I spent most of yesterday figuring to get here.  The day disappeared.  I don’t know who to give blame credit to for making that entire day disappear before I knew it.  Of course there’s always the wonderful slow crawling, load like molasses satellite internet connection that really makes my day speed by as I dig my fingernails into the wall, and phone calls, and emails, and work to do, and construction going on on the property right now with the gravel road bed in the back and the front area, and a run to the store, and playing a little poker on PokerStars, and then just running out of steam to head for the hay.  Maybe that’s what happened…perhaps there was no thievery at all and yet perhaps those things are the biggest thieves of all.  Leaches, time suckers that shouldn’t take so much time but do, and each seems to draw out longer than planned until there is no planning zone, it’s just over.

I had thought to be here with a post on the PokerWorks H.O.R.S.E. tourney on Sunday night, didn’t make it.  Now the basics of the basics are that Dave took first place and did a damn fine job of it.  I got really lucky and had a shit load of chips pretty early and Dave and I battled back and forth for quite some time heads-up.  It then becomes a matter of card catching…I had my share during the tournament, he had his share during the tournament.

I took 2nd and overall, really enjoyed the play of the whole tournament.  We started with 8 and two tables and within 10 minutes were combined to one.  I do like that, there’s no headache involved in trying to keep up with action at other tables and we can all chat – as someone mentioned, just like a home game…I believe it was our winner.

1: yestbay1 (Grapevine), $20.00 (50%)
2: PokerWorks (Las Vegas), $12.00 (30%)
3: PokerHack07 (Red Bluff), $8.00 (20%)
4: Wiseguy91 (Holland),
5: grupper (((*))),
6: cmacc85 (waycross),
7: jbharshaw (FPO),
8: msacesup (Nashville),

Thanks to all for coming to the party.

On a poker note, I’ve been knocked out of the last 3 tourneys I’ve played when holding 10-10.  Each time I’ve gotten beat by an Ace either on the turn or the river, they’re holding A-K, A-K, and A-2.  Go figure.  I can’t.