It has been an exciting poker week. Went to Winstar on Thursday and played the bounty tournament....I had not played that particular one so was really looking forward to giving it a try. Started very slowly.....terrible cards.....played 3 hands in the first two hours but luckily I pretty much doubled when I did play and that was just keeping me alive. Also, had not collected any bounties. With the structure of tourneys at Winstar the third hours is the most critical......it is live or die. Started catching some hands and with the blinds rising it was not enough to get anywhere near a chip lead but kept me live. Managed to stay in to the final table which was 10. Since they only paid 8 places, the deal was made to give the 9 and 10 a $100 prize so they would almost have their original buy in back. I was about the 4th lowest in chips with 2 very low so thought it would not take more than a few hands to get to the 8 and that is what happened. My stack kept getting a little healthier.....not great but workable. Ft only lasted a half hour or so....blinds were such a factor that action had to happen. Out of the next 5 players to go out, I knocked out 4 of them and we were down to 3. One guy pretty short, on guy had about a quarter more chips than me and we decided to chop..........I was happy........it was a good day.

After that was over, I went to the cash table and played 1/2 for a little while.......doubled my buy in and called it a day. Had an hour drive home and thought it was a great thing to quit while I was ahead.......what a concept.

Will go back next week on Wednesday or Thursday and give it another try.