The Mookie

This really should have went a lot better. I sucked out huge twice within a couple of hands. I said at the time I blamed the drugs, but really I was just getting tired and didn't want to be a short stack anymore. The drugs did a little, but more towards making me drowzy. After that I got a cup of coffee and decided to tighten up . I made it down to the money while knocking a few others out and then the major hand came when we had 13 left. Ricky raised in middle position and I had pocket Kings in the small blind. I should have pushed all in for 30K (he had 40K) but instead I just raised an Ace on the flop did me in when he couldn't fold the JackAce. So, two blogger tourneys in a row, two ITM, both times out with pocket Kings. Makes me sick. Thanks to Mookie for hosting, and Iggy for winning.

I'll probably be dazed on my Oxycodone, but...

I'm signed up for the Mookie, are you?

I am probably going to be the deadest money out there because of the possibility of falling asleep at the keyboard, but I guess that may have helped on Monday at the Hoy. I guess we'll see. I'm so tired at work right now they might find me passed out under my desk. I cannot wait for this pain to go so I can stop with the medicine. See you tonight everyone.

Monday's at the Hoy

I think this was only my 2nd or third time playing in the Hoy because of the gawd-awful start time, but I love the BBTwo format and want to start getting into them again. I will now, in honor of Hoy, give a short picture essay.


As evidenced, I didn't play a lot of hand, but when I did I won them early and often and when I did go to showdown they ended up wining most of the time. I made it to the final table as a medium stack. Dwindled down to a shorter (not short by the blinds yet) stack. And then this...

Joe Speaker said it before I could, but I think I threw up in my mouth. Happy with my performance though, as I'm taking oxycodone for the pain from the vasectomy.


Disappointing after playing so well to go out to the table donkey, but what are you going to do? I had fun everyone and I'm finally going to pack it in now that jjok and JoeSpeaker are heads-up. Thanks to Hoy for hosting, have a great day everyone.

Funny Story about Shit (Literally)

I'm at work. Damn me and my work ethic. I would've loved to take a day today but I really need to take one at the end of the week so I can get waived from my military physical fitness test on Saturday. Under normal circumstances it is a test that can easily be passed (1 1/2 miles in under 13:45, 38 push ups, 47 sit ups). Those are just the lowest levels you can get. But, considering I am still limping around with a very tender set of balls and I am not supposed to lift anything over 10 pounds, I think I am going to have some trouble. I needed to come in as well to get some homework done (yes, I do it at work usually, it's the best place to concentrate).

Funny story today that I heard on the radio. Apparently, at Frederick Community College the school decided that you should not be able to smoke outside of the building's anymore. So, the new policy is you can only smoke in parking lots. Most are about 50 feet away or so, nothing major, others can be as far as 50 yards, again nothing too bad, I guess. But that is coming from a non-smoker. Apparently, the smokers are not taking it as well. You see, they have decided to conduct a protest against this harsh rule by taking it out on the bathrooms. Some tactics include removing entire rolls (think the huge rolls you find at a mall) of toilet paper, urinating in soap dispensers, and spreading their feces about the entire room. A message is always written on the mirror (in excrement, of course), that the protest will continue until the ban is lifted.

I can't imagine a time when I was so upset that I thought, "Damn it, I am so pissed off, I'm going to spread my shit on the wall to show it". I can't imagine what they would do if they banned smoking all together.

There have been no news reports about this (perhaps fear of copy-cat shit spreaders) but the radio show (Elliot in the Morning) had 4-5 people on verifying it was still happening.
The suspects are still on the loose.

I found that extremely amusing this morning and managed to give myself the hiccups for the last 30 minutes of my ride. I'm glad I decided to come in, just so I could hear that story.

My weekend,

Besides holding ice on my balls for the majority of the weekend, I also got to play a ton of online poker.
















PokerStars Tournament #64766513, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
45 players
Total Prize Pool: $450.00
Tournament started - 2007/10/21 - 14:34:23 (ET)

Dear presdlee,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $139.50 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 134.88 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.


Those are a couple of the highlights. I also ended up in Step 5 twice for the Pokerstars PCA package. Each time I was ousted in 6th place and knocked down a level where I proceeded to bust completely. I managed to collect a ton of FPP along the way of doing that and reached SilverStar status on Stars and am now within striking distance of gold. 2000 more with a 9 days left. Not completely crazy. Not probable though. I'm still very sore from the procedure Friday and was planning to go to work and deal with the pain, but I think I'm going to take a day today.
Have a great week everyone.