Procrastination

I'm sitting here in the computer lab at my college where I came to work on my Finance homework but decided to procrastinate instead. I surfed the web for about 30 minutes (it's truly amazing how much stuff you can look at on-line in 1/2 hour) and now decided to write a post since I hadn't wrote for a few days. I played some 20/40 today between class on SunPoker, but was at a really tough table. I don't know why I realize that my table is tough when I am sitting there, but can't convince myself to pick up my chips and find a different one. I played my first two hands like a total donk and was stuck $400 in the first 3 minutes of the session. I ended up making a couple hands and then pretty much just running over the table for about an hour. It is always so much more rewarding to own a table full of good players rather than weak players. I ended up making about 1k in a little over an hour when I probably shouldn't have even played at that table, poker is funny sometimes.

Last night I played a $160 double-shootout on PokerStars for a WSOP seat. A double-shootout, for those who don't know, is a 81 person tournament which starts with 9 players each at 9 different tables. You play your table like a single table tourney and everyone who wins their table gets to move on to the final 9 person table where they play down to 1. The winner gets a WSOP seat. I had never played one before so I thought I would try it out. Funny thing happened about 30 minutes into the tournament, one of my good friends (Donny), who is coming to Vegas with us this summer, sends me a instant message asking me if I am playing in a double-shootout on Stars. I kind of wonder how he knew this, but it turns out he was in the same tournament also. That may seem like just some mild coincidence, but if you look at our past history it is only one of many bizarre encounters.

2004- On my first trip to Canterbury Card Club in Minnesota I play 4-8 limit with Donny for about 6 hours, we talk for a while but I don't even think I catch his name.

2004- 4 months later on my second trip to Canterbury Card Club I see a face I remember and go up and say hello, for the first time being introduced to Donny. It turns out that this was the last time he had been there since our first meeting as well. We again by coincidence end up playing 6-12 together for several hours and exchange e-mail addresses so we can keep in touch.

2005- I qualify for The PPM and write an e-mail to Donny telling him the good news. A few weeks later he tells me that he is also going on the cruise with several of his friends.

2005- We are waiting for our luggage at the baggage claim in the San Diego Airport when Donny and his friends run into us and we mention how weird these coincidences are becoming. Later that night after we check into our hotel, Alex and I have to go and meet our other friend near downtown San Diego to pick him and his luggage up. As we are walking in downtown San Diego at 10 p.m. we again run into Donny and his friends by absolute chance.

To me that it is almost a scary amount of coincidences that have happened so last night I told him that it was a sign he was never probably going to get rid of me.

The tournament didn't go real great, my first table was very weak and I got heads-up with a 2-1 chip lead, unfortunately I was playing against a very good player and he caught some cards and I didn't so I ended up losing. Alright, I better start my homework...