I thought about going to the poker tournament at Calhoun’s tonight, but when I saw rain moving this way on the radar, I decided against it.\u00a0 “I’ll stay home and play on PokerStars instead,” I thought.\u00a0 “Maybe I’ll win more than the $15 gift certificate I could possibly win at Calhoun’s.”<\/p>\n
Turned out to be a good call.\u00a0 I paid $4.40 to buy into a 180-person tournament about 6:30 PM.\u00a0 Three hours later I found myself at the final table, and although I was nearly busted by that point, I managed to fight my way back to finish in 5th place.\u00a0 That netted me a payoff of $46.80.<\/p>\n
Too late to buy into another tournament, so I’m going to get some blog posts done.\u00a0 I got another piece of good news tonight too.\u00a0 More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I thought about going to the poker tournament at Calhoun’s tonight, but when I saw rain moving this way on the radar, I decided against it.\u00a0 “I’ll stay home and play on PokerStars instead,” I thought.\u00a0 “Maybe I’ll win more than the $15 gift certificate I could possibly win at Calhoun’s.” Turned out to be … Continue reading “A good night so far…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}