Third Place in the poker tournament

I got up and my phone’s clock said it was later than it was. I thought I was going to be late for getting to Pullman for the basketball tournament. We were not sure if there was going to be one today, but we went just in case.

I met Josh at station one. We got equipment and then headed to Bohler Gym. It turned out the tournament was cancelled all together. I went back to my office and I talked to godaddy.com about the Thunders’ website. Jerry asked me if I could take it over last night. He gave me the login information, but I was unable to FTP into the account and work with the page. So I got the information I needed from them to do it.

I also got an E-mail from JT about some ideas for the Office Pool. One was to make it so people could see the others’ picks once the cut-off time for the first game. I set it up that way. Plus I went through the Thunder website and changed all the places it said Palouse to Quad-City. The Thunder is now the Quad-City Thunder and not Palouse Thunder.

I got those pages uploaded. It was just before three o’clock pm and I planned on playing in the Zeppoz poker tournament today. I got there in time to sign up. There were people who got there five minutes after three and they were on the waiting list. The tournament started at four, but the sign-ups were at three.

I waited around for the tournament to start. I got some lunch and some pop. Then when it was time to start I took my seat. I bought in for sixty-five bucks. It was a satellite tournament. Meaning that you would win buy-ins for larger tournaments.

I played my normal game. A few times I thought about going all-in, but I held back and it was a good thing, because I would have lost those hands. There were a couple people at my table, the kind of people I hate to play with. They make fun of other people and call their playing abilities into question. Those guys were knocked out before I was. In fact one guy was being ripped on really bad and he ended up in forth place and got money for one of the other tournaments.

I battled back from near elimination to make it to the final table. Then things were going fast. I got some good cards and when I did go all-in they would hit for me. Finally I was one of three left at the table. I was short-stacked and the blinds were three-thousands/six-thousand. I did not have enough to pay three blinds. I got a king-five suited. A girl next to me called and she had an eight. The board gave her a straight using the eight. So I ended up in third place with two-hundred and ten bucks for a buy-in and a tournament at the Wildhorse Resort and Casino in Oregon. The tournament is from the second to the eleventh. So I have to decide what day to go. There is a different tournament each day.

I am looking at going on the third. There is a two-hundred dollar no-limit hold-em tournament that would have about a ninety-six thousand dollar payout. I would have to be in the top forty or so to see any money at all. But it would be fun to give it a try. It would be really fun to make it to the final table where those people will probably see pretty good money. I would think first-place would offer about half of that money.

If I were to win that much money. I know the taxes would take a good size chunk out of it. Then the rest would go to pay off all my credit cards and other small bills. Whatever was left over would go towards my truck. So I would not really see any of the money, but I would see the benefit of being nearly out of debt by it. But I am a LONG way from that.

After the tournament I went to my office and check my E-mail and played on the computer for a while. I had dodgeball tonight. We have four more games. Assuming that we win some we may make it to the post-season.

I headed to the gym early to watch some IM football. TJ was playing one game and Bryce was playing in another game. It was fun to watch them out there. Once ten o’clock PM rolled around I went to the gym and we played dodgeball. We lost the first game. But in game two Craig was our sole survivor and he took out two guys from the other team to secure our first victory. It was great. We won one more game and ended the night two and two. With a two and ten record overall.

I went back to the IM football games. Now Meow and Dearth were both playing a game. I watched them play. After Meow’s game I went up to him and told him I watched him complete a pass… to the other team. We laughed about that. Someone’s mom from their team came with all sort of goodies for them post game. She game me one of the home-made donuts before I left.

I went home and watched Scream Three on TV before making my way to bed.