Brian as a Nerdy Fan Boy
Posted on July 11, 2006 by Ching under Life.
What a happy coincidence! I’m a retard, too! Just kidding.
Brian and I went to the Loony Bin on Saturday to celebrate Misty’s 30th birthday. We had no idea Will Marfori would be the main act that night. Incidentally, Brian was wearing the shirt that we bought for him the last time we saw Will perform at the Loony Bin a few months ago. What are the chances? We had to take their photo together, naturally.
P.S. The title is an homage to those nerdy fan boys who just have to wear band shirts of the bands that they are about to watch perform in concert.
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Poker Passion and Final Table Fantasies!
Posted on July 11, 2006 by Brian under Poker.
Since my wife put a cheesy pic of me at the final table of the APL’s 7:00pm session, I feel the need to write about it.Â
I was happy that I was at the final table. I realized early on that this was going to be a different night. I was getting cards right and left. I had a great streak at my first table where I got quad 7’s followed by trip 7’s followed by trip Ace’s then we left for a 15 min break. When I returned I got another set of Ace’s and took out 2 players of which one was the chip leader at the table for a while till she decided that she had to be in my last 4 pots. On her last hand she had Ace Queen and I had pocket Ace’s, the flop was Queen, Ace, 7. The guy next to me had 10/7 off suit and went all in with his last 1000; I knew I had him beat. The other person that had been in all my other pots and lost decided to raise it to 3000, I looked at her and without blinking said I was all in with almost 20k in chips. She looked and me and said “I have to call you” she only had about 1200 in chips left. I figured if she made a miracle out of this hand then she deserved it if not then I win big time. Everyone flipped over their cards and the truth was revealed and we saw her 2 pair, the guy next to me was dead in the water and I revealed my set. Their was another guy that was to the right of me that knew what we had before we ever rolled over our cards and as we turned the cards he points to the guy to my left and says “desperate move” points to the woman and says “2 pair” and points to me and say “the set” and that’s exactly how it plaid out. The last 2 cards didn’t help anyone and I won the biggest pot of the night (to my knowledge) after that I just sat back and rode the ride for a while, then I realized that as the blinds get higher you cant ride for long cause the blinds will eat you up. So I started to make some moves but nothing too risky so I didn’t loose the chips that I had and risk missing my chance to get to the final table. After a few table bounces as we consolidated and moved closer and closer to that final table I became more and more aware of who I was going to be up against and watched their style of play. I got down to about 15k in chips at the last table before they moved us to the final table and got lucky by getting pocket aces followed by ace queen suited. It seemed that those cards were following me everywhere. I finally got my chip stack up to 45k and we got moved to the final table. I thought I was going to get lucky and grab a few hands to stay alive for a bit but I was not so lucky. The cards that fell were junk and the blinds hit 40k real quick, soon I was in the blind and I had to put all my chips in to play regardless. I didn’t look at my cards until it was all over just because I’m superstitious. The run was over and I turned my cards to see that I had actually hit nothing and was knocked out. I went out 7th and tied with another guy that was put in the same position. All in all I was lucky rather than skilled that time, but it was a good ride and it made me feel good to just make it that far. I had never really been that far in the game and now I can say with pride that I beat out 200+ other people to sit at the final table.Â
 On a side note the person that won the game for the evening was a pregnant lady that had never played poker before tonight and was using a card to tell her what hands she had. Beginners always win on their first time, next week she will be like everyone else. Hopefully I will be sitting at the final table again. My ultimate goal is to be in the first place club with my wife and friends. Currently I’m the only one that has not made it.
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Giddy Brian
Posted on July 10, 2006 by Ching under Moblog, Poker.
On Friday night Brian was super giddy for making the final table during the 7:00 pm poker session. It was his first time reaching the final table in months.
Way to go, baby! Keep it up!
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This is How You Recruit People
Posted on July 9, 2006 by Ching under Life.
Too bad it falls on our anniversary weekend and we will be in Kansas City or I would be all over this shindig.
Jen, if you are reading this, I’m not sure how your interview with the city went but this would probably be worth checking out.
BKD will be entertaining potential candidates, wining and dining them so to speak, at Fox and Hound on August 11. Then they’ll be giving a tour of their fancy office at the Waterfront followed by bowling at Back Alley. I’m supposed to RSVP but I gave my letter to Chad.
Even if you really weren’t interested in a job, this might be worth checking out. It’s a good opportunity to network for sure!
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It’s All About Luck
Posted on July 2, 2006 by Ching under Games, Life, Movies, Poker.
I haven’t had much lately. Last night I was so mad at myself (and another poker player — actually I think I was more mad at them). I lost $13 in one hand of poker. Can you believe it? I had pocket aces and the other player flushed on me. Such horrible luck!
Speaking of bad luck. The Dills lost their keys the other night. They didn’t find out until well after midnight when we were all leaving to go home. They went back inside the APL building to search. I told Brian to wait just in case. I had a feeling they might have left it at Felipe’s where we had dinner before second session. Anyway, they came back out with no keys. Good thing Brian and I waited.
Of course, Felipe’s had long closed for the evening. We were going to drive by there but Dill said that their the maintenance person said he was on his way. I figured it would take a while for him to arrive but Dill said he lived onsite so we drove directly to their apartment.
The maintenance person took a half an hour to get there. We couldn’t really complain though, because it’s late. He probably had to get dressed or something. Anyway, Dill and Becca finally got in to their place to retrieve their spare key. We then drove back to APL so they could get their car.
Yesterday they went to Felipe’s to claim their keys. Thankfully, the keys were still there. Bad luck, but it could have been worse. (more…)
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