3/30

this girl is going to be trouble.

Dwan is a monster

This hand was on the new season of high stakes poker season 6. And it is probably one of the most interesting poker hands that I have ever seen.
This is a cash game, no tournament chips, cash game. The blinds were at $300-$600 with a $100 ante from each player. The game was 6 handed when this hand went down. I think Ivey and Dwan are $700k or so deep.
My thoughts:
-Dwan is a beast. He’s just on a completely different level than most poker players. The entire poker community has admitted that Phil Ivey is the best poker player in the world. To even attempt to triple barrel bluff Ivey is insane. He has balls of steel.
-I think the flop call is standard because Ivey is in position. Position is huge in this hand. Because just think, if the diamond comes on the turn or river, Dwan could bet big and represent the flush. And he would be in for a big raise.
-The turn call is interesting by Ivey. I mean, he understands that any diamond gives him the pot. But, he can’t conclude that an ace would give him the best hand. Even a jack would most likely split the pot. But even so, a Queen of diamonds would pair the board, and if Dwan has what he is representing (pocket queens or kings), dwan would have a full boat. So, only 8 clean diamonds would give him the ‘nuts.’ I’m assuming Ivey probably figured that if he missed, and Dwan checked, that he could bet and take it away.
-On the river, Dwan shows how big his balls are. He fires the third bullet after the pot it already above $400,000 which is just incredible. Most people wouldn’t even think of bluffing Ivey in this spot. But how badass is Ivey, the first thing he responds with is “how much is that, and how much do you have left”. I mean are you kidding, that’s sick. If I were Ivey, I’d let out a big sigh and complain. But no, he makes Dwan sweat it out for a while. I honestly thought he was going to call, but in the end, Dwan scoops the pot. Just sick.

-It’s funny how Negreanu thinks he “knows” what Ivey has. Bull shit, are you kidding me. I hate it when poker players say they “knew” something. Like after they call with the losing hand, they say “I knew you had that.” Bull shit, you didn’t know. And I like how Eli falls asleep during this hand. I would have paid so much money to just sit at the table and watch.

heartless

I would definitely say Nicky is way more emotional than I am, but even she surprised me this time. I was flipping through the channels, and I came across The Parent Trap with Lindsay Lohan on the Disney channel. (I thought there were actually two girls in the movie for the longest time, til high school maybe, I hope I’m not the only one) But anyway, it was the part when the Dad beats the mom back to Europe and surprises her. It was def the happy part of the movie, and they kiss and blah blah blah. I look over at Nicky and she is absolutely captivated, and then I see a tear run down her face. Haha We were seriously watching the movie for about 8 minutes, and in those 8 minutes, she got so attached to the movie that she actually started to cry. I thought it was pretty funny, just kidding. No, it was pretty funny.

oma

Went to visit Oma at the mall today, and it was hilarious. She was talking about random things like normal. And then she just asks me ‘what does premature mean’
I just start laughing and tried to explain it. I didn’t know what else to say, so I just said, ‘that when a baby is born before the due date, that baby is premature.’ She said ok, and that was that. But then, all of a sudden, she starts saying “mimi is premature” multiples times

ucsb +17

Andrew Bynum needs to make some changes.
I like Andrew Bynum a lot, I even drafted him in my fantasy draft last year. He’s very solid. Can shoot with a high percentage, can rebound when Pau is out, block some shots, and shoot decent from the free throw line. But he’s missing something. He has no swagger. He reminds me of a rich kid who doesn’t know how to play ‘street.’ I know I always claim to hate kobe, but kobe has ‘it’, Michael Jordan had ‘it’.

They know they’re good. They want someone to start talking crap so they can punish them in the end. They’re just winners.

I just want one time when Andrew Bynum dunks it, to just look the defender in the eye, and yell something. He just looks so damn timid all the time. I mean, even Spencer Hawes yells after he dunks. He just needs to let out a kevingarnett-type yell. I want to see him dunk it and just yell “get the fckk off me”. He needs to watch some Kendrick perkins tape, and do what he does, just try and look as pissed off as possible during the entire game.

If he starts yelling or not, he needs some tattoos. I think every basketball player needs a couple tattoos. Basically, he needs some street cred. I’m thinking something like ‘sacrifice’ ‘trust’ ‘loyalty’ or even his area code, just something. I mean, anything will work. I don’t know one of JR smith’s tattoos, but damn, he has instant street cred. And if he wants to be a super bad-ass, he should get a tat on his neck.

If he doesn’t like those options, he should get a DUI. Too much maybe

do one of these

destined to lose

I need to stop watching bay area sports. It depresses me more than anything else in the world. It’s so frustrating. Of course I watched the Warriors blow a big lead to Portland on ESPN the other day. Before every game I watch, I say to myself over and over, “The warriors are going to lose tonight, but I’ll just watch the game.” And during every single game, they give me a sliver of hope that maybe they can win. Then bam, I get emotionally attached to the game, and they end up breaking my heart. I can’t do it anymore.
It’s so sick how they give false hope, but seem to never close the deal. I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I have this mentality with every game that I watch, that the team I’m rooting for is going to lose in the most crushing way possible. Games that come to mind are:
1. When the giants lost to the Rockies with a walk off grand slam
2. When the Warriors were up by 2 with like a second left to the nugs, and jr smith draws the foul and drains the free throws FTW
3. When the 49ers lost to a miracle pass by Favre for their first loss of the 2009 season
This ‘bay area mentality’ has me scared to death about fantasy bball playoffs. I’m the number 1 seed after a very very lucky draft day. I have a bye, but I just have this feeling that I’m going to lose and not make it to the championship. I mean, how could I win? That just wouldn’t be right.

-luol deng gets hurt
-andray blatche messed up his ankle

first round exit?

I used to catch cats

It's true. I saw a person walking a dog today at school and i remembered how I used to catch cats. We had a stupid cat named Tiger when i was probably 10 or 11 years old. We didn't treat him very well. We kept him outside, and we didn't have a liter box for him. We kind of just let him do his own thing. But anyway, a couple of times, there would be a couple of kittens walking around in our back yard. The kittens would eat the cat food and drink the water. I didn't want the kittens to think that this was their home, so I caught them. I had this big tub type thing and I propped it up with a stick. I tied a piece of rope to the stick so that I can pull it, and the tub would drop down. So, I put food under the tub, and when the kittens would go to eat it, I would pull the stick and bam, kitten caught!

Thinking about it now, this is so messed up and illegal. I didn't kill the kitten or anything, but i'm sure I scared the crap out of it.