Well, I finally have a chance to post some pictures of my car. She's a beauty, ain't she?
What a way to end my sabbatical...crashing the car I just bought no more than a month ago.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
WEMT Course, Caro's Game, ASOP
This course is super intense, classes are 8-5 M-F, and an additional 6-9 on T & Th. This final week is full of testing after one day of touring local EMSs. I'm excited to be getting 9 college credits for it, assuming I pass, all crammed into one month. I'm also excited to have been exposed to this field and have the opportunity to be an EMT or Ski Patrol, and to just generally feel confident in outdoors situations guiding or whatnot.
I'm also getting really excited to move to Tahoe and finally be settled, it's been a long 3 months "on the road." I'm looking forward to starting school back up, grinding out a couple classes, a ton of poker, and fitting in some skiing when I can.
So this course has been limiting my poker play quite a bit. I have played maybe 3 hours online in the non-existent free time I have, just a little $1/$2, and have won a few buyins. I also was informed about a game taking place at a bar in the town of Jackson Hole, and I decided to check it out. It was also $1/$2, and I swear the players there were the same ones whose pictures were taken for Caro's famous Book of Tells. It was pretty fun, I sat down with $300 and walked away with $656 after 2.5 hours of play. There was one woman in the game who was playing every hand. She first outflopped my QQ with KQ, then my KK with an A hi flop and she shoved the turn, another A. I didn't see her hand but I'm pretty confident it was the correct fold.
Finally, she limped UTG, a nervous player in MP made it $10 to go, I called OTB with ATo, and the woman UTG obviously called as well. Flop came T33 with two clubs. She leads out $15, the PFR flats, and I decide she's got a weaker ten, and he's got AK or a pair lower than tens, because I don't give a player credit in this kind of game for flatting with an overpair on that kind of board, so I bumped it up to $60. She instacalls, and the PFR's chest starts pounding. I'm thinking, "Okay, I guess if he doesn't fold he's got the overpair or TT, I give him enough credit for an easy fold of the AK." He ends up folding as he exclaims, "God Damnit!" Turn comes Jh, she checks, I shove, she deliberates and calls. The river comes another A, she turns over T9 and I scoop the pot with aces up. The PFR showed his KK after the hand, no comment.
The only other notable hand was when there were scattered limpers and I rapped the table in BB with A7h. The flop came AT6 with two spades, and I checked. A LP limper led out $5, the button flatted, I decided I definitely had the best hand and raised to $25. The first bettor folded, and the button instaflatted, so I put him on a draw. The turn was a 3d, so I led for another $40 (I wish I had led for more but I overthought things a little in the moment and wanted to try to keep the pot reasonable) and he instacalled again. The river brought the innocuous 5c so I of course checked to induce a bet, and he obliged with a $50 bullet that I proudly snapped off without a second thought.
I just now set the date for the annual Alexandria Series of Poker. It's always fun to get together with old friends at holiday times and rejoice as I strike them. :) This year is a little different because I'm going to match the prize pool and donate that amount to a charity of the winner's choice. I've been wanting to give back from poker for a long time and I've slacked on taking action.
I'm also getting really excited to move to Tahoe and finally be settled, it's been a long 3 months "on the road." I'm looking forward to starting school back up, grinding out a couple classes, a ton of poker, and fitting in some skiing when I can.
So this course has been limiting my poker play quite a bit. I have played maybe 3 hours online in the non-existent free time I have, just a little $1/$2, and have won a few buyins. I also was informed about a game taking place at a bar in the town of Jackson Hole, and I decided to check it out. It was also $1/$2, and I swear the players there were the same ones whose pictures were taken for Caro's famous Book of Tells. It was pretty fun, I sat down with $300 and walked away with $656 after 2.5 hours of play. There was one woman in the game who was playing every hand. She first outflopped my QQ with KQ, then my KK with an A hi flop and she shoved the turn, another A. I didn't see her hand but I'm pretty confident it was the correct fold.
Finally, she limped UTG, a nervous player in MP made it $10 to go, I called OTB with ATo, and the woman UTG obviously called as well. Flop came T33 with two clubs. She leads out $15, the PFR flats, and I decide she's got a weaker ten, and he's got AK or a pair lower than tens, because I don't give a player credit in this kind of game for flatting with an overpair on that kind of board, so I bumped it up to $60. She instacalls, and the PFR's chest starts pounding. I'm thinking, "Okay, I guess if he doesn't fold he's got the overpair or TT, I give him enough credit for an easy fold of the AK." He ends up folding as he exclaims, "God Damnit!" Turn comes Jh, she checks, I shove, she deliberates and calls. The river comes another A, she turns over T9 and I scoop the pot with aces up. The PFR showed his KK after the hand, no comment.
The only other notable hand was when there were scattered limpers and I rapped the table in BB with A7h. The flop came AT6 with two spades, and I checked. A LP limper led out $5, the button flatted, I decided I definitely had the best hand and raised to $25. The first bettor folded, and the button instaflatted, so I put him on a draw. The turn was a 3d, so I led for another $40 (I wish I had led for more but I overthought things a little in the moment and wanted to try to keep the pot reasonable) and he instacalled again. The river brought the innocuous 5c so I of course checked to induce a bet, and he obliged with a $50 bullet that I proudly snapped off without a second thought.
I just now set the date for the annual Alexandria Series of Poker. It's always fun to get together with old friends at holiday times and rejoice as I strike them. :) This year is a little different because I'm going to match the prize pool and donate that amount to a charity of the winner's choice. I've been wanting to give back from poker for a long time and I've slacked on taking action.
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