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TGIF.

Why you shouldn't ever ask for help on the internet.

I've been remiss in congratulating one of the all-time great poker blogs, UpForPoker, on their five year blog anniversary. Damn. Five years.

And Otis went and did his part by posting his five most memorable hands against poker bloggers. Per always, superb stuff and not just because I managed to make the list.

Five years. I'm shaking my head in amazement.

There's arguably noone more long suffering than us Bengals fans. OK OK, you Lions fans are right there, but it's still just semantics.

But at least we have these little distractions....

Chad Ocho Cinco is learning just how powerful the NFL's merchandising contracts are.

What's in a name? Money.

I present:

Skinny Black Guy Getting Knocked Around By A Woman

The cop car driving by is an added bonus.



If you didn't like that, please watch this video. And then you're going to feel a powerful, overwhelming need to buy an ottoman.

Interesting.

US Presidential Election Win Market Betting Odds

No poker this weekend. Hit the links today and spent the day yesterday with the wife and dogs driving around in the boonies to visit ancient Indian burial grounds.

We ended it up heading to Serpent Mound, the largest and finest serpent effigy in the world. Nearly a quarter of a mile long, Serpent Mound apparently represents an uncoiling snake. Wikipedia has a pretty solid explanation of it all, including the fact that the damn thing was built so that the head of the serpent is aligned to the summer solstice sunset and the coils also point to the winter solstice and equinox sunrise.

Who knew?

Back to poker: I'm almost caught up on my WSOP ESPN episodes. No sign of Peter Eastgate yet.