Starting February Good

Playing last night at the Crazy Moose for some hours towards the $5000 freeroll tournament.  You have to be super careful or it can cost you much more than you stand to make!!!  I have been running pretty darn bad, so when offered a seat on a very short table I chose to wait.  We finally got enough players for qualification on Montes, They had a sign up list for a 3/6 game starting at 6:00, so got on that but not sure about playing the "no foldem holdem".  By the time 6:00 rolled around, I was up about $250 in the 2/20 game, so my decision to move to 3/6 was suspect.  However, I wanted to accumulate hours with little risk, so seemed prudent.  My buddy Ron was on the list and he suggested we do a 75/25 chop on Montes.  Since he is the luckiest player in the casino I had no problem agreeing to it.  Was up on the high hand board for an hour and a half with AAA/22, but it got snapped with 10 minutes to go.  Sorry Ron, no $25 for you.  Then, true to form, Ron is in a hand with 10/J of clubs on a flop of A/Q/x of clubs.  He hits his flush on the turn and then BINGO, king of clubs on the river.  He says,"I will be kind to you guys and not bet", I knew instantly what he was going to turn over.  We split the $885 and I went on to win another $50 in the game for a total win for the evening of $500.  Great night of poker.

The only downside was a drunk who took the seat to my immediate left who kept sucking out on everyone, was eating something messy and getting cards, chips, and table dirty.  I quit playing after enduring about 20 minutes of it.

Played in the 10 o'clock tournament today, taking 4th place for $70 despite playing very poorly, with  some bad calls, bad laydowns, and mostly failure to take advantage of position.  Got to do better than that.