Quads

Quad screen shots and some other fun ones

One

Big day here. First screen shot ever. It is special

Nice to see it happen to me. Kind of restores my faith in the game. Funny I know

As it seems to happen all the time, the player with the best hand pre-flop ends up in last place.

Daughter

Overheard my 3 year old daughter talking to 4 year old friend.

"Lucas lives in your nose." "Do you know what you take to get rid of lucas?"

Friend, "uh uh"

Daughter. "Super lucas"


Mucus

Mucinex

Too funny.

Ben Folds

Went to see Ben Folds a while back. He was playing liberty Hall in Lawrence. Kate Miller Heidke opened for him. I can not recommend her more. Felt like we were given a gift at $35 a ticket.

Ben Folds is probably my favorite artist. His music speaks to me. I think he is a musical genius. I like his profanity. I like his humor. I named my daughter Gracie. Some might call it a man crush. Fine. I can live with that.

I had plan to pseudo stalk him that afternoon before the show. I had a couple of free hours and I was gonna haunt downtown streets, hoping for the "run in". Ben is from Chapel Hill and I think Lawrence has the same feel. He often says in concerts near but not in Lawrence that he is quite fond of it. Multiple friend have run into him downtown the day of shows.

Well kids got sick and I had to do that instead. Bummer oh well. Still going to the show. Turns out a long time friend was getting her kids hair cut downtown and Folds walked in to the same joint to get his own trim. Jealous? Fuck yeah. Remember, man crush. Saw the picture on a social networking site. Screw you Karen.

Wife and I went to the show. Like I said Mary Kate Heidke, Super Bonus. Folds was great too. I like just him and the Piano, especially at the more intimate venues like Liberty hall.

Decided to go eat at Freestate Brewery next door. Had a beer and apps and then left due to the strange music choice. Rap. At Freestate. Really. Ask Pokerpeaker. Really strange choice. Not the Freestate vibe at all. It was extremely loud too.

Anyway we leave and head down Mass street to our car. We cross 7th street headed south. Liberty Hall sits on the corner of 7th and Massachusetts. How the hell does one spell cady corner. Cati corner? Caddy corner? Kati corner. I don't know but caddy corner to Liberty Hall is the Eldrdge Hotel. As we cross the street we notice all the "groupies" surrounding the tour bus. We kind of laugh as we step up on the curb and looked at each other as we kept walking. A man had come across the street from the hotel and passed us as we cleared the stop light pole. We walk a few more paces and the groupies erupt. We look back to see what the clamour was about. The man who passed us was pulling a suit case on wheels and had almost reached the Liberty Hall side. Yep Ben Fucking Folds. He passed so close to us we could have kissed him.

Just shook my head in disbelief. My wife looked at me and said "You do love me!"

Yeah.

KU Football

Turner Gill.

Meh. How I felt about him when first heard the news.

Now, after the press conference, he is starting to grow on me.

Rare "Sport" post

I don't know if anyone really cares about this, but here it goes.

Nebraska vs. Kansas

Jayhawks lost 31-17. Blow out, right? Not really. KU lead with ten minutes to go 17-16. They pooched kicked and got the return stuffed down their throats. NU scores a TD and two point conversion to go up by seven. Okay. Kansas gets the ball back with a few ticks over six minutes left. They had all three time outs. KU starts passing like there is only 2 minutes left. They go three and out and have to punt.

Pissed. Pissed because the previous go ahead drive KU had was a result of running the ball. Opuram was getting four yards a pop (at least) on the vaunted Nebraska defense. And guess what? The passing game blew wide open. KU's coaching staff needs their heads examined. Six minutes is an eternity. Especially with all three time outs left. RUN THE BALL.

Don't fucking panic and stick with what fucking works. FUCK. Win a damn game please. Coach please. Take responsibility please.

I have said it before. You give Bill Snyder the talent that Kansas has and he wins at minimum 10 games. EASY. Probably 11. Only loss at Texas. KU has at least four players on the roster that will play on Sunday's. K-State has maybe one.

No excuse for the train wreck this season has become. KUAC built state of the art football facilities. Mangino and staff are in the top ten highest paid staffs in all NCAA football.

Stop blaming the players and do something to earn you millions.

FUCK.

Convert

Well this guy has been espousing the virtues of the mighty 2-4. I had been a reluctant convert to the cult of the 2-4. Well not anymore. Thanks to the Poker Grump, and a great hand last night, I will never doubt it again.

I have been running poorly at my home game as of late. Getting beat when I "think" I should win. Therefore leading to my poor play. Cause dang it, I'm due. Well last night was poker night. It started off OK but then turned into a grind. Hitting no hands. Even the hands I folded were not hitting. Then it happened. The 2-4 hand.

I am in the cutoff. Nine handed table. 4 limpers to me I call. Button calls. Blinds calls. The big blind makes it three more to go. I should tell you it is a .25/.50 game. Calls all the way around to me I call, you know, pot odds. Button calls and the small blind folds. Lots of money in there. I start chanting in my head, "come on 2/4. Come on 2/4." Over and over. The flop answers me with 3 5 8 with two hearts. Not bad, but predictably annoying. You know. Poker. I am resolved to paying a high price to draw because it is getting late and dang it, I'm due. Then the greatest thing happens, I get a walk. I was dancing in my head. That's where I am with this game. A free draw feels like a win. I know, I know. It's all one long excruciating session. Well it should not be. It is just not fair.

Turn.

ACE OF DIAMONDS. Can you say money card. I have soiled myself. Heart pounding like a..oh I don't know...like a jack rabbit caught in a bug zapper. Anyway. It is checked to me. I bet 3/4 the pot. Original raiser flat calls. Everyone else scatters like a recently liberated jack rabbit running from a bug zapper.

River

ACE OF SPADES, Bleh. Really fun card. Right? Only card that would have been better is the ace of hearts. Small miracle. Well I would like to tell you that I bet $10 at the pot. I only had $11 left after that. I would like to tell you that I got check raised all in. And that I called and he showed AK for a really pretty second best hand. Yay me right?. Well I will then, because that is what happened. He never saw it coming. No way he puts me on that hand. It was awesome. He thought it was a kicker race. No sir that was just a good old fashioned 2/4 butt kicking.

Thanks Poker Gods.

And thank you Poker Grump.

I believe.