Cash is QUEEN! Prim´s little CG corner (and BR-challenge)

HOT STUFF!

Until my next session, I got something for your entertainment: REALLY REALLY HOT STUFF!!

Here are the "hotties":

*Carolina Reaper
* 7-Pot
* Bhut Jolokia
* Trinidad Scorpion
* Cherry Bomb
* Cayenne
* Naga Morich
* Habanero (my favorite!)

Testing their germination capacity. Got some older seeds, and this is a test-run. Let´s see if those seeds haven´t lost their germination-capacity.

My regular readers know that so far, I was not exactly lucky with the hottest chilis. This time, I´m determined to change my "bad luck" with those "hotties". I´m still determined to cultivate the hottest chilis in the world!!!

BR challenge report

This one´s gonna be quick: Haven´t played last week due to high work load.

Week 18
BR last week: 135,58 €
CG hands: 0
MTTs: 0
BR this week: 135,58 €
Profit: 0 €

Light at the end of the tunnel ....

Phew! Most of the work is done now, customers are served, some have to wait until January, but there´s nothing I can do about it. Tomorrow it´s last efforts, the last small things to finish and then I´ll be on vacation until January 6th. This Saturday, I´m only the substitute player for Trollette Open, so, if nobodie´s sick or injured I´ll won´t compete in tennis on Saturday (Oh boy, I hope so!). This means: There may be some tournament poker! Let´s hope for the best case

Sonny and me

I´ve been quite busy until my vacation, which have started last Friday. There was some frustrating tournament poker and a suprising cameo at Trollette Open, as you can read here. Yesterday, I had tennis practice and today "Sonny" (my robot) and me were very busy cleaning our appartment, which has to be spick and span until the end of the year. It´s our all year´s tradition: Everything has to be neat and tidy until December 31st, we´re cleaning "all the dirt of the old year" and "have a clean start into the new year." So with that said, there was not much poker last week:

Week 19
BR last week: 135,59 €
CG hands: 0
MTTs: 1
Freerolls: 1
BR this week: 135,39 €
Result: -0,2 €

Merry Christmas, everybody!

Will be away over Christmas, visiting family and relatives, will be back on 26th. As I am on vacation and almost everything is now done, there will be more tournament poker because on vacation I have time for MTTs and such. But until then I wish everybody a Merry Christmas!!

Year 2025 recap

Sooo guys, it´s the end of the year of 2025 and time for a recap, let´s keep the main focus on poker.

Poker highlights
We ending the year with a highlight: The Big Quarter! As you can read here, we played the Big Quarter Phase I yesterday and placed!!! We placed 6th and qualified for the Big Quarter Final, which will run on January 5th! The Final Phase is going to be a Mystery Bounty and we´re excited to play that one for the first time!!

Me and my mascot Bowser jr. are excited!!

Another highlight was of course CG, which my Cash Queen and I enjoy very much. Well, to be honest, I enjoy poker a lot, when I have time and I would really love to have more time for it! Both, CG and MTTs went well:

Start BR in 2025: 92 €
Current BR: 135,58 €
Profit in 2025: + 43,58 €

So, that´s not bad so far. After we had built a BR from 0 $ with freerolls on Partypoker, we decided to join the BR-challenge, but this time with CG! And that´s not a bad comeback to the tables so far, after a couple of years of almost poker-abstinence. :f_biggrin::f_thumbsup:

My Cash Queen (mascot) Pom Pom approves!

What else went well?
You can guess it: Tennis! Won most of my tennis matches, especially in women´s singles, and could significantly improve my ranking!!

My "Trollette" approves!

Many things went well in 2025, but of course there were some other things that went not so well.

Gardening (especially the HOT stuff!)
Horrible this year! Pests, pests, pests!! Especially lice!!! Bad harvest with sweet peppers and chillis! The weather in July was not optimal for our green beans, so just a little harvest there. Pumpkin harvest was ok, but due to lots of rain in fall, some pumpkins rotted on the field. Due to dry weather in spring, most of the carrot seeds did not germinate! And we had the egg plants, eaten by snails! Great fruit harvest, though. This year, we mostly ate spinach, fruit, pumpkin, zucchini, salads and tomatoes. Cauliflower harvest was also good!

Achillodynia!!
Again! In July I had pain in my right achilles tendon again, so, I had to take a break from tennis from July to September and was in physical therapy in August. It´s now healed!

Running
In February and March I did some running, I went for a 4 miles run with Harrier - and definitely decided: That´s not "my" sports! Running has always been my weakest sports and because of achillodynia (see above) I decided that it´s time to give up running for good! Will swim and cycle instead!

2026 Outlook

After the recap comes the outlook! What can we expect from 2026?

Poker
Well, we´re going to continue building our BR with CG, MTTs and Freerolls, at the moment the "Free to play"-freeroll on PartyPoker is VERY attractive, because you can win Big Quarter satty tickets or even Big Quarter entry if you place well. Until the end of our vacation on January 7th, we will focus on more qualifications for the Big Quarter - and hopefully placing there. CG will restart on January 8th! We will stay on PartyPoker, no other room is planned, unless there´s going to be cool promos like freerolls somewhere? We left 888 because they took out their freerolls. Too bad!

Tennis
Of course there will be "Trollette Open" in May and June, and there are two more "Trollette Open winter editions" to play: one in January and one in February. I am more than happy with my ranking, so if I can improve it, that´s gonna be a bonus (but not a goal). I actually plan to compete a bit less next year and Homer and I decided to do less tennis next winter, because indoor tennis is hard on the body! Homer got injured and indoor tennis is bad for the achilles tendons. So, we plan to play "only" twice a week indoor tennis next winter.

Other sports
Long time neglected, it MUST be picked up again: strength training! It´s now a MUST for a women 50 plus for health and injury-prevention. The swimming continues of course, no doubt there.

Gardening
NEW plants, MORE FRUIT (because we love them!)!! You can follow my gardening journey over there then.

Challenges
Of course Harrer and I plan - as always - some friends-challenges, cause we love challenging and motivating each other, but we´re not sure what we going to do?

So, as you see, there will be A LOT of fun and interesting stuff!

Troll of the Year 2025!

And now it´s time to announce our Troll of the Year 2025!

As you can see, the poll is even for Nsavov and Vorpal. Harrier and I discussed who it shall be, and we also could not agree on one. For that reason: IT´S A TIE this year!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO TWO TROLLS OF THE YEAR!!! :appl::appl::appl::appl::appl:

*Our beloved mod: VORPAL!
*Our beloved troll: NSAVOV!!!

:appl::appl::appl::appl::appl::appl::appl::appl::appl:

Originally posted by Primrose6789
Of course Harrer and I plan - as always - some friends-challenges, cause we love challenging and motivating each other, but we´re not sure what we going to do?

Oh, don't worry, I have plenty of ideas.

Congrats on a successful year, with some nice poker results to boot.

And thanks for the many amazing moments together. Let's have some more in 2026!

Congratulations! NSAVOV

I am so honoured to be included in your illustrious company

And to you also, Prim…
…wishing you the very best for a peaceful, prosperous 2026,

Thank you very much, Vorpal!
By the way: The poll can be removed now!

Originally posted by Primrose6789
By the way: The poll can be removed now!
Ah, we could leave it up for a bit, to possibly get a belated tie-breaker after all, like we did with the 2nd place position for our 2018 poll.

Originally posted by Harrier88

Originally posted by Primrose6789
By the way: The poll can be removed now!
Ah, we could leave it up for a bit, to possibly get a belated tie-breaker after all, like we did with the 2nd place position for our 2018 poll.

Nope! It´s 2026 now! It´s Troll of the year 2025!!
The mods can remove the poll.

Originally posted by Primrose6789

Originally posted by Harrier88

Originally posted by Primrose6789
By the way: The poll can be removed now!
Ah, we could leave it up for a bit, to possibly get a belated tie-breaker after all, like we did with the 2nd place position for our 2018 poll.

Nope! It´s 2026 now! It´s Troll of the year 2025!!
The mods can remove the poll

So let it be written, so let it be done

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by Primrose6789

Originally posted by Harrier88

Originally posted by Primrose6789
By the way: The poll can be removed now!
Ah, we could leave it up for a bit, to possibly get a belated tie-breaker after all, like we did with the 2nd place position for our 2018 poll.

Nope! It´s 2026 now! It´s Troll of the year 2025!!
The mods can remove the poll

So let it be written, so let it be done

Vorpal as Ramses the 2nd? :f_wink::f_biggrin::f_thumbsup:
Thank you!

Originally posted by Primrose6789
Vorpal as Ramses the 2nd? :f_wink::f_biggrin::f_thumbsup:
Thank you!
Impressive catch!

For those that *didn't* get the reference from "The Ten Commandments"…

Unluckily I didn't win the troll contest. Maybe I was too nice to people

Originally posted by taavi1337
Unluckily I didn't win the troll contest. Maybe I was too nice to people
Nah, you just were the third party candidate - they rarely stand a chance in those kinds of elections.