Day: December 4, 2004

26th out of 400. This is a good day – 125 for 6th, 22.5 for this.

I still don’t think I’m even an intermediate player; I’ve learned some basic elements of strategy, but I make some dumb bets and have been on the right side of on 30 % vs 70 % bets a lot in this two tournaments. There’s a lot of people who don’t know what they’re doing at all and don’t try because it’s free disposible poker and maybe I’m a little better than them, but I’m not really good.

I think I’m done with poker for today, though. I’m out of things to do while playing, and it’s slowing down my laundry.

6th place out of 800. Sweet!

Thank you to THIS for killing four hours tonight.

My favorite parts of losing

– 90 minutes earlier, I had a guy all-in, beating him on the turn – and he beat me on the river. He doubled up next hand and really turned it around…so he was around 90 minutes later to beat me.

– The guy who went out 9th was still doing the “I can’t believe you played those horrible cards in a horrible situation against my magnificant hand and got a lucky card – I am BETTER THAN YOU, the game shouldn’t allow me to LOSE TO YOU” fifteen minutes later when I was out and tougher beat (had As vs 4s, till a K paired him up on the river), so I got to be the bigger man.

Having gotten into a phone conversation with someone who was talking how crazy I was to play in a tournament starting at 12:30am (I haven’t been able to play in quite a while and I have no real plans for Saturday) and semi-sarcastically told me to text message him instead of calling him when I did well was the best part of finnishing sixth. I HOPE THE BEEP WOKE HIM UP.

I think this was better than the Bulls/Heat game I went to tonight (never got the lucha info, had free tickets), if only because the game highlights were

– KIRK! blocking a Shaq layup in a play you’ll never ever see again
– My pick in the Inflatabulls race straggling in third till the last leg, deciding to Go All Out, making up massive ground, then blowing out his (inflatable) ankle and collasping in a heap. It was like watching someone run at full sprint and suddenly suffer a horrfying knee injury, without the pain.
– the Lovabulls going out to center court to do the your typical Arbaian dance – and the PA guy never playing the music they wanted and getting half booed off the court.

They’re half booing Curry and Chandler now – maybe more at the end, but we got out of there. Curry getting hurt and barely playing in the second half was critical – he’s the only things that passes for a center around these parts, which doesn’t work to well against Shaq.

Also not working well against Shaq: Chander’s one low post move. And Curry’s one low post move.