Here’s a huge painting in the restaurant.

Here are my 2 new favorites:

1. All the toilets in New York’s police stations have been stolen. The police have nothing to go on.
2. Haunted French pancakes give me the crêpes.

OK, one more - A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are sketchy.

I ended up playing for about 10 hours. It wAs a pretty active table with a lot of loose players. I picked a few spots and made some money here and there but it was a slow grind. I was playing VERY tight. In one Hand where I loosened up a bit I played a hand that’s been strangely lucky for me. The 5 8 offsuit. I was on the button. It was folded sound to me so I thought “what the hell” and raised it to $20. Both blinds called my raise. The flop came 5 5 Ace. Small blind bet $50. Big blind raised to $150. I three bet it to $400. They both folded. Dang. I was a little too aggressive. But, I did something I normally do not do, I showed one of my cards, the 5. The guy to me left was very loose and very aggressive. I wanted to make a mental investment that I thought might pay me back later. And it did. Later he raised on a flopped pair of kings and a 7. Everyone else folded. I re-raised huge with nothing. He folded and mumbled to the guy on his left, “he bet too much, he coulda had a lot of my chips” as he showed pocket aces. That 5 I showed him earlier made me some easy money.

My best hand came a little while later. I was down about $100. Dealt pocket aces under the gun. Bet $20 and had 2 callers. Flop came Ace, eight, three rainbow. I knew I had the best hand and wanted to see if the flop hit anyone else. First guy bet $20, the guy on the button raised to $100. The first guy had about $200 in chips and the button had about $300 left. I raised $550. First guy folded and the button insta-called. He had pocket 8s. My 3 aces held up.

I played for a while longer and decided it was time for sleep.

In the morning we drove to Coushatta. There were no tables playing poker so I put my name on the list. About 30 minutes later I was playing $4/8 limit. I bought in for $100 and won $100 within about an hour. Then they opened a $1/3 no limit table. I bought in for $300. That’s the most chips I had in front of me the whole session.

I came home exactly even for the weekend.

This course was horrendous. The greens were drought ravaged. Of the 18 holes only 3 greens were without problems. Then those greens were so slow — hitting a downhill putt looked like the ball had back spin.

Thank goodness I had great playing partners. It made what would have been an otherwise bad day into a very fun time.

The last movie we watched (yes, three movies — OK our movie marathons are not what they used to be), The Descendents. I liked this movie the best of all three.  The story was interesting and well acted.  The views of Hawaii and the movie soundtrack were a huge bonus, made me want to be back in Hawaii soon.

It’s a beautiful day for some march madness on the golf course.

Ready for the show!

Every time I have done this they always call. You would think that after two or three times in a year they would recognize a pattern. I guess they need to work on their fraud algorithm.