lucky and clever and also stupid
Dec. 9th, 2004 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmdi had an episode of "poor impulse control". see, just a couple of days ago i found out that foxwoods had started up with relatively-low-buy-in weeknight evening poker tournaments again. (they hadn't had them for quite a while this year after what i'm told was a near-riot when popularity exceeded capacity.)
so after finishing up with the foot doctor yesterday and finding out that yes, my foot is healed, i decided to celebrate by driving south to foxwoods and entering a $100 poker tournament. ($80 into the prize pool, $20 fee paid to foxwoods.)
it started at 8pm. around about 930 it finally percolated thru my head that gosh, if i do well and actually bust-out in the money, i won't be finishing up until 1am. which meant getting home around 3am. and that was if i just barely made the money (it paid to 30 places).
that was the stupid part.
the clever and lucky part was that i didn't just make the money, i took second place out of 230 entrants. which netted me quite a tidy sum of money. between the amount of money in my pocket being a known quantity to a whole lot of peole and the fact that i was still gimping around in the velcro-shoe-cast thing and the fact that it was 2:30 in the morning, i decided i was just a trifle nervous walking out to my car alone and i asked the folks to get me a security escort. and they did, so a nice very large man walked me to my car and then i drove home listening to bhangra VERY VERY LOUDLY for a while.
i was also clever by switching from hot chocolate to coffee-based drinks around midnight so i was caffeinated enough to stay awake for the drive. i was just starting to feel the raggedy edge of fatigue by the time i got home at 4:30. i got to sleep by 5 and was up around 8:30, so i had enough sleep to be functional albiet a bit slow all day today. and now i'm going to sleep.
so after finishing up with the foot doctor yesterday and finding out that yes, my foot is healed, i decided to celebrate by driving south to foxwoods and entering a $100 poker tournament. ($80 into the prize pool, $20 fee paid to foxwoods.)
it started at 8pm. around about 930 it finally percolated thru my head that gosh, if i do well and actually bust-out in the money, i won't be finishing up until 1am. which meant getting home around 3am. and that was if i just barely made the money (it paid to 30 places).
that was the stupid part.
the clever and lucky part was that i didn't just make the money, i took second place out of 230 entrants. which netted me quite a tidy sum of money. between the amount of money in my pocket being a known quantity to a whole lot of peole and the fact that i was still gimping around in the velcro-shoe-cast thing and the fact that it was 2:30 in the morning, i decided i was just a trifle nervous walking out to my car alone and i asked the folks to get me a security escort. and they did, so a nice very large man walked me to my car and then i drove home listening to bhangra VERY VERY LOUDLY for a while.
i was also clever by switching from hot chocolate to coffee-based drinks around midnight so i was caffeinated enough to stay awake for the drive. i was just starting to feel the raggedy edge of fatigue by the time i got home at 4:30. i got to sleep by 5 and was up around 8:30, so i had enough sleep to be functional albiet a bit slow all day today. and now i'm going to sleep.
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Date: 2004-12-10 06:00 am (UTC)I feel i'm sort of getting out of the woods on my poker skills. A couple nickel games i've been in lately I've actually been doing well in. I tihnk it's book time now and a bunch of reading to avoid the over-confident problem.
Any recommendations?
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Date: 2004-12-10 02:39 pm (UTC)