So, we got to have another poker night and even though 2 guys didn't show up this week that did last week, we were still able to get 6 players going. My youngest brother played for the first time, my dad reminded us just how bad he is, and a guy from work, James, played as well.
Next week another new guy is coming, so it looks like we are going to be able to have a good game going. I need to find a better place to have it though, cuz my kitchen is just too small. My basement is pretty big, but it's not like a finished basement or anything and it will probably get cold. We could move everything in my living room and have more room, but then that might make the wife mad. We'll get it figured out. I also need some better chairs.
The poker went pretty well. I felt like I played pretty solid. I had a few bluffs that didn't work out so well and most of my big hands didn't get paid off. yet I still made 30 bucks on the night. Ryan had a solid outing, making some money himself. We didn't play a pot past the flop that meant anything all night. I actually didn't even realize it til he said something along the lines of I was avoiding him. I'm like, um YA! lol. I think we both just kind of know what we are doing each time and so, we don't really mix it up. It's gonna happen though. Funny enough it's gonna suck for me the first time I do win a big pot against him. I lost a bet and the winner (him) gets his money back in any 1 pot against the other. I'm sure when the 100 dollar pot goes down and I'm raking it in, I'll have forgotten and he'll kindly remind me.
My youngest brother played pretty poor, I thought. One funny hand was where we were heads up and the pot was like 60 cents. K-9 straight was on the board and on the river I bet a dime. I had the Ace... and funny enough I didn't even notice there was 3 to a flush. I thought I had the nuts. So, he says 'you can't even bet that amount' so I took it back and bet 12 dollars. Lol. he's like wtf?! He's like really you have the flush. I'm like oh crap I didn't see the flush, but at least that means he doesnt have it. Then for some reason he just can't fold it and he calls showing the ace as well. We split the pot. But why would he call there? Not that it was a great bet on my part at all. I was mostly playing, but his call was like WAY worse.
A couple big pots happened, but I wasn't involved in any of them. And mostly it was just people overplaying top pair. But, it was fun and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, again.
Nothing else going on. I'm really looking forward to doing nothing tomorrow. A guy at work told me that he's been doing a lot of buying off craigslist and reselling on ebay lately. The last couple weeks he's been reselling Red Bull refrigerators. He's buying them for 75 bucks off CL and selling them for 250 dollars on ebay. Pretty sick. He said he's sold 4 of them. I think I'll peruse Cl tomorrow myself and see if maybe I can find some sort of cash cow. WOuld be a great 2nd income. Even if I just make an extra 200 bucks a month that's my cable/internet/phone bill. Not that it's a new thing, but just something to think about and it would be not much of an investment of time or money.
Thanx for the comments guys, I was afraid me not writing for so long sent you all packing. Monkey, thanx for the support! glad I made you laugh.
Leo... I believe they said Cada was a poker instructor, so I'm guessing he was doing alright b4 the ME. Just hate seeing it end as a donk fest, when the whole reason I was so into it this year was because of the all the pros that lasted so long. Oh wells.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Meeting Ryan (finally, in person), starting my home game off right and a disappointing winner in the WSOP ME
Okay, so longest title to a post, ever.
Started my home game I've been talking about for like ever... we got 5 people going, not bad for the first time and with only a few days notice. Ryan, from Poker Dynasty came over and we met for the first time. He's a lot taller in person. Everyone seemed to enjoy the night. A few big hands but nothing insane. I think 3 hands after ryan got here he was all in with AKs vs AA. Obv he's a fish. He made a good comeback though and funny enough played just like he plays shorthanded online cash. He ended up 15 bucks. I pretty much owned, at least in my own head. I played vs my brother a lot, mainly because he raised my bb from UTG like EVERY time, and obv playing out of position to a raiser is the nutz. The best hand of the night is when I called my brother down with Q hi, knowing I had the winner. I dont remember the hand exactly, all i know is I called on the turn knowing that I was calling on the river to win with Q hi. Sure enough he bet the river and I instacalled. He shows J hi, I BOOM my Q hi on the table and that was the talk of the night. WIsh I had a pokertracker hand history for that one. I ended up 38 bux and was the big winner of the night.
I did have a hand with Ryan. I almost made a tremendous laydown. I really wanted to, but man, if i would've folded and he didn't show me he had it, it would've eaten me up. Basically, I caught a flush on the turn. The river hit a 7 on a AAxx board. He bet into me decently. I knew I was beat, but come on.. first time playing the guy live and I'm supposed to fold a flush to him? SO, I called and yep, A7. Damn fish hitting the river... of course. Would've been sick to lay that down though. He had to have me beat, really. But... come on.. right?
I actually played very well and my hand reading was great. I barely had anything all night, but I just kept taking pots in great spots.
As far as the WSOP, I'm sure I was with the rest of the poker population wanting IVEY to win and bring some legitimacy back. But, he went out 7th. The guy that did win sucked out like 400 times at the final table. Plus he was hella busted looking. Now he's hellas rich. There was definitely a lot of action, but seeing all in after all in with 50-100 times the big blind is ridiculous. My brother got all anal and pissed about it... it's like dude, every online tournament ends this way. Did you really expect to see poker being played at the final table of the WSOP? Not to mention the nerves these guys were facing. They probably couldn't have played a hand out if they wanted to. I'm sure part of them is just like, let's get all in so we can relax and get it over with. It was nice watching all year though. Felt good to enjoy some poker again. Now if i can just play some more!
Started my home game I've been talking about for like ever... we got 5 people going, not bad for the first time and with only a few days notice. Ryan, from Poker Dynasty came over and we met for the first time. He's a lot taller in person. Everyone seemed to enjoy the night. A few big hands but nothing insane. I think 3 hands after ryan got here he was all in with AKs vs AA. Obv he's a fish. He made a good comeback though and funny enough played just like he plays shorthanded online cash. He ended up 15 bucks. I pretty much owned, at least in my own head. I played vs my brother a lot, mainly because he raised my bb from UTG like EVERY time, and obv playing out of position to a raiser is the nutz. The best hand of the night is when I called my brother down with Q hi, knowing I had the winner. I dont remember the hand exactly, all i know is I called on the turn knowing that I was calling on the river to win with Q hi. Sure enough he bet the river and I instacalled. He shows J hi, I BOOM my Q hi on the table and that was the talk of the night. WIsh I had a pokertracker hand history for that one. I ended up 38 bux and was the big winner of the night.
I did have a hand with Ryan. I almost made a tremendous laydown. I really wanted to, but man, if i would've folded and he didn't show me he had it, it would've eaten me up. Basically, I caught a flush on the turn. The river hit a 7 on a AAxx board. He bet into me decently. I knew I was beat, but come on.. first time playing the guy live and I'm supposed to fold a flush to him? SO, I called and yep, A7. Damn fish hitting the river... of course. Would've been sick to lay that down though. He had to have me beat, really. But... come on.. right?
I actually played very well and my hand reading was great. I barely had anything all night, but I just kept taking pots in great spots.
As far as the WSOP, I'm sure I was with the rest of the poker population wanting IVEY to win and bring some legitimacy back. But, he went out 7th. The guy that did win sucked out like 400 times at the final table. Plus he was hella busted looking. Now he's hellas rich. There was definitely a lot of action, but seeing all in after all in with 50-100 times the big blind is ridiculous. My brother got all anal and pissed about it... it's like dude, every online tournament ends this way. Did you really expect to see poker being played at the final table of the WSOP? Not to mention the nerves these guys were facing. They probably couldn't have played a hand out if they wanted to. I'm sure part of them is just like, let's get all in so we can relax and get it over with. It was nice watching all year though. Felt good to enjoy some poker again. Now if i can just play some more!
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Computer blew up
Okay so it didn't blow up. But, I started it one day and I saw sparks fly out of the back and it smelled like burning computer guts in here. SO, I have been computer-less til my brother moved in. We should get ours back this week, turns out power supply fried. Not the first time, but it was the first time I saw sparks.
In good news, I got a table finally, so now I can host the home game I've been wanting to host. Which is good for my blog too, since I never talk poker anymore. I'll have some to talk about again! Other than that though, I've just been enjoying the newfound freedom having money in my pocket has given us. We get to go grocery shopping when they have bargains now and shop for value instead of the cheapest thing. We can spend 100$ without worrying about the bills not being paid. It's pretty sweat. We still haven't gotten the big check yet, but my wife's monthly checks have been a real help. She seems happier about being able to do these things as well. It'll be nice if it lasts for awhile. I'm sure at some point our bills will increase, especially if we ever have a baby.
Speaking of babies, I guess I never mentioned that I finally got "tested". Turns out a bigger than usual percentage of my sperm are deformed. Basically, everyone has a percent of sperm that are misshaped, headless, etc, and they aren't able to reproduce, but mine for some reason are an even higher percentage. The DR said my volume is good and the other ones are able to produce, its just that some are not moving forward when they need to. I dunno. My sperm is half special bus I guess. My wife was also tested and found that she was not producing an egg each month. More like every other month. So she has been put on meds to help that happen. Basically, both of us were only doing about half our job. My wife is really stressing out about all of this. I'm okay with it. I mean it's nothing I did to myself it's just the way it is. I mean it could be due to being overweight, and not having enough testosterone, but again, it's whatever... I'm not one of those guys that is all uptight and embarassed when they find stuff like this out. We'll get things going, I think.
At work things have been busy. This is our busy time of the year. I've been pretty fortunate though, because I haven't had to work on my days off in a long time, well I guess that's not true. I worked a double last week, cuz closing mgr couldn't come in. But other than that, my new 2nd in charge has been awesome. I also don't know if I mentioned it or not, but I got a 4 star on my OER audit. This is the audit that Domino's Pizza does 2 times a year and my first one was 9 days after I became a GM. We got a 1 star, but I got to blame that on the former gm, because it was his fault and i had only been there less than 2 weeks. But this one, was all me and I was staring to stress about it. It ranks you on service, image, operations, and just overall the way they want you to be running your store. Most of the points we lost was due to stuff out of my control and a few service points. The highest score we could've gotten with the things we knew we couldn't fix soon enough was a 91 out of 100. We ended up getting an 83, which is really good. A few months ago I wanted a 5 star, but I knew that probably wasn't going to happen when round 2 started. My boss was stoked and everyone else will be happy too. Next time though it's 5 star or bust in my book. I feel a little rededicated to my job lately.
I went through a rough stretch where upper management was getting me down. All the rules all the restrictions and then just the plain ignorance they seemed to show sometimes. But, lately, I've just come to the conclusion that I can't care more than they do. It just isn't going to work. So, if they are not allowing me to have amazing service, all I can do is my best and try to figure out the best I can do without their help. Also, I really want to get my bonuses. I feel like I work too hard for what my salary is. Last month I got my first labor bonus and it excited me. I hadn't even come close before. So, now I am pushing for that full bonus. It would be nice. It's a few extra hundred dollars as well, so that doesn't hurt either. Hopefully, I can maintain my zeal for my job. I can't believe it's been 18 months at Dominos. Time really flies.
In good news, I got a table finally, so now I can host the home game I've been wanting to host. Which is good for my blog too, since I never talk poker anymore. I'll have some to talk about again! Other than that though, I've just been enjoying the newfound freedom having money in my pocket has given us. We get to go grocery shopping when they have bargains now and shop for value instead of the cheapest thing. We can spend 100$ without worrying about the bills not being paid. It's pretty sweat. We still haven't gotten the big check yet, but my wife's monthly checks have been a real help. She seems happier about being able to do these things as well. It'll be nice if it lasts for awhile. I'm sure at some point our bills will increase, especially if we ever have a baby.
Speaking of babies, I guess I never mentioned that I finally got "tested". Turns out a bigger than usual percentage of my sperm are deformed. Basically, everyone has a percent of sperm that are misshaped, headless, etc, and they aren't able to reproduce, but mine for some reason are an even higher percentage. The DR said my volume is good and the other ones are able to produce, its just that some are not moving forward when they need to. I dunno. My sperm is half special bus I guess. My wife was also tested and found that she was not producing an egg each month. More like every other month. So she has been put on meds to help that happen. Basically, both of us were only doing about half our job. My wife is really stressing out about all of this. I'm okay with it. I mean it's nothing I did to myself it's just the way it is. I mean it could be due to being overweight, and not having enough testosterone, but again, it's whatever... I'm not one of those guys that is all uptight and embarassed when they find stuff like this out. We'll get things going, I think.
At work things have been busy. This is our busy time of the year. I've been pretty fortunate though, because I haven't had to work on my days off in a long time, well I guess that's not true. I worked a double last week, cuz closing mgr couldn't come in. But other than that, my new 2nd in charge has been awesome. I also don't know if I mentioned it or not, but I got a 4 star on my OER audit. This is the audit that Domino's Pizza does 2 times a year and my first one was 9 days after I became a GM. We got a 1 star, but I got to blame that on the former gm, because it was his fault and i had only been there less than 2 weeks. But this one, was all me and I was staring to stress about it. It ranks you on service, image, operations, and just overall the way they want you to be running your store. Most of the points we lost was due to stuff out of my control and a few service points. The highest score we could've gotten with the things we knew we couldn't fix soon enough was a 91 out of 100. We ended up getting an 83, which is really good. A few months ago I wanted a 5 star, but I knew that probably wasn't going to happen when round 2 started. My boss was stoked and everyone else will be happy too. Next time though it's 5 star or bust in my book. I feel a little rededicated to my job lately.
I went through a rough stretch where upper management was getting me down. All the rules all the restrictions and then just the plain ignorance they seemed to show sometimes. But, lately, I've just come to the conclusion that I can't care more than they do. It just isn't going to work. So, if they are not allowing me to have amazing service, all I can do is my best and try to figure out the best I can do without their help. Also, I really want to get my bonuses. I feel like I work too hard for what my salary is. Last month I got my first labor bonus and it excited me. I hadn't even come close before. So, now I am pushing for that full bonus. It would be nice. It's a few extra hundred dollars as well, so that doesn't hurt either. Hopefully, I can maintain my zeal for my job. I can't believe it's been 18 months at Dominos. Time really flies.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
What's Going on?
If you've wondered, I'm still alive. Here's a recap of what's going on lately... no nothing bad, which is probably why I haven't written as much lately.
Been to the casino 3 times since last post. Well, 2 and a half. I went one day for 2 hours made $175. Then went later that night with my brother and lost everything I made but a buck, and that was like 6 hours of poker. It was lame, but I kept playing even though I was tired and knew I wasn't playing well. At one point I thought about leaving and I would've been up the full 175. I don't think you should leave just because you are up, don't get me wrong. But I knew I wasn't playing well. I started getting bored and playing every hand.. that's bad. That's why I should've left. The latest time, I went was a few days ago, I lost 150$. I was card dead for the first 30 minutes. Then I get AJ in late position. Raise a few limpers. Flop comes Axx. guy bets into me 3 times, I felt like I should've got all in on the turn and it may have even scared him off his hand. But, I just called and he ended up showing over AQ. There was a K on the board and the guy was older and I've seen a lot of people like him scared with AQ. Even if I didn't raise I probably should've realized I was beat, for him to be betting. I think I just wanted to have the best hand. next hand 88 loses to AA and TT, blam. Losing session.
So, the casino not so good to me lately.
Work life. It's been kind of frustrating lately. Sales are doing better than they have been, so that's good. But dealing with upper management is really frustrating. Yesterday for example, It's 6 pm on a saturday. We expect to be busy. Friday is our busiest night, saturday is number 2. Well, things are going well, we are rocking. I have 4 drivers and an insider because I want good service times. I've spent the last 3 weeks trying to improve my service, because the OER auditor is due in at any time to inspect and some of the biggest points you can get are service points. Well, my boss comes walking in and you can tell right away shes in a bad mood. Immediately she asks "why so dead?" meaning the store is dead. I'm like, what no where not we're pretty busy. Then she looks to see how many workers I have on the clock. Apparently her boss sent her some nasty messages about labor and "what doesn't she understand about getting some people off the clock?" Meanwhile, our goal labor is 18%. My store at that time is running labor at 10%. And with as busy as we are it's not going to go up much more than that, by the time I planned on letting people go.
But, immediately it's you need to let this guy go, and this guy go. I was so pissed. Dinner rush lasts til about 8pm. I had to get down to 2 drivers by 630 pm. This of course causes lates and terrible service. I'm visibly upset and shes asks me why, so I tell her. She doesn't like my answer and leaves the store without even saying good bye. I told her I don't blame her, I know shes under pressure from above her. She apologizes and explains she doesn't know what to do about it. It's freaking stupid and ridiculous that these people are in a position to run a company. At meetings they love to talk about shit that they don't even allow. "Great service can increase sales by themself" How can we run great service when we aren't allowed to have enough employees? The best was when Mark, the owner started bragging about a guy in another franchise who gave away free american legends pizzas as part of a promotion and ended up increasing his sales through that over the next few weeks. Well, guess what I did that too, 1 day only. I got in trouble for it! They don't like sampling cuz it raises food cost. The people who run this place are the most narrowminded and two faced people I have ever seen. If I wasn't just in this for the experience I doubt I'd stay very much longer after last nite.
Other than that things are okay. I'm doing well in my fantasy leagues, this week I am 1st place overall again. I spent like 8 weeks at number 1 last year and ended up in 6th, so hopefully i have a better finish this season.
Still haven't met up with Ryan. He's still looking for an apt in stL. Was gonna have my home game this monday, then I realized we don't even own a table. So, ya, gotta find a table first. Yes I mean a kitchen table, not even a card table.
My wife has diarrhea. That was for her asking if I was blogging about her diarrhea. She'll enjoy that. :)
Been to the casino 3 times since last post. Well, 2 and a half. I went one day for 2 hours made $175. Then went later that night with my brother and lost everything I made but a buck, and that was like 6 hours of poker. It was lame, but I kept playing even though I was tired and knew I wasn't playing well. At one point I thought about leaving and I would've been up the full 175. I don't think you should leave just because you are up, don't get me wrong. But I knew I wasn't playing well. I started getting bored and playing every hand.. that's bad. That's why I should've left. The latest time, I went was a few days ago, I lost 150$. I was card dead for the first 30 minutes. Then I get AJ in late position. Raise a few limpers. Flop comes Axx. guy bets into me 3 times, I felt like I should've got all in on the turn and it may have even scared him off his hand. But, I just called and he ended up showing over AQ. There was a K on the board and the guy was older and I've seen a lot of people like him scared with AQ. Even if I didn't raise I probably should've realized I was beat, for him to be betting. I think I just wanted to have the best hand. next hand 88 loses to AA and TT, blam. Losing session.
So, the casino not so good to me lately.
Work life. It's been kind of frustrating lately. Sales are doing better than they have been, so that's good. But dealing with upper management is really frustrating. Yesterday for example, It's 6 pm on a saturday. We expect to be busy. Friday is our busiest night, saturday is number 2. Well, things are going well, we are rocking. I have 4 drivers and an insider because I want good service times. I've spent the last 3 weeks trying to improve my service, because the OER auditor is due in at any time to inspect and some of the biggest points you can get are service points. Well, my boss comes walking in and you can tell right away shes in a bad mood. Immediately she asks "why so dead?" meaning the store is dead. I'm like, what no where not we're pretty busy. Then she looks to see how many workers I have on the clock. Apparently her boss sent her some nasty messages about labor and "what doesn't she understand about getting some people off the clock?" Meanwhile, our goal labor is 18%. My store at that time is running labor at 10%. And with as busy as we are it's not going to go up much more than that, by the time I planned on letting people go.
But, immediately it's you need to let this guy go, and this guy go. I was so pissed. Dinner rush lasts til about 8pm. I had to get down to 2 drivers by 630 pm. This of course causes lates and terrible service. I'm visibly upset and shes asks me why, so I tell her. She doesn't like my answer and leaves the store without even saying good bye. I told her I don't blame her, I know shes under pressure from above her. She apologizes and explains she doesn't know what to do about it. It's freaking stupid and ridiculous that these people are in a position to run a company. At meetings they love to talk about shit that they don't even allow. "Great service can increase sales by themself" How can we run great service when we aren't allowed to have enough employees? The best was when Mark, the owner started bragging about a guy in another franchise who gave away free american legends pizzas as part of a promotion and ended up increasing his sales through that over the next few weeks. Well, guess what I did that too, 1 day only. I got in trouble for it! They don't like sampling cuz it raises food cost. The people who run this place are the most narrowminded and two faced people I have ever seen. If I wasn't just in this for the experience I doubt I'd stay very much longer after last nite.
Other than that things are okay. I'm doing well in my fantasy leagues, this week I am 1st place overall again. I spent like 8 weeks at number 1 last year and ended up in 6th, so hopefully i have a better finish this season.
Still haven't met up with Ryan. He's still looking for an apt in stL. Was gonna have my home game this monday, then I realized we don't even own a table. So, ya, gotta find a table first. Yes I mean a kitchen table, not even a card table.
My wife has diarrhea. That was for her asking if I was blogging about her diarrhea. She'll enjoy that. :)
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Some Live Poker
Played some live poker at the casino on Thursday night. The session started pretty rough with me losing half my stack and then getting down to about 50$ early on.
The first hand was ridiculous. It didn't involve me. It was the very first hand at the new table, they took the list and started a new table. The guy to my right, a foreign guy raises preflop, gets a few calls. Flop comes 346, he bets strong guy to my left calls everyone folds. Turn comes 6, foreign guy goes all in, overbet. LEft calls putting over 400$ into the pot, around 200 for each. River 5, for 34566. Guy on left who called down, showed TT. Guy on right looks at his cards in disgust, gets ready to muck then goes "oh, I have a straight" and shows over A7. He was bluffing the whole time and ended up hitting his straight. Guy on left is pissed and leaves immediately. Dealer has the nerve to ask if he's coming back. It was sick. Accidental slow rolls are bad.
So, anyways, live one on my right. Unfortunately, I play 3rd wheel in a hand and get c/r by this guy and cost myself 40 bucks a few hands later. I got quads early on with no action. ANother hand I called/called then had to fold when I couldn't find a reason for a guy to be bluffing and I just had a 6 kicker to my pair of aces on a dry board. So, I was down to 50$ and hating the session. Finally my luck turned around and I fought back to only end up losing 40$ instead of 230$. I was pretty happy with my play and to end up almost even was job well done. The main hand was one that I got all in with inside straight and flush draw and hit. I hit 2 other flushes after that and got paid on a set. Nothing to big but the players were regulars and they were paying off small value bets at least. There were some bad players at the table, but no real fish. I'm sure that's why I wasn't able to get a big pot and really get some profit. I started getting tired toward the end and lost 50$ playing K5 poorly... as opposed to K5 well. I should've folded. I hit 2 pair on the river, but with KJ on the flop I should've got out before it got there. It didn't cost me a lot at least. But that pot was the difference in winning and losing for the session. I forced myself to leave a few hands later.
I plan on going tonite as well. HOpefully, better luck from the get go will help me make some moneys. My youngest brother went to a different casino yesterday and as of 245 am (he was there for 12 hours at least) he was up 350$. At his peak he was up over 500, but ran into some bad luck he said. I haven't heard from him yet, for all I know he's still there. Hopefully he made some money for his time spent there.
I have a bunch of running around to do today, actually. I'm going clothes shopping, to the casino, new shoes or insoles from the new balance store, I need to get new glasses, but that will probably wait now. I need to get the car worked on, but I think I'm going to wait til wednesday, my next day off to do that, cuz I'm thinking I'll have to leave it in the shop for a few hours. Oh, and I need a haircut. I think that's all. Should be a fun day of crap.
Speaking of crap; We found out the other day that SSI, which goes by income to determine the level of help, (when you file for disability they automatically file you for SSI) is delaying our 19,800. They determined that since my wife has been declared disabled that for x amount of months they would pay her around a total of 7k. But, that 7k is actually not extra money, they are taking it from the 19,800. So, they are paying the lawyer themselves which is close to 5k, and they are paying us 7k, but it's over a 2 year span, 2k every 6 months. The remaining 7-8k we are still getting a big check from disability but, it could take another 3 months to get. THat's what the 2k check was the other day. It's from SSI and we wont see another one from them for 6 months. Instead of 19,800 at once. We get 2k now. 8k in 3 months and the rest over a 2 year span. We are still getting her monthly disability check, which the first one we got was yesterday. So, it's not terrible. But, it's aggravating, because we wanted to just pay everyone off at once and we thought the check was due any day now, and it's not gonna happen. So we feel a little screwed. In the grand scheme, yes it's all extra money and it helps us be more comfortable, so can't be too mad. But, whatever.
I told Ryan about the home game idea and he said he's in. So, now I just need to figure out if I want to have it at my apartment or not. I think the first one will be 2 mondays from now. Should be fun and the level of play should be pretty good. Hopefully we don't end up just paying Ryan's rent every month for him, lol.
The first hand was ridiculous. It didn't involve me. It was the very first hand at the new table, they took the list and started a new table. The guy to my right, a foreign guy raises preflop, gets a few calls. Flop comes 346, he bets strong guy to my left calls everyone folds. Turn comes 6, foreign guy goes all in, overbet. LEft calls putting over 400$ into the pot, around 200 for each. River 5, for 34566. Guy on left who called down, showed TT. Guy on right looks at his cards in disgust, gets ready to muck then goes "oh, I have a straight" and shows over A7. He was bluffing the whole time and ended up hitting his straight. Guy on left is pissed and leaves immediately. Dealer has the nerve to ask if he's coming back. It was sick. Accidental slow rolls are bad.
So, anyways, live one on my right. Unfortunately, I play 3rd wheel in a hand and get c/r by this guy and cost myself 40 bucks a few hands later. I got quads early on with no action. ANother hand I called/called then had to fold when I couldn't find a reason for a guy to be bluffing and I just had a 6 kicker to my pair of aces on a dry board. So, I was down to 50$ and hating the session. Finally my luck turned around and I fought back to only end up losing 40$ instead of 230$. I was pretty happy with my play and to end up almost even was job well done. The main hand was one that I got all in with inside straight and flush draw and hit. I hit 2 other flushes after that and got paid on a set. Nothing to big but the players were regulars and they were paying off small value bets at least. There were some bad players at the table, but no real fish. I'm sure that's why I wasn't able to get a big pot and really get some profit. I started getting tired toward the end and lost 50$ playing K5 poorly... as opposed to K5 well. I should've folded. I hit 2 pair on the river, but with KJ on the flop I should've got out before it got there. It didn't cost me a lot at least. But that pot was the difference in winning and losing for the session. I forced myself to leave a few hands later.
I plan on going tonite as well. HOpefully, better luck from the get go will help me make some moneys. My youngest brother went to a different casino yesterday and as of 245 am (he was there for 12 hours at least) he was up 350$. At his peak he was up over 500, but ran into some bad luck he said. I haven't heard from him yet, for all I know he's still there. Hopefully he made some money for his time spent there.
I have a bunch of running around to do today, actually. I'm going clothes shopping, to the casino, new shoes or insoles from the new balance store, I need to get new glasses, but that will probably wait now. I need to get the car worked on, but I think I'm going to wait til wednesday, my next day off to do that, cuz I'm thinking I'll have to leave it in the shop for a few hours. Oh, and I need a haircut. I think that's all. Should be a fun day of crap.
Speaking of crap; We found out the other day that SSI, which goes by income to determine the level of help, (when you file for disability they automatically file you for SSI) is delaying our 19,800. They determined that since my wife has been declared disabled that for x amount of months they would pay her around a total of 7k. But, that 7k is actually not extra money, they are taking it from the 19,800. So, they are paying the lawyer themselves which is close to 5k, and they are paying us 7k, but it's over a 2 year span, 2k every 6 months. The remaining 7-8k we are still getting a big check from disability but, it could take another 3 months to get. THat's what the 2k check was the other day. It's from SSI and we wont see another one from them for 6 months. Instead of 19,800 at once. We get 2k now. 8k in 3 months and the rest over a 2 year span. We are still getting her monthly disability check, which the first one we got was yesterday. So, it's not terrible. But, it's aggravating, because we wanted to just pay everyone off at once and we thought the check was due any day now, and it's not gonna happen. So we feel a little screwed. In the grand scheme, yes it's all extra money and it helps us be more comfortable, so can't be too mad. But, whatever.
I told Ryan about the home game idea and he said he's in. So, now I just need to figure out if I want to have it at my apartment or not. I think the first one will be 2 mondays from now. Should be fun and the level of play should be pretty good. Hopefully we don't end up just paying Ryan's rent every month for him, lol.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Got Some Money!
So, a check came today, but not all of it. Got a check for 2022$. WHich is an odd amount. This could be 2 different things. 1, when my wife called SSi they said they would be cutting her a check from their end, but it would be deducted from the 19,800. So, this might be from them. Or they are paying the 19,800 in increments. My wife is going to call tomorrow and hopefully find out. Either way we got some money and I can't wait to start spending it. It would be sweet if the big check comes by saturday, my day off so that we can do everything we planned on doing.
I really want to play some poker lately. I'm thinking of trying to get another home game going, maybe every other week. I'm sure we could get 6-8 guys regularly and we would just have to make sure we keep the blinds low, so that it doesn't get out of control like the last one did. It would be fun to play in a regular home game again. The really fun part would be if Ryan from poker dynasty played in it. You all know him by now, he should be in St. louis soon and I'm sure he would be down for it. Competition would definitely go up a notch with him there.
I really want to play some poker lately. I'm thinking of trying to get another home game going, maybe every other week. I'm sure we could get 6-8 guys regularly and we would just have to make sure we keep the blinds low, so that it doesn't get out of control like the last one did. It would be fun to play in a regular home game again. The really fun part would be if Ryan from poker dynasty played in it. You all know him by now, he should be in St. louis soon and I'm sure he would be down for it. Competition would definitely go up a notch with him there.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
I don't get to blog enough
I think it's more because there's nothing going on rather than I don't have the time. I mean, I don't have much time and I'm never on my computer, but that's not a great excuse. I make time for what I want to do. More than time, my life is pretty damn boring. Which is good I guess, considering when I wrote the most was when my life was in turmoil or I was engrossed in the pokers.
Couple things happened at work over the past week. On last saturday, we had our Customer Appreciation Day. Basically, $3.99 med pizzas all day, as well as discounts on wings, and breadsticks. It was a huge success and we got so much marketing material out the weeks before. I was dead afterward and my entire body sore. We did over double what we usually do in sales and had my biggest personal sales day ever at 2500$. We usually do about 60 medium pizzas on a regular saturday, well for this we did 346 total. Not to mention all the breadstix and wings. It was so busy my wife helped me out and worked for free answering phones all night. It was a huge help, because we ended up being short staffed. I had no way to fully prepare for the madness that it was. Now that I have a floor to go by and an idea of what it takes to get to that point, I know next time will be bigger and better.
On Thursday, during school lunch I lost my cool a little bit. I'm not much of a yeller but, there are times that I'm due for a good meltdown. New guy, whose name is Josh, but we call DJ. (there are two josh's and my AM bryan last week said "whenever Dumb josh gets back lets get him out of here." I said, sweet his new name is DJ. So when he got back I called him DJ and he's like "what's the D for" quickly I thought and said "Driver Josh." Great inside joke for us now) Anyways, DJ is the slowest and possibly the least common sensical (word?) person I've ever met. During school lunch we are on a very tight schedule. We are limited in our heat wave bags, that we carry food in. Anyways, he takes forever on his delivery and then ends up calling me about a pizza remake from the SCHOOLS phone. He has a cell phone. Also, another driver didn't show up for his shift so we were already on the verge of disaster. School lunch is a huge client and we cannot F that order up. So, I end up having to take a full delivery to a school with NO heatwave bags and no way of keeping the pizzas as hot as possible. We are obligated to get the food to the school at a certain temp and potentially we'd have to totally remake the order if we dont do it. So, I take it and the lunch ladies are giving me the evil eye. I kind of jumped the gun and mentioned the whole temp thing so that they didn't think I was trying to pull one on them.
I guess the temps were fine cus they took the pizzas. But, when I got back I laid into DJ a little bit. I told him from across the room that in situations like that he needed to be in his truck, on his cell, on his way back telling me about that. We dont have time for him looking around for their phone and taking forever on deliveries. I threw a few things said a few curse words and chilled in my office for a few minutes. I was pissed. Worst of all my boss was there and a few other workers. But, all my working up ended up for naught. We got everything out on time with NO complaints. It was a success. But, like I said sometimes you just gotta get a good yell in. This dude is on the his last leg with me, that's for sure.
I was yelling about some stuff yesterday during work too. It was mostly a joke though, but I played it off as real for awhile. A few of the drivers took it seriously and seemed concerned. It's good to show them that I'm a little crazy I think. Keep everyone on their toes and let em know whose in charge still. Makes things fun.
Anyways, Money still hasn't come and like before after the court date we are dieing a little every time we check the mail and there's nothing there. Someday... right?
Couple things happened at work over the past week. On last saturday, we had our Customer Appreciation Day. Basically, $3.99 med pizzas all day, as well as discounts on wings, and breadsticks. It was a huge success and we got so much marketing material out the weeks before. I was dead afterward and my entire body sore. We did over double what we usually do in sales and had my biggest personal sales day ever at 2500$. We usually do about 60 medium pizzas on a regular saturday, well for this we did 346 total. Not to mention all the breadstix and wings. It was so busy my wife helped me out and worked for free answering phones all night. It was a huge help, because we ended up being short staffed. I had no way to fully prepare for the madness that it was. Now that I have a floor to go by and an idea of what it takes to get to that point, I know next time will be bigger and better.
On Thursday, during school lunch I lost my cool a little bit. I'm not much of a yeller but, there are times that I'm due for a good meltdown. New guy, whose name is Josh, but we call DJ. (there are two josh's and my AM bryan last week said "whenever Dumb josh gets back lets get him out of here." I said, sweet his new name is DJ. So when he got back I called him DJ and he's like "what's the D for" quickly I thought and said "Driver Josh." Great inside joke for us now) Anyways, DJ is the slowest and possibly the least common sensical (word?) person I've ever met. During school lunch we are on a very tight schedule. We are limited in our heat wave bags, that we carry food in. Anyways, he takes forever on his delivery and then ends up calling me about a pizza remake from the SCHOOLS phone. He has a cell phone. Also, another driver didn't show up for his shift so we were already on the verge of disaster. School lunch is a huge client and we cannot F that order up. So, I end up having to take a full delivery to a school with NO heatwave bags and no way of keeping the pizzas as hot as possible. We are obligated to get the food to the school at a certain temp and potentially we'd have to totally remake the order if we dont do it. So, I take it and the lunch ladies are giving me the evil eye. I kind of jumped the gun and mentioned the whole temp thing so that they didn't think I was trying to pull one on them.
I guess the temps were fine cus they took the pizzas. But, when I got back I laid into DJ a little bit. I told him from across the room that in situations like that he needed to be in his truck, on his cell, on his way back telling me about that. We dont have time for him looking around for their phone and taking forever on deliveries. I threw a few things said a few curse words and chilled in my office for a few minutes. I was pissed. Worst of all my boss was there and a few other workers. But, all my working up ended up for naught. We got everything out on time with NO complaints. It was a success. But, like I said sometimes you just gotta get a good yell in. This dude is on the his last leg with me, that's for sure.
I was yelling about some stuff yesterday during work too. It was mostly a joke though, but I played it off as real for awhile. A few of the drivers took it seriously and seemed concerned. It's good to show them that I'm a little crazy I think. Keep everyone on their toes and let em know whose in charge still. Makes things fun.
Anyways, Money still hasn't come and like before after the court date we are dieing a little every time we check the mail and there's nothing there. Someday... right?
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