Anyway...
I've been playing the Hold'em Freaks nightly tournaments. I was running cold and they were playing a lot of non-hold'em games so I took some time off from playing. (The running cold part was the killer) I've been running cold everywhere.
Anyway...
I'm captain of a new team. Honestly, I wasn't able to pick my team so the woman in charge picked for me. She was able to get two of the people who I had last year, and two pretty good rookies, so I am pleased.
Early yesterday we were in 2nd place, 11 games into the season. I don't know where we're at today because we had a low finish, so I'm guessing we're in 3rd (of 9).
I had a lousy 6th (of 9) place finish in my first game but I won Friday's game.
I didn't play any more poker until Sunday, when I won a $200-added game with the best poker forum, CardsChat.
They're giving out some sort of prizes for whoever knocks the most people out (out of two games, the second being played Sunday... but I'll be at my mother-in-law's celebrating her birthday for the second game). One guy finished with 5-KO's to my 4. He and I went heads up (for the 5th time in the past 6 months) and I beat him for the 5th time. :) He's a good player, but predictable.
Yesterday I played one super turbo thing on Ultimate Bet, as I haven't played on the site for months and I wanted to give it a try. I got KO'd in 7th of 9 in a standard SB vs BB play.
Then I played the Hold'em Freaks high hand early game. I paid $1 to be entered into a pool, where the player with the highest hand wins the $. You have to win the showdown and use both of your hole cards to win. I've made the mistake of betting the river with monsters (quads and such) and not getting called, thereby not being eligible for the high hand pool.
Well, yesterday I made a bad bet on the river too:
Fortunately he made an even worse call. :)
So yeah, I won the high hand pool.
Then I went on to get 2nd place in the game. I had 9k, he had 7.5k, and I 3-bet him with 7/7 and he called with Q/T. He rivered the Ten win. I was unable to come back. But 2nd place is good! :)
An hour later was the second high-hand game, and this one was $2 instead of $1.
This coin flip lead to me winning the high hand in that game as well:
Oh... and then I won the tournament:
So I've had quite a streak. One loss on Ultimatebet, and a string of victories.
1st, 1st, fail, 2nd& bonus, and 1st & bonus.
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In non-poker news...
I'm getting out of the house more. Even when home, I'm hiking in the woods.
My social life is expanding.
I'm still doing my push ups, but I'm not following the plan. The tendon in my right arm is getting better, but slowly. I don't want to move up to the feet-on-chair push ups for fear of agitating it, so I'm just doing the standard sets. Well, instead of 14/10/6 I'm doing 15/11/7.
I have a new Droid phone with a data plan, so I can hook it to my computer and get 3G on my home computer. :) That's exciting, but I'm afraid that I'll go over the 5Gb limit.
