Daniel - Poker Journal
Just Poker
23 Dec 2004I woke up with the same agenda once again, tackling some e-mails. I’m getting closer and closer to being done, but after answering so many I’m pretty bored with it. I have lots of other things to catch up on but it all seems so overwhelming at this point. I have bills to pay, phone calls to return, Christmas shopping to do, and all sorts of other random household things.
So what have I been doing all day? Well I woke up… kind of. I went from the bed to the couch and then ended up playing NBA 2K3 for a while. For some reason right now I lack the energy to do anything productive. I don’t know where it all comes from but it is a common cycle that I often find myself in. For the last two nights I’ve head into the Bellagio to play poker. Last night the game looked like:
Seat One: Chip Reese
Seat Two: Gus Hansen
Seat Three: Me
Seat Four: Lyle Berman
Seat Five: Jeff Lisandro
Seat Six: Chau Giang
Seat Seven: Phil Ivey
Seat Eight: Doyle Brunson
Ming Ly gave me his seat and came back a little later when Doyle quit. The night was extremely uneventful for me. I played every hand of Stud H/L but didn’t get many hands worth playing in the other games. The most I was stuck was probably about $130,000 and the most I was up was probably about the same. I desperately wanted to get in on the action, but I was totally card dead. At about 4:30 am I was falling asleep at the table and decided to quit $49,000 winner.
So over the last two night of playing $4000-8000 I’ve won a grand total of $56,000 over about 11 hours. While that’s a considerable amount of money it’s basically breaking even at those limits. Tonight I don’t think I’m going to head in. My back is so sore from doing absolutely nothing! I’ve been spending too much time either in bed, on the couch, or sitting at a chair at the Bellagio.
So what’s on the agenda tonight? Good question. I feel like doing “something”, not something productive mind you, more something fun. I have nothing on Tivo worth watching, and my brain is too fried to play video games.
I was supposed to hook up with my buddy E-DOG last night… hey maybe that’s an idea. I’ll give Erick a call and see if we can’t find a way to get in some trouble tonight.
