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  • Jun. 19th, 2006 at 5:07 PM
Oooh yeah!
vespa59
Final hand of a tournament I just finished. Redemption!

PokerStars Game #5303737065: Tournament #26724695, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2006/06/19 - 19:37:32 (ET)
Table '26724695 2' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: vespa59 (20415 in chips)
Seat 3: louvall16 (20085 in chips)
vespa59: posts the ante 50
louvall16: posts the ante 50
louvall16: posts small blind 400
vespa59: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to vespa59 [As Qc]
louvall16: raises 3200 to 4000
vespa59: raises 5600 to 9600
louvall16: raises 5600 to 15200
vespa59: raises 5165 to 20365 and is all-in
louvall16: calls 4835 and is all-in
vespa59 said, "gl"
*** FLOP *** [Qh 2c 2s]
vespa59 said, ":)"
*** TURN *** [Qh 2c 2s] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [Qh 2c 2s Qd] [Ah]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
vespa59: shows [As Qc] (a full house, Queens full of Aces)
louvall16: shows [Td Th] (two pair, Queens and Tens)
vespa59 collected 40170 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 40170 | Rake 0
Board [Qh 2c 2s Qd Ah]
Seat 1: vespa59 (big blind) showed [As Qc] and won (40170) with a full house, Queens full of Aces
Seat 3: louvall16 (button) (small blind) showed [Td Th] and lost with two pair, Queens and Tens

Comments

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purple_b
Jun. 20th, 2006 01:37 am (UTC)
did you win any real money?
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vespa59
Jun. 20th, 2006 06:18 am (UTC)
That one was $50 for my $5 buy in
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hotcrab
Jun. 20th, 2006 04:56 am (UTC)
was there real money in that?
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vespa59
Jun. 20th, 2006 06:18 am (UTC)
See above comment.
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thedeadfisharmy
Jun. 22nd, 2006 07:46 pm (UTC)
Hehe, okay, totally unrelated comment it is!

Why do you have three high schools over the same set of four years? It just sort of seemed to suggest an interesting story.
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vespa59
Jun. 22nd, 2006 08:51 pm (UTC)
My family moved to Florida after my freshman year. Florida turned out to be a place we didn't want to stay, so a year later, we moved to Arizona.
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vespa59
Jun. 22nd, 2006 08:51 pm (UTC)
Also, great icon!
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thedeadfisharmy
Jun. 22nd, 2006 09:44 pm (UTC)
Thanks! So, you weren't actually going to three high schools in different corners of the country all at the same time? Well, that's not nearly as exciting!

Anyway, I happen to be considering a move to Phoenix and harbor a secret desire to retire to Ocean City, so the collection of schools leapt out at me.
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vespa59
Jun. 22nd, 2006 10:13 pm (UTC)
I am quite the jetsetter, but not in those days.

I urge you to reconsider your move to Phoenix. Wherever you live now is a better place, I'm almost positive.

Ocean City, on the other hand, is great. It's a dry town, though.
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thedeadfisharmy
Jun. 22nd, 2006 10:34 pm (UTC)
It may be better, but I'm going broke living here. I'm around Boston now, and maybe in a perfect world it would be Portland (either ME or OR, each has its appeal), Seattle, or even back to the outskirts of Philly where I lived when I fell in love with Ocean City. However, my fiancée and I are looking for places where the cost of living is lower and they a). need High School English teachers, b). need web monkeys, and c). have Trader Joe's. This last one is a little less comulsory, but I've run my financial ass into the ground in the past year while she tried to find a school system willing to hire someone with no experience. I need time to recover, or at least my credit rating does.

My mom and brother live in PHX right now and I've been to visit at some of those "perfect" times when you're going from totally crappy, cold weather to seventies and eighties, so my first hand experience is a little skewed, but it seems like it would be a livable place.

Seriously, though, I'm open to any advice or caveats about the move, so if you have any, fire away.
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vespa59
Jun. 22nd, 2006 10:42 pm (UTC)
I hear you. I lived in Phoenix for 10 years and I can tell you that if you have any need to live somewhere with a sense of culture and history, then Phoenix will suck your soul dry. Plus - and I'm sure you're aware of this - it's fucking hot. It's stupid hot. There are days when it's pretty much too hot to do anything. I don't care for that one bit.

If you must move to Arizona, I recommend checking in to Tucson. It's still hot, but it feels more like a hometown, as opposed to Phoenix, which feels like it just wants to be L.A. Also, Tucson is crazy cheap to live in, so you can get outta the financial hole and look to the future.

Good luck!
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