I've had sleep issues for a long time now, though recently it feels like it's been worse than normal. Either I'm awake and feel fatigued/tired, or I try to sleep and then my body denies me from doing so for longer than 3-4 hours. Today I slept from about 12:30 to 4:45 in the morning, and I think I'm going to try to tough it out until a reasonable bed time tonight. The crappy sleep schedule lately and not feeling 100% physically because of it, in addition to me recently being on a small downer in the poker games, has made me not play too many hands the past 5ish days. I'm hoping to wait this out more and hopefully get better rest, and then go back to crushing the games.

This weekend I saw Charlie Wilson's War and thought it was really good, though I'm fairly liberal and I think liberals would be more likely to leave the movie feeling that way. One question I do have though is: what is the real truth regarding American/Afghanista/Soviet relations in the 80s. I seem to recall learning in history classes a slightly different version of the events portrayed in the movie. The version of history I learned portrayed America as for a long time giving the mujaheden just enough help so that they could somewhat stave off the Soviets, with the basic goal of our foreign policy being one which hoped those two sides would pound eachother as long as possible without either side gaining ground. This movie seems to not be nearly as bleak, and presents our efforts as one that went from minimalist, to exceptional.

This morning while lying awake in bed, I watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for the first time. Awesome movie, though I'm angry I have no recourse against Best Buy... I bought it on dvd maybe a month ago or so, and when I opened the box noticed that the DVD had been sliding around a lot in it... So anyway, this morning while watching, in two different scenes the movie stopped working because of (likely) a scratched disc.

During the Packers/Giants football game, I did play a session and won $3600 total during it. I'm happy with this because I feel like I was on the bad end of a lot of coolers/beats, and rarely on the good end.

Here is 1 hand (cooler) where I wonder if I could've saved a bet or not called on the river:

bzaf: posts small blind $100
B00mslang: posts big blind $200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PapaWarbucks [8c Jc]
valesco: folds
PapaWarbucks: raises $200 to $400
bzaf: calls $300
B00mslang: calls $200
*** FLOP *** [6d 5c Tc]
bzaf: checks
B00mslang: checks
PapaWarbucks: bets $200
bzaf: calls $200
B00mslang: calls $200
*** TURN *** [6d 5c Tc] [7c]
bzaf: checks
B00mslang: checks
PapaWarbucks: bets $400
bzaf: raises $400 to $800
B00mslang: raises $400 to $1200
PapaWarbucks: raises $400 to $1600
Betting is capped
bzaf: folds
B00mslang: calls $400
*** RIVER *** [6d 5c Tc 7c] [Ac]
B00mslang: bets $400
PapaWarbucks: calls $400
*** SHOW DOWN ***
B00mslang: shows [Kc 2c] (a flush, Ace high)
PapaWarbucks: mucks hand
B00mslang collected $6595 from pot

Here is another hand (beat) that looks kind of fishy, but I have reasons for how I played it and am very happy with my choices:

pblader100: posts small blind $100
B00mslang: posts big blind $200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PapaWarbucks [Qh As]
ScHnibL0r: raises $200 to $400
PapaWarbucks: raises $200 to $600
tiger76: folds
pblader100: folds
B00mslang: folds
ScHnibL0r: calls $200
*** FLOP *** [9c 6h Ac]
ScHnibL0r: checks
PapaWarbucks: bets $200
ScHnibL0r: calls $200
*** TURN *** [9c 6h Ac] [9h]
ScHnibL0r: checks
PapaWarbucks: checks
*** RIVER *** [9c 6h Ac 9h] [2c]
ScHnibL0r: bets $400
PapaWarbucks: calls $400
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ScHnibL0r: shows [9d Qd] (three of a kind, Nines)
PapaWarbucks: mucks hand
ScHnibL0r collected $2695 from pot

Finally, here's a hand where you just have to grit your teeth and raise on the turn because it's a big pot, even though you don't really expect your hand to be good a huge percentage of the time. Also, I wonder if I should've bet the river. I didn't because I'm not too familiar with lester_x yet, and was not sure if 88 or 99 would be in his preflop capping range there. If I knew they weren't, I would've bet the river because then AK becomes a lot more likely. I would not recommend most players to make this preflop call, too:

lester_x: posts small blind $100
PapaWarbucks: posts big blind $200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PapaWarbucks [7d 7s]
count209: calls $200
B00mslang: raises $200 to $400
aXeroX: raises $200 to $600
ScHnibL0r: folds
lester_x: raises $200 to $800
Betting is capped
PapaWarbucks: calls $600
count209: calls $600
B00mslang: calls $400
aXeroX: calls $200
*** FLOP *** [Tc 3c 2h]
lester_x: bets $200
PapaWarbucks: calls $200
count209: folds
B00mslang: calls $200
aXeroX: calls $200
*** TURN *** [Tc 3c 2h] [5h]
lester_x: bets $400
PapaWarbucks: raises $400 to $800
B00mslang: folds
aXeroX: folds
lester_x: calls $400
*** RIVER *** [Tc 3c 2h 5h] [5c]
lester_x: checks
PapaWarbucks: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
lester_x: shows [Ah Ks] (a pair of Fives)
PapaWarbucks: shows [7d 7s] (two pair, Sevens and Fives)
PapaWarbucks collected $6395 from pot