Chris Halverson’s Blog

Things were going well last night, working off the last 50 or so hands needed to clear a bonus. I was down a little, rallied back to be up 8BB then lost it all back to a higher full house. My presto lost to his pocket 7s when the flop came 57J. Of course, I did not put him on pocket 7s as I’m sure he didn’t put me on pocket 5s. My check raise when the turn came J made him think though and when he raised I put him on him making his set of Jacks. I had dug the hole and put the leaves on top, just setting the trap, or so I hoped. Unfortunately he didn’t fold and we dutifully capped the turn and the river. Oh well, I played fine the rest of the night, Tight Chris was in the hizouse and wearing out the “Fold” button. Such is the life of the grinder

Tomorrow night is my “work” home game. A guy at work is throwing a NL tourney. This is the guy who doesn’t know about blinds. That single fact encompasses 50% of the field. Because of that, I’m set to give a HE lesson at the start of the tourney. There will be one other person there who knows what they’re doing so it should be “interesting”. I expect to either win (or second) or be the first out. Suckouts will be the norm rather than the exception I’m sure. Either way it will be fun, especially since the host is providing free booze and food. No BYOB! The downside is that he lives an hour away from my house. Yikes! That’s twice as far as the casino and infinitely farther than sitting with my laptop on Party. Oh well, it’s a social event and should be fun. Trip report on Saturday.

I’m needing to get some live play in before the August 7th Midwestern Poker Bloggers get together at Trump in Chicago/Gary. I’m going to be dead from driving around half of Wisconsin on the previous two days (actually, I will have driven all the way through Wisconsin West to East by that point) and sitting out in the sun watching parts of an auto race (CART at RoadAmerica in Elkhart Lake, WI). Anyway, it would be good for me to come out ahead there in order to prep for, or at least pay for, potential future trips. Maybe I can make the big score like hdouble did and be able to fund another trip with that.

Other than that, not much poker wise, just same old grind. School is soooo easy this quarter. Running is going well, I’m sore but feel good. Job search is starting, polishing off the ‘ol resume and everything.

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