My last blog post had me still going up but getting a lot of bad beats and giving me the feeling that I was swimming against the current. Right after that blog post things started to change and with my roll at $1125 I sat down at a NL50 table and started to feel my way around. At first not much was happening but after a while I hit on this hand:
888 Hand #631255823: Hold Em No Pot Limit ($0.25/$[...] Read more » Time To Go Food Shopping
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Posted by jeffaboy: some great work you are doing at these tables and i have a ton of respect that you gave the food to charity really man keep it going
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Posted by Frobert: Respect for the charity donation!
Thank you guys! I never expected the charity side of my blog to generate so many positive vibes from everyone.
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That´s a nice gesture from you Hope that your poker playing keep on paying because you deserve Giving back it.s always rewarding I know for my experience I do some volunteer work with elderly people No money left specially on christmas and the poker profit are none (broke on PS and 40 cents at party) so the only thing I have to give is my free time This "free work " is warm to my heart and peacefull to my soul
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I tried to stretch the money as much as possible, so it was all non-perishable goods that were mostly on sale. I picked up a box of fruit juice bottles, tea, precooked rice, pasta, pasta sauce, canned vegetables, canned meats, canned fruits, some boxes of cookies. A little of everything so that they can put together a couple of baskets.
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Good on you mate and this is a very heartwarming story and i would like to salute you on this very generous gesture. I really hope you can keep winning because you thoroughly deserve it. Good on you again
