Very Josie

To: Riggs, AlCantHang, HeffMike, Hoyazo, TheRealDawnSummers, JuliusGoat, Jordan, XKM, Turtle, Brain, Kat, SmBoatDrinks, Muhctim, NumbBono and of course, JamyHawk. Have mercy baby, on a poor girl like me.  You know I'm falling, falling, falling at your feet. I'm tingling right from my head to my toes.  So help me, help me, help me make the feeling go.  Cuz when the voting starts and the lights go down and there's not another living soul around, you woo me until the sun comes up and SAY THAT YOU LOVE ME. Have pity baby, just when I thought it was over. Now you've got me running, running running for cover. I'm begging you for a little sympathy and IF YOU USE ME AGAIN IT'LL BE THE END OF ME. Cuz when the voting starts and the lights go down, there's not another living soul around. You woo me until the sun comes up and SAY THAT YOU LOVE ME. Don't wanna talk about it.  Don't wanna think about it anymore. Saaaaaaaaaaaaaay that you love me.  Um via ...

SmBoatDrinks and Very Josie heads up Perhaps the title is a spoiler.  Hmmmmm There were 30something peeps that came to play the all important Dank game tonight.  There were alot of familiar faces.  I'm not a "glass is half empty" kind of gal but I couldn't help looking at the field and thinking they were all out to stop me from my goal and effect the Survive Donkey Island game.  Of course my worst fear was realized when Poker Grump was seated to my left at my first table.  Fawk!  I mean really?  Same spot 2 games in a row?  My fears were for nothing though as he was actually a nonfactor in my night.  ;)  I doubled up early when I called a min raise with Q-J and flopped broadway.  Nice!  I bet and got a call.  Turn was a non card, once again bet and call.  River was a 2.  Just to be tricky I check and he makes a good sized bet.  I have the nuts so I jam all in.  Considering the fact that everyone knows...

No Poker content Sugar Bear is 12.  Now alot of kids in his grade "date".  What that means, I truly don't know.  All I know is that any 12 yr olds of mine do not date.  I told Sugar Bear to see me when he was 16.  Do I think he won't date till 16 yrs old?  Probably not, but he's a fierce negotiator so I like to start with plenty of wiggle room. Although girls seem to text him constantly he doesn't seem ready for girls yet anyway.  The girls on the other hand, are waaaaay ready.  Of the gazillion girls that text him there's this one girl....Lexi.  She's super cool because she plays Black Ops, which apparently if you're out to land a 12 yr old boy, that's more attractive than just about anything.  At least Evan thinks so. Anyway, this girl is constantly calling him, texting him, whatevering him, yet she is "dating" his friend Bobby. Booo for Evan.  :(  Mind you, she's dating Bobby, but constantly wants to play xbox360 ...

How the booze cruise went for me Do you want the bad news or the worse news?  Let's start with the bad, shall we?  I was Gigli for The Booze Cruise last night.  Nice 2 table field, but I had the unfortunate luck of having Poker Grump at my table. (No, grumpy you aren't getting a link because I'm too mad at you) This was 10 mixed games, mostly limit and although I did cash in this last week, my goal was to last till 9:30, 20 minutes.  I did not meet my goal.  For some reason Poker Grump gets under my skin and I just don't play well against him.  I either fold the best hand or call with the worst.  Rinse, repeat.  Argh!!  I feel this way about NO OTHER PLAYER.  WTF!  Believe me, he ain't that good.  lol It's me, not him.  I think it's because he pwned me at the WPBT in Vegas.  I still have images in my head of him grinning when he trampled me with a big 10-7 off suit preflop.  This dude owes me dinner, or a kidne...

It's 3am and I'm wide awake.  Why, you ask?  Because this Survive Donkey Island stuff is kicking my butt.  I was dragging all Monday after getting not quite 5 hrs sleep Sunday night.  And just to make life interesting, I had to be in work at 7:30am on Monday.  Good times.  Plus I was in meetings for half the day, which is draining. So because I was tired, and because Dancing With The Stars was on, I decided to watch it in bed.  Mmmmm except I think I only saw one dance and it was good night!  I must've fallen asleep at 8:15!  When I woke up I didn't know what day it was or what I was late for. :)  I hate that! But let's get back to work for a minute.  Between meetings one of the guys stops by.  He, like me, is big into Survivor (the tv show).  Not that many people in the office watch it like we do and we'd always discuss who backstabbed who, who we liked, etc....

This was emailed to me from one of my friends.  A real life friend.  Someone who would never lie to me because she values my friendship, but I digress.... Quiz for Bright People There are only nine questions. This is a quiz for people who know everything! These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers.. Josie's Note:  I love these emails because these little quizzes make me feel superior - but not this morning.  Granted I didn't have time for much pondering, but regardless, I only got 5 of 9 answers.  Um, last time I looked, that's failing.  Funny thing, MENSA just sent me a letter asking me to renew my membership!  Maybe they wouldn't had they seen my test results here. 1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. 2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward? 3. Of all vegetables, only two can l...

Is she overpowering Aquaman or dancing with him? It waas a craaaaazzzy night on Survive Donkey Island.  As you know, we were playing Badugi tonight.  there were maybe 22 peeps and I was thrilled when i saw CK at my table!  Woot!  Yeah, she ran us over but it was a thrill to play with her.  If I can glean a bit off watching her do her thang, than it's well worth it. Of course the stakes were high for me.  4 of us left, playing to stay in Donkey Island.  I resigned myself to the fact that I would not win this game, which is never a good thing.  I just don't know badugi, and now having played it twice, like it even less than originally.  I hate drawing cards that may make my hand worse.  ugh - tough decisions to make.  I stood pat on a 10 badugi twice only to lose.  And lose I did.  I was out before the 2nd break. Boat who was doing so well and had a big stack, soon enough was out next.  It was down to xkm and ...

Gary sporting the latest fashion Gary is here and showed me what I was doing wrong with my headphones.  Apparently there was a box I was supposed to click.  :)  I'm good to go on BDR now. Thank you Gary!  I will try to keep the swearing to a minimum.  Is Badugi! a swear? Play smart. Josie

Marvin's money I had a fun time last night in Revere.  I'd missed the last couple of events so it was good to see everyone.  As you can probably tell from the picture above, I lasted longer than Marvin. :)  I was a little bit late so when I arrived he started with "I thought you weren't gonna show cuz you were too afraid!"   all up in my grill.  Ha!  There were a few boys I hadn't seen in like a year that showed up too, which was awesome.  Unfortunately they were all out early, to early to wait around for the cash game dammit!  Marvin and I were at different tables, which is exactly what  I didn't want.  This group is made up of pretty good players and horrible ones.  I thought that if he was left alone he was going to chip up on the noobs, as usual.  So he was upstairs and I was downstairs. At my table was this sweet old woman who didn't have a clue about how to play.  I mean nothing.  She was just here to g...

Josie and Marvin I'm playing a tourney in Revere tonight with the ladies and black men.  I skipped the first one, so when the email blast about the tourney went on Friday more than a few people on the list emailed me to see if I'd be attending  game #2.  The email goes to about 24 peeps, and they all love me.  :)  Seriously, I make the game fun with my trash talking and what not.  Anyway, I decide to reply to everyone and get the trash talking started. Josie: "That's right people! Josie's playing so watch out!" And then Marvin, my nemesis and winner of season 1 of the league sends the following email: Marvin: "There really should only be 1 person talking. (See the name below)" Marvin Now obviously he's saying that because he won season 1.btw Season 1 winner got a custom made hoodie with your name on it! (dammit i wanted that)  And he did win, but I have been OWNING him lately, so much so, last time we played I left with an IOU from Mr. M...

I am playing Badugi on poker stars tonight at 9pm.  All the details are here  and the password is southpaw.  I don't plan on winning, but getting some practice in for Sunday night's Survive Donkey Island badugi game. Work is being trying at the moment, so I don't have time for much more. Oh I left work early yesterday because Uncle Rocky, Auntie Louise, Uncle Phil and Auntie Theresa were visiting my mom.  As mom's the youngest (at 69 yrs old) I always like to see them when I can.  You thought my conversations with my mother were funny?  That was nothing! If I have time this weekend I'll recap a bit of it.  All of them were born and bred in Sicily and believe it or not,  my mother speaks the best English.  At best the others speak 50% English and 50% sicilian dialect from the 1950's - not quite standard Italian.  Sweet, sweet caring people.  They LOVE their niece Guiseppina and were thrilled I showed up.  All eyes were on ...

Turtle The Warrior Turtle was voted off Donkey Island.  He played valiantly too and lasted a looooong time.  In the end fellow fish, XKM took him out.  Turtle, at least you went down playing goot. I sucked tonight.  If you don't believe me, check out HeffMike's post .  Apparently everyone at the table knows how to play poker better than me, according to Heff.  Good thing he likes me, huh?   I lasted a couple hours but was out far too early. Sad part is I donked off almost all my chips to HeffMike .  He jammed on a flush draw and I had 2 pair and thought/knew I was good.  Which I was, until the river hit and I doubled up HeffMike.   Then I was down to like 480 chips and jammed with J-8.  Goat hit trips on the flop and I was history. So with nothing to do, *sniffle* I watched the play.  Waflles was still in it for a change, as was XKM, turtle, Hoy and my boy Neo.   After watching for a while I was *sure* xkm had t...

Boy, some people! Waffles loses last night and rants about how I'd lose to a vegatative retarded person.  You'd think by now he'd be used to losing but nope!  And get this he blames it on God hating him.  Good thing he's turned over a new leaf about taking responsibility, huh? And then Bayne posts that I'll be thrown under the bus tonight in Survive Donkey Island.  And I thought Bayne was somewhat intelligent.  I guess I'm not always right. :) So if you want to watch the great backstabbing of Very Josie, I suggest you do NOT play The Dank tonight.  You will be disappointed.  I trust my boy(s).....the ones that are trustworthy, that is. Play smart. Josie

I played SmBoatDrinks' Booze Cruise last night and I must say the games were alot of fun.  Let's see if I can list them! Limit Holdem Omaha H/L Stud Razz Triple Draw Single Draw Badugi Not bad, huh?  I have no idea how to play half those games,but somehow I came in 3rd which was itm.  Yay me!  That's pretty good considering I've been on the go since 6:30am and it's now just a hair shy of midnight.  I guess I can sleep in the next life. I got into work at 8:30, worked through lunch and left at 3:30 so I could go to the focus group at the Dedham Hilton.  For those of you who don't live in Massachusetts Dedham is right next to East Bum Fuck.  Frigging so far away from Boston.  My sistah picked me up at the office and we were off for our road trip!  This particular focus group was terrible.  I usually don't mind them and the time flies.  This one was for over 2 hrs and they'd play 8 seconds of a song, and I had to rate it ...

I can't remember when a man has made me  this happy.  What a minute, did I say MAN?  I meant Poker God!  I'm talking about SmBoatDrinks himself! Boat played a heads up match against BrainMc  for his life and he won.  It was an epic match too that lasted about an hour.  An hour of shocking twists.  I swear they took 10 years off my life.  Both were short stacked and came back more than once.  Both got lucky and both got in good.  I think SmBoatDrinks illustrated the difference between a goot player and a great one when he was shortstacked.  He had J-7 and the flop was J-4-5 or something like that, with brain holding the 3-6 for an oesd. Betting and a calling, then there's a 7 on the river, which gives brain a straight and boat top 2 pair.  If i were him in that situation, being shortstacked and all, I think I would've jammed to Brain's bet.  Instead boat calls, loses, and is down to 300 chips, but STILL IN THE ...

Below is a special treat. A post written by my son. Please enjoy and leave a comment, a NICE comment. Hello world! I am Very Josies son. Mom told me To write a "post". So now I am writing a "post". Today, we went to a birthday paty in Dracut Mass. My mom wanted to where a VERY tight shirt. I said that I thought it was fine to were to the party and she agreed. When we were getting into the car my mom insisted to go and change her shirt. We patiently waited in the car for her to get back.Instead of changing shirts, my mom put on her "I LIKE TO PLAY POKER!" sweater. And that is the end of my story. Okay, so that above was written by Evan. What I actually put on was my Party Poker hoodie sweatshirt. And the shirt wasn't THAT tight, but I usually end up outside with the kids and thought a sweatshirt was a good idea. Instead I had to listen to "Do you have to advertise that you love poker?". Fricking kids.

There's a HU match Monday night.  Boat VS Brain.9pm.  Boat is in this HU situation because a former Team Fish member sucks Donkey ass.  Quite literally, methinks.  So I gave him a piece of my mind.  God knows he could use it.  So dumb.  His stupid move cost him more than this game, that's for sure.  I exited Survive Donkey Island Event #11 early tonight, but c'e la vie.  I got in with the best hand and with a turbo and 1500 starting chips, that all you can ask.  I had J-9 hearts and the flop was 3-3-10 with 2 hearts.  Two Black Aces bet out and I called.  Turn was an A of hearts!  Boom.  I jammed all in.  He thinks for a bit and calls with A-rag....I think a 6.  Anyway a 3 lands on the river and he gets a boat.  gg Josie.  I hate a riverboat, but there was really no getting away from that.  I wanted the call.  I put him on the ace and wasn't really thinking boat. Boat.....

Got a minute?  Maybe a half hour?  I have a feeling this post is going to be a bit lengthy.  I played in a live tourney Saturday with Gary as I mentioned earlier.  There were 72 peeps 7 itm and first place was over 2K.  I really wanted to cash and I did not.  The sad part was I surely could've....surely should've. We started with 15K in chips and I have 8 peeps at my table.  I recognize an older woman, very tight nit, who I've played with before and the guy with no front teeth who I split with once.  They def recognize me too.  You tend to remember those at final tables.  Not that she cashes alot.  I remember her nitting to the final table with like 10 in chips.  5 minutes into it NoFrontTeeth (Frank) says "Josie, remember we split a while ago?  Down to us two before you finally agreed?  You weren't so nice."  I say "Frank, why split 4 ways when you can split 2.  You should be thanking me.  Wanna spli...

Gary and I are heading up to Seabrook Poker Room for the 1:30pm featured event.  $100 buy-ing with 15,000 in starting chips and 30 minute blinds.  This is definitely a marathon and not a sprint. Here's what's going through my head right now: 1.  I have my mp3 player which helps me have patience. 2.  I'm aware of a few holes in my game and I'm going to focus on plugging them up in today's tourney. 3.  I can outplay these guys.  I have an incredible history of cashing in this particular place and it's always the same guys. 4.  I have my reputation.  No not that kind of reputation!  It's just that I seem to be quite memorable there because they all remember me and try either try one of 2 things.....fold to my aggression or do stupid stuff cuz they wanna tangle with me.  Either is beneficial cuz I ain't doing anything stupid. 5.  Usual agreement with Gary.  We split 50% of our NET winnings up to the buy in of $100....

I've been reading blogs for a long time.  The first I ever read was Carmen SinCity, The Poker Girl in Vegas.  I found it by googling "poker" and "girls".  I wanted to read about poker from a woman's perspective.  From Carmen's blog I found Miami Don, Hurricane Mikey and Linda Lou (not a poker blog, but a treasure nonetheless) as wel as many others, but those were my favorites.  A couple years later Carmen, whose blog I still love, was less and less about poker so I moved onto Waffles, Mookie, WillWonka, etc. I was totally hooked. I even tried to start my own blog.  If you look at my history on the right you'll see my lame attempts.  One entry in 2007, one in 2008 and one in 2009, each time I'd promised myself I'd stick with it.  Heh - keep that in mind when I promise you something. :) Then Hurricane Mikey asked me if I'd like to be a guest blogger on his post. *grin* Does a cat have an ass?  Of course I wanted to.  I wrote about a w...

Julius Goat and BabyBoy Heff   have both alluded to my "Jedi Mind Tricks."  Since they have outed me I've decided to share my tricks with you.  Click on the short video that illustrates it all.  It's incredibly accurate....especially the ending. I'm going to vamp you! Josie

This is how I feel One of my bestest buddies did that to my picture.  He combined the one eyed photo with a different photo for the "repaired face".  It's creepy, makes my features distorted and gives me a kind of frankenstein look.  That is exactly how I feel.  The funny thing is he emailed it to me this morning saying "this never fails to crack me up".  Perfect timing! It's not the lack of sleep that has me dragging, its the HORRIBLE hangover.  Maybe God will have mercy and decapitate me to put me out of my misery.  Or mebbe not. Okay lets talk poker, shall we?  I had Skiddoo at my table.  Heh.  I dunno if you remember when I OWNED him in Vegas while very very drunk, playing Razz, a game I'd never played before.  History pretty much repeated itself last night. I had A-Q and flop was 10-A-X.  Skiddooski was holding 10-10.  An A on the turn gave me trips and him a boat.  Bet and call.  River was a beauti...