Very Josie

Okay, so I ventured into the land of PLO heads up, with a few key rules that I followed.  I am not posting the rules here, as I don't want to give Drizz any help with his PLO game.  :) Anyway, I played 3 games and won 2 of them!  Yay!  Not alot of winnings as they were a $2 game and a $5 game. Synergy baby! Almost synergy?  I really liked the flop.  :) PLO is fun! Play smart. Josie

Today's word of the day is........ Synergy:  •The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects. •Cooperative interaction among groups, especially among the acquired subsidiaries or merged parts of a corporation, that creates an enhanced combined effect. I like this word.  Someone who knows things , told me that I could play PLO heads up against Drizz  (even without skill) so long as I kept synergy of my hand in mind.  I got a few other tips too.  :) So Dizzy Drizzy, lemme try this against a random donk, and if it works, I will give it a chance against you. Play smart with SYNERGY. Josie

Sung to the tune of Jack and Diane by John Mellencamp Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of poker is gone Say Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of poker is gone Little Ditty 'bout Josie and Heffman 2 American kids living in blogger land Heffy's gonna be a poker star Josie's debutante in Vegas didn't go far Heffy sits back collects his thoughts for the moment Scratches his head and then he shoves all in Well you know Josie, she's gonna call here Josie says "Baby, you ain't gonna win." Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of poker is gone Say Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of poker is gone Gonna let it rock, let it roll Let the donkeys come and steal my steal my soul Hold onto aces as long as you can Suffering those bad beats makes us women and men. Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of poker is gone Say Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of poker is gone A little ditty bout Heffmike...

  I will break U Heff - Just not tonight. Tonight was my Heads Up Challenge with Heff Mike.  We hooked up about 9pm and the plan was for me to join a game and he'd follow.  Well as soon as I joined a game, someone else named Claudia did too.  So I had to play him/her first.  Luckily she sucked.  I kept raising and she kept folding, and 10 minutes into it I had my first win under my belt.  Onto Heff Mike! Heff Mike has a great (and factual recap) on his post which I just stole and copied below.  Please enjoy! Cliffs: Very Josie HU challenge ends up 2-2. Best results for a challenger so far, sounds good to me. Game 1 - back and forth for about 50 hands, I limp KQo at 20/40 down a bit, we see a 987 all spade flop, I have the Ks, and I check/call a pot bet. Turn's a blank, I check/shove into Josie's T6s, no spade - only the flopped second nut straight. I do not get there on the river. Down 0-1. Game 2 - much quicker, four hands in, I raise AA to...

Work. It's what I do.  I enjoy it to a certain extent but I certainly don't have the most exciting job.  I do the same thing month after month, year after year and take very little time off.  Repeat. Except I took a week off this December for the WPBT and more recently had 5 days off in a row for the Christmas holiday.  Very unusual for me.  And it's not like I missed work while I was home/away.  Far from it.  I was reveling in the fact that I didn't have to get up quite so early, my time was my own, but the most curious thing happened when I got back to work this week. I settled into doing some mundane tasks; things that usually bore the crap out of me, yet they were oddly comforting.  Ahhh back to my old routine.  Have coffee, do this, that, the other, solve a few problems, have lunch. More work, more coffee, help some colleagues out, then home. I don't know why it feels so "right" to be in work.  Perhaps because I do my job wel...

Snow Storm in Gloucester MA The lovely photo above was taken by one of the architects I work with.  He designed and lives in that beautiful house, which is right on the ocean's edge.  And the house is even cooler inside.  It's is a susstainable zero energy house.  That means it doesn't use any energy from fossil fuels and the like.  Solar powered baby! Also Gloucester 12/27/10 (Snow) So I showed you the snow.  Natch, I am the Ho, and now for the show.............. Tonight at 9pm ET on Full Tilt Poker.......It's my Heads Up Challenge against HeffMike!   It's going to be AWESOME.  Let's do a little recap on the HU challenges, shall we? First, Lightning was up.  Two matches and he was down for the count.  Kicked his ass in record time, then we went on to chat for an hour or so. Second, Waffles.  Aloooooot of matches and they were all a struggle, but in the end I prevailed and got me some Waffles money.  Let's just say the c...

It's warm inside though.  :) Foooootball:  Below are my picks - you can click on it if you actually want to read it, but the bottom line is I am in 4th place for the week at the moment.  However, if my picks for the next two games win, I will win for the week again.  I need Atlanta to beat New Orleans and Philly to beat Minnesota.  That's not asking too much, is it? If that happens I will win for the week, by ONE POINT.  Football is truly  game of inches. Goooo Philly! I am sweating 2 games instead of one, because the Sunday Night Football game was called off due to weather.  Regardless of the outcome of the next 2 games this was a very good week for me, as I am no longer tied for 1st for the year.  I am now ahead of 2nd place by 14 points and I think that number will only increase when these games are done. Poker: I feel kinda bad about my Waffles post.  It didn't really reflect the actual play that took place.   After...

Guess what happened! The Waffles heads up challenge was a success - except of course for Waffles.  I took a bunch of screenshots but I'm too lazy to use them.  How bout I give you a quick recap. Game one - I win very quickly. Game 2, waffles wins very quickly. That's pretty much how it went for quite a while.  About mid way through he was up a game, then good playing over came luck and I won, then I won again, then I won again! I ended up with a bunch of Waffles money.  He bluffs way more often than he should and really sucks at poker but  I'll give him this.  He was up a bunch of games and kept on playing till I was up. Whew... Gotta love ace rag River suck out - this happened more than once I thought my straight was good.  Boo! Boom Fave hand baby.  Believe it or not, Waffles CALLED my all in with that crap.  Now if you read Waffles post I am sure there will be whining and reason afer reason why he lost his money to a girl....

4 hrs till heads up match and I just opened a bottle of pino grigio.  Ut oh!  Gotta go refill my glass. :) Josie

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. - Yul Brynner Tonight at 8pm is the Heads Up challenge.  Now once Waffles loses there will be lots of excuses, like he was tired, the au pair was distracting him, whatever.  Bottom line, Waffles is gonna get a lesson he won't soon forget and I will get some yummy Full Tilt dollars. Everyone's a winner! I am AWESOME heads up so Waffles doesn't have a chance.  I mix up my play and mix up my opponent, which is not hard to do, considering tonight's opponent.  :)  Please feel free to stop by and watch the carnage.  Just look for me: veryjosie ******** I am still fuming at the fact that THERE ARE HOOKERS in Grand Theft Auto.  WTF.  Stealing cars and violence isn't enough.  Gratuitous sex scenes too?  Frigging society!  I don't know why the kid just can't play Animal Crossing.  That's my favorite game! Play...

Happy Holidays! I just woke up from a 2 hour coma nap.  I hope your holiday was filled with love and presents.  Speaking of presents, behold the modified controller! Yes, it lights up. The new controller is the only present Evan took a picture of, but he also got a microscope, Grand Theft Auto, Northface Jacket, Criss Angel magice set, one of those hoodies with earbuds in the hood, Myth Busters Air Pressure thingy, and God knows what else.  What he didn't get was the game Mafia Wars because there is NUDITY in the video game.  Hell, I could just buy him a Playboy Magazine and save about $40.  And if you think like Evan, NO, there's no way he's getting a Playboy Magazine either. :P Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive. ~Robert Lynd Here are some more random Chr...

I have tamed Lightning For starters, did you read Lightning's WPBT recap?   If I didn't know better I would've thought we slept together! I wasn't that drunk, was I?  Must be another one of those "I slept with a blogger" teasers.  Although he did keep waking me up.  Nobody fucking sleeps in Vegas! Soooooooooo how do I put this nicely? Lightning and I had our heads up battle last night.  Actually we had TWO and I was poetry in motion baby.  I spanked him and taught him a lesson twice in a row.  Two for two baby! I didn't take any screen shots of the first one.  Forgive me, but it was over before I knew it.  :)  I won like 3 or 4 hands in a row and boom.  I don't want to give out too many details yet about my heads up play, as there is one more  DONKEY waiting to donate to the Josie's Full Tilt account. So before you can say "Lightning sucks" game one was over and he accepted the rematch!  Yay!  I decided...

Gooooo Steelers! (um this is not clothing) Week 16 is a critical week for me, as I am tied for first place and have what...only 2 more weeks in the regular season, right? My big 16 pick is on the Steelers TONIGHT.  Almost put the 16 on Tom Terrific and The Pats but The Steelers will pull this off for me (as will The Pats). Below are my picks and they're Gold! I mean they're in BOLD. :) Carolina @ Pittsburgh 16 My biggest pick for tonight. Dallas @ Arizona 5 Don't like Dallas hence the small number but Ari sux more Baltimore @ Cleveland 10 Baltimore rocks San Fran @ St. Louis 4 Meh New Eng @ Buffalo 14 LOVE LOVE LOVE Washington @ Jacksonville 8 Detroit @ Miami 9 They're better pull this off NYJ @ Chicago 2 My new fave team.  :) Tennessee @ KC 11 Respectable Indy @ Oakland 7 They've been winning for me Houston @ Denver 1 I frigging hate Denver - they suck. San Diego @ Cinncinati 13 Cinncy's been having a shitty year and Kendra likes SD! NY Giants @ ...

Never Very rarely do I link a blog of a person I really don't know, but there is something beautiful about this blog, which happens to be called SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL .  The photographs are beautiful, as is the prose, but that's not why it's being featured here. One post is called 11 Things.  More specifically, 11 things that I can do without in 2011 .  Such an intriguing thought for me that had me wondering all morning, "What 11 things can I do without in the new year?"  My mind has wandered a gamit of different types of things I really could do without.  So in no particular order.... 1.  Many pairs of my earrings .  I cannot go into a store without coming out with a new pair.  Solid gold, real diamonds or cheap shit, I want them all.  I could easily give up 11 pairs and still have many many more in the rotation. 2.  Single earrings that have lost their mate .  Poor, poor earrings with no mate.  They clutter up my jew...

Thanks to The Bears, a check is on it's way to me.  See email below from football commissioner: congrats! just let me know how you'd like me to get you the loot... i was thinking singles scattered along I-93 if you send me your mailing address, i can punch in an electronic check that should reach you 6-7 days after i enter it ... (same way adam got his winnings) just let me know ... and remember other options include I-93, 128, Boston Harbor, Comm Ave, etc ... In case you are unfamiliar with the Boston area, all the locations he mentioned are particularly windy and not the best place to be collecting many singles.  :)  Bastard.  Of course, in his defense, I've been bragging and trash talking for coming on 4 years.  Since I am tied for first place for the year, this may be the year someone takes away my reign.  NO FUCKING WAY.  I've been spending about 5 minutes (or less) on my picks lately and that has to change.  Just for the bragging al...

Da Bears ROCK (clicky on the picky for legibility) Not that I want to count my chickens before they hatch, but it's the 4th Quarter and The Bears are beating the Vikings 40-14. (Put a fork in Favre, he's done)  So far, so good.  If the Bears win, I get a check for $70 plus I am back to first place for the year end grand prize.  Technically when the bears win, I'll be tied with Ed for first place, but same difference!  I own this league!!!  :) Update:  I winned!  When Minnesota came out with guns blazing and scored first I was a wee bit worried.  But alas, that was for nothing!  Da Bears kicked ass and took names.  I am now officially a Bears fan.  Mama likie! Damn, just watching this game is making me colder than I already am!  In Boston it's about 25 degrees and still snowing lightly.  Came home in a miserably slow commute and still haven't fully warmed up even though I am in a flannel shirt and slipper socks...

....that I said about The Chicago Bears last Sunday.  The Pats smoked them I rubbed it in your face.  But here's the thing....If The Bears win tonight, I win for the week in my Pick The Winners league.  First place baby, all riding on The Bears. They can do it, can't they? I was reading Linda Lou's post about What's your Porn Star name?   and it gave me a chuckle.  To figure out what your porn star name would be, you take the name of a childhood pet and add it to the street name you grew up on.  So that would make me Sheba Monroe !  Start waving your dollar bills! (I had a mongrel named Sheba and grew up on Monroe Street) Come on guys, I am bored here in work on Monday, so submit your Porn Star names and give me a chuckle in an otherwise boring day.  :) Play smart. Josie

One of Las Vegas' many lures (for me anyway) was the abundance of tournament play available.  Tournament play is my strength and I knew if I played in a few (or more) I'd cash.  This did turn out to be true, but at the end of my stay in Vegas I was down.  That was not part of the plan! Here is a quick recap of my tournament play. #1 $80 Tourney at Harrahs.  Approx 40 peeps, played for almost 4 hrs, and was THE BUBBLE. I wasn't shortstacked but only 5 players, the blinds and antes were huge and I wanted them.  I jammed all in with A-J sooted and got called by K-9 and lost on the river. #2 $60 Tourney at Harrahs.  12 peeps, came in 2nd.  Big come back from $1,000 to chip leader.  When heads up, I had 90% of the chips and suffered 3 horrible bad beats in a row, witnessed by Lightning. #3 WPBT Tourney.  $120 entry, 97 peeps, + $10 luckbox last longer challenge.   I started out with Otis, Poker Grump, Lig...

Last night was Evan's Christmas concert.  He plays the saxaphone and he was soooo excited for the concert because A.) He had a duo (a 2 person solo) and B.) The concert is being televised on our local access tv station. Handsome boy (I tied the tie for him) He was amazing.  But....the concert lasted for over 2 hours and I slept through about half of it.  (the half he didn't participate in)  I guess that I still haven't recovered from Vegas.  That being said, it's time to get my drink on again! Why, you ask? Because tomorrow (Friday) is the company Christmas Holiday party.  We have ordered 30 bottles of very expensive champagne....and there are 30 employees.  :) Last year I made an effort to stay sober and not make a spectacle of myself, because 2 years ago, I did just that. All I remember is vomiting into my recycle bin under my desk, while THE OWNER OF THE COMPANY (shown below) held my hair for me. Him Anyway, what I DIDN'T remember ...