Bonus time = bad run

Damn! Just when I thought I would cash in on the latest PP bonus I start running bad. We are talking some bad hands here, fh running into bigger fh. Sets falling to drawing flushes, repeatedly!! Damn you party poker doom switch!!! I have to rebuild although I didn't take a huge hit thanks to clearing the bonus it still bothered me some. I decided to take a break for a few days and regroup. I may try my hand at limit again even though NL is obviously my game.

I like to dabble in playing some Golden Tee live
However I ran into this guy a while back that is absolutely killing the game. We are talking -28 to -31 where most would struggle to get -22. I saw the guy skip the damn ball off the water Jesus like! Finally on Friday I was drunk and had to talk to him. He was a low talker so some of the conversation was a bit hard to understand in my state. That and my friends were being way too loud. He was a bit of a strange character and you could tell that not everything was 100% right there. I told him I was amazed he could do this well so he told me a few things like how he has been playing since '91 and got better when he went to a GT convention (didn't know they even had them). He also said he makes a living off of playing GT. I was flabbergasted by this revelation but if you figure it out he finishes first on almost every course I have seen him play. Thats a 6 dollar profit on every game (give or take a few). You add it up after a while and that could turn into some serious coin. I also looked around the net and found some major tournaments with 5-10,000 dollar prize pools...its amazing when your eyes are opened up to something new. Now I know I could never do this because for one I suck ass at this game comparitively but its interesting nonetheless. So hats off to you D. Assman! Even though you are weird and alone at the bar on Friday/Saturday night I admire your fortitude!

Yes that means I tried to pull a double header this weekend. Silly old man I am. Friday was a blast most of which I don't remember but included me lifting a pool table that weighed a ton (coin op) just to prove that I could when someone else couldn't. Also promising someone I know that I would come and pick them up to work out in my gym when I know with gas prices as they are right now is not a possibility. Although it would be nice to have a workout partner but they gotta get there on their own. Saturday went out with a wimper as the morning was DRAFT DAY!!! We gorged ourselves with food watching the NFL Draft and watched my team (49ers) have what I think was the best draft in years (Vernon Davis and Manny Lawson, etc). However by the time 6:00 rolled around it was time to go out to a steak night where I ran into D. Assman again. Yep playing the same game all night although I did see him talk to a couple people even though I don't think he was with any of them. I decided not to talk to him as I didn't want to be some weird stalker gay guy even though I am enamoured by his skill. I attempted to get drunk but the attempt proved fruitful as rye would not do the trick. Ended up going home by 11....
This leads me to last night, I decided to catch the Canes game on tv at a local pub. After many double ryes we managed to pull a victory off a deflected shot (take it any where we can) and moved on to round two in the playoffs! I am pumped as Cam Ward looked awesome coming off the bench to save the season. Honourable mention goes out to Eric Stahl, Brindy and Justin Williams. For those that don't know I used to be a Hartford Whaler fan and when my team moved I moved with them. I started cheering for the Whale in 1990 when I was a young lad and just started to watch hockey. Don't ask why it was just because I admired the underdog and the Whale were always that, I admired Ronny Francis for shedding the Jagr "image" (that Jagr made him the player he is) and coming into his own as a player and a leader. I also admired many of the players we had and continue to do so (Chris Pronger, Marek Malik, Adam Burt, Pat Verbeek, etc, etc). The one player I admired who did not pan out was Andrei Nikolishin, I really thought he would be the next superstar. Alas I was wrong but goddamn he was good in NHL '96!