Very Josie

Maybe, just maybe we might be getting the money sitting in our Full Tilt accounts!  Dare I hope? Groupe Bernard Tapie just signed an acquisition agreement with Full Tilt that includes paying off all players accounts!  Below is an excerpt. This agreement, which includes the repayment of Full Tilt Poker’s world-wide players in full, is subject to several conditions; the first of which is a favorable resolution with the United States Department of Justice. Discussions with the United States Department of Justice will begin immediately. You can read the whole shebang HERE! As you can see it's not a done deal yet.  It's pending resolution with the US.  Hopefully the Department of Justice will do what it can for us small folk.  Keep your fingers crossed! Play smart, which means NOT online. Josie

Waffles (no link!) left this comment pretty much calling me old: gl Josie. Know what is really funny. I may be wrong here but I assume the reason the Borg needs a valid ID is so they can tell your old enough to play? Now, while all the old guys on the site will tell you that you do not look a day over 17... I think the Borg could figure out that you actually are slightly over 21. It reminded me of a little encounter I had on Monday where another guy called me old.  Grrrrr  I was on my way home from work and my sister called and said she was in the area of my house and was going to stop by.  She was going to hang with Sugar Bear and said she'd give me a ride home from the bus stop. Cool. It's a short ride home from the bus stop but as we're almost there she stops and says she's practically out of gas.  Do I mind if we go get gas right now.  Not at all, let's go! Then she says that she needs cash for gas....she needs at least $20 and she'd pay me later...

I just sent the email below to Mr. Stan Strickland who is The Borgata's Director of Poker Operations. Mr. Strickland, I am a poker player. I've played and had success at Foxwoods and various casinos in Las Vegas and was looking forward to my debut at Borgata during your WPT events that took place a couple of weeks ago. It's over now, but I need someone from The Borgata to understand the frustrations that I had. I took time off of work and flew into AC for the event only to find out that I could not get a Borgata players card therefore I could not play any poker PERIOD exept for some small action at Harrah's. I got the run around from the my borgata staff and even got hung up on by a manager at my borgata when I attempted again to figure out a way for me to play in this event that I was so looking forward to. The issue? My Commonwealth of Massachusetts non-driver's license. It was the older kind that did not have an expiration date. As there was NO expirati...

Waffles Feinstein (I swear that's his new moniker!) and I are posting our Week 4 football picks.  If you're following along, you know that he kicked my ass in last week's matchups and is ahead of my by 8 points.  My own damn fault to be sure but I can assure you he will not be ahead after Week 4.  I mean even a broken clock is right twice a day, right?  I suppose the same holds true for broken men. Without further ado.....Gold, pure gold.  I'm talking about my picks below. Dallas/Detroit - Dallas 2 NO/Jacksonville - NO 12 Philly/San Fran - Philly 13 Washington/St L - Wash 5 Cleveland/Tenn - Cleve 3 Buffalo/Cinncy - Buffalo 7 Minnesota/KC - Minn 4 Chicago/Carolina - Chic 6 Lightning baby! This one's for you Houston/Pitts - Houston 8 Atlanta/Seattle - Atlanta 10 NYG/Ari - NYG 1 SD/Miami - SD 14 Miami Don!  This one ain't for you! lol GB/Denver -  GB16 NE/Oak - NE 11 Tom Terrific! Balt/Jets - Balt 9 Tampa Bay/Indy - TB 15 Obv. Waff...

I'm in mourning today. I thought about... Leaving but I couldn’t even get outta bed I’m hangin’ cause I couldn’t get a ride outta town Now anyone who really wanted me to be down Come ’round! Thought about... Singin’ but I couldn’t remember all of the words Breakin’ but I couldn’t get the pieces apart Laughin’ never knowing what the joke was about Now I’m down! That joke would be the Boston Red Sox.  :( All week long I've had the worst starts to my day.  Lemme 'splain. Tuesday Morning:  Normally, I get off my bus in the morning directly across the street from my building but Tuesday I decided to ride all the way to the T Station.  There's a Dunkin Donuts at the T Station and um, I run on Dunkin'.  I don't do it too often because it eats up about 20 minutes of my morning what with the extended commute and all but Tuesday I did!  I got my coveted "Medium iced coffee with milk no sugar please!".  The way to a woman's heart is with th...

I was reading Wolfie Baby's POST about our last night in Atlantic City and he mentioned something about walking by my table and seeing a castle wall made out of red chips.  Hee hee.  It made me realize that I never did a post about that particular session and there's no better time like the present! I'd just bluffed my way out of the 8:15 tournament and was looking to get my money back via 1-2 NL.  The floor directed me to a table where the 5 seat was unoccupied.  As I was about to sit down the guy from the 7 seat popped up and said he wanted the 5 seat.  He was sick of the spot he was playing at.  What ev.  I was fine with that, sat in his seat and waited for the button. This guy was the table captain (until I got there).  He'd amassed a lot of chips and it was easy to see he was a grinder.  He sat next to this other woman who also was a regular there.  She had on the most awesome baseball cap that had WPT in ...

Stayin' Alive! Yay!!!!!  The Red Sox won last night, 8-7.  We are still in it to win it.  Cbip and a chair I always say. Tampa Bay won too though, so that means they are still tied with the sox.  Tonight is the last game of regular season so the Red Sox must win tonight to stay in it.  If the Red Sox win and TB loses the sox have secured the wild card spot, and the reverse is true if TB wins and the sox lose.  If they both win they'll play one play off game in FL on Thursday afternoon for all the beans.  The Boston beans that is. The hero of last night's game was......crap, I forget his name.  He's our new rookie catcher who just got called up because both Varitek and Saltalamacchia (I'm sure I've spelled his name wrong - no need to comment about it!) are on the DL. The rookie hit his first (and second) major league homerun last night. As it was a one run win, we certainly needed both.  Mr. Rookie has very good timing indeed.  ...

Just for Bayne.....below are the results of my Week 3 Football Picks.  Ugh.  It isn't pretty.  WINNERS ARE IN BOLD NE Buffalo - I lost my 15, tyvm Denver Tennessee - I won 12 Houston New Orleans - I won 11 NYG Philly - I lost 13 Miami Cleveland - I won 7 Jacksonville Carolina - I won 8 SF Cincy - I lost 10 Jets Oak - I lost 3 KC San Diego - I won 16 *whew* Balt St. Louis - I won 9 Ari Seattle - I won 2 Chicago GB - I won 6 Atlanta TB - I won 1 Pitt Indy - I won 14 Dal Wash - I won 5 For those keeping track I got 91 points out of a possible 136 and 11 winners out of 16.  I know 11 out of 16 doesn't sound terrible but I lost a lot (ty duggle for that lesson on 'a lot') of my big numbers.  I didn't even bother to add up Waffles total for the week yet but I know he has me beat.  He hit a lot of his big numbers.  The biatch. Speaking of being beaten..... The sox lost again last night and the yankees...

Below is a conversation I had with a creep while playing in a tournament at Harrah's.  First let me set up the scene and then you'll get the conversation verbatim as it's been burned into my brain, unfortunately. This was the first night at AC.  I'd been playing in a tournament and just made it to the final table with plenty of chips.  I'd just taken out a guy by slow playing a goot hand and his buddy was to my immediate right.  A few hands later I was in a hand heads up with the guy to my right.  I had top pair baby kicker and set out a feeler bet.  The man responded with a pot sized reraise. Ugh.  That's the problem with playing crappy cards.  Even if you hit top pair that crappy kicker can make you think you have the worst hand. I put him on top pair with a better kicker than a 3 (my hand) so I fold.  He flips over his cards and shows his bluff.  So I playfully smack him on the arm. ...

I prefer this to reality. I'd rather just look at the image of that painting instead of facing reality.  Reality is baaaaad.  You don't even know how bad *gasp* yet. I know you're thinking 'It' can't be that bad dear Josie" but it is. Where shall we start? I did horribly in my pick the pros football league and I meant terrible.  Worst I remember doing in years.  I did so badly I went down to 6th place in my standing for the year.  That sucks!  I decided to get tricky and instead of picking all favorites I went with a couple of underdogs that I thought could pull things off for me and separate the women from the boys.  I went with Minnesota over Detroit and Cinncy over SF.  The heart breaker of it was the fact that my underdogs both had the lead for most of the game!  I went from thinking I was going to win the whole shebang to stinking up the place. (not literally) And I don't know how many points Waffles has but I know it's more than ...

As you can imagine I'm extremely busy in work.  Spent 4 hours of yesterday in meetings, which did provide some resolution but that also means 4 hours of down time (not getting any work done).  What I'm leading  up to is I don't have time to write the post I'd like to write, so you're going to have to wait. In the mean time below is a bit of poker as well as my football picks for this weekend.  Waffles and I tied last week, but this week I take the lead!!!  His head is full of au pairs, German Shepards and other intrusive thoughts so I doubt he can focus on football! Well maybe it'll be more than a *bit* of poker.  Once I get started on that subject it's hard to stop.  :) If you know me at all, you know that I love TOURNAMENT poker above and beyond cash games.  A tournament is so much more about strategy and playing on players weaknesses.  Some player's weakness may be they're too aggressive while most have fear as their weakness.  ...

As you can imagine I was completely devastated to find out that I couldn't play in my first WPT event after flying down to AC.  Worse I found myself stuck there midweek with no big juicy tournaments to play.  I mean the largest ones were $100 buyins. Worst still was being out of work for three days.  I usually don't take more than one day off at a time but I juggled meetings and committments to make it work. That coupled with the fact that I'd been away for the weekend prior to the AC trip so I spent like 6 days away from my Sugar Bear - which I totally would not have done for a $100 tourney obv. The supreme waste of time was the most upsetting. Till now. I received this email that pretty much rubbed salt in my gaping wound.  Wanna see it? wait...you *never* even got to play at the borgata?????? you flew down to atlantic city to sit in crappy harrahs and play poker for a few days? that is unreal. please tell me that isnt true. When I first read that...

My sister wasn't thrilled with the idea of meeting 'some guy off the internet' and depending on him for a ride.  I told her it wasn't some random guy off the internet, it was Wolfie!  Funny thing is I'd never trust ANY guy I'd chatted with online and yet for some reason I have total trust in all you crazy poker bloggers.  And it worked out great.  Wolfie arrived just as I walked out of The Philly airport and we headed to Ocean City for pizza.   As we were driving for like and hour the scenery became a little suspect and I thought "this is a good place for a murder" yet I'm happy to report that Wolfie isn't a serial killer.  We had the best pizza and the Ocean City boardwalk and beach were beautiful. As we headed to Atlantic City Wolfie came up with an idea.  He said rather than try to register for my Borgata tourney in the morning (it started at noon the next day) he said he'd drop me off at the Borgata now.  I could get my player...

I just flew in and boy are my arms tired!  Heh, that joke never gets old does it? Over the next couple of days I will entrall you with stories about.... 1.  Borgata.  It is the worst effing place in the whole world with zero consideration for their customers.  OMFG they suck ass.  I wish I could get the person I encountered there, her supervisor, and the ass I spoke with on the phone.... and tell them that they should never have messed with me. They are a fat, pig, whore and I am going to make them pay. Their last days are going to be extremely painful and at the end they will be broken. Oh wait a minute, I'm not Waffles!  Borgata really sucks though and they will never have another opportunity for my bidness. 2. Wolfie . What I like about him is he's always full of good ideas about the best way to do this or that.  Plus he drove me here, there and everywhere with door to door service that ...

I'm putting my football picks up against Waffles, as you may know.  I did pretty darn well this week,  going 11 of 15 with my picks.  I thought I'd do a quick calculation to see where Waffles is.  How many picks you get right isn't a factor.  What counts is how many points you put on those wins.  If you lose only one game and its your 16, you're still going to lose against someone who got 3 wrong, if the 3 wrong had small numbers. Anyway going into tonight I have 104 points, with a potential for 8 more, should the NY Giants win tonight., which would make a total of 112. Waffles, Cooler Extrordinare, has 111 points with a potential for 1 more, with 1 point on the Giants, for a total of 112.  How funny is that? Let's just hope the Giants win, or I'll be behind Waffles! (I can't believe I just wrote that sentence!) Gotta go!  Mama has a plane to catch! Play smart and think good thoughts for me. Josie 

I just got back from a wonderful weekend at the beach with my girls and I'm repacking my bags for tomorrow morning.  We spent a day on the beach, did a little shopping, swam in the heated pool, went out for ice cream and talked ALOT.  At night we played games, drank, and I did some of the girls' make up, which came out fantastic btw.  I also gave out manis and pedis.  Just a great time with old friends. See the bag above?  My friend gave each of us one, with a book in it and a solid chocolate penis.  Is she awesome or what?  I have a picture of me sucking on the chocolate but I think it's a little too risque to post.  (I was drunk and yelling "take a picture of this !")  So I've had plenty of sleep, and I'm going to bed early tonight.  Tomorrow morning I leave for my WPT event at The Borgata.  The tournament starts at noon and ends when I win.  I'll tell you all about it when I get back.  Most likely more than you...

Hello Again! Below are my picks for Week 2.  These are straight up wins, with a value assigned to each win.  The values are 1-16 and if you your pick wins, you get the points you assigned to it.  Obviously one should put the higher points on the likely winners. I have a side bet going on with Waffles - let's just see how badly I beat him, shall we? Very Josie Picks - Week 2 Jacksonville vs The Jets JETS 15 Arizona vs Washington WASHINGTON 9 Chicago vs New Orleans NEW ORLEANS 11 Tampa Bay vs Minnesota MINNESOTA 7 Green Bay vs Carolina GREEN BAY 14 Oakland vs Buffalo BUFFALO 5 Baltimore vs Tennessee BALTIMORE 10 (go ravens!) Cleveland vs Indy INDY 1 Kansas City vs Detriot DETROIT 12 Seattle vs Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH 16 (BOOM) Dallas vs San Fran DALLAS 4 Houston vs Miami HOUSTON 2 (Sorry Don!) San Diego vs New England PATS OBV 13 Cincinnati vs Denver DENVER 3 Philly vs Atlanta PHILLY 6 St Louis vs NY Giants GIANTS 8 Obvio...

Shabat Shalom my brothers! It's Friday and I'm leaving work early to get my party on.  Weekend with the girls starts at 4pm today!  If you'd like to read about last year's goddesses weekend, you can check out THIS POST.   All the girls will be going again, except Kathy, whose sweet sweet mother is in the last stages of cancer.  :(  What we usually do both nights after dinner is play board games and watch ME get drunk.  Kathy and I are the only ones who will drink more than one drink and since she's not going I will have to have a drink or three for her.  The other girls will have ONE creamsicle *gag* and that's it.  Last year Kathy snuck a little extra vodka into the creamsicles just to get the party started but she was busted!!!! Because of my big win at Foxwoods, the girls have demanded ice cream on me Saturday night.  I'll take pics! Anyway, the real story here is my big tourney at the Borgata on Tuesday.  Can't frigging wait....

Guess who! I just got this email from someone who recently added me to their blog list.  And you KNOW how much I love being on new blog lists! I have to reconsider about listing you. nothing against you and I will still visit, but the comments are not funny and guys can be such assholes.  sorry about that .* I think I was on this guy's blog list for about 1 day.  Yes, that email came from a guy! So of course I went through the recent comments from my Ugh post to see which he was referring to and the only thing I can come up with is Waffles! It reminded me of The DB Cooper incident a while ago.  Remember that?  To make a long story short, a comment from Waffles caused DB Cooper to not only stop reading me, but it caused DB Cooper to stop blogging ENTIRELY.  Talk about overkill.  At least the dude that sent me the email above is still blogging.  Just not with any association to me. :( I can't say that doesn't bother me, but peop...

I'm getting worried panic stricken nervous about this tournament at the Borgata.  As I was thinking about how difficult this tournament is going to be, the following song starting singing in my ear (courtesy of Goldie) The rope that's wrapped around me Is cutting through my skin And the doubts that have surrounded me Are finding their way in I keep it close to me Like a holy man prays In my desperate hour It's better, better that way I've crept into your temple (casino) I have slept upon your pew I've dreamed of the divinity Inside and out of you I want it more than truth I can taste it on my breath I would give my life just for a little death I'm sure Ms. Melissa Etheridge was talking about some hot woman, but the song speaks volumes to me about my feelings of this tournament.  I do want it more than truth and yes, I can taste it, but the doubts... Is my competition a better class of player because it's a WPT event?  Am I in over my h...

Sophia just got married, and being a traditional Italian was still a virgin. On her wedding night, staying at her mother's house, she was nervous. But mother reassured her. "Don't worry, Sophia. Luigi's a good man. Go upstairs, and he'll take care of you." So up she went. When she got upstairs, Luigi took off his shirt and exposed his hairy chest. Sophia ran downstairs to her mother and says, "Mama, Mama, Luigi's got a big hairy chest." "Don't worry, Sophia", says the mother, "All good men have hairy chests. Go upstairs. He'll take good care of you." So, up she went again. When she got up in the bedroom, Luigi took off his pants exposing his hairy legs. Again Sophia ran downstairs to her mother. "Mama, Mama, Luigi took off his pants, and he's got hairy legs!" "Don't worry. All good men have hairy legs. Luigi's a good man. Go upstairs, and he'll take good care of you." So,...

"What are you doing tonight?" My boss came up to me when I was working yesterday and asked me that.  "What are you doing tonight?"  "Um....." That's a loaded question!  Truly, I spend enough time with this guy five days per week, but I like to know what I'm turning down before I decline.  I said " Nothing.....why?" Why?  Because he had one extra ticket to Tuesday night's Red Sox game.  He knows I'm a huge Wakefield fan and Wake was pitching. It was another attempt to get his 200th career win.  A very tempting offer because.... A.  Wake was pitching, and I'd love to be there for his milestone. B.  All tickets from work are free! C.  It was a single seat a few rows over from where the boss would be sitting.  I wouldn't even have to sit with  him.  (big bonus) Yet I declined because I'm going on my girls weekend Friday-Sunday and then Atlantic City Monday-Wednesday.  I'm going to be away for long enough so I t...