random thoughts and thoroughbred selections
"All life is 6-5 against" - Damon Runyon
Monday, November 15, 2004

Disclaimers Abound…

Actually, only one disclaimer need apply: I have NO IDEA what I’m doing.

In other words, take anything and everything on here with a grain of salt and automatically assume I don’t know what I’m talking about. Really. I’m not kidding.

I got a flame comment from some jackass who didn’t leave an email or website in return telling me I “embarrassed” the Breeders’ Cup with my preview. Nice. Told me I didn’t do my homework.

Well, duh.

Come on over to the main page here, titled Random Thoughts and Thoroughbred Selections and you tell me exactly how many “thoroughbred selections” you see over here. I’ll wait.

That’s right. Good luck digging them up. I’d rather whine about some chick from eleventh grade than dissect $15,000 claiming races at Aqueduct that I don’t have money on. Take that to the bank. Welcome to “banned from commenting” status there jackass.

I also know absolutely nothing about poker, apparently.

I’m running bad. Real bad. Real, real bad. BadBlood caught the tail end of my PartyPoker bankroll giveaway on Sunday when I managed to blow through my last $40 in just under two hours. One hand featured the classic all-in pre-flop re-re-re-re-raise fest between KK and AA. You guess which one I had. By the way, that beat really bothers me on PartyPoker. I’d be bothered less in a casino where I would at least have the perception that the other players around me knew what they were doing. This guy was in every hand, and I was gleefully coming back over the top again and again pre-flop, figuring him for something like a suited A5.

Well, not really. But sometimes you know people have the Aces, sometimes you just can’t figure them on anything, so KK looks real strong.

The other was a hand that even BadBlood said I played well, where I lost my last $18. I got 66 and limped in with a few others. $3 pot on the flop which came 227 (hammer!). Two checked to me, I bet $2 at it, got a caller behind me, just the two of us now. A 4 or something came on the turn, and I checked. He made a weak bet, something like another $3 into the $7 pot. I can’t read that as strength, maybe two overcards. So I re-raised him to $7. He paused, then called.

I had $9.90 left. River was a T, and I pushed all-in. He quickly called, showing Q7s. Queen kicker! I was behind the whole way, but wouldn’t most players have laid that down at some point? Not just called bets all the way down?

BadBlood said it was a good bet on the river, and I’m sticking to that. I’m sure my play was dumb in reality though. Do me a favor and don’t remind me in the comments widget.

I also badly lost a few SNGs this weekend. In my last two-table PokerStars SNG, I was in the final 7 with four paying. I had the second lowest chip stack with 1800. The big gun was to my left with 6500. I was in the SB and was dealt QQ. Everyone folded around. I had 100 on the table and 1800 in my stack, and pushed all-in. Big stack called with K9s.

I caught my Queen on the flop, he caught runner-runner-runner (third card on the flop, then all the way down) hearts for his flush. Of course, some jackass typed “vnh” in the box.

God, that makes me mad. “VNH?” How about, “That was one dumbass call you bailed yourself out on. Congratulations retard.”

That’s what I felt like typing. Didn’t say it though.

Sadly, I am holding off until after Vegas to deposit any more cash. If you do catch me on PokerStars pissing away my last $31 of online poker bankroll, stop by and say hi, will you?


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