as the world turns

the title refers to that shitty soap opera that's on at like 2 or 3(my usual wake up time) when i am usually playing cards on spring break....the show blows but bradburn and i usually get a kick out of the seriousness of all soap operas....anyways here's the last 4 days or so in review

tuesday- last day before break, finally....after school i went to zwirek's for an unfortuante 5 dollar game...before the game started we realized we had no chips so me zako and tom drove to their residence in bt to pick them up and id just like to mention that zack turned the radio up sooo loud for metallica's "for whom the bell tolls"(honourable mention there zack, not that he cares lol)...the game dragged and dragged on until three remained...i was gettin so hungry by 7 so i decided that giving my chips away to rodecker and some other kid that was there was better...so me bradburn and dan went to princess and got food....then of course senora and like 20 other ppl from spanish iv showed up and we bowled and had one great time...afterwards me and nichals gambled for awhile
wednesday- im not sure what i did on this day because all the days have mingled lately...oh wait yeah i do....justov's "birthday" party was today even though his bday was november...so i went over there for awhile then left to meet erin/sarah/mike at amf but of course they weren't there so i went to wendy's then to the galleria and chatted with them briefly....i then decided to return to justovs but it was a shitty time w/ little to no drinking....arg
thursday- more online poker but today me/bradburn met bethanne, her sister, and her friends at shb for a good time.....afterwards i rested for awhile then watched part of the oc before going to playmor for bowlapaluzza(sp?)....this is where it really got interesting...i had 8 strikes in a row then f$%%ed it up for a 268 then the next game i had 10 strikes in a row then f@*$ed it up for a 286...wow i suck, i ended up shooting 799 for series....i got home and made it back somewhat on online poker
friday- woke up late again, bradburn came down, online poker, then poker at hrehas at 6...its soooo fun over there...the first game i won with pretty good play(up 80 bux) but i gave it to nichals to put us at like -120....in between a five dollar game i lost 4's vs j5 when ben caught a 5 on the turn...oh well....in between i just chilled and talked to everyone there and then the second ten dollar game started....i got up early to like 5500(started w/ 1500) yet i proceeded to double up kinger twice(i don't mind, he's taken quite a few similar beats by me in the past) and a final questionable beat against brennan knocked me out....after awhile i started a cash game where i played very badly and lost 20 right there...i rebought an hour later for 10 and on the last hand hit a 9 to rectangle(that's 4x!!!) up to give me like 21 and put me down 9 for the cash game...congrats to bradburn who's tight play allowed him to win the second game(of course the bigger one) and nick for being borderline gay(*shakes head)

its 3:52 and i want to play some more pokerstars but i know ill lose more so im gonna go to bed lol

until next time,
mh

now is the winter of our discontent

has anyone noticed how gloomy pittsburgh has looked lately? i haven’t updated in awhile so I guess I’ll do it now….basically I really don’t have a lot to say about my life recently…my online poker adventures are not going so great as I consistently(at least recently) keep getting outdrawn on the river when faggots hit their sets that they shouldn’t have even called with in the first place…whatever though....
this weekend in review

Friday- went bowling with some people from Spanish iv b/c the whole class is bowling on Tuesday….as the night progressed I started feeling very sick so I decided to stay home for the night…me nichals and gerner played online poker with them two getting the best of the deal and me owing nichals 114 total…at about 1130 I just passed out on the couch downstairs

Saturday- I woke at about 1015 downstairs in more or less of a daze…I still felt kinda shitty but that was no reason to not go bowling…I found that after have bowled on the sport shot at states I’m such a better bowler now….i shot 698 by simply hitting my mark every time and the only reason I didn’t shoot 7 was b/c of seven tenpins which i converted six of them…afterwards I layed around for awhile and got some things done and showered and headed over to zackos for poker with a new crew…I had never really played with those guys and didn’t really know what to expect…the game started at 745 and I was actually quite shocked at how they played…in general they all played similarly…they’d call quite a bit preflop and then ease up after the first three and would take quite awhile to make a decision on what to do…I didn’t mind this style of play but unfortunately with 75% of the chips and it being 1115 I had to run…o well, I got buyin+5 back…later that night I revisited the horrors of gambling after 1 am…I lost, ONCE AGAIN TO TWO RIVERED SETS WHERE I HIT THE F*CKING SET ON THE FLOP….i just went to bed at about 230 completely pissed about this….

Sunday- I had no real plans for today and I still wasn’t feeling great so I played in an Omaha tourney where I got crushed and a holdem tourney where I was chip leader for awhile…so this is the situation…im at about 35k chips and hold K10 in hand…flop comes K 10 4…I check, some guy bets and I call…next card is 5…I check, he bets, I raise allin and he calls…he holds KJ…and what a surprise the next card is…J! whatever that left me in a bad mood for three seconds and then I continued to watch college basketball until going to borders later to pick up some new reads and now am sitting here facing the fact of having to write a children’s book for tomorrow…wish me the best, I plan on trying to go the next two days(until spring break) with no sleep…

love, luck, and lollipops(this line is clearly stolen)
mh

think your world blows?

well the last week has been a not so great one....a quick rundown…so the week began really Tuesday with practice since I really don’t give a shit about school…it was the last practice ever for me so it was kind of sad to know that after this year all these people will be gone…a lot of people will ask how I survived the four years at Baldwin high school, and it’s a question that up until this year I would simply laugh and shake my head at…now when asked that question I respond with, “Where did the time go?”…anyways that was good and all….
Wednesday- nayhouse and I decided to go up to south hills for me to roll off and we let my brother come too…afterwards we went to get wendy’s which was good and this is about all I can recall from this day…
Thursday- nothing really exciting, last day I actually had to be in school though…who would have known though that the oc would have been as good as it was…*thanks the o.c. for making this week worth living….
Friday- woke up at 6 o clock and brushed teeth/got dressed and went and picked up bethanne, maura, and lauren and brought them back to my house b/c we had to drive them…today was states so we didn’t have to go to school(thank god, I’m about ready to kill my English teacher, Mr. Yount. That guy is pissing me off…seriously, me and ferg say one word in the library and he threatens to kick us out…ferg and I made a pact saying if he tells us that he has no problem with us working in the classroom then that’s where we’re f@cking going)…anyways the boys team event started at 9 am….TALK ABOUT HORROR….the hardest lane conditions I ever faced in my life brought us a 2401 and a 29th out of 38th after the first day…either way, im glad that the girls came b/c their cheering was much appreciated…ill comment on this later….second half of the day was filled with singles action…I really hate singles, because some people live for this event. If I could choose a time to throw a 600, it wouldn’t be here. Some kids are so f@cking individualistic it makes me sick…seriously, to get pi$$ed off in an event where it’s only you competing is just plain ridiculous…anyways I managed a 574 after a few flopped spares(at least I beat that so called “stud kid” john rahl if that’s worth anything)…by this time I was quite hungry so bradburn, jesse, brian, and I decide that eat n park is one hell of an option…we are seated in the front and notice an extremely hot girl walk by…we see her walk by again and go back to her boyfriend(the kid looked like a little girl) and we continued to see very hot women in the first five minutes of glancing…I decided that I was going to have a look around(I said I was going to the salad bar) for more hot women…so as I’m going up I hear someone yell “hartman” so I turn and it’s none other than…bethanne and four other members of the girls team(supposedly they were supposed to call us but decided to go straight from bowling to the eatnpark)….seriously what are the chances…after returning to our tables and bethanne calling my phone approxiametly 2500 times, we got our extremely tasty food, crushed it, and left…the girls asked where we were headed, so we decided on south hills bowl…only maura and lauren came though b/c bethanne is grounded for god knows what and the jessie’s elected not to come….anyways we’re 10 minutes into our first game of pool when jesse gets a call from his dad saying the roads are slick and we have to leave…touché to that, they were quite icy…but did this stop me from driving to Jefferson hills to try to get my poker fix? HELL NO!?! Bradburn and I arrived at immekus’ house at 8 and since I only told him I was coming, he had no chips set up for bradburn(he got in a ten buck side game later)….so I’m up and down and all over the place there…I’m playing what I consider to be the best poker that I’ve played in quite some time when we are five handed and chris lee and I are almost tied(I have a little more) for chip lead…I look down to see pocket 8’s…I raise, he calls…flop comes down 4D 5H 10H…I bet 800(attempting to defend my eights) and he calls…turn is 2D…we both check…river is 5D…I check, he bets 800….i have a read on his a$$ now, I know he has nothing(he does too) so I raise him cautiously to 1600, he moves allin, I call…he simply flips his cards over and walks away…just as I’m about to grab the pot, he turns over JD6D and without even realizing he has a flush, he is still in the game…I’m crippled b/c of a perfect read(how bullshit) and eventually lose the remainder of my chips to garner next end where my pkt 2’s get destroyed by his pkt 9’s…seriously, that might be the most disappointing moment in my poker career since losing the 1600…oh well, it’s all part of the giggles I suppose….on another note I’ve decreed that my obsession with hanging on to relationships that are over is now officially a cancelled policy…I suppose it stems from a lack of compassion from some, but whatever, I don’t really care to talk about it so if we all lay the matter to rest, it will be fine(I guess)…anyways, hopefully the rest of this weekend will bring us better luck than the first half….
-mh

a world of ups and downs(my life is a soap opera)

it's been probably two weeks since i updated....i guess it's that time

the last week has been night and day, heaven and hell…briefly to speak of…

monday – i felt kinda sick and with the two hour delay my dad just told me i could stay home from school…by the afternoon I felt better and went to work…not much else to speak of
tuesday – had I posted this earlier in the week I might have changed my opinion on what we did at practice…we shot 7’s and 10’s all day which I find now to be ridiculous b/c if you’re not shooting them on your own time then you’re wasting all of ours….as you may figure though, there is nothing good or bad, but thinking that makes it so.
wednesday- for whatever reason today I felt almost no pressure at all. It was the WPIBL Championship and since nobody really cares about bowling anyways, why should I feel pressure? Apparently the school loves us so much they gave us a bus that used to pick up mentally handicapped kids to drive to lanes an hour away. We arrived about an hour early but things didn’t get started until about 4 b/c of a major crash on rt. 28…the first game we shot very high(997) for the lane conditions, which just happened to be the hardest I’ve ever faced in my life. We went on to shoot 2647(176 avg.) and beat the second place team by 200 pins…we get the gold medals, rings, and championship trophy but in my eyes it was more important to actually do something that people before me have done….everyone’s always saying how great they are and how great their generations was, but maybe this will bring back some validity to ours
thursday- I decided instead of going to work I would go the girls’ championships. That turned out to be quite a good decision b/c although the girls finished 7th(great job!) out of 10, there was a tie for first place and a two frame rolloff resulting in an olsh victory…after the match jesse gave me a call and he and I went to south hills bowl to throw a few games and we saw brandon/chris hreha and rob marnik there, whom we proceeded to shoot pool with…after that I came home and just chilled
friday- I don’t really remember a lot of what happened in school on Friday, just that I was somewhat disappointed that we actually did work in European History…after school I went to work and became extremely pissed off that they were so disorganized that we got off 40 minutes late…anyways, after that I picked up erin and we saw boogeyman(sp?) which was surprisingly scary yet completely lacked a plot….so I get home and am informed by her that she wishes to be more of friends than anything….i guess that I’m a little mad b/c knowing that fourteen months age difference really doesn’t make much of a difference in the “real” world, but I suppose two grades does now…eh is about all I have to say to that, I guess it happens…perhaps a friendly relationship is for the best now…….
saturday- I was wakened at 9:11 by a call from work telling me that I was supposed to come in today(not on schedule) so I basically told them I’m not coming, and they said if I didn’t they would fire me, which I responded by saying whatever and hanging up the phone…in the morning I went to south hills for Saturday league and was pleasantly surprised to see us playing bradburn’s team…those are the guys that I used to hang out from travel league(before I was forced to quit)….in the first game I think there was still some tension about me kind of abandoning them during the first half of travel, but the choice wasn’t really mine….anyways, when they brought out the benches from the end of the alleys to pretend that was the crowd gallery that doesn’t exist, I had to laugh. I ended up doing very bad, something like 510 but it was fun so who cares…after that, I layed down for awhile and got a ride from my mom over to nick’s house to play cards…I started off the ten dollar game playing very badly and was faced with about 675 chips in front of me….i then proceeded to quadruple(or rectangle as garner likes to say) up off a multitude of people with pkt fours….as my chip stack grew, I realized I had to leave at 6:30 so it simply wasn’t going to work out…with three people left, and I having the shortest stack, I moved allin on a straight, but nick had flopped a full house…oh well…after that I attempted to make several calls but nobody was home, so I decided to get something to eat and was planning on returning to nick’s but I found out that I had to watch my brother because my parents were bowling that night…oh well….i watched about three hours of history channel(lol) and then talked to justov about possibly going to his house later(oh wait, I have to watch that damn brother of mine) so that didn’t work out…I guess when it rains it pours…..

a few side notes
- great job to the following people on Wednesday: pat with high series of 610, alan for leading us as always, jesse for being extremely consistent all day, brian for toughing out the lanes and coming up big in the third game, and bradburn and pj for cheering us on…and of course the whole coaching staff who has been there all year
- now the tougher one….erin, I can understand where you’re coming from…maybe we jumped into things too fast, maybe this, maybe that…I guess we’ll just have to see what happens…I still love you though ;-)
- this post has been very long so I apologize to anyone actually reading this

until next time,
matt