About once out of every 3 days I stop at my hotel poker room at harrahs and play in there 7:30pm nightly poker tournament. The crazy thing is they range in players anywhere between 45-80 players so the payout can be anywhere between 4-9 places. I have played in 5 events there and made 5 final tables. They are small buy-ins only $100 but I have won a total of $2095 and the total cost for all 5 events was only $500 so over 400% return on the money. I feel that I am playing such great poker and have been fortunate in the Harrah's tournaments; we just need that to carry over to a large tournament so that we have a huge payout soon.
Until next time...
Friday, June 15, 2007
Excellent Play at STS (Single Table Satellites)
Today was a great day for the poker club. I played in two single table satellites and won both of them. The single table satellites were at the Venetian; it is a $130 buy-in with first and second place getting a free seat into the $540 tournament with the opportunity to play for a first prize of over $80,000. That is prize they have been averaging for the last few days. So the next two tournaments I have won entries from the satellite play.
I played very well and got off a few good hands by making great reads on other players; one time I had KK and raised a guy called, and then another player moved in. I thought about it for a while and new this was a tight (doesn’t play a lot of hands) player so I decided to fold as I had a pretty good chip stack and didn’t need to risk it at this time; the first player called and the raiser had Pocket AA so that was one good read.
The second was when I was in the big blind with AQ and a guy in middle position raised to $300 from middle position and I smooth called. The flop came 788 and I checked, and he bet out $350 I put him on either AJ or KQ based on his past betting patterns, and decided he was trying to buy the pot. On the turn came a 4 and he checked and so did I. The river brought a 7 so there was two pair on the board. He moved all in immediately.
I took a few minutes to think about his betting and why did he not bet the turn and give me a free card but then bet the river and so much; if he wanted me to call he would have bet a small value bet that I would call so I the thought more that he had to have either an ace also or maybe a King so I called and showed my Ace high with two pair on the board; he mucked his hand and got up from the table busted… as he walked away under his breath he says, “dammit I shouldn’t have tried to steal from that guy, he is too good.” So that helped the ego as I cruised on to my second win.
That is the best way to win entries as we get a $1000 worth of events for only a quarter of the price. I will be playing in tomorrow’s Venetian event and will update the blog tomorrow night.
Until next time…
I played very well and got off a few good hands by making great reads on other players; one time I had KK and raised a guy called, and then another player moved in. I thought about it for a while and new this was a tight (doesn’t play a lot of hands) player so I decided to fold as I had a pretty good chip stack and didn’t need to risk it at this time; the first player called and the raiser had Pocket AA so that was one good read.
The second was when I was in the big blind with AQ and a guy in middle position raised to $300 from middle position and I smooth called. The flop came 788 and I checked, and he bet out $350 I put him on either AJ or KQ based on his past betting patterns, and decided he was trying to buy the pot. On the turn came a 4 and he checked and so did I. The river brought a 7 so there was two pair on the board. He moved all in immediately.
I took a few minutes to think about his betting and why did he not bet the turn and give me a free card but then bet the river and so much; if he wanted me to call he would have bet a small value bet that I would call so I the thought more that he had to have either an ace also or maybe a King so I called and showed my Ace high with two pair on the board; he mucked his hand and got up from the table busted… as he walked away under his breath he says, “dammit I shouldn’t have tried to steal from that guy, he is too good.” So that helped the ego as I cruised on to my second win.
That is the best way to win entries as we get a $1000 worth of events for only a quarter of the price. I will be playing in tomorrow’s Venetian event and will update the blog tomorrow night.
Until next time…
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Completing tournament schedule
Sorry that there has been no updates lately. I am awaiting the tournament schedule to be complete and approved before playing in any major events. Hope to be done this week.
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