Slow Playing

No not that kind of slow playing. I mean playing slow. So I was at my regular Monday night game and I think there was 45 or so there. Most of them I have played with before at some point but there is always a couple different or new people. Anyways there was this new guy there. He said before we started that he had played a lot on the Internet in cash games at Fulltilt and Party Poker. I thought great. Its always nice to get new faces and really even if they haven't played much most of us are a patient bunch and will explain rules if someone does something that's not right. The way this guy talked it looked like he would fit in perfectly. uMMMMMMMM no. The cards were dealt and when it was his turn to act he would just stare at everybodys chips for like it seemed forever before he either bet or folded. At first I thought it was he wasn't sure what to do which is common for the Internet folks who haven't played live. On the Internet of course everything is basically down for you except clicking an option. Anyways after a few hands I could see other people getting frustrated so I said a couple times the action is on you. That didn't help. I can understand after the flop if you take time to make a decision occasionally or when you are making a decision which can cost you all or most of your chips but this was before the flop everytime. The thing was this guy was winning. Not with any degree of skill either he was just hitting the cards and rivered a couple people. He was still in last night after I got eliminated. It was going to be a long night with his chip stack unless someone took a huge pot from him. I know a lot of people made comments to me afterwords wishing he would speed up. It was literally putting me to sleep waiting for him to play.

Things didn't fall right for the Canucks last night either. Getting beat 7-5 is unbelievable. They had the lead like 3 times and gave it up. Who would have thought 7 goals would get by Luongo who many consider to be the best goalie in the league. So its to the golf course for them. They have some major decisions to make in the off season. Do they resign Ohlund and Sundin. Are the twins worth 6.5 million each with the current salary cap?? Luongo is going into his option year do they try and resign him or trade him?? I know he has a no trade clause in his contract but those can be waived by the player. Should be an interesting off season

Election day here in B. C. I don't think there will be much change in who gets elected if you listen to the election polls. The most interesting thing will be the referendum on changing how we count votes. The current system is what they call first past the post. You get the most votes in a riding you are elected. Now they want to bring in a system called the STV which stands for the single transferable vote. What it would do is allow parties who say got like 18% of the vote possibly get someone elected. You would vote for your first, second and third choices. The problem is most people (me included) don't fully understand it.
What happened a few years ago was one part got like 45% of the overall vote but elected 95% of the people. This new idea would not allow that to happen. Anyways I voted for change but I doubt very much if it will pass.