Conquered by Footwear

I've actually really wanted to try the intelligent shoes since I first read about them a few months ago. If I remember correctly, they're pretty expensive ($250 or more, I think). I don't think I'd buy them, but to put things in perspective, women spend that on "dumb" shoes all the time.

As far as poker advice goes, it really depends on your competition. If they're fairly simple-minded about the game, then your success is going to depends largely on your luck...it takes someone who's paying attention to be successful with the psychological mind-fucking.

My last comment was initially picked up by the spam filter, most likely for containing the "p-word." It'd be really hard to carry on a conversation about a certain card game...DAMN YOU SPAMMERS for forcing us into this state of fear!

But the host is actually pretty good. It's going to be low-stakes though, with the implied understanding that we're anteing up partially to share in his wisdom.

Luck is indeed a big part of the game, or rather, having at least some luck some of the time is a prerequisite to learning the finer points of the game. Getting nothing but random low cards and topping out with the rare two-pair is not a good way to start reading tells and bluffing and check-raising. Hopefully the Texas style will be more to my luck's liking than regular 5-card draw.

It does have sex appeal, so maybe the cosmos will respond positively.

Do you know the ad to which I referred? Have you heard that song?

So, our poker night turned into a ridiculous drinking night, complete with ice luge. I swear I had these people pegged my first day here: law school = drinking, drinking, drinking, and classes. Homework depending on drinking.

We ended up playing two no-limit hands as sort of an instructional intro. It was four men, action was to me first, so I just called the big blind with pocket sixes. If I remember correctly, the small blind limped in with a call and the big blind checked out. Dealer folded. The flop was K and 6 of spades and a red ten. I made a modest bet. Small blind called, big blind folded out. No flush help on turn, I bet bigger, small called. Last card, no help to flush, I bet even bigger, small still called. There was no raise action so I thought I was relatively safe.

Small had two spades, one the ten, so he was looking for the flush draw. I won with the three sixes over his pair of tens.

In retrospect, I wasn't paying sufficient attention to the possibility of another pocket pair. I think I pulled the weakest card on the board, maybe the second-weakest. But from my analysis of the betting, small blind really didn't seem like he had pocket tens or kings. After that, pulling a 3 of a kind on the turn or river would've been harder to read since action was to me and I was already committed.

Next hand I folded out with a 5 2 off suit, and after the turn card everyone else folded out on a moderate bet from the small blind.

So, for two hands of poker with no real money, I spent 6 hours watching people get wasted. Fucking wankers.

I just posted a comment about last night's "game." Spam filter has raped it. Ah well.

Well, for anyone who was curious about the music from that Adidas commercial, apparently it was a made-for-commercial cut featuring Karen O. on vocals (frontwoman for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and written by Sam Spiegel, who's apparently some sort of relation to Spike Jonze, director of the commercial.

In other words, like the original AXE Effect™ commercial, the music will be nigh-unto-impossible to find in any sort of unedited form. GODDAMMIT!