Hello Again and See You Later!?

And so another gap in postings ends with another post that doesn’t have a whole lot to offer. Par for the course, most certainly.

This return to posting also will end almost immediately, as I take to the skies tomorrow en route to a two-week vacation in the Swiss Alps. We fly into to Zurich, then take the train through Lucerne and about another hour out from there to Lungern, where we will be based. Mostly day trips are on the schedule other than a two-day jaunt to the Swiss-Italian town of Locarno. If I can avoid altitude sickness and find good bier, all should be well.

I’ve been good (OK, better, if not good) lately and confined my play to micro tournaments for the most part. That includes a steady diet of things like the Daily Dollar on FTP or the nightly $2 $4K Guarantee on Stars. Other than a final table in a random $3 MTT on FTP, however, I have little to show for my efforts. Still, I’ve rebounded from the depths and have a little bit of breathing room as far as the bankroll goes for the time being. Two weeks away from the tables also should help staunch the bleeding.

I did manage to score a $26 token in the $1 Token Frenzy last night on FTP, FWIW. This was particularly nice as I managed to overcome—both chip wise and emotionally—a ridonkulous beat about midway through the event. After an EP raise and a call ahead of me, I saw a flop from one of the blinds with QTo and flopped top two. I bet out, got a call from the EP raiser and a few folds, then it went bet, raise, push, call after a glorious Q hit on the turn. My opponent flipped over AA and proceeded to nail one of his two remaining outs on the river to stage a 19-1 beat down on me. Fortunately, that only took half my stack and I managed to chip back up in short order and hold on for the token.

That token should come in handy on the night of August 3, when I get to play bachelor and have the entire house to myself. I can’t get too crazy with things as I have to work the next day, but a full schedule of uninterrupted poker fun, some beer consumption and the ingestion of foods that no one else in my family will touch definitely will be in the offing.