Hooray for furniture!

Finally - my last piece of furniture will be delivered on Friday.  Then I will finally be able to sleep in a bed again and have furniture in my living room!  Gotta go buy some sheets and pillows and then I'll be all set.  It's the simple things...

Low limit O8

I've been playing a lot of low limit O8 sit and go's on FT recently and doing pretty well.  There's a lot of people out there who just don't have the first clue what they are doing at O8.  The money is not huge since I am playing $5 and $10 tourneys, but I've been happy with my play and it gets me some practice both at tournaments and at O8, which I really only get to play live these days at pink.  Plus, while I'm not in school, it's a good way to kill some time.

Was cruising along in one today until this rather unfortunate hand (see below).  After this, I played the short stack really strong and was hanging tough til my nuts on the turn got baby flushed on the river by someone hanging in with the nut low draw.  Booo...

As far as this hand, yeah I probably shouldn't have played it in the first place (though I was in the small blind), but what the heck is the whitewood47 doing calling all the way for?  The only card that can come to make him/her feel happy about his/her hand is a 4.  Nice hit, sir.

Full Tilt Poker Game #4881575068: $5 + $0.50 Sit & Go (37055970), Table 1 - 300/600 - Limit Omaha H/L - 13:26:46 ET - 2008/01/16
Seat 2: slykwyly (4,201)
Seat 4: whitewood47 (3,108)
Seat 6: sk1126 (3,720)
Seat 9: malikat (2,471)
sk1126 posts the small blind of 150
malikat posts the big blind of 300
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to sk1126 [Jd 7c 7s 5s]
slykwyly calls 300
whitewood47 calls 300
sk1126 calls 150
malikat checks
*** FLOP *** [Ks 7h 3c]
sk1126 bets 300
malikat calls 300
slykwyly calls 300
whitewood47 calls 300
*** TURN *** [Ks 7h 3c] [9c]
sk1126 bets 600
malikat calls 600
slykwyly calls 600
whitewood47 calls 600
*** RIVER *** [Ks 7h 3c 9c] [4h]
sk1126 bets 600
malikat raises to 1,200
slykwyly raises to 1,800
whitewood47 calls 1,800
sk1126 calls 1,200
malikat calls 71, and is all in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
slykwyly shows [2s Ad 2c 2d] a pair of Twos, for high and 7,4,3,2,A, for low
whitewood47 shows [5d 6c As Tc] a straight, Seven high, for high and 7,5,4,3,A, for low
sk1126 mucks
whitewood47 wins the high side pot (794) with a straight, Seven high
slykwyly wins the low side pot (793) with 7,4,3,2,A
malikat shows [Qh Ac 2h 5c] Ace King high, for high and 7,4,3,2,A, for low
whitewood47 wins the high main pot (4,942) with a straight, Seven high
malikat ties for the low main pot (2,471) with 7,4,3,2,A
slykwyly ties for the low main pot (2,471) with 7,4,3,2,A
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 11,471 Main pot 9,884. Side pot 1,587. | Rake 0
Board: [Ks 7h 3c 9c 4h]
Seat 2: slykwyly showed [2s Ad 2c 2d] and won (3,264) with HI: a pair of Twos; LO: 7,4,3,2,A
Seat 4: whitewood47 (button) showed [5d 6c As Tc] and won (5,736) with HI: a straight, Seven high; LO: 7,5,4,3,A
Seat 6: sk1126 (small blind) mucked [Jd 7c 7s 5s] - HI: three of a kind, Sevens
Seat 9: malikat (big blind) showed [Qh Ac 2h 5c] and won (2,471) with HI: Ace King high; LO: 7,4,3,2,A

Wow was that really three+ years ago?

One of my favorite quotes is from a song by John Lennon: "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" because it is so true.  No one ever expects to be where they end up (or the Spanish Inquisition).  Well, I guess maybe some people do, but I don't really know anyone who doesn't have some surprises in their life.

I was at a poker game this morning and Jay commented to me that he was reading my blog for the first time.  While we were talking I realized that the first post I made on here was 11/2004.  Wow - that's a long time.  I just went back and read some posts.  Some things are the same...other things are a lot different.

I'm pretty happy with the person I've become in the past few years, but there are a lot of things that make me who I am now that I never could have predicted.  Guess that's what makes life interesting.

Poker is really stupid

Last week I tried to play "really good", by which I mean really bad.  Went in to the Monday night game last night giving myself a poker pep talk and trying to play good for real...and I did.  Before I knew it, an hour or two into the game, I'm up a hundred+.  As much as I would like to be up a million, I didn't really have any big hands...just taking down a bunch of small pots without much of anything.  Then somehow my aces stand up against Matt's kings and suddenly I have just under $700 profit...  I overplayed some hands, got some other hands cracked, then tried to get cute in an effort to get some money back.  After all that, hours later I am back to $100 profit.  Then I misread my hand and give Travis $100 because I thought I had a pair.  Oooops!  It's been so long since I've fucked something up that stupidly...wow, now I'm actually stuck in this dumb game.

Somehow I managed to leave the game with just under $800...  Please, don't call it a comeback until I am cashed out.

I like rollercoasters a lot, but not of the poker variety.  Wow...sometimes I play really bad. 

Labels mean nothing

So I noticed the other day that Rounders was on Encore Mystery.  Now Rainman is on Encore Westerns.

Home alone...

...with three empty rooms and several dust bunnies.  Time to clean and then start getting furniture to store the piles of stuff that are currently homeless...most notably many of my clothes which are currently piled in various locations around the house.  Bed frame arrived yesterday - now just need to assemble it and buy a mattress.  Still in the market for a couch and a dresser or two (for the clothes).

Still need to clean up the remnants of last night's post-bowling get together in the basement too.  We drank beer, watched Lucky Number Slevin, and played 7 card roll your own.  Between dust bunnies and beer cans, I got lots of cleaning to do...better get to it.

Why are we here?

This time of year, a lot of people make resolutions or reflect on the previous year.  I try to reflect on my life every day, not just in January, and I'm generally not one to make resolutions just because it's the new year either.  But I have been thinking a lot about what the purpose of life is over the past few weeks.  I was watching Dogma the other day and at one point one of the characters asks God: "Why are we here?"  It's a good question.

I won't lie.  I tend to be a bit of a hedonist.  I do things because they are going to make me feel good.  I don't really worry to much about the consequences of my actions to the extent that I probably should.  I tend to live in the short term.  However, at the same time, I believe in trying to treat others with respect.  This is something I fail at too often, but in the past few days I have been trying to make amends with people that I have not been very respectful to and it's been nice.  In terms of the purpose of life, trying to contribute to positiveness in the world rather than negativeness has to be up there.  And if nothing else, it's helped to get me off the life tilt I've been on by making *me* feel more positive.