More rain again last night. All the rain we’ve had has made the mosquitoes particularly bad this year. There were two or three swarms hanging out just off the end of our deck last night, which made going to the shed to retrieve William’s bike an adventure. I hate mosquitoes (not that I think it needs to be said - nobody really likes mosquitoes, do they? — update - I did a search for “love mosquitoes” and the only positive things on the first page were about some band or something)

Anyway, I’ve played a little poker over the last couple of days after not playing for a while, and saw an incredible display of pure luck. Free tournament, so keep in mind that some people play like turnips.

Prior to the first hand (I’m on the button - lucky me), the guy sitting to my right announces that he’s going all in on the first hand. About half the table tried to limp in, and true to his word, he goes all in. he winds up with two callers - AQo and KJs, when he’s got 10-3o. Amazingly, he hits a ten high flush and triples up. Next hand, he goes all in again, and took out another person with a lucky straight. Then he calmed down a bit. Three or four hands later, he goes all in again, this time with something stupid like 8-3, and manages to win again with trip 3’s. I saw this guy go all in with crap like that no less than 8 times, and he sucked out every time. Then we get to the final table (I was very glad to have been on his left, so as to be able to avoid his shenanigans) and he goes all in on the first hand - called by a relatively big stack that hasn’t seen him play, and gets beaten. He’s still got a bunch of chips, and goes all in the next hand, called by the same person, and goes home. The irony is that the two hands he got beat out on, he had the stronger hand going in - ace high both times vs. non paired hands. It had me laughing the whole time, cause I could call the river card before it turned up (he usually had 4 outs or something, and always managed to hit it.) I’d have thought there was something fishy, but he didn’t finish in the money, so clearly it was just luck, and no nefarious activity (besides, it’s a play money site, what’s to gain?)

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Bees are on the what now?” - Homer