Finally, A Final Table

  For those who know me, I'm somewhat of a poker fanatic. I've been playing off and on for a while and have even tried to invest a little cash. However, I was way to liberal with most of my calls, so I decided to drop back to freerolls. I played one tonight and finally made the final table. It's been a while since I seen one.
  There were 554 people in the tourney. It was the fastest freeroll I've ever seen mainly because of the format. All but 13 were gone before the first break (55 minutes of play). Everyone started with 300 chips and blinds went up every 2 minutes. I got AQ of hearts on my very first hand and pushed. I got called and spiked an Ace on the turn. Nice, double up. And that's pretty much how most of this tourney was played. One person would push and another would call.
  The pivotal moment in the match was a hand that was against the ordinary play. There was a raise to 480 from UTG. The small blind (who had a fairly big stack) and the big blind (me with a decent stack) called. I had 98 of diamonds and hit a diamond draw on the flop. Small blind leads out with a bet, I call, and UTG folds. My diamond draw connected on the turn and the small blind led out again with a bet and I called. The river paired the board which meant potentially the small blind could have connected with a full house. However, given the format I had to make the most out of this opportunity. I pushed and got called. Luckily, no boat. Flush wins and I more than double up.
  I made it to the final table and played extremely carefully. I had about 8K in chips with the blinds at 500/1000 when we started final table play. I doubled up once with AQ and hit a nice hand with another A. Down to 4 people and the blinds were at 3000/6000 and I got dealt A9 off. I figured I'm still happy with 4th (6th was where I wanted, anything above 6th was bonus) and went all in. I got called with A7 off. We both avoided cards until the river card hit, boom, the 7...4th place money.
  Keep in mind that this is a freeroll. 4th place didn't pay some ridiculous amount of money, but it's an extra $2.19 I can play with. Maybe I can win some big money and pay it back like some really nice people have done for me.
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  Currently Playing: Your Favorite Martian - Bottles of Beer

Songs of the Week: February 23, 2011

  Big week for me in music. I wish I could link you to all the videos, however they haven't perfected the "record a video with your eyes and ears and then upload it to youtube via your brain for the entire world to see" technology yet. And if they have, spooky. 'Nuff said. It's Febrary 23, 2011 and these are my Songs of the Week!DISCLAIMER: Some of the music listed this week could is completely inappropriate for youthful ears. Please take caution when using your mouse to click through links. Enjoy.
    Cee Lo - Fuck You
    Jerrod Neimann - Lover, Lover (Live)
    Jerrod Neimann - Good Ride Cowboy (Live)
    Darius Rucker - Hold My Hand (Live)
    Darius Rucker - Let Her Cry (Live)
    Brad Paisley - Water (Live)
    Brad Paisley - Letter to Me (Live)
    Brad Paisley - Alcohol (Live) (featuring Jerrod Neimann and Darius Rucker)
    Lupe Fiasco - All Black Everything
    Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit)
    Enrique Iglesias - Tonight (I'm Fucking You) (featuring Ludacris and DJ Frank E)
    Usher - OMG (featuring will.i.am)
    MysteryGuitarMan - Doubles
  There you go, my songs of the week. So let me know what you are currently listening to. As you can see there is an insane deficit of punk/rock music in my life. I'm always looking for music and right now in the punk rock/rock department. HELP ME OUT! Leave a message here and throw it down at facebook!

  Currently Playing: MysteryGuitarMan - Doubles

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Lupe Fiasco - All Black Everything

  I just finished hearing Lupe's new song "All Black Everything" and let me tell you, off the chain. If the last two songs weren't enough to build anticipation for Lasers, this song definitly does.
  All Black Everything paints the picture of a world untouched by racism, slavery, and hatred. It talks about how different of a world we would be living in had things been different over the past 400 years. It speaks of no slavery, and how black and white people could get along because of this lack of slavery. With no fear comes no limitations, and thus a glorious America was built from this lack of limitation. From this lack of limitation, drugs have never found there way in, foreign countries are in peace ("Somalia is a great place to relax in"), projects are non existant, and racism has no place in this day and age.
  Now granted, this is just the picture painted. Anyone can paint a picture and conjecture about what may have been had things occurred differently, whether it be in one's personal life or, as Lupe Fiasco has put it, in terms of known history itself. But the picture painted isn't to prove some kind of point of the way things may have been. The picture is simply a representation of something great. A representation of something that we as a collective public should be working toward. Painting a picture of something amazing in the past could theoretically convince the present that our future could be amazing. Lupe brings it to a close in the third verse saying "Uh, and I know it's just a fantasy I cordially invite you to ask why can't it be. Now we can do nothing bout the past but we can do something about the future that we have."
  Give it a listen! Lupe Fiasco - All Black Everything
  

    Currently Playing: All City Chess Club - I'm Beamin' (Remix)

Passing it Along

  Check it out. It's a great blog post on protecting yourself from email phishing: x86computing
    Currently Playing: Janelle Monae - Tightrope (featuring B.o.B. and Lupe Fiasco)

Self Pampering

We all need it. Dlo and I are at Valley View mall as we speak for a much needed day of pampering ourselves and each other. I just spent almost 30 bucks for a haircut. Yeoww. I know right. Dlo is getting her nails done. And I finally came across the little Pooh Bear ornament from Hallmark that I had been looking for. Thank you deep discounts on Xmas items months after Christmas. We are getting ready to head to Tue H2O tour in a few. The show starts at 7:30, assuming Dlo finishes her nails in time!

Songs of the Week(s): Up to Today

  And so I've been slacking in the Songs of the Week Department. I'm a few weeks behind. As such, I'm going to catch you up on what I've been listening to, even though it isn't much!
    Pearl Jam - Better Man
    Rockapella - Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?
  And from the Superbowl Week:
    Wiz Khalifa - Black and Yellow
    Lil' Wayne - Green and Yellow
  And from the last week:
    Lupe Fiasco - Words I Never Said (featuring Skyler Gray)
  P.S. Look for Lupe Fiasco - Lasers, March 8th!
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Birthday Poker Action!

  So I came home last night and decided to hop in a couple freerolls on full tilt poker. The first was a freeroll Razz tournament. For those who don't know much about Razz, it plays very similar to 7 card stud, only the goal is to get the lowest hand possible. The best hand is the nut low (5,4,3,2,A). I don't play Razz very often so I wasn't really expecting that deep of a run. It was a $150 Guaranteed, top 45 places paid. I was doing really good until I ran up against a wall. I had 6,5,3,2,A. It wasn't enough against 6,4,3,2,A. I lost a good ninety percent of my stack to that hand at the time and ended up in 93rd place. BUM-MER!
  For some reason, I decided to hop in a No Limit Hold 'Em Rush tournament last night as well. Again, $150 Guaranteed with the top 45 places paying out. Keep in mind that for much of the night I was playing both tourneys at the same time. It was rather interesting to try this. Anyway, I ran pretty deep and was looking pretty good. I got dealt pocket Kings and played them rather poorly, in my opinion. I'm not sure if I was on tilt a little for the few earlier hands or because it was pretty late and I was getting tired. However, my Kings did not hold up again the Straight Flush (7,8,9,10,J of diamonds) and I busted out in 34th place. Not bad I suppose, but certainly earlier than I wanted and much earlier than I could have done. My efforts earned me a whole $1.35 cents however. Bringing my career tournament winnings to a grand total of $1.42. Go me!

Birthday Amazingness!

  What a great birthday! I got breakfast in bed from Chef's. I love you Dolores! Then, we got the opportunity to go to Koto's in Lynchburg. I had been wanting to go for awhile, so the free lunch on your birthday was definitely an added bonus. Liam thoroughly enjoyed our cook even though he's really afraid of fire (I mean come on, who isn't). We ended the birthday extravaganza at mom's house. She made some stir fry and some mmm good cake for me. It was really good times.
  Now it's T minus whatever until Friday night. Gonna love seeing Brad, Darius, and Jerrod on stage. I'm gonna be holding my baby tight and dancing into the night!
  

You can find anything on the internet

  Seriously. You can find anything on the internet. I just set up a little advertisement on craigslist for x86computing (you can find that advertisement here (shameless self-promotion). I was minding my own business, learning a little more about what craigslist had to offer when I stumbled across something that was most mind boggling: Lightsaber Lessons! Seriously. What, you don't believe me? Here, Lightsaber Lessons! He mentions to call him between anytime. I suggest we all do that. Call him at 3 in the morning (USA East Coast time, just in case anyone was wondering) and demand our free lightsaber lesson.

    Currently Playing: Lupe Fiasco - The Show Goes On