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Once again I took down the Bodonkey..yay!!
This time I came into the final table as the leader and gave it up with about 4 players left. With three left, Smokkee had a nice lead on the table and I was second. I pushed QQ and was called by wwonka’s AT which obviously turned into a FH for him. The very next hand I pushed AJ and smokk doublled me up with AT. I took my time and finally got a few hands in a row. After a bit, I was in the BB with 2Td and faced a 3x raise vs smokk…I decided to see a flop. I flopped 2P on a 5d Tc 2c board with smokkee holding K7c. I check called the push and dodged all his outs.
Willwonka and I both mentioned deja-vu since we were in this spot just a couple weeks ago. I played the hammer on the first hand of heads up and wwonka just had no chance… I got TT, AQ, AA and finished him off with JTd vs Jx. Good times.
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Last week gave me the bug, placing parlays makes watching all the games more fun, so in addition to my weekly Titans bet and a couple of NCAA bets I placed 4 more parlays, I hit on the least crazy one, yay!
5 Team Parlay127705295
Football – NFL Lines (Game) Point Spread
(401) Denver Broncos +6½ (-115) Sun@1:00p
Final Scores
Denver Broncos 24
Atlanta Falcons 20
Football – NFL Lines (Game) Point Spread
(415) New Orleans Saints -6 (-105) Sun@1:00p
Final Scores
New Orleans Saints 30
Kansas City Chiefs 20
Football – NFL Lines (Game) Point Spread
(420) Tampa Bay Buccaneers -4 (-115) Sun@1:00p
Final Scores
Minnesota Vikings 13
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 19
Football – NFL Lines (Game) Point Spread
(409) Tennessee Titans -3 (-105) Sun@4:15p
Final Scores
Tennessee Titans 24
Jacksonville Jaguars 14
Football – NFL Lines (Game) Point Spread
(429) Cleveland Browns +5 Mon@8:35p
Final Scores
Cleveland Browns 29
Buffalo Bills 27
Outcome:
Win
Risk US$ 5.00 to win US$ 122.18
So I got to actually stay up and watch what turned out to be a pretty exciting game last night. Go Browns!
I’m heading up to NY tomorrow and I’ll hopefully get some work done in between the poker. 
I seldom write about my sports betting, mostly because I’m not a long term winner. I’ll occasionally get the bug and throw out some bets and a crazy parlay or two in addition to the 2 NFL pick’em leagues and the college pick’em league I’m in.
This week I’ve already won some very close matchups with a blocked field goal helping the Crimson Tide to cover the 3.5. A one point Green Bay loss, that covered the 2 point spread. And a last second non-meaningful hail mary in the ATL/NO to go over 50.
Then I took all my bets and wrapped them up into a little parlay like so:
6 Team Parlay
Football – College Lines (Game) Point Spread
(167) Alabama -3½ (-115) Sat@3:30p
Competitor:(168) LSU
(213) Tennessee Titans -3 (-105) Sun@1:00p
Competitor:(214) Chicago Bears
(234) Arizona Cardinals -9½ Mon@8:35p
Competitor:(233) San Francisco 49ers
(217) New Orleans Saints vs. (218) Atlanta Falcons Over 50 Sun@1:00p
(223) Green Bay Packers +2 Sun@1:00p
Competitor:(224) Minnesota Vikings
(235) Baltimore Ravens -1 Sun@1:00p
Competitor:(236) Houston Texans
Here are the contents of an email I received from a good friend this afternoon:
In the spirit of putting America first, I have decided to reach out to the new Admin by re-naming my Black & White, neutered male freeloading cat of little accomplishment, Obama…..he was previously known as Beauregard.
For the record.
(I think it is only fitting that the picture shows him hard at work in the Oval Office (asleep) sitting on top of my wallet!!!!
I can not recall the last time I laughed so hard at an email.
Awesome Tourney, Great Prizes….and I win. What a country!
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I went through a few hands that were key to the final table for me. I’ll try not to bore you too much, but wwonka had such a massive chiplead on the table, I’m proud of the comeback.
Here’s my lowpoint on the final table:
My buddies come to save the day here. I make the dreaded early position min raise and get a call from NewinNov. He commits to TP and I hold on.
wwonka was making medium sized raises and getting alot of folds On this hand I put him on a weak ace and went with my gut. I really didn’t expect a call.
Here’s another hand where I felt he was making a stealy move. I made a re-raise of his smallish looking bet and checked it down…. OH and nothing beats the JACKACE.
I finally take a lead with this one. I bet the turn when I thought I was ahead.
And I take out columbo with this: Astin is right…Aces are easy.
And here’s a truly nasty hand when I take out CEM. I call the BB and he raises just enough for me not to fold.
And here’s a masterful play of the hammer for me. I raise and smoof-call wwonka’s re-raise. Obv I jam the flop and he sucks out.
This got us to fairly even, but I kept the pressure on and got cards when I needed them. Good times!
I found this again, courtesy of Kajagugu.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The Tax System – Explained With Beer
Pretty easy way to explain things. I am Kajagugu and I approve this message:
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that’s what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. ‘Since you are all such good customers,’ he said, ‘I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.’Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 ( 25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 ( 22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
‘I only got a dollar out of the $20,’declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,’ but he got $10!’
‘Yeah, that’s right,’ exclaimed the fifth man. ‘I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!’
‘That’s true!!’ shouted the seventh man. ‘Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!’
‘Wait a minute,’ yelled the first four men in unison. ‘We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!’
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of Georgia
For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
I know all the Matrix tourneys are all the rage right now on Full Tilt. I refuse to deposit there anymore just out of sheer hard-headedness, so I’ve been plying my trade on Stars for the past couple of weeks. I happened upon their ‘double or nothing’ SNG’s and I’m loving them (enable doom switch now).
The table starts with ten and if you manage to outlast 5 of your opponents, you double up! (minus the vigorish)
I’m currently on fire with these all the way up to the $100 level, I have cashed in every single attempt. As you would imagine the play is generally frog’s ass tight in the early stages. I usually will take a stab with an open range early on to accumulate a few chips for the mid-levels when the table decides to wake up. Take note, these are turbos and the ante’ starts up around the 50/100 level. These are great for me, since I can usually slate only about an hour or so to play.
I would be interested in hitting up the re-buy donkfest set up by Numb and Dank, so let me know if you’d like some cash on Stars and we can swap.
Cheers all, sorry I’m not posting often I just don’t have much to say.