Picking them up....

Most of the week was spent online as normal. Due to my condition, it is a bit of a challenge to get to the casino. But, I managed to make it there yesterday. It was fun for a change. Within the first 2 hours I dropped 2 buyins. 2 hours later my stack is sitting 3.5 buyins deep. At this point I took a dinner break. Had a nice burger thanks to my points.
After dinner I played for an additional 2 hours. I ended up realizing about an hour back from my break the table was dead. I stuck around for an extra hour to see if I could get a seat change, but they didn't open any new tables. So I headed off. I walked just above break even (3 buyins invested, left with 3.2 buyins). That was my first time back at a live game in 5 months.
The best time of it was getting to hang out with Pineapple again. He is an old timer that has been playing since the mid 40's. He has a lot of great stories of the game and it's players.

The week online wasn't any more productive. No cash in any of my MTT's. I didn't get time to play many SnG's, and didn't do well at the ones I did play. I did multi-table rush alot this week. I made a little there. Picked up a lot of good hands and ran into a lot of better hands :)

After the week I had with rush, I think I am going to make that my grinder game for now. We will see how it goes. I have been grinding small MTT SnGs. It is a big change from what I was doing. But I am looking forward to it aswell.


I got up this morning and felt in the mood to paint. While I painted I reflected on my dog that was run over a week ago. I combined images of the front end of a car and a head weeping. It is a little "robot-ish", the images didn't come out of my head properly. But anyway, here it is "When the Metal Weeps".

I know you can't see all the detail in the photo. But, I really like the way eyes and the "grill" came out.

Here's to my lost friend, Maliki!