Here's a few things that happened recently

1. I played in a home game with some TERRIBLE people this Friday. I couldn't believe how bad they were. There were 14 people who bought in for $20 each and once it got 4 handed I had a pretty decent chip lead. However, the blinds were extremely high, my cards ran cold, and there was NO WAY you could steal a pot from these noobs. If I could have only caught a decent, playable hand here and there, the tournament would have been mine. There was some bad luck involved too. Namely this DONKEY play:

I had about 10,000 blinds were 500/1,000. I haven't raised a hand in ages, getting blinded down like crazy. So from the button I raise to 5,000 with KQ. The guy on my left who is super loose and sucks like crazy calls. He only has like 500 left but for some crazy reason he didn't push in all his chips.

Flop A J J. I bet the rest, he calls and stands up "I lost...dangit." Turn comes a 4, river a 9.

He flips over 34 and wins the pot.
That didn't make me mad. What made me mad was that he started talking a bunch of trash about how he just crushed me with 34. Eventually he took me out and then proceeded to talk even more trash. What a little punk.

2. Saturday (my birthday), I didn't do anything. I managed to win a SNG in the morning, played basketball, took a nap, and then realized that my FT was down! WTFFF!!! So I did the stupid thing I said I wouldn't do and played with my remaining PS money. I lost like $50. Not a lot of money except I new it was already gone before I even started playing.

3. Sunday morning, I played a SNG on FT cuz it was back up and managed to win by dominating a bunch of noobies.

On a poker side note: Why do I always get the super aggressive guy on my left? Or the guy who never folds to anything but an all in raise when the blinds are big? It's crazy, but the last few tournaments I have been severely handcuffed by these types of players because you can't really steal from them. So to combat that, I've just been trying to be more patient and hoping to get lucky against them with any advantage I can find.

Also, I can't remember the last time I finished third in a SNG. Maybe my short handed/heads up game is getting better. woo hoo!

4. Later Sunday I went to watch "21" with Brian Choi, Jane Chung, Robin Djang, and my friend Judy. We had a little bit of time left before the movie so we went to the little arcade where they happened to have an old Marvel vs. Capcom game in the corner. Jane was like "Oh! I know how to play this!" So she puts in a quarter, and Robin decides to join her as Player 2. Immediately, I said "Man Robin, you're gonna get owned by Jane so bad." Btw, Jane is the type of player who just presses all the buttons like a maniac. To make a short story even shorter, Jane dominated Robin as he shriveled in humiliation. Later, we found him still frantically searching around the machine for his balls.

5. I watched a guy run three red lights in a row in Boston. There are times when you might not see a red light and you just run it. This was not one of those times. Each time, the guy paused for a second at the red light and proceeded to run them without conscience. It was pretty amazing.