Ok, ok already - she's baaaaaaaaaack!
Due to popular demand (ok, well popular demand of one, but hey...I'll take a fan club no matter how small it is!! :-D) , I am again writing in my blog. To be honest, I didn't realize I have been so remiss in writing. Then again, I didn't realize that anyone actually read the drivel that I put on here...let alone wants more. GOD BLESS YA, BABE(S)! It's good to feel wanted (even if it is in my own mind...hey, gotta start somewhere)!
So, what has been happening in the life of Joanne? Lots and lots of travel for work. One trip, I had planned to hit a couple tourney's while up in Minnie-soooota - alas, that client is downtown and wouldn't give me a car. EXCUSE ME? NO FUCKING CAR? Good god, what is up with that! (Has anyone ever been to downtown St. Paul? They roll the sidewalks up at 4:00 pm. I went to Chipotle one day on my way back to my hotel after work [this is 4:30 in the afternoon] and they were closed! WTF???? Oh, and all the buildings have GUNS BANNED ON THESE PREMESIS signs. DOUBLE WTF!!!!!!!!! Not only could I not go anywhere, I didn't want to. If they have to have no gun signs, shit, send my ass home. I do not want to die in the great white north, eh?!?!) Anyway, suffice it to say that there was no poker in my future up there (and my internet connection blew, so all around, I felt like a fish out of water, floundering about hoping someone would toss a bit of water onto my poor little fish head, so I wouldn't die (OF BOREDOM! And maybe a little withdrawal...no poker for more than a week. I was looking so forward to tourney-ing in the casinos there, too.) If I never go back to MN again - that works!
I played online a couple weeks back. I love my Tuesday night online games...I play with some of the coolest, best, most fun people ever(!!!!) on Tuesday nights. I love these folks...but sometimes it's a dual edged sword to play with really good players. For when you return to playing in tourneys (either live or online), you go back to playing with donkeys who call you with 64o and hit...or they go All-In every hand when your JQo just doesn't look that good to an All-In bet. No matter, I love what I learn from these guys [that I don't do so badly, doesn't hurt my own sense of self either].
So, I am playing online a couple Tuesday nights ago and I had 9Qo. Flop comes TJK...I flop a K high straight. FLOPPED IT!! There are three of us: first position bets, I triple his bet, the last guy puts me (and position 1) all in - about 10x my reraise. Position 1 folds, and I call. Last guy has two pair and don't cha know it, rivers a boat on me. Buh bye Joanne. See ya next Tuesday night.
I played again last night. Didn't do too badly. Missed a good chance to push when I was short stacked. I had 89s but a raise and reraise before me came and I just didn't feel it, so I folded. I would have gotten a straight and took down the pot, trippling up. Alas. Took down a couple others and then went out in TJs several hands later. 12th place. DIDN'T EVEN BUBBLE! :-D Oh, well, I made a decent showing, and that worked.
I am going to be nutty busy with work soon. I have classes going on all next week (I teach computer configuration for a custom software app and do business consulting), a week off, then a conference in CA, work in Thailand, Dallas, and god only knows where else. Can you say SEE YA NEXT YEAR, Joanne? That's just about it. Thailand sounds kinda cool, though. Anyone been there? The client offered me a car/driver vs. renting my own vehicle. I am pretty adament about driving myself (St. Paul is still resonating in my brain - stuck in a hotel with nothing to do and nowhere close to go- my worst traveling nightmare. PLUS, I am gonna be in Thailand! I DON'T WANT TO SIT AROUND THE HOTEL ALL THE TIME!!!) Are any of my devout followers out there (I know, I know, all three of you!) familiar with driving in Thailand? Email me if you have any thoughts.
Ok, I posted something and will attmept to do so again before 35 (give or take a few) days rolls around. For those who missed me...AW! That's so darned sweet I could just spit! (huge sloppy kisses to ya! ok, ok, sans spit.)
Ciao ciao ciao for now now now!
J
So, what has been happening in the life of Joanne? Lots and lots of travel for work. One trip, I had planned to hit a couple tourney's while up in Minnie-soooota - alas, that client is downtown and wouldn't give me a car. EXCUSE ME? NO FUCKING CAR? Good god, what is up with that! (Has anyone ever been to downtown St. Paul? They roll the sidewalks up at 4:00 pm. I went to Chipotle one day on my way back to my hotel after work [this is 4:30 in the afternoon] and they were closed! WTF???? Oh, and all the buildings have GUNS BANNED ON THESE PREMESIS signs. DOUBLE WTF!!!!!!!!! Not only could I not go anywhere, I didn't want to. If they have to have no gun signs, shit, send my ass home. I do not want to die in the great white north, eh?!?!) Anyway, suffice it to say that there was no poker in my future up there (and my internet connection blew, so all around, I felt like a fish out of water, floundering about hoping someone would toss a bit of water onto my poor little fish head, so I wouldn't die (OF BOREDOM! And maybe a little withdrawal...no poker for more than a week. I was looking so forward to tourney-ing in the casinos there, too.) If I never go back to MN again - that works!
I played online a couple weeks back. I love my Tuesday night online games...I play with some of the coolest, best, most fun people ever(!!!!) on Tuesday nights. I love these folks...but sometimes it's a dual edged sword to play with really good players. For when you return to playing in tourneys (either live or online), you go back to playing with donkeys who call you with 64o and hit...or they go All-In every hand when your JQo just doesn't look that good to an All-In bet. No matter, I love what I learn from these guys [that I don't do so badly, doesn't hurt my own sense of self either].
So, I am playing online a couple Tuesday nights ago and I had 9Qo. Flop comes TJK...I flop a K high straight. FLOPPED IT!! There are three of us: first position bets, I triple his bet, the last guy puts me (and position 1) all in - about 10x my reraise. Position 1 folds, and I call. Last guy has two pair and don't cha know it, rivers a boat on me. Buh bye Joanne. See ya next Tuesday night.
I played again last night. Didn't do too badly. Missed a good chance to push when I was short stacked. I had 89s but a raise and reraise before me came and I just didn't feel it, so I folded. I would have gotten a straight and took down the pot, trippling up. Alas. Took down a couple others and then went out in TJs several hands later. 12th place. DIDN'T EVEN BUBBLE! :-D Oh, well, I made a decent showing, and that worked.
I am going to be nutty busy with work soon. I have classes going on all next week (I teach computer configuration for a custom software app and do business consulting), a week off, then a conference in CA, work in Thailand, Dallas, and god only knows where else. Can you say SEE YA NEXT YEAR, Joanne? That's just about it. Thailand sounds kinda cool, though. Anyone been there? The client offered me a car/driver vs. renting my own vehicle. I am pretty adament about driving myself (St. Paul is still resonating in my brain - stuck in a hotel with nothing to do and nowhere close to go- my worst traveling nightmare. PLUS, I am gonna be in Thailand! I DON'T WANT TO SIT AROUND THE HOTEL ALL THE TIME!!!) Are any of my devout followers out there (I know, I know, all three of you!) familiar with driving in Thailand? Email me if you have any thoughts.
Ok, I posted something and will attmept to do so again before 35 (give or take a few) days rolls around. For those who missed me...AW! That's so darned sweet I could just spit! (huge sloppy kisses to ya! ok, ok, sans spit.)
Ciao ciao ciao for now now now!
J
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