stoned and sober

first ths life nonsense, skip right down to the poker section if that’s your fancy.

DARTS – Lived through the weekend, and ended up winning my first dart tournament – woo-hoo! luck of the draw partners, and my partner was super-solid. my role was to follow as close as i could and not fall – as opposed to lead anywhere. i failed to fail, closing out both games in the finals, and we won!

HOCKEY – i played sunday and got more boogered up than in the past year combined. i think i was like a magnet for sticks and flying objects. black and blue everywhere, and some nice deep ones. i actually limped around yesterday until late at night.

the payoff? the scale told me i was 179. i haven’t seen 170 anything, even for a fleeting moment, for many moons. yesterday was a recovery day. today i’ll get back in gear with a weight routine and some abs, and then try to bang out one workout a day for the rest of the week.

SKYDIVING – so the weekends have cleared up for me now, and i got the two guys togehter last night to talk about scheduling a skydiving trip. i propose the closest one, and i get shot down saying we need to go somewhere that offers AFF. fine, what the hell do i know.

well, now i know that AFF is Accelerated Free Fall. they tip you out at 10,000 ft. and you fall for a mile or so, opening at 4,500 ft. ahem . . .

Accelerated Freefall (AFF) is an advanced method of skydiving instruction that has become the top choice of first-time jumpers all over the world.

You’ll pull at 4500 feet to open your parachute container. Follow your instructors to the landing area while a ground coach assists you by radio.

i wanted to go with some schmoe strapped on my back, so it was much like a killer amusement park ride. but, one of the guys who has a whopping three jumps under his belt is completely about me doing AFF for the FIRST jump. he keeps telling me “you only pop your cherry once, leave no regrets”. how poetic.

in any event, i want to get this done during the next three weeks while it’s nice out and i have time available.

POKER – i’m close to unlocking the first half of my cash at Stars. i want to say i’m playing better, but it’s like a Guns and Roses live performacne (was) in that i can go from brilliant to “what the hell” and back before you even know what’s going on.

caught the second CW vid of the 99 problems series and should get some more study/playing in this week. the big poker quandry that they posed to me last night at the tavern was . . . .

LIVE POKER PROBLEM – there’s a sunday night game that has a buy-in of $300-$500 and i think the blinds are $3/5. it’s nlhe and they sprinkle in some omaha – 8 players.

at the same time 3 of the players decide to leave for an outsider (to smoke weed), so the game runs for 30 minutes shorthanded at 5 players. they don’t play short tables at all, so this is a constant source of irritation and two of the players tilt bad, cash out and leave. why it took 30 minutes, who knows?

so they ask me what i think of the situation. i’m running around like a nut last night because things are in full swing at the tavern, and i’m thinking of it from the perspective of the player. i look at the fellow and say “dude, if you want to play cards with me for like $500 after getting stoned, i’ll reimburse you for your weed. hell, i’ll throw in a fifth of whiskey on top of it if you’d like”.

at that point i thought i may have been sincere, and perhaps funny, but that it probably crosses the line of morality. purposefully playing against wasted players that is. so i followed up with “maybe that’s immoral. but if i’m sober and you’re stoned, i really like my chances”.

heh, i’m not sure there is a difference between drunk/stoned/tilting like a Mad Ape, and i’m sure i’ve played against players in those states.

in the end i think they wanted to know how i’d deal with it all if it were MY Game, which is a completely different can of worms.

July 14, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized