Life As Nick Starr

Yesterday was the Official Steak and Blowjob day (don’t as me where they come up with these things). I had no plans on celebrating this “holiday” of sorts. I did plan on going to the Apple Store to get a recovery cd because my hard drive had a few errors on it.

After doing that, one of the Genius bar workers (I’m in there quite a bit so they know me pretty well), replaced my power supply which had some exposed wires on it. This probably wasn’t covered under warranty, but it was nice to be able to get it replaced free.

Afterwards, I was bored and in Tampa already, so I decided to head to the Hard Rock Casino for a while to see if I would win the car tonight (they give away a $40k+ car every Wednesday at 9:30pm). Needless to say this post would of been titled a bit differently if I had won the vehicle. I am at local poker rooms typically once a week or more sometimes, but I haven’t been in a while now since I am saving up for my truck.

Last night there was a regular who I see quite a bit, I went over to her and talked for a while, then went back to my table. Well after the car drawing she came over to find me, and tell me she was going to eat the Green Room at the Casino (it’s a very nice restaurant there). I’d never eaten there, but had heard good things.

She asks me if I wanted to go with her, I hadn’t eaten dinner yet so I figured, sure why not. Then she tells me she has a coupon for 2 free meals. SWEET! Now this wasn’t just 2 meals, it was the appetizers, en tree, drink, and desert. Nice.

When I got there I looked at the menu and they had VOSS bottled water on the menu. I can’t tell you how many years I’ve been wanting to try this water. It is impossible to find locally, and there it was on the menu. I of course ordered it, and she came back to tell me they didn’t have any. She offered me Evian and San Pellegrino, but it wasn’t just water I wanted; I wanted Voss water with the iconic glass bottle.

Well the manager came by and said they were able to find some, and gave me two bottles of it for free (normal price there was $3 per bottle). It was sparkling, not still, but still tasted …well like water, but really good water.

The entire meal was awesome. I had a NY Strip steak, with Bourbon Chicken Strips for appetizer (served Tapas style). For desert a piece of cheesecake, she had the carrot cake which was amazing (cheesecake ehh not so much).

It was a great meal and the company was really good as well. Not a lot of poker players are nice, but this woman was very nice and I had a great time.

The meal came to $100, which was completely free for us. We tipped a bunch and headed back out to the floor to play some more cards. I had a great night last night. I may not of celebrated the “holiday” completely but the steak was pretty good

…or as in this case, just be lazy.

I am planning on going to a large poker tournament this weekend over in Cocoa Beach, Fl. Have a great weekend.

I have been doing fairly well at these 1 table sit-and-go tournaments on Full Tilt, and just won the one pictured below.

I went all in pre-flop with about 8000 in chips to his 6000. It might not of been the best move, but as you can see I flopped quads. You can’t ask for anything better than that.

If I slow played it, I might of been able to keep him to the river where he got his full house, but wow…what a flop.