Football Poker and a rollercoaster

Lots of changes over here in Las Vegas. Football season has started and already my bulldawgs have dropped a game to the evil Steve Spurrier and his SC Gamecocks. I am really concerned about their offense, and even though Matt Stafford has all the skills I just don't know if he can put it all together. I won't even discuss the Atlanta Falcons... I think it is time I picked a new pro football team to follow. Maybe I should pick one based on the colors of their jerseys, it seems to work better than following the falcons!

Some good news on the job front. I got a semi-promotion (more a lateral move) to a dual rate position in swing shift. I now work 6 PM to 2 AM with Wednesdays and Thursdays off. The money on swing is much better than on days which is nice. It also provides me with the chance to watch football before work which is awful relaxing. The negative side of it is pretty huge though as I don't get to see Estie as much and poker time is really withered down to about 2 days a week.

Poker has been going better as well, I had a nice run of 3 great days and was up about 1500, turned around and dropped a bunch back but am still ahead for the month. I had a nice little run of 3 hands on Saturday afternoon where I got pocket 10's in back to back hands and flopped back to back sets. I ended up taking a big chunk from the 1 seat on the first set, then the rest of his chips on the 2nd set. The next hand I got pocket 7's in the BB and 1 limper and the same 1 seat raises to 15. I fold not wanting to play a small pocket pair OOP in a small pot against a pre-flop raiser. The flop was of course a 7 and I would have stacked him AGAIN. Instead another girl stacked him and he left the table after dropping 500 dollars in 3 hands. Luckily for me she held onto the chips for awhile and gave them all to me when I rivered a flush in a 900 dollar pot. I will never understand why people bet 25 dollars into a 200 dollar pot and then 300 when the flush hits. Please Please continue to give me odds to draw to my flush, and then dump money in the pot when I have my made hand. I read some about it in the books, players feel threatened by a scare card hitting the board and get more aggressive to combat that threat. It makes much more sense NOT to fight... but human nature is to fight back. That is what makes poker so difficult to master... so much of it is counter to human nature.