I’m So Over the Weirdness
Posted on January 17, 2009 by Ching under Poker.
This is a bit of a whiny post so if you didn’t feel like reading any whining today, feel free to skip this one.
I was kind of enjoying the weirdness there for a while. However, I fell victim to the weirdness last night. It’s not so great being on that end of it. I think the weirdness has hit its peak, though. It’s safe to say that, at this point, the clueless people far outnumber the people who make sense.
One of the most annoying things is having to play with someone who has no idea when it is their turn to be in the blinds and has no desire to understand this concept. I mean, come on. I’ve seen you playing here for several weeks now and you’re not drunk. How can you still not get it? And, it’s specially grating to me when just the other week I explained to you that you get to be small blind after being the big blind. Don’t ask the table if you are small blind every single time. Just freakin’ post it already.
Oh, and it is very annoying when blinds go up every three hands because every hand takes five minutes to complete. Common people. This is not rocket science. It shouldn’t take more than a second to figure out that you are supposed to fold 9 2 off suit. Regardless if someone raised or not. What are you still thinking about?
Oh, and most annoying of all are those people who have no clue what good hands look like and call someone’s $15,500 all-in with K 4 off. Come on, get a clue. That is just stupid. How can you get mad, though? Well, Brian can in these situations. I don’t think it’s appropriate to get mad, though. I mean, you don’t get mad at a baby when it does something bad or wakes you up five times in the middle of the night. You just deal with it. It doesn’t know any better. It doesn’t know that you have to be up at 6 am so you can get ready and go to work the next day. These people are just clueless. They are like babies. They don’t know any better. I can’t get mad at them for doing the wrong thing. All I can do is whine about it afterward.
Needless to say, my quest for the fourth final table in a row got thwarted by stupidity. I made the right choices and I had some luck on my side last night. My luck just got overran with clueless-ness and eventually ran out.
I realized last night that I can play with novices, but I cannot play with completely clueless people. Unfortunately, that’s all I’m running into these days in BCPT. It really makes me want to try Kandu. Then, again, from hearing Scott talk about it ~ there are a lot of clueless people playing Kandu as well. You just can’t get away from them. Maybe I just need to lay off poker for a while.
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My Leadership Statement
Posted on January 15, 2009 by Ching under Leadership.
“I am a leader whose lifestyle exceeds my paycheck.”
Alright, I stole that one from Travis. Here’s my real one:
“I am a leader who empowers those around me to make choices and to learn and grow from these. I am leader who is compassionate, fair, supportive, trustworthy, and accountable. I am a leader who inspires others to be their best.”
And now that I have shared it here, I will have to live up to this.
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Push Preview
Posted on January 13, 2009 by Ching under Movies.
Brian and I won’t be watching a lot of movies this year. We just did a budget and things are going to be really, really tight for a while until we can recover from our $7K plumbing nightmare [donations welcome].
We can’t cut out movies altogether, though. I can live without watching movies and save my $10 box office admission. Brian, however, is too much of a movie buff to make that sacrifice. So we have agreed to compromise and watch only one movie per month [although I have a feeling that we will be breaking this rule once the summer blockbusters come out]. At least, that is what we have agreed on for now. I can get discounted movie passes from work so it won’t be too bad. No more balcony movies for us, though. Bummer.
Anyway, we have both been looking forward to Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans so that’s our movie for the month of January. I believe Push will be our movie for February. This means that we’ll have to wait for both Confessions of a Shopaholic and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li to be released on Netflix. 🙁
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Finished in 3rd Place on Friday
Posted on January 11, 2009 by Ching under Poker.
Did I mention already that Sunny and I both made the final table on Friday evening? That makes three final tables in a row for me.
Last Friday I made the final table but finished shy of the money. They only pay the top five places now, as opposed to top eight at the old place, so making the final table is no guarantee that you will win anything. Sunny managed to talk us into playing again the next day. I made final table again. This time I placed in the money. Then again the other night. I’m in a bit of a mini rush right now in terms of poker. Maybe it is supposed to counter balance all the rotten luck I’m having in real life? [ We are now looking at re-plumbing the entire house in lieu of drilling holes in our slab foundation to the tune of $7K. I think I should be playing the lottery rather than playing poker. ]
Anyway, I started doing better about the same time that all the weirdness started at Highlands. I think the weirdness of the Blue Collar Poker Tournaments, despite my complaints, is actually working out to my advantage. I guess I should stop complaining about the weirdness and just start enjoying it.
Incidentally, I think I’ve figured out what to attribute all the weirdness to… Highlands is gaining more and more popularity with the local crowd so more and more new faces are coming to out play. I think all of the publicity is helping to bring people in. Joe Stumpe wrote about the “Barely Legal” card game Kandu in The Wichita Eagle on November 15, 2008 (page 1A). They were featured on KSN’s Business Beat in early December. They were mentioned again in the Eagle in December. Just recently they had a highly favorable review in the January 2009 issue of Splurge! magazine. I think this is just the beginning of more weirdness to come.
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2008 Poker Cruise Photobook, Second Edition
Posted on January 10, 2009 by Ching under Life.
Alright I caved. I just could not let three weeks worth of hard work go to waste. I converted my book to the small paperback photobook, though, so it wouldn’t be so expensive. It still cost quite a bit, but at least I got two books because of the buy-1-get-1-free offer. Check out the book below in all its glory…
I gave my extra book to Sunny to add to her growing collection of photobooks. She has been so awesome to Brian and me. I could not think of anyone more deserving of a copy of the coveted photobook.
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