Damn, we have...
Damn, we have rounded the corner and headed down the stretch to the end of ’18 and we just have a few or so more SBI Saturdays to get this year behind us and stick a fork in it. Oh wait, we did stick a fork in it already and that didn’t work very well if I recall. Today is the first day of the last month and I look forward to seeing this year gone.
Until then though...
Until then though we have some things to take care and one of those are making sure each Saturday the Daily Dose gives away some shares of SBI . We will get to that in a moment but first I have a story that I want to share. I just found out on Friday that one guy that worked for the company I currently work for spend time in prison for a murder.
It turned out...
It turned out that him and two other guys were running a black market blue jean sales operation while they were in the US Air Force and one guy decided he had enough and was going to turn himself and the other two guys into the law enforcement officials.
Well, those two...
Well, those two guys didn’t like what they were hearing so they buried an ax in the guy’s head and then dismembered his body and burned it in a 55 gallon steel drum.
I am not sure...
I am not sure exactly how they got caught but it ended up that the guy who formerly worked at our company plead guilty to second degree murder and was the key witness for the conviction of his partner in the crime.
I had only...
I only had met Mr. Ax-man a couple times and never did have the opportunity to work beside him, thank God for that. But my question is just how in the hell did the HR manager end up hiring this guy?
The company has...
The company has a rule that says no fire arms can be brought onto the property at our locations but I have never seen any rule against axes; so the HR lady put all the rest of the employees at risk by not allowing us to have ourselves armed and protected, yet his weapon of choice wasn’t banned.
The good news is he never hurt anyone that I know of at work and he did quit on his own so chances are he won’t be coming back to settle any scores with anyone, or least it wouldn’t seem like he would.
I know people...
I know people can change but anyone who can even imagine killing someone and then following through with it is not one I would want to take a chance on hiring.
I would like to think the lady in HR would feel the same way. Either she doesn’t or she flat blew it when she hired this guy and didn’t do the criminal background check as she was supposed to do.
A couple of us...
A couple of us were talking on Friday about former employees and where they may have gone to work and this guy’s name came up. When I heard the story I had to google it, and it was right there to be found. I didn’t conduct a full blown criminal background check, so how one of those criminal background checks could have missed it is beyond me.
I need to make a note to myself if I end up staying here much longer to always at least google search new hires names and see what comes up from the bowels of the internet. Have you ever worked with a convicted murderer or had one working where you work?
Speaking of murder...
Speaking of murder, I have been killing it at the Steem Poker League poker game the last couple of nights.
Friday night was the Curie sponsored $20 SBD tournament and coming fresh off of my win on Thursday evening I just wasn’t “feeling it”, if you know what I mean. The tournament pays four places and with five players left in the tournament I was the short stack meaning I had the least amount of poker chips of the five players.
It was a long...
It was a long hard fought battle with several lead changes taking place between the other four players and I just kept plugging along until there were just three of us left.
I hit a couple good hands and took lead by taking out one of the two other players when he went all in. That left me and a guy named Chops to battle it out for the win and the $9 SBD first place prize.
It was funny that the third place guy had mentioned that we just couldn’t kill Chops and get him gone. He was like a cat with nine lives and would hit whatever card he needed at just the right moment to stay in the game.
At one point...
At one point in our heads up battle for the win, and just after losing a big pot to Chops, I messaged him that he deserved to win. I was pretty tired and needed to get this Daily Dose done so I was about to just give up and concede the win by going all in on junk cards and letting him know I was going to do it. He messaged me back saying he really didn’t deserve to win, he had just been lucky.
Well, being lucky...
Well, being lucky is a part of poker, despite what anyone tries to tell you. The problem with most amateur poker players is that they rely on luck and you just can’t be lucky all the time.
Don’t get me wrong here; I am not saying Chops relies on luck; he is a good poker player and if I had to lose to someone I would rather it be him. He doesn’t play junk cards and he makes bets that are in line with the value of the cards he is holding for the most part.
Him telling me that he had just been lucky lit a fire with me and I started playing aggressively. We went back and forth exchanging the lead but in the end; I ended up taking him out and winning the tournament.
When I get in...
When I get in a poker tournament I have one thing in mind and it isn’t winning the tournament. That one thing is to be around long enough to get a piece of the prize purse. With most of these tournaments only paying four places you have to play differently than in a tournament that pays all nine players who make it to the final table.
Being a disciplined...
Being a disciplined poker player is something I take pride in and it isn’t as easy as you might think it would be. Emotions run high in poker games and like the old song says, “you got to know when to hold’em and know when to fold’em”. You can’t let emotions get in the way of making good decisions. (That is also a good life lesson too.)
I probably need to...
I probably need to stop right here on giving poker advice in case some of you decide to come join us over at the Steem Poker League. I would hate to think that some advice I might give you would end up benefiting you and also be keeping me from catching a piece of the purse if you come play over there.
How about some SBI? Saturday SBI is being dealt out right now.
If you have any doubts about joining the Steem Poker League ask her what her opinion is, I am pretty sure she will tell you it is really fun and good poker is being played there.
Since I am...
Since I am in the poker spirit right now I am going to just keep going that direction with SBI winners and so that guy I mentioned earlier as Chops is actually 
I don’t chat much during poker games and it really wouldn’t do me very well to chat with Gene because he isn’t an English as a first language person and I am not sure where he is from, but jajajaja Gene.
That seems to be a phrase he uses often, jajajaja, and he explained it once to me but I’ll be damned if I can remember just what it meant now. It wasn’t anything bad though, I do know that, or at least he told me it wasn’t.
So this week...
So this week all the SBI winners have something to do with the poker games and I like that, poker is an important part of the SBI Saturday shares and it is good to include some of the poker members here at the Daily Dose.
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