Another great quote from my NYC teacher friend:
"only 7 of my 21 kids will be repeating the fourth grade next year..........that's a mere 33% that failed......and of those who will be in the fourth grade again, two will be in the fourth grade for their THIRD time and two for their SECOND. guess I really got through to them huh??"
I have to tell some poker stories. I made a comment to Mark about how I wanted to make sure I got my money in with the best hand and if I lost well I would still be proud of my play. I feel like that happens a lot, but that one time it doesn't happen is when I get knocked out. So I'm playing a 9 person 6 dollar sitandgo. I get down to final two and I'm I have 2-1 chip disadvantage. I become hyper agressive and the big stack just folds waiting for a good hand to bust me on. I figure the blinds are so high, I'll grow by stealing and when he does find his hand, I'll hopefully get away from mine. So I get QJ suited and decide to raise all in since he just completed the blind. Figure the worst I'm up against is A trash or K trash and maybe I'll get lucky. Well the guy calls and flips pocket aces. flop comes 8 9 10. I double up. I write "Bullshit" and the guy agrees. He had me beat and that was a terrible bad beat. Now I'm in the lead. I keep up my agressive ways and a few hands later, I have A2 diamonds. I make a large raise and he comes over the top. The problem is that it is just 1500 more to call and the pot is over 10,000. I figure I'm beat again, but I might get lucky with my ace and bust his KKs or lower. Well he flips over another pocket pair of aces. 220 to 1 and he hit them twice in 2 hands heads up. The board comes with 3 diamonds and I give him another bad beat winning the 27 dollar 1st prize. I apologized and of course he blew up. I didn't deserve 1st place and we both knew that, I openly admited it, but I took the money nevertheless. I did deserve to be in the two 2, so in all I was still proud of my play until heads up. So that is what I get for saying I'm usually all in with the best hand and if I lose its usually a bad beat. This was the extreme opposite.
Another tournment I played, which I shouldn't of, was a 180 person 20 dollar buy in sit and go. I played very tight and lasted over 3 hours. I always forget how long these take. So now we are on the bubble, next person out is 19th place and 18th pays $43. I forget how, but I'm the smallest stack at all 3 tables. I don't want to go out on the bubble, but the blinds will eat me up if I don't make a move. I finally get AK suited in the big blind and I get raised by one of the other relatively small stacks. I go all in risking elimination because I had no other option. He had pocket 66s. A nice race. I hit my K on the flop and cripple him. Two hands later, he is taken out and I slide into the money with a small but workable stack. First hand after, I play a 78 suited in the big blind and just check. flop comes out with two 8s. I hit trips and I look at my opponent imaging what my stack would look like twice as big. He raises into me and I go all in. He flips over J8 and I'm kicked. I go out in 18th place. I don't think I could of gotten away from that hand, not at that point of the tournament. 23 dollars for 3 hours of work...but at least I'm getting better making the top 18 of 180. Best I have done is top 76 out of 1000.
That is it for my poker adventures of the night. I found out a woman has been using my social since 1988. Not for credit or I'm sure I would of found it on my credit report (but I'm also not sure since she is a woman and has a completely different name), but my guess is that she is using it to work. I'll find out more details when I get my hands on the background check report to confirm this. If this is true and not a typo, I don't want to bring the wrath of social security upon her because she is most likely undocumented and I don't know how she ended up with my number back when I was 9. I'd rather just tell her to stop because of the tax implications and let her go from there. My family says to take all measures I can, contact social security, not take any chances and even change my number is necessary. Why mess around? Then again, I don't think its that hard to get your hands my social. That would be a pain, especially with all the bar application stuff I'm about to do. Maybe i'll wait until after if I went that route. Nothing bad has happened in all this time, so it could be worse. I'll wait until I know more and actually confirm this before I decide what to do.
Here is part of an email that I feel expresses my views on prayer. -- I feel torn because I am starting to pray more that she gets and feels better, but I don't want to feel like if she doesn't then it makes my prayers meaningless, so by telling you I'm just confirming that my prayers don't make much difference. I guess the bigger point is that she is in my thoughts a lot, not the don't worry I'll take care of her with my magical thoughts type of statement prayer sounds like. It just annoys me when people tell me they are praying for something and they act like that is the cure all. Maybe I need more faith, but I have faith that life is life and some times there will be blessings an others there won't.
I know that was out of context, but I think thats ok. I guess the bigger question is how can I have faith that everything will be ok when I know that no matter how much faith you have, or how strong your relationship with God is, bad things will still happen and its not like God chose those bad things for you. I also don't want to discount prayer, because well, I have seen blessings and can't say it doesn't mean anything. Just seems paradoxical to have faith things will get better and feeling better about it, them not getting better and then accepting that that is just how life is. Makes you wonder why you have that expectation in the first place.
need to get back on the wagon
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