Luck...

... is truly a fickle, fickle mistress. Yesterday was one of the weirdest luck days I've had in a while. I tempted her before the AFL Grand Final when asked if I wanted to bet on Sydney winning. I stated that I believed the Weagles would win by about 20 points so betting on them would be silly. However while my head was telling me that the Weagles would win there was no way in hell my heart wanted that to happen. I hate the Weagles... so what did I do? Yup I foolishly threw a 10'er on the team I thought would lose. Lady luck didn't let me get away with that although it was an absolute thriller!!

Then later when Benny, Brad, Dunc & I returned to my place to play some poker I saw some of the worst luck I have ever seen. On a consistent, and repeated basis too. I was in two big hands that first weakened me, and then knocked me out. In both hands when the big bets went in, both times my opposition went "all in" on me, my hand was dominating theirs... both times I lost, once on the river, once on the turn. Brad also got knocked out, I believe on the river, after dominating the hand when betting had stopped, i.e. he had gone "all in". Dunc & Benny then proceeded to play heads up poker for about 45 minutes where the lead kept changing hands and on at least 4 ocassions someone went "all in" when being dominated and got away with it. It was about 00:30 when the table was finally over after seeing me declare, the hand before, that "if that (a dominated hand winning saving someone from defeat) happens again you are all getting ejected from the Mick Casino". Thankfully Lady Luck was as tired as we all were and granted Benny victory.

As I said at the start, luck is a fickle thing.