Daniel Moravec

• “I’m Fine”
  • I’m not fine, I’m pissed.
• “Nothing”
  • You’ve pissed me off enough, it’s time to start apologizing for it.
• “I don’t think we’re communicating well lately”
  • You haven’t been agreeing with me like I want you to
• “I’ll be ready in 5 minutes”
  • You’re going to be late thanks to me, and don’t you dare be late when I want to go somewhere
• Do you love me?
  • I want something really expensive
  • I want to hear you tell me that you love me, how much, and why
• Do what you want
  • You can do it, but I’m going to be pissed after you do
• “I’m not going to make the decision for you” or “It’s your decision”
  • Didn’t you understand me when I already said “do what you want?”
• “How much do you love me?”
  • I did something wrong and I’m not sure whether to tell you or not
  • You did something wrong and I’m setting you up for a “Then why do/did you… (say that you love me, yet do this/that? You don’t really love me!)”
• “… how you treat me the way you do”
  • You aren’t giving me enough attention lately. (No matter where you’ve taken me, what you’ve bought me, cooked for me, etc.)
• “How do I look?”
  • Dependent on whether trying on clothes or already chosen an outfit.
  • Will this grab other guy’s attention & make other girls jealous? or Tell me that I look beautiful stupid.
• “Are you listening to me?”
  • Look me in the eyes and illicit values from what I’m saying you idiot! (usually too late when you hear this one!)
• “We need to talk”
  • I need to complain
  • I’m breaking up with you
• “I’m not your maid”
  • I’m pissed about something else that you did.
  • Your files are a mess, but my clothes/purses/shoes belong on the floor so I can see them all.
  • I started doing the laundry, but you need to finish it.
• “I’m not your dish-bitch”
  • You cook, you clean the dishes. I cook, you still clean the dishes. Domino’s cooks, you clean the dishes yet?
• “Let’s do it together”
  • You do it, then I’ll jump in toward the end and take credit.
• “I’m sorry”
  • But not as sorry as you will be.

Happy September everybody! I’m sick of not having business cards, so I visited VistaPrint.com and made some decent ones until I get my metal die-cut cards. The logo, “BEST ODDS CORP” and the bottom part where it’s shiny is actually all going to be made of foil. Can’t wait to get them!

So I’ve been pondering over what kind of business cards I am going to get. I don’t really want anything too closely tied to my businesses, perhaps a link to one site that links out to them all…

Anyways, with the wide selection of business cards available today, I am considering getting 500 to 1000 double sided glossy cards to give all the John Doe’s that I meet in the poker room or on the street. However, I’m also planning on cooking something extra special up for my close friends and important business contacts… METAL.

Yes, I’ve done a search for “metal business cards” on the net and have come up with some pretty sweet designs. Most companies give the option of die-cutting, embossing, scratching, adding color, etc. I’m not 100% sure what I’m going to do quite yet, but the letter “D” certainly resembles a blackjack table… dealer on the left and players on the right…

A couple sweet examples:

• http://www.luckow.com/clients/woz/images/WOZMetalProof.jpg
• http://www.mcloonebusinesscards.com/
• http://www.metalcards.com/metalcards/index.html
• http://www.plasmadesign.co.uk/metalbusinesscards.htm

I got to the Rio at about 11:45 and I’m still standing in line at 1:05. Apparently, there have been major computer and registration problems in the tournament registration office. Things are going very slow right now and I’m typing this as I’m standing in line.

The tournament directors told us about the problem about 30 minutes ago, and think that they are able to fix it by adding a 30 minute break after level 1. Most of us in the tournament registration room think that this is bullshit. However, after voicing our concern about the halving of the value of our chips, one of the directors simply responding by saying “You don’t have to play.”

Why couldn’t they just stop level 1 right where it was? You’re effectively cutting our chip values in half by making everybody (probably a thousand people) start at level 2 with 50/100 blinds. If we wanted to play with this little amount of chips, we would have bought into a $750 tournament somewhere and not put up with this bullshit.

I know one thing, I’m not tipping anybody once I win this thing. No professional service operator, especially a pit boss or a tournament director, should treat their valuable clients like this. If anybody who reads this is playing in the World Series of Poker, be careful about who you tip. All these people care about is the money, and once it’s gone, they are just going to move on to the next whale.

I decided to play a little bit lower stakes due to the cold decks I’ve been running into lately. I’m gonna make this one short and sweet. I started playing the nightly event at 7:00pm and there were 271 entrants. After over 8 hours of perfect poker, I had half of an average stack and found KJ on the small blind. The button (big stack) made a raise to 3BB and I thought he was simply using his muscle to take our chips so I raised him all-in for a total of a little less than 10BB. The big blind folded and the big stack called and unfortuately turned over AKo, beating me with Ace high and knocking me out.

I placed 28th in the tournament, 27 places paid.

Sure, it may have been a common tournament mistake to make, playing against the big stack near making the money. However, I considered the $368 prize to be minimal compared to making the final table. Also, at the beginning of the hand, the tournament clock showed 34 remaining players, not 29 so I had considered the fact that I may have to push my stack to make any decent money anyways.

So I had another disappointing tournament today… at least this one didn’t take 13 hours to realize that I wasn’t going to win something.

We each started with $6,000 in chips. After blinding and calling down to about $5500 I was able to double up. I had AKo in early-middle position and was at a very aggressive table. I smooth called hoping to backraise a player trying to squeeze the pot. The blinds were $100/$200 and there were 4 more callers behind me, building the pot to $1300 in blinds alone. This was odd though, that so many people would call without raising. As expected, the button raised and made it $1000 more to call. Nobody between us called and I reraised him $3000 chips more. My opponent reraised me all-in and I quickly called. He showed QQ and I spiked a King on the flop, knocking him out of the tournament.

It was all downhill after that. I was getting decent cards, but nothing seemed to hit me. I would get A10o, see an ace on the flop, and my opponent would have AJo. I once had AQs missed a flop of K86 men’s warehouse and another hand I had 99 with a flop of KQQ. I couldn’t hit anything whatsoever!

My final hand was pretty bad too. I could have played it differently and won, but the way it went down was disgusting anyways. I had 22 in middle position and the blinds were $100/$200 with a $25 ante. I raised to $700 preflop and the flop came 689 all differnet suits. My opponent checked to me and I bet $700 once again. He came over the top for $1500 more and I moved all in for another thousand. He made a crying call and won with 44.

Anyways, I’ll get a bit luckier one of these days and hopefully catch something that will bring my chips to the level in which they need to be. It’s just so difficult keeping a chiplead with flops like these.