Lock and (re)Load

This week I reloaded another $300 of the profit I'd pulled out of Party in the recent past. Cleared the Reload bonus between a few hours last Saturday & five+ hours tonight. Two tabling the $2/$4 Bad Beat Jackpot (which is over $430k at the moment, its crazy) and the fishy $.50/$1 tables, plus playing the odd $33 SNG or random MTT in the background. Reloading was slightly +EV but nothing major - I was up about $200 + bonus but gave back most of the profit to a couple big hands getting cracked (top set losing to runner-runner flush cards in a huge pot being the worst of the beats). Ended up slightly up, plus the bonus for a nice little reload payday considering I'm reloading pure profit to begin with.

ITM'd a 3-table SNG and the $10+1 MTT tonight (both while bonus chasing in the foreground), but just barely on the latter - finished 212th out of 1903 entrants. I pushed from the SB with A4o over a limper, got called by BB with K7d, and he managed to catch a seven on the river to send me home. At the second break we had 302/1903 players remaining (top 220 paid), and at that point I was 1/3 the average stack but playing as agressive as possible to try to build a chipstack and not just limp in to the minor money. So I think I did about as well as I could have with the cards I was dealt, and that's about all you can ask. Gotta love the massive 21.09% ROI on my $11 entry fee...

Headed to St. Louis this weekend for the Nine Inch Nails concert. I'll be leaving friday morning and likely heading back Saturday night although its possible we'll stay in St. Louis or even Columbia on Saturday night.

Picks will be posted tomorrow. Right now in CFB I like Notre Dame as a home dog against USC and BC -14 over a banged up Wake Forest (for the last 9 years, the week after a team played @ Florida State followed that up with a road game, the team in question is 2-12 ats... if they played a .500 team 0-8 ats). I've got both of those locked in already. For NFL picks, its probable that the meager Saints will sit in one of my pick spots, because this game is shaping up to be the biggest public opinion game I've seen in ages. Wagerline shows close to 90% of the money on the Falcons, yet the line hasn't moved an inch. Someone knows something here, and its not the general betting public. Also I'd almost guarantee that the Rams getting 14 points @ Indy will be a top pick for me as well. More on that tomorrow...