Yesterday marked the beginning of my Club's Member-Member Tournament. It's one of the two largest tournaments at the club each year (member-guest being the biggest) and is an excuse for a bunch of lawyers, doctors, and financial advisers to get rowdy.

I couldn't find a partner to play in the event, but my buddies and I went to the club in the evening to play some late night (and drunk) poker.

There were about 30 of us on the back patio at the club and most of them were probably 8-10 beers deep.

To kick off the night, someone threw down a challenge. 1 club, #18 (430 yards), $100/man low score wins it all. I can't even quantify the amount of EV in this situation for me. I was sober, the lowest handicap player in the entire field, presumably the longest hitter, and I had just finished hitting balls at the range so I was stretched and ready.

Eight guys took the bait and we teed off with about 30 other members spectating.

My club of choice was a 6i and I striped my drive down the left to the first cut leaving about 234 in. My next shot was pretty solid but didn't draw back as I had intended (fairway slopes downhill to the right) leaving myself slightly short-sided in the first-cut of rough. I chipped it up to about 20 feet and had a par putt. Among the others there was only one other golfer on the green in 3. Unfortunately for me I hit my 'putt' with my 6i too solidly and got some loft under the ball, leaving myself an ugly 8 footer for 5. Two putts later and I was in my pocket for 6! Such a choke job.

The other guy ended up sinking a 6 foot breaker to pocket the $800.

Luckily I won the poker tournament at night for a nice little hedge on my losses. Final hand played out like this:

Blinds are 10/20. 4-handed (play down to 3 and payout according to chip stacks). I'm SB with 90 chips, BB has about 120, BTN has about 50, and CO has 40. CO limps for half his stack, BTN folds, and I shove with A6s. BTN calls with KJo and I hold and end up winning chip lead (and first prize money).

Online poker has been the pits the last few days, including an epic tilt session at PLO.