Ambidextrous I Am Not
Michael (my roomate), Jennifer (his girlfriend), Lisa (my girlfriend), and I went bowling tonight. I'm waiting on a new bowling ball to arrive, and in the interim, I've been trying to learn how to bowl left-armed with my current ball. I bowled a complete game with my left arm tonight and tallied a 32. Drinking half a dozen beers beforehand didn't help improve my score, but regardless, I'm pretty pathetic with my left arm. I'm considering getting a light ball (like, a 13 or 14 pounder, versus a 15 or 16 since my left arm isn't as strong) drilled to fit my left hand. I would estimate that after a year of occasional practice, I could bowl 130 with my left arm fairly easily. I realize this is totally arbitrary, but I think I would derive some satisfaction knowing I could do something well with my left hand.
It's about 2:30 am Central right now. I'm going to get some sleep and wake up in time for the 11:45 am Sunday Warm-Up. I will probably play a large helping of online tournaments tomorrow. This is the last Sunday before Michael and I head to Las Vegas. In harmony with last week, I'll update this post and share my Sunday results once the day is over. Hopefully I can log a nice win to rally my confidence (let alone, bankroll) before heading to Vegas Thursday night.
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Results:
I didn't play too many tournies today due to some fund shortages in my Stars and Full Tilt accounts. I sent a $5k cashier's cheque to Stars a couple weeks ago, but apparently they haven't gotten it yet. Damn criminals.
Anyway, I washed out of everything I played except the last tournament of the night, a $109 Bodog event with 114 entrants. With 20 players left, I was the chipleader and eyeing the $3,600 first-place payout. From there, I lost about half my stack when I called an all-in with JJ. An ace came on the flop and I had to watch a sizable pot shipped to my opponent and his A9. After that, I was chipped down to 10-12 bbs with 10 players left. While I was in the big blind, it folded to the small blind who moved all-in. At this point, he had just slightly fewer chips than I did. This was the third orbit out of the last four where he made this move against me, so I figured his range to make this play was pretty huge. I called off most of my stack with K3 and was crippled down to one big blind when I couldn't get there against his K8. Two hands later, 10th place and an insulting $144 was mine!
For the day, I was down a little less than $1,000. If you could see a line graph of my bankroll since the N'awlins WSOP Circuit Event, it'd resemble that of a speculative dot-com company circa 2000. This hemorrhage will likely prevent my extensive participation in this year's WSOP. I still hope to play the $2,000 no-limit event this Friday, but if I wash out of that, I'll probably skip the other WSOP events in favor of the smaller buy-in stuff at the Venetian and Caesars Palace. Also, my friend David Irish of Henderson, Nevada claims the side game action is super-juicy right now, so there seems to be plenty of stuff to play aside from the WSOP. Yea, that's it! Who would want to play WSOP events with multi-million dollar prize pools and television exposure when there's $300 tournaments and small stakes no-limit cash games going on instead?!? Not this guy!
It's about 2:30 am Central right now. I'm going to get some sleep and wake up in time for the 11:45 am Sunday Warm-Up. I will probably play a large helping of online tournaments tomorrow. This is the last Sunday before Michael and I head to Las Vegas. In harmony with last week, I'll update this post and share my Sunday results once the day is over. Hopefully I can log a nice win to rally my confidence (let alone, bankroll) before heading to Vegas Thursday night.
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Results:
I didn't play too many tournies today due to some fund shortages in my Stars and Full Tilt accounts. I sent a $5k cashier's cheque to Stars a couple weeks ago, but apparently they haven't gotten it yet. Damn criminals.
Anyway, I washed out of everything I played except the last tournament of the night, a $109 Bodog event with 114 entrants. With 20 players left, I was the chipleader and eyeing the $3,600 first-place payout. From there, I lost about half my stack when I called an all-in with JJ. An ace came on the flop and I had to watch a sizable pot shipped to my opponent and his A9. After that, I was chipped down to 10-12 bbs with 10 players left. While I was in the big blind, it folded to the small blind who moved all-in. At this point, he had just slightly fewer chips than I did. This was the third orbit out of the last four where he made this move against me, so I figured his range to make this play was pretty huge. I called off most of my stack with K3 and was crippled down to one big blind when I couldn't get there against his K8. Two hands later, 10th place and an insulting $144 was mine!
For the day, I was down a little less than $1,000. If you could see a line graph of my bankroll since the N'awlins WSOP Circuit Event, it'd resemble that of a speculative dot-com company circa 2000. This hemorrhage will likely prevent my extensive participation in this year's WSOP. I still hope to play the $2,000 no-limit event this Friday, but if I wash out of that, I'll probably skip the other WSOP events in favor of the smaller buy-in stuff at the Venetian and Caesars Palace. Also, my friend David Irish of Henderson, Nevada claims the side game action is super-juicy right now, so there seems to be plenty of stuff to play aside from the WSOP. Yea, that's it! Who would want to play WSOP events with multi-million dollar prize pools and television exposure when there's $300 tournaments and small stakes no-limit cash games going on instead?!? Not this guy!
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