One Eyed Jacks!!

Sorry for the lack of updates. Been hellaciously busy at work. As a matter of fact it looked like I was going to be heading off to Kansas City this weekend, although now it seems to be put off for a while.

Spent 10 lovely days in western Florida. Sarasota to be exact. Worked about 45 hours overtime during that period so there wasn't much time for fun. I did manage to squeeze 2 nights of poker at the Sarasota Kennel Club, which has a poker room. One Eyed Jack's! Nice name for a poker room. Nice chip too. A greyhound staring at you with a patch over one eye.

Strange games being spread there though. $2 limit. I didn't particularly care for 2/4 limit at Tampa Bay Downs when I was there, because it was basically play every hand and we'll see who has hit something by the river. With a straight $2 limit game it was going to be worse. Much worse. So I decided to play 1/2 No Limit. There was a $60 buy in for that game. Not a $60 Max or a $60 Min....just $60. I did ok the first night cashing out up a little. The second night was a much different story. I had a case of second best hand...and there was one old guy at the table who would play any two suited cards, and he went on a ridiculous rush. In one dealers half hour down, he hit 5 flushes. He went from about $40 to close to $500 in that one half hour. My final hand of the night was KK under the gun. I made it $12. 2 callers. 8 2 J flop. I bet $30 (only had $20 more behind), kid who just sat down goes all in. I call. He had 88 and flopped a set. I didn't improve. Time to go back to the hotel. Some nights you just can't win, and this was one of those.

The rest of the trip to Florida was uneventful except for the fact that Merlotgirl bought me a great laptop for my birthday, and I took that along with my work laptop. This way I was able to play online poker at night, after a long day at work. I may be addicted. It's possible.

I usually play Single Table Sit N Go Tournaments on Bodog. There's also a $10 + $1 Pot Limit Hold'em Multi Table Tournament every night at 9 Central time. There are usually only 18 - 45 players in it, and I seem to always do pretty well in it. The week I was in Florida I played it 3 times and bubbled out once, got 2nd once, and 5th once. The second place was in a 45 man tournament and paid $108, so that was pretty nice.

More posts to follow.