My weekend started Wednesday afternoon with a trip to the dentist to get new wires on my braces. I had plans to travel fly to Ohio the next day to pick up a pick-up I had bought on ebay.
I have been looking at pick-ups for a few months now. I had decided earlier this year that I want to be a boater in the fishing tournaments that I compete in, instead of being a co-angler. In order to do that I need a decent pull vehicle and a bass boat. I am now starting to look at bass boats since I have my pull vehicle.
While I was in Ohio, I visited some friends. I got in to town late Thursday night and had to leave early Saturday morning. It would have been nice to get to see more of them. I got to hang out with a few people but had made a lot of friends in the 7 or 8 years I lived there.
I did get to visit the new casino in Columbus. The poker room looked awesome with a lot of tables. There were a lot of people on the waiting list for 1-2 NL. Enough for a couple new tables. They must not have the staff to run that many tables. We sat at the counter for about a half hour, without ever being helped. We went to play some slots as we only had a few hours to spend in the casino and didn't figure we would get into the poker room in that amount of time.
While we were mashing some buttons a security officer came up to me and accused me of smoking. It wasn't me. Then he accused my friend of starting trouble in the Valet. Again, it wasn't us. Didn't even use the Valet. I got a little upset from the accusations. We had him call his manager to come meet with me and him. His manager was very respectful, but this prick of a security guard kept pointing his finger at us accusing us of things that we did not do. We told his manager to go look at video footage, and if there was a problem with us, we would leave, but this security guard needed to be reprimanded if he was wrong. The security guy started sweating so much I thought he was going to faint. We continued to play, but I was mad and played stupidly losing more than I would have, had the incident not occurred. The manager never came back, but the security guard was still roaming around when we left.
On the way back home, after driving for 16 hours, I got tired. I was only an hour, to hour and a half away from home. It was dark and my reflexes were slowing down. I was scared of hitting a deer, so I stopped at a Motel 6 to sleep. There were very few cars in the parking lot.
I stepped inside to see if they had a room available. They did. I paid, got my key, and went around the building to check out my room. On the trip I had consumed 2 monster energy drinks and a 5 hour energy. I slid the key card in the door. The light turned green and I opened the door. Two people laying in bed screamed. I screamed. The few people that were staying there looked out their windows to see what was going on. My heart was racing 100 mph. I was no longer tired. All of the energy drinks I had consumed went into full effect.
I apologized as the guy in the room stepped outside. I went back to the front desk to explain that they had given me a room that already had somebody in there. They went and knocked on that guys room and accused him of staying there without paying. He was nicer than I would have been, had I been on the other end of this ordeal. They finally figured out that he did indeed pay and had given him the key card to the wrong room. They switched out my room with the room they were meant to have.
As I got into my room I turned on the T.V., and started to flip through channels. When I stopped my T.V. changed channels back to the original station. The satellite apparently controlled more than just my room. Great! I turned off the T.V. and ate my microwave burrito in quiet.
There was a 1" gap under the outside door and bugs across the floor. The room was quite retro. you could see it had been remodeled recently to a new retro look. The beds were as hard as a boulder, thanks to a thin mattress that was on a board with feet. Despite all of that I still managed to fall asleep.
In the middle of the night I dreamt that a rattlesnake had gotten in under the door and somehow gotten into my bed and bit me in the hand. I woke up wondering if my dream was that far out of reality. My hand was numb. I couldn't feel it. My arm was numb and tingled in pain. I turned on the light and looked for a snake. Then I remembered how hard the bed was. I had been laying on my side and had cut off circulation to my hand.
I woke up at daybreak and left the hotel. The rest of the trip was incredibly short and I was home in time for church.
After church we ate at the new Mexican Restaurant in town. I was settling in for the day when I remembered this was the day for the $25,000.00 guaranteed tournament on carbon with a $1.00 entry. I loaded that game as well as some other 1 and 2 dollar tournaments and the $11.00 Sunday game.
I ran well in most of the games, min cashing along the way. I was down to just 2 games left. The Sunday $11.00 and the Sunday $2.20. I ran into trouble on the $11.00 game and went out after cashing a little bit. I was now up $20.00 for the day with a chance to go deep in 1 tournament.
The $2.20 game was getting down to the final 3 tables and I was getting low on chips. I was waiting on the right hand at the right hand scenario. It finally came. I had been watching the big stack and noticed him get caught on a couple of bluffs. I got a hand and he raised. I went all in and he called with a hand I was hoping he had. I doubled up. The next couple of hands I was able to steal some blinds, then got the big stack to bluff off more chips to me. By the time we reached the final 2 tables I was chip leader by a large margin.
My cards went cold with 2 tables left. There was no reason for me to play poor cards so I let the other players take each other out. At the final table I was 3rd in chips. I really wanted a top 4 finish, but was thinking I really wanted that 1st place money.
The top 2 chip stacks went to work on the other players. I stayed out of their way. I was able to take out one player when I got dealt a KK in the big blind. He went all in and I called.
We got down to 3 players left and we were pretty close in chips. I decided to get really aggressive and hoped my table image from the final 2 tables would help me to win a couple of hands. My table image did no good. There was no getting these 2 players off of a hand. All I had to do was wait on hands and play them. Those 2 would pay me off.
The other 2 players got into a big hand finally and one of them were knocked out. Not long after that I had QJ and J 10 9 fell on the flop. The other player went all in. I had a shot at a straight with top pair so I called all in. He had QQ. Unbelievably another J hit on the river giving me the chip lead. I put the pressure on at that point, continually growing my stack and working him down.
Finally, after 7 1/2 hours I took down the tournament.
Last night was our Monday Night Muck Em. We only had 10 players, so I was going to try extra hard to cash so that I could get some points. For the first 2 hours it was not looking good. I couldn't grow my chip stack. Then 2 hands before break, I make a hard call, and took down a decent pot.
After break I was able to take down a couple of pots early that really helped me out. It wasn't long and a few players had gone out. One player was amassing a huge stack. The rest of us were playing for our tournament lives. The chips started to spread out a little. Then the guy who had been the big stack went all in and was called by the 2nd big stack. There was a new powerhouse. With 4 of us left, 3 of us had barely over 1 big blind. He had all the rest of the chips. I held on until there were 2 of us left.
Somehow, the cards turned in my favor, and I won a few hands in a row. The next thing I knew, I had the chip lead. I got back down a little, then came back to win the game.
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