So despite my lack of interest in internet poker, I am still donkeying around with live poker, stealing pots, breaking hearts, flipping coins.

Alright, so as usual, my buddies and I play .50/1 NO limit hold'em with a $40 maximum buy-in. I've been running cold the last couple of trips - so where some people would say that luck and patterns have nothing to do with poker, smart people like me would say that poker is all about luck and streaks. I'm not saying you can predict the streaks, but I do know that my mad-skillz will eventually pay off - one big win outta 5, and I"m only down 3K a month... errr or something like that.

So anyways, we played poker on monday (my first day-off since I got home from vancouver)- which was a sweet day - I completed the triathlon of non-athletics: Golf, Pool and Poker.

We golfed in a threesome and tee'd off around 2:00, we were playing skins, $5 per hole, every man for himself, ties are pushed over to the next hole. We are all fairly equally skilled golfers, so the push-rule is a huge kick in the dick sometimes... for example, I pared the first 3 holes to tie with the other dude who made 3 pars, and the third donkey went double, double, bogey. The 4th hole is a 320 yard par 4, I crushed my drive about 10 yards from the front right of the green to put myself in perfect shape. My approach went to about 15 feet, the other good guy put his approach into a bunker - so I thought I was golden for the hole - and 4 skins. And then donkey boy - missed the green with his 2nd shot - and miraculously blades his chip, hits the pin and drops it for birdie :( and I missed my putt.

The next 4 holes were tied, I made 3 pars and a triple bogey - luckily donkey-boy tied the other decent player to save me on my triple. The 9th hole was a 190 yard par 3, pin tucked beside a big pond. Donkey pulls his tee-shot into an unplayable lie, decent dude lays up his tee-shot on the green, but far from the pin. I decide to go aggressive, pull out my 6-iron and play a big draw over the water. It started perfectly, landed about 5 yards in front of the pin and rolled to about 2 feet. My birdie putt won me five skins :)

We jumped back to the 6th hole b/c a tournament was playing on every other hole. I won the 6th hole, a 140 yard downhill par-3 by making a 10 foot birdie putt. We tied the 7th, 8th and 9th holes so we hopped back to the 9th to play a tie-breaker.

Donkey puts his drive into the water and decent guy pulls his drive into some fescue. I said "f*ck" and hit my 6-iron again, I put it in almost the same spot as before and sink my birdie to destroy them both.

Final tally: me-9, donkey-4, decent-0, so I took $25 from donkey and $45 from decent dude. I think I was probably about 1 over par for the holes we played.

POOL:

I really suck at pool compared to good people, but I'm learning. I played in the weekly tournament - and I lost really quick. I suck at pool, no good stories there. This was actually the first tournament I've played in my whole life - and I learned a lot. I'm hoping to get real good at pool.

POKER:

Wow, poker is really lame, we flipped coins like crazy, took some 60/40s, won a big pot with AA>KK>77, I cashed out for $190. I was gonna poker blog... but nope.

Peace, dg

"I completed the triathlon of non-athletics: Golf, Pool and Poker."



Nice! I needed a chuckle today.