Some kind of fun going on here! First and foremost, it’s Friday. Yes…to the rest of the world it’s Friday but it’s also my Friday. I’m so damn glad. Needless to say there are times when the five day work week just speeds by but other times I feel as if I worked five years in the space of a week. That’s the way it has felt the last few weeks…terminal.

The next thing that makes me very, very happy, is the new server that houses PokerWorks.Com is running quite well. No down time that I know of and I’m thanking A. DePinto at Idmi.Net for that. He has helped me with everything I needed…and I didn’t have to wait or hang out on the phone on hold. Happiness!

Next on my ‘happy list’ is the Blog is going to be up and running in full force with archives and everything in the next few days. It is running now but I’m working on transferring some old pages…time permitting. I have to thank Graham at Blogger.com for taking a little extra time and helping me resolve a few issues that were driving me crazy. Sweet! I sent him an email and told him I loved him! Pshaw…hope I didn’t embarrass him.

Poker Time: My Colorado buddy, Jim, is back in town. Probably for a month or so and he’s getting ripped, shredded, killed, eaten alive at the tables. He’s funny as hell and could be the perfect candidate for a sitcom, supplying his own lines in rapid fire as he rapidly fires chips into the pot.

He was in the 10s of a $15-$30 Holdem game a few nights ago. We were chitty-chatting as the action flew, mostly because he made it fly, and I said, “I want to quit my job.”

As he threw more chips in the pot, he said, “I thought the same thing, now I think I need to look for another one.”

We both laughed. We have the uncanny mental tie that brings us both to the same spontaneous thought and we ending up laughing our butts off. I told him once that people would think I was laughing at them while I was dealing to them, his reply was, “I am laughing at them.”

We had a drink after I hit the Time Clock and he was done having his daily beating at the $30-$60 game. We spent a little bit of time talking about the concept of ‘running bad’. That statement comes up frequently at the tables. If a good player is losing, it’s because they’re running bad. If a bad player is losing, it’s because they play bad. We both agreed that someone is always running bad for someone else to win. Hey, you don’t have to agree but that’s the way it is, someone that plays bad doesn’t necessarily have to lose every time they put money in a pot…they can be running bad also. The phrase seems to get kicked around as if it is the only reason a good player would lose.

Our conversation went to the fact that when most people run bad, their play is also at question because a long run of losses can affect the way you play a hand. Running bad and playing bad seem to go hand in hand.

We talked about knowing where you’re at with the game and being able to walk away from it loser and also knowing when to drop down a limit instead of beating yourself and moving up a limit. That is exactly what Jim did a couple of times in the last few days, even though he knows better. I didn’t have to point it out to him. He brought it up.

His style of play makes everyone think that he always raises or climbs into the pot with nothing…it ain’t so. Remember the saying, “Sometimes you have to give the dummy credit for having a hand”? Be careful when you mix it up with him…I would be and I’m his pal.