Scratch Lottery is rigged

So as I was leaving Kansas I still had some spare dollars on me. I decided to invest them into the Kansas Scratch Lottery :)

The game is Texas Hold'em. The player gets two cards and you have to beat the dealer's two cards using the five community cards. Each ticket has five different hands, and you can win up to $25,000. I'm sure these bad beats will amaze you as well (just click on the image to the left to see a larger version). My personal favorite is on the second ticket, my quad 7's get beat by a straight flush! Take a look for yourself. I gotta admit, I'll probably end up playing the game again some time, just because I like the action.

As far as real poker goes, today went really well. I was able to win $570.63 over 2 hours of playing two tables of $1/$2NL at CelebPoker. I played a $30+3 tournament as well but I lost when my AA got cracked by KQ all-in preflop. Q on the flop, Q on the river. At that point I didn't really care, though, because the cash games were running so well. It will take me a while to clear the whole Celeb bonus of $300, it seems to be taking a long time to clear. But it gives me something to work on, which should make for a great January of poker-playing.