4/11

10 days gone
9 drinks gone

If I could make two changes overnight I would wake up tomorrow and be less lazy and be more appreciative of the all the lovely gifts life has given me and those I've let slip away.

4/10

9 days cherished
9 drinks savored

I could stop playing poker for 2010 tonight and this would hands down be my best year.

4/9

8 days set
7 drinks finished

Pet Peeve of the Week: Glaringly poor sound editing and dubbing for online pornography videos.

4/8

7 days through
6 drinks killed

The past two days took a little bit of will power to pass on some deliciously tempting libations. I think it would take at least 10 million dollars for me to give up alcohol for the rest of my life.

HH

Full Tilt Poker: $1 + $0.10 Heads Up Sit & Go
Seat 1: gamblegambel (1,532)
Seat 2: Dwigt (1,468)
gamblegambel posts the small blind of 10
Dwigt posts the big blind of 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to gamblegambel [Jh 7d]
gamblegambel has 15 seconds left to act
gamblegambel raises to 40
Dwigt calls 20
*** FLOP *** [2c Ks 9s]
Dwigt checks
gamblegambel checks
*** TURN *** [2c Ks 9s] [3h]
Dwigt bets 55
gamblegambel has 15 seconds left to act
gamblegambel calls 55
*** RIVER *** [2c Ks 9s 3h] [Kh]
Dwigt bets 100
gamblegambel calls 100
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Dwigt shows [4s 7s] a pair of Kings
gamblegambel shows [Jh 7d] a pair of Kings
gamblegambel wins the pot (390) with a pair of Kings

4/7

6 days passed
6 drinks consumed

Things I would like to do/be for just one week:

Very popular/social
A bum
A police officer
A high school counselor
Blind

4/6

5 days gone
6 drinks consumed

I had a dream that one of my best friends was dating my ex girlfriend and then I went on a cruise ship that took off to space and my dog fell off.

4/5

4 days
6 drinks

P.S. In regards to dating women, speaking softly and carrying a big stick doesn't work out so well.

What's the Difference

So Pennsylvania recently reneged on their ruling that poker was more of a skill game than luck. It's kind of hard to quantify just exactly how much skill and luck any risk venture has, so I'd thought I would draw on some hard data. Here are the graphs of the biggest fortune five hundred companies performances over the past three years as compared to the most successful players on table ratings for the past two years (you can see the company name in the task bar if you place the mouse over the graph):

4/4

3 days in
6 drinks down


way way behind pace

4/3

2 days in
5 drinks down

way behind pace

Sometimes I feel like Meursault in the Stranger in that I have a concrete wall separating my emotional states from the rest of the world and my distance creates a complacency for my inevitable death.

Joke

4/2

1 day down
3 drinks down

off pace thus far

Garden

I got my garden started back up today. I am doing strawberries, cherry tomatoes, and sweet basil this year. My oregano and pomegranate tree are still going strong and somehow Brad's carrot lived through the winter outside...

April

1 hour in, zero drinks so far and I'm still a station...

Seat 3: R.andomDonk ( $6865.50 USD )
Seat 4: S.pirit Rock ( $10139.00 USD )
Seat 6: gamblegambel ( $19239.50 USD )
gamblegambel posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
R.andomDonk posts big blind [$50.00 USD].
RandomDonk posts ante of [$10.00 USD].
Spirit Rock posts ante of [$10.00 USD].
gamblegambel posts ante of [$10.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to gamblegambel [ Ks Kd 7d Qd ]
S.pirit Rock raises [$205.00 USD]
gamblegambel calls [$180.00 USD]
R.andomDonk folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4c, 5d, Ah ]
gamblegambel checks
S.pirit Rock bets [$490.00 USD]
gamblegambel calls [$490.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4d ]
gamblegambel checks
S.pirit Rock bets [$1470.00 USD]
gamblegambel calls [$1470.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 5h ]
S.pirit Rock bets [$4410.00 USD]
gamblegambel calls [$4410.00 USD]
S.pirit Rock shows [Jd, 7s 9s 8d ]
gamblegambel shows [ Ks Kd 7d Qd ]
gamblegambel wins $13230.00 USD from main pot