Biloxi, MS

As much as I'd like to post another poker boast, I'm checking in in the negative column tonight. I'm at the Isle of Capri casino in Biloxi, MS, on the gulf coast. My limit game is very much weaker than my no-limit game, but the only game they were running here was a 4/8 limit game with 1/2 blinds. Yeah, weird blind structure... I'm still feeling a bit confused by it. If any limit hold'em experts out there are reading this, perhaps they can offer some words of wisdom. Anyway, thanks to two huge suckouts (that's what limit is all about, right? and apparently always against me) I finished my 10 hour shift slightly in the red.

I did comp a $17 buffet, and got a reduced rate on my hotel room, which is a whole lot nicer than the Motel 6s I've been staying at! And again, it's too cold to sleep in the car down here, so this trip may be testing my budget more than I anticipated. I'm shocked; I expected it to be a lot warmer in the deep south.

A couple of notes on the buffet: First, I kind of justified the gross over-indulgence and extreme over-eating of the holidays by reminding myself of my summer trip, and how I ate very little, filled my days with activity, and in fact lost several pounds. So then here I am the second day after TurkeyBall and I am comped a free all-you-can-eat buffet (and um, sitting on my butt for 10 hours). YAY!!!! Second note, they had snow crab legs, of which I ate several, though refrained from pigging out since I'm still a tad worried about my phantom crab allergy. No symptoms though... I seem to be doing ok.

I also see that the stock market had a rather nice rally today which makes my poker loss look smaller than the tip I just gave to the bartender here.