LLWS

it's little league world series time, and i always seem to get hooked. Unfortunately, there are no California teams, so i'm rooting for Hawaii and Japan. Always gotta support those little japanese kids. I'm watching a winner's bracket game right now, and Chinese Taipei is beating Canada 22-0 in the 4th winning, wow. They are looking like the favorite right now.

came across this guy on youtube. i'm such a loser, but sooooo sick

royal

PokerStars Game #48438814071: Tournament #303219032, $30.00+$1.50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2010/08/20 19:18:32 ET
Table '303219032 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: pokerpetya89 (1640 in chips)
Seat 2: iNViZiGO (1360 in chips)
iNViZiGO: posts small blind 10
pokerpetya89: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to iNViZiGO [Qh Kh]
iNViZiGO: raises 40 to 60
pokerpetya89: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [3c Ts Ah]
pokerpetya89: bets 80
iNViZiGO: calls 80
*** TURN *** [3c Ts Ah] [Jh]
pokerpetya89: checks
iNViZiGO: bets 120
pokerpetya89: calls 120
*** RIVER *** [3c Ts Ah Jh] [Th]
pokerpetya89: bets 220
iNViZiGO: raises 880 to 1100 and is all-in
pokerpetya89: calls 880
*** SHOW DOWN ***
iNViZiGO: shows [Qh Kh] (a Royal Flush)
pokerpetya89: shows [Td 2d] (three of a kind, Tens)
iNViZiGO collected 2720 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2720 | Rake 0
Board [3c Ts Ah Jh Th]
Seat 1: pokerpetya89 (big blind) showed [Td 2d] and lost with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 2: iNViZiGO (button) (small blind) showed [Qh Kh] and won (2720) with a Royal Flush

1) it's not very often you get action with a royal flush, but i guess you can't fold trip 10s



PokerStars Game #48442872277: Tournament #303241280, $30.00+$1.50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2010/08/20 21:08:10 ET
Table '303241280 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: iNViZiGO (1425 in chips)
Seat 2: mutchler29 (1575 in chips)
iNViZiGO: posts small blind 15
mutchler29: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to iNViZiGO [As 8c]
iNViZiGO: raises 30 to 60
mutchler29: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [Kd Jd Tc]
mutchler29: checks
iNViZiGO: checks
*** TURN *** [Kd Jd Tc] [Qc]
mutchler29: checks
iNViZiGO: bets 60
mutchler29: calls 60
*** RIVER *** [Kd Jd Tc Qc] [4h]
mutchler29: checks
iNViZiGO: bets 120
mutchler29: raises 390 to 510
iNViZiGO: raises 390 to 900
mutchler29: calls 390
*** SHOW DOWN ***
iNViZiGO: shows [As 8c] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
mutchler29: shows [6h 9c] (a straight, Nine to King)
iNViZiGO collected 2040 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2040 | Rake 0
Board [Kd Jd Tc Qc 4h]
Seat 1: iNViZiGO (button) (small blind) showed [As 8c] and won (2040) with a straight, Ten to Ace
Seat 2: mutchler29 (big blind) showed [6h 9c] and lost with a straight, Nine to King

once there are 4 cards to the straight, most times i just feel like just calling because i assume we are splitting, but then again, i do have the nuts, and there are some dumb-dumb people that get carried away with the ass-end of the 4 card straight.

almost forgot

I went to the giants game with scott, jill, and two of their friends against the padres last week. Scott and I made our usual prop bets like we usually do. however, there wasn't much of a sweat because i locked up a few categories in the early innings. however, we started betting on a game we call male-female. We started this at the bazaar by waiting outside the gym doors. We would bet on if a male or female would walk out of the door next. Sooooo, for the giants game, there was a little platform area where people would walk onto before they started to walk up the stairs. We decided to play, first to 25 of that gender wins, rock-paper-scissors, winner picks male or female. Male won.

Then i started to bet with jill, males go to 25, females go to 20. I think I had males one time, and there was this dumb-dumb female who ran over the platform, then quickly ran right back to where she was, tilt! Then one time, we saw what looked like a male walk up, so Jill counted male. But after further review, we weren't so sure it was a male. BUT FORTUNATELY, this person walked down our row, so I decided to squash any controversy by asking this person "where are you guys sitting?" and this person said something I don't remember, but it was clearly a male voice.

But i think the funniest part of our game was when a hooded male quickly walked up and sat down in the first few rows. Jill pretty much yelled out "What is that!?"
haha

oh, and the giants lost

august

For 2 years now, I wanted a reason to buy a new skateboard, and now I have mine. Jill offered to buy my old skateboard so she can learn. So weeee, I get to buy a new skateboard.

I bought the first 3 seasons of Weeds, hope it’s better than Friday Night Lights.
Went to the Giants game last night and ugh, we sat by the smelliest guy I’ve ever smelled before. It was very very uncomfortable, so I told andy we had to switch seats after the 4th inning. I offered a rock-paper-scissors game, loser sits by mr. smelly for the whole game, but he wasn’t in the gambling mood I guess. But giants win! 5-4

Andy showed me his new Beats headphones, and OMGeeee, I need some. I went to best buy this morning to compare the Beats vs. the Bose. I actually like the Bose better, but I’m afraid to spend about half of what my laptop costs on headphones, especially because I’m notorious for breaking/losing headphones.

While also looking for a car, I want a desktop! I’ve wanted one for about 2 years now. I can’t wait, once I get a desktop, I think I’m going to buy Hold’em Manager which is a poker tracking software. And I also need a new office chair, I think it’ll be a good investment, especially now that I’m on the computer more.

Something I’ve been thinking about recently is my investment in Tim lincecum. It’s obvious that he’s not the timmy of the past 2 years. It’s like the movie, Rookie of the year, but real. (Float it!? Mom?! Yeaaa!) But anyway, I’m not talking about the jersey that I have. I’m talking about my pokerstars picture/avatar. I thought you could change it every few months or so, but no, you can’t change it, EVER! wtf, so for as long as I play online poker, I’m going to see Tim Lincecum, I hope he turns it around soon. It is a badass picture though.

I was playing on ftp, and some guy asked me if I was a girl. I always like to play along, I said yes, and then he asked how old I was and where I was from. I said 22 and from Los Angeles. Then this fcuker asked if he could add me on facebook so that he “can see me”. Gross weirdo

Derek’s NEW girlfriend came over for dinner on Monday, and showed me this video

bang bang

-My dad thinks this video is real, I told him “lol u”


-fun weekend with the guys! Played basketball on Wednesday, Thursday we went to eat at Emerald, then we went to Applebee’s because we wanted to eat good in the neighborhood. We of course made some bets, the most interesting one being if Steve can list all 50 states without looking at a map. He had 1 more state and everyone was looking at the list trying to figure out which state he needed to get to 50. So, this person, we’ll call Her Phil, walks up to his or her boyfriend, and whispers something into his ear, and the boy leans back and says “that’s a city”. Hahaha

-we planned to go fishing Friday morning, so after applebee’s we went to my future residence (grandma’s house) and played poker. We decided to play all night and just go around 6 or 7 in the morning. Pretty fun conversations, debates, and whatnot. The most shocking to me was the fact that scottmizuno.com says he would rather see the Lakers beat the Heat in the NBA finals. But anyway, staying up all night was not the best idea. After about 2 hours of fishing, everyone (but 2 people) were asleep, either at their poles or in the cars. When we decided to go, Scott was still sleeping at his pole, and I reeled in his line, and there was a small fish on the other end.

-I’m officially looking to buy a car, so if you know someone who is selling a car, please let me know. Currently I’m looking for a Civic or an Accord, looking for $15,000 max.

-Bazaar last weekend was fun. Forget hi-lo (rigged gambling dice game), it was way more fun to bet $5 with Scott on all the kiddie games. But, how do you lose Amaze-O 5 times in a row?! So sick. It was late, and Scott and I got to talking about Boy Meets World for some reason, I said I liked the college episodes better, and he said he liked the elementary school episodes better, so we had to make a bet. We decided on asking the question on Mick’s facebook status, first to 3 wins. I think I won 3-2. Eric is way funnier in college.

-Eat Pray Love. This is probably really gay, but I really want to watch that movie. It just inspired me to travel the world. I’m half serious, I want to travel somewhere for like 6 months or so. It has to be out of California ( I think). I just got the travel bug I guess, I would even be down to go back to Las Vegas again for a month if someone wanted to go with me. But we’ll see, Scott and I were talking about a Tahoe trip.

-if you're bored and like sports, youtube "national treasures basketball", and then select "upload date", and watch away! $400 boxes of basketball cards.

-if you're bored and like poker, watch these 5 free videos,
http://www.cardrunnersvideochallenge.com/#/submission2

national treasures

this is the equivalent to Upper Deck Exquisite
boxes are $400-500 ish, but OMG, this stuff is beautiful
I am such a nerd

goodbye vegas, you bitch

I got extremely tired of blogging toward the end of the trip. But here are some bullets.
-We saw two shows at the Excalibur, Tournament of the Kings and Louie Anderson. Louie Anderson was really funny and well worth the $35 or whatever it was. It was definitely catered to an older crowd, but Steve and I still had a good time. We went to the TOK the night before and that was fun too. This definitely catered to the younger crowd (under 10), but we still had fun eating and rooting for Espana. So two nights, two shows, both didn’t cater to our age group. After Louie, we went back to the MGM to play the beginner’s game where I managed to lose $100 in about 45 minutes, lol me.
-We went to the USA blue/white scrimmage which was the best value for the entire trip. Seeing all the players up close was pretty awesome. I somehow managed to lose the damn tickets 2 days before the game, but fortunately, we printed them out at Starbucks. We obv made some bets and it came down to Steph Curry. With about 6 minutes left in the game, I think I need Curry to have 5 more points, but he was on the bench at this time. As usual, I offered a buy-out (knowing that I was the underdog). Steve politely saed no thanks. However, he came back in the game. I set the line at 13.5 points, and he had 13 with less than 2 minutes left. But he got fouled and went to shoot 2. I don’t know how, but he rimmed the first one out, and I was thinking, no way he can miss 2. However, he drained the second to give him 14, and stood up and did a fist pump, I’m pretty sure people thought I was crazy. But yeah good game, and I definitely want to go back. Oh, and Kloe Kardashian sat a row in front of us. They eventually had to move because so many people were asking to take pictures with her. No joke, she is very unattractive in real person, very bad acne and just ugh, really Lamar? really?
I really can’t remember what else we did for the last week. I started to play a lot of poker at the Stratosphere just because it was comfortable. The game is pretty nitty at times though, and usually filled with 3-5 guys that know each other. Whatever, I like playing against old nits who think they are good. I had a few good sessions over the last week. I played blackjack once at Stratosphere, and proceeded to lose $40 in no joke, probably 6 minutes. People don’t believe me, but I honestly do not like gambling that much. I like making bets, but I don’t like gambling. I’m pretty sure that makes no sense.
On the last day, we decided to try and stay up all night because we had to leave for our flight at about 9am. So we went to the Sahara and played 2-4 limit. I’ve never played limit live, but I have online. This game was awesome, no one really takes it serious, everyone is talking, joking, and having a great time. For the next 5 hours or so, I got hit in the head with the deck. I was flopping 2 pair, my big pairs were holding up, I was turning flushes, it was crazy.
-I miss Vegas, but my future trips are going to be weird for me. 4 days in Vegas? That’s way too short. I do want to go back, but I would want to only go back for a month, or nothing.
-I absolutely hate live poker. I had a few good tables, and by that I mean I enjoyed my table and had a great time talking with people. But for the most part, I just hate listening to guys talk “poker strategy” at the tables. I think the biggest part of my hatred for live poker comes from my online history. I play 3-4 tables heads up at a time, so maybe 200-300 hands for every 30 minutes. But in live poker, you get maybe 20 hands an hour?
-Steve and I went on Insanity on the top of Stratosphere. I’ve never really been scared on a ride before, but man, it was pretty scary. Dangling from the top of 108 floors high, wow.
-Overall, a great month in Vegas!
-I just watched “True Life, I’m moving to Vegas”. I love mtv