get all in on flop or jammed by a flush draw with 1 to come.

Movember front I am 10 days into effort. Currently moustache is half red and half gray.

Diabetes front had to go for a blood test today, have to wait until Friday for results. I am sure I have not had a meal where I really blew out the carb budget. Belief is I have not exceeded the carbs limit in a meal but if I have it is on order of one serving. I guess the numbers will give an indication if I am correct.

I had better weekend than Cowboys

2010-11-08T11:25:00.000-08:00

We threw Demon Child a small "Sweet 16" party this weekend at Left Bank. Wife was manic the last week as she completed planning and preparation. Demon had involvement in selecting menu but was not aware of many of the details, the carefully prepared table centerpieces (Tall candy jars with Eiffel Tower Chocolate lollipops), the balloons, that a few of the apartment neighbors were invited. Demon's BFF showed up but 2 other friends ended up bailing on her. Sunday noon-ish, day of fall back parties may not be the best idea. Demon did tell her Mom it was "best birthday ever" so overall a success.

Saturday to help wife prepare I had to take Demon to Los Gatos for her "teen facial", I so love sitting around in a spa on a Saturday. Afterwards we went to local Wells Fargo to deposit a birthday check from the grandparents.

We learned Demon is too old to continue to have her current savings account (with no fees). Demon now has a new savings account and checking account. This week she receives her ATM/Debit card in the mail.

Kid is downright giddy about this. After I got over my initial shock I decided it was a good thing.

Demon can make deposits and check balance at ATM but can't make withdrawals. She can use for point of sale transactions and I got to set a limit on transactions and she can not overdraft.

Wife thinks I overdid it with the limit as I went for $100 rather than $20 that bank person said was standard starting point. Problem was if kid wants to shop for clothes $20 is useless and I don't want a call to approve a bigger purchase. $50 bills are bad luck so I went for the $100. I think kid has deep pockets and short arms so it will be interesting Christmas season to see what happens to her savings.

Poker wise I have just been grinding Rush PLO cash. Yesterday after the party I was watching early football on DVR and playing some $25 Rush. I flopped trips out of the blinds twice against AA where I quickly checked flop. I turned 4 of a kind and led out turn and got 2 callers and managed to get stack in on river against AA tard twice. I think key was I was paying so much attention to football that flop check was quick. Other key of course is people overplay AA in PLO all the time.

Demon's final present arrives today. #65 49er's jersey. She does know it is coming and it was her that selected the number.

It was interesting NFL day, Wade Phillips got to coach 2nd half of Cowboy's game, Childress is still a coach. I am a little disappointed Buc's lost to Falcons because they never ran a play for Freeman on after they got in Red Zone in 4th. Leading 6 4th quarter comeback victories in 16 NFL starts I would have thought he has ball in his hand once? Post game press conferences he always looks like he is teenager being forced to wear a suit but he may have that knack for "clutch". Bucs could easily be 1-7 instead of 5-3 with their low payroll, youth and 14 rookies on roster. I think it is good that I am a little disappointed, expectations are rising.

A sad Day in Football

2010-11-05T17:28:00.000-07:00

Defending Champion Georgia Tech was dominating Virginia Tech.

The on 3rd down in field goal range Josh Nesbitt tried to squeeze a ball into coverage and broke his right arm trying to make the tackle ending his season.

I think he finishes his career at #3 on my all time favorite Georgia Tech QBs list:

1 Sean Jones

2. Joe Hamilton

3. Josh Nesbitt

4. Scott (never actually dressed but was manager on team that was told he was emergency 3rd string QB for a game my freshmen year after 5? other QBs were injured.

LAST Reggie Ball

It will be interesting to see how Johnson's offense works with another QB. Nesbitt was especially gifted at option for a QB even more so considering he was a spread offense QB in high school.

GT's 2nd string QB just looked awkward running ball last night.

Happy Birthday

2010-11-03T22:40:00.000-07:00

The Demon Child turns 16 today.

Thank God she has no interest in driving.

A quick duggles ripoff

2010-11-02T17:33:00.000-07:00

Get out and Vote

2010-11-02T11:35:00.000-07:00

I will now also offer my guide to how to vote:

1) Vote against bond issues - If they need something done figure out how to pay for it rather than agreeing to pay a lot more later without knowing how.

2) If in doubt vote NO on propositions. I do vote YES at times but for the most part propositions tie the hands of elected officials and California is already screwed over by past propositions.

3) If you are happy with how a part of government is doing re-elect the incumbent, otherwise vote them out.

Demon child's school is doing well despite limited money/student School Board is re-elected.

State Assembly - you are out

Brown, Whitman, Carly and Boxer - I am sick of your commercials, I decided to vote based on which one of you last showed a positive message about what you planned to do rather than a negative ad about your opponent. I am mainly pleased you will stop clogging the airwaves as I doubt whichever candidates win will do jack shit.

So Typical

2010-11-01T19:47:00.000-07:00

A weekend of rare events

2010-11-01T14:37:00.000-07:00

This weekend Demon Child (who turns 16 this week) and I dropped my wife off to shop and went to the gym together. After she finished Smoothie to carbo load for her workout she visited me by the Nautilus machines and was impressed by the amount of weight I had dialed the machine too.

I don't remember last time kid showed that she was impressed by anything.

She then went to her favorite Trainer to burn off calories from smoothie. After I got done with a string of Nautilus machines I tried the AMT next to demon, I don't know how adaptive the trainer is to my motion as I always feel like I am on the verge of being thrown off.

Sunday a greater rarity happened. In Super Turbo KO someone folded to a reraise. I can produce hand history if required. It was 30/60 blinds and EP raised to 180 and I looking at KK chose to jam for ~700 rather than folding the hand of death. Much to my surprise EP with >2k behind folded.

In the not so rare category Waffles lost to Josie to move to break even in their NFL pix bet.

Neither one saw fit to publish their pathetic score.

2010-10-26T22:01:00.001-07:00

I can follow the graph and know I left house to catch trolley at 8, trolley ride lasted around 6 minutes then a short walk to office arriving at 9. I can also see when I left cube to go to lab or next building for lunch and what time I walked home for my bigger exercise burst at end of day.

What I can't tell is precise time I tilted Josie, what I am sure of is waffles gets no bar food so he is drinking on an empty stomach.

Monday Observations

2010-10-25T11:37:00.000-07:00

Waffles would win a bet with Josie (don't know if it is just drinks or more is involved) if Giants win tonight. I would have previously thought that I should bet everything I have on Cowboys tonight, but I am still trying to wrap my head around how did we not have the Vikings win last night setting up the tie scenario which was biggest loss scenario in waffle's world.

Grats to LJ for another big score.

On poker front I played enough PLO cash two tabling to collect $25 bonus the last 10 days but did not play much more than required.

My newly diagnosed diabetes has shifted my focus away from poker.

Fortunately the apartment has a decent gym for me to do back, chest and arms exercise as I am trying to lift each day to get my muscles to remove more glucose from my bloodstream. Each weekend I have been going to my local 24 Hour Fitness to work my legs. I overdid it a bit as going upstairs is painful and traveling downstairs is brutal.

Family had a nice dinner at the Chakos last night. It was enjoyable watching game with a Favre fan and a Packer fan and also good test to see if I could adhere to my new carbohydrate restrictions.

I am not sure how well Las Vegas will work if I can't consume Sam Adams (18g/12 oz), Miller Lite and Michelob Ultra just don't appeal to me. At least bourbon has no carbs so I may be able to adjust but in all likelihood if I seem passed out at WPBT someone should get me an apple juice or an orange juice.

Congrats to Populous

2010-10-19T23:06:00.000-07:00

Populous is the architectural firm that designed the New Yankee Stadium. They did a magnificent job in designing for a speedy exit as the fair weather fans leave each ALCS game bitterly disappointed.

Bravo.

Poker Play is still very light but could not pass up Full Tilts Take 2 promotion. 5 points/day multi-tabling (2 counts) takes no time even at .1/.25 seems trivial. Crossed the $5 threshold now need 4 more days for the next $20.

Work is consuming a lot of time, apparently at new job getting "ping" through the system is huge. It does mean data path is working so we are 1 step close to bringing poker, facebook and porn to the masses at higher bandwidth.

106 left, 90 paid, I think calling button jam from small blind with TT is correct move.

I would promise to post results of hand tomorrow after everyone has a chance to comment.

But after 30 minutes I still had not connected so went to bed.

Bruins Victory

2010-10-15T23:38:00.000-07:00

Demon Child's Homecoming was tonight. The "mighty" Santa Clara Bruins and Monte Vista Matadors put on a delay of offensive ineptitude for 3 quarters that was painful to watch. The only time either team moved the ball was the Matadors completed a long pass when one WR had ball bounce off his hands but another Matador wide receiver caught the ball ~3 yards away. I don't recall saying many plays designed that put 2 WR that close together 30 yards downfield.

Trailing 3-0 Santa Clara put together a decent touch down drive and on their next possession drove down to 1st and down at 6. After gaining 2 yards on 3 plays coach decided to go for it on 4th down with 4 minutes left. Can't imagine what thinking was the kicker had put extra point dead center early in 4th.

Monte Vista had a nice 90 yard drive but stalled in final minutes preventing a crushed demon child and preserving a Santa Clara victory.

New Prioities

2010-10-13T13:09:00.000-07:00

I recently read that Lightning is going to get healthier.

If an old man like lightbulb can start exercising I can too, especially since I get more temperate weather.

Now I just need wife to not sabotage by being all whiny when I won't give her a ride to doctor's office for blood test because I want to walk to trolley stop. I did offer to walk with her to office before work as it is only about quarter mile from my usual trolley stop at 2nd stop.

If she really wanted to take car she should have gotten made a 2nd attempt to pass written driving test.

Poker play should drop off as I sacrifice it to exercise, but I am getting tired of having gut shot draws shove on flop and get there against me anyways.

My High School Reunion

2010-10-07T14:04:00.000-07:00

Between Dad working at IBM and then changing jobs every few years I went to 3 elementary Schools, 2 Jr High Schools and 2 High Schools, lived in North Carolina, Maryland, Florida and Massachusetts during that span.

Westford Academy Class of 1980 is holding it's 30th Reunion this weekend.

I only spent 2.5 years there and spent 1st 5 months adjusting to the cold as moving from Orlando in Dec 1977 to enjoy some of the biggest snowfalls Massachusetts had seen in February 1978 did not prompt me to go outside. Eventually I did start playing Hockey on local pond but I had no skates (nor ability to skate) which limited me to playing goalie. My only other activities were the Chess Team and the 'Math Team' so I only really met a few people because I was still bummed to have moved away from another set of friends.

Late in my Sophmore year Mom told me that they would not be able to afford to send me to college. I started to work there the beginning of summer and through most of Jr. year, worked at a gas station 4-11 Friday, 8-8 Saturday and 8 until closing Sunday in an effort to save money on my own for college. I did get to know a few more people but not many and I was always too nasty to go directly out on Saturday and was really too tired after getting cleaned up at home.

Sr year I decided to try to get ROTC scholarship so went on Scarsdale diet (dropping 40 lbs) which I had gained since leaving Florida. I decided to apply to Georgia Tech (because Uncle Jerry went there and application was free), I was accepted couple of weeks after I mailed application so I only ended up applying to a few other schools as Georgia Tech out of state was cheaper than U Mass in state. January of Sr year Dad changed jobs and was working in Virginia and coming to Mass ~every 2 weeks. Knowing I would soon be moving away again and going to school even further away I wasn't anti-social but was pretty sure I would not be seeing most of my classmates any time soon.

It is really strange to me that I am as saddened as I am that I am not going to reunion. When I reflect back on it there were maybe 20 people in my graduating class and another 10 from other years that I spent any time with. I have a bad habit of starting a new job a few months before milestone reunions so I have little vacation time and board I designed is not quite functioning well enough for me to take the days off required to fly cross country.

There are a few people I would like to see again and a few that I honestly know more from Facebook than my time in Westford that I would like to see.

I am wasting another opportunity to connect with people who have something in common.

Hopefully I'll make the next one.

Cousin Hugh

2010-09-28T09:34:00.000-07:00

My Uncle Bobby got married for the 2nd time this past weekend. He is only 9 years older than me as my Mom was oldest of 4 children with Bobby being the youngest and probably a surprise late addition.

Bobby's 1st marriage lasted ~25 years but I didn't meet 1st wife until couple of years before divorce because he never told anyone in family that he was married (nor did we know his address)

Dysfunctional is a word I understand too well.

Bobby did have a son from 1st marriage who my sister and Mom met for the 1st time this weekend.

My Mom sent me a picture attached to an email:

"There are two pictures in the batch that are your cousin, Hugh. He is 29 years old. Jackie is the bride's name. I thought I had Jessica and Angela and Cyndi in one picture, but it came up blank.

Mom"

Make me wonder a little about my Mom's computer savvy, but Hugh did wear a nice pair of boots to his dad's wedding.

Week 1 wrap up

2010-09-13T22:28:00.000-07:00

My conclusions from the weekend:

1.) Georgia Tech has to get better on defense if they want winning record this year.

2.) Being able to complete a few passes would also be helpful.

3.) James Madison just did a number on Boise State making BCS Championship.

4.) NY Jets and Dallas Cowboys can cancel previously announced Super Bowl parades.

5.) AFC West and NFC West are still worst 2 divisions.

6.) Red Zone Channel still a godsend when local stations have shitty games.

7.) Week 1 had a lot of shitty games.

Most importantly Calvin Johnson caught that ball, Detroit was robbed.

I am in 4 fantasy football leagues and have Calvin in the 2 priciest ones.

Hoy made a good point, I ended up watching a shitty Redskins-Cowboys game, a less adept Jets Ravens battle and Chiefs-Chargers which main redeemable feature was watching KC rookie kick returners all as I sweated out fantasy results.

4-0 finish is nice but now I have to look for replacement QBs for one squad.

Thank You PokerStars!

2010-09-09T18:46:00.000-07:00

Nice work by CJ in arranging for PokerStars to pony up some more money, with 2nd and 3rd places seeing increase rest of you have more to play for!

Now mission is to get Recess and Gnome back on board to balance out my mantle.

Monday

2010-08-30T18:30:00.000-07:00

I started Monday pretty excited.

Got to watch the news and hear that Paris Hilton got busted for possession of cocaine because while dude driving was stopped she reached into purse and accidentally spilled vial of cocaine into plain sight of officer. All because she needed lip balm. Question I have is: "If it wasn't your purse Paris then why the fuck were you reaching for lip balm?"

I got to go to my 1st Business Unit meeting as an employee, it is sort of nice to see why they are pushing so many projects through engineering at once from a how they feel it fits in network vision.

Wife was kind enough to call frantically right at the tail end of the meeting, I intentionally did not cancel health insurance policy yet as I wanted to make sure I had the Anthem/Blue Cross proof of coverage before I backdated cancelled Kaiser and moved on the the employer coverage provided by Cisco. One lesson learned from working for a Canadian company is they don't know shit about US Health Insurance differences, and apparently think bills can be paid with apologies when they forget to pay vacation or reimburse for individual health insurance.

My 1st fantasy football draft is about to start, I woke up this morning in a 10 team league and now I have the 12th pick.

Hoy claims to run bad but he'd be hard pressed to top that!

Small Ball Poker

2010-08-24T23:35:00.000-07:00

I recently noticed that I have not had to use my FullTilt points on tourney entries to replenish bankroll and had creeped up to quantity to get ipod (Nano 8G).

I also observed a few time periods of double points for rush poker as well as 'late night' double points 8-10 Pacific.

After careful consideration I think I prefer 8G ipod Touch at 45k points over 16G ipod Nano at 41k points.

Since Friday night I have gotten in 5k hands of rush PLO, cranked out 6k points once you factor in bonus and probably rarned $150 in rake back. Now I have to figure out a few things.

1) Am I better off buying ipod from local Crapple store with rakeback cash?

2) How many value bets am I missing on river to have the disparity I have in showdown winnings vs. pots w/o showdon?

3) Is real problem calling too much pre-flop or after turn ith speculative hands?

Other financial matter to figure out is Cisco's 401k provider allows me to set different contribution percentage for bonus vs. salary.

Would I rather set % same for both or set salary % to 5% to collect matching 4.5% and bonus contribution to 35-70% to hit yearly ceiling as they seem to provide information on what bonus gross will be a month before payout?

1st Week Draws to close

2010-08-20T15:16:00.000-07:00

I am happier at my new job than this guy.

My thinking when I left Petaluma in 2006 was that:

1) I was going to work as an engineer until I retired.

2) When I gave up on start-ups I would work at Cisco or Google.

With start of 1st college football season without Bobby Bowden on sidelines I am reminded that I think it was Bear, JoePa or Bowden that said there is only one milestone left in life after retirement.

I sort of feel I am down to two milestones left.

"Jimmy you are such an asshole"

2010-08-09T20:39:00.000-07:00

I had a 10:00 wake up call but woke up at 6:30 this morning. Dude sharing room next door with Jimmy was not pleased that he could not get into room because Jimmy had thrown the brass lock.

10 minutes of escalating frustration door banging and profanity. I looked through peephole first and saw he had 2 girls in official Vegas uniform (little black dress) and at that point was not sure if Jimmy was passed out or seen the friend whose personality could not have been good enough to compensate. I am getting old and decided rather than confront to just call the front desk to get someone sent up to help these clowns.

Sunday night I played 'Rapid Craps' at Bill's Gambling Saloon.

14 chairs playing online craps except the dice and roll are traditional.

Casino advantage is that only took one guy to run a craps table has he has stick to pass dice and enters roll into his screen and he takes chips to enter starting amount and pays you out in chips at end. New craps players can figure out betting on their own time.

Player advantage is no clowns get their hands in to interfere with dice and it was $3 table where $3.60 place on 6/8 paid $4.20 but flow was neither rapid nor generated excitement.

Overall trip was awesome as Paul was rolling 4s and 9s at a way more than expected pace and I managed to cash big time as he went on a 6 4s in 7 rolls tear at Hard Rock when I also managed to start with $25 on 4.

Never did see or hear Jimmy he might not be the asshole.

It's not you it's me

2010-07-31T20:30:00.000-07:00

I am 'changing' jobs but not cubes.

I have no idea if design services firm end game plan was me consulting at Cisco when they hired me. But I have now set a new record for shortest job tenure at 11 months. Since 3.5 months were mile down the street and last 7 months were in Cisco building I don't think it will reflect badly on resume. I just got returned to my old working environment and did well enough that Cisco and I decided to split up the money that used to go through two middlemen.

Old CEO is taking it quite personally that I am leaving but I am guessing people don't change jobs as easily in Ottawa as happens in Bay Area. My favorite line from meeting where he made counter offer was "If you had asked for money I would have given you raise", this is same CEO that called me at 5:30 am on an April Saturday morning and asked "Are you busy? Dave isn't here yet to take me to airport". I was still groggy so did not really have time to generate good response before I was interrupted due to Dave's arrival wherever CEO was.

I discussed counter offer with wife enough to get help with explaining situation to CEO. Her first suggestion was "we can still be friends", I countered with "It's not you it's me". She had already approved my letter of resignation as being good for not burning bridges, my direct boss Dave took it rather well, especially considering he takes a commission hit when I leave as well. But he knows the health insurance jerk around we have been dealing with the last 4 months has pissed me off and there was always a risk putting me back in work environment that I had been comfortable in for 20 years.

I now have 4 job departures in under 18 months on the resume, only other time I left a job voluntarily I was there 13 years. My average is really looking bad, but I think this latest stint is easily explainable and want to keep this job a while.

I do head to Las Vegas Thursday with some old co-workers but I am left wondering HTF did we end up going during a Star Trek convention. Would not have known except my cousin lamented not going on her facebook status.

Happy Spewsday

2010-07-26T23:45:00.000-07:00

Tonight is the inaugural Tuesday Spewday tournament hosted by LJ.

Tournament #174055893 07.27.10 21:00 ET - 3000 chips
Tournament #174065188 07.27.10 21:15 ET - Super Turbo KO

password is spewday

Garden City Live Poker

2010-07-21T14:27:00.000-07:00

$3/$6 Limit can have only 2 possible outcomes:

1) Slowly bleeding money as house takes $5 rake out of any pot with flop.

2) Hemorrhaging money in few hands as one of 6 people calling pre-flop capped action rivers his non-Ace high, non paint high flush.

It was amusingly bad but you have to hit hands early and get up before rake chews you up. My peak was ahead $75 after my turned boat held up against rivered flush that 2 people chased.

Ethics in investing

2010-07-12T21:20:00.000-07:00

Having read BP was hopeful that cap being placed earlier today would be able to contain oil and it being options expiration week I decided to make a small "investment" that they would be successful and stock would pop this week.

Strike price being $38 and cost being 68 cents it seemed like they will jump to $40 if cap is success and at 33% break even prop.

Real question is when will Congress pass UISEC if this shit is legal and online poker is not?

My bankroll management rules are much stricter than my poker so this is a sub 1% play but will make news more interesting this week.

"Math is Stupid"

2010-07-08T15:36:00.000-07:00

sirfwalgman: math is stupid
sirfwalgman: "I have two children, one is a boy who prefers the colour Red. What is the probability I have two boys".

As we know, without the modifier, the probability is 1/3*

BB
BG
GB
sirfwalgman: it's 50/50 that your other kid is a boy period right?
sirfwalgman: and whats the difference between BG and GB
Me: it is 5050 that you have 1 boy if 1 child
Me: it is also 50/50 2nd child is boy
Me: it is the classic Let's Make a deal Monty Hall problem
sirfwalgman: not according to moronic statistics people
Me: dude
sirfwalgman: I am currently idle.
sirfwalgman: ya
Me: you fail to understanbd either problem
sirfwalgman: aparently
Me: if you have 2 children it is 25 % you will have 2 girls, 25% you will have 2 boys
Me: and 50% you have one of each
Me: do we agree?
sirfwalgman: i said that
Me: If child is already born than you have case where questioner intentionally picked boy
Me: so there are 3 cases available
Me: and 2 of the cases other child is girl
Me: but probability of future child being boy is 50/50
Me: because questioner has no control
I spend a little too much of my time each day trying to explain probabilities to waffles.

Probability from work yesterday:

Project manager came back from his vacation yesterday.

Odds of him applying pressure on slowest part of project when he returned is obviously 100%

(Similar odds of me missing VeryJosie and Mookie also 100%)

One of task was to help newest member of project team get the 10 people who have to approve a board being ready for build to sign off.

I was assigned 4 names randomly, 2 other people got 3 names.

Half of the 10 people had already approved.

What were the odds my 4 randomly assigned people had already approved?

Waffles don't even waste your time answering.

4th Of July

2010-07-05T14:39:00.000-07:00

Would Coney Island Hot Dog eating contest have been worth watching if police had tased Kabayashi?

4 day weekend was awesome as wife and kid let me nap like a madman. Feel so recharged.

Even the Yankees got me a Birthday Present

2010-06-30T14:30:00.000-07:00

I heard an awesome story on Jim Rome this morning which led me to this.

Hate the Yankees, hate cell phone zombies, win win.

Impacts of Isner v Mahut

2010-06-24T13:47:00.000-07:00

The Demon Child is a big tennis fan and she loves Nadal. She has limited interest in playing mostly due to depth perception issues make it difficult for her to return ball.

Yesterday wife asked her to do her one common are chore to load the dishwasher. She was granted a delay in that she was allowed to wait until 'the end of the tennis match she was watching'.

She clutched onto that loophole overnight but she better have gotten off the couch and done the dishes before I get home.

Years from now we will probably have forgotten who won Wimbledon this year but Isner and Mahut will be remembered. It was epic tennis but both players need to work on their return games before I would call this match good tennis. Did they have fewer than 10 break points between them over 138 games?

(Former $4k) PLO Vicory

2010-06-15T23:45:00.000-07:00

Now time for bed

Nothng

2010-06-09T23:35:00.000-07:00

Long Day at work

Car needs a new battery

Forgetting no car equals trolley ride home

Weak blog post and limited poker time.

I want to go to Las Vegas during WSOP but project may not give time.

Poolside adventures

2010-05-31T16:16:00.000-07:00

Some of the former residents came back to visit for a poolside Memorial Day celebration. Good food, wine amusing conversation and a lot of little kids. Deepest part of pool is 4 feet so I check on demon child every now and then but am not too worried as she can stand to get out of trouble.

One of the three year olds managed to talk his father into letting him take his flotation assist vest off as he was playing outside of the pool and fell into pool with out any of the parents noticing. Parents did hear his screaming and crying once the demon child lifted him out of the water. He explained to his mom that "daddy let him take off vest" and "he was chasing ball when he fell into pool". Husband is short so he can fit on standard couch. Demon child explained he was giving a good effort treading water but he was not able to keep head above so she helped him out.

Now there is no convincing neighbors demon child is evil

Monday Thoughts

2010-05-24T14:47:00.000-07:00

I saw today an LA court has ordered Lindsay Lohan to wear an alcohol monitoring bracelet.

I don't care whether Lindsay is drinking or not but it opened my mind to the possibilities for the next winter gathering.

Bloggers issued ankle bracelets and wagering through (Venetian?) sportsbook on alcohol consumption over the gathering.

Obviously Al would be the favorite for average BAC for a 72 hour time frame but others could sneak in for highest peak BAC.

Saturday I played in a small tournament amongst former co-workers where half the entry fee went to the American Cancer Society.

I managed to chip up early with some well placed OBFVs and one river suckout when I forgot that people don't fold even when they have Ac3c on QhQdJh flop for their tourney life.

150/300 blinds ep limped shorty jammed for 1150, I looking at AQs decided to reraise to isolate and ep called for 2k more holding 22. Shorty had QQ and hit a Q on flop with 2 clubs and turn and river were also clubs rewarding the terribad play holding the 2c.

Listening to him explain for 3 hands why his call was a good play was annoying but thankfully his next terribad play was punished. I was completely card dead at the final table and managed to miss a ton of outs when my KcQ could not run down A2 on AcQc4c flop BvB to bust 2 short of money. Saving grace of the turn was it was 1 rebuy, 1 add on bounty tourney where you collected bounty for stacking even if player added on.

I had told weak tightest player I know "Mess with the bull, get the horns" and managed to collect his bounty chip twice getting 2nd as rebuy period ended. He was allowed to add-on but refused when it did not come with a table change.

This sums it up

2010-05-11T21:35:00.000-07:00

Full Tilt Poker Game #20771023210: $10 + $0.50 Sit&Go (Sup Turbo) (159829461), Table 1 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:31:02 ET - 2010/05/12

Seat 2: beercat48 (270)

Seat 3: nowhere2be (190)

Seat 5: bayne_s (225)

Seat 6: GbjAndyS (245)

Seat 8: Knoclore (1,435)

Seat 9: BrothaZino (335)

GbjAndyS posts the small blind of 25

Knoclore posts the big blind of 50

The button is in seat #5

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [Ah Ac]

BrothaZino folds

beercat48 folds

nowhere2be folds

bayne_s raises to 225, and is all in

GbjAndyS folds

Knoclore calls 175

bayne_s shows [Ah Ac]

Knoclore shows [Th Tc]

*** FLOP *** [Ts Td Kd]

*** TURN *** [Ts Td Kd] [6d]

*** RIVER *** [Ts Td Kd 6d] [As]

bayne_s shows a full house, Aces full of Tens

Knoclore shows four of a kind, Tens

Knoclore wins the pot (475) with four of a kind, Tens

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 475 | Rake 0

Board: [Ts Td Kd 6d As]

Seat 2: beercat48 didn't bet (folded)

Seat 3: nowhere2be didn't bet (folded)

Seat 5: bayne_s (button) showed [Ah Ac] and lost with a full house, Aces full of Tens

Seat 6: GbjAndyS (small blind) folded before the Flop

Seat 8: Knoclore (big blind) showed [Th Tc] and won (475) with four of a kind, Tens

Seat 9: BrothaZino didn't bet (folded)

BB in SuperTurbo has to call with TT but this hand really sums up how I feel I am running right now.

Monday ran into MP jackAce snap callers with KK and TT and lost to exit Rush Super Turbo KO and Poker from the rail.

I doubt anyone willing to call off a stack with flush draw or gutter has missed calling all in on turn and I can't hit a combo wrap + flush draw against an over pair in PLO.

Fund Raiser

2010-05-08T00:24:00.001-07:00

We all read about his train wreck life.

But let's face facts, it transitioned from entertaining to pathetic long ago.

The pretense is he does not want two kids that have inherited half their DNA and been raised in the family environment that is waffles world to "suffer".

At this point I am wondering if Nick will be claimed as a dependent on Waffle's 2020 taxes???

We can continue to let this pathetic excuse for a man continue as Nick and Michelle's doormat or you can send me $100 and receive your very own

doormat. All monies in excess of cost and shipping will go toward rent for waffle's 1st apartment.

At least we can get him out of the house until his wife stops giving him money from his paycheck and his sorry self gets evicted. If apartment is sufficiently distant from his house it could take months for him to walk back to the house. More likely one of his children is old enough to drive and give him a ride back to the house in their car before he mans up and moves.

Happy Mother's Day

2010-05-07T22:04:00.000-07:00

Rather than having a dead stack blinding out Al was kind enough to remove me from BBT Invitational on Sunday.

I will be taking my Wife to the Rocky Point Restaurant for Mother's Day. She loves to be near ocean and deserves more credit for how demon child has turned out than I deserve. Despite child's ability to torment me she is pretty good kid. Since I am engineer and generally unaware of subtlety wife was kind enough to tell me she wanted to dine by the ocean on Mother's Day and child was kind enough to text me to make reservations.

I will figure out tomorrow what to send to my Mom. I believe she made an effort to be as good a Mom as she was capable of being and she did create a better environment than what she had. I wish I had 'normal' feelings towards my parents.

Instead Raul Julia as Carlos in Tequila Sunrise said it best:

"You son of a bitch! How could you do this? Friendship is the only choice in life you can make that's yours! You can't choose your family! Goddamn it, I've had to face that! No man should be judged for whatever direction his dick goes! That's like blaming a compass for pointing north, for Chrissake! Friendship is all we have."

Hope my friends have a Happy Mother's Day!

MOOKIE NIGHT

2010-05-05T09:58:00.001-07:00

7 pm Pacific

Password: Vegas1

Work Explained

2010-05-03T22:03:00.000-07:00

I missed the Poker from the Rail Tournament for the 2nd straight week while working on a small piece of the router above. Unlike smaller companies I have worked for the marketing group at Cisco offers an extensive explanation. I have no idea why the box the size of a dorm fridge needs to have the capacity to carry HD movie to every home in Los Angeles.

I prefer to think of goal as we can deliver the porn to waffles faster than he can pleasure himself.

0/2 this week

2010-04-28T23:00:00.000-07:00

Pushing up against project milestones sucks!

I have managed to get home from work in 8-9 range each day this week but positive of being a contractor means direct accumulation of extra money or vacation time. Had to opt for extra vacation time just in case I can get through the minefield poker has become and win Main Event Seat.

I watched a bit of the Mookie and saw 2 chipleaders flipping with ~12 left for ~60 BBs each.

I am just amazed that 22-66 will be re-raisng or jamming when set mining odds are still available.

It is like the super-turbo play has spread everywhere,

Man Card

2010-04-25T15:25:00.000-07:00

Weekend Movie Review

Wife and daughter dragged me to "The Backup Plan" yesterday.

1) I feel I need to hand in my Man card but don't know where to turn it in.

2) I wish I had gotten more popcorn instead of watching one scene. Not to provide spoiler but if you see lady with a drum it is a good time for a bathroom break, top off soda or popcorn refill.

While drinking Friday night I was mainly playing low level steps, in step 0 top 30 receive a Step 1 ticket. I am 26th in chips with 31 left when this hand starts.

Full Tilt p0ker Game #20311796932: Step 0 (Super Turbo) (156028414), Table 7 - 200/400 - No Limit Hold'em - 1:41:51 ET - 2010/04/24
Seat 1: fahreneit (1,140), is sitting out
Seat 2: snobrega10 (872)
Seat 3: Loggjaw (390)
Seat 4: bayne_s (290)
Seat 5: isonusaf (4,810)
Seat 6: elsololobo02 (1,446)
Seat 7: JHinderheel (620)
Seat 8: BackdoorFishy (360), is sitting out
bayne_s posts the small blind of 200
isonusaf posts the big blind of 400
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Ah Ad]
elsololobo02 raises to 1,446, and is all in
JHinderheel folds
BackdoorFishy folds
fahreneit folds
snobrega10 has been disconnected
snobrega10 has reconnected
snobrega10 has 15 seconds left to act
snobrega10 folds
Loggjaw folds
bayne_s has 15 seconds left to act

I looked at standing there is 31st stack has 60 chips
I think I am supposed to fold

I think since I am in SB I am supposed to fold even without considering the 60 chip dude.

bayne_s calls 90, and is all in

I am lacking in discipline.

isonusaf folds
elsololobo02 shows [Kd Ac]
bayne_s shows [Ah Ad]
Uncalled bet of 1,046 returned to elsololobo02
*** FLOP *** [6s 9c 5d]
*** TURN *** [6s 9c 5d] [4c]
*** RIVER *** [6s 9c 5d 4c] [7s]
elsololobo02 wins the side pot (220)
elsololobo02 shows Ace King high
bayne_s shows a pair of Aces
bayne_s wins the main pot (870) with a pair of Aces
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1,090 Main pot 870. Side pot 220. | Rake 0
Board: [6s 9c 5d 4c 7s]
Seat 1: fahreneit didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: snobrega10 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: Loggjaw (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: bayne_s (small blind) showed [Ah Ad] and won (870) with a pair of Aces
Seat 5: isonusaf (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: elsololobo02 showed [Kd Ac] and won (220) with Ace King high
Seat 7: JHinderheel didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: BackdoorFishy didn't bet (folded)

Tourney ended on this hand.

18% Done

2010-04-21T22:59:00.000-07:00

BBT is now 1/6 of the way complete.

Al has created a system without a leaderboard so I will create one of my own.

Douchebag of the BBT5 standings:

1. Dr Tea - Apparently made final table prop bet with xkm1245 over him not final tabling. Not only refused to pay but was still in chat box as Final Table was down to 5 spewing comments.

2. VBPro7 - Started strong, somewhat annoying but busted rather early and actually left tourney.

3. JoelPokerGod - Never actually saw him in chat. This ranking is solely based on past performance.

I made an effort to fill VB's role when he left table but my comment towards JamyHawk were weak.

I also saw VeryJosie in what I think was her first Mookie. I doubt she realized the Mookie wouldn't get to heads up until 11:20 Pacific.

It returns

2010-04-18T10:29:00.001-07:00

It returns!

The Marketing at Full Tilt Poker is still awesome.

I love that "run it twice has moved down to $1/$2 tables to reduce variance.

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [9c 8s Jc 8d]
GolfClapper folds
Jed Forest folds
Geparden raises to $7
uscnamja781 folds
bayne_s calls $5
*** FLOP *** [8h 2c 4h]
bayne_s checks
Geparden bets $15
bayne_s raises to $60
Geparden raises to $73, and is capped
bayne_s calls $13, and is capped
Players agree to Run It Twice
Geparden shows [7d 6h 8c Ad]
bayne_s shows [9c 8s Jc 8d]
*** TURN 1 *** [8h 2c 4h] [Qc]
*** RIVER 1 *** [8h 2c 4h Qc] [5d]
*** TURN 2 *** [8h 2c 4h] [Kd]
*** RIVER 2 *** [8h 2c 4h Kd] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN 1 ***
Geparden shows a straight, Eight high
bayne_s shows three of a kind, Eights
*** SHOW DOWN 2 ***
Geparden shows a straight, Eight high
bayne_s shows three of a kind, Eights
Geparden wins pot 1 ($78.50) with a straight, Eight high
Geparden wins pot 2 ($78.50) with a straight, Eight high

I hate that RNG takes a fawk you approach to my variance.

I have bad feeling BBT5 will not be like original BBT