R.I.P. Hit-Man

Enjoy who and what you have while you have them.

Hello All!

It's been a few since my last blog but there is really nothing much that has been going on. I did enjoy thetrooper's latest entry and it made me think of a few things. The main thing that jumped out at me is the fact that "us poker players" seem to have POKER on the brain all the time. All of the hands we have seen and either played perfectly or how we would have played differently. How we saw someone play a hand and what you would have done to change the outcome...so and so's obv. tale, betting patterns....so on blah blah blah...u get the point. Each night when I close my eyes in bed I go thru all hands I remeber from that day and think of ways I could have played them differently in any given situation. So much like trooper says, I find myself eating, sleeping, dreaming the game (and my gf reminds me every f'n day too).

If you know me then you know I love my family esp. my lil Tyler. He is my world. All parents say that but I sincerely believe he is the absolute best thing that can and will EVER happen to me. This kid is amazing and I love him with everything I have. I seem, at least in my eyes, to balance my family life and poker pretty well, but even when I am home chillin' I am online fiddling around playin or railing.

So is there a world without POKER?

Weeeeeeeee!

Please someone tell me who runs worse? This guy tries to make a play out of the small blind WANTING and WAITING to give me his chips and.......

Well the hand history was not copied correctly so I'll walk you through it....Everyone fold to small blind....He has 2500 and I have 4500....everyone folds around to him and he raises the 200 BB all in for 2500 and I have QQ so I insta call....he rolls over 10 6 off....weeeee....flop K high rainbow with no straight possibility for him....Turn is a 10....DUH, river is a 6....nice runner runner miracle and he says to me "NH, I hate when that happens to me" ....Thank you sir for your much needed and wanted input


But I was left with some chips and later this happened......


Table 3 - 200/400 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:33:55 ET - 2007/05/07
Seat 1: bij54 (3,650)
Seat 2: oldpappyman (5,730)
Seat 4: coopsdx (2,065)
Seat 5: mdyoung (7,290)
Seat 8: vanstock7 (18,535)
Seat 9: Shark1022 (4,310)
oldpappyman posts the small blind of 200
coopsdx posts the big blind of 400
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to coopsdx [Ad Th]
mdyoung folds
vanstock7 folds
Shark1022 folds
bij54 raises to 800
oldpappyman folds
coopsdx: gl all
coopsdx raises to 2,065, and is all in
bij54 calls 1,265
coopsdx shows [Ad Th]
bij54 shows [9c Tc]
*** FLOP *** [Qc 8s 9d]
*** TURN *** [Qc 8s 9d] [4c]
*** RIVER *** [Qc 8s 9d 4c] [3s]
coopsdx shows Ace Queen high
bij54 shows a pair of Nines
bij54 wins the pot (4,330) with a pair of Nines
coopsdx stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4,330 Rake 0
Board: [Qc 8s 9d 4c 3s]
Seat 1: bij54 (button) showed [9c Tc] and won (4,330) with a pair of Nines
Seat 2: oldpappyman (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: coopsdx (big blind) showed [Ad Th] and lost with Ace Queen high
Seat 5: mdyoung didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: vanstock7 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: Shark1022 didn't bet (folded)

So I ask you again, who runs worse then this guy? I watch and watch and watch in amazement how folks online and live literally give away their money and think to myself "this never happens to me." I have people wanting to hand it all over on a daily basis and they continue to get out of jail on some of the most amazing turn of events you could imagine....Okay enough for now but I hope you enjoyed yet another bad beat tourney ending for Cooper.

Karma

Does Karma truly exist? I hear this evil word daily now that poker is in my life. I believe in living right and doing right, but let's face it we're not all perfect. I do screw up from time to time but am I punished for it by bad karma? I feel that I am very blessed with a beutiful family, great friends, and so on and so forth and I feel that my luck is not that bad...but could it be better? If I didn't needle someone on the rail so hard or made fun of the occasional mullett in wal-mart could this boost my positive karma (or could I use +EV, Tim...lol)? If this is possible I will make a conscious effort to slow down on the "neverminding" on FT, or the "ha ha he he" when I find myself wanting to laugh at someone else's misfortunes. Don't get me wrong, I think I am a nice guy for the most part. I am caring and loving to those that are close to me and that I care about, but I have another side like everyone else. Can I shut this off completely?

Please share your thoughts on my debatable question...Is there such a thing as Karma? If so, how does one control, if possible, the outcome of good or bad karma?

TY and GL