Ship it!

FINALLY! In all of my years of playing poker, I have never won a jackpot, not even a table share. Or any other promotion. In other words, I have never got one red cent from any casino, despite the thousands of dollars I have payed in rake. Tonight was different. I won $800 in Oceans-11 Sunday hourly football drawings. I won the last drawing of the night at 9pm. Earlier in the day I had told the floor man, that if he didn't call my name tonight, I was leaving and never coming back.

Really funny, was when they were doing the announcement for the winner at 9pm, I had just tabled my queen high hand to win a small blind versus big blind battle. I jumped out of my chair, and yelled "SHIP IT!" Half the table thought I was talking about my queen high hand winning! I ended up tipping the two floor guys 50 bucks each, so I only really netted $700, but damn it feels good to win money for nothing. In the grand scheme of things $700, relatively isn't all that much, considering I normally buy in for 2k when I play the 40/80, but as they say, money won is much sweeter than money earned!

I had a good weekend of poker as well. Today and yesterday I played the 20/40, logged 17 hours, and won $3945, plus the 700 from the promotion. Kind of makes up for the 14k loss I had in the 40/80 at the end of October, but not really.