Even though he was and enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punchedme, then he kicked me, then he punched me again. –Jack Handy
I didn’t get to play as much as I would have liked to this week. In fact, I didn’t even play Monday, Thurs or Friday. Monday I was just too tired after work and Thurs and Friday I can attribute to the fact that I just bought a new computer and spent most of those two evenings putting it together.
Other than laptops, I usually am a build it yourself kind of computer person. I went to Fry’s Thursday and picked up a P4 2.8G with 1MB of L2 cache and HyperThreading, a Soyo motherboard, a gig of RAM, and a bunch of other misc goodies and built my new home computer from the ground up. My new rig will replace my 3 year old laptop which just couldn’t cut it any more as my main computer.
So, enough geek stuff, how did I do this week?
Monday, July 12
Too tired to play after I got home from work.
Tuesday, July 13
Just a very slow night. I played about 290 hands and walked away a $29.50 winner. I couldn’t get good hands with enough people in the pot to make a difference.
Wednesday, July 14
I did a little better on Wed. I went up early and decided to call it a night after only 177 hands. I had made the mistake of flipping on Tivo when I first got home so I got a late start and was happy to take my $53 win early and go to bed.
Thursday, July 15
Spent the night assembling the new computer.
Friday, July 16
Spend the evening installing software on the new computer.
Saturday, July 17
It seemed like I was struggling on all three tables and then I hit monsters on two of them and it wiped out any loses and put me into the positive column. I kept plugging away and ended up playing 450 hands and winning $117.
Sunday, July 18
Very strange day. On one table I lost almost $140. I don’t think I was getting outplayed. It just seemed like I couldn’t make a straight or a flush draw to save my life. But then on the two other tables I not only made up for my $140 loss on the first table but booked $182 in profit.
So that brings this week’s total to $381.50 which isn’t too bad considering that I didn’t even play three of the days.
The challenge total so far is $1,310.25 which leaves $689.75 to go in 40 days.
