I went to Winstar yesterday. Got there at 10am, registered for the tournament and played $1-$2 NLHE from 10 to 1pm. In those 3 hours, I won some decent pots, but none better than my TT being an overpair to the flop. I bet, he raised, I re-raised all-in and he called with 88. He did not catch an 8, and I won about a $700 pot. I netted $511 profit on that session.
The tournament started at 1pm. I played and not too much interesting happened for a while (which is fine…lose early, win late)
The tournament had a bounty system whereby you got paid $25 every time you eliminated a player. I eliminated 4 which earned me $100 which just about paid for the $100+$15 tournament.
I won some more hands and found myself at 3:45 the chip leader with 32 out of 87 players remaining. But the blinds went up so quickly that even as the chip leader, I had only 9 BBs!
So, I got $511 profit in my pocket, I am basically free-rolling the tournament and I am chip leader. This is my “now”
I got aggressive and over three hands, I shoved three times. Thrice I got called, thrice I lost. Just like that, I was done.
I went back to the $1-$2 table where I got beat up like Whitney Houston on Bobby Brown’s birthday. I lost every way possible. The worst was when I made a pre-flop raise to $8 with QQ. I got two callers. Pot is appr $25 and flop comes 225, two clubs. Check, check, I bet $50 to end the pot. I get called (all-in) by J7 of clubs. Wow. I’ll let you guess how that one ended.
I lost $511, which put me even on the cash games. Aside from the fee, I was even on the tournament too. So I drove back to Dallas pretty much even but a little bit frustrated at what could have been.
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I read this, which said this:
If you watched Young in college, this was depressing. No player in the last two decades meant more to a national championship team than Young meant to Texas in 2005. He wasn’t just great. He gave you the sense that you were watching a new creation: part quarterback, part running back, part power forward, part cyborg.
He left out “part ninja, part Jedi, part Santa Claus, part Kaiser Soze”
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So, you have all heard about the Mangino situation. Fatty McFatpants is apparently mean.
When I first heard this story, two biases made me sympathetic to F McF. First, I think people are pussies and whiners, so I assumed some player was being a crybaby. Second, I felt that an isolated incident, combined with a person’s reputation meant that they were guilty before being proven innocent. Then I read all about it. You should, too. I’ll go ahead and be judge, jury and executioner here: Mangino is a bad guy who should be fired…and will be. You don’t tell a kid whose brother (about whom you know this to be true) was just shot to ”go back to St Louis to get shot by your homies.” And you don’t remind a kid with a father known to be an alcoholic about that fact.
I had some nasty coaches, but that is just sadistic. I am a better person for some of the shit I took from my coaches, but they never got personal like that. That is sick and wrong. And given his history, you have to figure this is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
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How charmed is UT? We play an OU team with no Gresham and a Bradford that leaves the game almost before it started. We play OSU after Dez Bryant is declared ineligible. Now we play Fatty McFatpants and the Fighting Manginos a couple days after the biggest controversy in KU football history breaks. Boy, I’ll tell you what: this thing has been served on a silver platter and if UT fails to advance to Pasadena, they won’t be able to cry about the BCS this time. It will be 150% their fault.
There are so many teams over the years that pissed me off because they just weren’t that good but they got to play for an NC any way. Shit just went their way. Shit is going our way to play in that game. That’s getting there…
Winning it? Hard to say, but I’d put us at close to 50/50 versus FU, Bama or TCU.
In 2005, I was certain we were better than USC. I think that it will come down to a few key plays against any of these teams (yes, I know that it came down to a few key plays against USC, but I am talking about how I saw it play out before it did). We are maybe 80% of the team this year we were in 05 (and 90% of the 08 team), but if the college football gods are going to grant us a big bogie from 08, I’ll take it.
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I have a leak in my game. When I am REALLY strong, I don’t get all the value out of my hand. Say I get quads on an early street or maybe I have the nuts on the river. I don’t do a good job of getting paid off. I need to fix this. I think I figured out the problem. I think I bet a little bigger than I should assuming my donkey reputation will put my opponent over the edge for a call. I don’t think the donkey rep is a big factor in these decisions. They see the strength of the board, and anything other than a token (value) bet simply won’t get called. HEeeee-haaawww.
