House party, poker, Browns, etc

Had a house party last weekend, made some pretty good food, and had a good time. Watched Sharknado. As good as it gets! House looks great with the refinished floors.

Took a booze cruise to Kelly's Island to watch the Browns lose to DET the weekend before that. Had fun and even hit a $5 square in the last quarter to win $125!

Bought a full truckload of slabwood for $30! It's not quite seasoned but it worked well for the backyard fire for the party even though we didn't hang out outside because it was pretty wet. We also bought a cornhole set. Instead of sports, I decided to get a custom set made, and asked for the A of spades and K of hearts on contrasting backgrounds, and red/black bags. See the board we got? He also didn't have the bags but we should have them this week.

Mike Doughty show at the Beachland on Tuesday was great. ALL Soul Coughing!

Meeting friends at Crocker Park to see The Counselor tonight. Looks like a good movie.

Another win

Decent win at the Shoe the other night! Won a big side pot in a hand where I actually lost with JJJQQ vs QQQQ...another guy nearly had a royal, so we were dancing around the $225k BB jackpot. The 8 of diamonds hits again.

Saw Glenn Schwartz last night. Still sounds great but he's not looking good. Krazy Mike even came in from PIT to see the show.

My mom just had back surgery. She's in some pain but will be able to walk with much less pain once she heals up. They scraped arthritis spurs from her spine...ewwww. Makes me kinds nauseous to think about it.

Camping last weekend

Some pics

Vine

I've been playing with Vine for a couple days now, and it's a blast. Here are a couple I've put together. I recommend following Jeffrey Gray, he's damn funny.

Poker!

I used to keep the 8 of diamonds in my wallet for good luck. It was a numerology thing I either got from my ex wife or some online poker blog/website. I stopped carrying it for a very long time. Last week, as I was walking in to work, I found an 8 of diamonds right outside my office door, and put it in my pocket.

About a week later, yesterday as a matter of fact, I got a text about the evening poker game in Brecksville, Matt G's little berry patch. I had played with these guys twice before and the action was amazing, but hadn't won. A few of the guys are real assholes. Anyway, I decide to go since I'd bailed the last 5-6 weeks in a row, and didn't want to get pulled from the player list. We started at 7:15 and by 8PM I was up $600+, but really couldn't leave so quickly, as hit and runs are really frowned upon in home/private games, especially single table games where a couple people dropping out can kill the entire night. Oh, I forgot to mention that James the Horseshoe poker room manager was there also. I'd played against him on several occasions a few years ago at LF's game, and had pretty much owned him. Somethings never change. I ended up stacking him 3 times for about $1700 total. Rivered a set with KK, turned a set with QQ, and flopped the nuts with 9-10. We were in a $2400 pot around 11PM.

I was up over $2200 (this is a $1-2 NL game) at 11:30, and locked my chips down after that. At about 1AM, I lost $200+to2-3 off suit as bingo hour was getting underway. I got 5-6 callers with AK when I raised it to $25 preflop. They all wanted me to double them up, so I decided to cash. You should have seen the look on their faces. They whined and cried, but screw them, I was up $2002 on a single buy-in. Best $1-2 cash EVER. I think the 2nd best was around $1400-1600 way back when Coleman was hosting.

Moral of the story...the 8of diamonds works! Go Tribe!