Another Sunday

– another shot at PokerStars $100K guaranteed $11 buy-in tourney. I’m registered. So is Glenda. We have a pact to make the final table today. Right this minute nanosecond there are 17,519 registered and the head count is shooting up like fireworks on the 4th of July – there are always around 20,000K or higher in this event. It’s a crap shoot for sure, but someone has to win it, right? Right! I’ll keep trying, every Sunday that I don’t have something more pressing going on, I’ll be there. After all, what better way to hit my goal on Chasing Chris? The goal aside, I could use the cash, damn it!

Yesterday was go to the Dr., get labs done for cholesterol, etc., had a chest x-ray, an EKG, (nice that my Dr.’s office is a self contained little lab too), and go back in a week or so for a stress test. I won’t play any poker for 24 hours before that test. Hee-hee. The pre-lab instructions are no caffeine for 24 hours, blah, blah, blah, they should list no poker for us donk poker junkies too.

Then it was brunch with Riot and Darian. Riot was – as usual – a Riot, demanding to go to Grandmom’s house when I dropped them off at the old digs. Darian has created a custom concrete sink and counter top in the main bathroom, the floor is custom concrete by him, he’s finishing up the hall/entry way with a custom concrete job. It looks great, waiting for the final seal to go on the counter top and floor.

I did call my dentist’s emergency # and left a message. He got back to me late afternoon and called in a prescription for antibiotics but he just doesn’t believe it’s an infection in the tooth/gum area. He said I have to meet him at 7 a.m. on Monday. My bite is basically fucked up. I don’t know how you change that. But my upper lip is still swollen, it looks as if I had collagen shots. It feels as if I’m having a major allergic reaction to something but I have no idea what, nothing has changed in my diet and I haven’t been out and about.

My Dr.’s visit yesterday wasn’t about what’s going on now, it was for a routine follow-up. She wasn’t able to figure out anything that might have changed in my system and the only thing that has really been a major stress and pain point is the tooth thing. Go figure! Something’s awry though. Maybe it’s poker stress and donkey lips are growing on me to go with my big ears.

Back to the $100K guarantee, there were 18,640 registered, there are 14,610 players left and they are dropping like ticks hit with a hot iron as I write. 2,978 get paid. That’s a helluva a lot of 2-3, 6-5, 9-4 offs to look at before I hit the dough. Later…