So, I have been playing a lot of online poker recently. And surprisingly enough, I have been doing well for a change. I bought in for $105 over the Thanksgiving week and through last weekend I had cashed out $300. But I started to feel a little bored with it and thought "you know what? For once in my life how about cashing out while you're still doing alright and before you get to the point where you've suffered 12 bad beats in a row and are vowing never to play online again?" So on Wednesday night I cashed out $100 of the $109 left in my account and thought "ok, I'll just screw around with this last $9 and then I'll take a break for a while." So that's what I did. And here's where the smartness comes in. At 10:00 at night on Wednesday I decide to enter a $3.30 tournament with 865 players. And I start doing really well. But at about 11:30 I start doing the math and realizing that with 250 players still left even in the best case scenario I'm going to be there a while. But what can I do? I'm certainly not going to just give up and go to bed. So I keep playing and playing. We get down to 45 players left and I'm actually the chip leader - but it's 1:30. Finally, I lose a couple bad hands and get crippled and then the final blow comes when I flop top pair (Jacks) and push only to run into pocket Aces. I'm out. It's 2:25. Final finish: 20th place. My payout? $8.54. Yep, I missed out on about 4 extra hours of sleep for less than $10. To those of you who are single (or at least don't have kids) that's probably not that big of a deal but let me assure you that when you are the parent of a 3-month-old sleep becomes quite precious indeed. It's sure as hell worth more than $2.14/hour. And of course, I just turned around last night and lost the remaining $14 in my account so really it was all for nothing. Oh well, at least I now really will be done for a while and I still did turn a profit (again, for now).
Leaving work in less than an hour to see Avatar. I'll have at least my star rating of it up by tomorrow (I know you all can't wait). Next week I am in the office on Monday, working from home on Tuesday, and then have the rest of the week off. As much as I will miss Christmas in Texas, it will be nice to just have 5 days off and not have to travel anywhere farther than Aurora and Tinley.
For you sports (and especially Cubs) fans out there, it was just reported that the Cubs finally traded Milton Bradley; and no, it wasn't for The Parker Brothers. It was for Carlos Silva, who is arguably the worst starting pitcher in MLB right now. The worst part about all of it is that I now can no longer make fun of the Sox for trading for Juan Pierre. My only hope is that during the Crosstown Classic next year I get to see Pierre bat against Silva. I'd like to know what happens when a player who specializes in hitting very week ground balls to second meets a pitcher who specializes in giving up towering home runs?
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Huh. Putting life choices in economic terms is kind of illuminating. I'll have to start doing that...
John, how much would have won if you'd won the tourny?
A little over $500; $325 for 2nd, and $200 for 3rd. After that the payouts drop off pretty quickly.
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