Christ Embassy
I was accosted last weekend outside McDonalds by some happy religious people with balloons, who thrust some literature into my hands before I could escape.
Since I had no newspaper I decided to read it over my Big Mac, and Pastor Chris’ words were deeply inspiring although seeming about as feasible as Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck drilling a hole in that meteor in Armageddon.
Pastor Chris takes up the action:
“I was in Geneva last summer, and was a little slow noticing that the green man had lit up at the traffic crossing. As a wandered across the road, the man turned red, and all of a sudden I had a row of cars bearing down on me at breakneck speed. I was terrified, as were the dozens of onlookers. I yelled “Stop” not in my position as a terrified pedestrian, but in my position as an Agent of Christ. The cars screeched to a halt, one of the bumpers stopping millimetres from my legs. I breathed a huge sigh of relief, safe in the knowledge that my beliefs can stop car engines.”
Friday saw a visit to The Racist for a home game - I missed out cashing in both tournaments in pretty standard spots, shoving a flush draw with a perfect stack size, and losing AK v 77 all in preflop when I had a bit of fold equity. I broke pretty much level in the cash game afterwards.
I dipped my toe into the online tournament waters for the first time in a while last night. I immediately suffered a succession of coolers so things didn’t look promising:
- Lost first hand of one event with set under set
- Flopped JT flush, but board paired and lost to full house
- Check raised all in on AT76 board with AT and lost to 777
- Flopped 678 holding 45 and ran into 9T
Things began to turn around later in the night though. I had a small cash in the PS 10pm event for $83 and then had a very strong run in the Full Tilt $30 rebuy. I won a series of races, and also won a K2 v QQ all in preflop when I shoved in the SB when short on chips, to get into a strong position for the final table.
We had 7 runners left - $1k prize for 7th and a juicy $8k prize for first. Everyone had 8-25 BBs by the end, and a small stack shoved his 10BB in and I found 88 in the BB. I made the call for what was the chip lead and was up against 77. Flop was 6,5,J. I yelled “Stop”, not in my position as a 90% favourite but in my position as an Agent of Christ. The turn was a 7 and that was that, and I busted out soon afterwards.
The Christ Embassy - can stop car engines but not 2 outers it seems :(