I've played a lot of hands in my poker career, but this is possibly the funniest hand I've ever seen. The villain was a silver star, which makes this even funnier to me for some reason.

 PokerStars Game #22628621164: Tournament #124930272, $35+$3 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2008/12/04 20:28:18 ET
Table '124930272 3' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: lanhelas (1460 in chips)
Seat 3:

I got back to Austin a few days ago, and have played a few hundred games since then. I need to get 50k VPPs by the end of the month for a $6k bonus, so I guess I'll be playing decent hours this month.

I really haven't been playing a lot lately because I haven't had time. When I have had time I've been playing some 45 mans mainly, especially because the 9 mans on Stars are ridiculously hard lately

The OSU v Michigan game was a blast. The atmosphere during the game was unlike anything I've ever seen at a football game, especially after Pryor through an INT and got late hit. After that play everyone in the stadium and on the field wanted to annihilate Michigan. It was pretty evident the following play when the leader of the defense CB Malcolm Jenkins took down a Michigan WR after the play

Yesterday I flew up to Columbus for the Ohio St. vs. Michigan game on Saturday. This will be the third year in a row I've gone to the game, and I'm trying to make a tradition out of it. It's also conveniently on the third Saturday of every November, so I can just stay through Thanksgiving.

 It's pretty cold up here, with a high of 33 tomorrow, compared with mid 70s in Texas. Anyways, I'll probably

Hard to believe the election is this Tuesday, after so much campaigning and hype leading up to it. At this point it looks like Obama is comfortably ahead, with most tracking sites listing him at ~85% to win. There was probably a lot of money to be made on Intrade.com, but it's really hard for Americans to get money on that site. When McCain was at 35% a few months ago I wanted to buy, and

With the NBA season starting up, I did another fantasy basketball draft with some poker players. Last year I learned some valuable lessons about the NBA fantasy leagues, namely that most rankings do not include turnovers, and there is a max of 82 games per position so it's bad to rotate people in every day.

I ended up getting the 1st pick in the draft and took Chris Paul, who is an amazing