Archive for October, 2007
Monday, October 29th, 2007
Nothing Quite as Sweet as Champagne Goggles
Deserved World Series MVP Mike Lowell and Yooooouuuuuuk bask in liquid success.
My thanks to the Boston Red Sox and Sox Nation for a great ‘07 season.
Clearly, I could not have picked a better team to cheer for.
Update: Victory parade/rally will start at noon on Tuesday Oct 30th (that’s tomorrow!) at Fenway and [...]
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Wither November
Ok – the fields in the blogger tournies I like playing are too big and start too late for any East coaster who also plans on keeping his day job.
The Red Sox’s wicked awesome 2007 season has at most 4 games remaining.
And the weather is turning a tad towards the cold side for me to [...]
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Stu Ungar – Poker God.
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Stu Ungar is widely regarded as one of greatest poker players of all time. He is the only three time winner of the World Series of Poker, a terror at any tournament he decided to play. A lot people were happy to front him the money for his tourney [...]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
On Just Baseball
Today is game 1 of the World Series.
If you’ve been paying attention, you will know that I will be cheering for my home team.
Yes, I am a recent convert to the Red Sox nation. My fascination started earlier this season (I think I was hooked in late May), and I stuck with the Sox [...]
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Meh to the Stars BloggerEvent and Meh to MATH
Even if I were to be shifted up one spot, I still would not win a dufflebag.
I had one good hand in two hours at the Stars freeroll – my AA vs opponent’s KK. Money was in pre-flop. Villain four flushed on the river with an Ace of clubs that gave me a [...]
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
On Poker and Baseball
I sometimes wonder why I developed such an infatuation with baseball this summer. Certainly the performance of a certain local team has helped. Also contributing would be a recommendation about a year ago from the uber-critic Absinthe to check out Micheal Lewis’s Moneyball, which was a fine treatise not only on baseball but on game [...]
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Live Blogging the Sox-Angels Game 3
6:37 – That’s it. Break out the high-fives and keep Papelbon away from the Bud light, Sox are heading for the ALCS. Go Indians – I’d rather see the Tribe than the Yankees in round two. Thanks for following along!
6:36 – Gagne has only one out left to get. I’m [...]
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Mookie Breaks the Curse
Finally – a final table without a bubble.
Placed 4th in the Mookie last night. I held the chiplead for much of the final table, but lost a good chunk of change to he-who-must drink-Soco on this hand:
I’d made a bet meant to look like I was stealing. Al pushed and I called. [...]
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Poker Stars
Its back! That time of year when we find out that there are 1000+ poker bloggers.
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!
This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.
Registration code: 7938205
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Tiny Bubbles
I bubbled in the Bodog Blogger event.
If you are clever you will notice a pattern. It goes like this – bubble, bubble, bubble. Worst position in tourney poker and I’ve gone back-to-back-to-back. Last night I pushed into a dominated situation and was b-slapped back when my opponent hit a straight flush – [...]
