Very Josie

It's 1:40am and I just finished preparing for an 8:30am managment meeting.  When I take work home on Friday afternoon, I always have the best  intentions of doing it, say Saturday morning.....certainly Sunday morning!  And yet.....even though I knew Survivor Donkey Island was happenin' Sunday night, I still left it till the last minute. Speaking of Survivor..... I lost. Again. OMFG I started out so good too.  As Hoy pointed out, I had (2) Very Josie's in the top ten of a field of about 80.  Not too shabbay.  My demise was calling a few all ins.  Even though my calls were good - people (LIKE BAYNE) his their shitty cards and i doubled them up.  Dumb!  No reason to risk Mama's chips.  I have a hard time throwing away those good hands, dammit! I played pretty well considering Miami Don heckled me the whole night.  Dammit, but the man just wouldn't stop.  Below is an example (certainly not an exaggeration) of what I wa...

I got home last night and played 3 games from 8:30 - 10:30 pm.  At the end of this session I left with a net win of $295.  Wheeee! (actually $294.50 but I like rounding up) I played a $33 (9) peep game and came in first place .  Heads up was touch and go but I perservered.  Because I appeared tight my opponent was "all in" every hand, which left me folding every hand - till the last one. :)  Imagine his surprise when I called his all in with A-10 sooted.  I was up against the mighty J-10, and had the feeling I was sunk.  Alas, I was not. :)  Cost $36, won $148, which is a net win of $112. Then I played SmBoatDrinks' $5 Booze Cruise.  Fun little tourney; Omaha High Low, with maybe 8 peeps.  I immediately situated myself as chip leader and shortly thereafter donked off all my chips to some dude I don't know.  Blah. Cost $5.50, and lost.  Net of -$5.50.  But a donation to my boy Boaty is priceless. Third game was ...

Another one bites the dust I have heard from undisclosed sources that my boy toy, Hoy, has been voted off. Buddy say it tain't so!!!! Hoy, just remember this I DID NOT VOTE FOR YOU.  I wouldn't vote off the best player on our team while we're still competing as a team.  I think Al paid everyone off to vote you out.  He couldn't buy my vote, even though he sent $500 to my Full Tilt account. Okay, maybe not. Hoy baby, I think you're history, but I'm waiting for confirmation of that. UPDATE:  I just got this email: Team Fish loses another one. Not sure if it helped to have a bounty on everyone's head due to Alcanthang's doing. Some people vent their anger on the internet and some people get even with the people that wronged them. Thanks for making this so much fun everyone! Votes: Hoyazo - 4 Turtle - 1 VeryJosie - 1 Hoyazo is the next player voted off Donkey Island. Team Fish is not looking so hot, having only 5 players left comp...

I might've been wrong about JamyHawk.  And about kicking Donkey ass.  Now please excuse me while I avoid blogosphere for the rest of the day. I really sucked.  Especially my last hand.  I don't even wanna tell you about it. After The Mookie I played a $55 (9) peep and won, but even that didn't take the sting from last night. Play smart. Josie

And by Biatch, I mean JamyHawk . Jimbo, let's address a few issues that popped up in your post. 1. I am not Mr. Joe C.  I am Josie.  Insinuation that I am a dude may lead to testicle removal. 2. Just because I bust your balls about a link on your blog does not mean you automatically get a link on my blog.  Nothing in life is assumed. 3. Team Donkey may be stacked, but that's not because of YOU JamyHawk.  Now maybe JamyHawk was trying to save his teammate Heff.  You know bring attention to himself so that my killer instinct wouldn't be focused just on Heff. IT WORKED. It is ON!!!!!!.  Jamy's a dead man walking.  Even though I didn't consider him enough of a threat to focus on him, that has now changed. Oh and I just re-read the post above and took out some really bad stuff - leaving only kinda bad stuff.  Isn't editing a wonderful thing?  Sometimes my fingers mouth gets me in trouble so I'm being proactive. Speaking of bei...

Aiming at HeffMike Tonight on Full Tilt....Survivor Donkey Island continues..... Team Fish now has one less teammate than Team Donkey.  Tonight is where things get even again.  I'm taking these fuckers down.  Period. I will be doing NOTHING tonight except focusing on winning.  Winning and taking down Donkeys with sniper like precision.  Just thank your lucky stars you aren't HeffMike. I'm throwing out a last longer bet to anyone who's playing The BJ (Buddy Jo).  If you want a little action just drop me a comment.  Can you last longer than Very Josie?  I don't think so. Password is vegas1.  Come on and play and try to take down a Donkey. Oh and play smart, cuz I will be crouching in the jungle waiting to take you out. Josie 

I played some chess online with Waffles and got my ass handed to me twice.  It wasn't even close and it was over within ten moves.  I just couldn't get my plan into action.  The whole time he kept telling me how much he sucked and how he didn't know how to play and then.....CHECK.  Shit, he was after my king almost immediately.  Check, check, check, then BOOM Check mate. OMG he was like one of those science experiments where they have a chimp playing chess against a computer.  How he could get me in check that quickly, I'll never know.  Um, TWICE. His mind was like a steel trap.  He may be new at it but he took to it like a duck to water.  I think it's cuz he's so used to trying to stay one move ahead of the wife.  He's been in chess training for years and he didn't even know it. Heh. Play smart. Josie PS HeffMike's a dead man tomorrow night.  I'm talking poker, not chess.

Survivor Poker:  If it takes me 2 days to tell you about it, then it didn't bode well for me and Team Fish.  I am getting frustrated about everything! For starters, not all my fishy teammates show up.  So the field seemed overfilled with Donkeys. (such an appropriate team name)  Secondly, the match up SUCKS.  HeffMike, Jordan, GoatBoy, and Brain all lined up and wielding chips.  It's like the effing Maginot Line of poker.  Mama no likey.  Mama wants to stab each one with a fish knife until all their chips bleed out of them. (too much?) Thirdly, I never play rebuys and the whole rebuy thing doesn't seem to bode well for me.  I suppose while the rebuy is in effect everyone's supposed to make risky moves to either increase their stack, or lose all their chips, because you can rebuy.  I hate that crap. On a personal level, even though I didn't cash, I won a last longer side bet from Jordan so that was nice....

Holy crap! I'll give you more details later, but I've been on a biiiiiiiig winning streak, with the exception of Survivor Poker. (more on that later)  For, now, I am currently playing the game shown above. I won a $216 ticket and decided to play this one table with it.  It was the one satellite that didn't pay out in tourney dollars.  I'm gonna knock out that pro to my left.  I'll update when I do. UPDATE is I'm out.  Someone got a flush on the river and i went from chip leader to shortie and the pro took me out.  How appropriate. Play smart. Josie

Winner! I just won entry to a FTOPS Main Event.  Main Event baby!  640 clams!  It was a 25 peep $75 game.  5 places in the money but only top two won entry.  3rd place was $222.  I chipped up early, as I usually do and focused on not spewing chips.  It took forever but I winned! The actual game I won entry to is below. I unregistered from it because it's a multi entry tournament and everyone else was registered 4 or 5 times.  So I got it all in tournament dollars. I have one more $75 token and the same exact game starts in 3 minutes.  Let's see if I can do it again.  Keep your fingers crossed! Play smart. Josie 

Someone voted for ME on Survivor Donkey Island.  Voted to have me BOOTED specifically.  Can you believe that shiat?  Obviously I must hunt this teammate down. Is it you? Let's go with the assumption that my boys haven't lied to me yet.  If we assume this to be true, and then add a further truth that Riggs and Dawn did not vote we come to a hypothesis. The hypothesis is that either AlCan'tHang or Iaatg tried to vote me out.  Al doesn't know me well enough to dislike me, so I'm pointing the finger at you Iaatg!!!! I discussed my theory with Waffles.  Good sounding board, right?  He says "Hoy did it." He BETTER be wrong.  Just got out of a meeting.  An associate, who's project we were reviewing (for financial reasons) starts the meeting with... "Josie, I thought you were out sick, but you were having your lips done!" Play smart. Josie

I think I'm getting a little better, but I woke up this morning with a new twist. My lips are swollen to about the size of the lips in the picture....except my bottom lip is bigger than hers.  OMG I'm like Bubba Gump.  This happens sometimes when I get sick.  I dunno if it's cuz my lips are kinda full in general or what.  Once I went to see my doctor and his first comment was that my lips were like Angelina's.   "Yeah, I know.  Fix it!"  Oh well.  I decided best course of action was no lipstick, besides, who has that much lipstick? I'm hoping they go down.  FML.  I have meetings all afternoon too.  I'll report on the comments I get.  I'd take a pic and show you, but I don't think the camera lens is wide enough. How bout some good news? KenP is the nicest, sweetest, cuddliest (I'm assuming) blogger ever.  Ken, you've just risen in status.  You're right up there with Wolfie.  N...

I'm still sick.  I feel like crap, my throat is killing me and I'm in work.  Why you ask? Because I promised the owner I'd have a report ready for him on Friday.  A report I've only produced twice before so I'm not proficient at it.  It's a report my boss has always prepared for the owner.  But he's always late with it, so the owner decided to give me a shot at it.  Twice previously I've done it perfectly and on time. Nice, right? I haul myself into work today because of this report only to find that the boss did it yesterday, even though it wasn't promised till Friday.  Why?  Just in case I didn't come in today.  Grrrr.  That's not the real reason.  The real reason is that he doesn't like giving up control of anything. Do I want to do it because I want to control it?  Heck no.  I wanted to continue my record of getting it in on time.  Obv being near death (so sue me for exaggerating a bit ) is a legit excuse but ...

Bad News.  Team Fish did not win last night.  I dunno who won but it wasn't us.  I had a nice stack of chips until I flopped trip 9s, 7 kicker and called an all in who had trip 9s ace kicker.  Nines were my demise last night.  Jordan knocked me out when he flopped trip nines (a boat actually) against my pair of 9s.  Not good.  The immunity bounty was on Waffles and I thought for sure his ass was mine, but it was not to be.  He wasn't at my table.  Bammer took him with his 8-8 vs Waffles' AK.  gg Waffles.  Since Bammer isn't a contestant the bounty was now on his head.  And don't forget there was a $40 bounty on Numbozo, courtesy of Heffy.  the two bounties stayed at first and second while I was in it.  Blah. I might've been distracted by Top Chef.  I can't believe Angelo got the boot.  At this point my guess is Mikie Isabella for the win.  Nice Italian boy. Team Fish will be back. Play smart. ...

I actually won $111 cuz I made a deal with the first place guy. I have the flu and I'm home sick.  Whenever I cough it feels like my lungs are being ripped from my chest. Soooooo...... very sick = home from work = playing online poker I settled down with some OJ a cup of coffee and a $6 (90) person game.  Figured I'd hone my skills for tonight; game 2 of Survivor Donkey Island. I knocked out 6 peeps and when it was down to me and Mr. First place he asked if I wanted to deal.  He had about 30k more in chips than me, so I got $111 and he got $124ish.  I didn't see alot of reasons not to take the deal. And, I'm ready for tonight!  Mama's taking down The Mookie and another member of Team Donkey. Play smart. Josie

1. I am wicked sick, and I'm "trying" to keep my germs to myself.  However, most likely I am contaminating the office. 2. A new architect started last week.  Older, but attractive woman with salt and peppa hair.  That was my first impression of her.  Today I'm looking more closely at her paperwork and I realized that she's 10 years YOUNGER than me.  Fuck, I am old. 3. Bayne  had a good post about Ashton and Haseeb and the 70 mile prop bet.  If you live under a rock haven't heard about it yet, Ashton was looking for action on a prop bet.  He was willing to wager 900K to win 285K that he could run 70 miles in 24 hrs and the most he'd ever run previously was 22 miles.  His buddy and roommate Haseeb took the action and found himself in a very bad position; hoping that his friend would hurt himself (or worse) so that he could win this bet.  It was a bad situation, as I'm sure you've read. If you haven't read the details o...

Well I don't feel like I'm on the chopping block anymore!  I have to be in a management meeting in 2 minutes so I'll make this quick. HOY is my hero!!!  He won the first game of Survive Donkey Island.  When I went to bed there were alot of chip leaders and Hoy wasn't one of them.  Hoy has made me happy in my pants. :) No wonder he was portrayed as Wiley Coyote, Super Genius! Play smart, like Hoy. Josie

Ever feel like your head was on the chopping block?  I kinda feel that way right now.  I just got knocked out of Game 1 of Donkey Island....during the rebuy!  I didn't click the rebuy button quickly enough cuz I was chatting and all of a sudden I was out.  OMFG!  I wanna kick my own butt for such......negligence. Please do not vote me out.  I will win The Mookie to make up for it. Speaking of butt kickings......Miami Don's ass needs one BAD.  Why is it that every other message from this dude is about how much he loves me, yet he played the SHITTIEST cards against me and sucked out like a $3 hooker.  Again and again.  Donnie, you just better hope I'm not at your table for the next month.  It'll take me that long to cool down. While I'm in rant mode....Go ahead and check out   THIS VIDEO .  I somehow don't think Buddy would've shown me as a goombah and an oompah loompah if it weren't for...... I blame YOU. I'm g...

At 9:30pm.  And you can play along too!  Play with the fishes and the donkeys as we try to survive Donkey Island. Survive Donkey Island 001 Event 1 Full Tilt Poker $1 + $1 Rebuy February 13, 2011 9:30 PM EST password: survive TONIGHT!!!!! Play smart. Josie

Someone snapped a picture of this poster and sent it to me, saying I had a twin out there.  She does have similar cheeks. For comparison purposes The guy who sent it to me failed to mention that I am slightly prettier.  Grrrrr  And why is my twin in Vegas while I'm stuck in arctic Boston? Oh the irony! She and I should switch places.  Hmmmmmm Josie

I won my entry! Clicky to see my name in lights Since I had plenty of chips I played very defensively. It's not a tourney that you have to win, you just can't lose.  It's a waiting game.  When there were 8 peeps left....and remember 6 are winners, the peep to my right jammed all in for more than 1/3 of my stack, while I was holding 9-9.  Do I call and hope to bring us down to 7 peeps?  In the end I decided to do the thing I find most difficult.  I folded my pocket nines.  See below. I've been thinking about it and I still don't know if that was the right move. In the end, I won my entry so it worked out fine.  I'd be interested in your thoughts on this. Waffles thanks for your comment, it may have made me even more determined to win.  Now get back to work! Play smart. Josie . 

I lost that satellite.  I was trying sooooo hard not to  play but got AK a couple times and it hurt.  I do not like AK.  Okay so anyway I went onto another satellite.  I'm on break from it RIGHT NOW so I have to make this quick.  $24 entry, top 6 win entry to $109 tourney.  There are only 10 peeps left. See below. As you can see, I'm 2nd in chips.  There is no reason why I should not win this.  Top 6 for Pete's sake.  If I lose, the laptop will be flying into a snow heap. Gotta go, as the game is back on, but I will update. Josie 

Except I'm home and playing online poker.  Since I have oodles of quiet, uninterrupted time, I am playing a satellite game.  It's a long shot, but as I said, I've got the time, as well as a big cup of coffee. Game is a satellite to a $120+9 tourney.  Entry to this satellite was only $6.  That's the good news.  The bad news is only 1st place wins entry.  2-4 get a tiny bit of cash.  $15 for 2nd and so on.  So I have to win it. 32 peeps and there are only 14 of us left! You know who chip leader is right? See below: I'll let you know how it turns out.  I think it's gonna be tough though.  Oh and I've had 8 knockouts...erm make that 9.  :)  I am more than free rolling. Play smart. Josie

...Who the hell is Mookie btw?  Huh?  Can anyone answer that question in a thoughtful and complete manner? Um, I played The Mookie tonight, and I was AWESOME, if I do say so myself.  lol  Now others may comment here and tell you I was uber lucky, getting hit by the deck, stuff like that.  They are right. TwoBlackAces was Gigli when I took him out with a 5-4.  He made a min raise and I called in the BB.  Flop was 5-4-x all spades.  I bet my 2 pair and he calls.  King on the turn and a 4 on the river.  Bing!  Full house! I bet and he jams.  Obviously I have to call here and he shows K-J of spades.  He flopped the flush.  Maybe 20 min later.....my boy Don, who is sitting on my right calling me a luckbox (among other things) and I are in a hand with Astin.  I have 10-10 and raise, Astin calls and MiamiDonk jams all in.  Hmmmm I know this isn't good but I call!  Astin folds and says he had J-J.  ...

NOT Very Josie Okay, okay...there was this ONE time about four years ago..... I was going to Florida in March for Red Sox spring training and was the pastiest whitest I ever get as it was the end of the long winter.  Now the problem with going to a warm place in March is that you're exposing untanned parts.  Ugh.  Not good. At the last moment I decided to get a fancy spray tan at a tanning salon in Saugus.  You go in, and after a bit of prep that you really dont need to know about, you get sprayed from like 12 different spigots that are positioned all around you.  Then you're supposed to rub the stuff in and presto, instant tan. Well I did what they said, but it didn't come out so well, cuz I couldn't really rub in the stuff on my back.  So my front was fine, but my back area had drip lines going down it.  IT WAS HORRIBLE.  And it woudn't come off for most of the week, and believe me I tried. Turns out there is something worse than pasty whit...

I just got some time off approved by the big boss in the office and I'm hitting the road!  The first stop is Foxwoods Resort Casino!  Yeah baby!  I'm heading down to Foxwoods with Lynne and June from my poker league....and maybe Marvin too.  I will be at Foxwoods May 8th -May9th.  The trip coincides with Lynne's birthday, but I'm tagging along for the poker. The last time I was at Foxwoods was for my 40th birthday FOUR YEARS AGO so I am due.  I remember playing a few sit n goes and cashing in one.  I also remember feeling very intimidated.  I don't think that wil be the case this time. :)  They are going for Sunday & Monday.  My plan is to hit a satellite while I'm there and win entry to a bigger game, but the FOXWOODS POKER SCHEDULE  doesn't seem to be working, so I cannot view anything. If you're in the area, stop by the Poker Room at Foxwoods.  I'll be at the table that has a crowd railing a very lucky girl.  Heh...

I hope you don't have delusions of grandeur and think this post is about YOU . Poker Grump knows things and he's a big fan of the 2-4.  I used to think, "Meh, it ain't no J-10", but now I'm a believer. I had The Grump! Yes, I caught a runner runner flush.  Doh!  So of course, I'm going to start playing the 2-4 and we'll see just how often it really wins.  Research must be done on this phenomenon. Below is the same game, and yes I called with the 2-4 in first position....for research purposes. Oh My God! Below is my 3rd hand with 2-4.  Same tourney. So far, 3 for 3 with 2-4 Play smart. Josie 

I've been on quite a run in my live poker escapades.  I have to review my half assed notes to report accurately on my winnings, but as I mentioned earlier, I have already hit my goal of winning $1,500 by June.   I've always played pretty well live, but I made a big change to my game and the results speak for themselves. The big change is wearing headphones during most of the tourney. I used to think that it was a bad idea.  I'd miss some talk or some sort of tell that I could use later, but that just isn't the case, for me anyway.  And yes, a BIG part of my game is reading players.  When I have the headphones on I appear to be oblivious...listening to music, rifling my chips...she's in another world.  I like that image but nothing can be further from the truth.  I am watching every move made when someone is in the pot.  And I think the headphones make it appear that I'm just staring off into space. When a guy is in a pot, I watch his face...

Thoughts about poker and booze, but mostly booze.  :) On Superbowl Sunday I had wine, more wine, 3,452 jello shots...some made with tequila and some made with vodka, alot of Sex on the Beach, and ciroc strawberry vodka, which I swigged straight from the bottle cuz: A. Freddie dared me. B. Everyone else was doing it. C.  I was told it was P. Diddy's brand and I had to try it. P. Diddy knows where it's at!  Except Freddie left the price tag on and that little bottle cost $35!  It was so smooth though! (that's what she said!) So we've established that the drinking just didn't stop.  I have a killer headache right now, but at least I remember what happened yesterday, so things could've been worse. Poker: The two dudes I didn't want at my table, Marvin and Freddie, were at my table!  Now Marvin's the best player (present company excepted) and Freddie's the one I split with last time.  Ugh....I prefer the fishies. Funny thing is Marvin, Fre...

Me and my Sugar Bear Sugar Bear has a vocabulary beyond his years.   He's a smart kid and I push the reading.  I'm a firm believer that reading makes you smarter, builds vocab, regardless of WHAT you are reading.  Comic books, video game magazines, whatever, it all helps.  So anyway, like I said he has a BIG vocab and I sometimes forget he's just a kid. But the other day....... I don't remember why, but for some reason I called him "A big galoot". He stopped dead in his tracks and said "You called me a pair of pants?" LOLLL No!  I repeat that I called him a "galoot". He says.....Ohhhh I thought you called me a "galosh". Hmmmmm "Evan do you think galoshes are pants?"  lol "They are!"   He says.  I go onto explain that galoshes are rain boots, but he doesn't believe me.  heh  Which reminds me of a story very similar to this....When Evan was about 8 years old I was tickling him (cuz I'm like that)...

Spoiler Alert!  I won the whole shebang bitches! I decided to play the 4pm tourney and get a little practice in for Super Bowl Sunday.  Because of the weather we didn't get as many runners as usual.  There was a paltry 27 peeps, a 3 table mtt with 3 places in the money. Changed my live play up a bit.  Usually, I start off tighter than tight.  Tonight I did more limping than usual, trying to hit a flop.  Meh. Started with 7K and at the first break I had 12K.  Not bad!  When we were down to 2 tables, I found myself playing against the guy I split a tourney with last time I was there.   Boy did he remember me! :) He was talking me up like he was my agent.  After 5 minutes of him telling everyone how scary I was, I was able to steal some pots and chip up. Fast forward to the final table.  I'd been card dead for over an hour and look down at A-K.  I bet it hard and win.  Couple hands later I get A-K again and t...

Clicky to see this letter KenP sent the letter above to me yesterday.  Back in 1948 Boston's Mayor sent this letter to the head of M.I.T., apparently looking for a solution for snow removal. I got a kick out of it and sent it to the office, as more than a few of the architects here went to school at M.I.T.  One of the principals at my firm (MIT graduate) came running over.  I knew she'd love it.  She wanted to know WHERE I got it. "Um....from a friend." This started a "20 questions" banter.  Which friend?  How did he find it? Blah, blah,  blah.  She was asking so many because she's a PIA   TODAY is our final interview with MIT.  We want to get the job to design their new Walker Bldg.  She thought she'd BRING said letter with her, just as a laugh and ice breaker. So anyway, here are some of my answers to her. "An old guy from Indiana gave it to me" "I don't know how he aquired it." "I know him because he likes poke...

Josie's Pick Is it Sunday yet?  I can't freaking wait for the weekend.  I'm playing in the final league poker game on Super Bowl Sunday, and then staying there afterwards for the party and to watch the game.  I ended up in 5th place in the league which got me $125.  Coincidentally, the buyin for this game is $100 plus a $20 scratch ticket bounty.  So I netted $5.  Wheee. I love Superbowl Sunday.  This is the first year the party isn't at my house.  I'm kinda bummed about that, but the upside is I don't have to do much work.  Just show up and par-tay.  And play poker. This is the big game of the year.  With 15 peeps, first place is $800.  I want that prize.  I want the bragging rights.  I want it all!  Last tourney I played with them I took 2nd and a deal that was almost a split of the money.  Too good a deal to pass up, even though I should've just taken my chances to get first place and the po...