In the Andes…
… of upstate New York. I’m at thorladen’s house in Andes, New York. As you can see on the map, it’s pretty much in the middle of nowhere. So here’s what happened before I got here…
On Friday I woke up and made a reservation for a one hour full body massage at 6 PM. I headed down to the poker room, but the 5/5 was running short-handed and the 2/5 was full at the only table that was running. So I found gobboboy and ZBTHorton and went to the Emerald, which is a 24-hour diner-like establishment. It has average food, but it’s fast and it’s always open. I headed back to the room, then got the massage. It was good, but I don’t have much to compare it to. I pretty much fell asleep on the table.
After that I spent a bunch of time working with a developer on some FTP and Paradise MTT scraping programs (we should have those databases up shortly), then I went over to another room in the tower where Bill Ivey was playing some HU matches on Stars. Also, plattsburgh, who got 3rd in the $500 event for $15K stopped by later. He bitched at me for a little while for not having my digital camera to get a pic for the blog. I guess he’s right… as the official online poker player blogger/picture taker I probably should have gotten something. We hung out for a little while, I lurked the big game a bit in the poker room, talked to Clayton and P w I (sp?), then I went back to the room to play some 2/4 NL online. I also played a ton of micro limit tables on Stars right as one of the milestone hands was about to pass, then I was having so much fun being a huge lagtard I decided to keep playing… and I actually won like 10 buyins in about 40 minutes playing 5-6 tables. Hands like these helped:
1. http://www.pokerhand.org/?343784
2. http://www.pokerhand.org/?343785
Anyway, it was good fun. I eventually went to sleep after supernova9 came back and we talked for a bit about how the 5/10 no cap was… he played in it all day. After I woke up, I got on MSN and talked to Bushman and thorladen. They’d both busted out by then, so we were planning on leaving once everyone else busted out. Obviously, that happened soon after, so we got out of Turning Stone around 5-6 PMish (I think). I drove thor’s bridge friend and one of MrSmokey1’s friends. thorladen drove MrSmokey1, Bushman, another MrSmokey1 friend and jucifer. After about 4 hours and a stop at a grocery store, we arrived at a very nice property in the middle of nowhere. I’ll be sure to get a bunch of pictures tomorrow when it’s light out and you can actually see what’s around us.
I’m feeling pretty sick. My nose won’t stop running from allergies and it’s causing a sore throat and a headache. Being around cigarette smoke and lots of activity certainly isn’t helping, but I’m going to try to have fun over the next couple of days anyway. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
Good luck to anyone still in the main event at Turning Stone…. I hear Bill Ivey and Exitonly4 are still in.
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