The past few weeks

It's been another busy few weeks. Working a lot and trying to get lake place ready for summer. Ran my year end Jr. Bowling tournament for the CMJTT and SMJTT a couple of weeks ago to make for the end of another successful tournament tour. Was a little surprised to only have 25 out of a total of 53 that could have bowled, but it went well and 16 of the 25 took home scholarship money. The rest just missed out. In the lower average division we paid 8 out of 11. Not a bad percentage. Work has been busy and it seems that I have been working a lot of 12 hour shift. I don't mind them but it is getting harder on my old body. It is not looking like I am going to get to play any poker anytime soon. In a couple of weeks is the annual CMPPA heads up tournament, but I will only be there long enough to get it started as I have to work all day. Trying to decide if I should go fishing today, but can't seem to make up my mind. It seems to the norm lately. Not sure if it's an old age thing or if I am just getting bored. I did have a nice time last weekend when my wife and I were joined by my son and his girlfriend for the Night Ranger - 38 Special concert at Jackpot Junction. The concert was excellent with Night Ranger being the best part. I also managed to win a few bucks at the casino so it made for a fun trip. Enough so that we are going to a Foreigner concert in July at Grand Casino Milacs. That's a little catch up on wants been going on lately. I am hoping soon that I will be at the lake so much that I don't have any time for blogs, but you know how that goes.

Blog update

Sorry, it's been a while again with blog writing. The spring is always a tough time of the year to make time for the computer as I am opening up the lake place and trying to get as much work done there as possible so I can spend most of the summer just having fun and fishing. Haven't played much poker and honestly haven't missed it much. There is a CMPPA event this coming weekend that I will be running to start but then have to go to work later in the day. I am starting to wonder if some of the things that I run in my life are really worth it. The CMPPA seemed like a good idea when I formed it, but that was when I was running 2-3 bar games a week. Now, with membership down, I am just not sure if it is still worth my time. Making an organization like the CMPPA work requires a lot of effort and I am not sure that if I don't put that effort in that anyone else will. I am grateful for the help that all the CMPPA board members give me but what is missing is me being at local bar games promoting the CMPPA and I just can't do that anymore. I am not ready to give up yet, but my feeling is that next year maybe the last year of the CMPPA. I also run several youth bowling tournaments that has grown to a north and southern MN divisions thanks to my daughter Kara. But, my end of the tournaments the Central MN Jr Traveling Tournament is dwindling mostly due to the fact that I am not in any of the bowling centers anymore to be able to promote it. It also doesn't help that most of the local centers here hardly even have a Jr bowling program anymore. Next season is the 10th anniversary of the CMJTT and I plan on running events here in Central MN, but that might be the end of it. I guess that I just might be getting tried of all the donations of my time that doesn't seem to matter to anyone else but me.

CMPPA Team Event

This past weekend was the CMPPA annual Team Tournament. Easily the most fun event of the year. As I am not playing as much bar poker any more it was difficult to come with a team this year. My first player was easy. I asked a guy that is a solid player and he said yes, so one down. I was having trouble with the other when I saw a guy I thought might be another solid player. I asked him and he also said yes. How'd it turn out you might ask. Well, we first out in limit Holdem. Now, I don't blame my partner that got taken out as he had a full house and ran into quads. In omaha we had fairly quick exit also, but I am part to blame for this as I consider myself a good Omaha player but was mostly card dead during my times at the game. Now in No Limit we actually had a chance to win. I more then doubled us up early to give us a giant stack and command of the table. Unfortunately our weak link showed up in the later rounds and we ended getting knocked out in fifth place. It was still a fun day and I have at least half of a team for next year. There were several interesting things that happened during the day. The limit tournament was won by one of the weakest teams playing. It just goes to show that because it was a limit game, this team was never able early as in the other games to be forced to put all their chips in because of the limits with not that good of hands. It just confirms that poker is as much a game of luck as it is of skill. The other interesting thing is that Omaha was won by a team that had one player that had no idea how to play Omaha and won many pots not even knowing what she had. Lastly, we ended up with a tie for the overall champions. What I did was track each team as they were knocked out of each tournament by place and then added them together and the low total is the winner. Each team totaled 13 points. I decided to do a heads up playoff with each team changing players every 5 minutes. It was a fun heads up and lasted almost an hour. In the end the better team ended up winning, of course that is my opinion. Congrats to Shank, Redfish & Tiny (team Any Two Cards) on their win. It was good to see Redfish as he doesn't play that much bar poker anymore. He was a former partner in many of my past poker ventours. At least now he will have to come and play next year as defending champions.