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January 13, 2011
January 01, 2011
2010 - A Year in Terrible Quality iPhotos
I really had a lot of fun compiling this post last year. Always fun to scroll through all the pics you've taken for a year on your iPhone and relive and remember the things you did. Here's the 2010 version.
2010 started with me taking a New Year's cruise with my parents on their boat. Mom and I ended up being stuck in Vancouver for a week and a half, but after that we had a great time. It was really nice having some one on one time with my parents, and we went to some cool places. Lots of traveling this year, including a 6 week roadtrip with the only person I've met crazier than me, @scsuhockey10. Year ended with me moving to Vegas. No clue what 2011 will bring, but this year was pretty fun. Enjoy and happy 2011. xxx, Katie
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| Dad and I catching up on emails at a bar with wifi, Ganges Harbor, WA 1/2010 |
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| Mom and Dad and I took a ride in the oldest continuously operating elevator in the world, Victoria, BC 1/2010 |
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| Darth Vadar playing violin in Victoria, BC 1/2010 |
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| PLO in Baltimore 1/2010 |
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| On the bubble of the Borgata Winter Open PLO tourney 1/2010 |
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| My car buried in one of the Snowpocalypses. Thankfully I had @alcanthang with me to help me shovel! 2/2010 |
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| Pink chip game after getting my stack tossed Columbia, MD 2/2010 |
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| The only picture I took on my phone during Mastodon Weekend, Greenville, SC 3/2010 |
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| 3/6 LHE at Wednesday night before ATLARGE. I'm in for $200. 3/2010 |
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| Me and partner in crime, ATLARGE Smoker Dinner, AC, 3/2010 |
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| Pink Chip Game at ATLARGE...yes there is a black chip in there too. 3/2010 |
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| Beach at my parents' house where my Dad taught me how to drive stick in his BMW Z4 3/2010 |
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| Early morning out my window at Harrahs AC 4/2010 |
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| At the Beach with my sister, Southern NJ 5/2010 |
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| Playing Heads Up Chinese with @uaegreg in Philly 6/2010 |
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| 2/5 NLHE at Harrahs AC 6/2010 |
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| 1/3 NLHE at the WSOP this year 6/2010 |
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| 6/12 mix at Venetian with ARGers 6/2010 |
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| Coming into Day 2 of the $1500 HORSE...my bag looked a lot better than the year before. 6/2010 |
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| Watched 7/4 fireworks at Harrahs AC with my sis and her bf. We ended up getting pelted with fireworks shells due to wind. 7/2010 |
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| Playing drken Apples to Apples with @dmfarley @neamhspleach @fuzz4000 @sumohurdler et al. Duct tape is what I need for my mouth! 7/2010 |
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| My favorite restaurant's cheese tray, National Harbor, 7/2010 |
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| Most Friday nights in 2010 were spent with me dealing the Pink Chip game in Maryland with @Bmore_Billy, 7/2010 |
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| Summer boat trip with the family. I had an allergic reaction to UV rays AND threw my back out. Still a good trip. 7/2010 |
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| Sisters! 7/2010 |
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| Me and John in the dinghy after taking it through some rapids. Canada, 7/2010 |
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| On the boat trip, we found a German restaurant where the owner had this handy shot holder. Canada, 7/2010 |
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| This is why I love my parents' boat. British Columbia, Canada, 7/2010 |
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| This is the Summer salmon catch, British Columbia, Canada, 2010 |
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| After a long day fishing with Sarah and John 7/2010 |
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| BARGE banquet Vegas, 8/2010 |
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| Playing the first ever game of EFQ at the Goldman's, Vegas, 8/2010 |
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| I'm in for $200. This is a 1/2 NLHE game in Glen Burnie, MD. 8/2010 |
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| Yes, I ended up with little green armmeni n my purse after a night of drinking with Dan and Molly, DC, 8/2010 |
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| Me and Molly showing off our shoes, DC, 8/2010 |
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| First day of Vegas-Connecticut Roadtrip. There is a story about Texas Station. Ask Jeanne or Bob. ;) Vegas, 9/2010 |
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| Dbacks game on the roadtrip, Arizona 9/2010 |
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| Starting to get in the middle of nowhere, Arizona 9/2010 |
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| On one of the longest bridges in the world, Crossing the Atchifalaya Basin in Louisiana, 9/2010 |
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| Remnants of a crazy night in NOLA, 9/2010 |
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| Nights like these were how we both ended up gaining OMG weight on the roadtrip, Wafflehouse, Biloxi, MS, 9/2010 |
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| Drinking with Chic in Tampa, 9/2010 |
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| Kennedy Space Center, 9/2010 |
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| Can't believe we got away with this... NL 2-7 SD SNG at the BBar at Borgata during the Fall Open. AC, 9/2010 |
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| Drunk and stupid clowning on the AC Boardwalk, 9/2010 |
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| Todd playing the LHE portion of our stack during the FARGO pairs tourney. We min-cashed. LOL, Foxwoods, 10/2010 |
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| The PokerStars chipset I got when I won the PLO shootout to OE final table Sunday FARGO tourney. We played EFQ in the suite LDO. Foxwoods, 10/2010 |
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| On my drive to Vegas, I crashed in Chicago with @zymm and ended up making friends with her cat. Chicago, 10/2010 |
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| Ahhhh... new home! Vegas, 10/2010 |
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| 9/18 mix at Aria, Vegas, 10/2010 |
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| Halloween!!! Vegas, 10/2010 |
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| Sweating the November Nine at the Rio, Vegas 10/2010 |
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| Parents took me out to Mohegan Sun for my birthday where I got this awesome red velvet brownie! Mohegan Sun, 11/2010 |
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| Evidence that slot machine themes have jumped the shark, Vegas 12/2010 |
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| First night of WPBT. Karaoke. Vegas, 12/2010 |
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| My new fav VP bar and drink at Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, 12/2010 |
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| Happy New Year!!!! Vegas, 12/2010 |
June 29, 2010
May 27, 2010
May 05, 2010
Ladies and Gentlemen, Introducing the Plobcycle
"@ckbwop I think I just figured out what a #plobcycllle is. Blog post coming. #muhahahaha" - me, earlier this evening on Twitter.
My stack shortly before the game broke after the plobcycle helped me to recover from $150/$300.
Flashback to WPBT in December. We had arrived on Thursday. We partied like rockstars. Sunday came and went. A bunch of us ended up, post-football, at the IP Geisha bar for our last hurrah before everyone went home. CK and I were standing around, drinking our drinks, when she looks at me and asks if we should see if the Sunday night IP mixed game is running. I look across the pit. The poker room is only like 500 feet from us. We wander over with Dawn. Somehow, before you know it, there is NOT a mixed game, but a 1/2 NLHE game, featuring the drunken likes of me, CK, Dawn, F-train, Penner, and assorted others. There was also a whole Rich/Not Rich controversy and as it turns out I actually knew Not Rich, but I digress. Much hilarity ensued at this game, and if you were not there, you totally missed out.
At one point, some blogger donkey made a wheel. In 1/2 NLHE. I immediately flashed back to four years ago at the Trop. There was a crazy Asian woman who would say "biiiiiiiiiiicyclllllllle!" in a super annoying voice every time she made a wheel. I'm certain I said both "biiiiiiiiiicycllllllllllle!" and told the story to the other bloggers. For some reason this seemed very funny at the time. I'm guessing because we were all pretty drunk.
Though WPBT ended shortly thereafter, periodically, CK and I would tweet "#biiiiicyclllllle" to each other, primarily when one of us tweeted about playing O8. I started abusing the hashtag, and one day when I was playing PLO, someone tweeted #biiiiicycllllllle in an attempt to wish me good PLO luck. A discussion of how a bicycle was clearly a terrible PLO hand ensued. CK tweeted "#plobcyclllllle!" (which, in my mind, is pronounced Plob-cycle, not PLO bicycle). And thus another hashtag meme was born. However, none of us could quite figure out what a plobcycle WAS. Broadway? No...who wants to flop a straight in Omaha? We never pinned it down.
Tonight I discovered what a plobcycle was. If this is NOT a plobcycle, I don't know what is.
The Borgata Poker Room. Table 19. 1/2 PLO, full ring, lots of donkeys. Shortly before midnight on a Tuesday.
Your hero is in the 1 seat. Two to her left is a super lagtard PLO player. He will always bet your hand for you. Sadly, your hero has been running badly and is down to $150/$300. Her game plan for getting even? Repot the lagtard the next time she has a quality hand.
Oh, look at this! Hero has looked down to see AdTdAcQc. She is UTG. Purrrrrrrfect. Hero innocently throws two chips in the pot. Two seat also limps. Three seat pots as expected. $12. What's this? Several calls of the $12? Even better. I make it $60 to go. Somewhat shockingly, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 10 seat all flat the $60. I pray to hit the flop hard because I'm jamming my remaining $90 no matter what it is. Flop: A25. Rainbow. I jam, praying no one has 34, for a #biiiiicyclllllle. 2 seat folds. 3 seat folds. 4 seat...pots? NOOOOOOOOOOOO! I happen to know the 4 seat and he is not potting here to do me a solid and offer me protection. He is potting because he has 34. He flopped a motherfucking #biiiiicycllllllllle.
Everyone folds. He does not table his hand, but I know I need the board to pair. The whole table is well aware I have flopped top set, though I have not tabled my hand either. My opponent knows he needs to dodge the board pairing. I'm thinking "ONE TIME!!!!!" when the turn comes off a Kd. "PAIR THE BOARD, DEALER, COME ON!!!!" The river looks to be a safe Js.
The 4 seat sighs relief and tables 2345, right as I say, "I have broadway." The entire table is shocked. "You don't have top set?," the 6 seat asks, clearly confused. I table AAQT double-suited. The four seat curses under his breath. "Nice hand, Katie." I get pushed a very large pot. Good return on investment for $150.
My first thought is: "And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a plobcycle."
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2009 - A Year in Terrible Quality iPhotos
This is my first mobile photo of 2009. It's Princess, @onetimeforpop's Rottweiler. And I'd recognize that rug anywhere - that's the SHOP. No other place that I know of where people can play poker with an adorable dog putting her head in your lap. (1/2009)
Though I don't get to see my Dad all that often, he does consult in DC from time to time. I am the frequent beneficiary of some yummy, expensive dinners when he is in town. This was taken at a very yummy steakhouse at the new National Harbor complex, next to the scenic Anacostia River (/sarcasm). (1/2009)
In for $200, sitting on $603 at the apt (Feb 2009)
Someone might be a little tilty...look at that chip pile! (Feb 2009)
Check out those racks of pink....too bad they were worth a fraction of their value at this game... I don't remember the rotation, but this was a night of stupid poker at the apt. (March 2009)
Now, these pinks OTOH are face value. I crushed the pink o8 game at ATLARGE at the Taj in AC this year. Repeatedly. (March 2009)
Most of the month of March, I lived at the Showboat in AC (no really...I was there every day in March except for 8). I got to know the bartender at the videopoker bar right next to the poker room pretty well. My sis frequently stopped by to have some drinks after work. (March 2009)
One of my cousins got married in Tucson. A few days after the wedding, my sister, her boyfriend, and I went on a trail ride in the desert. We rode horses, but I felt obliged to take a picture of the donkey. (Apr 2009)
In May, one of our favorite bartenders at the Turtle concocted a special drink, just for me, @onafolddraw, and @bmorebilly. @onafolddraw named it the "girly man" b/c it is bright pink. It is however, delicious. Vodka, Redbull, pineapple juice, grenadine.
At the Rio in Vegas for the WSOP. @onafolddraw and I got this super pimped out suite. Note that it has a globe. We decided that the new standard for suite pimpage is "Globe? Yes/No" (June 2009)
At the end of July, I made a spontaneous pilgrimage to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. I drove there straight from NJ, stayed overnight, drove home the next day. (July 2009)
This bit of hilariousness was in my motel room in Cleveland. (July 2009)
Anne finally took me to go to the Baltimore Aquarium, which I had never gone to before...after living in this area for 13 years. (July 2009)
In July and August I went on a 3 week-long boat trip with my parents from Alaska, through British Columbia, and then around Washington state. It couldn't have come at a better time and was very relaxing. (August 2009)
Went to a labor day party with my sister and her boyfriend. Our contribution to the party were a million different flavors of jello shots. (August 2009)
Some time in September (a month where I spent all but 12 days at the Borgata for the Borgata Poker Open), I played my first pink o8 game at the Borgata. (Sept 2009)
And, I also played my first session of PLO at the Borgata. In for $200, cashed out over $1k this session. (September 2009)
In the middle of the Borgata Poker Open, I detoured to Foxwoods for FARGO 2009. I had a blast and made a lot of new friends. SOOOOOO glad I went. (Sept 2009)
September also saw me detour to Philly after a trip to AC to spend time w @uaegreg and his new law school friends. At one point during this night, Greg and I both looked at each other and said..."we're 30 year olds, and we're at a house party." (September 2009)
In October I detoured to Philly again for a poker game @uaegreg set up with his law school buds and an open bar night. I spent a lot of time on the road in 2009. (October 2009)
October also saw more pink crushage at the Borgata. (October 2009)
@alcanthang got this pimped out suite (alas no globe) at the Taj and I snapped this pic of the Borgata and Harrahs. (November 2009)
Thanksgiving (and my 31st bday) dinner. (November 2009)
December saw me travel to Vegas for the WPBT. Shots of Soco at the Geisha Bar with the bloggers FTW. (December 2009)
And upon my return home, I was greated with a freak snowstorm, dropping 24" of snow in my front yard, and snowing me in (literally) thwarting my lunch plans with @spidurman and my last trip of 2009 to the Borgata. (December 2009)
Closed off 2009 with another few weeks on my parents' boat. Mom and I ended up getting stuck in Vancouver for the last week of 2009, and this shelf (and gchats with a select few) helped cure massive boredom. (December 2009)
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