Downgrading Classics

Poker today thus far has been passable thanks to one fish at a 600NL 50bb table who was kind enough to put his money in drawing dead, along with fading a one outer or two against regulars. Couldn't fade a one card flush draw with only the river to come at 400NL or hold with AK vs AQo on AK6r though unfortunately. I'll most likely put another session shortly.

The Flames won in a shootout in Philly today, after the Flyers had an overtime winner waved off because Pronger put his hand up in front of Kiprusoff's face a moment before the puck was fired. I like the spirit of the call in that they don't want people to pull crap like Avery tried with Brodeur last season, but they may have taken it a little too far in this instance. That being said, after the way the zebras have treated the Flames over the last five games I don't feel bad about a call in the good guys' favor. The Patriots woke up and murdered the Lions in the second half yesterday which was enjoyable.

On the gaming front, I finished the Ys 3 remake and have moved on to the DS "re-envisioning" of Lufia 2. The original Lufia 2 holds a special place in my heart, and at the very best, the remake is shaping up to be significantly inferior. Why they decided to mess so much with what worked in the first place I'll never know. At least the upgraded soundtrack is very nice. I also ordered preowned copies of Ys 6 and FF1 for the PSP from Gamestop.com (yes, .com not .ca, as the Canadian version did not have Ys 6). Although the shipping wasn't cheap it wasn't ridiculously expensive either - and once being shipped from Texas the games arrived in less than 24 hours. Apparently, UPS Express doesn't mess around. WoW had the Cataclysm strike last week, and the new pre-expansion content available to everyone in the old world is fantastic. Kudos to Blizzard.