Bama 10 and 0 + Baton Rouge Trip Report

Hayyyyyy there. It's been 9 days since I last posted. Last weekend I headed down to Baton Rouge with my sister Heather, her boyfriend Ben, and Heather's (and now my) friends Tyler, Aeana, and Tiffany. We left Tuscaloosa around 1:30 p.m. Friday and arrived at our Hampton Inn hotel in Baton Rouge around 6:15. Ben, Tyler and I grabbed some beers at the grocery store across the street and got to work as the girls got ready. We then found a cab driver who was cool enough to let us ride 6 deep in his standard cab. We intended on eating at some restaurant called The Chimes, but it was packed and a two hour wait. We were relegated to this not-so-conventional Mexican restaurant next door called Serranos. We waited about half an hour and then got seated outside. Our server was just awful and the the dinner took like 2.5 hours. I don't know that I've ever been so tilted in my life at a restaurant :) The waiter's name was Cameron, so make sure to change sections if you ever visit this restaurant. After dinner and drinks we hit this bar called Reggie's that was fun. Tyler and I quickly disposed of like 19 double well bourbon and cokes. The crowd was really young and it smelled like puke but whatever. Wayne Mills was playing outside. Interestingly, he was chanting Roll Tide and stuff on stage. I would've kicked him out if I was the bar owner and an LSU fan.

Next, Tyler and I headed over to meet one of my poker friends, Bryan, next door at a bar called Fred's. Sickkk name for a bar in my opinion. Place was packkkkkked out. Bryan bought like 200 bucks worth of jager bombs. We stayed until closing and then the same cabby took us back to the hotel. We got to sleep around 4 a.m. Somehow, we were up and moving around by 8 a.m., still wasted from the night before. This is really hard to do, but you just kind of get used to in during football season in the south. We ate the continental breakfast (lol) and all 6 got a shower. We decided to drive to campus where Heather's work friends had an insane tailgate set up. We ate some catfish, drank a dozen beers and then headed into the stadium.

The game was just ridiculous. Bama ended up prevailing in OT 27-21. We had a chance to end the game as time expired in regulation but kicker Leigh Tiffin had his 29 yard attempt batted down at the line. It was a game that I will never, ever forget. After the game we hung around the tailgate for a little while. Later, we headed to Chili's for dinner. We talked about going out but had no energy left and expired around midnight.

I got home in time to play about 8 or 9 tournaments on Sunday. I did nothing early on and then flirted with some real cash when I finished 20th in the 200r for a couple thousand or something. It was not enough to turn the day into a winner.

I played poker, strangely, all 3 days Monday through Wednesday. It was the first time I've worked 3 consecutive days in ages. I had some FTOPS success cashing in 3 of the 5 FTOPS events that I've entered. Sadly, I still don't think I turned a winner. I also finished 20th or something in the Stars nightly on Tuesday and finished 12th out of like 130 entrants in the Absolute 1000 dollar tournament on Wednesday. Late Wednesday night I was tilted to no end when my internet connection went out deep in the FTOPS 300r. I blinded out for a while then came back and slowplayed myself to death with two Kings for a 108th place finish. It's really frustrating that I've been unable to close these online tournaments. I feel like I'm right in the hunt in all of them though.

I've decided to just skip the 5000 dollar tournament tomorrow. I'm sick because it hurts to pass up that kind of value, but alas Bama has a chance to improve to 11 and 0 tomorrow against Mississippi State and someday I'll regret not going.

SS