Bad Bets, pt. 1

Pushed in half my chips with JJ after the board was all undercards. I figured I had seen pocket aces only two hands prior and I could probably push someone out with the unlikely QQ or KK because they might think I hit trips and their pot odds were sort of crushed by my big, smart, play. Unfortunately he pushed all-in. I looked at him. He crouched in his chair and scrunched up his nose, strength was coming off him in waves BUT this is why I shouldn't play poker: I called. ACES!!! Not again! 

nothing doing....

Online poker should be made illegal. Or at the very least, as a friend put it, "we probably need some laws there." And how! It's a veritable license to steal. If someone set up a lab in Thailand with fifty employees all hunched over keyboards and crunching the numbers, they would probably make as much money as a small hedge fund. All it takes is patience, a knowledge of your opponent that can be catalogued and someone dumb enough to actually put money in play. It's not like playing scrabble online where you sort of come face to face with the other gamer A. because it's one-on-one B. you're both weird enough to be playing scrabble online that you probably will strike up a conversation. Online poker is serious business to the players and attracts the worst kind of grinders and stay-at-home dads with nothing better to do than sit at a $.25/$.50 table for six hours until their KK, AA, comes along and someone actually calls them. It's the worst. There needs to be some kind of skype-avatar-verification system in place because I'm convinced that some Russians are probably rigging up there systems to some Deep Blue type computer. I realize there is some controversy about the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and keeping overseas gambling industries from doing online business in the U.S., but it's hardly the point. Not even U.S. companies should be running these lotteries for at least another technological generation in terms of cyber security. Ugh.

Wow.

Biden: 8/19/07

George Stephanopoulos: "You were asked is he ready and you said 'I think he can be ready but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on the job training.'"

Joe Biden: "I think that I stand by that statement."

With the sale of Anheuser-Busch to European tossers InBev and the recent buyout (2002) of American warhorse Miller Brewing to racist South Africans, Yanks who don’t want to line the pockets of folks who won’t contribute to the war on terror, and whose currency is outpacing our own for no good reason, can take arms against a sea of troubles with some still-American beers. Here are a few which deserve our red-blooded affection and which are still bottled with cool, clear, American water and glass.

1. Abita Beer – Along with a roast beef and gravy poboy at the Napolean House, the best way to slake your thirst. The standard New Orleans beer (other than Dixie)
2. Brooklyn Brewery – their brown ales are a perfect counterpoint to a giant burger and fries.
3. Goose Island – A great variety of delicious beers.
4. Red Hook – brewed in Seattle, but none the worse for it. Their ESB ale (extra-special bitters) has that yeasty, dark taste of the English isles. Probably goes well with fish and chips—not that I would know.
5. Pabst – king of late night, heavy-metal, listening sessions. The creamy, all-American king.
6. Yuengling—Pennsylvania yumbos.
Is it lunch time yet?

Funny Forum

Littlegreenfootballs has gotten into the act of trolling around the left-wing blogosphere to seek out anti-semitic rants by Obama supporters. Their effort is magnified by the Obama campaign's attempts to scrub their forums of such rubbish. Even so, things slip through. If I ever come across a truly hilarious comment I'll post it up here for you guys (all four of you). Here's one from aintitcool.

Pixar = Israelby HoboCode
Jun 27th, 200810:21:30 AM
It's become untouchable. This is what is scary about it people. Any criticism of Pixar, like criticism of Israeli policies, is now met with jeers and decries of anti-cinemism (read anti-semitism).

[ed. anti-cinemism=people who hate cinnamon]

Stuff I Hate -- Street Drummers

I hate when I'm walking through Manhattan and I happen upon a street drummer. His rhythmic playing is infectious and he makes everyone feel ridiculous. I could be wearing the most expensive suit on earth, I could be a Rabbi, I could be carrying the nuclear football, it wouldn't matter, when you hear the street drummer your body takes over like a spiritual ecstacy. A little voice in the back of my head always screams to stop, but it's impossible, your heels start popping up and down on the pavement and your shoulders get jivey. Once you're out of earshot you wonder what bewitched you. It was that damn street drummer.