Life Tilt

Before this weekend started, I probably wouldn't have thought that the title of this blog would be "life tilt". It was so promising, and yet, here I am.

Friday night, Grant, me, and our friend Colin started the festivities off by going bowling and throwing down a pitcher or two. My first two games, I averaged 150ish and then obviously show up with a 112 when Grant and I decide to put some money down. Funny how it works like that. After bowling, we headed down to Bob's Burgers to drink and watch the ALCS game. Boy was this a fun way to kill 3+ hours. I regrettably let Grant choose who he wanted in the game, and he took Tampa, so I was forced to root for the Red Sox. As it turned out, the Sox won, and I was up $10. However...

There were a few more prop bets throughout the evening, and I will list some of the ones that I remember:

• o/u 26 1/2 years of our waitress' age (I lost, setting in awful line...she was actually 22 :/)
• o/u 1/2 homerun for the game (this was set in the 4th inning, and somehow no one hit a homerun - unfortunate for me)
• o/u 1 month that a couple in front of us had been together (Grant took the over, and we found out they had been together for 3 months. Pretty bad line considering he ordered the largest mushroom burger I had ever seen)
• o/u the amount of time it would take this lady to finish her drink. Okay, this one was stupid. She ordered the beer at approximately 6:25, and I set the line at 6:47. She finished at approximately 6:53. IT'S ONE BEER!!!
• o/u 1 alcoholic drink ordered by this one couple. This was also stupid but an awful line. There was some drama, however, when only the lady ordered a beer, and the guy ordered a diet pepsi. Unfortunately, after her 30 minute beer, they proceeded to order several rounds of shots. TILT
• I then finally got the best of a line giving Grant 12.5:1 on Daisuke throwing a no-hitter in the 7th inning.
  

There were several others, but these were the significant ones. Overall, I was down a modest $11.50 overall. Not too shabby. After that, we went to a friend's party and had a good time.

Saturday I woke up and drove down south for the Battle in Seattle. I don't go to Western football games, so I figured I would need some alcohol in my system to enjoy it. We went to the Pyramid Brewery before the game and threw down some drinks. Our friend Heather then got us into the Western party in a bar inside the stadium which was pretty cool. Again I got the best of Grant giving him Western and 14 points as well as the over. Saturday was fun, but then came Sunday.

Derek and I were planning on tailgating before the Hawks game, but he forgot to set his alarm, and we didn't wake up until about 8am which is far too late to aggressively tailgate. We should have just stayed home probably.

We got down there and went to a cool bar called the Hawk's Nest. It's funny how, after 2 nights of drinking, you just kinda wanna take it easy and not go at it too hard. But that wouldn't be right before a Hawks game. Derek and I had 12 Coors Lights, two touchdown shots, and 4 "red-headed slut" shots. After a $90 bar tab, we headed into the game nice and toasty. The highlight of the afternoon was Derek paying me $100 to go get him Garlic Fries, which meant I was off his list. WEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

The game was pretty ugly. Hasselbeck was out, so we had a pathetic Charlie Frye in at QB. Our offense was lethargic. After 3 quarters, we had a total of 28 passing yards. This is coming from the same team that was such a successful passing team just one year ago. What a difference a year makes. We left halfway through the 4th quarter after Frye threw a pick, and we were down 24-10. This is the primary reason for my sadness.

I'm not sure who in the world could have predicted a 1-4 start. We have lost our top 6 receivers, our quarterback for a game, and our defense is playing completely uninspired football. I'm not really sure what else to say about it. I am real sick of going to every home game and getting up for my team for 60 minutes and then watch a very talented team play without a sense of urgency. It's like they expect to walk into the playoffs. At one point during the game, GB was driving, and I just sat there with my head in my lap, knowing that it was out of my control. As someone that considers themself a true, die-hard fan, I am sad to say that it came to that today. I don't see the Hawks getting out of this hole. I think that this was a must-win game if we had any plans on making it to the playoffs. We now must try and focus on getting better every week and see what happens. This could get ugly really fast. 1-7 may be on the horizon for this team.

Enough of that. After the game, I drove up and made a stop at Tulalip to play a session to kill time and to sulk. I decided to sit back and wait to cooler someone and double through them. 2nd orbit, I pick up 33 on the button in an unraised pot, and like 6 of us saw a 8 5 3 flop. SB leads $6 with 2 callers, and I decide to milk, making it $18. All 3 call. Turn a 5, and it checks to this woman station who leads $20. I was pretty sure she had a 5, so I tank-called, hoping to get overcalled behind me. They both muck. The river was a K. She led $20 again, and, at this point, I was fairly certain she had a 5 and would call a shove. I moved in for $103, and she somehow finds a fold. Not really sure what she had, but I didn't bother to ask.

After this hand not a whole lot happened. I stayed afloat and eventually cashed out up $70. This will help with paying 2 people off who I bet the Hawks against.

Since my last post, I FINALLY final tabled a tournament, coming in the prestigious $2r on UB. I cruised pretty easily with Peter railing and, at my highest point, got to like 1.5m chips 3-handed. I eventually busted in 3rd after getting kinda cute with AA and losing to a flush. I got $345 for this which was okay. I was actually really happy with the tournament and felt like it could be a step toward getting back on track.

My power chord on my laptop just decided to stop working, so I am having to play on my desktop which is meh. I am using an lcd monitor and can't quite seem to get the resolution right, so everything is a little bit weird. Oh well. I got a steal of a price on a power chord on EBay, so it shouldn't be too long before I'm playing in bed while watching TV.

This week might suck. I have homework due on Wednesday, which is a rarity, and I have a quiz on Thursday, a test on Friday, and a paper due next Tuesday. Hopefully I can find some time to get all this done and play some poker.

It's 10pm and I am exhausted. So, as weird as it sounds, I am going to go to bed.

God Bless,

JG