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Poker

Weekly game results: January 5

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First weekly game of 2005, and notable for the fact that CR, ER, and EM had to rebuy. Wow. I can’t remember the last time, if ever, that ER has had to rebuy.

JC +$1.35
ER -$7.30
CR -$5.80
PC +$10.75
JB +$0.85
EM +$0.15

Ladies and gentlemen, I ran amok. Mostly due to some good cards combined with some good flops. However, I was able to extract relatively large sums from JC when I flopped trip aces and CR when I flopped a boat, threes full of Jacks with pocket threes. Both hands were marked by check-raises on the double value turn and payoffs on the river. After beating CR’s trips with my boat, CR threw his JX across the room. I don’t think we’ve ever seen that before.

Considering the fact that EM had to rebuy in the first hour or so, her comeback into positive territory was pretty damn good. On one hand she made quad sevens on the river after making a set on the turn. I was away from the table, so I can’t really say what the action was on the flop, but I think JC made a barely more than minimum bet on a flop that featured two Broadway cards and two to a flush. I guess EM put JC on a draw or something.

JB had the honor of showing down and winning with the hammer after 3-betting preflop. Woah. CR’s ace high couldn’t stand up to JB’s paired 7 on the turn. Or was it the 2? Either way, it was a nice play.

This was also the first weekly game where 4 of the 5 smokers did not smoke. Something to do with New Year’s resolutions, I think. I continued to suck away at my cancer sticks, but I’m going to join them in giving up the smokes. For the record, I am not quitting. I’m just not smoking until all four of them fall off the wagon. Considering they all have a 6 day head start on me, I guess technically I am not smoking until a week or so after the last of them gives in and lights up. Oh, that reminds me… I forgot to suggest betting on who was going to go out first and who was going to last longest. Next week.

Cars

Subaru B9 Tribeca

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Good lord that’s ugly.

Subaru’s inviting current owners to come by and check out their latest crossover vehicle at the LA Auto Show. Subaru pretty much invented the crossover with the Forester, which is a very tall wagon with ground clearance marketed as a mini-SUV. Much better than most SUVs when it comes to handling, with enough cargo space to compete with the ones at the small end of the scale.

I think I’ll go check it out; I’m planning to go to the auto show anyway, so this will be a good opportunity to go on Subaru’s dime.

Poker

Barbarians at the gate: Bloggers at the LA Poker Classic

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I’m just in the beginning stages of planning, but I’m trying to round up a contingent of bloggers (LA-based and otherwise) to meet up at the LA Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino. This is a WPT event, so it’s sure to be packed with pros, celebrities, and my favorite, dead money. Felicia will be in town for the tourneys, and Hank and FHWRDH have expressed interest so far. Given the fact that Commerce will be busy with all their events, I doubt we’ll be able to put together anything like the Sam’s Town tournament; this will be more of a low-key, put a face to the blog, hoist a pint, check-raise the fish kind of thing.

I’m thinking January 29 and/or 30, since that’ll be smack in the middle of the time that Felicia will be here.

If you’re interested, let me know in the comments or by email and I’ll broadcast more details as I get them.

Blog

Cleaning House

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Finally installed MT-Blacklist tonight. Let’s hope it lives up to the hype and stops the comment spam dead in its tracks. I’d only had a few instances of comment spam until New Year’s Eve when I noticed about 80 comments advertising porn and celeb photos littering the back-entries of StudioGlyphic. Since then I’ve been deluged with hundreds of comments. It got so bad I turned on comment moderation. Now that Blacklist is installed, comments are back to being unmoderated. If I’m still hit with the spam, I may have to invoke the input code thing that WWdN and Bill Rini have on their blogs.