Winning is Better Than Being Good

Rolled back into town this morning and headed down to Bellagio to meet lil sis. She was playing $10/$20 NLH. Put myself on the $1/$2 and $2/$5 lists but way too many fools before me. Here I thought I was the only fool that knew Bellagio serves the best drinks in any poker room. I really wanted a strawberry julius today too. Sheeeet. Not to be, though, cuz I didn’t feel like waiting so I ventured over to Ballys and played $1/$2. Ah, home sweet home! My dealers missed me. Hand of the day was another monster laydown! On a flop of 5, J, 6 rainbow, I bet out $40 with my KK (only 3 in the hand as I threw in a $10 preflop raise). The guy next to me raises to $95. Third fool tanked and folded. Heads up and thinking min raise??!! That’s fishy. He had about $100 behind. For some janky ass reason, I really thought I was beat and after a good minute I mucked my KK face up. Fool showed me his set of sixes. Geez! This is the second time I’ve mucked KK correctly. First time flop was J, 5, 8 and the fool flopped 2 pair on me. Figures. I still think my best laydown was the A high flush on a board of K, 9, 5, 9 board. I turned my flush but the villain turned his boat. And after betting out $50, he shoves and gets one caller. Back to me and I’m looking at risking my entire stack if I call. I knew I had villain #2 beat as I suspected he just had trips, but folded my diamond nut flush cuz villain #1 did indeed turn his K, 9 boat! Geez!

Well, I am learning if you can fold the monster hands when you know you’re beat, that’s half the battle. Discipline. Someone at the table once told me that by making these laydowns makes me a “good player”. I told him I’d rather be a “winning player”…ha!

So I believe my pals are still in the main event and gettin’ ready fer Day 2. Good luck to y’all! Make me proud! I am playing the Caesars Mega Stack Championship tomorrow with lil sis. Hoping both Anna and I can go real deep and ca$h well. I am feeling confident as I’ve cashed in my last 3 of 4 tournies. Wanna do real well tomorrow. Good luck me!

So at the table this afternoon, the animal shelter calls and says Kicker is ready to be picked up tomorrow. But I’m a gonna be at Caesars! What is with my janky timing lately? Anyway, I will head back to OC once my tourney is done and pick up my new best friend. Will stay in OC fer a coupla weeks and head back here fer the last week to hang with bff. Then it’s back to OC cuz I’ll be playing Legends at Bike all month.

The Vega$ heat is really hard to handle. Help me, I’m melting!!! Ugh…and I feel like a dumb ass carrying my sweatshirt with me in the 100+ heat cuz the poker room is freezing. Jank. Now my A/C bill is gonna rise too. Only means I gotta grind more to pay these bills. So fer today, I didn’t meet my $300 daily quota. I won $90. So jank. So tomorrow’s tourney betta be good!

Ok, so talk about bad karma! All them fools that are trying to sell their “free” Michael Jackson memorial tickets fer $100,000 on eBay??!! Are you serious, people??!! MJ is turnin’ over in his grave! Uh, actually, I think he’s still at the morgue. Oopsy, sorry. First of all, I can’t believe there are so many dumb asses out there that have the nerve to sell these tickets thinkin’ there are dumber asses wanting to buy them?! And trying to profit from the King of Pop?! C’mon peeps, have some respect! This whole thing is just dirty. And yes, bro, MJ is dead. My brother who works fer the paper is still convinced MJ faked his own death to get out of millions in debt. The King of Pop is moonwalkin’ to heaven. Tupac on the otherhand…

Took a Facebook quiz this morning…”How Asian Are you?” Turns out I am 48% Asian. This makes sense so the remaining 52% of me is Black. This proves I am 100% Blackanese! Fo real doh! Just cuz I don’t live in the ghetto doesn’t mean I can’t be ghetto fabulous! This Chigga rules! I talk jive. Fo real doh!

I am sleepy. Mama wants me to call her if I wake up at 5:30 again to wake her up. I still need to be on my diet. But gyros are just so good. Ugh. Well, I am yawning away and it’s only 9:30pm. Great. But I have a huge and loooonnnnnggg day tomorrow. Need to rest up and get ready to murder the competition. Bring on the donks! Gnite all and be good! Yes, you!

~ by xsporean on July 6, 2009.