Very Josie

Here I am!  I had a great night out with the girls last night.  Jenny, Nicole, Libby, Cindy, Josephine (a different one) and Gaby.  The gossip was non stop like the drinking.  Man it was good to see everyone. I meant to take pictures but then you guys would all be wiping drool off of your screens.  Some    All of these women are gorgeous and young.  I fit in for obvious reasons. :P (if anyone says mother figure I will shoot you)  But still, I should've taken a picture of Gaby...She's like 25 yrs old, part Indian (feather not dot) and thin, beautiful olive skin and just darn pretty.  Like when she walked into the bar (late) every set of eyes in there stared - that's how drop dead gorgeous.  Last time I saw her was maybe a year ago.  She was lit - about 10 drinks over her limit and she was kinda throwing herself at this kid....who was sooooo not interested.  I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't witnessed it, but whatever to ...

I am Blah no more.  Maybe it was the good night's sleep, maybe it was exercising till I'm sore but something did it.  It certainly wasn't my Full Tilt playing last night. I won NOTHING.  Played 4 games and zilch.  Bubbled twice though. BFD Thinking of playing one (or both) of LJ's tourney's tonight.  I feel like kicking some blogger ass.  I take to tournaments like a duck to water, but I haven't been playing them lately.  I'm really looking forward to it. Of course that's after another exercise session tonight.  We are going to take a little hike through Breakhart Reservation in addition to the situps, pushups (girlie kind), and free weights routine.  Oh and a little yoga too. With me it's all or nothing - nothing half assed. Workwise alot is going on too.  Remember the biatch?  Her assistant just resigned.  The biatch is the woman who made my friend Jenny decide it was better to be unemployed than work with her....

Got nothing.  Blah...... Bored in work......I think I'll play some online poker tonight though so maybe I'll have something for you tomorrow. Update (like 10 minutes later) Even though I'm blah, I do have a busy week coming up.  Wed night - drinks out with the girls....home by 10pm at the latest so I can play The Mookie while buzzed.  I officially apologize now for the offensive things I will be saying Wed night. Thursday night - One of the old time architects is hosting a get together at his house.  His house is right on the ocean in Gloucester.  It is the coolest most ultra modern structures I have ever been in and it' stocked with amazing art.  I don't have a picture, but the photos below were taken from his porch. Then Friday morning we leave for a weekend in North Conway New Hampshire.  There, the week doesn't sound as blah as I do, does it? Play smart. Josie

Not having the best results in the SNG challenge, but I finally have some wins! Games 1-4 were losses Game 5 2nd place Game 6 loss Games 7 & 8 Then I got the brilliant idea to play 2 games at once.  I NEVER usually do this.  And Even though I was shortstacked (down to 600 chips) in one of the games, I came back to win FIRST PLACE in both. Um disregard the picture in the background.  That's a picture of Sugar Bear from like 4 years ago.  I think his expression is hilarious so I put it up - He was obviously very excited about his Thanksgiving dinner.  Note to self:  Change desktop background pic. 2 more games to go....but I like the fact that I have a couple of wins now. Play smart. Josie

Both bosses are out today so I have time for a little story about my old boss, but first a little background.  As you probably know I work for an architecture firm in Boston and have been with them for about 6 years.  Prior to this job I worked at a different architecture firm in the same office building where I work now.  I was at the old firm for about 5 years. (till I got laid off)  This story is about the old boss from the old firm. Peter (old boss) was a very odd and very unhappy man.  After working with him for 5 years I figured out why.  He was definitely gay, but married with two kids, which made him very miserable.  He absolutely HATED his wife and would talk bad about her every chance he got.  And he used to make VERY suggestive comments to my male coworker, but I'll omit them from this post.  It's not what this story is about. The story is about jogging!! Peter decided to start jogging.  He had a male friend that wa...

Okay, there was alot of poker played by ME Wednesday night.  Let's start with the home game.  Gary and I had a side bet.  $5 for whoever won the most cash.  After a hell of alot of good poker playing we wound up even.  I won game 1 (a heads up game - I ROCK heads up).  Then I split game 2, but game 3 wasn't ending fast enough for me and The Mookie was starting so I just jammed all in with a crappy hand, got called by a crappy hand and lost.  Meh.  What can u do.  I really pulled out all the stops to win too.  I even wore a poker uniform, which I never do at home.  Actually it was a sundress.  So of course Gary snaps a picture of me with  his camera. I thought he was trying to get back at me for posting that picture of him in the pink hat, until he mentioned  something about putting it on his ceiling.  Creep! And we ended up in a tie - that's like a win for Gary! Onto The Mookie! Note to self: ...

Some RANDOM BLOGGER  sent me a challenge last week.  He said to play ten 5.50 (9) person games and see how well I did.  Well I gave it a half assed attempt.  I played like 4 of them in a row when I was on tilt from a tourney and was 0-4.  So I just gave it up. But it seems he's doing it himself and is 2 for 2 in cashes.  Nice start, huh? So I'm starting afresh as I know I can do as well if not better. Besides it helps me to have some competition.  We'll see where we end up. Tonight is live poker at home. $5 per tourney and then The Mookie at 10pm.  JoelThePokerGod (barf) better hope and pray he isn't at my table.  Maybe I'll get lucky and have Lightning to my right. Play smart. Josie

I took a vacation day today and spent the day in the pool at my friend's house.  5 women with our kids.  We went to high school together so we've been friends for years.  It was so good to have the day to chat, gossip and hang around together. There were also 7 kids there - 6 of them boys!  Ugh am I exhausted.  I'll be hearing "Auntie Josie, Auntie Josie" in my sleep, but I had a blast.  We played water soccer (don't ask) volley ball, chicken, monkey in the middle, and alot more.  I think the women were feeling a little neglected - but I love playing with the kids! Sugar Bear being an only child is not quite used to sharing me though. At one point I had 2 other kids hanging off of me and he says in exasperation "She's my mom. Your mom's over there!"  The kids love trying to get me mad so I'd chase them.  They'd come up with all sorts of things to get me to chase them.  I was playing along until.....my frie...

Wolfie Baby, this post is just for you.  All of your favorite things wrapped up into one post, and it's not even your birthday!  Mmmmmm Wolfie's favorite fruit Mmmm Wolfie's favorite drink Notice a pattern? Anothe Wolfie favorite His Favorite Activity! Ah, The Sundress Gary in my pink hat (sorry wolfie, I don't have a picture of him in a pink thong) Atlantic City baby! Wolfie's #1 Favorite

Last night I went to see GROWN UPS with Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider and Salma Hayek.  Talk about a star packed movie! It was no academy award winner to be sure, but the movie had alot of pretty funny one liners.  All those comdians one upping each other through the movie....pretty funny.  Definitely a family movie with fart humor, pee humor and cringeworthy slapstick humor.  Sugar Bear loved it. OMG Salma Hayek is beautiful!!!! Holy Shit!  At one point they go to a water park and she is shown in. a. bathing. suit.  WOW.  She looks better than she ever has.  I was trying to find a pic of her in the hot bathing suit she was wearing in the movie.  No luck.  The pictures below will have to suffice although believe it or not she looked hotter in the movie. Before last night Angelina Jolie was my girl crush, however I think Angie has been topped! Okay back to the subject of movies....When I was a ...

I'm not really sure what time or day it is.  I just woke up and am still very groggy, but here's what I remember.  I was at work on Thursday (yesterday) and wasn't feeling very well.  Knee was hurting, stomache was upset and I was running on too little sleep.  The night before was The Mookie, which is a late night for me, plus I decided to play MORE poker after that.  Bad idea. So I'm riding the bus home and struggling to stay awake.  I always read on the bus ride home, which I love.  God help you if you try chatting with me about your day while I'm on the bus.  No, I don't wanna make small talk about the weather or your job.  (I'm really a terrible person) I just wanna veg out after a long day at work and fall into my book. But I couldn't yesterday because reading was making me even sleepier.  So I focused on staying awake. When I got home I gave Sugar Bear explicit instructions. "I am taking a nap.  Do not wake the sleep...

I played The Mookie last night.  22 players.  I was defending my title as I won The Mook last week.  It was the usual players.....Joanne, Buddy, Maggie, HeffMike, PinkyStinky, A Turtle, A Goat and A Pancake....I mean Waffles. So earlier in the day Waffles sends me a message saying he's going to knock me out of The Mookie.  Go ahead and laugh, I'll wait.  Can you believe that?  So of course I capitalize on the situation and throw out a last longer bet.  It was $5 to whomever lasted longer. Waffles was at the bottom of the pack for most of the tourney but he hung on to make 5th place (3 places in the money). Pretty much Maggie (Lucko's sister) was the chip leader for the whole game and I maintained 2nd for most of the game.  At one point she had like 30k to my 10k (I was in 2nd0 and everyone at the table said let's give up, she's got this won.  But she didn't.  Someone took her out.  Someone Italian.  ;) Down to Maggie...

Have I mentioned that I am a Red Sox fan?  I've been to Sox spring training camp and park in Fort Myers Florida, ohhh about 4 times.  Nothing makes me happier than Florida and The BoSox in the spring.  Well....maybe some things would but that's another post. As you can imagine I've met alot of players during spring training.  They are much more accessible during spring training, which Mama likes.  :)  I have interacted with......Dustin Pedroia, Manny, Papi, Yaz, Dewey Evans, Jacoby Ellsbury, Wade Boggs, Youk and many others.....like the rays.  We also visited their spring training facility and I got to meet Carl Crawford - and had quite an exchange.  :) Oh and I also kinda met Stephen King! (he almost ran me over) It's always me and my friend Brian, and as crazy as I am for the sox, he is even crazier.  A typical day for us in Fort Myers is: Out the door by 8:30am Breakfast by 9am At the park by 10 am. Doors open at 11am Secure good...

1. Jack Ten 2. Ace King 3. Straight Draws 4. L&BM Tournament 5. Drinking too much 6. Facebook 7. Scrapbooking 8. Black Jack 9. Rachael Ray 10. David Ortiz I used to be such a fan of all of the above. Jack ten cracked greater hands time and again for me.  I used to bet Ace King as though it were a boat.  It's not.  It's not even a pair.  I know I'm stating the obvious, but you'd be surprised.  And it used to be that you couldn't get me off a straight draw regardless of the size of your bet.  Let's just say I've made some adjustments.  I'm not saying that I never play items 1-3, I'm just saying I'm not in love with them like I once was.  Mama is way over them.  I had a successful weekend online that stretched into Monday evening, which concided with the adjustments noted above.  I actually folded AK and went onto to win.  I was playing the step thing for a ticket.  I was chip leader - there were 7-8 of us left ...

I ended up working today, which is a pity considering the weather.  But instead of giving them a Friday for free, I got paid.  :)  Here's how I finagled that. Josie:  (walking into boss' office on Thursday) You're lucky I like you. Boss: Ut oh, what happened? Josie:  Nothing happened. I'm about to make you an offer just because I like you. Boss:  Hold on a minute, I better pay attention.  Okay go ahead. Josie: I was thinking of coming into work tomorrow instead of going to the beach. Boss: No, don't do that.  It's not fair to you. Josie: Well we haven't worked on the GL yet and you want May closed.  We can get that done tomorrow instead of Monday. Boss:  That would be great, but I can't let  you do that. Josie: Um, I'm only going to do that if you pay me. Boss: Oh Josie: If you want to ask the owner for approval of paying me, you can let me know. Boss:  I don't have to ask him.  That woud be great!  ...

....The bad new is I was the first person out of The Very Josie.  I shiat you not.  I work with this kid Adam, who's great at ummmmm architecture (poker not so much).  So I have A-Q big raise and the flop is Qxx.  Yep, TPTK.  I threw so much money at it but Adam wouldn't go away, and I was left with like 465 chips.  But Jew Boy's the one who got my bounty.  And here I was sooo sure he wouldn't win any money tonight (based on history lol) but I was wrong. He won the $2 bounty. After the game started I made my pick for the winning horse at tonight's Very Josie.  I was going back and forth between Waffles and Poker Grump , and settled on The Grump.  They both had plenty of chips at the time...but Waffles donked his off pretty early when he jammed AK against Grump's JJ which held up.  I guess JJ is OK!  Note:  although I didn't mention it, I was also thinking HeffMike...I swear!  I'm like psychic, you know. ...

One of the old guys The Very Josie is tonight at 9pm ET.  Password is pokerbaby.  find me, veryjosie and you'll find the most exctiting game on Full Tilt! I'm paying BamBam's buy in to the event because......erm....because he knows alot about boobs, even my boobs!  If you want to read all about his mad boob skills, click HERE . For the record, I still CANNOT believe some guy in Bedrock (if I were from Canada, i wouldn't admit it either BamBam) knew more about me than you USA boys.  Tsk, tsk, tsk. BamBam got lucky last time.  No he didn't win (obv) but he was lucky enough to NOT have me at his table.  Instead he had a bunch of noobs like College Boy, Jew Boy (hee hee) and my sister.  Talk about an easy table!  And when I checked in on said table, he and Riggs were feeding my sister quite a line.  That they are in fact real brothers!  Heh.  Still can't believe neither of you cashed, while starting at the easy table! Play smart T...

NO, it's not that time of the month, it's time for The Very Josie!  Wednesday Night at 9pm ET.  You gotta play!  I want witnesses when I exact my revenge. I'm Sicilian.  That means Mojo and  Pokah Dave  better watch out.  I keep cashing in my tourney but I haven't won it.  Those guys have gotten in my way.  I'm going to have to "take care of them".  Shhhh "I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out. Just my enemies." - Michael Corleone Play smart. Josie 

I'm playing the Stud8h/l tourney that Suited Aces was taking about.  It starts at 18:45 Eastern Time = 6:45pm. ON FULL TILT! This'll be my first stud tourney so I'll be no competition.....who's gonna play too?  Wolfie?  Suited Aces?  How bout you Neo Baby? It's tourney 170191617 or just find me, veryjosie.  I'm registered! And I'm out!  Out 26th, not in the money.  97 players with 12 ITM. It was one hand that pretty much did me in.  After playing for a couple of hours the betting was huge.  I caught a boat but my opponent had a larger boat.  It was a huge pot and it left me short stacked. The wheels came off after that. It was alot of fun and I'll probably play it again.  Tournament play appeals to me so much more than cash. Play smart! Josie

Waffles and I met up for drinks after work last night and it was alot of fun!  I thought it might've been a little awkward or we'd run out of conversation but that wasn't the case.  I think I was expecting to meet a moody, angry, maniac but I'm blowing his cover because he was the polar opposite. He was nice, sweet, friendly, open and talked nonstop! And he bought me drinks!  Heh. My drink of choice for the night was a kamikaze.  Yum, but a little strong.  You can get it as a shot or a drink.  They are very small - the only difference between the shot and the drink is they add ice to the drink so you can't shoot it back.  So the first one is small and on the rocks. First drink was this size Then Waffles goes to the bar to get us another round and comes back with a beer for himself and a PINT GLASS of Kamikaze for me.  I shiat you not!  I was like "Dude, didja get me a triple?"  He says he didn't but I dunno.....

Read THIS  so I did. Wow!  I wonder if it's true.  You should read it too.  Makes my prop bets seem TAME. Josie