Greetings from Washington, PA!

Well, I made the 8 hour track down from Syracuse. What a great way to spend your day off, huh? :) I finished with the Colgate chapter at about 10pm last night and headed to Syracuse where I had a hotel room. Before I headed to Syracuse I had to make a pit stop at Turning Stone Casino. I stopped there last year and wanted to play some video poker. Once I got my players card I sat down at one of the video poker games. I decided that I would allow an expenditure of $40 on my part. After I lost that I would leave. Well wouldn't you know it...ten minutes after starting I was down to $4. I figured I would try and stretch my time at the casino by switching to the "1" credit bet versus the "Max Credit" bets I had been doing. I hit a few good hands and was up to $7. So I decided to switch back over to the "Max Credit" bets again, just for the hell of it. Before long I was back down to $4 again. SO I hit the deal button again and all of a sudden I looked at my screen. I hit A A A 2 A. In poker terms that meant 2000 credits which equated to $500. Woo hoo! So I quickly grabbed my player card...did my "victory" dance over to the cashier, and felt the "oh-so" sweet feeling of having 5 crisp $100 bills in my pocket. It was hard to walk out of there..but I knew that it was a wise choice. So in 20 minutes I gained $500--I wish I got paid that well at work.

It rained all day today. I am starting to dread the long drives. I drove 8 hours today. I will drive another 8 hours on Monday.......another 8 hours on Thursday.....and then 15 hours next weekend. In 7 days I am going to put 2,000 miles on my car! Well I know exactly where my poker winnings are going to--new tires!

All right peeps......I need to head out. Just wanted to share with you my gambling success story! I'll touch base in Canada next week.

-T