Time For An Update

Haven't been very good about keeping the blog current, but we'll do better.

Over recent days poker has been an up and down situation. I dropped $60 on Thursday, won $185 Friday (plus $90 in blackjack) and dropped $25 on Saturday playing at the Monte Carlo. I really like this poker room. It's quiet, comfortable and has a good mix of experienced and rookie players.

I've been keeping an ongoing tally of my wins & losses. While it seems like I've been losing, I've actually had 7 winning days in the past 8 days. Only 1 loss of $60, though on a couple of days my losses at poker were offset by winning bj or sports bets.

I plan to play in a Free-Roll tourney that the MC is hosting next Saturday, Jan. 30. If you log 15 hours of play before then you can play in the tourney for FREE. Top prize is $1,000 and everyone who makes the final table gets $900. According to the poker room mgr and a couple of players I talked with, the tourney usually gets about 75-90 entrants. I haven't played that many tourneys, but I plan to give it a try. In two days of playing at the MC, I have already racked up 9.5 hours of play.

Yesterday's loss was really frustrating because I had several good hands that did not hold up. Twice I had A-A and lost both of them, once when an obnoxious young dude who went All-In for $75 with an 8-5, flopped an 8, then hit a set of 8s on the River. That was a $175 pot that should have been mine.

Another frustrating hand happened when I had K-J suited and the flop came A-10-4. The turn was the Q I needed and I anticipated taking down this pot, which had grown to about $100. It was me and one other player, another young dude, who hit a flush on the River to take the cash. Aaaargh.

So while I lost $25 playing poker, I made up for it with a $100 winning hoops moneyline parlay of MSU, Syracuse and USC. The day's profit was $75.

Another highlight today was purchasing 3 tickets for Ka, the Cirque de Soleil show we're going to see when Katie comes to visit next month. They have a special deal for locals - buy 1 ticket and get another for $25. Unfortunately the 3rd ticket was at the regular price, not $25. But that's OK. This will be a night (Feb. 19) all of us will remember!

Today I'm only playing one $20 fb parlay ticket with Colts -7, more than 3 fgs in the Colts-Jets game and Saints -3. It'll pay $120 if it hits. Before I watch the games today, I need to do some grocery shopping. Got to keep the larder filled.

And our LV adventure continues...