Well, I went up again last Friday night. Played $2/$5 NL again. Surprisingly, it took no more than 15 minutes to get a seat. Pretty sick how much better it’s getting. Anyways, I rarely ever bluff big, but I was feeling frisky and decided on (what I thought) was a higher probability bluff. Here’s what happened:
Hero: AQ offsuit
I raised it to $25 preflop in position with two players in front of me. Flop came 5-5-9 rainbow. The two players checked and I bet out small for $25. Both players called. King came on the turn. Both players checked and I bet out $75. One player called. River is a Ten. Player leads out for $50 into a $300 pot. I immediately put him on a KJ, Kx type hand. Up until this point, I barely played any hands, so I’m pretty sure that dude thought that I was tighter than usual, especially since he had played more than 50% of the hands. I had just sat down at the table. I thought for a few seconds and announced all in for $230 total. I rarely bluff like this, but I felt as though he would lay down his KJ to my big bet like this. He thought for a long ass time, and finally pushed his chips in. Dagger.
So, I was stuck $300 just like that. I grinded back for the next few hours, very card dead, but I was able to get back to even. Near 2am (we got there at around 7:30pm), I was pretty much breakeven. I had been playing with this dude next to me the entire time. I had TJ suited and limped in from position. My opponent was in the small blind and reraised to $40 pre-flop. Everybody folded and I decided to call because we both had about $600-$700 in front of us. I felt as though I had a good read on him anyways, especially with my position. The flop came 8-8-9, two clubs. I had hearts, but with the flop, I had an open ended straight draw. He immediately lead out for $60 into a $100 pot. I put him on a bigger pair. I was just hoping that it wasn’t Queens, which would kill two of my outs. I decided to call, since I’ve seen him shut down on the turn with a big hand before and he kinda priced me in for $60, especially if I might get two cards instead of one. The turn brought a 7 of clubs, putting three clubs on the board, but also giving me a straight. He checked immediately, and I thought for a minute and bet out $200. He immediately called. At that point, I knew he didn’t have a flush and definitely just a big pair; maybe a backdoor flush draw. Another 7 came on the river and he insta-bet $200. I had about $350 behind me. I knew I had him beat, but I just couldn’t push all-in there, since I’d only be called with a better hand. Although, I did think about raising, just so that he’d have to pay to see my cards. I called, and turned over the straight, taking the $500+ pot.
I ended up winning $533 with that last pot. It was pretty sick, since I was card dead the entire night. Now I’m 5 for 5 at Charles Town. Probably planning on heading back up there sometime within the next week.
Onto the market. So, I’m in a little bit of a bind here. I sold/covered all of my shorts last week and went long via SSO, DDM and QLD. The market has been pummeled since then. I put about $60k to work, and now that $60k is looking a little more like $55k. Doh! I’m gonna wait it out here. I should’ve kept my VXX and FAZ, but I didn’t. The only good news is that the McClellan Oscillator is nearing the -200 mark, which usually marks a break to the downside. I swear, every time I load up, I’m on the wrong side of the trade. Not sure how many times I gotta tell myself to scale into positions because I’m always wrong on the entries. Ughhh.
So, I sold my iPhone 3GS, Mac Mini, and this portable A/C unit that was sitting my closet for about 5 years now. $325, $330, and $200 respectively. Sold them all on Craigslist within a week. I hate meeting people to sell these things because people always try to bargain when they see the item. Actually, the only one that bargained was the iPhone 3GS dude. He wanted it for $300, when I had already lowered the price from $350. I should’ve kicked him in the butthole.
I’ve been thinking about buying a Macbook Pro. I don’t really need one, but this HP HDX16t is killing me. I paid $1500 for the damn thing in February 2009. It’s about a year and a half old. It still runs pretty well, except it gets so hot and it’s so damn loud when the fan is running out of control. I’ve already had to replace the extended battery on this fucker too. And the thing is falling apart. Take a look:

One of my buttons got sucked up by the vacuum
One of the end pieces fell off already. No clue what happened to it.
I’m never getting an HP ever again. My next laptop will definitely be a MacBook Pro. It’s just a matter of when I get it. They’re offering a education discount right now on all Macbooks, including a fee 8GB ipod touch. I imagine that if I get one now, I can probably hawk the iPod touch for about $150. I’m just trying to justify buying a new laptop even though I don’t really need one. I still have my old Dell D810 sitting on the sidelines. It’s only worth about $250 though, so there’s no point in even trying to sell it. If I buy the new Macbook, I’d probably have to run one of the Windows emulators on it because I need some of these windows apps, like quotetracker. Pretty much everything else, I should be good to go though…
I think I might just do it and write that sucker off as a business expense. Hah. It still comes from my income, but it’d be a few hundred less in taxes that I’d have to pay.
Today, I am 14 days off of my meniscus surgery. I actually played my first round of golf 5 days after surgery. Since then, I’ve played 4 more rounds, so as you can, it really wasn’t that bad. I went in for my post-op checkup last friday and the doc told me what he did. Here’s a picture:

Basically, there was a tear on the inside portion of my meniscus. A small tear, similar to this:

They cut away the damaged tissue. My knee joint from my thigh bone also had some trauma, due to the tear, so he smoothed it out by shaving it down a little. It definitely doesn’t feel 100% again. As a matter of fact, I can’t tell much of a difference. The outside portion of my knee still hurts a little and it’s definitely still swollen. I don’t think that it’ll ever feel the same again. My LCL is still a problem, which most likely will never be fixed. Ughhh. Maybe I haven’t given it enough time yet. I also hope for the instant fix, but things don’t work that way. I’ll reassess in a few weeks.
I’m out.