Happy Halloween... The Month in Review
WHAT happened to my boat??? October 31st. What a wild and crazy month it has been. It was a very good and profitable month for me. I brought in just over $25k. I took second in the best all-around player points for the Fall Classic in Canterbury Park. I crushed the live games both in Minnesota and Las Vegas. It's a good day to be a professional poker player.Here are some of the highlights of the month:
I placed third in an Omaha/8 or better tournament. This was only the second O8 tournament that I have ever played in. I was very proud of my play and have logged that as one of my best accomplishments recently.
I get a call while in Minnesota from my brother that says, "I have bad news..." He proceeds to tell me that our boat got wrecked. Images of the boat sinking to the bottom of Lake Mead flash through my mind as he gives me the story. The boat was parked on the street, on it's trailer. We live on a cul de sac. The boat has never left it's parking spot on the street except to go to the lake. Every neighbor knows that the boat sits there. So, it makes perfect sense that somebody crashed their truck into the boat. I couldn't help myself when I heard the news. My 1971 24' pontoon boat got totalled by a truck while parked on land. How white trash appropriate.
The good news was that we were pretty sure that insurance would be picking up the tab. And boy did they. The decided not to total the boat and give us $3400 for repairs. Now remember, we bought the boat six weeks ago for $2k cash. Good news already. The best news is that upon further inspection, there is no reason for the boat to still not float. It may be all banged and dented up, but it should still float.
So, Saturday when I got back from MN, everybody was on the lake. Aparrantly the boat was still floating. They got back at 10pm with no boat.
"Where's the boat?"
"On the side of the highway."
This time a rim basically fell apart. When I finally saw it I saw parts of rim and five lug nuts remaining. It was so bad that we could not fix it and had to have our boat towed back to our house. That required two regular flat bed tow trucks, one huge one, four guys and four hours. I couldn't help but laugh my ass off while I watched them unload a 24' old school boat off a flat bed tow truck in front of my house.
I finally put money back on-line in the past week. The games are actually quite good right now. I have finally re-commenced my vendetta against the game of no-limit hold'em. I really don't want to fall behind the learning curve on this game because I still want to be an unemployed bastard in three years when it will be impossible to find a decent limit game. I've played over 10k hands in the past four days. I've pretty much been a couch potato machine. I actually have three games going right now while I'm typing this and sitting at my brother's bar. I'm finally starting to actually get it , which is making me feel much better. I blew through $2000 in my first 6k hands and have since turned it around to about even. I'm playing the 2-4NL games online. It is really hard adjusting from a limit mentality and being a call-down monkey like I often am online. Also the strategy and set-up are so completely different. There is so much more creativity to this game that I never got before that ultimately sets up for the big stack busting bet. I also am getting that sense that I do not have to be as precise as I have to be in limit. I'm not sure how to apply that to NL yet, but I am constantly learning.
So, here's the outlook for November. I'm headed to LA for the start of the Commerce Holiday Bonus tournament on Thursday. From there I'm headed up to Lucky Chances on monday or tuesday for a series of nickel and dime tournaments. From there it's back to LA for more tournaments. I am thinking I will be in Foxwoods for the main event which starts late-mid November, like around the 17th I think? Dutch is headed up, Brandon and Jenn are going, and Poff is going... so, why not? Not sure if I will play.. 10k is more than 5% of my roll! Will definately be trying to satellite in. So, another 3 weeks on the road... but I'm excited about it.
It's good to be back home in warm weather with my own truck with the people that I've missed. Thanks for reading.
Peace and good luck,
Devo
posted by Devo @ 8:09 PM
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