Excited to play again!

Finally after almost months of no poker playing, I get off work early enough to go and play a bar game at McCann's. I am kind of excited. I get there and order a beer and a burger basket. I am planning on playing tight aggressive as I want the night to last for a while. Blinds are at 50-100 and just got to that level. I was a little late and also had to wait for a spot to open up. I get my place and my food arrives. I fold the first few hands and then call a preflop raise and fold on the river as my draws don't pan out. I am in later position and look down to see aces. Two limpers in ahead of me so I raise to 400. Small blind calls. I get reraised to 1200 by big blind. Two limpers insta call. I move all in for 3000 over the 1200. Big blind instantly move all in over the top. First limper insta calls. The other limper is unhappy but figures he is priced in so call for most of his chips. I figure the reraiser has Kings or Ace-King. Flop comes K-6-4. First limper moves all in. Now I am hoping he has A-K also. Other limper decides there is too much in pot to fold and calls the all in and leaves himself with 300 chips. Q on turn and 3 on river. The rerasier turns over K-J off. First limper has a set of 6's and last limper calls with a pair ofd 3's and hits river and still loses. So, I am out. Figures, I really want to play and I get donked out. Now , you may ask why I say that when I ended up with the 3rd best hand. Look at how this hand played out. I made a normal size raise with my aces. I then get reraised by K-J off with myself and 3 others in the pot. I have no choice but to move all in to try and get rid of players which of course doesn't work in bar poker. What could the K-J possibly be thinking with a reraise. He think he has the best hand! He think a small raise of 800 is going to get rid of other players. No he's just a dipshit that thinks K-J off is a monster hand. Had he just called the 400 raise instead of reraising with nothing. I am probably able to lay down my aces down as he would be first to bet and he would have because he has K-J off for gods sake. The 6's would have moved all in. The 3's would have folded. I would have thought about it a while and realized I was behind and folded. I would have lived on to play another hand and who knows from there what can happen. Instead I gobble down my burger and head home scratching my head as to why I ever play bar poker.

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.