If you don’t like poker skip this entry…  If you are not sure what the WBCOOP is see my previous post.

I decided to live blog the tourney so I could keep my ADD in line and not blow it.

• My first goal is to make it to the first break; one hour into play.
• I got started pretty well with a pair of Kings, and was able to walk way with a few hundred chips which pushed me into second place for just a second.  I quickly fell but haven’t been below
• I am trying to keep the number of hands I play down so I can not lose on stupid plays.
• I am also trying to not take any risks early so I can stay alive.
• 45 minutes in I am doing pretty well, 97 of 394 but I need to be 72 or better to advance.
• My biggest win was a when I flopped a set of 6’s but I have done pretty well winning and kept my losses small.

• Made it to the break
• With a stupid play, because I was on the phone, I dropped to 148 of 340.
• The ante’s begin after the break, I think I may have to open up my starting hands a bit more and make some good moves.
• It doesn’t help that the best hand I have seen all night was the one set I won with and one I folded preflop.
• Time to start stealing blinds and antes
• JJ I hate those cards…whew everyone folded to my raise.
• 1700 with 66
• Back down with AK (Anna Kornikova, looks good but rarely wins)
• 2589 with AQ
• flopped another set but checked raised to hard on the flop and scared money away…
• Doubled up on my first straight of the night.  77th place
• Next hand KQs Split pot with KQs
• Folded TT to an all in bet only to have folded a $2000 hand. full house would have won it. arggghgh
• Lost half of my stack on calling an all in with KQ to AJ.  It was stupid but I figured I was 50% and had to take a risk, ok I am just trying to make myself feel better.
• I want to make it to the next break in 19 minutes.
• I am down to 10 Big blinds
• Back in it with another set that I was able to slow play but I got scared off my the two kings on the board.  92 of 159
• AJ against one player, I flopped top pair with my jack he raised for 1000 1/3 of his stack I pushed all in and he folded.  57 of 154
• AA I raised for 900 (3BB) and then pushed all in after the flop only to find out my opponent had flopped a set.  I busted out in 153 palce 6 minutes short of my goal to reach the next break.  I got to excited when I saw the AA since I hadn’t seen it all night in the 145 hands I had played.

In retrospect I shouldn’t have played pushed all in even though the odds of him having a set were terribly small if he was willing to bet he had something.  I was just hoping it was KK or QQ.

Well better luck next year.

You may have noticed a new little logo in the sidebar of the site. I have been accepted to play in the World Blogger Championship Of Online Poker or WBCOOP! Yes, I confess I play poker. I learned to play poker on a youth retreat years ago and I have played off and on for years. I have recently began to play a little more and it is a habit I really enjoy.

It seems that all of my hobbies, accept reading theology, are typically not habits that Christians partake of. All I need to add is wine tasting and I will have the perfect sinful trifecta. Anyway I don’t want this post to be a debate on the nature of gambling and proper stewardship we all have things, normally entertainment, we spend money on; this is mine.

I will be playing in the preliminary tourney next Tuesday the 16th at 7EST. Wish me luck.

With Heather leaving town this weekend I took off to with a buddy to see The Dark Knight. I was skeptical to see it because it was tremendously well hyped as the best movie ever, and the death of Heath Ledger only served to increase this hype. (This post is spoiler free)

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I have finally gotten my hands on a copy of “Pagan Christianity” by George Barna and Frank Viola and I wanted to review it.  Read the rest of this entry

Yesterday Gary Gygax passed away at the age of 69. Most of you probably won’t have a clue who he is but to the geeks; he is a hero. To some of you, after you find out who he is, you may think he is the devil’s own son, but you are wrong and ignorant.

Gary Gygax is the man who wrote the book, litteraly, on Dungeons and Dragons. He invented the game and wrote the first Player’s handbook and Dungeons master’s guide. His invention kept me sane in highschool and continues to give pleasure to my life today.

A buddy of mine won the chance to play with him and said he is one the the nicest guys he had ever met. I just wanted to tip my hat to the man.

Those of you who do know him may apprecite this tribute from order of the stick.

Photo by  Alan De Smet

In keeping with the Friday entertainment schedule I came upon this video and it just made me smile thinking about my own little girl. This little girl is so cute. I thought I would show this to brighten up your day.

Ok, I thought this was funny enough to post. If you have dial up you may not be able to download some of the images. If you click on the images you will be able to see the entire thing, I realize some of them have been cut off, I am to lazy to fix them.