February 24, 2022

  • Heating up

    Not the weather. It is cold out there.

    However, poker was a clean sweep for me on Monday. I took down the Hold-Em game and the Omaha game, plus I knocked out the Bounty (along with five others). The Hold-Em game ebbed and flowed, but after knocking out my first victim, I ran hot until I had all the chips. The only downer for me was that Tom flopped three Aces to match the one in his hand. Three of us went all the way to 5th street with him. Obviously, those of us with flushes and houses got housed and flushed. The part that particularly vexed me was when Tom put his A-A-A-A-Q up on the big board, displacing my K-K-K-K-A high-hand just a week before jackpot week. Booo! It was cool to catch my own quads from wired pairs twice (Jacks, then Sevens), but I did not get paid off on either.

    I finished Station Eleven on HBO. It is a different kind of story. But nobody is walking across a frozen Lake Michigan at night. I also think the safe-handling of landmines by children was over-simplified.