Midwest Throwdown Weekend

I had a chance to visit St. Louis to watch the Midwest Throwdown.  This is a multi-day Ultimate Frisbee Tournament.  My daughter was playing for Washington University Women's Ultimate Locomotive team.  The competitive team is Iron Horse.  The men's side does the same thing with Contra being the competitive team and Contraband being the development team.  It was really great to see them play and understand the game a little bit more.  I still don't know what to yell from the sidelines, but it was cool to see the offensive (horizontal and vertical stack) and defensive (man on man or zone) and how team's match up.  Carlton has (6) teams.  Other schools are in their first season.

We really could not spend that much time together, but I did watch three of her six games and we went out for Ted Drewes Frozen Custard on Saturday night.

Her classes are going well including Foundations in Mathematics, Physics, Physics Lab, Hindi, Differential Equations, Independent Research and two Electrical and Systems Engineering classes.  It has been a long time since I could help with her homework, but it is also great to see she is still dancing with the date that got her admitted to WashU.  She is going to class, studying, taking advantage of office hours and developing relationships with her professors and teaching assistants.

Sunday was much colder than Saturday.  After freezing through one game, I bailed and went to the Horseshoe Casino.  I was playing well, but could not beat the games.  

I lost $105 playing craps.  Simple strategy of placing the 9, collecting the first payout and pressing after that and playing the pass line without odds when I was shooting.  Bankroll management was perfect and I could have passed more time with that strategy, despite the table being cold.

My name finally came up for a poker seat and I sat with $100 in the $1-$3 NLHE game.  Action was good.  I was getting reasonable cards and playing conservatively.  I lost my first buy in on AJ in the hijack.  I raised to $20, the button made it $65 and I called what was essentially all in for me.  I lost my second buy in on KQ in hijack plus one.  I made it $10 to go and flopped top pair on a K-10-8 board.  I bet $60 and was called by the player to my right.  The turn brought the Q, which should have raised some flags, but I was excited to see top 2 pair.  I went all in with my remaining $45 and was quickly called by J9 for the turned straight.  River was a 4 and missing my full house, I bid the remaining players adieu.  It sucks that I lost to a gut shot straight, but that is the way things go.