Poker career fini

I played the last ring games of poker today. It was pretty anticlimactic, really. In a movie I'd be dealt KK or AA for my last hand and I'd go out in a blaze of glory dragging a huge pot. In reality, I got deakt K8 offsuit and folded.

It feels good and I'm pretty relieved to not be obsessing over playing enough hands of poker each day. I'd been having a rough go of it lately, with my big hands getting beaten by hands who had no reason to stay in despite my raising and betting. The last week or so was pretty brutal and I think I was negative for the week. If not for rakeback I'd have been down quite a bit. But at the very least, I finished up for the day today and can walk away on a good note.

Now I can use the player points on getting some swag from the players' store. I'm looking at getting an 80GB Ipod Classic from there. I've had my eye on the 8BG Ipod Touch and I could get one from the players' store, but Apple put out a better 2nd generation model Touch that won't show up in the players' store for a long time (if ever). I may use the Classic Ipod myself or just sell it and put the money toward a 16GB Touch. I'm sure I'd use the Classic for watching movies on planes or trips, but since I don't travel much it wouldn't be worth it (plus the Touch is just so cool I want one anyway). It depends on how much I could get for it, I suppose. $200 and it's a sell. $150 and I should just keep it. Meh. Funny thing is, the 80GB Classic is 58,000 points and the 8GB Ipod Touch (first gen) is 67,000 points. And now that the 2nd gen Touch is out, the prices have dropped dramatically; $299 used to get you a 8GB Touch (1st gen as that was all there was). $299 now gets you a 2nd gen 16GB Touch, $229 gets you the 8GB 2nd gen. For $199 you can get a 1st gen 8GB Touch. Always worth it to spend another $20 for the latest technology. It'd have to be more like $125 for the 1st gen for me to think about getting that one. Even better, with the 9,000 points that I'd save by getting the Classic, I can get a messenger bag and gym bag.

So aside from a couple of free tournaments, I'm done with poker. On with screenwriting!