1284 players started the Weekly Championship Tournament. After playing for a little over two hours, I went bankrupt. It was a do or die bet on my part and I lost. Close but no cigar LOL
At the end of my run, I finished very respectfully, in 69th place. Only 68 places away from the $750 first place prize. I don't feel the least bit unhappy as I played, I think, very well. I folded when I should have folded and called the big bets when I thought I could win. Just what any poker player would do.
There is always next time :)
Monday, September 28, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Another week bites the dust
Another week has come and gone. Time flies! It's been an interesting week though.
I went down to the bowling alley on Thursday to see if I could sub in the School Employees league. I haven't bowled since May when the Sagebrush Men's league ended. But, I didn't bowl. There was a spot open and I thought they would ask me to sub but they didn't. This made me slightly depressed since it was beginning to look like nobody wants me! I know I am not the best bowler around but I can't possibly be that bad at a 161 average, can I? My self esteem really took a hit there.
I noticed that one of the teams that had been full last week had a vacancy so I asked what happened to their third bowler. They said she had hurt herself in some way and had to quit because she couldn't bowl. So, I asked if they'd like me on their team and, after talking it over, decided I would be welcome. This made me feel much better. Both of them are low average bowlers, in the 120's on a good day, so hopefully I can help them win some games :)
In the poker area things are improving. I find myself more patient when it counts, not chasing after straights or flushes that aren't coming. More inclined to match someone going all in when I have a high hand. I always hate folding an Ace and something else just because I am being overly cautious. I especially hate folding that Ace when I see that the person that went all in has two low cards like a 5 and a 7. So, I have really been thinking hard before I fold on an all in bid and it has worked out okay. yes, I lost some pots and ran out of chips but I also have won some very large pots being a more aggressive player.
I finished the week with a little over 35000 points, pretty good. I checked my ranking on the site and find that, for last week, I was ranked 612 out of 2000. Not bad, not bad. Thus far I've played 558 tournaments. I've won 145 of them, was in the top 10% 154 times, the top 30% 281 times and in the top 50% 392 times. Pretty darned good for someone that isn't an expert poker player :)
I got another invitation to the Weekly Championship Tournament which starts in about three hours from now. Last week there were 1201 players in that tournament. Wonder how many this week and how long I can survive LOL
Hope all of you had a good week and will have a great week coming up :)
I went down to the bowling alley on Thursday to see if I could sub in the School Employees league. I haven't bowled since May when the Sagebrush Men's league ended. But, I didn't bowl. There was a spot open and I thought they would ask me to sub but they didn't. This made me slightly depressed since it was beginning to look like nobody wants me! I know I am not the best bowler around but I can't possibly be that bad at a 161 average, can I? My self esteem really took a hit there.
I noticed that one of the teams that had been full last week had a vacancy so I asked what happened to their third bowler. They said she had hurt herself in some way and had to quit because she couldn't bowl. So, I asked if they'd like me on their team and, after talking it over, decided I would be welcome. This made me feel much better. Both of them are low average bowlers, in the 120's on a good day, so hopefully I can help them win some games :)
In the poker area things are improving. I find myself more patient when it counts, not chasing after straights or flushes that aren't coming. More inclined to match someone going all in when I have a high hand. I always hate folding an Ace and something else just because I am being overly cautious. I especially hate folding that Ace when I see that the person that went all in has two low cards like a 5 and a 7. So, I have really been thinking hard before I fold on an all in bid and it has worked out okay. yes, I lost some pots and ran out of chips but I also have won some very large pots being a more aggressive player.
I finished the week with a little over 35000 points, pretty good. I checked my ranking on the site and find that, for last week, I was ranked 612 out of 2000. Not bad, not bad. Thus far I've played 558 tournaments. I've won 145 of them, was in the top 10% 154 times, the top 30% 281 times and in the top 50% 392 times. Pretty darned good for someone that isn't an expert poker player :)
I got another invitation to the Weekly Championship Tournament which starts in about three hours from now. Last week there were 1201 players in that tournament. Wonder how many this week and how long I can survive LOL
Hope all of you had a good week and will have a great week coming up :)
Friday, September 25, 2009
Power
Sitting here fooling around when all of a sudden, blackness on my computer screen! In the corner of my eye I see someone outside and I dash out there to see the SCE man turning things off. What the heck?
I tell him I've had the power on since January. He tells me they have no record of power service ever having been established. Finally he gives me a card and tells me I need to call a number. I tell him I cannot do that because he's turned the power off and my phone needs electricity to work as it is a cordless phone. He gives me one hour to do what I need to do.
So, I called Edison and get the service turned on. Again. LOL Hopefully, when the man comes back he will have gotten the order and will leave things on and go on his merry way. If not, I will be without power and will be grumpy without my computer I'm sure.
I did also get the man at SCE to say he would send me an application for their CARE program, offering low income households a discount of 20%. I'm sure I qualify for that, my income sucks.
As for you all, have a great weekend. Have some fun :)
I tell him I've had the power on since January. He tells me they have no record of power service ever having been established. Finally he gives me a card and tells me I need to call a number. I tell him I cannot do that because he's turned the power off and my phone needs electricity to work as it is a cordless phone. He gives me one hour to do what I need to do.
So, I called Edison and get the service turned on. Again. LOL Hopefully, when the man comes back he will have gotten the order and will leave things on and go on his merry way. If not, I will be without power and will be grumpy without my computer I'm sure.
I did also get the man at SCE to say he would send me an application for their CARE program, offering low income households a discount of 20%. I'm sure I qualify for that, my income sucks.
As for you all, have a great weekend. Have some fun :)
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Flaunt Yourself
Well, not yourself personally. there are strict laws against too much self flaunting. But, you can flaunt your website or blog. And, the best part is that you can do it for free.
How often during the course of a day do you go to Google or Yahoo or Bing and search for information? If you're like most folks, quite a few times during the day. That's where directory submission comes into play. If you're searching, just imagine how many others are searching too. And, in order for your site or blog to be found easily it needs to be up at the top of the search lists.
With a free directory submission, you will be one step closer to generating a massive flow of traffic to your site! FreeDirectorySubmission.org understands that it can be difficult to generate the traffic you want and need. This is why they provide you with this very simple tool for free!
There are many ways to get site to your traffic, often times these methods can be time consuming and/or expensive. Submitting your website to a directory is a very simple way to get your site noticed by major search engines. Please use their free easy-to-use SEO tool to submit your site to many free web directories. The Internet is a large place, with millions of web pages.
So, what are you sitting there waiting for? Click on the link above and flaunt yourself! More traffic means more readers, maybe even a lot more money (if you have something to sell). And, more traffic makes you more enticing to advertisers so you can make money.
How often during the course of a day do you go to Google or Yahoo or Bing and search for information? If you're like most folks, quite a few times during the day. That's where directory submission comes into play. If you're searching, just imagine how many others are searching too. And, in order for your site or blog to be found easily it needs to be up at the top of the search lists.
With a free directory submission, you will be one step closer to generating a massive flow of traffic to your site! FreeDirectorySubmission.org understands that it can be difficult to generate the traffic you want and need. This is why they provide you with this very simple tool for free!
There are many ways to get site to your traffic, often times these methods can be time consuming and/or expensive. Submitting your website to a directory is a very simple way to get your site noticed by major search engines. Please use their free easy-to-use SEO tool to submit your site to many free web directories. The Internet is a large place, with millions of web pages.
So, what are you sitting there waiting for? Click on the link above and flaunt yourself! More traffic means more readers, maybe even a lot more money (if you have something to sell). And, more traffic makes you more enticing to advertisers so you can make money.
Never Again!
Last night I played two pokers tournaments at the same time. I will never do that again! The window of the game pops up whenever it is your turn. There were a few times when it was my turn at both tables. I almost bet most of my points on a hand that I wanted to fold. OOPS!
I shall try to stick to one game at a time, just for my own safety there. The funny thing was that in the money qualifier I finished 15th out of 70. So, it wasn't all bad.
The way the windows pop up though was making me dizzy. Hard to pay attention to these things. *sigh* I think I may be too old for two poker games at the same time LOL
I shall try to stick to one game at a time, just for my own safety there. The funny thing was that in the money qualifier I finished 15th out of 70. So, it wasn't all bad.
The way the windows pop up though was making me dizzy. Hard to pay attention to these things. *sigh* I think I may be too old for two poker games at the same time LOL
Monday, September 21, 2009
Back It Up
If you work in a big company then you probably already know that their information and data get stored, or backed up, daily if not more frequently. But, what about your computer at home? Isn't your data worth backing up?
Did you know that an estimated 1-in-10 computer hard drives fail each year resulting in the loss of important files such as financial documents, emails, digital photos and music? Even more people, nearly 43% of all computer users, will lose some of their important files because of other computer or hardware problems. Luckily, this is totally preventable with the use of an online backup service. These services will run automated or manual backups of your computer's hard drive so that if for any reason your files are corrupted or lost they can be recovered as good as new. These services are easy to use, totally secure and will prevent losses in time and money in the event of some sort of file loss.
Having been the unlucky one to lose a few hard drives along my way I can tell you that it is incredibly frustrating to realize that all your personal stuff is gone. While I do not have any businesslike information and I can always go get music and videos back I always have some pictures on my computer that I cannot get back, either pictures of my kids or my grandkids. Using an online backup solves that problem.
Click on the link I just posted above and it will take you to a wonderful site where they have reviewed a number of online services that you can use to back up your important data. Stop for just a moment and think. What would you do if you turned on your computer tomorrow and nothing happened because the hard drive crashed? Isn't a backing up service truly worth looking into? There is a reason why businesses back up their information and there is good reason for the rest of us to do so also.
Click on the link above, find the service that is best for you and get yourself some computer peace of mind.
Did you know that an estimated 1-in-10 computer hard drives fail each year resulting in the loss of important files such as financial documents, emails, digital photos and music? Even more people, nearly 43% of all computer users, will lose some of their important files because of other computer or hardware problems. Luckily, this is totally preventable with the use of an online backup service. These services will run automated or manual backups of your computer's hard drive so that if for any reason your files are corrupted or lost they can be recovered as good as new. These services are easy to use, totally secure and will prevent losses in time and money in the event of some sort of file loss.
Having been the unlucky one to lose a few hard drives along my way I can tell you that it is incredibly frustrating to realize that all your personal stuff is gone. While I do not have any businesslike information and I can always go get music and videos back I always have some pictures on my computer that I cannot get back, either pictures of my kids or my grandkids. Using an online backup solves that problem.
Click on the link I just posted above and it will take you to a wonderful site where they have reviewed a number of online services that you can use to back up your important data. Stop for just a moment and think. What would you do if you turned on your computer tomorrow and nothing happened because the hard drive crashed? Isn't a backing up service truly worth looking into? There is a reason why businesses back up their information and there is good reason for the rest of us to do so also.
Click on the link above, find the service that is best for you and get yourself some computer peace of mind.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
For Better or Worse
Finished another week strongly, ending up with roughly 35000 points and another invitation to the Weekly Championship game where the winner wins $750. Too good to pass up. Unfortunately there were way too many people that thought the same thing, LOL In fact we started the tournament with 1201 players! I beat out around 540 of them but then ran out of cash and was wiped out of the tourney. No cash :(
The worst hand of the week? I had a full house, Queens and 2's. I went all in and was shocked when someone actually called my bet. Their hand showed they had three 2's, so I can understand why they thought they could win. But, I was feeling pretty darned good until the river (last card) came up a 2! I got wiped out by four of a kind?! Darned river!
No matter what the poker experts say, the game of poker still comes down to one thing...luck LOL
The worst hand of the week? I had a full house, Queens and 2's. I went all in and was shocked when someone actually called my bet. Their hand showed they had three 2's, so I can understand why they thought they could win. But, I was feeling pretty darned good until the river (last card) came up a 2! I got wiped out by four of a kind?! Darned river!
No matter what the poker experts say, the game of poker still comes down to one thing...luck LOL
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