Exhibiting the same energy as a kid on Christmas, I was the first one to arrive. I arrived at 8:59 AM, filled out the registration, then sat down at table 1, seat 1. They divided us into four tables of nine players. Red Dragon Casino hosts an identical tournament every Saturday, so most of the regulars trickled in between the sign-up window of 9:00 and 10:00 AM. The tournament consisted of 36 players, all who had fifty bucks and a Saturday morning off. Instead of thinking about projecting insurance hospital incentive savings I instead got to think about probabilities, which is another one of my favorite hobbies. The three hours served as a nice distraction as I’m slowly drifting into busy season. And not to brag, but I had fun executing my plan. You can’t beat someone who’s planning to lose it’s really the ultimate hustle. By “high stakes”, I mean a fifty dollar buy-in, which I viewed as more of a sunk entertainment cost. Over the weekend I entered a high stakes Texas holdem tournament.
