The Power of Obama

Full Tilt was running a 3x points special for election night, so I put in a solid NLH session for the first time in several weeks. I guess my luckbox and my NL skills are a bit rusty. I may have set a personal record for number of times I bluffed into the nuts. Someone needs to remind me that I do better as a nit.

Obama is making his victory speech now, though, and I can't stop smiling. What's a couple of buyins on a night like this? (although, in retrospect, I definitely should have gone down to Grant Park for the celebration and skipped the poker grinding--results oriented thinking much?) It's all pretty amazing, though. If someone had asked me a couple years ago when there would be the first non-white President, my estimate would have been a few decades from now. But apparently America is a better country than I gave it credit for. I'm proud. I'm excited to see what President Obama will accomplish. And, most of all, I can't wait until we look back on Obama as one of the greatest presidents in US history, and my mom has to admit that she is the worst judge of character in our family. I'm going to bed smiling, dammit. I'll worry about my stupid poker leaks later.