Yeah Baby! Road Tripping time! I had to go pick up my laundry Monday morning (yes, I am so lazy I paid someone else to wash my clothes instead of sitting in a laundromat for 2 hours, and went and saw a movie instead) and then jetted out of town. I was going to play the tournament at 10 AM but 120 people and 4 hours to the final table would have killed me. Out of town it is. Route 66 from Tulsa to Oklahoma City was amazing... Nice little small towns, diners, old quaint downtowns. Really nice.
I discovered after some research that route 66 that it was closed 20 years ago or so, and the renewal of it is very segmented... so some sections are completely unmarked, and others are very well marked with museums and signs, etc. So I bounced back and forth after Oklahoma City onto Route 66 and back off, found a nice museum and met some nice people in there. An interesting history of the road they call Main Street USA or The Mother Road. Very interesting history of the road and the time before interstates. How did we ever survive without interstates? Oh my... I get mad at 4 lane roads, imagine going through actual TOWNS when driving! WOW!
Tulsa to New Mexico was a 10 hour drive that I made a 13 hour drive by taking side trips and tours, and eating the best ribs in Texas (maybe I should find a new state for that, since I didn't they they were that great)... Made it into Alburquerque at 10 PM their time and eventually found the casino and the hotel (in that order :) ). Checked out the tourney schedule and found they had only a 7 PM on Tuesday of Omaha Hi/lo Limit... bah! I will pass on that one. 13 hours of driving and I am not even going to play tonight, so off to bed it is.
Tuesday Morning I wake up at 7 freaking AM! WTF! STupid time change, and sleeping soundly. It is just bad news.. I decided that Phoenix is too expensive, and I am really a Braves fan. I will just take a vacation next year and go to Spring Training instead in Orlando, so I am going to stay in New Mexico until Friday and then hit Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon on the way to Laughlin until Sunday when I head to Vegas.
A little research and some mapping incidents, I decided Tuesday morning (ie today) I would go see Sky City an authentic Indian Peublo on a mesa outside of town. Wednesday morning I will take the tram to Sandia Peak for the great pictures and have lunch looking out over the valley, and Thursday morning I would play the 9 AM tournament at Route 66 Casino. I can then put in 6-10 hours a night at the Poker tables and try to reach my goal for week 2 before I head to Laughlin. Laughlin can make me spending money!
Sky City was soooo cool, to think people lived in those huts for hundreds of years without any power or running water and still do. It is 100 freaking degrees in New Mexico some days, and they built houses they stayed cooler than anything I ever lived in. Just amazing what those people do. I have lots of pictures I will post very soon. I didn't get to the Poker tables until 4 PM and they were seating a must-move 4/8 with a half kill that I sat right into. I got there at a good time as I only played 7 hands before I was moved to the main game and started settling in. It was a good start with A/big (AK and AQ) winning 3 times in a row to start things out, and get me a nice 100 dollar profit cushion to play with (I am a much better player when I am ahead and relaxed).. the table is very nice and calm, lots of loose passive play, lots of suckouts. Several solid players tilting bad and trying to push me off the nuts (turns out I won't fold the nut flush even if you raise me).... The table cycles in and out, new players coming in all the time. I manage to hit quads twice in the same session! WOOO! That is 3 quads in my last 2 sessions now... whee. They have a high hand promotion that quads gives you some extra bonus points or something (whatever that is for), but only for J's or better quads. WTF! Dude quads are quads. Pay me biatch! My Quad 7's didn't get anything special, but the quad K's paid nicely.. Finished the session up 406 after 8 hours and am heading off to bed now.
Tomorrow it is up to the top of the mountain and down to the poker tables. Let's hope it all stays up.
More route 66 pictures at http://photobucket.com/albums/f84/rpeiper/Route%2066/
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