Saturday Night
As planned, Mrs. H and I went to our favorite restaurant, Forepaugh’s, on Saturday night. To make it even better, thanks to Jason, we had a gift certificate that covered exactly half of our bill. We decided to wing it and not make a reservation and we had to wait about 15 minutes for a table. This allowed us the opportunity to have a pre-dinner scotch in the bar. I chose the Macallan 12 for a slight change of pace. Mrs. H went for the Lagavulin 16. This is an incredibly smooth and wonderful Scotch, but at $10 a drink she decided on the Macallan for the second round. While they had my favorite, Oban, I tend to go for something different while out figuring I can have the Oban at home at anytime.
Thankfully they had their signature dish, Beef Wellington, available that night. We ordered some escargot as an appetizer and both of us ordered the Wellington as our entree. Unfortunately, I got the butt end of the roast and it was very tough. The wife’s, however, was perfect (which I had for dinner on Sunday night, and it’s still very good reheated).
As a rule, I don’t generally have dessert, but I just cannot pass up their English trifle. Wonderful. (Opps, I was channeling Richard Brodie there…)
What this all means is that I didn’t play one hand of poker on Saturday. I did, however, learn a lot about Excel UserForms and VBA. Oh joy.
Dinner night, howver, was very +EV. Highly recommended.
ITM On Sunday
While watching my favorite NASCAR driver, Jeff Gordon, win the Daytona 500 over Dale, Jr., I played in a couple SNGs and finally got in the money with a win. The games were really tight in the afternoon and I didn’t adjust too well. Well, part of it was that I wasn’t paying that much attention, after all, racing started again (only 2 weeks to Formula 1!!), and I was kind of distracted. The last few laps were great.
Either way, my spreadsheet’s “ITM/day” column now shows something for every day. Woo hoo!
I also played a little NL and ended the night up 10BB (is that even how you measure NL games?). Not a lot, but at least it’s in the right direction.
Later in the night I played 3 more SNGs and basically sucked. I played one badly, one I got sucked out on the bubble, one I got zero cards and basically got blinded away.
HST Is Dead
Hunter S. Thompson killed himself on Sunday. Sad day. News story.
Here’s a link to his ESPN Page 2 archive. Of course, he is best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.