Amazing

Brian returned to his neighborhood to find that his home was literally untouched by the storm. Not a roof shingle missing......his daughter's swingset still sitting in the back yard.............
How & why Katrina spared him we will never know.

I am now 8 days into slot sobriety.

Yesterday I visited the new Hilton Poker Room. I arrived about 1:45 and they had a single $3-6 limit game in progress. I visited with a player that I knew for a few minutes and then took a walk around the casino. I knew that I had a ton of comps available, so I stuck my players card in a slot machine and was shocked to see that instead of having over $700 in comps available, I now had the choice of taking that amount in comps OR cash. Guess which one I picked?? I can't imagine that this was the smartest marketing move. Because I (and countless others) had hundred of dollars in comps available, I visited the Hilton about once a week to eat for "free" and inevitably I pumped money into the machines or onto the tables. In one fell swoop I cashed out for cold, hard cash and now have no reason to drive across town once a week for "free" grub. Don't get me wrong, I am NOT complaining. I just don't see the wisdom in allowing players to take that money and walk out the door. Granted, many people probably just rammed that money back into a machine, but not me....... I have self control. (I can hear a few of you laughing their asses off at that statement)
Anywhoo, I wandered back to the poker room and took a free "poker lesson" for a few minutes. Several of those who also took the lesson started a second $3-6 limit game. To say that the game was soft would be a huge understatement. As an example, one of the students called me all the way down with 9-2 off. no pair, no flush draw, no straight draw, no nothing but a 9 high. Amazing, but that is poker as it is now played in many places by many people. I left there booking three wins in row.
The win streak came to a long, painful end today when I jumped into a $4-8 game at the Palms. It only took 1.75 hours for me to win my first pot. 8 hours later I had flopped exactly ONE set. One time around hour number 5 I came within $4 of getting even. If only I hadn't toked $4 on that pot I could have called it even and packed it in. LOL. That was as close as I got to even and the next 3 hours were a train wreck as I watched my chips get dispersed around the table. Entertainment costs $$. I guess I'll tell myself that I was sufficiently entertained.

Where did my weekend go? Wait, don't answer that---it was spent sitting at a poker table. Not a bad way to spend two days off. I'll be back in the poker wars tomorrow, just in a different seat. Please say hello if you find yourself playing at the Palms.