Back to the Home Game

Fresh off my fairly decent performance at The Stone (psychologically if not monetarily), I was looking forward to getting back on the SFPT felt to see if I could turn my confidence into actual results.  All in all, it wasn’t a bad performance – I finished second, and the final hand result was one I could only laugh at – I played it right, but the poker gods had other ideas.

Short stacked but not drastically (a double up would have given me the lead), I peeked at my cards in the small blind and saw Kc/Qc – a no-brainer all-in.  Corrye snap-called and flipped Kh/8h.  When the flop was a rainbow with no help to either of us, I was feeling pretty good.  The turn was likewise a dud, and Corrye was down to three outs. 

“Only an eight can save you,” I observed, as Kim flipped the river – eight of diamonds.

I put my head down on the rail in not-quite-mock disgust as Kim, Tina, and Corrye all said “wow” at about the same time.  But, I wasn’t mad, which told me I played the hand correctly.  I’ve mentioned many times in the past about how I can physically tell when I have made a bad play, and it was just the opposite in this case.  The fact that I was laughing at my fate and not cursing it told me I had done the right thing.

The poker gods gave me one last slap in the face when I scratched my six $2 tickets for a grand total of zero dollars.  So, it was a complete dud of a night for Bracelet Hunting purposes.

On that note, I have decided that I am going to have to come up with some other way to supplement that envelope, because going solely on gambling winnings has to this point resulted in exactly no contributions.  More to come on that topic as I think of it.  If current plans hold, I’m sure I would have enough money from “regular” sources (i.e., paychecks), but I would like to mitigate that beforehand as much as possible.

Playing: 3.5 hours home game

Reading: none

Watching: none

10k Update: 3.5 hours home tournament, 122.75 home game hours, 229.50 total hours

Next up: there will be another SFPT tournament in a couple of weeks, but I probably won’t play much online between now and then as I am on vacation this week.  I’m not currently reading a book so it might be a good opportunity to dive back into Super/System or one of my other poker books.