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Archive for November, 2005

Back to SoCal

Posted by Chuck on November 28th, 2005

With the cost of airline tickets in the stratosphere and the prospect of getting to the east coast to visit family for Thanksgiving dried up, I made the last minute decision–aided by the acquisition of a convenient hotel room cheaply–to spend a couple days of the 4-day holiday weekend in Southern California. I was chasing [...]

A Good Tournament

Posted by Chuck on November 14th, 2005

The bankroll has been going through some trying times. So has the ego. But suffering bad betas is still part of the game, even if two straights on the river in a $3/$6 limit cash game killed off my sets both times and obliterated my buy-in Friday night. (To be fair, I got tied to [...]