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I just got home, earlier than expected. My daughter called my cell phone. Locked out of the house. Both her and my wife forgot their keys. Crap. I was just getting in a groove.

First, yes, I have a family. No, the IRS problems are not from gambling taxes. I used to do a lot of 1099 work and they claim I have unreported income from some of those jobs. I have long since stopped side work like that, but am positive I reported everything correctly.

Like I said in the OP, the hit will be uncomfortable, but certainly no real hardship. I make very very good money at my 9-5er and have always considered my BR reloadable if need be. This challenge is to see if I can take an underfunded BR and both a) not go broke, and b) make up for what will be taken from my paychecks.

Okay, I started this thing Thursday so this is a short first week.

Total Hours = 26
Total BB = -33

Yep, I'm down $200 so far. I'm sure I could have come close to breaking even had I not been called home tonight. Table was nuts. I just had to score a couple pots and the week would've ended okay.

Thursday night, wouldn't you know, was the single biggest loss in my poker life and the first night of this challenge. I went through 4 racks before giving up. I've never done that before. Card dead, flop dead, and snap city about sums it up. Some call it variance. It came at a bad time. The fourth and final rack was lost to tilt and when I realized what was happening, I got up and left.

Friday night got my spirits up again. Although I finished even, it was up down up down up down all night.

Saturday night was great. Tables were loose/passive which allowed me to score $260.

Today, I dropped $60. Sunday is normally one of my most profitable days, but things got off on the wrong foot. It almost deserves a thread of its own, but basically, there's a $60 tourney locally that I DO NOT play in. I play cash for an hour prior to the tourney (doors open one hour before the start of the tourney, I dropped $20), then wait for the first people to bust out and sit at the first cash game that starts up with all of these busted out, on tilt, tourney losers.

During the break, my name got erased from the list, and when I noticed, it was too late. I stormed out, all pissed off at the floor, and drove 20 minutes to the next nearest card room. An hour there, down a normal $40 so far, starting to get good reads on the players, and my daughter calls. Oh well. Tomorrow starts another week.

My BR is dented, but survives week 1. This is kind of fun. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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