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Friday, March 10, 2006

I Got Blisters on Me Fingers!

So I broke down and joined the millions of others and bought a PS2 yesterday. The reason?

Guitar Hero.

They were demoing it at my local ebgames and I was spellbound. Later that day I headed back, picked up the game, a used slim PS2 and proceeded to spend my entire night playing the game. If you have a PS2, get this game. If you can afford to buy a PS2, get this game!

Now I own my own guitar and I have many years of music training. Those skills definently factored into it, but I still have some difficulty with some of the last songs in Medium mode, though I am getting through Hard Mode without failing. Now I need a break, because the joints in my fingers are killing me.

EDIT: I guess I should have SOME poker here, so here's a hand I played at 3/6 NL

Seat 1: XA_kid ($559.80)
Seat 5: jerrygarcia95 ($509.10) (Button)
Seat 6: winjswin ($289)
winjswin posts the small blind of $3
XA_kid posts the big blind of $6
Dealt to XA_kid [Jd 5h]
Everyone Folds
jerrygarcia95 calls $6
winjswin calls $3
XA_kid checks
*** FLOP *** [Jh 2h 3d]
winjswin bets $6
XA_kid raises to $24
jerrygarcia95 folds
winjswin calls $18
*** TURN *** [Jh 2h 3d] [Td]
winjswin checks
XA_kid bets $45
winjswin raises to $201
XA_kid raises to $357
winjswin calls $58, and is all in
XA_kid shows [Jd 5h]
winjswin shows [4c 2s]
Uncalled bet of $98 returned to XA_kid
*** RIVER *** [Jh 2h 3d Td] [8h]
XA_kid shows a pair of Jacks
winjswin shows a pair of Twos
XA_kid wins the pot ($581) with a pair of Jacks

I've been playing a very aggresive strategy at these SH tables, I did show down a bluff earlier and I was beating up on this guy since he was on my right. I raised the flop to see where I was at incase the button limped with Aces and to punish my boy if he had any draws. He essestially checkraises all in on the turn and I thought about this for a bit. I put him on a draw and pushed. He's wasn't even that good. Any other player at the table I would've probably folded, but I could feel him breaking to the pressure I put on him.

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