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King of Comebacks

We don't play at Smiths that often, the smoke and people are damaging to anyone's health :).

However the last two times we have gone I have made crazy comebacks.

Last night I was down to $250 chips at $100/$200 blinds with 3 tables and ended up finishing 7th.
The time before that I was down to $300 at $100/$200 blinds and finished 4th.

Can I Get A Hell Yeah!

From Yahoo News: Dr Pepper is making good on its promise of free soda now that the release of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" is a reality. The soft-drink maker said in March that it would give a free soda to everyone in America if the album dropped in 2008. "Chinese Democracy," infamously delayed since recording began in 1994, goes on sale Sunday.

"We never thought this day would come," Tony Jacobs, Dr Pepper's vice president of marketing, said in a statement. "But now that it's here, all we can say is: The Dr Pepper's on us."

Beginning Sunday at 12:01 a.m., coupons for a free 20-ounce soda will be available for 24 hours on Dr Pepper's Web site. They'll be honored until Feb. 28.

Full Tilt

I blame Matt.  He got me into this mess.  I've racked up over 30,000 points at Full Tilt in my first week of play.  Strangely, my favorite part of playing online isn't accumulating the fictitious money.  Rather, I get more lolz at Full Tilt than I ever expected...mostly from watching the chat window. I summarize below a conversation I had just this evening:

moron123: CMON PEPEOL BET

moron123: JSUT BET

moron123: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

moron123: WAKE UP WAKE UP

moron123: OH THAT WAS REALLY STUPID

emdeeay: please type louder.  we can't hear you.

moron123: YOUR GOING TO HAER WHEN I WIN THE NEXT HADN

emdeeay: no, really.  you should add lots of exclamation points to your sentences.  that way, we will all pay attention.

Dealer: emdeeay wins the pot (4625) with a full house, Aces full of Jacks

otherdude25: omg lol

Anyway, online poker is taking up more of my time than I care to admit.  It would be cool if we could all meet at a Full Tilt table one night.  I'm not suggesting that we replace the usual poker night, but mayhaps we could get Stembridge involved again if we play online every once in a while.  It's just an idea.

In other news, Peyton Manning is still a flat-faced mayonnaise eater.

Halloween Drinking Game

Halloween Movie Fest

Tonight I'm watching Halloween, The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, Candyman, Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Vs. Jason, House of 1000 Corpses, Night of the Living Dead, The Fog, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho, The Birds, House on Haunted Hill and showgirls. Below is a drinking game I created after watching Friday the 13th parts 1-7.

Take a shot when
…Someone dies by normal means (gun, knife, rope, fire, car)
…Someone goes to inspect an empty house, room, basement, attic, or alley
…The lights go out
…The phone lines are down
…Someone says, “I’ll be right back”
…A couple dies
…A couple has sex
…You see boobies
…The music predicts a kill
…When someone smokes after sex
…When the alpha male says, “I’m not scared of a…(whatever is killing everyone)

Take 2 shots when
…Someone dies by non-traditional means (broken shard of glass, shovel, pruning shears, run over with a lawnmower, etc)
…A couple dies having sex
…When the music causes a false alarm
…Someone is impaled
…A girl dies when she’s in the bath or changing
…When people smoke pot (joint)
…When someone makes a joke about Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger or Michael Meyers
…When the black guy dies
…Someone says, “Maybe we should call the police”
…Someone says, “It’s over.”
…Someone makes a bad joke
…When the alpha male dies


Take 3 shots when
…When the killer comes back after everyone thinks he’s dead
…Someone is decapitated
…After a dream sequence
…When people take a hit off a bong
…Someone hides in a dumpster
…Someone is thrown off a building, boat or out of an airplane
…When the religious fanatic, old crazy guy or the cat lady dies
…Someone says, “It’s over” and it really isn’t.

Chug bitch
…You see a vajayjay
…When you figure out who the killer is
…The plot takes a turn for the ridiculous
…The Nerd saves the day and gets the girl.

OMGWTF 2nd Place!!!

I managed to finish 2nd at Smith's Olde Bar tonight.  It was surprisingly fun to see how many different personalities were there and how easy it is to pick up on some people's habits.  While my poker game is improving, I credit the majority of the success to the fact that I didn't have anything to drink all night.   The hand that really kept me in the game and knocked out two others was pocket 9's.  It beat pocket 8's and Ace-10.  The guy who beat me won a huge hand when the 3rd place guy went out so winning would have been a long shot.  I actually got a number of good hands but couldn't manage to sucker the guy into putting any chips on the table.  Oh well.  Next week.

Yay for poker.

Poker at Smith's

Rebecca, Stemmie, Mike and I tried out poker at Smith's Olde Bar last night. We usually go to Midtown Tavern on Monday nights, but this was our first time at Smith's, and man was it different. I'm used to around 20 players at 2 or 3 tables, but we had 6 tables and over 50 players. I did surprisingly well, finishing 6th. Rebecca made 9th again. She keeps getting screwed right on the bubble, but I predict she'll eventually break through and finish 1st or 2nd.

I think the huge crowd was a little intimidating for Mike. In retrospect, Smith's is probably not the best place to start out if you're not used to playing in public. I hope that didn't sour his experience. Maybe he'll play again some time.

I'm still doing the 100 pushups program, but I don't think daily updates are necessary. I'll do a 2 week recap on Saturday and probably another at the end of week 4.