Tuesday, July 15
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Strange Day
I'm working at the Doctor's office today, and it has been unusual.
The mistaken room
A lot of people come into this office by mistake.
If you ever have the choice, never choose your suite number to be the same as the building. If the building number is 302, don't occupy suite 302. Don't. Seriously, don't. Unless you enjoy having random people insist that they have come to the right place. They just don't understand the concept of suites are a part of a bigger whole called building and that they have different numbers.
I hear dead people
A detective constable called me from the morgue saying that he needed to contact family members of the deceased (he had the Doctor's business card on him). The man's first name was Cuong. I couldn't help him with any useful information about family contact. A few minutes later another man called and his name was Cuong!
Who are you?
There is this lawyer who works beside the office and she is my parents age. Today her son came to visit her and she introduced him to my parents. Then my mom was like, well have you met my son? You should meet my son.
We all had a little chat and then on their way out my mom was saying how he should hang out with me. I've begun to give in a bit when my parents try to introduce me to eligible ladies (wink wink) but I draw the line when my mom is trying to set me up with men friends?
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Friday, July 11
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Up or down?
Haven't written a post on this blog in forever, but I felt an urgency to write about how it really peeves me off when people press Up and Down for an elevator when they only need to go in one direction.
That is all.
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Sunday, January 6
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I can't keep this up
I have no time to keep up this blog and the novel one, so all I've been doing is consistently keeping up with my poker one which is at http://joethepro27.blogspot.com/.
I'm getting better by leaps and bounds and also been getting lucky. Skill + luck goes a long way.
I'm going to keep up that blog b/c I think it's a good way to review my own play and get better.
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Wednesday, December 12
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What I've been up to
It's due time for an update, so the news is that I've been furnishing my condo. Right now as I type, I'm looking out 3 giant panels of window onto the gardiner. I never thought watching cars drive by could be so soothing. It's no lakeside view, but these cars, they are like my own personal fish tank. The woosh they make as they drive by is not so different from waves crashing on a beach front.
I guess for an urbinate like myself, this view is as good as any.
I finished episode 6 of joethepro some time ago also, (Click HERE) but although I'm getting lots of positive comments I feel like my drive for making those videos is dying. I will probably continue making them, but few and far between.
The newest thing I'm doing, because I feel like I always need to have some sort of creative outlet, is a blog novel. It's going to be my first attempt at science fiction, a genre that has always interested me. I'm going to try to maintain a once a week update, but we'll see how long that lasts. You can find the first entry up over at thelistnovel.blogspot.com.
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Friday, November 16
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I'm still here
I haven't posted in the longest of times.
This post won't even be a real post. It's just a post promising of a real post someday.
One bit of news is that I've moved into the West One condo after pretty much a three year wait. I must admit that it was worth the wait. The place is beautiful and the location is perfect.
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Friday, August 31
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Foot in the ass
So we've all heard the term foot in the mouth when someone says something they shouldn't have said at the wrong time. Foot in the ass is what I think my father does often.
Sometimes when he thinks we're alone he'll saunter up to me with a mischievous grin on his face and let a thundering one rip. But more often than not, just around the corner, there is another person.
Once in the car when he didn't know I had my window open and the person on the bicycle nearly fell over. Once when he thought we were alone in the basement looking to buy a house, the homeowner was dusting in the doorless room beside us. Once when the elevator was about to open and a crowd of people waited outside. And all the time in his office when he thinks all the patients are gone, but they're not.
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Friday, August 24
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Miss Vietnam Global
I watched a Vietnamese beauty pageant with my parents yesterday. At the end of the pageant, the winner was overjoyed and tears streamed down her face, spilling over her trembling lips.
I've seen many of these contests before and noticed that crying is quite common, but it wasn't until yesterday that I thought about what it represented.
"Oh-my-God. I'm so incredibly good looking. I'm the most beautiful girl on this stage. If you look at my face and body you smile because it's so sexy and when I walk by strangers, they rate me really high numbers out of 10."
And so they cry, because they are beautiful and have been verified by others.
Could you imagine if they held an intelligence pageant and the winner cried? No. Not very likely. The winner would look snooty and ever so slightly push the rim of their glasses up a notch with the tip of their finger.
And then at home in their room by themselves, doors locked, lights off, they would start crying, "Oh-my-God. I'm so incredibly intelligent...."
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Wednesday, August 8
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Poker Hands
Lately, my reads of people have been great. I'm beginning to understand the thinking of short stacked people more. They are more likely to push with medium and low pairs, but if they have top pair or better, they bet only chunks of their money.
I still make nasty reads and plays, so I want to post my ugly misplayed hands up so I can learn from it.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1347367
Here there are two early limpers. Limpers always means shit-all UNLESS it's a limper UTG (from first position. tricky players sometimes limp UTG with AA, KK). I have AK, third best hand, but plays poorly out of position as I have explained.
I want it heads up, but I don't mind winning it preflop. I also at the same time want to test the first position guy.
A normal reraise would be 5.50, but I don't mind winning it preflop and I really want it heads up, so I bet 6. Both of them call my raise. This makes me put the first caller on a decent hand, and the second guy on a drawing hand (he saw that it was multiway then called).
The flop was a mixed blessing. On one hand I hit my ace, on the other hand I'm drawing dead almost vs. AQ, trips and a flopped flush. Yet I have to protect my hand vs people with flush draws.
With only top pair on a scary board, I decided to pot control rather than protect, so I checked. UTG raised it small and got min raised. I call to see what happens. At this point I don't want to give up TPTK (top pair top kicker). UTG folds. Which is good news since I don't want this to grow to a big pot.
The turn comes and it brings a safe card. I check. He bets small. The pot is almost 40 dollars and he only bets 12. I'm thinking in my head, if he has the flush and wants me all in by the river, he really needed to make a larger bet. If I only call this bet of his, I'm not committed. Why isn't he commiting me with a larger bet? It's pretty obvious I have an ace or a spade draw. I thought to myself. MAYBE because HE is drawing to the flush. He does not have the flush. That's why he only min raised on the flop and raised very little on the turn. I must protect my hand I thought so I reraised him to 37.
He called.
Another safe card on the river.
The pot is around 110 so I bet 35. He min raised me. I called.
The guy knew me perfectly. He played me perfectly with all these min raises.
How I would replay this hand.
I think checking and then calling a raise and a reraise practically announced my hand. If I were to play this hand again. I should have bet out on the flop. If reraised 3x or more, fold, min raised called. Then bet out the turn medium. If reraised, even min raised again, give it up. I think pot control is important, but here I just need more information rather than getting 0 information and giving a lot. Using this strategy, I'd only get bluffed off by aggressive people, which is why I'd just need to choose good tables.
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