Bodogery

I did come off hiatus last night to play in the Bodog blogger tournament. Not that it mattered. The cards were not kind.

I got pocket kings once, only to watch as an ace fell on the flop. Then there was the hand where I turned the nut straight against a flopped two pair and watched in horror as the large pot went for naught when the river put my nut hand on the board for all to share.

I tried to bide my time, waiting for the right hand to make a move, but even with the super-sized starting stacks the blinds caught up. That hand where my straight got rivered for a chop really hurt. That was my big hand. Perfect set up. Very dood odds of taking most of the other guy's chips. 86% to win. Sometimes it's just not your night.

I finished toward the middle of the pack, 28th of 52 or so.

It's nice to see the turnout at these events picking up like this. Thanks to Bodog for hosting and sweetening the pot like they did.

It's Alive!

I guess it's been a while. I could come up with lots of excuses -- the job got in the way, life got in the way, I lost interest in poker... again... the sun was in my eyes, I tripped over a rock -- the net result is the same. I was gone, now I'm not. At least for the moment.

The triggering event to my return was an email I just got from Bodog. They were offering up some pretty juicy blogger events before which I mentioned on several occasions. Well, they just got a lot juicier. I hope it's due to a great deal of success in attracting bloggers to play these things. The last time I played the attendance was still a bit on the low side. Certainly not to the level that would reasonably justify adding over T$550 to the prize pool. But that's what the email says.

And it's enough to get me to consider coming out of semi-retirement. There are a couple small hoops to jump through for this one, but I'm going to jump. Assuming I don't go back into the mode of forgetting all about poker, I'm going to be there tomorrow gunning for my share of that extra equity. Hope to see you there.