After our town hall meeting we went for drinks, and then I made the foolish mistake of playing poker. I was lucky to only loose a few dollars. Given what I made this week, it is a wash, so I will just start keeping track from now.

I also need to do 4 burpees tonight to keep up with the 100 burpee challenge.

I did a crossfit total this AM and missed my previous best by 10 pound. I am also 60 short of my 675 goal for year end. I thing I have been slacking a bit in my workouts anyway, so this could be the shot-in-the-arm I need. Also with the new Logsitall.com site to track CF WOD's I perhaps will have increased motivation.

On the poker front, I was able to win my money back from Monday. This was a result of better play, I played more selectively aggressive.

I made a terrible play last night in poker. I called a raise with A5d as I was closing the betting and the flop came Qd 6d 4s. I checked and the PF raise bet. The PF raiser bet 3 into a 5 dollar pot. I had 9 cards to the nut flush plus and overcard unless I was against a set of queens. So I basically had 12 outs. It was 3 to 1 against me to improve on turn. Could I get $9.00 if I hit? I think so. The turn was a 7h, which gave me another 3 outs. There was now 11 in the pot and my opponent went all-in for 16. I would be getting 1.7 to 1, which was not enough to justify my call, and I should have folded. the river bricked and my opponent showed JJ, an underpair. He read me perfect for a flush draw and I should not have paid him off.

Where did I go wrong? I think the flop. I think I should have raised. I was not that far behind, it was only one caller, and I had no reason to think he was ahead. He made a continuation bet, which may or may not have been good, but I let him have control of the hand. If I raised, he may have folded or he may have checked to me on the turn, making it cheaper for me to see the river. Anyway I played it wrong.

I just heard about the 100 burpee challenge. I am so geeked. I think I will give it a go. It basically goes like this. You do one burpee on the first day, two on the second, etc until you get to 100 on the 100th day. If you miss a day, you need to make up the burpee on the next day. The # can be broken up with as much rest as needed between. These are full push-up burpees.
Ready, set, go.....

I am going to run the local 5K in three weeks. I have not run all summer of course. That does not leave me much time to train, but I plan to run 3 times a week for the next 3 weeks which will help me I think. I will just taylor my crossfit to add some runs to my regular workouts. All the while, I have to work on my forms and one-steps as testing is the same day as the race. I do not think there should be a problem.

We went to a baseball game last night. It was fun. We had great seats and our college alumni club had a tailgate before the game. It was good to see a few old freinds and meet some new ones. I hope that the club suceeds as it is pretty new.

I did not work out this AM as I was tired from last night's festivities. I will try to squeeze Fran in tomorrow to make it a 4 CF week, which right now is my goal.

I haven't plan cards much this week with the tour being on and all. I will play a MTT tonight.

Well, I am back from an extended break. We had a great vacation. NC was cool, and I really enjoyed Al and Mo. Our children got along great. Hopefully we can all go away together next year. Offshore fishing was ok other than Al getting sick. The poor guy was vomiting for 8 hours. The seas were rough and he drank the night before, not a good combination. We fished for tile fish. Not the gamest of fish, but at least you brought some fish into the boat. I would rather have caught some tuna. Perhaps next year, we can go inshore on an open boat.

I went to Mountaineer on Saturday and lost some money. My main problem was playing too weak-passive. I am going to work through Harrington's cash game book over the next month and really work on my game.

Since my cash in the MTT on Saturday, I am been on a downward spiral. It is totally my fault. I have been playing O8, and not playing it well. I won't bore you with the details, as I have repeated my faults many times.