Horse

So I decided this afternoon, something I wish I'd done sooner, to try to satellite into the Horse FTOPS via a $69+ tourney. At 2:00pm, with the start time set for 2:15, there were only 2 people signed up with 1 seat guaranteed. Now, I had one little issue, I had to be home by 4pm to get my daughter off the bus. I figured if it stayed under 16 entrants, I'd be ok. Also, I had my laptop.

At 3 minutes before start time, there were 9 signed up. I look after being seated, 22. Ugh. Better grab my laptop during the 1st break I thought. Played pretty TAGy and was third in chips at the break, feeling good about my play in general. I wish I'd planned it sooner because there really are some awful players in these Horse events. I like these smaller Horse MTT's, it's been awhile since I played in one and I generally have success in them when I do enter.

Dammit! Laptop's not in the car, I left it at home. So I'm faced with 18 players left and 35 minutes before I have to leave to get home in time. I had 2 minutes left on the break with O8 the next up. I only live less than 15 minutes away, but it can be an incredibly long 15 minutes. With 10 minute rounds, I should only miss a moment of Razz. So I close up the shop quickly and hop in the car. I'm just about out of gas. I'm now starting to tweak, just a bit. Book it to the gas station, not a big place but was not usually busy at all at this hour. Not busy today, except for two trucks. One on each side of the island, both getting diesel. Why is this meaningful? Because the diesel pump is right in the middle of the island, each truck was parked in the middle, completely blocking the rest of the pumps.

I'm freaking out a lot more now, just swearing at everyone, of course with my window up. Atleast one of the truck drivers was conscious of the situation, the other was typically oblivious. He seemed to try to pick up the pace. Finally got gassed up and raced home. I got home, ran inside and woke up my computer. Gave it a few moments, then clicked the FTP icon. SOFTWARE UPDATE. AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I hadn't played on my PC at home since before the last update. This is especially annoying because my system will not update from that icon. No matter what I do, it constantly says error, so I have to download the client again to retrieve the update. This is very time consuming.

I finally get logged back in and it's in Stud. I completely missed Razz and O8! My chipstack dropped about %25 which by itself wasn't so bad, however, a lot of others had increased significantly. Another 4 had been bumped off and about 5 more were in the 3-4 Big Bet range. I was at about 8 BB's, so not in much better shape. I rode a wave in the 5-10 BB range and somehow made it to the final table. Pearljammed was there, he has an interesting style.

Again the rollercoaster ride between 5-10BB's until I found myself 5-handed, on the bubble, with only 900 chips during Stud where I caught a set of 9's and doubled up. I picked up another medium size pot and felt like I was rolling along. Instead I just went card dead, with numerous bring in's. Man I'm getting tired, have to wrap this up. Managed to bust the the bubble, but went out in 4th, missing the entry. Did win $160, so not a bad consolation prize. I'm going to bed.