The Past Week
12 01 2008When I woke up last Saturday afternoon, I couldn’t find my cell phone. Coming home Friday night, I got out of my friend’s car with it, and walked straight up to my room and fell asleep. For some odd reason though, it was nowhere to be found. Well, yesterday I found it buried in the snow underneath the mailbox with a million scratches and a broken screen. It’s been hell not having a cell phone for a week but now I can’t even retrieve any my missed calls/texts/voicemails. I have to check to see if I bought insurance on it, otherwise I gotta shell out more money for another phone. Fuckkkk
I’ve been under a lot of stress lately with high school and looking at colleges. My grades have slipped dramatically and I’m worried that I may not pass a half year course. Also, I’ve been thinking a lot about colleges and I haven’t made any progress. One day I think I should go to a school in Connecticut and the next day I want to move out to California. Although, I do agree with my parents and guidance counselor that it’s getting late and I need to send in some applications.
Sunday was the last time I played poker. Now this is due to the fact that I have a problem with my laptop. For some reason the internet is fucked up and it’s going a good waaaaaaaay slower than it usually does. Not to mention there’s a pop up window that won’t go away no matter what I do. But anyways on Sunday I decided instead of continuing with the Sng Madness, I’d play some multis. I was playing shitty and wanted to quit for the day. I had bricked 5-6 tournies but I was in the mood to play the Sunday Million. It may come as a surprise but I’ve never played the Sunday Million. Granted, I’ve never played a satellite or thought about buying in direct. This was different though, I wanted to reward myself and play it for fun so I bought in direct. I finished 195th out of 7104 people for $1,137. It was definitely fun. There was one point at the 2k/4k level that I was under 17k and by the end of the 2500/5k level, I had 460k. lol Oh well, it was a nice run, and I wanna thank everyone who railed and said some kind words.
On Monday, I decided to transfer some money to a friend. The deal was that if he could pay me the money back online then he’d owe me nothing, and if he couldn’t then he’d pay me double in person Friday. It’s the deal I do with everyone who asks me for transfers. So I ship to him and couple minutes after the transfer goes through, I see him playing a heads up sng. Wednesday rolls around and I’m informed that he says he didn’t get the transfer. Knowing this is complete b.s. I remind him Thursday night that he owed me for Friday. So he says he never got the money and when I asked him about the HU match he says that he had all of the buy in but got a 15 cent transfer from Stevens. Interesting because last time I checked, the minimum transfer on Full Tilt is $5. But I figured w/e let me just show him a screenshot of the confirmation email that I got from Full Tilt and he’ll pay. Somehow he finds a way to say he still didn’t get it, and me wanting to embarrass him even more, I decide to go into Sharkscope and send him a screenshot of exactly what he played and on what dates. I do so. He then says he wasn’t home so he doesn’t know who played the sngs. I mean you gotta be kiddin me right? So now I go to Steven’s, show him the evidence and tell him to get this POS to realize there’s no way out and he needs to pay me. Instead, he tells me that he didn’t play! loooooooool I said, “so let’s get this straight, I ship him the money and 2 minutes after he gets the money, someone hacked into his account and played the exact sngs that he normally plays?” I get “maybe tilt was on, and they say he got the money and played” I’m livid at this point. How can two people be so fucking stupid? I mean for christ’s sake how much more evidence do I need? So I tell him that he needs to pay the money for Friday and he says “how about we prop bet for it? If I win, I owe you nothing, if I lose, I owe you $40” lmao So he won’t pay me the original amount but he’ll pay me double. He’s a fuckin moron. Anyways so he didn’t pay me yesterday and while I’m not 100 % sure what type of payback he’ll receive, two things are for sure: I won’t associate myself with a chronic liar anymore, and he’ll never get another dime out of me. Sadly this is too common among poker players. Almost everyone has a similar story and this is my second time going through this but to be honest I’m happy it happened because his true character came out and I can’t be friends with someone who lies like that.
This weekend is going to be busy to say the least. I have to take care of my cell phone, laptop, and college applications. I also have to make up a bunch of schoolwork, not to mention find time to watch my Cowboys play the Giants and the other three playoff games. Can’t say when I’m going to update next but hopefully it’s not too long from now.
Fuck Computers
—Don—
