DATELINE: ANNA, TX, 6:15 p.m. CDT
Miles Yesterday: 299
Not much to write about today as far as trucking goes. Yesterday I just made my way down here from Joplin, MO, a 5-1/2 hour drive. I'm at a Love's truck stop along US-75, about 35 miles north of where I deliver my load tomorrow morning. (Morning? Did he say, "morning"? The delivery's at 4:00 a.m.! That's still the middle of the night!) So I've just been a-sitting here, mostly playing poker, since I arrived in the early afternoon. I need to hit the sack early tonight so I can get up about 2:00 for a shower and shave before rolling out. So I had to call and end to the poker in order to write up this report for y'all and get to bed.
As far as the poker goes, it just astounds me that on the occasions I have all day to play, I don't experience the same success that I do when I can just play for a little while. Mostly lately I've been playing those double-or-nothing sit-n-go tournaments, and "winning" (staying alive into the top 5) a rather high percentage of them. That helped me build up my poker bankroll to an all-time high, a whopping $30.59! (Remember, I'm trying to build the bankroll up from nothing, so I still have to play at very low stakes. Therefore it's taking a while to grow.) So I was expecting with all my free time this weekend to build it up substantially. However, the bottom dropped out. Especially yesterday, when the deck found every way it could to beat me, no matter how much the odds were in my favor on the given hands when it dealt the final blow. All told, the damage was about 35% of my bankroll. Now I'm going to have to grind my way to build it back up. As you can imagine, I am a bit frustrated by all that. (Understatement alert!)
Anyway, enough of my griping. Time for bed. Thanks for taking a look in today. Drop me a line, and keep on truckin'.
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