Finish Line Reached

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.