CARDRUNNERS

Today as I was walking from my car to the gym, some dude tried to mug me.  It went like this--
(dude walks up to me)
dude: give me your money.
me: what?
dude: give me your money n*****
me: are you serious?

At this point I seriously still think he is joking, because he has no knife or gun and although we were in an unlit part of the street, it was still quite a busy street with lots of car and foot traffic.  Turns out he was serious, because right after I asked he punched me right in the eye.  I turned around and since I was walking off the sidewalk towards the middle of the street the entire time, I'm in the middle of the street and he didn't pursue me any further.  Afterwards I called the cops and drove around for a bit, filed a report, but didn't do much else about it when we couldn't find him.  I guess the lesson here is...if you want to rob someone do it right.  Don't try to rob people with your fist on a busy street. 

The cops called an ambulance over to give me a checkup, but since I felt OK and none of my injuries seemed too serious I decided to go to the gym.

Fastfoward 2 hours...

I'm leaving the gym, which is on the 2nd story of a two story shopping complex with an attached parking garage.  I walk outside, and as I'm standing on the top floor of the garage I hear lots of screaming, yelling, and then...GUNSHOTS.  All of a sudden I'm thinking...how did I decide to come to this gym!  To be perfectly honest I had no idea it was even a bad neighborhood because the buildings look nice and new, but I suppose the reason for that is they tore down the terrible looking old ones.  What a TARP.
Anyways, right after the gunshots I start panicking, because I had never actually been in a situation like this before, but for the time being I felt safe on the 2nd story of the parking complex. As soon as I thought this though, I hear police sirens coming in from all different directions.  I decide to walk over to all the commotion and see what was going on, so I go to the edge of the parking garage along with 2 other guys.  I see...people streaming out of 2 clubs, lots of yelling, cop cars blocking off the entire block, firetrucks coming in, and most importantly--one guy on the ground in handcuffs and another guy on the ground not in handcuffs, not moving, and laying in a pool of blood.  I could only assume he was dead.
At this point I did what any sensible person would do, so I immediately whipped out my iPhone and started video recording what was in front of me.  I was trying to get the 2 guys on the ground, when all of a sudden I saw a cop with an m16 in his hand.  I'm not sure if you are familliar with guns, but an m16 is an assault rifle used in the Vietnam war that packs quite a punch.  This thing is NO JOKE, and I didn't even know police were allowed to carry it.  When I saw this cop I decided that pointing a black object at an alert officer with an m16 from an elevated angle in the dark was probably a bad idea, so I put my phone away, continued to watch the mayhem for a while, then drove home.

Word to the wise--if you are ever in San Francisco at night, I would avoid the area near Bay St and Powell St near the Northpoint Shopping Center.  It's not the tenderloin, but its not exactly safe.

UPDATE ON MY LAST SIX MONTHS

I busted the $40k buyin NL event on day 1!  I started the day not really going anywhere with a lot of tough players at my table (which was expected) with my image not being so great as I've shown down a few bluffs and mucked all my good hands when they weren't called.  Because of this and the fact I wasn't getting any hands I was folding a ton when my bustout hand occurred, which went like this: 
Mark Seif limped UTG+1 at 500/1k and was playing a little more solidly before having shown down some nonsense bluff w/ K10 high no draw 3 barrel on 34824, so needless to say I isolated him w/ 69dd as hes never ever limp/reraising me here.  Someone behind me called and one of the blinds call and Mark Seif folds...just kidding he calls!  Flop comes 3710r with 1 diamond and it checks around, turn is an 8 (bink!).  It checks to me and I bet 12,550 which was near pot, a bet which Mark check-raises to 34,000.  Well, since he's never bluffing here I just decided to shove allin for 110k effective stacks and get instasnapped off by 88.  River...8.  GG!

In other news, I've been playing a lot of $25/50 and recently $50/100 at the bellagio with pretty good results.  Just yesterday I played a very interesting hand at $50/100 vs some crazy guy named Bill where I made a pretty sick call but lost anyways :(.  Here's how it went:
Bill is stuck and has been playing nearly every hand and trying to barrel people off hands on multiple streets.  He limps UTG and gets 2 more callers.  I have 910dd in the bb and I check.  Flop is Ad4d4s.  I check, Bill bets $500, a very solid guy named Ben calls behind, I call.  Turn is the 7d giving me a flush, I check, Bill bets $1400, Ben looks at his hand for a bit, shakes his head, and angrily folds.  I call planning to check/call most rivers.  River is an Ac.  I check and Bill bets $10,000!  Well, the board double pairing really sucked, but the fact that he bet 3x pot on the river means he never has a bare 4.  Also, due to the fact that it was very clear that Ben folded an ace and Bill and I had talked about overbetting before when I snapped off a smaller bet vs him earlier, I called w/ my 10 high flush.  As soon as I called, he says to me, "you're good" and moves to muck his hand.  I flip over 910dd proudly and he goes...oh OH...and flips over J8dd.  DAMMIT!  I would've never thought in a million years he'd turn a flush into a bluff there!!  That's ok though, I'm still playing great and I like my call.  I'm looking forward to the rest of the series and I'll keep you guys as updated as I can!