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Text Message, MySpace Roots of Student Protests by Sasha Khokha

Day to Day, March 29, 2006   Thousands of students walked out of classrooms across the nation on Tuesday to protest proposed changes to immigration law seen by many as a crackdown on illegal immigrants. In California's Central Valley, protests are coordinated among remote agricultural towns by text messaging and MySpace chat rooms. Sasha Khokha of member station KQED examines the grass-roots protest organization and what the students are protesting against.

Party Poker 3/6 Hold'em (9 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 2d, Ad. CO posts a blind of $3.
Hero calls, 1 fold, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, 1 fold, CO (poster) checks, 1 fold, SB (Good Player) completes, BB checks.

Flop: (6 SB) 9d, 4d, Js (6 players)
Good Player bets, BB folds, Hero calls, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, CO calls.

Turn: (5.50 BB) 7h (5 players)
Good Player bets, Hero calls, MP1 raises, MP2 folds, CO folds, Good Player 3-bets...

Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 2h, 2c.
1 fold, Hero calls, UTG+2 calls, MP1 calls, 2 folds, CO raises, 1 fold, SB calls $5 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero calls, UTG+2 calls, MP1 calls, CO calls.

Flop: (16 SB) Ac, Td, 2s (5 players, 1 all-in)
Hero checks, UTG+2 checks, MP1 checks, CO checks.

Turn: (8 BB) 3s (5 players, 1 all-in)
Hero bets, UTG+2 calls, MP1 calls, CO folds.

River: (11 BB) 4s (4 players, 1 all-in)
Hero checks, UTG+2 bets, MP1 raises, Hero folds, UTG+2 calls $7.50 (All-In), MP1 calls.

Final Pot: 16.75 BB

SB has Ah 7h (one pair, aces).
UTG+2 has 5d 8h (straight, five high).
MP1 has 4h As (two pair, aces and fours).
Outcome: UTG+2 wins 16.75 BB.

Party Poker 5/10 Hold'em (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with Jd, Js. CO posts a blind of $5.
1 fold, UTG+1 (VPIP79) calls, UTG+2 raises, Hero 3-bets, 6 folds, UTG+1 (VPIP79) calls, UTG+2 calls.

Flop: (11.40 SB) 7s, 9c, 2h (3 players)
VPIP79 bets, UTG+2 folds, Hero raises, VPIP79 3-bets, Hero calls.

Turn: (8.70 BB) 4s (2 players)
VPIP79 bets, Hero calls.

River: (10.70 BB) 9s (2 players)
VPIP79 bets, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 12.70 BB

VPIP79 has 7h 2d (two pair, nines and sevens).
Hero has Jd Js (two pair, jacks and nines).
Outcome: Hero wins 12.70 BB.

Party Poker 5/10 Hold'em (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 7s, 6s.
Hero raises, 7 folds, SB (VPIP55) calls, BB (VPIP25) calls.

Flop: (6 SB) Jh, 5s, 8d (3 players)
VPIP55 checks, VPIP25 bets, Hero raises, VPIP55 calls, VPIP25 calls.

Turn: (6 BB) 4h (3 players)
VPIP55 checks, VPIP25 checks, Hero bets, VPIP55 calls, VPIP25 calls.

River: (9 BB) 2d (3 players)
VPIP55 checks, VPIP25 checks, Hero bets, VPIP55 calls, VPIP25 calls.

Final Pot: 12 BB

VPIP55 has 4s As (one pair, fours).
VPIP25 has Jd Qh (one pair, jacks).
Hero has 7s 6s (straight, eight high).
Outcome: Hero wins 12 BB.

They had a raffle for some brilliant prizes, and being the sorta guy I am, I decided to take a shot. Raffle tickets were selling for $25 a piece until you go to the $500 donation level when they went for $20 a piece. At a $1000 level, you get 100 tickets ($10 a ticket). Everyone seemed to be buying $25 tickets, so I thought what the hell, lets make a nice sizable donation.... I bought $2000 worth and got 200 tickets in exchange. Then, I found out that I bought them from the "wrong girl" and that there was a contest going on whereby the girl with the most tickets sold got a prize. So, I ended up buying another $2000 in tickets. $4000 in tickets purchased in all. By my calculations, I had about 1/3 of the tickets in play.

To make a long story short, I won the top two prizes:

Two round trip tickets to Sydney on Qantas in the "sleeper" seats plus 6 nights at the Sydney Harbor Marriott. $25k value.

and...

Two round trip business class tickets to anywhere in Europe courtesy of American Airlines. $18k value.

$43,000 for $4000. Not bad. My girlfriend was extremely happy as well, as you might imagine.