Very Josie

I played a great fucking game last night called The Dank or The Mookie (depends on who you ask).  87 players.  I lasted about 2 1/2 hrs.  Out 21st.  Normally I'm pissed off when I'm knocked out of a tourney.  But not tonight.  It was too much fun, the players were way cool, and it was such a pleasure to play against a field of that quality.  I'm so satisfied you'd think I was petting the kitty. As I type this I'm also watching the final table.  Who's left is: Fmarra17 - That's my boy Frankie - He just doubled up off of Floppy, so he has 56K. Floppy - He should change his name to Chippy.  He's got the lion's share of them.  He just took out Lorretta who had fishhooks.  Floppy's AK hit a king on the flop and bye bye Loretta.  Floppy has 145K at the moment. Down to three, Rakewell , Fmarra and Floppy.  Rakewell has 35K...he's at the bottom....correction...he and Frankie are even and Floppy's the chip leade...

Okay this isn't a picture of me, it's a picture of Rachel Ray.  Don't want you guys to think I'm trying to pull the wool over your eyes.  Yes, I know I'm not as hot as she is, but I have been told that I look like her. Guess what?  I'm even more excited than she looks! Wanna know why? The awesome guys from Poker From The Rail invited me to the BBT5 Invitationals!  It is invitation only, the entries are FREE and top TWO places get a TOC seat, plus cashola. I was going to copy and paste the entire email here, but I dunno if that would upset them (sometimes I upset people...go figure).  Instead I'll just show you a tiny excerpt from this very nice man's email: I checked out your blog. I agree, it is pretty damn cool. We'd love to have you in the "Invitational." What's your Full Tilt name? I'll add it to the list. Woo Hoo! Isn't he a sweetheart?  He was looking at my blog today, and unfortunately I just realized that...

Yesterday I worked an 11 hr day.  If you add the commute, well it just gets sad. No rest for the wicked.  Of course I did have last Thursday and Friday off, but that seems like such a distant memory now.  Today is sure to be more of the same.  I've got too much to do and not enough time to do it in, but goddamn it I'm going to try.  I have some of my financials done and a management meeting at 8:30 where I have to explain that we've lost money again.  I'm writing this at about 4am. My plan is to go in super-duper early and get everything finished right before the meeting.  I suppose I could've stayed a little longer last night but I get to a point where I just can't look at numbers with efficiency and accuracy anymore.  That's when it's time to go home. (I'm sure I'm boring you to death with this work stuff, but if you keep reading we'll get to my bet with Schaubs) Then after that I have a BOD (board of d...

....Frank won. Me and my boys, Frankie, G-Man (Gary is no longer Jew Boy, G-Man it is!) and Lucki Duck played some poker last night and it wasn't pretty. It was just bad beat, after bad beat, after bad beat.  And I'm not just saying that because I lost.  We played (3) one table games. Game 1 - $11+1 (9) person turbo Lucki Duck didn't make it on time to get in on this game.  I guess he is lucky!  Frankie, Gary and I were out on bad beats....please don't ask me to remember them! No one cashed. Game 2 - $5+.50 (9) person Lucki Duck was out early when his pocket aces were cracked by pocket queens.  Duck raised, and the bad guy re-raised to 510 chips.  I was next with pocket nines, which I folded....then the two of them were all in. Flop was 2,9,10....I would've flopped trips!  Turn was a Q, trips for the bad guy.  River was a J and Duck's goose was cooked. Gary was doing fine chipwise, but called a big raise with ...

Remember I made those basketball cakes for my friend's son who was turning 13?  Well I was just chatting with his YOUNGER brother who I think is about 10 yrs old.  All I can say is 10 yrs old or 50 yrs old, you guys are all alike. I copied our facebook chat and it's below.  Please enjoy.  Keep in mind that whenever I see him I always spend about a half hour chasing him around the house, trying to get a kiss. 9:47amMe: Give me a kiss! 9:47amBrian: no 9:47amMe:  Come on!  If I was in 5th grade you would! 9:47amBrian:  no Me:  how bout a hug? 9:48amBrian:  no 9:48amMe:  a virtual high five? 9:48amBrian:  no Me:  Mean!  A handshake? 9:48amBrian:  no Me:  you owe me! 9:49amBrian:  no 9:49amMe:  remember all the times you used to hit me in the butt?  you need to give me a kiss for every time! 9:50amBrian:  no 9:51amMe:  Hmmm do you say anything but NO? ...

Me and my boy Frankie (the friggin' New Yorker lol) are playing a single table on full tilt tonight at 9pm ET.  It's a $10+1 game. And guess who else is playing?  Jew Boy ! (Gary) I've also sent invitations to DB Cooper and Lucki Duck , but they're wicked old, so who knows if they have the energy to play with me. So the young guys (younger than me anyway), Frankie and Jew Boy are definites. And old guys, Coop and Ducky, check out the invites I sent you and let me know.  And yeah Ducky I'm assuming you're older than me, which makes you very old, like Coop. I'll be blogging about the game while Duck hunting! Play smart. Josie

Here are some pictures of me from the 80's!  These photos are not the greatest quality.  Clicky on the photo to see it better. That's me in the center in the blue top with my cousins.  1985 Josie in 1990....but it sure looks like the 80's doesn't it?  LOL Me at Disney 1989 Well there you have it!  I've aged like a fine Italian wine. ;) Josie

Is it me, or is it everyone else?  Who's fault is it?  I hate fucking online poker, yet that's what's available.  Someone called online poker "methadone" for poker addicts and dammit I can't find a better metaphor than that.  Ever see someone on methadone....walking zombies.  I've been "lucky" enough to see plenty of them. I commute into Boston daily for work and there's a methadone clinic next to my T-Stop.  One day I was waiting for my bus and had time to pop into the coffee shop and there were people outside the door begging for money with a dazed look on their faces....more inside the coffee shop, all walking zombies engaged in serious profound conversations, but not really being able to talk. They were everywhere! I started noticing a pattern.  I saw more of them when I left work early (talk about using negative reinforcement to keep me in work).  And they all looked like they just shot up or something.  Not easy people to look at,...

I popped up (like a woody) on this guy's poker blog.  His name is Schaubs .  I had to read his post 3-4 times to determine if I was mentioned in a positive or negative way.  My final answer is.....all publicity is good publicity.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Well...... Unless I'm mistaken the tone of it is if players like Josie are in the game, well sign me up.  I can beat her like a red-headed stepchild!  I don't blame him.  If I was watching me play The Mookie, I'd think the same thing. Who the hell is this guy anyway?  Well here's what I know: He's Canadian DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED.  We'll summarize this as  "Strike One" He's a friend of Waffles.......I have theories about that too, but I'll leave it alone. He's a decade younger than Very Josie.  I betcha $5 that when he plays poker it's with sunglasses on and likely a baseball cap too.  Oh and he has a couple of "cool" tattoos.  Am I...

What's this?  Two posts in one morning?  Why it's unheard of, but here it is.  I have to vent about the assholes I surround myself with and what better forum than this! Let's back track to Wednesday.  Wednesday I get called a "man" (among other things) but things get resolved and I'm back to my happy clam status.  Jew Boy wrote a nice comment supporting.....my sexual orientation I suppose, showing he's got my back.  Well Wed night is my home game.  Game starts at 7:30pm and Jew Boy's there....and guess what he does?  CALLS ME A DUDE ALL NIGHT LONG.  I can't even remember the comments.  Maybe I blocked them out....they all boiled down to one thing....I have a dick.  Sheesh, with friends like that.... *Editor's Note:  Don't forget that I promised to be nice to him for an entire week.  So I couldn't even respond as I would have liked. Let's see what else? I had yesterday off for the first time in a long time.  ...

No one's playing The Mookie anymore.  Don't let that showing of 120 people this week fool you.  Hell, not even Mook  plays it.  But do you know what Mook DOES PLAY? Very Josie Poker! Okay, so I'm just full of shit.  But if he knew about it, I'd bet he'd play. Very Josie, a fun and profitable MTT will be held on THE FIRST WEDNESDAY of EVERY MONTH at 9:00pm ET. Below is a schedule of dates when the tourney will be held. May 5 June 2 July 7 August 4 September 1 October 6 November 3 December 1 And yeah, I know the tournament in May will be in direct competition with BBT5....that means if you play the Mookie, as a bonus, the winner gets a ToC seat.  Do  you really think I can't compete with that? Let's not forget that at the first Very Josie GoBurn1 got a bonus calzone for doing my bidding.  I just got around to making it last night.  See below: Calzone by Josie Okay, maybe it's yumminess is lost in the photo, but it...

I suck.  I played The Mookie last night with over 115 other players, and I played very badly.  NY Rambler kept putting pressure on me and I think I folded the best hand twice....just didn't want to call an all in and be out so soon.  Don't forget my side bet with DB Cooper aka Old Man. So yeah I was out first, and I went out with my favorite hand; jack ten suited.  After the turn I had a flush draw and an open ended straight draw so I called two all in bets AND I LOST.  What a donk move.  I was on tilt and just didn't play well. I owe Poop Coop $5 for our side bet.  Full Tilt won't let me transfer it until Coop completes ALL of  his address details....hold on, lemme try again...It just went through.  :(  Taking money from a sweet, innocent young woman.  I don't know how he sleeps at night. *sigh* Onto better news....I have tomorrow and Friday off.  No work till next Monday!  How cool is that!  Although I set up ...

Boy was I upset this morning, but I'm all better now.  The guy who wrote the untrue stuff about me sent me a really nice honest email and we're cool.  He said he reconsidered all the stuff he said about me and apologized for jumping to conclusions. What more could I ask?  Takes a decent guy to say that after the nasty insults I hurled at him at Waffles blog. So we are VERY cool and he says he'll even play Very Josie!!!  You can bet I'll be on my best behavior.....at least for the first 10 minutes! Oh, and he's from NY.  No, I didn't ask him if he was a Yankee fan, but I think we can assume he is. Coop!!! Time to wake up from your nap!!!!  My goal tonight isn't to outlast Coop, it's to take down The Mookie.   Nothing less will do.  God help whoever's in my way.  Please feel free to watch but I won't be as chatty as usual. Play Smart and Confident, LIKE ME. Josie

One thing I forgot to mention.  As soon as I settled in my seat, next to my buddy, they played MY SONG in it's entirety in the Garden.  How rare and cool is that? Any song that starts with the word "Josie" is a fave of mine....lyrics are below.  Yes, it's an old song, but so am I.  Do you know it?  Name the song and the artist! Josie's on a vacation far away Come around and talk it over So many things that I wanna say You know I like my girls a little bit older I just wanna use your love tonight I don't wanna lose your love tonight I ain't got many friends left to talk to No one's around when I'm in trouble You know I'd do anything for you Stay the night but keep it undercover I just wanna use your love tonight I don't wanna lose your love tonight Trying to stop my hands from shakin' Somethin' in my mind's not makin' sense It's been a while since we were all alone I can't hide the way I'm ...

I went to the Boston Bruins - Buffalo Sabres playoff game with JB last night.  Now I don't know anything about hockey so I can't report too much about the actual game except for the basics like THE BRUINS WON!!!! I finally met up with JB and we went to a deli kiosk so JB could get a corned beef sandwich *gag*.  While waiting for his sandwich this guy started talking to me....a guy from New York.  So of course I had to ask him the question I ask all New Yorkers..."Are you a Yankees fan?" He hesitated.....definitely didn't want to answer , and then finally admitted, yep, he's a Yankee fan.  Of course my next question was "Are you a vice president?"  LOL I shiat you not, that's what I asked him!  Gary started cracking up and Mr. Yankee said "No, I'm not a VP but I am a blah blah blah..."  I tried to seem interested and polite but I dunno what he said.  EVP, Frankie....you guys weren't at the Bruins game last night were you?...

For my post.  Too busy in work today!

Very Josie Poker , the hottest blogger tournament since The Mookie, is the game you should be playing.  For now Very Josie Poker is going to be a monthly tournament, which I propose to be the first Wednesday of every month. Wednesdays starting at 9:00pm ET. But I want to hear from you!  What day and what time works best for you?  The more fishies   experienced poker players, the better. Please comment and tell me when you can make it.  Majority rules!  This is a democracy......run by a queen, you know.  ;) I will tally the votes and post the final Very Josie Poker schedule. Have you played my little tourney yet?  If not, just try it once and you'll be back.  All I do is chat and drink....it's easy money for the taking. Full disclosure - The drinking was an experiment that failed .  Do not expect it to happen again.....unless I lose a bet.  :) Happy Patriots Day my friends!  There's a little race bein...

When some people (like Phil Hellmuth) lose a tournament it's a donkey's "fault".  They think they lost because their opponent made a loose call or didn't play correctly.  This kind of thinking is ridiculous. I never think that way.  When I lose a tournament (like yesterday) I review all my moves post mortem (that's medical talk for my new reader, Dr. Chako!) to see how I could improve my play.  I mentioned the two critical hands that were my demise yesterday and I've been reviewing my thinking on them.  First one was having Q-8 spades in the big blind, and no raise preflop.  I flopped a flush, with J-10-Rag.....bet big and got called by Ms. Ace. I don't think I did anything wrong there!  Turn was the king of spades.  I KNEW that was bad for me. 4 spades on the board means one card can beat me, that Ace. I make another bet to see where I am and Ms. Ace raises me.  What does that tell me?...

Yep, that's me! At this moment Gary's still playing the tournament and I am home typing this.  Oh the injustice of it all! I started out so well too! But guess who was sitting at my table?  Yup, both Dave (big shot) and his sister Lisa, plus Lisa's husband who I've played with once before and was not impressed by.  Also, there's a couple of donks and Mary. This is Mary: Mary is the lady friend of Cancer Al.  She's a timid player but the Poker Gods were smiling on her today. I wouldn't mind but the tourney started so well for me.  While the blinds were still 50/100 I was in dealer position and dealt myself Q-8 suited, so I called.  The blinds checked and we looked at a flop, which was A-8-8. Guy in first position bets 200, BB calls and I bump it to 500.  These guys are calling stations so there's no need to slow play.  First guy folds and BB raises 1,000 on top.  I took him out of the last tourney, and I know he's a horrible player...

Saugus Sportman's Club Tourney starts in about an hour.  You know how I told you how these guys can't play?  Well I  never told you about this guy named Dave. Dave is younger than me (a little), a vice president of a local bank, and a really good poker player.  He used to always show up to these events and go fishing.  The difference between him and me is he plays high stakes games at Foxwoods, Vegas and online.  Really high stakes.  He's won a ton of money but I suspect he's lost a bunch too. I think he stopped showing up because this was too small for him, but I just heard that he's playing today and so is his sister Lisa.  Yup, I've got some real competition today. About a year ago Dave won a huge tourney on Full Tilt - $23,000!  He was having a home game that I attended and he showed me the screen shot of his win.  He called me over and said "Josie, you gotta see this!"  Of course I was impressed and told him so (although ...

When you win money at the Saugus Sportsmen's Club you get a little manilla envelope like the ones shown here.  I was collecting them for a while, but honest to God I stopped collecting about a year ago. I wonder how many I'd have if I had kept up with it.  Even the envelope I got last week was trashed.  But why am I showing you this? It is proof that Coop is wrong!  I can't tell you when and I can't tell you how much, but it's mine! Josie