politicsandpoker

…for basketball that is.  I’m 38.  I ruptured my achilles almost 2 years ago playing pick up basketball.  Snapped that bad boy!  It felt like getting hit in the back of the leg with a baseball bat.  So 3 months in a cast and another 3 of getting back in shape…. yeah right…. I try to play some ball again last summer.  I don’t commit to it and that’s that.  So my buddy and me finally put another team together.  We’ve played the last two Mondays, won one and lost one.  I filled in tonight on another guys team and as I write this my ankles, calves, back and everything else hurts.  Getting old sucks.  38 may not seem old to some and it may seem old to others, but I guarantee you it’s old when you haven’t excercised consistently for nearly two years and you go out and run your ass up and down a court for 40 minutes. 

 Vanessa Selbst wins a bracelet in Pot Limit Omaha.  Score one for the ladies.  She does have a dudes haircut though.   I guess the rail was out of control when they were heads up.  Stolen from Paulie:

Event #19 PLO Final Table: It’s a zoo over there, sort of like a frat party meets the WSOP. Vanessa Selbst is heads up with Jamie Pickering. I met Pickering in Australia. He’s a strip club owner from the luxurious Gold Coast of Australia. He won an event during the Poker News Cup. He has his mates on the rail with him and his girlfriend who is a hot Aussie chick in a skimpy outfit. The Aussies are a fun bunch and have been knocking back drinks all afternoon. Pickering recently did a shot and then moved all in blind. He doubled up and almost pulled even in chips with Selbst.

That’s what poker’s all about.  Do a shot for your buddies and move all in blind!  God I love America!

Daniel Negreanu wins a bracelet in Limit Holdem.  It’s his fourth.  I’m sure the prop bet he won with Phil Ivey was worth more.  I hear Ivey has huge dollars on the Lakers.  I’m not sure if it was just on one game or the series, but I have a feeling it was on the series.  Sorry Phil…

Go over to wicked chops and watch the Negreanu vs Antonius high stakes golf match.  That’s quality stuff right there.  I love Daniel as long as he keeps his mouth shut about politics.  When he talks about poker and gambling there is none I’d rather listen to, but just shut it when it come to politics.  It’s really annoying.

How could we forget about Mike “the mouth” Matusow!  He wins the $10k 2-7 triple draw with rebuys event.  That final table was freakin ridiculous!  There were more bracelets at that table than at a Tiffany’s in Beverly Hills!  Was the bad?  Ah, who cares…

Hey, guess what… Obama’s against the war and McCain’s for it.  Isn’t that crazy sh*t!!!!  I want to hear the tape of that chick, Michelle Obama, calling out whitey!  That’s gonna be good.  “Dick” Durbin was harping on McCain today saying that if they go after a man’s family(Michelle?) then there is a place in the pits of hell for someone like that!  Or something like that… and he meant it dammit!!!  Then the genius Harry Reid said that anybody who works with McCain know about his temperment.  WTF???  I want my President to get pissed.  When a bunch of psycho’s fly planes into our buildings so they can go bang a bunch of non existent virgins I don’t want to have a conversation about there goddamn feelings now!

Oh yeah, look out for the deadly tomato’s!!!!!  There gonna kill you!  Remember the movie Attack of the Killer Tomato’s?  Remember the song?  Now sing with me… “Attack of the killer tomato’s.  Attack of the killer tomato’s!!!  Guess you had to be there.

That’s it for me.  Very very random stuff there, but that was kind of fun to write.  Time to soak this old body for a while in a hot bath with a glass of vino. 

Out!

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