bye doyle!

doyle's room officially shut out US players today. they set up a process to transfer your money to full tilt, even including a conversion of your action points. that's a lot better than what most places have done (see tony g's process).

i have some money still in there and apparently waited a little too long to try to get it out. i didn't play much at doyle's room other than 1 refundable bounty tourney and some experiments in badugi (fun but crazy game somewhat similar to triple draw). so i only have 40-some bucks there and a handful of action points, but hopefully i can get that transferred sometime soon. i hadn't played there in so long, that i forgot my password, and emailed them for a new one, but they are not surprisingly very slow in responding right now, so here i wait...

this US ban is starting to get really annoying. i have a couple hundred bucks stuck in the neteller siezed funds, but that's nothing compared to this guy.

so back to doyle's room: here are some comments from the lobby chat room as they were counting down to the US ban deadline:

cheysemi: IS A BALL GOING TO DROP....SHOULD WE COUNT DOWN?

skzap: How will doyle play at his room now ?

GF-killah: AMERICA' GET A REAL GOVERNMENT!\\!!!1

iDrew: : America is the land of the FREE

Ace's Lacey: cheerio cheerio cheerio

fistme: have the americans gone to kfc?????

skzap: Congratulations for voting Bush americans ;-)

a win in cameron is always nice

unc 79, dook 73

great game! dook really out-hussled us in the first half, but as i hoped, we had more steam in the end. depth is a nice thing. i thought we were going to have a similar turn around against nc state, but we played like we didn't care.

i guess i found a new dookie to hate - that scheyer kid was pretty amazing - i can't believe how many times we let them drive to the baseline and kick it out to him for an open 3. i loved the part where mcroberts was having an outburst into his towel after getting his 4th foul, and wojo had to come over and calm him down.

beat dook!

i'll start my blog off with an "other rambling" just to prove how random this blog will be ;)

my tarheels have their first big rivalry game against dook tonight. obviously this is must see tv for (almost) any unc alum, and we're hoping to give dook their first 3-game losing streak in a while and bounce back from an ugly loss this weekend against nc state. that game used to be rivalry game too, but i guess it isn't any more in the mind of our players b/c usually the team actually shows up for a rivalry game. i'm sure they'll be extra fired up tonight - hopefully not so much that they'll be jittery (is that a word).

tomorrow is the ladies' version of unc vs dook, which should be an even better game since they are #1 and #2 (soon to swap).