Sunday Funday

Hey all! Happy Sunday!

I usually hole up, listen to a show, smoke, set my fantasy teams, place some football bets and play a lot of online poker on Sundays but today I think I am going to head out and hit the city. Maybe catch a movie or two. Now that the Oscar nominees are out I should make an effort to see some of these films. Slumdog Millionaire is very high on my list along with Gran Torino. We'll see where the day takes me.

Today's feature show is from this year's Philathon from the Nokia Theater in NYC. The West LA Fadeaway>GDTRFB is great at the end of the first set and the So Many Roads, sung by Jackie Greene is a nice treat in the second set. I LOVE this line-up of Phil and Friends!

We watched Wanted with Angelina Jolie last night. It was OK. I can't see myself watching it again, but it entertained which is all you can ask I guess. There were some neat special effects some of which were a little far fetched, but whatever. A little imagination never hurt anyone.

I got bounced out of a $3 satellite re-buy tournament to the Party Poker $300K GTD. this morning under weird circumstances. The hand right before the first break (ending the re-buy period) I had AJh in about middle position with just under 6000 chips. The blinds were 150/300 and I was in middle position. There was one limper ahead of me. I raised to 1400. Action folded to the button who then shoved. It folded around to me and I called. This was basically what I wanted. One on one and hopefully I wasn't too much of a dog. He flipped 77 which was about what I was hoping. This was a shot to double-up to 12K going into the freeze out portion which would have positioned me nicely at my table to go deep. Worst case scenario: I re-buy and add-on for $6 and my stack is the same. I busted and went to re-buy as we had hit the break and the software wouldn't let me. Party Poker has decided in its infinite wisdom that 30 seconds is all that should be given to a player, which is fine during play, but during the break? What's the difference? Anyways, time ticked down I kept hitting the "Re-Buy" button and nothing. Then I was told I had finished in 182nd place. Great! Because most people would just walk away there, right? Why re-buy? Why add-on? This was theft. So I wrote to customer service telling them they owed me $6. We'll see what comes of this. I either get $6 or my money comes off their site. Who's with me?! Haha! I'll let ya know.

The NHL All-Star game is today. There are no Red Wings and the voting was retarded so I will not be watching. The thing is it's unlikely I'd be watching anyway regardless of the circumstances. I understand why the NHL does it. So their sponsors can all get together and get pissed. There will be about as many "real fans" at the game as there are "real fans" sitting in the platinums at the Air Canada Centre for Maple Leaf games. Arguably the worst sports fans ever. Ever.

And...

Miss America has been crowned! Miss Indiana - Katie Stam. All you little girls better aspire to this. Do not go through life as a nothing! Beauty is everything and you should be judged on it. Who does beauty pageants like America? Canada? Nope. We have them surely? Don't we? Whatever. I guess there's money to be made.

I gotta believe all these girls have been on the 'circuit' for a while now (life). Look at all the smiles in the background. How can you tell a genuine one when these ladies have been trained to smile like that their whole life? They all must fucking hate her. Hate her. They should do an unedited behind the scenes broadcast live at the same time as the pageant. Keep it on the DL. Pay-per-view maybe. Then at the end judge them on that. That folks would at least be real.



I have added some banners promoting the Full Tilt Online Poker Series XI begins Feb 4th and runs through until the 15th. There is $15 million in guaranteed prize money and each tournament is hosted by a different Full Tilt pro. I will be posting the complete schedule and links to satellites which are a great opportunity to make a really big score for minimum investment. Full Tilt also allows its players to cash in T$ (tournament dollars) for cash so if you do qualify for a high buy-in event you don't necessarily have to play. I also wanted to test some banner placement to see how things looked. I don't think I want to pimp a poker site across the top of my blog so I'll change that when I find something that may be more suitable for me and more interesting to you. In the meantime, if you don't have a Full Tilt account, you can always get one right>>>>>>>HERE!

O Christmas Tree!

Well, we finally got the Tree up and running. Not too shabby if I do say so myself. We are well into December and just nine days away from leaving for San Francisco. I have arranged to meet up with my buddy Kurt upon arrival.

It's been a few years since we've last met up. That night ended with me throwing up on his carpet after a dive bar marathon. I would call this a fairly unprecedented event as that marked only the third time I have thrown up as a result of alcohol consumption. The first was my very first time drinking the hard stuff. Naive I was. No problem. Lesson learned.

The second time was in college during a drinking game. The Century Club. One shot of beer every minute for 100 minutes. I puked on #93 and made it back in time to record #94 and to finish. The all liquid make-up of that one really helped my turn-around-time in the can.

So that's once every five years of legalized drinking. I'm not going to lie, there have been close calls. Deep breaths. Mouth pukes. But nothing else that would be considered an eruption or a breaking of the seal. I'll stand by that record thank you very much.

The schedule beyond that in California will be hectic to start. My girlfriend and I will be attending her staff party. We went last year and everything was great. People, food, booze. Just perfect. Then there will be last minute shopping for the nieces and nephews, and adult night out and hopefully we are going to the Black Hole to see the Raiders vs the Texans on the 21st. I'm going to bring the golf shoes just in case :)

This past weekend was nice. Friday night started slow with me losing a bit on the poker tables. It's really just a matter of focus which seems to come and go. Ah well. A new year with new goals is on the way. Saturday was my staff Christmas party which was held at Dave and Busters here in Toronto (Vaughn). Whatever. Good times were had by all. It's amazing how a bunch of drinks followed by some happy sticks can affect your Skee Ball game. And I'm talking positively. We walked out of the prize shop with a nice looking, but shitty sucker.

On Sunday I had an opportunity to have a real throwback proper Sunday. Read long enough and you'll find I take this very seriously. In no official order it includes bowling, coffee, newspaper, bowling, fantasy team adjustment and random trade offers (hockey, football), finalizing the work pool picks, bowling, making "mrjackstraws bet of the week" on Sports Interaction all the while playing a low level tournament on Party Poker. The afternoon usually consists of football/sports on the HD, pub style snacks, bowling, a couple of beverages and some crosswords. I like to finish that off with a movie with the little lady. This week it was ELF on the good old CBC. Her pick.

Check out the video below for a good laugh....