w00t! Finally, i'm back up!

Well, yesterday was the first real good day in a while! Started down 8 overall, and played at lunch; first hand was very interesting. I had A-J and raised 1x BB (high blinds, so you can't be raising too much) preflop.
Its me and N.K. to a x-K-A flop. I raise another dollar (leaving me and N.K. with 3 dollars left). He can read me when i want him to, so I basically let him know i have the Ace. Turn is rag, so one more dollar goes in.
River comes up another K, for a board of x-K-A-x-K. He comes to life and goes all-in, and i go into the tank. I'm thinking he can't have the King, as he knew that I had the Aces on the flop. He wouldn't have called with second pair and essentially no outs, except for the Miracle King. I know N.K. likes to gamble (lost 200 bucks at the local fair... those are some horrible odds over there.. but thats another story) but I wasn't worried, so I just called. He flips over J-T for the busted Gutshot Straight draw, and i double up on the first hand. I end up knocked out Rob, but lost some of it to the Fish when Rob started helping him (I should have complained, but i didn't care).

Unforuately, I became too attached to the money, and played way too passive, which cost me. Doyle says you shouldn't think of it as money, but ammo. But when you can get that CD you want or something like that.. you think about it a little more.. oh well, i still was up 5 on that game.

Later, as were going up to the Indoor Track Meet that our school sponsors everyyear, i won another 5 dollars from Jason. $5 NLHE .10/.20 -- Key hand:

Down to 3, while Jason has 7 or so. I am holding 9-8 spades, and see the flop. Its T-J-T, and I bet out .30 (building the pot). He raises me another .30, and I call. Turn is a very sexy Queen, to give me the low straight. I know he couldn't have called with an AK, so I essentially have the nuts, as long as he doesn't have T-J. I figured he didn't, as he only made the minimum bet. I know he would have pushed me all-in if he had the full house, so read him for a set of Tens, weak kicker.
I push all-in, he has the 10's and i have the straight, and the board doesn't pair, so i'm back up. From there I eventually knock him out, and me and Demers cash out, allowing Demers to get back his buy-in.

I look at my ledger.. AND I'm up 2 dollars!! w00t! I know its not alot (especially to the older bloggers, or even the kids playing $20 buy-in games (i want to get in on that... most of them are fish with cash), but the fact that I'm up overall is pretty sweet. I've been down for about a month and a half, so I'm feeling pretty good.
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The track meet went well. I placed 1st in the mile, with a slow 4:44, but it was good enough for me. The runners there are good, but none of us like the dry air in that place. So it slows you down a bit. I ran it pretty well, staying in second or third most of the time (with 3 leader changes) and then when Bauder started to kick with 400m to go, i waited 200m, then came back and beat him with 50m to go, right on the turn. He didn't see that one coming, one of my guys said "his jaw just dropped, he didn't even know you were there." Got to love the crowd cheering, i don't think he heard me coming because of it!

2 mile wasn't as good, felt like shit around lap 8, dropped off to about 5th, then pushed it all-in about lap 13 to make up the gap and end up in 3rd, 2 seconds behind Jason. He is a little better than me in the 2 mile, especially if i'm tired and he's feeling really good. But considering I was about 10 seconds behind him with 600 meters to go, I felt I did pretty good. I have to have the best kick in SMAC, no one in this conference seems to know how to change pace or kick at the right time. Works for me, i hate just running one pace anyway, its much more fun to beat them at the line!

The runner's high didn't let me sleep on the bus, so when we got home at 1:30 am.. i was really tired. But all-in-all, it was a good day. I wonder if there's a poker game tonight... maybe i can go after i see Oceans 12 with my gf. (Which is why I need those guys to pay me for the poker games... people take an average of 3 days to pay someone.. it sucks. But thats why i keep my log, to make sure everyone pays me :D )

Jeremiah