New Sheriff

Day Be A New Sheriff In Town !!!!!! Z Dog Rules. Long Live Z Dog !!!!!!

The Final Table

The excitment is palpable, the fianl table has been set. Nine players will advance to the big showdown. The point totals are locked in, the pot sizes are set, everything is written in stone and can't be changed; unless something drastic happens such as someone not showing up.

Save the Date

When is the final game? The 18th seems like the logical choice, but the Ladies are planning a Christmas party that night.

Whats in a name

I found a list of a nicknames for poker hands. Some are self-explanitory, some I don't get. Nevertheless I'm going to spend the next week memorizing them so they roll effortlessly off my tongue. Its going to be intimidating.

AA  Rockets; Bullets; American Airlines
KK  Cowboys; King Kong
QQ  Siegfried & Roy; bitches
JJ   Fishhooks; hooks
TT   Dimes
88  Snowmen; Doggie Balls
77  Sunset Strip
66  Route 66
55  Speed Limit
44  Magnum; Sailboats
33  Crabs
22  Ducks


AK  Big Slick
AQ  Big Chick; Walking Back to Houston
KQ suited Marriage
KQ offsuit Mixed Marriage
KJ  Ko jak
K9  Fido; What a Dog
K3  Commander Crab; King Crab
Q7  Computer hand
Q3  Gay Waiter (queen with a tray)
J5  Motown; Jackson Five
T8  Golden Dan
T5  Woolworth's; Five and Dime
T4  Convoy; Good Buddy
T2  Texas Dolly
98  Oldsmobile
96  Big Lick
95  Dolly Parton
7T   Split

and of course:

Q8 Day Job  (If you play Q8, you better keep your day job)

Happy Thanksgiving

Things You Can Only Say On Thanksgiving.................

1. Talk about a huge breast!
2. Tying the legs together keeps the inside moist.
3. It's Cool Whip time!
4. If I don't undo my pants, I'll burst!
5. That's one terrific spread!
6. I'm in the mood for a little dark meat.
7. Are you ready for seconds yet?
8. Its a little dry, do you still want to eat it
9. Just wait your turn, you'll get some!
10. Don't play with your meat.
11. Just spread the legs open & stuff it in.
12. Do you think you'll be able to handle all these people at once?
13. I didn't expect everyone to come at once!
14. You still have a little bit on your chin.
15. How long will it take after you stick it in?
16. You'll know it's ready when it pops up

happy turkey day to all....

Redemption!!

The fellas brought home a win, mostly thanks to Jeremy. At least for now the Ladies' have been put in their place. Which is somewheres near the kitchen. I'm not going to say they belong in the kitchen, that would be rude and stereotyping. I'm just saying they are in their place and that place may or may not the same room as the sink and stove.

Well what can be said ? That very slippery fourth victory, IN A ROW, eluded our Zdog. An early burst of chips made for a exciting nano second. But,,,,well it didn't happen. With only 2 more tourney games it would appear the record is safe for another year. I checked the standings after our marathon and I noticed I'm crushing Smokey. By approx. 0.15 points....insurmountable. By the way, other than the rather entertaining side effects of Smokey's chili, it was also extremely appetizing. Thank you Smoke. B.O., who FINALLY won a tourney night also contributed a fine load of ribs...thanks B.O.. Poo, who once again proved to be the best in the world, SUCKED OUT on more hands than even HE can remember so up yours Poo. Looking forward to m the big one.

From gary...........

This must be a very exciting time for our fellow competitor Zdog.  He is on the verge of a momentous, monumental, potential life changing event.  Sleep must be hard to come by, pooping solid is a thing of his past.  Still four days to go.  I'm concerned about our hard driving compadre Zdog's health.  These visions of grandeur, these day dreaming fantasies of a winning moment can only lead to disastrous depths of depression when not achieved.   Four wins in a row, how can he do it ?    Eight mean fire red eyed savages crouched and ready to leap at any sign of weakness in his game.   This is a DOUBLE tourney day, dare he add the possibility of setting a NEW record.  OOOOH the humanity of it all. 

Let the games begin...

Ideas for next year

Here are some of the ideas we talked about for next year.

Change the Inital buy-in to $10 and allow 2 $10 rebuys per night.
A few extra rebuys per year -points to use them
Bonus Points if you don't use them
Blinds  were either the same or somtheing similar to how it is now

please comment on your feelings or suggestions

Possible changes

The other night we were talking about some format changes that might improve the game for next year. I'll put them up here for people to think about and comment on. If for nothing else it might lead to good conversation tomorrow night

1) Give everyone a set number ( I think it was in the nieghborhood of 5) "Extra" buy ins you can use anytime throughout the year. They come at a higher points price but can be used after your final rebuy for the night.

2) Change the blind structure. The way it is now, you start the night with 10 big blinds which means after one mediocre hand with a couple of  calls, your stack is crippled. I a real tournament you start with approximately 100 BB's. A couple ideas tossed around to fix this where:
                               a) lower the blinds back to $.10. The max rebuys may have been a better solution to wild play then higher blinds.
                               b) leave the blinds as is, but buy-in for your max $26 right from the begining with no rebuys.
                               c) change to a "tournament chip" type of buy-in where your $5 gives you 10k chips or something along those lines. We'd have to have a formula for cashing out at the end of the night.

3) I thought there was more, but now I can't remember.

Food for Thought 2

Disregard the previous post, we were hacked by someone who obviously doesn't know what they were talking about. Someone who in their deranged sense of reality was under the impression that they were better then us. Its hard to understand how a persons thoughts can get so twisted. All that is left for us to do is to pity them.

Food for Thought

to bad the girls are so good they beat our asses

Sunday night

It looks like the game will be at my house. Its been pretty pleasant the past few days, if the weather stays nice we'll probably stay outside.

Next Game

With the next game rapidly approaching, if there aren't any plans made yet, we can have it at my house.


I haven't had time to post anything in a few days, but now that I'm on vacation, more to follow...............

De Game

Poker this weekend ? The Palace is available. Anyone interested ?

Just practicing

HAD A THOUGHT

I was thinking that in our final tourney game that we consider using both chips AND cash for our buy ins. European style....thoughts ?

Poker player by day, something else at night

Thats only half the story...

Just like in the media, report some the fluff but leave out the whole truth. After a quick search of the paradise police blotter from 1994 I found this. The story, who's details are too disgusting for me to mention, is about a young Kieth Powell who likes dresses up like a high school girl and cruises around town on Friday nights..........

Notice the shifty eyes and the devious smile

He's a Bear, He's a Bear!

You should have received your money back on this photo.

Rob's Yearbook photo???

This is an instant classic..... I can't believe they let you where the shades in your school photo. But at least you dressed up.

The result of the original Queen 8

This is what was caught on photo immediately after Jeremy called me with his original Queen 8.

Pagan Golf Photo

I was shocked to see what it is I saw when I zoomed up on "team pagan" in the golf photo. Jer-Bear had horns growing out of his head...... (and apparently intiminated by the size of team Christians sticks)... Matthew didn't want to be recognized playing with those other 3 pagans........ Gary???? Not taking this very seriously?????........ And Rob???? It's not a very good look for you my friend.

After seeing this, I now can see why team Christian won by 7 skins.......

Gary Stanton Yearbook photo?

I did a google search for "Gary N. Stanton" and came up with his yearbook photo. Shocking Gary!!!!! But I like the turtle neck!

All in video

This gives us more Street Credit,

Q8 a love/hate relationship

Why do we love Q8 so much? Perhaps its the perfect hand. If you pair the queen, you have a decent hand. It can fill a straight and suited, a nice flush. There's even the possibility of the all illusive straight flush. We seen quite a few straight flushes, but ironically never 8 through queen. Your opponent will never put you on Q8 if you call a big pre-flop raise and hit the flop, unless you overplay it, every time you get it, like at our little game. But then that begs the next question, Can you really ever over play Q8? It always wins.

We hate to lose to Q8 and we can't stand to fold it just to watch it fill. How many times have we played it to the turn only to say, "I couldn't get away from it" or "I cant believe it didn't fill." Can Poo make a spreadsheet column that compares how much money has been lost chasing Q8 compared to say AK.

We are so infatuated by it, I had to name the website after it. I was only slightly influenced by the fact that all the other good poker names were taken. I hope you like and leave comments. Not comments about the site, but comments about each other. Comments about poor play that leads to miraculous suck-outs and bad beats. The kind of play that only amateurs would try against such skilled players as ourselves.

I'll start:

   If you flop a straight, hypothetically for instance, you may feel comfortable enough to slow play it. But what if some else has pocket A's. Letting them get a cheap turn to trips isn't a good move. Because eventually the river boats him to the A's and a third guy boats to K's. Now that little straight doesn't seem quite so good when the two boats are betting $20.

Let the good times roll.