Chris Is Up $180 From Regina

So $180 might not sound like much considering I can smash $500 regularly at Dunes, but it is a very big win. Considering I was stuck 2K by Saturday afternoon. Omg, do I play bad. Or maybe it's the low caliber of players at the Dakota Dunes that has deteriorated my game so much. I am a decent player, but I was very humbled playing Regina.

We got there Friday night around 10pm and rolled straight to the casino. It was of course buzzing with tons of poker players all there for the tournaments. I jump into a 2-5 NL game right from the go and proceed to watch my stack go up and down. I wasn't even meaning to play as tight as I did, but the onslaught of getting face-rag (face card, little card) was the reasoning behind that. And anytime that I did pick up a quality hand, it just would never hold up. But I did manage to pull a $9 profit from that night! Woots, free chicken fingers meal for me... So we shut it down at around 2am since the dude we were staying with was playing the tourney on Sat and needed to head home. And also, he was so belligerently wasted at the table, that he got asked to leave. Lol.

So comes Saturday. We head out to the chino to drop Derek off to play the tourney. Cash games aren't running quite yet, so we hit up the mall across the street for some food court sushi. Back to the chino after that and cash games are beginning to start. I get on the list for 1-2 and 2-5 and head back out to the casino floor. Since I'll be waiting for a bit, why not play some Blackjack to abide the time and maybe try to build a roll? Big mistake. I sit down at the big limit game where the minimum bet is $50, maximum $1000. I buy in for $400 and away we go. It's going ok til I get to a hand where I had to cash another $400 to split 4's against the dealers 6. Which becomes a 14 and an 11. So I double the 11 (I was betting $100 on my squares) and hit a 17. Ok, I'm kinda nervous now. Dealer goes from 6 to 11 (!!!) to 15 (whew...) to bust. Word, ship it! And then brilliant me, I decide to bump the bets to $200 and another guy joins the shoe. It just goes downhill from there. I get stacked for everything plus another $400. Grrr, I shoulda just left after that double... So now I'm stuck $1200 for the day and haven't even started poker yet!

Well, I finally get called to the game and I only have $280 left (I went up with $1500) so I borrow $400 off of Brian and jump into the 2-5. I play super tight, pretty much cuz I have to, and get stacked when I get called down on a semi-bluff. So now it's 6pm and I'm completely busted. F me. I go back to Brian and borrow another $200. He's playing Limit Poker, so he brought a huge bankroll to start with. So with my newly acquired $200, I jump into a 1-2 game. I knew after Blackjack that the day was gonna be a grind, but after getting stacked at 2-5, it's gonne be even moreso. Going down in stakes is so lame too. But the 1-2 was pretty soft. I figured I could make money if I pick the right spots to make moves. And I did. I managed to turn that $200 into $600 by 10pm. At which point, I needed a break so I called up Lucky (a friend that lives there) and we went for a quick bite at Houston Pizza. That's right, not Boston, Houston! Weird...

So back to the chino after that, I get into a 2-5 game right off the hop. Which was pretty sweet, seeing as the lists were all super long, but I've played lots with the floor manager so he bumped my name to the top. :) I sit down with the $600 I've managed to grind back and get JJ first hand. I end up nailing a set on the flop and doubling through a guy who flopped two pair. Swizz balls! Sitting at $1200, $800 more to go. The night goes on, I play super tight and long story short, I'm sitting at $2280 at the end of the night. Which was 6am! Ugh, 14 hour session to win $180, but I'm super happy. Better than being stuck 2K. We roll home after cashing out for some much needed sleep.

Sunday, we all wake up around 2pm, get washed up and head to the chino for one last session before heading home. Nothing too exciting, I'm up, I'm down, and at the end of it, I'm even. F sakes, we coulda just rolled home way earlier and been good. We get home around 2am and I'm super bagged from the day, so I roll straight to bed.

Not a huge bragworthy weekend, but I did learn a lot. And now I'm gonna go super smash the Dunes game. I thought it was soft before, but after playing in Regina, I realize how ultrasoft it really is.

Chris Has A Fantastic Weekend

Ahhh, a sweet weekend come and gone. Kat was here all weekend. She got here Thursday and I brought her back to the airport this afternoon. It was a pretty swizz weekend. Didn't do much besides lay around, watching TV shows mostly. Pretty much all the things that couples who live in the same city take for granted, we spent the weekend doing. Shall we sit in and watch reruns of The Big Bang Theory? Sounds swell! Hey Kat, let's make some grilled cheese sandwiches. What a novel idea! Like I said, pretty swizz.

We did head out Thurs night for drinks with Tats since she was leaving to Calgary the next day. After a sushi dinner at Otawa, we hit up the Freehouse to meet with Cait and Jerrad, then off to Beily's for some DJ Babu and DJ Dopey, which was so lame seeing as we had to sit through 2 balls opening dj's only to have the headliners play for maybe 1/2 hour each. Superwack! But it was still a pretty deece time with all the ballin goin on upindere..! Some Asian gangster shit and Trent Duff, need I say more? Trays and trays of drinks...

So yeah, after that, we call it a night at around 2am. Get home, wash up, bed's calling. We go to sleep only to be woken up by Tatrina. (I told her to call me when she got up so we could go for lunch before her and Logan take off) So phone rings, I look at the time. 10am...? Why's she calling so early...? Oh super, she hasn't gone to bed yet and is tripping balls on mushrooms! Neat. So me and Kat go nab her from Dorian's place and chill with her til she takes off to Calgary. I napped most of the time at her place while she visited with Kat and packed.

That was the most excitement for Friday. After that, we just chilled. Ordered some pizza and watched a movie. Saturday we spent shopping. Didn't really buy anything besides some H2O lotion for Kat. Went to Keo's for some supper and then watched Lilo and Stitch at home. Yes, we spent most of the weekend chilling in with movies and/or TV shows.

Had a nice little Sunday though. After laying around for most of the morning and afternoon, we ventured out to Calories (sorry Dave, but we were craving sweet desserts! And the service wasn't half bad for once...) and had a fun little tea time. Then we went to Bulk Cheese and nabbed some samosas and gouda for a grilled cheese and samosa supper. Something to note, cheese samosas sniff balls. Even drowned in Hammer sauce, they're pretty blech. I highly do NOT recommend. After supper that night, we went and saw I Love You, Man. It was pretty funny. I think you guys will love it when you get around to seeing it. There are some choice moments.

So yeah, that was the weekend. Today I brought her to Keo's for one last lunch before having to head back home. It was a pretty sad day. I hate that we live so far apart. Oh well, it'll have to do for now. I did come up with the idea to marry her roommate so i could get a green card. We'll see how that goes...

For now, it's back to the grind. Freehouse days and casino nights. I'm hoping to smash the rest of this month and next month so I can go to both France for Kat's conference and HK in the summer. HK, I still have some more time to save up for. But France is coming up at the end of April. It's so ridiculous, I can go to France for just a little more than it would cost to go to Nashville. Superballs... And we wouldn't be going to just Lille (where the conference is). It's only a 3 day thing, but we'd be out there for a week, maybe a week and a half. So we'd easily be hittin up Paris, Brussels, maybe London even. They're all really close by train.

Those are just ideas tho so far. First I gotta stack some mad chedds if I'm gonna be able to pull it off. Paul Pang says he might even be able to help out with the airfare. But I don't really want it. He's already helped me out tons this year.

Anyways, that was my amazing weekend.

Chris Forgot He Has A Blog

Ha oops, so I started this thing and maintained it for what, a day maybe? Meh. I've been busy yo. The office has been pretty good lately so I'm out there every chance I get. Except Mondays and Fridays now. Mondays cuz of family supper and Fridays cuz it's me and Kat's only night to really hang out without anything else getting in the way. (Cuuuuuuuuute, right??)

Speaking of, she's coming down next weekend. (Woots!) But just for 4 days. Man, I hope Tatrina doesn't secretly stalk this blog. There goes that surprise... But I miss the Regina tournament weekend again! Regina holds a big tournament every November and March. And the cash games are very lucrative due to the large amounts of tilted people that lose their buyin to the big tourneys and try to win it back right away. I missed it in Nov. to go to Edmonton and spend time with Kat. And now I miss it again. I think she secretly must not want me to ever play in Regina... Meh, it's more than worth it.

Finally made it to another Monday supper (after missing the last two) and nothing's changed. Dad calls too many times to confirm I'll be there. Eat, talk about nothing, and go home. But it was still nice to spend the time. Since I missed the previous two suppers, I took dad out for lunch at McNally last Tues too. That was really nice. We both had the soups with bread and split a carrot cake for dessert. It was really cool to just sit and talk for a change, rather than have him harp on me about my future and what directions I'm heading in.

Nothing else really of note to discuss. Sask is Sask. Boring and cold still. All that's on my mind right now is saving up to hopefully go to France in April with Kat. And maybe HK in the summer. Other than that, it's the same old shizz.

Laters...