Waterpup  

Found this on Yahoo’s front page then it disappeared assumed it had to be on YouTube and Voila here it is again. Found it too awesome not to put up here, even if it’s for my own enjoyment.

In 1969 a young Australian, John Rendall and his friend Ace Bourke, bought a small lion cub from Harrods pet department, which was then legal. ‘Christian’ was kept in the basement of a furniture shop on the Kings Road in Chelsea, the heart of the swinging sixties. Loved by all, the affectionate cub ate in a local restaurant, played in a nearby graveyard, but was growing fast…

A chance encounter with Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna led to a new life for Christian. He came to live in a huge enclosure and to sleep in a caravan at their Surrey home. Then in 1971 he was flown to Kenya, his ancestral home, and returned to the wild by lion-man George Adamson. Nine months later in 1972, John and Ace returned to Kora in Kenya. This clip is of their reunion at that time.

It was an emotional reunion: “He ran towards us, threw himself onto us, knocked us over and hugged us, with his paws on our shoulders.”

John Rendall

Whale Of A Tuna: Could be World Record
Randy Toussaint brought his 22 anglers aboard Royal Star home with a very special load November 26. The fishermen had 12 tuna over 200 pounds caught on the Las Rocas trip of 11 days.

“They were the most enjoyable days of cow fishing I can remember,” said Randy. “It was calm as the harbor, and the fishing lasted from an hour after dawn to dark.”
A very special fish came on one of those days, a potential new IGFA record for 130-pound line class. The giant yellowfin weighed in at 381.1 pounds, and co-owner Tim Ekstrom hung it both by the head and the tail on the certified scales at Fisherman’s Landing for the same numbers. That would seem to make the mark needed to set a new record over Corky Yokoe’s 376-pound, six-ounce fish caught in 1996, if it’s approved by the IGFA.
“I’ve been fishing for about ten years,” said Dennis Williams, 49 and a Carlsbad Mercedes mechanic. “I had no idea this would happen. My best before was about 120 pounds.

“I had a nice bait,” he continues, “and I saw him roll on it. The guy next to me said it was on his bait, but it was my light that went tight. He went out, down, and back and forth. It was very hot and humid, and he came up on the stern and I heard a deckhand say ‘Oh, my God!’ before they started putting a bunch of gaffs in it. I’m gonna sign up again for next year!”

Williams baited a sardine on a 9/0 Eagle Claw circle hook on 100-pound blue Izorline with 130-pound Izorline Spectra backing. He used a Tiagra 50 LRS reel and a Calstar 760 M rod to beat the huge yellowfin in an hour and a half.
Asked about the gear and the event, skipper Toussaint said, “It’s the most IGFA eligible fish I’ve seen.”

Tom Kurata of Hawthorne had another giant at 308 pounds, good for second place. Jimmy Ramirez of Carlsbad won third place for a 290-pound tuna. All of the tuna were very rotund, as though they had been on the bank for some time, eating well.

“There were big fish blowing out all around us all the time,” said angler Steve Kimbrough of Huntington Beach. “The sign was incredible.” Bill Roecker asked skipper Toussaint if he thought the fleet would be able to get right back on the cows off southern Baja again after the Thanksgiving layover. “I think so,” said Randy, “We should be able to get right back on ‘em.”

Royal Polaris departed on the same day, November 26, and may monitor the tuna while the rest of the fleet rests over turkey day. Polaris Supreme is thought to have a 300-pounder aboard, and is scheduled to arrive at Fisherman’s Landing Saturday morning.

The Cow Catchers On Royal Star
Dennis Williams - 378
Tom Kurata - 308
Jimmy Ramirez - 290, 208
Butch Kuflak - 271
Glenn Evans - 265
Dale Kurata - 260
Steve Ong - 255
Steve Grove - 235
Peter Lupo - 227
Tom Walker - 225
Tom White Jr. – 203

Story stolen from  http://www.fishingvideos.com/

I copied this a long time ago from another site, wish I could remember which one as I would be happy to give them credit.

This brief poker strategy guide is aimed towards beginning players who know the rules of Texas Hold’em, but have little or no knowledge of actual poker strategy.  This guide is targeted towards those playing low limit poker.  No limit is an entirely different game and in my opinion, should only be approached after having mastered limit.  It’s much easier on the emotions to have a bad losing session of limit than it is to have one at no limit where you could potentially lose several buy-ins within an hour or less.

The starting hand chart is designed for the specific purpose of helping new players to  tighten up and not lose their poker bankrolls right off the bat.  If you follow the chart, you will play far less hands than you are probably used to.  This is intentional, as one of the purposes of the starting hand chart is to teach players to tighten up their play.  Many beginning or uninformed players play more than 75% of the hands dealt to them, and then become discouraged when they realize they’ve just blown $200 in one sitting.  Especially at the beginning, you should never play more than 30% of the hands dealt to you.  The chart is in some cases overly conservative and is meant to be used as a learning tool.  After you have studied and understand the basics of pre-flop strategy, you will want to loosen up in some cases based upon the type of game and the players you’re facing.  The starting hand chart was put together based on data gathered from thousands of hands played by an advanced player.  This guide is in no way complete.  I would strongly suggest further reading and study once you understand the basics of limit Hold’em.

Playing solid poker is about making good decisions more frequently than poor ones, even when it seems like all you’re doing is losing money.  You might fold A9 offsuit from early position and then see a flop of AA9, and then kick yourself because by your thinking, you messed up big time.  Well, you didn’t screw up.  Although it’s painful to watch a big pot slip away that you think you should have won, you need to realize that playing good, solid poker  isn’t about receiving gratification right now.  It also isn’t about feeling good.  It’s about winning more than you lose, over the long run.  It’s about making correct choices more often than incorrect ones, even if in the short run it appears that you’re losing money.

This is one of the things I love about poker.  It’s strange at times.  You can play technically perfect poker, and lose.  Or you can play lousy poker and win big.  That’s what keeps poor players coming back.  If poor players never got lucky, then the only people left playing would be good players.  And that’s a horrible thing to contemplate!  Poor players remember fondly the time they got lucky with 5-2 offsuit and hit their runner runner straight on the river.  People have selective memories.  They’ll remember the few times they hit their straight and choose to ignore the 100 other times their hand lost them money.

Poker Statistics And Hand Probabilities

Opening Hand Odds For Texas Hold’em

AA                                                       220-1

KK                                                       220-1

QQ                                                      220-1

Pocket Pair                                           16-1

AKs                                                     331-1

AK                                                       110-1

KQs                                                     331-1

KQ                                                       110-1

Ax                                                        5.7-1

s=suited    x=any card

Odds Of Hitting The Following Hands On The Flop For Texas Hold’em

Flopping a pair                                                                           2.2-1

Flopping a set when holding a pocket pair                                7.5-1

Flopping a flush when holding two suited cards                      118-1

Flopping a flush draw when holding two suited cards                  8-1

Completing a flush draw                                                            1.8-1

Completing a backdoor flush draw                                             23-1

Probability Of Completing A Particular Hand In Texas Hold’em

Royal Flush                                            4 hands in 2,598,960  or  0.000154%

Straight Flush                                          36 hands in 2,598,960 or 0.00139%

Four of a Kind                                          624 hands in 2,598,960 or 0.0240%

Full House                                                3744 hands in 2,598,960 or 0.144%

Flush 5108 hands in 2,598,960 or 0.197%

Straight                                                  10,200 hands in 2,598,960 or 0.392%

Three of a Kind                                         54912 hands in 2,598,960 or 2.11%

Two Pair                                                 123,552 hands in 2,598,960 or 4.75%

Pair 1,098,240 hands in 2,598,960 or 42.26%

A blind man wanders into a Female Biker Bar by mistake.
He finds his way to a bar stool and orders some coffee.
After sitting there for a while, he yells to the waiter, ‘Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?’
The bar immediately falls absolutely silent. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, ‘Before you tell that
joke, sir, I think it’s only fair, given that you’ re blind, that you should know five things:
1) The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat.
2) The bouncer is a blonde girl.
3) I’m a 6 foot tall, 175 lb. blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4) The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weightlifter.
5) The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler. Now, think about it seriously, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?’
The blind man thinks for a second, shakes his head, and mutters….
‘No, not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times.’