Damn, I suck

Sorry readers for I have sinned. It has been one week since my last post. Yeah, sorry. It has been awhile. I really have no excuse. I have had things to write about, I have been just too lazy. I never feel a mental block or something similar as some of my fellow bloggers have written. I never feel uninspired. If I am not blogging, it is due to one thing and one thing only - I am just too damn lazy to wite something down. Or maybe I am just too preoccupied with other nonimportant things. Who knows...

Friday night I played in a 16 player tournament at my friend's house. Only a few people that I normally play with in my regular, every other week game at my house. I have to say that on this particular night, I played some of the best poker I have ever played in my life. Did I win? Heavens no! How did I play some of the best poker if my life if I didn't even win? Don't I win enough to say THOSE games were the best I have played? Of course. Hell, I only got 7th place out of 16 players. But on this night, I was dealt the stinkiest piles of crap cards that I have ever seen on a consistent basis. I mean, I barely saw anything that was even remotely playable. But I am a pretty patient guy. After a while though, playing no hands and watching your chips dwindle away from the blinds gets frustrating. I had to take a stand and what followed was some of the best betting, raising, and talking I have ever done in a poker game. I was winning hands with crap. I had to convince them that after waiting this long to play a hand, I now had the goods. Now, this isn't supposed to be a ringing endorsement for bluffing. I think that players who bluff too much or think they are so clever for showing you a bluff are idiots. People love showing their bluffs to show how smart they are. I don't show the others anything. Why? I just kept them guessing. I would rather them think I had good cards than embaress them by showing I bluffed them. I knew I would be bluffing again on that night. I didn't want them thinking they should be calling me the next time I made a big bet. When it was down to 7 players I lost a big race that would have put me near the chip leaders. Alas, it was not to be and my game ended. I won't say my luck ran out because there was no luck for me on that particular night. Nothing went my way and I still did ok. So, even in defeat, you can play some of your best.

I have some fun and interesting stuff coming up this week in blogland. It is my goal to post every day this week to make up for my laziness. I even have a challenge to my fellow bloggers and readers tomorrow. Stay tuned....