Luck and Scotch and a Joke

We'll go with the Scotch first. My parents are coming up next week to celebrate the holidays after the fact with our family and my dad likes him a good bottle of scotch. He's a fan of Dewar's, but after a conversation with my sister, she mentioned he would like Johnny Walker's. I've never seen him drink that and was assuming that Dewar's is a better brand. But what do I know? So for the scotch drinkers out there, can you recommend a decent brand? I'm thinking in the $35-50/bottle price range.

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Now, off to the luck. Yesterday's tournament had its share of lucky moments for me. I won two races, both to eliminate the UpForPoker crew. The first was ye-olde classic QQ vs AK race, all-in pre-flop between me and G-Rob. Sadly he flopped his set on a QJx board. The K on the turn was a bit meaningless, and yes, when the 10 hit the river, I did feel a bit bad. I had G-Rob outchipped by a 4x factor so I re-raised his initial raise to isolate him and get him all-in. The strategy worked and I got a little lucky.

The second race I won was when Otis had to open push for T1700 with the blinds at 250/500. I was the big blind, found pocket 2's and called. I won the race against his JTs.

Now, winning races isn't that big of a deal, we all know that you have to win them in tournaments to do well. Had I lost either, I would still have had plenty of chips in each occasion, but obviously extra chips and eliminating those two guys is fortuitous.

The luckiest hand for me was when we were 4-handed. The blinds were 1000/2000 and I had about T12,000. I was the button and shoveled with Q3o. Falstaff woke up with pocket 8's and made the easy call. "I have an over," I said. "Just one?" he replied. The flop came 737 and I had a small breath of life. The turn boated me up with another 3 and I dodged the two remaining 8's on the river to stay alive. That was lucky.

The last bit of luck was when we were 3-handed. I limped from the SB with 64 of hearts and Falstaff checked his option. The flop came K73, with two hearts. I led, he pushed, and I called. He had middle pair with 74 and I had 12-outs twice. I hit a 5 on the turn to take it down and effectively eliminate Falstaff in 3rd.

I avoided getting unlucky all day, which is nice when you're hosting a tournament at your own house.

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And lastly, a joke. This joke is FAR better told by Teddy Ballgame, and I'll most likely fail to do it justice. But here goes anyway.

Young Johnny late one night wanders into his parents room when he stumbles upon his dad and mom going at it. His dad has his mom bent over the bed and is really, as Teddy would say, pouring it to her. Dad gives young Johnny a wink and a smile and continues on.

After his dad is finished up, he goes looking for Johnny to check in on him. When he opens up the door to Johnny's bedroom, he sees Johnny giving it to Grandma, bending her over a chair and really pouring it to her.

The dad yells "Johnny, what the hell are you doing?"

Johnny replies, "Oh sure, it's only a problem when it's your mother, huh?"