Why would someone title their blog: How to Fold KK when they can't fold A-rag?
Full Tilt Poker Game #11337656066: The Mookie (84313722), Table 9 - 500/1000 Ante 125 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:48:53 ET - 2009/03/26
Seat 1: corron10 (5,479)
Seat 2: Shabazz Jenkins (17,277)
Seat 3: jamyhawk (43,741)
Seat 4: Breeze81 (18,773)
Seat 5: Troublecat (15,105)
Seat 7: BuddyDank (24,760)
Seat 8: bayne_s (8,812)
Seat 9: pvanharibo (8,528)
corron10 antes 125
Shabazz Jenkins antes 125
jamyhawk antes 125
Breeze81 antes 125
Troublecat antes 125
BuddyDank antes 125
bayne_s antes 125
pvanharibo antes 125
Shabazz Jenkins posts the small blind of 500
jamyhawk posts the big blind of 1,000
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Js Jh]
Breeze81 folds
Troublecat folds
BuddyDank folds
bayne_s raises to 8,687, and is all in
pvanharibo folds
corron10 folds
Shabazz Jenkins folds
jamyhawk calls 7,687
bayne_s shows [Js Jh]
jamyhawk shows [Ah Jd]
*** FLOP *** [2c As 3d]
*** TURN *** [2c As 3d] [6s]
*** RIVER *** [2c As 3d 6s] [Kh]
bayne_s shows a pair of Jacks
jamyhawk shows a pair of Aces
jamyhawk wins the pot (18,874) with a pair of Aces
bayne_s stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 18,874 Rake 0
Board: [2c As 3d 6s Kh]
Seat 1: corron10 (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: Shabazz Jenkins (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: jamyhawk (big blind) showed [Ah Jd] and won (18,874) with a pair of Aces
Seat 4: Breeze81 folded before the Flop
Seat 5: Troublecat folded before the Flop
Seat 7: BuddyDank folded before the Flop
Seat 8: bayne_s showed [Js Jh] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 9: pvanharibo folded before the Flop
Admittedly I was short of chips on this one but before table closed I saw Jamy call a BuddyDank reraise with A5 and have his play rewarded with a 55 flop to crack Buddy's AA. WTF do you think Buddy's re-raise range is?
At least I saw poker kharma at work when jamyhawk overplayed AJo into AQo and fail to luck out at Final Table. Congrats on 4th.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Brit Blogger Retardness
Last weekend I played Brit Blogger Game Heads Up, lost and chatted with Pvan later and she shared her bad beat from Brit Blogger Game. I was not HU with Pvan.
Her solution to prevent this was to search on where she was registered.
Thanks Pvan.
Real question for Al is Why the Fuck are there two tournaments with the same name running at the same fucking time?
Friday, March 20, 2009
Special Olympics
“Let me win but if I can not win let me be brave in the attempt,” is the motto of the Special Olympics.
Since Hoy issued the challenge I thought I would answer it in my own way.
129 is a pretty bad bowling score but would we rather have a leader that admits to being bad at something trivial or a leader that shoots 38 under par in his 1st round of golf?
Special Olympics comment was a candid reflexive commentary on how nice the crowd was for cheering his 129. If he chose he could point out how it was in line with the motto for the bravery of the attempt and talking about it in public.
Goverment has clearly taken position that if Americans are no longer willing to go into debt to finance economy we will do it for them and make future generations of Americans pay off debt. Carter tried to convince Americans that sacrifices had to be made for greater good, but he only served one term and no one else running for office has dared to repeat message since.
Since Hoy issued the challenge I thought I would answer it in my own way.
129 is a pretty bad bowling score but would we rather have a leader that admits to being bad at something trivial or a leader that shoots 38 under par in his 1st round of golf?
Special Olympics comment was a candid reflexive commentary on how nice the crowd was for cheering his 129. If he chose he could point out how it was in line with the motto for the bravery of the attempt and talking about it in public.
Goverment has clearly taken position that if Americans are no longer willing to go into debt to finance economy we will do it for them and make future generations of Americans pay off debt. Carter tried to convince Americans that sacrifices had to be made for greater good, but he only served one term and no one else running for office has dared to repeat message since.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Temporary Unpaid Leave Ends
I was running well in Mookie, had built up a decent stack. Stupid gmail popped up:
Team,
Unfortunately, we were unsuccessful in getting (Public Company #1) or (Public Company #2) to move forward with a bid.
I would like to invite everyone to (my start-up) for one last meeting at 10am pdt Thurs. I know this is last minute, but I hope you can all attend. I have some important information about potential employers, so I would like a chance to share that with you. We will set up the conference bridge -- please use the ID: xxxxxxxx.
As much as I hate to ask this, I need to have you bring in your laptops, blackberries, and building access cards.
I'm sorry that I don't have better news. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
CEO
Result was not completely unexpected but it was a distraction. I let Smokkee's AQ run down my 99 on turn and game fell apart soon after.
Congrats Smokkee on win.
Team,
Unfortunately, we were unsuccessful in getting (Public Company #1) or (Public Company #2) to move forward with a bid.
I would like to invite everyone to (my start-up) for one last meeting at 10am pdt Thurs. I know this is last minute, but I hope you can all attend. I have some important information about potential employers, so I would like a chance to share that with you. We will set up the conference bridge -- please use the ID: xxxxxxxx.
As much as I hate to ask this, I need to have you bring in your laptops, blackberries, and building access cards.
I'm sorry that I don't have better news. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
CEO
Result was not completely unexpected but it was a distraction. I let Smokkee's AQ run down my 99 on turn and game fell apart soon after.
Congrats Smokkee on win.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Reflections on Perspective
Economy doesn't seem that bad, prices are lower, there are bargains in stock market if you are sitting on cash. Things seem good .... until you are the one that is unemployed.
Poker is similar and I apparently committed faux paus.
Full Tilt Poker Game #11197593232: Blogger Skillz Game (80235196), Table 3 - 200/400 Ante 30 - Limit Stud Hi - 22:58:05 ET - 2009/03/17
Seat 1: CoolDog1029 (3,730)
Seat 2: BadgerDawg (9,125)
Seat 3: DaBag (1,342)
Seat 4: Bone_Daddy84 (6,575)
Seat 5: 125Will (5,723)
Seat 6: bayne_s (1,605)
Seat 7: cmitch (3,090)
Seat 8: Tony Barone (3,341)
CoolDog1029 antes 30
BadgerDawg antes 30
DaBag antes 30
Bone_Daddy84 antes 30
125Will antes 30
bayne_s antes 30
cmitch antes 30
Tony Barone antes 30
*** 3RD STREET ***
Dealt to CoolDog1029 [4c]
Dealt to BadgerDawg [Jc]
Dealt to DaBag [7c]
Dealt to Bone_Daddy84 [3s]
Dealt to 125Will [Qc]
Dealt to bayne_s [Kc Qh] [Kh]
Dealt to cmitch [5s]
Dealt to Tony Barone [9h]
Bone_Daddy84 is low with [3s]
Bone_Daddy84 brings in for 50
125Will folds
bayne_s completes it to 200
cmitch folds
Tony Barone calls 200
it's just funny that you knew you were way behind but hoped to get lucky
CoolDog1029 folds
BadgerDawg has 15 seconds left to act
BadgerDawg folds
DaBag folds
Bone_Daddy84 folds
*** 4TH STREET ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Kc Qh Kh] [8d]
Dealt to Tony Barone [9h] [6c]
bayne_s bets 200
Tony Barone calls 200
it's just funny that you knew you were way behind but hoped to get lucky
*** 5TH STREET ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Kc Qh Kh 8d] [6h]
Dealt to Tony Barone [9h 6c] [Th]
bayne_s bets 400
Tony Barone raises to 800
bayne_s calls 400
*** 6TH STREET ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Kc Qh Kh 8d 6h] [Qs]
Dealt to Tony Barone [9h 6c Th] [Ts]
Tony Barone bets 400
bayne_s calls 375, and is all in
Tony Barone shows [Tc 9s 9h 6c Th Ts]
bayne_s shows [Kc Qh Kh 8d 6h Qs]
Uncalled bet of 25 returned to Tony Barone
*** 7TH STREET ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Kc Qh Kh 8d 6h Qs] [Qd]
Dealt to Tony Barone [Tc 9s 9h 6c Th Ts] [Js]
Tony Barone shows [Tc 9s 9h 6c Th Ts Js] a full house, Tens full of Nines
bayne_s shows [Kc Qh Kh 8d 6h Qs Qd] a full house, Queens full of Kings
bayne_s wins the pot (3,440) with a full house, Queens full of Kings
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3,440 Rake 0
Seat 1: CoolDog1029 folded on 3rd St.
Seat 2: BadgerDawg folded on 3rd St.
Seat 3: DaBag folded on 3rd St.
Seat 4: Bone_Daddy84 folded on 3rd St.
Seat 5: 125Will folded on 3rd St.
Seat 6: bayne_s showed [Kc Qh Kh 8d 6h Qs Qd] and won (3,440) with a full house, Queens full of Kings
Seat 7: cmitch folded on 3rd St.
Seat 8: Tony Barone showed [Tc 9s 9h 6c Th Ts Js] and lost with a full house, Tens full of Nines
from next hand
Bone_Daddy84: thats bayne, the stud roach
bayne_s: Mess with the bull get the horns
and then next hand
Tony Barone: it's just funny that you knew you were way behind but hoped to get lucky
Apparently once caught by a chaser it is considered rude not to immediately fold even when more than half stack is already committed.
My "sincere" apologies Tony.
Poker is similar and I apparently committed faux paus.
Full Tilt Poker Game #11197593232: Blogger Skillz Game (80235196), Table 3 - 200/400 Ante 30 - Limit Stud Hi - 22:58:05 ET - 2009/03/17
Seat 1: CoolDog1029 (3,730)
Seat 2: BadgerDawg (9,125)
Seat 3: DaBag (1,342)
Seat 4: Bone_Daddy84 (6,575)
Seat 5: 125Will (5,723)
Seat 6: bayne_s (1,605)
Seat 7: cmitch (3,090)
Seat 8: Tony Barone (3,341)
CoolDog1029 antes 30
BadgerDawg antes 30
DaBag antes 30
Bone_Daddy84 antes 30
125Will antes 30
bayne_s antes 30
cmitch antes 30
Tony Barone antes 30
*** 3RD STREET ***
Dealt to CoolDog1029 [4c]
Dealt to BadgerDawg [Jc]
Dealt to DaBag [7c]
Dealt to Bone_Daddy84 [3s]
Dealt to 125Will [Qc]
Dealt to bayne_s [Kc Qh] [Kh]
Dealt to cmitch [5s]
Dealt to Tony Barone [9h]
Bone_Daddy84 is low with [3s]
Bone_Daddy84 brings in for 50
125Will folds
bayne_s completes it to 200
cmitch folds
Tony Barone calls 200
it's just funny that you knew you were way behind but hoped to get lucky
CoolDog1029 folds
BadgerDawg has 15 seconds left to act
BadgerDawg folds
DaBag folds
Bone_Daddy84 folds
*** 4TH STREET ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Kc Qh Kh] [8d]
Dealt to Tony Barone [9h] [6c]
bayne_s bets 200
Tony Barone calls 200
it's just funny that you knew you were way behind but hoped to get lucky
*** 5TH STREET ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Kc Qh Kh 8d] [6h]
Dealt to Tony Barone [9h 6c] [Th]
bayne_s bets 400
Tony Barone raises to 800
bayne_s calls 400
*** 6TH STREET ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Kc Qh Kh 8d 6h] [Qs]
Dealt to Tony Barone [9h 6c Th] [Ts]
Tony Barone bets 400
bayne_s calls 375, and is all in
Tony Barone shows [Tc 9s 9h 6c Th Ts]
bayne_s shows [Kc Qh Kh 8d 6h Qs]
Uncalled bet of 25 returned to Tony Barone
*** 7TH STREET ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Kc Qh Kh 8d 6h Qs] [Qd]
Dealt to Tony Barone [Tc 9s 9h 6c Th Ts] [Js]
Tony Barone shows [Tc 9s 9h 6c Th Ts Js] a full house, Tens full of Nines
bayne_s shows [Kc Qh Kh 8d 6h Qs Qd] a full house, Queens full of Kings
bayne_s wins the pot (3,440) with a full house, Queens full of Kings
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3,440 Rake 0
Seat 1: CoolDog1029 folded on 3rd St.
Seat 2: BadgerDawg folded on 3rd St.
Seat 3: DaBag folded on 3rd St.
Seat 4: Bone_Daddy84 folded on 3rd St.
Seat 5: 125Will folded on 3rd St.
Seat 6: bayne_s showed [Kc Qh Kh 8d 6h Qs Qd] and won (3,440) with a full house, Queens full of Kings
Seat 7: cmitch folded on 3rd St.
Seat 8: Tony Barone showed [Tc 9s 9h 6c Th Ts Js] and lost with a full house, Tens full of Nines
from next hand
Bone_Daddy84: thats bayne, the stud roach
bayne_s: Mess with the bull get the horns
and then next hand
Tony Barone: it's just funny that you knew you were way behind but hoped to get lucky
Apparently once caught by a chaser it is considered rude not to immediately fold even when more than half stack is already committed.
My "sincere" apologies Tony.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Milestone Post
500th Post
Really the least significant of the milestones, especially when something like this or this would count as a post.
Today also marks 10 years in California.
For those considering move to California check out local tax laws. When I moved from Maryland I learned that California taxes income earned in the state, Maryland taxes income earned as resident. When I departed I left in middle of pay period and told accounting I did not need paycheck last day just process on normal period. By chance I gave them new California address before they processed as well. The no Maryland 8% with holding that last paycheck was a sweet bonus, especially on the 7 weeks accumulated vacation. Things may have changed or I may have done it wrong but I did file this way 9 years ago now.
Tomorrow marks 25 years since college Graduation.
I ran out of money so had to graduate after winter quarter. I always had so much fun spring quarter that I hung around extra quarter anyways, working selling beer for Braves and without tuition college is cheap.
Today Marks 2 weeks of "Unpaid Temporary Leave"
Market rally combined with real customer interest in product may mean it truly is temporary, CEO is still in talks to sell.
Enjoyed Championship week and am looking forward to NCAA tourney
Really the least significant of the milestones, especially when something like this or this would count as a post.
Today also marks 10 years in California.
For those considering move to California check out local tax laws. When I moved from Maryland I learned that California taxes income earned in the state, Maryland taxes income earned as resident. When I departed I left in middle of pay period and told accounting I did not need paycheck last day just process on normal period. By chance I gave them new California address before they processed as well. The no Maryland 8% with holding that last paycheck was a sweet bonus, especially on the 7 weeks accumulated vacation. Things may have changed or I may have done it wrong but I did file this way 9 years ago now.
Tomorrow marks 25 years since college Graduation.
I ran out of money so had to graduate after winter quarter. I always had so much fun spring quarter that I hung around extra quarter anyways, working selling beer for Braves and without tuition college is cheap.
Today Marks 2 weeks of "Unpaid Temporary Leave"
Market rally combined with real customer interest in product may mean it truly is temporary, CEO is still in talks to sell.
Enjoyed Championship week and am looking forward to NCAA tourney
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Weight Tilt
Yesterday in PE they measured and weighed demon child. She came in at 5'5" and xxx* lbs.
She got home pissed off feeling this could not be correct and stormed into master bathroom and stripped down and weighed herself. This did not help because according to wife she came in at xxx* lbs on our scale too!
Last night while I played Skillz daughter and wife went to apartment gym. According to wife they turned on "The Biggest Loser" and daughter got into a zone where she pretended Jillian was yelling at her while she walked the treadmill. 70 minutes later and 330 calories burned they returned home.
They just left for another workout.
* Late edit: On way to school this morning I referred to daughter as my 3-D, fully interactive, xxx lb home entertainment center. She quickly educated me that I am NEVER to mention her weight again.
She got home pissed off feeling this could not be correct and stormed into master bathroom and stripped down and weighed herself. This did not help because according to wife she came in at xxx* lbs on our scale too!
Last night while I played Skillz daughter and wife went to apartment gym. According to wife they turned on "The Biggest Loser" and daughter got into a zone where she pretended Jillian was yelling at her while she walked the treadmill. 70 minutes later and 330 calories burned they returned home.
They just left for another workout.
* Late edit: On way to school this morning I referred to daughter as my 3-D, fully interactive, xxx lb home entertainment center. She quickly educated me that I am NEVER to mention her weight again.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Day 4 as "Poker Pro"
Not going to lie, I was a little disappointed in 3rd.
Full Tilt Poker Game #11008195108: Turbo Fiddy (82700887), Table 18 - 10000/20000 Ante 2500 - No Limit Hold'em - 3:33:58 ET - 2009/03/07
Seat 3: bayne_s (258,604)
Seat 8: garreh (413,402)
Seat 9: smoofbettor (97,994)
bayne_s antes 2,500
garreh antes 2,500
smoofbettor antes 2,500
smoofbettor posts the small blind of 10,000
bayne_s posts the big blind of 20,000
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Jh Qh]
garreh folds
smoofbettor raises to 95,494, and is all in
bayne_s calls 75,494
smoofbettor shows [Ts 7s]
bayne_s shows [Jh Qh]
*** FLOP *** [Qc Jd Th]
w00t
*** TURN *** [Qc Jd Th] [Td]
I need an icebag for my nuts
*** RIVER *** [Qc Jd Th Td] [2d]
smoofbettor shows three of a kind, Tens
bayne_s shows two pair, Queens and Jacks
smoofbettor wins the pot (198,488) with three of a kind, Tens
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 198,488 Rake 0
Board: [Qc Jd Th Td 2d]
Seat 3: bayne_s (big blind) showed [Jh Qh] and lost with two pair, Queens and Jacks
Seat 8: garreh (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: smoofbettor (small blind) showed [Ts 7s] and won (198,488) with three of a kind, Tens
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Skillz
I final tabled the Stud H/L Skills game. Got dealt a lot of hands like 69Q and have very little experience playing stud variants. tried to approach starting hands like O8 but always felt I was a card short of a good starting hand. I seemed to survive taking a stand at the right time for a few fortuitous doubles to roach to 5th.
In 1st day as "poker pro" had one other small tourney cash in Stars PLO8 turbo with a 27th (27 paid), I was 10th in chips going into my final hand but my AA25 was no good against slightly bigger stacks KK56. I <3 PokerStars.
Working at start-ups is a lot like playing tournament poker. You aren't going to cash at most of them, some of the beats are going to be bad but occaisonally you will run well and get a decent cash.
I have worked at 4 start-ups now, 3 of them created a product that worked and resulted in an IPO and 2 going under. The 4th company had a product that never quite worked but had good market timing and left me bankrolled to continue in start-up game.
Friend sent me a pointer to www.indeed.com, it scrapes jobs off of other job sites to one central location. Others in job search process should give a look and see what you think.
In 1st day as "poker pro" had one other small tourney cash in Stars PLO8 turbo with a 27th (27 paid), I was 10th in chips going into my final hand but my AA25 was no good against slightly bigger stacks KK56. I <3 PokerStars.
Working at start-ups is a lot like playing tournament poker. You aren't going to cash at most of them, some of the beats are going to be bad but occaisonally you will run well and get a decent cash.
I have worked at 4 start-ups now, 3 of them created a product that worked and resulted in an IPO and 2 going under. The 4th company had a product that never quite worked but had good market timing and left me bankrolled to continue in start-up game.
Friend sent me a pointer to www.indeed.com, it scrapes jobs off of other job sites to one central location. Others in job search process should give a look and see what you think.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Temporary Unpaid Leave
Luckily I did not make a last longer bet with Hoy.
My permanent job at a temporary company has hit a bump, investors decided to not continue to finance as macro-economic factors look very bad for M&A activity. Unfortunately the wave of recent resignations also dropped company headcount below Warn Act provisions so I got notice in a Monday 5:30 meeting that unpaid leave is underway starting Tuesday (today).
I think I am most annoyed about them waiting to hold the meeting until late enough in day that I missed Riverchasers.
It also occurred to me today that summer before daughter was born I bought a life insurance policy. Price at time for a 15 year term policy was a lot cheaper than the 20 year term so I opted for 15. Original Insurance company was sold off long ago so current bill comes from AIG. Never really envisioned that I should have found a way to collect if company died within term rather than me.
On positive side as I was writing post my TT sucked out a chop against JJ in a STT when Jd fell on river for chopped board flush and A9 > TT on a T high straight.
My permanent job at a temporary company has hit a bump, investors decided to not continue to finance as macro-economic factors look very bad for M&A activity. Unfortunately the wave of recent resignations also dropped company headcount below Warn Act provisions so I got notice in a Monday 5:30 meeting that unpaid leave is underway starting Tuesday (today).
I think I am most annoyed about them waiting to hold the meeting until late enough in day that I missed Riverchasers.
It also occurred to me today that summer before daughter was born I bought a life insurance policy. Price at time for a 15 year term policy was a lot cheaper than the 20 year term so I opted for 15. Original Insurance company was sold off long ago so current bill comes from AIG. Never really envisioned that I should have found a way to collect if company died within term rather than me.
On positive side as I was writing post my TT sucked out a chop against JJ in a STT when Jd fell on river for chopped board flush and A9 > TT on a T high straight.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Weekend Movie Review
Warning: May Contain Spoilers!
Friday Night I was tired when I got home from work, wife and (mainly) daughter wanted to go immediately to Cupertino to see "Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience". Christy Lemire gave it 1.5 stars. I have explained to wife in the past that I fawking hate driving from Mountain View (workplace) to Cupertino during rush hour and they still thought I would somehow want to drive 7 miles back through traffic to get to Mountain View and then proceed to Cupertino. The re-education process was quick and profane.
Saturday we did drive to Cupertino for daughter's eyebrow waxing which took 15 minutes and I believe I could achieve same service with 1/2 inch wide roll of duct tape at much lower cost followed by movie viewing. Jonas Brothers is outside of AMC's normal pricing schedule and was $15/ticket. Daughter's review was that it was "awesome" but has not provided other details.
I chose to see Liam Neeson in "Taken" for $6. It was a story about a father's love for his daughter where he gave up his job to live near her and ex-wife and when she is kidnapped he tries to find her killing everyone involved in her abduction until she is rescued. It was a big gang involved and only Arnold in Commando may have had a higher body count in a child's rescue.
Afterwards I felt need to give daughter a hug.
She then hit me.
Friday Night I was tired when I got home from work, wife and (mainly) daughter wanted to go immediately to Cupertino to see "Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience". Christy Lemire gave it 1.5 stars. I have explained to wife in the past that I fawking hate driving from Mountain View (workplace) to Cupertino during rush hour and they still thought I would somehow want to drive 7 miles back through traffic to get to Mountain View and then proceed to Cupertino. The re-education process was quick and profane.
Saturday we did drive to Cupertino for daughter's eyebrow waxing which took 15 minutes and I believe I could achieve same service with 1/2 inch wide roll of duct tape at much lower cost followed by movie viewing. Jonas Brothers is outside of AMC's normal pricing schedule and was $15/ticket. Daughter's review was that it was "awesome" but has not provided other details.
I chose to see Liam Neeson in "Taken" for $6. It was a story about a father's love for his daughter where he gave up his job to live near her and ex-wife and when she is kidnapped he tries to find her killing everyone involved in her abduction until she is rescued. It was a big gang involved and only Arnold in Commando may have had a higher body count in a child's rescue.
Afterwards I felt need to give daughter a hug.
She then hit me.
Friday, February 27, 2009
BBT4
So it begins.
Tournament: Blogger Big Game
When: March 1st
Game: Superstack NLHE
Buyin: $69+6 or token
Password: donkey
Tournament: Brit Blogger Game
When: Every Sunday at 16:00ET
Game: NLHEBuyin: $5+.50
Password: donkament
I will not be seeking backing like the deluded one. But have to think that if you go to www.baynesteele.com it will be clear to you who is closer to becoming a red letter pro.
I did not buy that domain nor am I sure who did but they have owned since I won a Main Event Seat in 2006.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Running Better
During Survivor Thursday night there was a commercial for the "Santa Cruz Boardwalk Clam Chowder Cook Off". Kid loves clam chowder (New England not Manhattan), wife grew up a couple miles off a beach so I alertly picked up on their interest and suggested we go. Soon after the strangest things started happening in the Super Turbos. I had KK hold up against A rag. I had pocket pairs hold up against smaller pocket pairs and I finally defeated ATo while holding AK. I even started winning flips against "Snuffie". I cashed my 1st 5 Thursday night with 3 1sts before losing with KK against ATo and TT, but finished Thursday with 7 cashes out of 9 and 5 1sts.
Friday and Monday I also saw a rainbow as I headed to work after dropping kid at school and end of rainbow did seem to land near work parking lot each time. Today I learned we are partnering to bid a contract with 2 different partners so I am hopeful about long term employment and maybe a little bit of a cashout.
Teenage daughter was even nice to me this morning. Not a bad Monday at all.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
It's Cold and Damp and My Sinuses are killing me
We need the rain and Lake Tahoe area has gotten a much needed 6 feet of snow or so since Friday. But rain somehow feels colder here then I remember it being back east.
During Event #24 of FTOPS XXXVI I managed to cooler 2 people for bounties early I had 77, CO had 33 and button had AT on a TT3 flop. Button raiser made a smallish c-bet on flop and I called as did CO only to see a 7 peel off on turn. I checkraised my boat and saw a wonderful shove and call ahead and watched a blank turn vault me into top 10. The 4th flop I saw near the break I defended my big blind against an EP raiser and 2 callers with an 87 sooooooooooted and was rewarded with a T96 flop. EP QQ went to felt on flop and I claimed 3rd bounty and vaulted into 3rd. Chad popped up in chat to verify I was just coolering people to accumulate chips rather than had acquired real poker skills. AT some point in 2nd or 3rd hour I noticed that about every 3 minutes another red pro bounty was announced. How many red pros does FullTilt have at this point????
LJ commented on my ginormous 200 BB stack and I pointed out key to my game was I had not picked up KK yet. Within 10 minutes I got my 1st KK and called a jam from the aggrodonk to my right who was only player at table with even half my stack and had jammed such stellar hands as A8, 77 and QJs for his life previously. He of course had AA this time and I did not improve. 7 hands later I picked up QQ and was priced in against a shorty jam and of course he had AA as well returning me to average stack size. I played decent aggressive poker until with rising blinds and antes I tried a resteal holding ATs from BB and button's AQ held up to knock me out.
On the positive side it is payday. Having a permanent job at a temporary company means you can really only be sure of receiving one more check. This is 1st company I have worked for that pays on 15th and last day of month AND pays on Monday (or Tuesday if holiday) if pay period ends on Sunday. Had a couple day sweat this weekend wondering am I unemployed and will California still be issuing IOUs as unemployment benefits if I am unemployed.
I do find the "threat" of laying off workers if budget is not approved to be ludicrous when the Republican state senators who are holding up budget want state spending cut more, a cap and not to increase taxes.
During Event #24 of FTOPS XXXVI I managed to cooler 2 people for bounties early I had 77, CO had 33 and button had AT on a TT3 flop. Button raiser made a smallish c-bet on flop and I called as did CO only to see a 7 peel off on turn. I checkraised my boat and saw a wonderful shove and call ahead and watched a blank turn vault me into top 10. The 4th flop I saw near the break I defended my big blind against an EP raiser and 2 callers with an 87 sooooooooooted and was rewarded with a T96 flop. EP QQ went to felt on flop and I claimed 3rd bounty and vaulted into 3rd. Chad popped up in chat to verify I was just coolering people to accumulate chips rather than had acquired real poker skills. AT some point in 2nd or 3rd hour I noticed that about every 3 minutes another red pro bounty was announced. How many red pros does FullTilt have at this point????
LJ commented on my ginormous 200 BB stack and I pointed out key to my game was I had not picked up KK yet. Within 10 minutes I got my 1st KK and called a jam from the aggrodonk to my right who was only player at table with even half my stack and had jammed such stellar hands as A8, 77 and QJs for his life previously. He of course had AA this time and I did not improve. 7 hands later I picked up QQ and was priced in against a shorty jam and of course he had AA as well returning me to average stack size. I played decent aggressive poker until with rising blinds and antes I tried a resteal holding ATs from BB and button's AQ held up to knock me out.
On the positive side it is payday. Having a permanent job at a temporary company means you can really only be sure of receiving one more check. This is 1st company I have worked for that pays on 15th and last day of month AND pays on Monday (or Tuesday if holiday) if pay period ends on Sunday. Had a couple day sweat this weekend wondering am I unemployed and will California still be issuing IOUs as unemployment benefits if I am unemployed.
I do find the "threat" of laying off workers if budget is not approved to be ludicrous when the Republican state senators who are holding up budget want state spending cut more, a cap and not to increase taxes.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Blogging Blahs
Macro Economics trumps Micro Economics.
Company I work for has a product that works but carriers can't/aren't spending money in short term that mean long term savings.
But I figure it is easier for CEO to interview for all of us (looking for merger/acquisition) than for me to get off my butt and look for another job.
For 1st time today we were delivered 3 gallon water bottles instead of the 5 gallon that we used to have. This may be last downsizing straw!
Nothing interesting is happening on poker front. In tournaments I can't get past that one hand that makes the difference between going deep and minor cash. Cash PLO play sees ebbs and flows but at end of day bankroll is same.
Now I have to figure out if I can save $1,194.63 for the next blogger weekend :)
Company I work for has a product that works but carriers can't/aren't spending money in short term that mean long term savings.
But I figure it is easier for CEO to interview for all of us (looking for merger/acquisition) than for me to get off my butt and look for another job.
For 1st time today we were delivered 3 gallon water bottles instead of the 5 gallon that we used to have. This may be last downsizing straw!
Nothing interesting is happening on poker front. In tournaments I can't get past that one hand that makes the difference between going deep and minor cash. Cash PLO play sees ebbs and flows but at end of day bankroll is same.
Now I have to figure out if I can save $1,194.63 for the next blogger weekend :)
Friday, February 06, 2009
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Bankroll Blow Up
Saturday I ran really bad in SuperTurbo's. I had 6 bubbles where I lost with either pp to one over or with a better Ace. Spiral continued into Sunday Morning to point that I put $30 of my remaining $32 on FullTilt into a last Super Turbo. I won and went on a tear including a 4th in PLO KO. OPR did not exactly capture run but bankroll is back to four figures. knock wood. I do like when upswing seems to start with FTOPS coming up.
Congrats to Steeler's on Super Bowl win. Bad beat for Cardinals that Steelers got touchdowns at end of both halve's that were marginal enough to trigger review.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
More Housing (Poker at end)
Calculated Risk (one of my favorite financial blogs) has a post today commenting on Bay Area house pricing. Apparently Housing data for December was just released and the median price is down 50% from peak and that foreclosure sales accounted for half the housing resales.
When I look inside the data it is the two least desirable counties that have higher sales volumes and bigger median price drops which leads me to believe that it is the "starter homes" where people stretched finances and accepted commutes that was hardest hit.
Sales volume was 6889, which puts ~3500 of these homes as foreclosure sales and new median price is $330k. If half of drop in median is due to mix in sales and half is drop in value then State of California now gets $1300 less in property taxes then it did a year ago on 3500 homes for a quick $5M drop in tax revenues for the last month in one county. On positive side those 3500 foreclosed homes would have previously been defaulting on the property taxes.
Throw in SoCal's Inland empire economy destruction of lost construction jobs and foreclosures and 60 or so employees at my company who will stop paying income tax in near future and I am beginning to see how a state can be $14B short in revenue off a $40B budget.
Astin jackAced me successfully (defeating JJ) a few hands later HeffMike reraised JackAce against my QQ and failed to deliver a jackAce beat. I make comment in chat (still pissed about being short due to Astin beat) along lines of "It's a blogger tourney, you can't possibly fold jackAce" sorry Heff. I avenge my earlier beat when Astin calls my raise with the jackAces little brother the jacKing off and my pocket Astins hold up against his flopped top pair. Mookie eliminates me when through some miracle his JJ wins a flip against my AK when he dodges a river King kick to the junk.
I am still running like a god at PLO (40.88 BB/100) yesterday cracking AA with high connectors and KK with low connectors, (I love the hold'em visitors that can't fold AA KJ69 board). In KK's defense he thought he had outs after flopping top set but I had already turned my straight flush when I raised his pot bet on turn.
When I look inside the data it is the two least desirable counties that have higher sales volumes and bigger median price drops which leads me to believe that it is the "starter homes" where people stretched finances and accepted commutes that was hardest hit.
Sales volume was 6889, which puts ~3500 of these homes as foreclosure sales and new median price is $330k. If half of drop in median is due to mix in sales and half is drop in value then State of California now gets $1300 less in property taxes then it did a year ago on 3500 homes for a quick $5M drop in tax revenues for the last month in one county. On positive side those 3500 foreclosed homes would have previously been defaulting on the property taxes.
Throw in SoCal's Inland empire economy destruction of lost construction jobs and foreclosures and 60 or so employees at my company who will stop paying income tax in near future and I am beginning to see how a state can be $14B short in revenue off a $40B budget.
Astin jackAced me successfully (defeating JJ) a few hands later HeffMike reraised JackAce against my QQ and failed to deliver a jackAce beat. I make comment in chat (still pissed about being short due to Astin beat) along lines of "It's a blogger tourney, you can't possibly fold jackAce" sorry Heff. I avenge my earlier beat when Astin calls my raise with the jackAces little brother the jacKing off and my pocket Astins hold up against his flopped top pair. Mookie eliminates me when through some miracle his JJ wins a flip against my AK when he dodges a river King kick to the junk.
I am still running like a god at PLO (40.88 BB/100) yesterday cracking AA with high connectors and KK with low connectors, (I love the hold'em visitors that can't fold AA KJ69 board). In KK's defense he thought he had outs after flopping top set but I had already turned my straight flush when I raised his pot bet on turn.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Mook Day
The Mookie is tonight, after pwning Pvan in Monday's NYRPS I feel it is again time to issue a "Rue the Day Schaubs" warning.
I saw a classic theonion piece via reddit.com. So sad when over the top satire looks prescient.
We are 24 hours into this Obama Presidency, I am not seeing change yet! I met up with a former co-worker for beer (and to compare jobs in Valley notes) and met another EE who is long time Valley resident. He was trying to convince us that NOW is the best time to buy a home. Most laughable part of his argument was that he could not afford to sell his current house to move into a bigger home due to Property Taxes nor did it make sense to sell his home and downsize now that kids have moved out because he would only be pulling couple $100k of equity profit but his propert taxes would climb. I looked at movoto this morning out of curiosity, I love that $800k is asking price for a "single family home" with ~12 feet of open space to next door neighbors wall and a pipestem driveway AND parking is so hard to find that the picture advertising house has a SUV parked two wheels over curb to allow passage.
It has long been the american dream to own home to protect against rising prices but I don't see how current financial mess ends until housing prices do drop to levels ~4x local household income.
Locally I can rent a house for ~2x the property taxes would be to buy same house. At those levels I am not sure if 0% interest on 30 year loan motivates me to purchase.
I saw a classic theonion piece via reddit.com. So sad when over the top satire looks prescient.
We are 24 hours into this Obama Presidency, I am not seeing change yet! I met up with a former co-worker for beer (and to compare jobs in Valley notes) and met another EE who is long time Valley resident. He was trying to convince us that NOW is the best time to buy a home. Most laughable part of his argument was that he could not afford to sell his current house to move into a bigger home due to Property Taxes nor did it make sense to sell his home and downsize now that kids have moved out because he would only be pulling couple $100k of equity profit but his propert taxes would climb. I looked at movoto this morning out of curiosity, I love that $800k is asking price for a "single family home" with ~12 feet of open space to next door neighbors wall and a pipestem driveway AND parking is so hard to find that the picture advertising house has a SUV parked two wheels over curb to allow passage.
It has long been the american dream to own home to protect against rising prices but I don't see how current financial mess ends until housing prices do drop to levels ~4x local household income.
Locally I can rent a house for ~2x the property taxes would be to buy same house. At those levels I am not sure if 0% interest on 30 year loan motivates me to purchase.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Football Wrap Up
The Football Play of the weekend was the blocked Field Goal in this clip.
Officials had a pretty horrific weekend:
1) Blew the 1st half Kickoff call in Phil. v Az. due to ball never hit the Eagles nor did it ever go out of bounds. How is that not reviewable???
2) Hoy mentioned the pass interference on Philadelphia's final 4th down. I know there is some leeway when defender falls down and makes "incidental contact" but really.
3) Pittsburgh's punter still has not been touched, and how can that have been the personal foul variety??? How was Ryan Clark's spear of McGahee (arms crossed tight to body, lead with helmet, hunching head close to body, that is textbook spear) not a personal foul?
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