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I Totally Blew It

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For the past 12 weeks, we have been playing a poker tournament of champions…a buy-in and then a weekly game for points…average score of best 8 weeks…top 3 pays out.We hosted the finals at our house last night. I started the night tied for 3rd and felt good, considering we had 18 people playing and I was on my home field.

And I was the first out.

And I ended up in 6th.

Marginal hands killed me. Pay to see a flop, then don’t catch anything. I think that I might have taken down one big pot all night…the rest of them I ended up folding to other people because my cards were just THAT BAD.

Oh well. Our weekly poker game is pretty cheap entertainment. Good times.

Out-kicked

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Rough poker night last night. In what could have been huge for me in me and my friends’ version of the Tournament of Champions, I bluffed at the wrong pot.

My brother brings a friend of his to all of our games and thus far, he hadn’t been to impressive. I think he took some umbrage with the fact that I called him “dead money”. Well, Chris, dead money you are no longer. Here’s the hand:

My hand: J-8 offsuit
My stack: about 1/3 his
The flop: J, 7, 6 rainbow
4th St.: King

At this point is where I went all-in. Chris checked to me and I read him correctly that he did not have the King. Going all-in, I represented it, but he read me correctly and knew I didn’t have it either. He had the stack to call (although it was a large call) and he did.

He out-kicked me with his queen. I only had about 10 outs, an 8 to win or a 7 or 6 to split the pot.

River: Nothing. Goodnight Shane.

Stayed and dealt. I was happy to see my brother go out next…that helped me immensely in the Tournament. I was also pleased that “Dead Money” won.

Nice work, Chris.

Poker Blinds…

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Poker question:

In hold’em, how do you handle it when a person gets knocked out that was supposed to be one of the blinds? This has happened to us at least 5 times in our regular game and we can never figure out the correct way to do it. I’ve scoured the interweb for info on it, but found nothing (I was really surprised)…

Can someone help me out???

Vice-Presidential Sparks Fly

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Grumpy and mean?

Dick Cheney is a sweetheart. OK…maybe not so much, but I thought that “Grumpy and Mean” was a really inappropriate way to describe the way that he acted in tonight’s vice presidential debate. But that’s exactly how the Kerry-Edwards campaign manager classified him. Cheney was seemingly on the defensive all night (Edwards mentioned Halliburton after less than 20 minutes of actual debate). The truth about Cheney’s Halliburton ties (which really absolve him of any implications that Kerry and Edwards would like to pin on him).

It was a pretty spirited debate. Prior to the debate, I thought that Cheney would stomp Edwards, given his lack of experience, but I forgot that Edwards used to be a trial lawyer and he did a great job. It was a relatively even debate. One thing that stood out was that Cheney finally brought John Kerry’s 20 year record to the forefront…and it’s lousy. I thought that the data that he had on Edwards missing all his votes was really funny too. Still, Cheney is a stain on the Bush administration. What I wouldn’t give for a Bush-McCain ticket this year…

(I keep trying to finish this post, but Austin Powers 2 is on and now I’m watching an old Saturday Night Live and they are doing the Jimmy Fallon/Horatio Sanz “Leather Man” skit…so funny, but Jimmy Fallon canNOT do a single sketch without laughing… “CHOO CHOO! AAIIIIIEEEEEE!!!”)

I call this debate for Bush-MCCAIN!!! Because for some reason, John Kerry’s record in the Senate is only being examined on talk radio and in the blogosphere…not necessarily in the mainstream media (surprise…surprise….).

Mostly a Good Night

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Sure, I’m tired this morning, but I have to say, overall I had a pretty good night. My Chiefs won, on the road, against a tough Baltimore defense. Hope has returned to the fans of Kansas City. Last night’s game was impressive. The Chiefs dominated both sides of the ball. The game was not as close as the 27-24 score would have you believe. Surprisingly, the last two games, our weakest aspect of the game hasn’t necessarily been our defense, but rather our lousy special teams. Dante Hall is no longer a secret and no one wants to kick to him. Our coverage on kickoffs and punts stinks. And our punter is a guy we cut at the beginning of the season, but had to re-sign because the other guy got hurt in practice (how does a punter get hurt…really?).

Not only that, but I won our weekly poker game and now sit firmly in 2nd place in the Johnson County Tournament of Champions standings. Felt good. Played well. Got decent cards. Knocked my brother out, which is always fun. 2 out of 3 weeks, my buddy Mike and I have gone head-to-head in the finals. He won the first one, I won the 2nd. Seemingly one of us gets knocked out by the other every week. Last night wasn’t the first time we’ve gone head-to-head and I doubt it will be the last.

About the “mostly a good night”…

Yesterday afternoon, my wife called me and told me that her grandfather was going to be having surgery today in Ohio to repair a valve that was keeping oxygen from his heart. So the end of the day was spent trying to find a flight for her and her mom that would get out yesterday or early today. We found a flight that left this AM and we got up at 4am to get to the airport and see them off. Just a minor contributor to the tiredness I would have felt anyway…I feel distracted and it’s not even 8 in the morning yet.

But hey…what are you going to do?