I have noticed in the last few days that I have a little more free time on my hands. Yesterday I went out to a local bar where they do Texas Hold ‘Em tourneys. They hold them every Wednesday and Saturday. I think I posted a while back where I went to one on a Saturday. Well, I met up with my upstairs neighbor and we got there at around 7:20pm. We were allowed in with pretty short stacks. He got one table and I got another. So the first few hands I was delt were all crap. Thankfully I came in right after the dealer so no blinds had touched me yet. I get about 5-6 hands in and have folded everything when I get a tap on the shoulder. Don had gone out already! I hadn’t even bet anything yet.
I kind of felt bad, but kept on playing. I got blessed with about 4 good hands in a row and built up a huge pot. We lost a few people at the table because of this and got redistributed to other tables. This was bad for me. I got sat right under a fan AND an air conditioning vent! I was freezing. This apparently was very distracting to me and I had trouble remembering what calls I was making. I got down to short stacks really quick. Finally I got a good hand, Ks and Jc. The flop came out with 2 kings. The girl next to me goes all in (she was shorter stacked than I.) So I follow suit and go all in as well. The guy across from me calls me on it and we flip. He shows the 4th king and a queen. I don’t even remember the turn card, but the river was another queen for the full house and I was done. I lasted a good hour and a half so I felt good about how I played.
On the way home I got an interesting call from a friend of mine in the garrison. He was looking for info on the hotel people are staying at for DragonCon. I informed him that they are most likely sold out already but boy howdy did he call the right guy! Given the fact that Amy was now not attending DragonCon, I had a room reserved, a double, that I was only using ½ of! The bastards at the hotel wanted to charge me con rates for the nights of the con, but the Thursday night had to be the corporate rate of $240! (con rate is $150 per night) So alone I was looking at $690 for the whole trip. Because of this I was looking at canceling the Thursday and just doing the $450 for the 3 nights. But now that Vader Roger is on board and covering ½ of the costs, I can keep the Thursday, take my time getting down there, and only end up paying $345 total!
Take THAT fate!
you’re coming now? woot 😉