Good winnings at Texas Hold’em

I was doing well at work today. I started with a brunch for a birthday celebration for someone at the company. We went to the Brown Paper Bag or something like that in Redmond. The portions were huge and I was unable to eat it all. The same was the case with everyone else.

Then I started to get real work done. I was getting closer and closer to figuring out the problem with Dexma not responding to my computer. First off actually I needed to know if they requests were getting out. They were. Then I had to figure out if the problem was the outside not being able to get to my computer. It turned out it was able to.

I put a stop in the ASP code and ran a report. Within a few minutes it started the debugger. So I knew it was getting to my computer. I spent time stepping through things and looking at the data to see why it was not working. I think I finally isolated the problem. I have a theory that my problem is also the same problem on production. If that is the case I would have figured out a major problem we have, up to this time, been unable to figure it out.

With not being able to do anything further because it was after five o’clock pm, and all the people I would need were gone, so I went home. I watched the Mariners and had dinner. Then I watched Mr. Deeds. I planned on staying up late so I could be less tired for the ride along with Joe tomorrow.

I got some money from the bank and went to Diamond Lil’s. I got on a four-eight table. It was a really cool table. People were having a good time. I went up more than a hundred bucks. Then I had a ten and something in my hand. The board had a pair of tens and a pair of nines, giving me the third best hand, but because I had a ten, I actually had the second best hand. Only a pair of nines, for quads would beat me. After a fair amount of bets and raises to get to that point, I lay down my ten and this girl lays down a pair of nines. She beat me.

So I was dwindling down a little bit. I got back to my original buy in and then I went down a little bit from there. A guy came to the table. He was a ten-six-seven, but could have been better off with a hair cut. There was something about him made me keep my eye on him most of the time he was there. I am not sure what it was, but he kept my attention.

So I am in the big blind and I get dealt a four-five off suit. Just on a whim I raise. Several people stayed in. The flop was a two-three-six. That gave me nut straight. There were bets and raises. Then on the turn there was an ace. It did nothing to weaken my hand. So I still raised. I was hoping for a card that would not make a flush happen. And something that would not ruin my straight by making a bigger one. A queen of spades came out. That sealed the deal. I bet and one person called. He had put me on pocket aces or something like that because I had raised before the flop. He was shocked to see what I raised on. I was laughing. I won more than two hundred bucks on that hand. It was awesome.

I played until around two-thirty am. The table started to break up. The workers split our table and sent people to other tables. So I took that opportunity to go home. I wanted to stay up a little bit later because I was trying to sleep in a lot on Saturday so I will not be tired when I got on the ride along. I got home and watched some TV before I actually did go to sleep, which was around four o’clock am.