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WCOOP Draw, and VT vs Boise State

Posted on September 7th, 2010
Categories: Poker, Sports.

I went to the Virginia Tech-Boise State football game last night and the game did not disappoint.  Though for a second there I thought it was going to be a blow out, it ended up being won by Boise State on a last 2 minute drive.  It could have gone either way, and there were plenty of great plays throughout the game.

The only problem with the trip was that we took a bus up to the game and when the game was over we had to wait forever for a couple people who couldn’t find the bus.  We didn’t get home until 3:30 am.  Since I drank plenty of beer and I got zero sleep, heading into work today was rough.

I wasn’t at work but like maybe 30 minutes, when I finally decided to go home playing the sick card.  Though it wasn’t your traditional sickness, I was definitely feeling awful and was very unproductive today.  So I went home and slept it off.

I slept it off only to wake up for the WCOOP PL draw event.  Sigh.  Not much luck there.  I late registered by about 20 minutes and I was chipping up pretty nicely, playing small pots and just taking advantage of some spots.  My stack never grew all too large, though I was well above average in chips nearly the whole time.

In the past WCOOP/SCOOP PL draw events I have played, I always seem to get coolered to get knocked out prematurely.  Well this tournament was no different.  Here I had a 66699 full house lose to a better fullhouse.  I started with 666 and drew 2 to improve where the other player most definitely started with JJ88 to improve to JJJ88.  I know he had 2 pair and not the trips to start because of the way the hand played out.  It was a multiway pot with one shortstack all in.

He led into my draw 2 and he drew 1 where I thought he made a flush or straight.  I reraised, and got reraised once again all in.  With the pot so big, I had to call.  But I still thought I was ahead until shown a better hand.  Sigh.

I really need to learn to play pot control in those tournaments.  I should have just called.  If it was a cash game, I am going broke there, but I can reload.  In a tournament, one big pot lost and you are done.  This is the 3rd out of maybe 4 or so of these tournaments where I got knocked out early with a fullhouse.  Really frustrating.  But I will most definitely be playing the next go ’round.  Hopefully next time I will have learned my lesson.

I expect to play some more later tonight.

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BCS without the C

Posted on December 9th, 2008
Categories: Sports.

Not much to report on the poker end, but I wanted to take the time to discuss the upcoming college football postseason.
When it comes to sports, I rarely play favorites. Even though baseball was my sport of choice growing up, I never had a favorite team. If I had to say that I have a favorite in any sport, it would be the NFL’s Washington Redskins. I just don’t go overboard when it comes to rooting for a team, I just hope for a good game.

I used to pull for Virginia Tech in college football, since the university I went to didn’t have a football team. Lately though, I find myself almost rooting against them. I think it has to do with some of the fans thinking that the team walks on water in this area. I have friends and family who have season tickets to the stadium that is a 3.5 hour drive from Richmond, and I should say that they are not the reason for my recent change of heart. It is more due to some other people, ie: local radio, my boss, and a few other people I run into. They have become so blindsided by their recent successes over the past 10 years. But compared to many other programs, their success still isn’t anything great in my mind since they can never win the big game.
Some will say it is just school spirit. But I think it has really gotten to some people’s heads. I am almost hoping that UVA becomes as competitive and takes the spot as “Virginia’s best college football team,” again almost, only because when UVA wins their fans are even worse!
So forgive me if I have recently become negatively-biased towards Tech. The fact that Virginia Tech, a team with 4 losses on the year is playing in one of five Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowls is a joke. Just because they won the ACC, they get the right to play in a game that quite a few other teams should be playing in. The BCS bowls should be represented by the top teams in college football as a whole, not the top teams in sub par conferences, and yes sub par is exactly what the ACC and the Big East were this year.
It doesn’t stop there either, the team they are playing is undeserving in my mind as well. The Cincinnati Bearcats have two losses on the season in down year for the Big East. But someone has to represent the Big East in the current format.
This game is a prime example of why they need to ditch the automatic bowl bids and go by the end of the year rankings. That is if they do not come up with some type of playoff format, which is much needed to determine a true champion. Besides, doesn’t this kind of downgrade the seasons where these teams might actually be worthy of such a bowl game? When they know that if they can just get lucky and have other teams lose key games they could get in just as well it makes the feat of getting there that much less satisfying. I don’t know, maybe it is just me, but it takes some luster off of the trophy that the victors will hold above their heads.
But as it is, congrats Va Tech. I can’t wait to hear over the next month how great the Hokies are once again. Win or lose though, I just want to see a good game!…..and if I could score tickets, and the wife wasn’t pregnant, I would probably go :)

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