Worst. Finish. M was getting low, pushed 1/3 of my stack in with TT. K22 flop. Checked to me. Push. Called by K9. K on the turn sealed it. 27th.

I lose use of my driver, and finish that badly in one day? F.

9 more trys. Hopefully better than this one.

I broke my driver today. It was a Callaway Big Bertha II knock off. Supposidly made from the same casting process as the Big Bertha. Well. Maybe. Mine cracked all along the top edge of the face from the toe to the hozzle. Yeah. Not so good. The shaft and grip are fine so I might just pick up another head and have it mounted. When I was hitting that club well (not as often as I would have liked) I was bombing it. I had to play the rest of the round with my Adams Tight Lies strong 4. Which, I have not been hitting well at all. I did lay a nice draw to about 220 on one hole, but I am just as likely to hit it 50 yards. Normally I don’t blame the equipment, but in this case I *can*.

Has anyone used allofmp3.com? Songs are about 10c for the bit rate I tend to listen to. Albums cost about the same as songs on iTunes and no DRM. I just am unsure I want to put my credit card onto a Russian site. I barely trust Amazon.

Edit: Have a look at the driver:

I also heard back from the fellow I bought it from. If I send it in, they will mount a new driver head on it for free. It will be The 2006 driver head because they don’t make the version I have anymore.

Ick. Finished 16th. Layed down JJ on a short stack against a raise that put me nearly in. A re-raise from a big stack confirmed two monsters. Well. AK vs 99. I would have won. A tripple up there would have been nice. I fell when I didn’t push the BB off of K9o with my TT. He hit his K and I was too pot commited.

My sunburn is better, but I am going to try and play golf in the morning. That may hurt, especially if I try and carry my bag the full 18. I’m hoping that the aloe treatment will work some more magic tonight.

*Finally* I made the money. I got to about 6th in chips when I found A-10 with a 10-10-4 flop. When I got to call an all-in bet on the river against 10-8 I was in really good shape. 6th when I hit the final table. 9th and 8th knocked out on the same hand and I am ITM. Sweet. A very bad run of cards at the final table had me drifting away. Ended up in 7th when I ran into AK with a semi-blind steal. Ooops. A cash is a cash, and points are points. I’m on the board now. And I made 80 cents.

Spent yesterday on the river with some very cool and very hot chick. I am now about the color of a boiled Maine lobster. Ouch.

This evening is being spent importing more of my CDs into iTunes. Someone should set up a rental outfit that rent jukebox style CD-ROMs and an automated way to import into iTunes. I’d pay for a weekend rental.

I *intended* to head home early and play one or two 45 SnGs last night. Instead my buddy Jason roped me into headed downtown to catch Ministry. Or we would have if we could have gotten tickets. We hit the back bar at La Zona Rosa and tried to sneak by the bouncer (people head in and out of the venue with stamps). Jason got by, I didn’t. Soon thereafter he got busted in the venue. It doesn’t help that he was wearing a white t-shirt at a *Ministry* concert. Oh well. I drank a bit too much last night and feel like crap today. Must be getting old. That or the Jaeger.

Just won a 6 top SnG on Stars. I just laid low limping with small pocket pairs into multi-way pots and missing. Finally I was able to double through the chip leader with KQ when we both hit top pair and his 7 kicker was no good. I finially busted him when he limped with ace-rag and I got a free flop with 3-7. Two threes on the flop and an ace on the river and he was done. Yippee!

Heading out of the office now. *No one* is here and I want to start my weekend. Plans include cleaning out my office and playing a few 45ers. Joe Bonamassa is playing La Zona Rosa Saturday so I might head down to check that out. I will probably migrate my iTunes library on my work laptop to my home desktop (or even better, an external HD) so I can keep everything together. I do dig the Nano.

I tried a $1+.20 this time. The play is crazy. We were down to the final two tables before the first break. I made one mistake earlier pushing QQ into an ace high flop and was hurting. I battled back and got my money in with 99 against AK on a 8JJ flop. Good read on my part. Then the king on the turn ended me in 17th. I did make the one mistake earlier, but this wasn’t it. I’d say, that’s poker, but I would be repeating everything already said on every poker blog in existance. So I won’t.

Results:

Off for my walk now. I is 8:45 at night and 94 degrees. Yeah.

Finished my 2nd 45 person SnG in 15th spot:

Only one bad play where someone who was too committed preflop pushed into a 10-rag-rag board while I held 99. I thought about it and it seemed like he was trying to push me off with overcards so I called. He had JJ. Ooops. I was out shortly after.

I am sweating drewspop who has some chips with 7 left in his challenge game. He is playing the $1 game. I am moving to that next time. I’m not really doing this for the money and my bankroll does not need the damage.

Personal SnG challenge has 2 games played, 1st and 4th. Played well when I won. Absolutely smoked the other guy heads-up, but could not get anything going in the last one.

I played my first official 45 person SnG for the challenge tonight. I bombed out very early when my kings ran into aces. The money went in pre-flop and I took a screenshot when it was over. Not a good beginning. I have played three of these so far and my finishes are 11th, 15th, and 37th. Ooof.

Edit: Results screenshot:

So I decided to play my first 45 person SnG as a warmup to the SnG Challenge starting this weekend (I’ll send the money today drewspop). I ended up 11th. Not bad, but not what I had hoped. Two big hands stick out in my mind.

1st was an early round with A-Rag on a KAK flop. I re-raised all-in only to be called by KJ. I got lucky and hit an ace on the river to more than double through. The third participant in the hand claimed he folded an ace, so hitting the case ace is a major-lucky turn of events. The “f!!!!” comment was very accurate when that happened. The unluckly player quickly busted out.

The 2nd important hand was a mid-round (50/100 blinds maybe?). I had about 4500 in chips to his 2000 in chips. I put him in with his AQo against my 33. I lost the race and then had to nurse a shortstack until nearly final table (there were probably 20 or 25 people left at that point). If I keep this up I will never do well in these events. It looks like you need a minimum of 6K to make a good run at the final table, and if I win that race I will be in prime position. 33 tends to be a good hand to be counterfeited and I am either dominated by a pocket pair or racing with counterfeit options. Just not a good play anyway I look at it.

I ended up busting with AQ when another player, also nursing a short stack, called my all-in push with KT. King on the river and I am out. I’m not upset about that one because I would have needed one more double up to even get a chance at 7th.

All of this wordage being said, I am really looking forward to the challenge. It should be good fun and hopefully good for my MTT game.

I ran 2.1 miles this morning. I actually felt pretty good. I am using Podrunner for tempo and so far it seems to work. Recommended by this fat guy trying to get back into it again. For whatever that is worth. Speaking of which- I am looking for a good way to carry my nano while running. I have a generic armband with a neoprene cover, but is slips off my t-shirt, down my arm, and digs into my elbow joint. Is the actual Apple one good? Is there another brand recomended? I might actually want some sort of belt based one so I can put it in the small of my back. I don’t usually need to control it once I start.

Fixed my WordPress blog- or at least the ShortStat plugin, which was not recording stats. If you are using the 1.3 version of that plugin on WordPress 2.0 you will probably need this fix, let me know and I will send you a patch (it is really simple).

I signed up for the next 45 Person SnG Challange. It is being run by Drewspop. Let him know if you are interested in playing. I am going on vacation in early August, but I should be able to bang out 15 SnGs in a month. Should be interesting as I am also working on my single table SnG game. I will probably keep to the low levels because I am not sure my bankroll can it. *That* is confidence, isn’t it?