The auction isn't up yet. Obviously. Or else you would have already been bombarded with the associated advertising. I did create a seller account at EBAY. I just need to take some photos of this "casino memorabilia" and we should be all good to go.
An aside: I had a moment over the weekend where I thought maybe I should just donate whatever the highest bid is to charity. And that got me thinking about how the amount of money received actually has an effect on what I'd like to do with it.
Most dollar amounts feel right to donate. Like if someone wants to pay $1,000 bucks for the underwear, I want to pass that on to folks who could use it more. Same thing goes regardless of whether it's 50 bucks or Ten thousand.
But for ethical, moral, and discussions sake, lets say someone was willing to spend alot more than this.
Like what if someone spent $1,000,000? Should this change anything?
Before you immediately dismiss this possibility, I do want to remind you that they are lucky underwear. So anything is possible.
Here's where I found myself wavering.
You see one million dollars would be life changing....for me.
My donating this same one million dollars by itself probably doesn't stop world hunger or cure cancer.
So to review I am okay with giving the underwear away and passing on whatever they are worth to charity.
Unless you want to give me one million dollars.
Then I want to keep it.
Monday, January 07, 2013
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Do You Feel Lucky?
Happy 2013!
With the start of a new year I found myself doing some cleaning and came across the underwear I wore when I made the final table of a WSOP event in 2006. It was a 3 day event. I wore them on the 1st day and after somehow making it to day 2 I decided to wear them again. When I made the final table and came back for day 3 there was no question what I'd be wearing underneath my pants.
This underwear was the real deal. I didn't lose a race for 3 days. My AK always beat the opponent's pair. My pocket pair always held up against their AK. Oh sure these underwear didn't eventually figure out a way for my Ten, Jack to beat the early position raiser's pocket queens but lets be reasonable with our expectations. In what would be my tournament ending hand, I needed a fold from my opponent, not help from my underwear.
After this tournament ended these became my lucky underwear and were brought out anytime in the years to follow when I needed a little extra oomph in my game.
So now it's almost 7 years later and here I am looking at them and deciding that maybe it's time to finally move on. Yet there's no way I can just throw them out. Can't do that. They have too much meaning.
No. This specific scenario appears to have only one possibility for resolution:
For me to auction them off on Ebay.
I will most likely need a few days to figure out how one does this. But come next week I plan to have everything set up perfectly to present you good reader with what some are calling "the best opportunity of 2013." To be the brand new owner of my lucky underwear.
My only regret is not having thought of this in time for the recent holiday season as I am sure they would have made the perfect Christmas gift for the gambler in your life.
More info to follow after I figure out Ebay.
With the start of a new year I found myself doing some cleaning and came across the underwear I wore when I made the final table of a WSOP event in 2006. It was a 3 day event. I wore them on the 1st day and after somehow making it to day 2 I decided to wear them again. When I made the final table and came back for day 3 there was no question what I'd be wearing underneath my pants.
This underwear was the real deal. I didn't lose a race for 3 days. My AK always beat the opponent's pair. My pocket pair always held up against their AK. Oh sure these underwear didn't eventually figure out a way for my Ten, Jack to beat the early position raiser's pocket queens but lets be reasonable with our expectations. In what would be my tournament ending hand, I needed a fold from my opponent, not help from my underwear.
After this tournament ended these became my lucky underwear and were brought out anytime in the years to follow when I needed a little extra oomph in my game.
So now it's almost 7 years later and here I am looking at them and deciding that maybe it's time to finally move on. Yet there's no way I can just throw them out. Can't do that. They have too much meaning.
No. This specific scenario appears to have only one possibility for resolution:
For me to auction them off on Ebay.
I will most likely need a few days to figure out how one does this. But come next week I plan to have everything set up perfectly to present you good reader with what some are calling "the best opportunity of 2013." To be the brand new owner of my lucky underwear.
My only regret is not having thought of this in time for the recent holiday season as I am sure they would have made the perfect Christmas gift for the gambler in your life.
More info to follow after I figure out Ebay.
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