It has been a while since I blogged. Over the course of time I will try to blog anywhere from 2-5 times a week. Lately however I have become busy with many personal issues, and in addition nothing spectacular or interesting has happened at the tables or in any of my other gambling.
I have taken a few days off from poker but still managed to play 7 of the last 11 days. And I have been betting on basketball (and losing). But as I said nothing too interesting has happened and I had to take my cat to the Vet a couple of times this week and have been distracted and busy with caring for him. Without going into all the details he is going to be just fine. I am happy with that and ready to return to focusing my efforts on the daily grind.
Since there have not been any great stories lately I thought in this blog I would give you just a glimpse of all of the random things that I do bet on other than poker. All of the following are bets that I have made in the past week or two:
- Tennessee Georgia women's softball game. I won
- The drinking game Caps (like beer pong). We bet shots and cash. I lost and got drunk.
- Wheel of Fortune. Me and another poker player each picked a player for a must win bet. My contestant won!
- Me and another poker player each picked a player in a poker tournament that we were not playing in to last longer. I lost.
- World Series of Poker Fantasy League. My team is doing well one third of the way through the WSOP.
- Dot racing at the Oakland A's game. Pushed on two games.
- Fantasy Baseball at the Oakland A's game. Me and a buddy each picked 4 players from the game and won money for various stats. I lost a few bucks.
- I bet 50 cents to win $12,000 on a baseball parlay. I didn't win. Can you believe it!?
- At a Reno Mcdonald's I bet on the over under on how long it would take a cop to remove a passed out drunk with a friend. I lost.
- In Reno at a street fair I bet a friend in 3 blocks of the street fair that I would find a picture of Michael Jordan in one of the vendors booths. I did and won.
So as you can see I like to gamble on a lot of meaningless, arbitrary things. I rarely bet for big money on these types of things. It makes life fun and I suggest you try it.
It looks like I will not finish ahead for the season in basketball. I am very frustrated considering I was down 15 units back in the fall and came all the way back to get ahead about 4 units at one point flat betting. To now fall into the red with just weeks left in the season hurts. But, I am only down 6 units and when you consider how I started and the fact that I have bet about 220 games that is not too bad. This was my first year handicapping basketball and I definitely improved throughout the season. I also wonder if some of the bets I made in the playoffs were not the best opportunities and I was betting them due to lack of other options. Either way I enjoyed the challenge and I look forward to next season. I am also extremely excited that footabll preseason is only months away!
Disciplined Degenerate
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