REDEMPTION AT VIEJAS

Jared and I left around 10:30AM for Viejas again. We wanted redemption. Since we left a little late, we were kind of stressing about getting to the tournament on time. We stopped by a McD's for lunch, then straight to the casino.

There weren't a lot of people in the tournament. At first, the cashier told us we couldn't use our free poker tournament voucher, but after talking to the poker floor guy, he said we could. The lady just hadn't gotten the memo.

The tournament had two tables and there were four or five people that joined after it started. Poor Jared got short-stacked when he pushed AQ on the button against pocket kings. He lost that hand, but got some chips back on another hand. He eventually went out when he blinded down and some of his chips actually got into my stack since I took him out when another player folded after seeing the flop. I think he had A9s.

Anyway, I got to the final table just barely and was down to only about 14 pink chips. But there were only six of us left so we talked the chip leader into chopping if we each gave him $5. That meant that instead of winning $91, we would get $86 and the chip leader would get $116. If he continued to play and win, he would have won $176. If I were he, I would have just kept playing, so I'm glad and a little lucky that we chopped.

It felt great to get in the money, but it didn't really lessen the blow I felt from last Monday and choking and not making the money in the four table tourney. But at least I got the money I entered with back, even though I lost out on the gas money.

We hit traffic coming back so we stopped by Temecula and smoked some Swishers Jared had purchased. We also had some dogs at AM/PM and checked out a cigar lounge that was really just for private members.

We also stopped by the Nike outlet in Lake Elsinore, but there wasn't much there. So I just dropped Jared off at his dad's and went home.

(written 1/7/12)