Halloween Weekend

What a great full weekend I had. Here is a recap. Friday Went to Grand Casino Hinckley for there monsters ball. Got a free room, so decided to play in their Friday night poker tournament. $60 buy-in with 5000 in chips and 20 minute blinds. Started out very quickly with several good hands and was able to become early chip leader. I was able to double up by the first break. Big hand shortly after break when I limped with 3-3 and tight player raised 4 times the big blind. I put her on a big ace and decided to call and see flop. We were heads up. Flop was Q-5-3 two hearts. I check she bet 1200 I raised to 2400 she called. Turn was a blank, so I pushed all in. She thought for a long time and then called all in for less and turned over A-Q off. She was drawing dead, but to make it a little interesting a queen came on the river. I then went card dead for quite a while. Finally get A-J off and raise 3 times the blind. The table short stack moves all in. I call because it's not that much more and he has A-A and I lose about 1/3 of my stack. Blinds are getting very high and we are getting close to final table. I am big blind for over half my stack with 10-5 off. Someone moves all in. I call hoping to be live. I am he has A-Q suited. Flop is Q-Q-A. LOL I am done in 11th. It paid the top five. Oh well. Saturday

Drive to Eagan to bowl a tournament with my son. It is a baker doubles tournament, which means we each bowl every other frame. They have put out two very difficult lane condition, so that you bowl on a different condition each game. We start with 158 - 131. Not a very good start, but it is 16 games so we still have a chance. By game 7 we are in 35 place with the top twelve coming back to bowl the next day. Game 8 we start with the first 10 strikes and get a 289 game. It moves us from 35th to 19th. We then go on a nice run and move all the way up to 5th with two games left. We then finish with two 171 and hang on to finish 10th and advance to the Sunday bowling. It is now 5 pm and we are supposed to going out to a bar for Halloween. We get back to the room and have a couple of beers and get ready. We are staying in Savage MN and are a block away from Neisen's Bar that has two bands that evening. One is an 80's band and the other is a classic and new rock band. Both were very good. Had lots to drink, danced most of the night away and got 5th place in the costume contest. A very fun evening.

Sunday

Up at 6am and back to the bowling center to bowl 24 more games. We bowled about the same all day and finished in 10 place. I was kind of tired all day and missed a lot of easy spares. Guess I should have gotten more sleep! We come out making about $100 in the tournament and got to bowl 40 games. Got home just in time for the Vikings game. Great game!

As you can see it was a full weekend. Thanks to my family for coming along. I took a bunch of photos of the group in our Halloween costumes, but when I downloaded them something happened and they are all lost. Bummer! At least there aren't any future blackmail photos of me as a clown!