Dream

So last night I had my first poker dream of the season. I was sitting in seat 3 or seat 4 and I had 49o. The flop came out 994. I end up going all-in on the river heads up against the girl in seat 7. She calls the bet (I think she had AQ and there was an ace on the turn.) After it is shown that I have the best hand she points out that I was covering my cards illegally. The dealer calls the floor and he rules that she is to be given the pot. (I don't know what I was doing for some reason I had a cover chip and they were slightly fanned or not fanned or I don't know. Whatever it was there is no such rule, and it made no sense. However, in the dream the rule somehow existed and I just didn't know it.)

Also there was another female in seat 10 (who I think was also a dealer, but was playing this game) and she had discreetly signaled to her to look at my illegal card covering. This made the girl in seat 8 aware of it and then pointed it out.

I go ballistic. I call the floor. I'm arguing with the floor but to no avail. Then I'm pleading that we split the pot. I take my plea to the floor first and then when it is clear that it won't be ruled in my favor I go directly to the abusive culprit in seat 8 and I ask her to be reasonable and give me half of the pot. She refuses to share the pot with me in any way. (During all this I was also asking the people involved to explain the rule to me, because clearly I was ignorant and didn't understand it. This was sincere gesture on my part as I wanted to understand my offense even though simultaneously I thought the offense was ridiculous.)

But after when I'm arguing with her about the pot she ends up coming on to me. We kiss. We make plans to both leave the game and go back to my house. Despite this interaction she refuses to share any of the pot with me. (And I had the best hand damn it.)

Who wants to interpret this one?

Dating Advice

I was chatting on-line with a girl last week and she was about to go out on a first date with a guy and she was asking me for some dating advice. After an extensive conversation she summarizes my thoughts and says, "Basically, look good, be myself, and have low expectations."

Yep. I think that was a pretty good summary. Maybe I should start charging for this stuff.

Poker Tour

So I'm less than one week into playing poker. So far in four days at the tables I have had a positive return at the cash games each day. I didn't place in the only tournament I've played. Overall, it has been going well. I feel like I'm playing better as the week has gone by. Also, having one drunk guy and a couple bad players in the game tonight helped. I'm not sure how many poker stories I will post here, because I'm not sure even the small audience I have here would be interested. However, I will share a couple stories that I think would be interesting to the general populace.

Wish me luck at the tables.

Or Matt Damon's character would say something more like tell me to play well and stay focused.

Or something like that.

My Students

I was talking to a couple of my former students and said casually that it would be fun to teach at the high school next year, and if I did I would want to teach sophomore AVID. Then I got a couple e-mails from students that said, "I heard your teaching sophomore AVID at Rosemont next year."

I told one girl, who is a current sophomore, that it probably wasn't really going to happen.

She added, "I would get held back just to take that class."

Math in the Workforce

On a recent assignment involving vocational discovery on of my students included the following line in her paper:

I can't think of not one job that doesn't require math.

Me neither.