pocket 10s

Pocket 10's - that's the hand I had when I won my first online poker tournament two weekends ago. As most of you know, I've dabbled w/ some low limit online poker over the past 4-5 years. I don't really play many tournaments, normally I just play cash games for maybe 30 minutes a few times a week. However, the night of ND versus Stanford (aka - Weis's last game), I decided to enter a tourney as I had a few hours w/ nothing to do but watch football. I think there was around 105 people in it and I somehow was lucky enough to come out on top...good little payout as well! So, i may try to play a few more tourneys in December and see if the luck can continue!

Speaking of Weis, what a f'n debacle the last 4 weeks of ND's season was. Now Clausen and Tate are going pro, which isn't that shocking, but it doesn't bode well for next season. Who knows, maybe the Ewing Theory (credit to Simmons) will prevail w/ those two guys leaving....

I had a great Thanksgiving and I hope all of you did as well. It was nice to get home and see some of the family. Also got to spend some time w/ Craig, who lives in Georgia, as well as a few other people from high school.

For the first time in my life since moving out of Dad's house 10 years ago, I actually put up a Xmas tree in my house. It even has lights on it. Granted, it's only about 2 feet tall, but I got it setup on a little end table right in one of my front windows. I felt like I needed to prove to my neighbors that I wasn't a complete Scrooge since I haven't ever put up lights since I've owned this house.

Dad & I's annual college bowl tourney is officially underway, which is really a pain in the ass to setup on the front end. After I have all the entries submitted, it's a piece of cake, but the 6-8 hours of data entry on the front end really sucks. I don't know how Dad used to do this by hand back in the day. Once again, I assume my picks will get demolished by multiple women, 11-year olds and people that don't even know how to keep score.....

NFL Bets - been rough lately, going 1-1 the two weeks prior and 0-2 this past week. Diddy is 16-10 through 13 weeks and I'm 14-12 in our picks against each other. Overall i'm 15-14 on my cumulative bets. Still trying to figure out how Scott went 0-6 on his picks during our Vegas trip (shaking my head).

My two videos this week come courtesy of Adam. Words of wisdom from Jared Allen and Tiger Woods new #1 single hit the charts