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so jesus. I figured out what my life is missing: online poker.
I finally tried it out yesterday and played some .50/$1 tables. I lost $50 in a heartbeat. It was then i realized that limit poker online is worse than child porn. so then i played a single table no limit tournament. it's $5+1 and the top three players get money. first place is $25 and i assume 2nd and 3rd are each more than $6. I say I assume because i've won 3 tournaments, but never placed 2nd or 3rd. So after the limit poker debacle, i'm up a tiny bit of cash, and the $6 tournaments are fun. as long as i keep myself diverted with tv or something else like farming or writing this, i play right. it takes a lot and lot of patience waiting for the first 5 people to go out, but then it's big fun. i've folded like 15 of the last 20 hands. and 4 of them i had to pay blinds. it's great. and then it gets all tense when it comes down to three then 4. and all this for $6.
the only downside to this newfound fun is that i play less video games, which eats ass.
anyway... on thursday night i went to see sufjan stevens with tony and his roommates at great scotts. he was awesome. like super great awesome. the only instruments were just banjo and acoustic guitar, with the occassional poorly played trumpet and the very very occasional xylephone or glockenspiel or whatever. the meat of it was the 4 people playing occasional instruments singing behind sufjan. it was perfect reproduction of the chorus sound on the album only moreso. i felt like iw as at a campfire or something. i just folded 2-10 on my small blind cause i'm gay and 1% of my stack didn't seem worth it. 7-8-9 flopped. 5 on the turn... waiting... crap, don't get to see the river. oh well, whatever, nevermind.
john vanderslice followed sufjan, and seemed like an afterthough really. first of all, he looked weird, it was disappointing. he was like a surfer dude. second, while it was fairly rocking, what makes vanderslice great is what he sounds like on record, the production is really an instrument of its own with him. third, it was such a bizarre combination of performers. seriously, after the quiet, close, campfire-like folk of sufjan the last thing that seemed appropriate was straight up rock music. as it was i stayed for maybe half of vanderslice and then left.
on friday i bought tickets for the twilight singers at work. and then around 4:30 the people around me all started talking about gambling. and i had no choice but to dump the $15 i spent on the ticket and go to southie. damn, took a break to play a hand and lost it. still in decent position though.
anyway yeah, southie. this time i took jonathan AND tony with me, to try and make them give some back. and they did, for a while. they bought about $200 total from me in chips. but then somehow came back and each won between $150 and $300. i took home $250 profit myself, which works for me.
saturday i spent farming until 7 or 8 or so when i had to shower to go meet tara at mary anns. ouch bad beat. not so much bad as stupid. anyway, tara and dave where at mary ann's as was tara's friend from yale. seacrest just said 'seacrest, out' and i realized it's only funny when others do it. anyway, after a couple of beers at mary anns we headed to jake ivories, home of literally at least 9 bachelorette parties. at one point a group of them requested me to get up fro mthe table and i got up prepared to take a picture of them, and instead was made to eat a candy necklace off of the bride. anyway, was a fun time, typical jake ivory's. on an interesting note related to the evening, i had started a tab for convenience's sake. at the end of the night the check came back and it was like $82 or something. now, our waitress was standing right above me and i may have had a few drinks and math wasn't the most convenient thing to be doing at that particular moment as i felt rushed to sign for a tip. anyway, i put on $100 which i thought may have been high but was certainly a nice round number. i mean, as it works out it was 22.5% and i mean, out waitress did do a hell of a job singing. but the funny part is yet to come. the next day, i'm checking out my statement online and i notice that it was rung through for $98... just about 20% on the nose. i just don't understand what happened.
ok so i lost that one and am playing another. i wish something was on tv. however i am listening to the new magnetic fields which is nice. it's pretty much not possible to beat 69 love songs, but hey, it's cute that they're trying. not that this is bad, it's actually quite good, but like, it's like writing the bible and then trying to follow it up, you just wind up going door to door and having people slam it in your face. ok, that's a horribly inappropriate metaphor, but i so wanted to use it.
anyway, i guess the wrens are playing friday. i should go to that i guess.
seacrest, out