{"id":1032,"date":"2007-02-21T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogger.scottyanderson.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2007-02-21T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T23:40:00","slug":"poker-at-diamond-lils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Poker at Diamond Lil&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been my Dad&#8217;s Sixty-Eighth birthday.<\/p>\n<p>I have been wanting to get back to Diamond Lil&#8217;s for a while. I finally decided tonight I would head down there. When I arrived it was pretty busy. I had to wait for a while to get a seat. Finally when I did I was playing my game. Very tight. I was doing well, infact I had more than doubled my buy-in. <\/p>\n<p>Then my name was called to move up to the higher limit tables. That table was not as nice to me. I called a couple hands and I was not doing very well. I was down to my last forty bucks. I got pocket nines. The flop was an Ace-Four-Four. The turn was a Four. Someone got me all in. I went ahead and called. I realized my only hope was a nine hitting, because the others were playing with an Ace. A nine hit on the river giving me a better full-house than everyone else at the table. That put me back into the game, but I was down from my starting point of coming to that table.<\/p>\n<p>While I was sitting there a ten-six-seven was seated at the table. When I first saw him I was thinking he was younger and dressed a little like he was a G. Then when he sat at our table I was able to get a better look. I loved his haircut. It is very short. I don&#8217;t know what it is about guys and long hair. It looks horrible. I have seen some guys who I thought were butt-ugly get a good haircut and all of a sudden they were actually very good looking.<\/p>\n<p>So after seeing his widows peak and his hands and arms I could see he was a little older than I thought. Now I put him around his mid-to upper-twenties. His fingernails were very nicely trimmed, almost look manicured. He didn&#8217;t have the blonde hair that makes everything so much better, but it was a nice light brown. Gave me something to stare at when I was not playing a hand.<\/p>\n<p>Finally a little after midnight I decided to cut my losses and leave. I walked out of there only down fourteen bucks on the night. Not too back for going all-in at one point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been my Dad&#8217;s Sixty-Eighth birthday. I have been wanting to get back to Diamond Lil&#8217;s for a while. I finally decided tonight I would head down there. When I arrived it was pretty busy. I had to wait for a while to get a seat. Finally when I did I was playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}