Paul Wasicka
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11/14/2008 12:25:01 PM EST
My Mood: Steaming |
| Death to Online Weather Sites |
Yes I bet football. Yes I'm new to it. Yes I need good information.
Yesterday I'm looking at the Jets/Pats under, which was between 42 and 40 depending on when you got it. Pretty low number but WeatherUnderground shows 98% chance of rain.The weather channel on my tv shows 100% humidity in Foxboro and so does weather.com.
So I take the under a few hours before game time. When I turn on my tv, the weather looks wayyyyyy too nice for a low number like 40. Completely unacceptable. Obviously I got crushed.
I know weather is somewhat unreliable but day of? A few hours beforehand? Come on.
Um yeah.... so is there a weather site that actually knows what's going on?
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11/11/2008 4:22:09 PM EST
My Mood: Chip Leader |
| Work Hard, Play Hard, Drop Names |
This weekend I really burned the candle at both ends. Spent two days teaching at the WSOP Academy, which was awesome as always. The Academy has a couple of new speakers who I’d like to hear, a mathematician, whose name I don’t remember and Sam Chauhan, who specializes in finding one’s own mental balance. As I’m sure you guys know, that’s something I’ve worked on throughout my career. I also did an appearance at Harrahs, shaking hands, signing autographs and playing a little simulated cash game where people could ask me questions.
My best friend and manager Truman knew some guys who were in town for Dream Team Poker, which was a team poker thing that went down at the Hard Rock. I’d hoped to compete but wasn’t able to work it out schedule-wise. I did attend the kick-off party in the penthouse suite at the Hard Rock. The suite had a tub/pool in the middle of it and it made me think that probably a lot of “rockstars” have gotten freaky in that tub. Blegh! Hope someone cleans the pool from time to time. ;) It also had a sweet bowling alley but I of course waited till the end of the night to get my bowl on, at which point a self-important bouncer (aren’t they all?) told me that the bowling lane was closed. “Oh really? Because it wasn’t closed two seconds ago when three blondes wearing half a t-shirt wanted to bowl.” Good party, lame bouncer.
Later that night I met up with Justin Bonomo and JC Alvarado at The Artisan. This place is really cool, about as non-Vegas as you’re going to find. First off, The Artisan is pretty far off the beaten path so the drunken bachelor party crowd is nonexistent. The atmosphere is like a dark library stocked with weird—and probably famous—pieces of art. Obviously they’re replicas but it all makes for some good dark, funky, ambience. Best yet, there’s no video poker or annoying slot machines anywhere around. I’ll definitely be back.
On Saturday I tried out the new Hard Rock poker room, which is pretty sweet. They play good music the whole time and there’s plenty of space so you don’t feel cramped. Was it just me or were the cocktail girls extra fast? Oh also, it turns out that my favorite card hostess Lexi—who’s nametag says “SEXY”—moved over to the ‘Rock from Caesars, so she came and played for a while too.
Truman’s friends wanted to get drinks and play some $1-2 so we all sat down. Right as the table was starting, Tiffany Michelle, Maria Ho, and Christina Lindley showed up and started talking smack so obviously we had to settle it on the table. Tiffany and I traded stacks for the whole night and I really don’t know who got the best of whom.
I wanted to keep battling at the table but NOBU was calling my name so the boys and I sat down to a bunch of dishes: salmon tartar w/ caviar (good), lobster roll (ok), house special (eh) and Black Cod (INCREDIBLYFREAKINGAMAZING!!!!!!) Seriously you guys should go there. The Cod gets the nod.
The girls invited us to their party at The Bank, this club in the Bellagio. I normally hate going to clubs but I actually had a really fun time. Ran in to Jeff Madsen, Greg Mueller and a bunch of other pros. It’s fun to hang out with poker players away from the tables because for once, we’re not trying to kill each other. Not much sleep though. ☺
On Sunday I sweated my football bets with Eric Lindgren, who has the sickest sports-watching setup imaginable. He has 9 huge flat screens to watch all the different games at once. For someone like me with no attention span, it’s absolute heaven! After I saw his Flat Screen Wall of Awesomeness for the first time, I was inspired to build my own, although mine’s on a slightly smaller scale.
I did really well this week with the bets (Giants +3, ATL +1, Texans/Ravens over 42) and of course my Tennessee “Money Train” Titans covered handily. You’re my boy(s) BLUE!!
Then Tru and I headed to the Rio to watch some of the Main Event final table. We got there just in time to see Chino Rheem go out on a bad beat (AQ to AK all-in prelflop). He never flinched though, even though I know seeing the Queen come out must have felt like a dagger in the gut. It made me wonder, would you rather go out from the ME on a bad beat or due to a mistake you made? Seems obvious that one would probably rather get bad beat but it might depend on your beliefs about luck, superstition, God, etc. Anyway, hope everyone had a good weekend! As always, you can hit me up at kwickfish.com.
--Paul
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