Posted by Dr Fro 5:30 PM
I have been a busy boy lately and will try to summarize the highlights of my life:

Football

CU
We made a day trip out of the Colorado game. Just north of Waco, we stopped at a McDonald's to pee. There were NU and BU fans there. There were CU and UT fans headed to Austin. There were Aggies and OSU fans headed to B/CS. So 6 of the Big 12 were represented at the McDonald's. I wonder how often that has happened? Of course, in Lubbock there was yet one more Big 8-ex playing an ex-SWC team at home. But they were at a different McDonald's.

We always park in the same LF garage, walk in the same gate and sit in our same seats in Section 2. For no real reason, we walked into an obscure gate (in between the big one in the southwest corner and the glass doors opposite the Alumni Center). This gate took us to a ramp that went up several floors, presumably to the upper deck. Since our seats are 10 rows from the grass, we were headed the wrong way. Since our tickets were torn, we couldn't retreat. Somehow we ended up on the 7th floor (I guess of Belmont?) and found a fire exit that took us down. We got to the ground level to find a door that took us out of the building. (Side note, if you would ever like to sneak in for free, I think I now know how to let you in.) So time is ticking and we are completely lost in a building with 80k+ fans but nobody around. We go back up one floor, go down a hallway and find a door that might take us somewhere. I see a small men's room and decide to go for a pee (the big men's room by Section 1 has massive lines before the game.) I am peeing all by myself when in walks another person. "Friou?" It was Hickey.

"What are you doing here?" Dr Fro asked.

"This is my little secret, how did you know about this restroom?"

"I was lost."

We then took the secret passage from the study to the kitchen, figured out the Mrs Scarlet did it with the candlestick and got to "the deuce" 1 minute before kickoff.

During the second quarter I looked down at the small piece of concrete between my feet to see a Texas-sized roach looking up to me as if he was lost. I crushed him. Afterwards, I was thinking that around 1pm, that roach must have had pretty high hopes about the day. When 80k+ filled the stadiums he was losing hope of coming out alive, and soon all of his hopes would be crushed in an instant. Shortly thereafter, it was 35-3 and I thought that Colorado must have felt a bit like that roach.

Mack Brown and UT have now won 5 straight over top 25 teams.

Texas Tech
This will be a lot of fun. The Frious will definitely be throwing a tailgate. Although the exact location can't be known until Friday at 5:00 when the state lots open up, it will be near Shultz's. Check this website or call me for details.

OSU & Baylor
I have tickets to both. I am 70% sure I will go to Stillwater and 99.99% sure I will go to Waco. We may have extra tickets to each, let me know if you are interested.

Kansas & A&M
I leave for Prague the day of the Kansas game. I really hope it is an 11 o'clock kickoff so I can see the whole thing. I return the day of the A&M game, so I will be TiVo-ing to catch up. Do NOT call me during the A&M game to say, "dude, did you see..." Let me catch up and I will call you afterwards.

Big XII Championship
We have our tickets and will definitely be going to Houston for the game. Maybe we can get a poker game going the night before. Let me know if you are interested. I guess one could say that it is presumptuous to already plan on going, but come on, Tech doesn't have much of a chance to beat us. IMHO, Tech's current team is not as good as some of the their teams over the past 4 to 5 years. They just haven't played anyone. Plus, the Big XII completely sucks this year. I really don't think Tech will have any success in Austin at all. At all.

Bowl Game
Flights to Cali are going for $200 right now and I think we will book this week. Worst case scenario - UT plays in another bowl game and Jane and I have a Southern California vacation. Not much downside to that plan.

Baseball

I gave standing instructions to Pony to put $50 on all Astros postseason games and have so far done pretty well:

DCS
Game 1 +$50
Game 2 -$50
Game 3 +$50
Game 4 +$50

LCS
Game 1 -$50
Game 2 +$65
Game 3 +$50

In summary, I am up $165. Not bad. Backe is looking pretty good right now, but we need to start hitting the ball.

Poker

I was looking at my results for 2005 and I see that I am down year-to-date. If I take away the trip to Shreveport, I am up. In fact, if I change just 2 hands from Shreveport, I am up for the year. I don't think I will be playing a ton of poker for the rest of the year because I am somewhat busy with work, UT football and baseball playoffs. Plus, in November, I will be in DC for a week and Europe for 2 weeks. Ergo, I expect to end the poker year down slightly. What I won't do is push the issue. Anytime I do that - anytime I try to turn a negative result (for a trip, for a day, for a night, for a year) into a positive result, I am not successful. It's called chasing, and it is the baseball equivalent of swinging for the fence. Just sit back, play your game, wait for the right situation and take advantage of it. If you try to force it, they will pitch junk to you and won't accomplish much of anything.

I did play on Friday night online for a bit. I played for 1 hour and except for some free flops from the BB, I only saw two flops in 1 hour. Both times I bet the flop and both times everyone folded. I was in new territory here: I am usually known for being on the steal and can make money by getting calls, but here I had developed a reputation for being tight and could make money by using a well-timed bluff. So when a solid player raised pre-flop, I called. The flop came ragged with 2 diamonds. He made a pot-sized bet and I called. When the third diamond came, he bet the pot again and I raised $47 into a $30 pot (all-in). My thought was that he probably had an overpair in the hole or maybe just overs. Either way, it looked like continuation betting. He called immediately and showed AK of diamonds. Dang.

I hereby promise to never steal again. I promise.

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Posted by  Johnnymac, at 11:08 AM, October 17, 2005  

"I promise that I will never die!"

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