Played poker at Rockingham and won!!!
It all started with Mel's friend asking me to take pictures of her newborn twins. That got me thinking that it would be so sweet if I could upgrade my Canon EOS (35mm film) to the Canon Digital Rebel XTi. All of my lenses are compatible with the digital version. Anyway, I can buy it with a new lens for about $699. Body only for $599. Ben was saying that I should go play the $150 sit-and-go at the Rock. I've only played online and at our home games, so I was too chicken to do it. He finally convinced me to try. So, I did! And I won!!! $500!!! I think I'm getting my new camera. : )
How do you like me now?
12 comments:
You go, girl! Awesome.
that is AWESOME! You should go pro!
wow! cool! I wanna be a poker pro after I retire young with my real estate fortune.
wow! cool! I wanna be a poker pro after I retire young with my real estate fortune.
They have poker at Rockingham? I may have to visit NH more often.
sweet.
Congratulations!
I've been going to casinos my whole life (yes, even as little ones, we kids would stand by the edge of the casino while mom/dad played the slot machines for us with "our" money and we'd look on giving them signs whether to keep spinning or to take the money and run), and I've never heard of "sit-and-go."
Then again, I was never huge on poker. What is sit-and-go? I also didn't realize they had poker at the Rock.
Thanks everyone!!!
Jere: I tried to find a proper definition of "sit and go". Sit-n-go.com says: "Sit-n-Go (SNG) poker tournaments are unscheduled tournaments (single-table or multi-table) that start when the table(s) fills-up."
I think the Rock just started hosting poker events within the last year or so. The game I played was 6 players at the table and the top 2 get paid. You write your name down on the list and choose which seat you want (#1-6) and pay your buy-in money. Once all the open slots are filled they call you to your table and start the game. I like the pace of playing live better than online.
ps: I never really noticed this before, but we totally grew up in such a pro-gambling family. I don't think that is the norm, but I could be wrong. I've been around the racetrack my whole life, you around casinos, our parents betting "our" money for us, etc... kind of interesting. I had friends who grew up here and had never been to the track, ever! Not even with their families' to watch the horses. I find that so odd.
Kim has already noticed this. As soon as I told her about your poker win, she was like, There you Smiths go again with your gambling!
And while I rarely actually went to the track, I knew how to estimate what an exacta would pay by age 8. And I spent plenty of time betting horses at the OTB in Brewster, NY, across the border, but only like 1/1000th of the time my dad spent there.
It's funny, he's into sports futures now. It's like the "retirement" of betting. Where he used to do the single game football bets for fast action, now it's the laid-back, "bet the Pats to win the Super Bowl at the beginning of the year" and let the whole thing play out over six months. You don't think of gambling as something you can actually win at (well, YOU do right now!), but consider my dad's teams since '01 have won three Super Bowls (and another possibly a week away), two World Series, and two college football championships (he went to grad school as LSU). And you can be sure he had money down on all of them! I wonder if gamblers from Boston in general are just overall richer these days. Nobody ever talks about that.
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Anyone there?
Is blogging "beneath you" now, rich uncle moneybags???? :)
Ha! Uncle Moneybags!
I actually was going to blog tonight to report that my new camera has been ordered! I found it online for only $449. An even sweeter deal.
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