2010 Women's Olympic Curling

Upon further review curling doesn't make any sense to me. And not for the reasons that you might be thinking.

It's a finesse game. Brute power doesn't mean a whole lot. So what doesn't make sense is - why do I love it so much?

There's no Asian hotties, it's Nordic hotties. Before Jarah took control of my life I had a thing for tall muscular blondes and one of my proudest treasures is an autographed picture of the 2006 Swedish women's curling team. Thank you again, Ulla.

So this got me thinking about poker and the need for finnese vs. the need for muscle.

Despite recent changings in the program, PokerStars betting continues to be about the muscle. Very rarely does a hand ever get slow played. I've got the chip lead and dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a poker player! I'm going to bet it! And to top it all off, it works way too frigging often since the rigged cards force the real human to play short stacked.

So, I'm the US team playing against Canada, and the only chance of success I have is to play short stacked, realize I'm hopelessly outmatched and score that big double hit on the last stone that might make me the winner. Never despite the lack of real skill in your opponents or the fact that you know what you are doing are you allowed to cruise to an easy victory every once in awhile. And as much as I have played, that should happen every once in awhile. 200k+ hands. Thousands of tables.