986th

I'd been running decent in tourneys all week... cashed in the PJ Midnight tourneys, placed 50th out of 2000 in a Party rebuy MTT, a few solid SnG cashes. I figured that I was either just getting warmed up, or that I was definitely overquota on my luck for the month.

Unfortunately, it was the latter.

Got Big Slick once and had to chop it (but mine were suited!); lost a race to a short stack; and doubled up with AA, but I was already the short stack at that point so it didn't help much. There were two really aggressive players that I was stuck between, and I couldn't get any cards or a matching flop to play back at them.

Ah well. Congrats to the winners. I hope the conversion rate for new, first-time depositors at PokerStars will make it worth their while to make these Blogger Freerolls a regular thing!

In the meantime, it looks like PokerBlue is extending their Freeroll for a few more weeks, so I won't be cashing out of there completely quite yet.

Oh, and since I'm on the topic of somber news, while I was playing at the Muckleshoot, I heard another player telling the dealer that Midway was closed... that employees showed up and the doors were locked. My heart sank a bit, as that was the place that my Hold'em cherry was popped. First live tourney, first live ring-game, first time playing 10/20. And like a good whore, she was both of my younger brothers' first as well.

I spent many long nights there and really liked all of the dealers. Felt kind of bad as I was hearing the news while sitting in an Indian casino... like I was caught cheating or something. My guilty feeling quickly subsided though, as I hit my draw on the River and raked in a $150 pot.

R.I.P. Midway. I'll take the lessons I learned from you and make you proud. There'll always be a special place for you in my heart.