New Weight Loss Bet

Ya, cliche I know. But this one has a twist. The goal is to basically lose 30 lbs in 3 months. My starting weight is 176.4 lbs. It started 3 hours ago at midnight May 17 and ends August 18th at midnight. Every nine days at midnight I have to do a weigh in checkpoint and must hit 3/6/9 etc lbs respectively on each of those days. Originally there was gonna be some money on it but my friend chickened out on his half of the bet. So now it just looks like self motivation from here on out. Here is the twist though. I've decided that as a punishment for not completing it, I'm basically going to screw myself over. If I lose, I have to change my avatar on PokerStars to one of these two choices decided by you guys. Either of these would really friggin suck.

a) my before pic (before and after photos) of my complete stomach up to my neck (yes, my sexy nips included lolz)
b) the gay pride flag
c) The Jonas Brothers

Time to vote now.

Why No Bad Beat Jackpot, PokerStars?

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PokerStars Game #44094161196: Tournament #272856049, $15+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2010/05/14 14:36:09 PT [2010/05/14 17:36:09 ET]
Table '272856049 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: RPRSP (940 in chips)
Seat 2: missbashful (3402 in chips)
Seat 3: Efhariso (1555 in chips)
Seat 5: Katzenguruh (1735 in chips)
Seat 6: AbigbangA (2590 in chips)
Seat 7: regular33 (1325 in chips)
Seat 8: S esperanza$ (508 in chips)
Seat 9: Glitlr (1445 in chips)
S esperanza$: posts small blind 25
Glitlr: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Glitlr [3c 3h]
RPRSP: folds
missbashful: calls 50
Efhariso: folds
Katzenguruh: folds
AbigbangA: folds
regular33: folds
S esperanza$: calls 25
Glitlr: checks
*** FLOP *** [2s 3s 9d]
S esperanza$: bets 150
Glitlr: calls 150
missbashful: folds
*** TURN *** [2s 3s 9d] [3d]
S esperanza$: checks
Glitlr: bets 100
S esperanza$: calls 100
*** RIVER *** [2s 3s 9d 3d] [5s]
S esperanza$: bets 208 and is all-in
Glitlr: calls 208
*** SHOW DOWN ***
S esperanza$: shows [4s As] (a straight flush, Ace to Five)
Glitlr: shows [3c 3h] (four of a kind, Threes)
S esperanza$ collected 1066 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1066 | Rake 0
Board [2s 3s 9d 3d 5s]
Seat 1: RPRSP folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: missbashful folded on the Flop
Seat 3: Efhariso folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Katzenguruh folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: AbigbangA folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: regular33 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: S esperanza$ (small blind) showed [4s As] and won (1066) with a straight flush, Ace to Five
Seat 9: Glitlr (big blind) showed [3c 3h] and lost with four of a kind, Threes

SitnGoGrinders and A Riddle

Shame on my last riddle which probably no one got cause it's way too hard (I couldn't get it myself). The answer is Brighton, Britain.

Anyway, I'll do more sensible riddles in the future:). Here is a cool one that's easy to wrap your brain around but really kills you when you try and figure it out.

How do you make half of five equal four?

On another note, I am now an affiliated trainer for www.sitngogrinders.com . Feel free to visit the site, sign up, and check out my videos. Darinvg and azntracker's videos are awesome!

Motivating Words and Other Things

So a friend of a friend got 3rd in the 55r scoop for basically the same amount as the buy in but swap the r for k. Just saying cause it makes me feel involved lol cause I don't really know him but it's majorily awesome - congrats jigga_wigga.

I heard someone say something on TV today in the string of a bunch of sentences, so it wasn't like he was trying to say something profound. But it kinda hit me. He said,

"If you want to have something you've never had, you have to do things you've never done."

These are some pretty startling words if you really think about them. It's so simple yet so powerful at the same time no matter what topic you relate it to. The show was just about weight loss and even though it's so cliche to talk about weight loss in poker blogs because we all sit around so much, it just made me think. If you want something new, you have to do something different.

What he said put me in one of those honest moods, and it got me thinking about how rude I've been in the past to one particular player. I'm almost (I hope) never mean to anyone, but I always seemed to butt heads with one guy cause he always seemed to get the best of me no matter who held what cards. Ya, I've had my huge beats vs. him but no matter what happened he always made the right play no matter what the results were. In all honestly, I actually think this guy is one of the best players out there even though I've never seen his results since he blocks his sharkscope. So, sorry for being rude, cause I respect your game a lot J0ff.

And one more thing while I'm thinking about it. I made a pick for who I thought would come out of no where and crush 16s this year. And so far it's coming true. I think one of the best regs out there who gets overlooked is Roy4lPl4yor. I think he is ridiculously good. Damn, I should have staked him!

Ok, and ONE more thing haha. A riddle. Really hard. Got it from Ken Jennings' blog. For those of you who don't know him just WIKI him because he is the most baller person on the face of the earth. 74 Jeppardy wins in a row for 2.2 million...ARE U KIDDING ME??? His riddle is something like this: take a well known world city. Change the sound of the vowel from it's long sound to it's short sound. (for example, when you say "apple" the a sound is short. If you say a vowel aloud the way you pronounce the letter by itself - like the A in "hate" it is a long vowel. So "hate" becomes "hat" if you change the vowel from long to short). If you make the city name's vowel the short sound, it gives you the name of that city's country.

note: the spelling does not necessarily remain the same for the city/country. You will hear the answer in the SOUND of the word not the spelling. Man, it's hard:).