CARDRUNNERS

What's Your Edge

Andrew

September 18, 2007

Cubs

I've been to a ton of cubs games in the last several days. When I went to STL, I was only planning on going to the game on Friday night. It turned out that my friend had some extra tickets for the game on saturday afternoon, so I went to that game. We didn't really have anything going on later so we decided to scalp some tickets for the night game as well. All of the games were close which kept it exciting. The cubs really should have won all 3 games, but they screwed up a few times in the last game and lost it.

Being there for all those games reminded me how much I dislike the Cardinals. I've always been around a lot of the Cubs Cards rivalry and then on top of that the Cardinals dashed the Tigers WS hopes last fall. I don't like anyone on their team, especially Pujols. I also just think they have an all around bad team and that didn't deserve to win the WS last year because they didn't even deserve to be in the playoffs. The thing now is that I can talk all the trash in the world to Cards fans and all they have to say is "yea, well we won the world series last year." It's pretty frustrating. Needless to say, we got in more than a few arguments with Cards fans while we were there. It's all in good fun though.

Last night I was able to go to my first rooftop game at Wrigley. It was awesome. The view is still very good and you get unlimited food and drinks. It was nice to have a different perspective on the game. To make it even better, the game turned out to be very exciting. The cubs scored 3 in the bottom of the 9th to win 7-6. You can tell that people in Chicago are getting really excited and have high hopes for the cubs in the postseason. I'm still not convinced they will even make the playoffs and if they do, I don't see them getting far. However, I'm rooting for them because I know my neighborhood will go crazy if they are in the playoffs and that sounds good to me.

I caught the 2nd half of Animal House after I got home from the game. I hadn't watched that movie in awhile and I forgot about some of the great scenes. I love this scene.

Yesterday was a crazy day at the tables for me. I started off with things just not going well.

In this hand, I though the villian was very capable of putting a move on me on the flop. The game had been playing pretty fast and I decided to jam with my draw. I'm not really crazy about it because I think we were just too deep to be making a play like this. Not a good turn.

Not crazy about this hand either. He insta pushed over my raise so it must have been obvious I had a straight draw.

I got stuck around 5k pretty quickly. Soon after, things started to turn around. Hands like this started to happen fairly often and I got on a roll.

I even had some strange hands like this one. I'd like to claim that I made the raise on purpose. The truth is that I meant to call and misclicked the minraise. In the end it worked out great, because I got the call from the worse hand and put the guy on pretty nasty tilt.

When all was said and done I went on a 12k upswing from my low point of the day and finished up almost 7k. The month is coming together nicely. I'm running incredibly hot, but I'm playing pretty well for the most part as well.

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