Good start of 2007, not a great one but a good one... im talking about poker and golf today.
golf
First of all my golf is getting better, and took out first prize for the 3rd time in a row now. Handicap is down to 22, and i just have to get it to 18 within the next two months (my own set goal). Scored solid points on my second go at Long Reef (iseek golf link) and the last time Mona Vale (iseek golf link), and today played the massive goat track at Northbridge (iseek golf link), and won again. Putting is getting heaps better (had 5 one puts this round, rest two puts and one 3 put), and trying to play a bit more controlled now instead of reaching big distances, even then im long enough.. so why should I push. Challenge now is the stuff ups... too many wasted shots on the card. Have to stay focused.. I had two wipes this day and 3 wipes the other week (wipe is no Stableford score a hole, Par = 3 points mostly for me at this stage, Bogey is 2 points and double Bogey is 1 points on most of the holes)Still playing with default small driver and old putter, and very happy with it.
Wayne let me try a great Titleist driver the other day, with a firm graphite shaft, that belonged to one of the trainee - pro's at Turramurra GC, and that was a better performance than my big driver, but so far im better of staying with little default one, just to print in some proper muscle memory for my swing. But when the time is there, I would love to handle one of those babies! Hooyah
Next week we play at Muirfield Golf Course, Ive never been there so thats going to be a big test to keep my progress up.
poker
As stated in previous poker message, i was getting second a bit to much lately and even Nick, he starts to call it the "Per disease", coming second.. grr.
Well last week on Thursday we had a fantastic poker night playing for the Australian Poker League instead of the National Poker league we usually play for. We didnt do good in the main event, but after the main event they start little "sit and go's", and Nick came second :) in his one, and I came first in my one.. hahaha.
Finally cards start to connect when i have to, I mean many many times in the past, i went in the battle knowing I was ahead, and always lost.
Now I even got very lucky on the last two cards when I apparently was not ahead going in, and in heads up mode I get the upper hand with my play style.
This was at a new venue in Castle Hill where Chris, Nick and I caught up for a little chat, dinner and a bit of poker.
Funny part was that Nick was talking about a little system he played if he played roulette, and I said I used to play a little system too.. both not fancy very simple ones, so after poker we tried to combine the two simple systems, and we invested 10 bucks each. Surprisingly when my system failed his system backed up, and visa versa.. but the double whammy came when we both hit. After 20 minutes of play we reached the hundred bucks and split it. It was more good fun then it was real gambling actually, if you are getting scared reading this... dont worry Im not really interested in those games.
Any way it was a great night out catching up with the guys, and playing one of our hobbies and making some money aside.
Im not playing online that much lately, I tend to just have one in a couple of days or even a week.. but I played the other day a poker tournament and won that also, so looking forward to the next chapter of this season it looks promising.
