BEAUTY AND THE BEAST DAY 1 COMPLETE

 I spent most of the day yesterday at the Lucky Star Casino hosting the Fat Jacks Beauty and the Beast Poker tournament. this is one of the popular poker tournaments I put on for the casino. We had a great turnout last night and over 12,000 in prize money was given to the players. I played pretty well and was knocked out by what most would consider the best player in the event. His name is Doug and he is a tournament player that has had a lot of success in events around the country. For those of you that play PLO,here is how I was knocked out..

 

I had Ah-Qh-5s-6c                                         Doug had  Qc-Js-6s-7s

 

The flop came   Kh-9h-6d

Doug bets, I call.

The turn was a 7 of hearts giving me an Ace high Flush. Doug has 2 pair.

I check Doug bets and puts me all in. I of course call knowing that only 3 cards can beat me.Doug has to have either a 6 or a 7 to beat me and since he and I both hold some of those cards, we know there are only 3 that could possibly be left in the deck. We turn our cards over and the "best player in the event" says, "well Jack, you got me."" About this time the dealer turns over the 6 of hearts giving Doug one of the 3 cards he needed.

 

I am beginning to see how you become one of the best players in the tournament.  I have taken a bit of a break from poker because these type of things have been happening more ofter when I have played. Everyone gets bad beats but when you aren't surprised to see the 6 of hearts, that is time to take a break. Oh well, we have another event tonight and will give away a lot more money. If you are around Oklahoma and want something fun to do, come on out.

 

Have a great weekend. Jack

BACK FROM FLORIDA AND POKER THIS WEEKEND

 I got back from Florida today where we finalized the details of the Fat and Sassy III purchase. I took a charts and navigation class and had a great weekend. the class reminded me a lot of my days in college,without the hot girls. I was sitting there listening to a lot of things I already knew and tried not to fall asleep. Then he started hitting on some things I didnt know and although I got some of the things he was saying I am sure I didnt get all I could out of the class. At one point, he asked my son and I if we understood how to find a "compass heading". I said I understood what he was saying, hoping he would move on to someone else. I am not sure if he thought we were pirates in the 1800s but I have a GPS machine on my boat and have no need to find compass headings.  My son then asked me if I really understood and I said " not one word son." The instructor heard me tell my son that and it was a rocky class from then on. I finally made up something and we left after about 2 hours. The truth is, I feel like I know about 80% of what I will need to be a good captain and I am going to learn the other 10 to 20 percent before we go on any long trips. All in all a good weekend.

 

The Fat Jacks Beauty and the Beast Poker tournament starts tomorrow at the Lucky Star Casino. I am excited about the events for a couple of reasons. 1. I haven't been playing a lot of poker lately and am ready to start playing a bit more and 2. The main event is a couples event.  these are the only tournaments that Mrs. Fat Jack attends. We never do well, mainly because she doesn't know anything about poker but we do have good snacks. She feels like, if you are not going to put out the effort to be good at poker then at least bring everyone something good to eat. The theory is great for everyone because everyone leaves full and we have no chance of winning. Oh well, it will still be a good weekend.

Little league basketball is wrapping up and we are getting ready to start 6 year old soccer and 9 year old baseball. Neither of which can go worse than hoops did so it should be a good spring. Dont get me wrong, I love our coaches and Jackson had a great time but we are going to have trouble winning many games only scoring 8 points/game.

 

I am also going to have to start playing more golf. I have been invited to play in the World Series of Golf. This is a golf event that is combined with poker rules. We play over the first weekend in May in Las Vegas and is aired on CBS in July. I have not been playing much golf but I dont want to make a fool of myself on TV so I am trying to get out and play a bit more.

 

We were 4-1 tonight in basketball and are going to have a big weekend. Let me know if you are going to be betting on the games.

HOOPS IN FULL SWING AND GOING TO TAKE A CLASS !!!

As my winter has moved along, I have found I am staying pretty busy. Besides the normal work of finding winners each night in basketball and getting ready for the next Fat Jack Poker tournament at the Lucky Star Casino, I have been getting things ready for the new addition to our family.Fat and Sassy III. My adventures with the Fat an Sassy I and II are pretty well documented by both my radio shows and my record with the US Coast guard but I am determined to make most of the memories with the FNS III good ones. I am going to Tampa on Friday to wrap o up the "to do list" and get ready to close the boat and while I am down there I am going to take my first Navigation and something class. I forget exactly what the class is called but rest assured they are going to cover some stuff I will probably need to know. When I signed up for the class they asked me what my "experience level" was. I asked if the scale was 1-10 or 1 - 100 ?  I would guess my experience level is unlike most others so I just told him, I have had a lot of boating experiences with some being good and some being bad. He didnt ask a follow up and I didnt go into detail. Anyway, I should be a much better captain after this weekend.

 

It has been a strange year in hoops so far. After a great football season with us winning 6 out of every 7 weeks, I have only turned a profit about every other week in hoops. We are up money over the entire season but have had more losing days in the last month then I did in the entire football season. Seriously. On the bad weeks of football we were going 5-7 and lots of 10-3s with 4-1 Saturdays. Hoops have had 1 week that was 16-4 and a 11-3 but have had a lot of 7-5 and 4-7s. Again, we are up money over the entire season but we have had to earn it. Life is always better when we win. I guess that is obvious. this weeks card looks good and March will be here soon. We typically have HUGE March's.

 

I will try and check in from Florida and from the Fat Jacks Beauty and the Beast Poker Classic Feb 26-28.  Have a great week and good luck!!  Jack