Congrats to JoeBrooklyn on the win (an hour earlier he cracked my Aces with pocket 7s --- I was able to wrestle the chip lead after many, many hands heads up but immediately turned stoopid and gave it all back ~sigh)
Still... I seem to be on a roll.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Can't touch this! ~ Hammer time.
Thanks to Al for hosting (congrats on squeaking into the money) and to Pauly who transferred $$$ with me between sites so I could play.
Congrats to JoeBrooklyn on the win (an hour earlier he cracked my Aces with pocket 7s --- I was able to wrestle the chip lead after many, many hands heads up but immediately turned stoopid and gave it all back ~sigh)
Still... I seem to be on a roll.
Congrats to JoeBrooklyn on the win (an hour earlier he cracked my Aces with pocket 7s --- I was able to wrestle the chip lead after many, many hands heads up but immediately turned stoopid and gave it all back ~sigh)
Still... I seem to be on a roll.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Pleasure (Guilty)
So last night I'm playing in Wil's tourneys on PokerStars...
Somehow my beautiful hammer play was crushed in the first tourney and I was the 3rd one out (Wil was the second one...) After last week's 2nd place finish (should've taken it all down, but was too upset to write that one up - the $80+ for second was nice though), I was really looking forward to this week's...
k-sara, k-sara
The second chance tourney was a Razz event. Almost everyone was cursing stupid razz, but I have played quite a bit of it and was hoping that this group's general lack of experience with Razz would work to my advantage...
Couldn't gain much traction the first hour, but started getting decent cards after the break and stayed amongst the top until we got down to 16. Struggled mightily to get to the final table, but was severely short-stacked. Top five get paid and after 1BuckyLastrd busted out in 8th, I got the chance to put Will all in and severely kicked his junk to earn choice of game and naming rights for next week (PLO btw).
That was the pleasure part...
(cya there)
The guilty part was even with Wil's chips I was still short-stacked and couldn't catch a break and got knocked out on the bubble... %&*#@!
Somehow my beautiful hammer play was crushed in the first tourney and I was the 3rd one out (Wil was the second one...) After last week's 2nd place finish (should've taken it all down, but was too upset to write that one up - the $80+ for second was nice though), I was really looking forward to this week's...
k-sara, k-sara
The second chance tourney was a Razz event. Almost everyone was cursing stupid razz, but I have played quite a bit of it and was hoping that this group's general lack of experience with Razz would work to my advantage...
Couldn't gain much traction the first hour, but started getting decent cards after the break and stayed amongst the top until we got down to 16. Struggled mightily to get to the final table, but was severely short-stacked. Top five get paid and after 1BuckyLastrd busted out in 8th, I got the chance to put Will all in and severely kicked his junk to earn choice of game and naming rights for next week (PLO btw).
That was the pleasure part...
(cya there)
The guilty part was even with Wil's chips I was still short-stacked and couldn't catch a break and got knocked out on the bubble... %&*#@!
Thursday, January 4, 2007
What's in a name?
OK - this should provide some insight to the "clever" name.
Several years ago when I first started playing on-line (Ultimate Bet), I had to come up with a player name. As much as I love golf and as much as the ultimate golf achievement is the hole in one (ask any golfer, no matter how long they have been playing - they will be able to tell you about their ace in graphic detail; if they don't have one, they can at least tell you how many they have seen).
I had got mine way back on July 6 1990 at Lacoma on the 9th hole. It was not the prettiest shot I ever hit, but I got mine and that put me in the club. My dad was a witness and my brother was in the group ahead of us, which made it all the sweeter. Earlier in the round I was stupid enough to screw up my knee by smashing a boulder with my foot that was hanging out of the cart (because that's how I roll...). I went on to shoot a 78 and only took 5 or 6 years for my knee to feel "right" again.
So I thought the player name "o-hole-ne" (continued when I signed up on PokerStars @ 3 years ago) was not only pithy, but also descriptive. Still amazed at some of the comments it has generated, but that's another story.
Flash forward to September 11, 2004... playing in the "Duke Out". This is an outing with about 40 guys organized by my cousins where we play on a Saturday morning at some "muni" course that changes each year. After the round we head to a local park to grill brats and drink beer and hand out the "prizes"... four-man teams, using the low score of the group for each hole... the highest score on the winning team wins the Duke award and has to wear this really cheesy sport coat (that has some very odd stains) and this goofy gold plastic helmut and a year-long reign.
In 2004 we were playing at Woodbine Bend and my group included my dad (2 aces at that time, one more since), my brother (2 career aces) and my uncle (50 years of golf and 0 aces - and yes, it's killing him). We were all playing poorly when we got to the 15th hole; a tough 185 yarder with an elevated green. The pin was tucked in the back left of the kidney-shaped green, protected by a bunker which prevented seeing the hole. I hit a beautiful 5 iron into the wind with a slight draw and we all held our breath because it was tracking exactly where it needed to go. Now we can only see the flag and the top half of the stick, but we all know it was a really good shot - even one of the other groups on an adjacent hole asked if it when in... my brother is in the cart ahead of us and before I get up to the green he'd tossed a ball from his pocket to the fringe behind the pin and, of course, that's where I thought I ended up. After I get out of the cart and say "oh well", he can't hold it together and admits his evil-ness. Quick check of the cup and "yea baby!"
20 years of "Duke Outs" - first ace ever. Bar tab - huge. Respect and admiration from that many friends and family - awesome. Further tilt put on my uncle - priceless.
Several years ago when I first started playing on-line (Ultimate Bet), I had to come up with a player name. As much as I love golf and as much as the ultimate golf achievement is the hole in one (ask any golfer, no matter how long they have been playing - they will be able to tell you about their ace in graphic detail; if they don't have one, they can at least tell you how many they have seen).
I had got mine way back on July 6 1990 at Lacoma on the 9th hole. It was not the prettiest shot I ever hit, but I got mine and that put me in the club. My dad was a witness and my brother was in the group ahead of us, which made it all the sweeter. Earlier in the round I was stupid enough to screw up my knee by smashing a boulder with my foot that was hanging out of the cart (because that's how I roll...). I went on to shoot a 78 and only took 5 or 6 years for my knee to feel "right" again.
So I thought the player name "o-hole-ne" (continued when I signed up on PokerStars @ 3 years ago) was not only pithy, but also descriptive. Still amazed at some of the comments it has generated, but that's another story.
Flash forward to September 11, 2004... playing in the "Duke Out". This is an outing with about 40 guys organized by my cousins where we play on a Saturday morning at some "muni" course that changes each year. After the round we head to a local park to grill brats and drink beer and hand out the "prizes"... four-man teams, using the low score of the group for each hole... the highest score on the winning team wins the Duke award and has to wear this really cheesy sport coat (that has some very odd stains) and this goofy gold plastic helmut and a year-long reign.
In 2004 we were playing at Woodbine Bend and my group included my dad (2 aces at that time, one more since), my brother (2 career aces) and my uncle (50 years of golf and 0 aces - and yes, it's killing him). We were all playing poorly when we got to the 15th hole; a tough 185 yarder with an elevated green. The pin was tucked in the back left of the kidney-shaped green, protected by a bunker which prevented seeing the hole. I hit a beautiful 5 iron into the wind with a slight draw and we all held our breath because it was tracking exactly where it needed to go. Now we can only see the flag and the top half of the stick, but we all know it was a really good shot - even one of the other groups on an adjacent hole asked if it when in... my brother is in the cart ahead of us and before I get up to the green he'd tossed a ball from his pocket to the fringe behind the pin and, of course, that's where I thought I ended up. After I get out of the cart and say "oh well", he can't hold it together and admits his evil-ness. Quick check of the cup and "yea baby!"
20 years of "Duke Outs" - first ace ever. Bar tab - huge. Respect and admiration from that many friends and family - awesome. Further tilt put on my uncle - priceless.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Two sides of the same coin???
I followed Wil's lead and found the results to be... interesting.
Your results:
You are Superman
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Your results:
You are Lex Luthor
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Your results:
You are Superman
| You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.  |
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Your results:
You are Lex Luthor
| A brilliant businessman on a quest for world domination and the self-proclaimed greatest criminal mind of our time! |
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Thursday, December 21, 2006
Beware of giant beer cans falling on your head!
If, by some miracle, you've found this blog and don't know who Dr. Pauly is...
Please stop whatever you're doing and go to http://mcgrupp.blogspot.com/ and http://taopoker.blogspot.com/ right now.
I would suggest that you start from the beginning and read all of the archives, but you might have other plans for the next six months. I do guarantee, however, that there is no way those other plans could be more entertaining.
Happy Holidays!
vandy
Please stop whatever you're doing and go to http://mcgrupp.blogspot.com/ and http://taopoker.blogspot.com/ right now.
I would suggest that you start from the beginning and read all of the archives, but you might have other plans for the next six months. I do guarantee, however, that there is no way those other plans could be more entertaining.
Happy Holidays!
vandy
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