Stuff and Things

Poker on good friday....not in the bible

2005-03-27T19:30:00.000-08:00

Here is the deal,

There was a poker tournament on friday (good friday, this probably was not good in terms of God and stuff) for a fund raiser but money was involved. I had some extra time and why not see if i could hold my own against strangers. Mike Evans and i went and at the start i was a little nervous, i had never played with strangers, much less 127 freakin' people!!!

My goal was not to be the first out and that happened after the first hand at the table next to me! Some guy went all in on a ace high flush and got beat with a boat, nuts.

As the evening went on more and more people left, I was never a big shot with chips but i held my own. I played conservative mostly but when i was agressive i went for it all and went all in about 10 times before it was all over.

When the dust settled i was fourth and got $175, which will of course be going to the church. It was fun and beating 124 other people was pretty cool as well. Mike got 27 which is awesome as well and he played 120's while waiting for me, great guy indeed.

Project due tomorrow and i just need to bind it, so anouther step until finishdom, pretty crazy...

P.wall

Are we really near the end............

2005-03-24T18:53:00.000-08:00

Hey Hey,

Today was our classes presentation for out senior projects. As per usual we did a great job, higlights include Pedro "my project has nothing to dso with the ocean" quote, spencer's "this isn't magic" quote and crane almost throwing up on the podium :)

It was a great day, the usual stress over presenting but I think it went well and we had a few afterwards.

It is sinking in that this ride is almost over, 5 years is a long time and I never thought my life would have so much direction......

feelin' the heat

2005-03-20T17:53:00.000-08:00

Well,

it is Sunday march 20 and in four days I give a presentation for my final project in my scholastic career (hopefully). Normally speaking is my thing but what worries me more is the following week and the demonstration in front of a panel of learned elders or something like that. I have this feeling once I finish telling them what I did they are going to say "are you fucking kidding us!?!" and punch me in the junk, very very hard. I have a habit of over worrying about this stuff so it is probably just my mind wondering in the deep recesses of my non-confident side.

I assume that the rest of the class is in the same boat but I will know more on Thursday with the presentations. It is in front of the class and anyone can make their shit sound good, but I will be able to tell if I will look like an idiot the following week. This means if all goes well I will have a somewhat stressful week but nothing over whelming, but if everyone has found a cure for cancer then I will push myself in front of a truck on the way to school at my earliest convenience.

Here hoping this isn't my last blog :)

P.wall

Can't win em' all......

2005-02-23T20:30:00.000-08:00

Well,

we had another Poker tourney this week and it was the usual suspects, mius a few and plus some others. I knew chances of winning would be slim at best, but as long as i made it for a while i would be happy and not feel like the flash in the pan.

The inital tabel had some massive skills with phil, naeim, reid-o and a few dark horses at the table i had my work cut out for me. As per usual i started off slow, i wasn't getting much and tried to play conservative. Ii got down on some busted flushes and that meant i had to fold on a couple of full houses due to lack of concrete goodness.

This won't turn out happy for me as i did bow out as the final table (a respectable 6th place out of 15 ) but i did get to bust out one Phil Ryan, a stellar player and crazy hard to read. He had bought a ton of pots and i got him on kings on the flop. I doubled up and got to the final table with 40 ish dollars. It wasn't in the cards for me this time, i ran into some bad cards and a young pup named matthew beverely who read me like a book and took many many of my dollars. Reid-o ended up winning and couldn't have hapened to a better guy, hope he doesn't spend it on magic beans... :)

Until next time,

P.wall

OnG - Bak not to be fucked with...for real

2005-02-13T13:50:00.000-08:00

Well,

We ( electrical boys and Lady ) saw ONG BAK on Friday, a movie that looked to be a ton of kicking and anger. My expectations were not high; I was going to see one or two good groin/face shots and possibly a boob.

It turned out to be 1.5 hours of awesome awesome Muay Thai action. The action was fast and brutal, most one on one fights ended with the main good guy causing irreversible brain damage to his foes via his fist, elbow, knee, foot, bow staff or tonfas. I am pretty sure they killed at least 30 extras due to blood clotting and I loved every second of it.

The plot was from the big book of foreign action movies but the hand-to-hand bludgeoning was crazy good. I will be picking this DVD up when it comes out and maybe I will try to "borrow" it off the Internet right.......now.

Stay tuned for more random thought and possibly negative comments about life :)

Pwall

Busy Week......Poker Stars

2005-02-11T18:30:00.000-08:00

Well I have already started to slack on this "blog" but I am new at this so be patient, if indeed anyone is reading these random thoughts.

My recap will start on Saturday and the first annual 8 Byron st. Poker classic. It was a mixed field of the Tuesday night crew and folks in the electrical class who have been bitten by the poker bug.

There were two tables and mine had Reid, ricketts, ray, mob and Evans (who I had a side wager with to see who would last longer). Once the tables got down to three it would be a final table playing for $120, $80 and $40 and of course bragging rights until the next event.

To start I was a little nervous, this wasn't the regular game, at any point all the chips could go in and decisions would have to be made. After the first few hands were played I was on the outside looking in and my thought/fears had been answered, pots were big and I needed to pick my times to enter.

Evans became the horse at our table, playing bully very well and he was amassing most of MOB's chips. I had moved up to an impressive 36 dollars and I wanted to make my move to the final table. I remember the next hand oh so well, but isn't that always the way when you lose. Basically I had a 7 high straight off the flop, pretty sweet indeed and I had Evans in for a bunch. The next card was an 8 and I made my move to put the pressure on Evans. I figured he may have two pair so I put him all in and he accepted, he had two pair but also 4 clubs. The pot was now at 35 dollars and it was the most money I had wagered in my life but things have to be done to win I thought. The river came and it was 2 .....clubs, Evans had pulled it out and I was numb. It was a sureal feeling, having the odds and not coming in second, not a great felling but at least i had money left, but not much I thought I had lost my shot and I was doomed to watch Dave chappelle for 6 plus hours. I did manage to pick myself off the floor and with the help of a full house Kings and Queens and I got to the final table with a paltry $18 of a possible $240.

The final table had myself, ricketts, Phil, Evans, crane and Matthew Beverley smith, who learned the game in a day and a half and it was the highlight of my night that he did so well. I was being pushed out of pots by dollar blinds, Phil and Evans but I had to wait for cards. I went all in with 8 bucks on a A 3 pair and survived against Phil. I got a pot or two more and was up to about 20 bucks and I got dealt pocket kings!!!! This was it I needed a good flop and I could really become part of this game. The flop wasn't helpful but I couldn't waste this so I was all in and multiple people matched me. The straight was there on the table and I only had a pair, my heart beating waiting for the last card, like I had just stole a chocolate bar from the corned store. Mike had pushed out the others on side pots and we waited for the final card, it came and mike showed he didn't have it; I went up to 80 dollar! I had the same numb feeling, I was flushed and maybe it's sad but it was pretty exhilarating even though it was relatively small bucks.

After that ricketts joined bev in leaving and crane helped put out Phil and then he left himself due to his ride going to kill him if he stayed later. It was down to Evans and I and It was over before it started. Evans went all in and I got the queen on the turn and I had won. Ten hours, $120 + the five for the side bet, and a ton of fun. Holdem' is a crazy game and at our level it is still about getting the cards but sometimes it works out and it was pretty sweet.

That update was pretty damn good even though it was 6 days later. Stay tuned for another poker related comment and the best movie I have seen I a while.

Later Y'all,

P.Wall

Raisins

2005-02-03T16:52:00.000-08:00

Hello Y'all,

Well this is my first "Blog" in this life time but I usually have more than enough to say so this will help me control my constant thoughts.

My first thought came to me this afternoon as I searched for crystal Light at Sobeys in the Avalon mall. I was unsure where it was located as this was not my regular grocery store and I was using the aisle signs to guide me. Crystal light to the best of my knowledge would be in the powered drink/soft drink area as I assumed that the six separate words on the signs would be not be specific enough to say crystal light. As I past one of the aisles I looked up to the sign and one of the words on the sign was RAISINS!?!?!?!?! WTF how is that a valid word to describe the aisle that had can goods, pasta, baking items and others. I don't even know of types of raisins, just raisins and that’s it, I hope it helped the one shit head in a million who couldn't find his GD raisins. It just goes to show that stupid people are in charge and it is wrong.

That felt pretty good, I guess that now the waves of anger can leave my chest. Hopefully the rest of these random thought will be more positive but that probably won't happen... oh yeah I found my crystal light and I hate raisins.

Pwall