Thursday, November 30, 2006

"One More Time, Sweetness"




In the words of the great Ernie McCracken, sometimes a bowler just has to face the music. Batfaces, too. Thus, today's scorecard.

Tonight: sleet, freezing rain, fair-to-partly pokery, 64 percent chance of donkeyness.

UPDATE: Game 5 now added; Shane to turn pro

Monday, November 27, 2006

91-60

Your Texas Longhorns, lead by freshman phenom Kevin Durant, were able to outlast Nichols State last Sunday in a hard-fought win. Next up, Texas Southern. In an unrelated note, the defending national champions lead the Big 12 in Academic All-Americans.

Friday, November 24, 2006

12 - 7




















Quite possibly the greatest day of my life.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

The Question Before Us Is...

Which one of these lovely blackjack players [ please to watch episode trailer here ] will win on Saturday? Or is it, which one of these sweet young thangs owes Big Todd $500?

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Clonie Watch

The World Poker Finals at Foxwoods in CT are down to the final 30 in the $10k Main Event and Clonie is well into the money hanging in 20th in chips. Already guaranteed 20k+, Clonie will once again take the lead in Batface money winnings in 2006. The money gets serious once they get down to 20, with the winner taking home $1.7ish million. Clonie is not the only chick doing well. Kathy Leibert and Mimi Tran are among the top 10 in chip stacks. And girl-like Daniel Negreanu is still alive as well.

UPDATE: From Cardplayer.com

Clonie Gowen Eliminated 25th ($25,872)
Dan Sevigny moves all in for the over $300,000 from the cut off. Clonie Gowen calls all in from the button, and Chris Boyadjian calls in early position. Sevigny shows the 99, Gowen turns over the KK and Boyadjian flips up the A7. The board brings the AQ932 and Sevigny eliminates Gowen and doubles through Boyadjian with a set of nines.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Re: Would you call? Result

After Darling lead out, I went into the tank. While in there, he said to Tiny B (who was watching), “tell Randy to fold so his children can go to college.” Having played with him enough, this added support to me feeling that he really liked his hand. That, combined with how he played it pre-flop made me narrow his hands to two possibilities: aces or ace-king. Ace-king was obviously far more likely on paper, but even then, I was drawing to a chop wherein he likely had a back-door flush draw of some sort. Plus, yes, somewhat Shanian, but I just couldn’t get aces out my head. The anonymous commenter said it best, I’m just egomaniacal enough to assume that Darling assumes I’m the great player that he can get away with playing aces that way against. Of some consequence, too, was a hand like this that I actually played against Shane two weeks earlier. Shane had the aces.

Finally, after a long tank, I folded. Darling proudly showed K♣Q♣ for a flopped nut flush draw. We rabbit hunted it, and he didn’t get there (though, I still maintain he would have had I called.)

I talked with Darling the next day about the hand, and he said two things of note: (1) he did almost push pre-flop because, in his words, “I just knew I was going to make a flush”; and (2) once the flop came out, he was certain he was going to make the flush. So, at least I read the strength of what he THOUGHT he had on the flop correctly.

In hindsight, I made the mistake I often make: giving my opponent too much credit for playing their hands in a way that makes any sense. Of course, I still should have called. Go batfaces.