Not a particularly uplifting week. Some more near-misses and agonizing defeats. Poker, in other words. Work kept me from playing the big games in Portland last weekend, so I had to make do with mostly online. Bovada 0.5/1 and 0.25/0.5 … Continue reading
So. No Shooting Star Satellite last week. This week and next were/are too jammed with other stuff to make a trip, I’m otherwise occupied tomorrow, the day of the big $20K-to-first game at Final Table, so I’m going to try to make … Continue reading
This week’s goal was to make enough to cover a quick flight trip to San Jose on Thursday or Friday to play a $1,080 WPT Shooting Star Main Event satellite on Thursday or Friday. The Main Event is $7.5K, so the … Continue reading
Bovada 0.5/1 NLHE Zone 6-Max A couple of 6-Max cash sessions before the PacWest 6-Max tournament. The first doesn’t go well. I’ve noticed that the guys who’ve cashed up in this game to $300+ (max buy-in is $100) tend to … Continue reading
Encore Club $13K NLHE Won several hands in the first round then settled back and played the game. Picked up kings in early position and 3-bet, getting a few callers, flopped [qx jx 7x], made a c-bet and got a … Continue reading
Final Table $20K NLHE I wasn’t feeling in tip-top condition during the day, but I really hate to miss this monthly event, because it’s one of the best values in town. I got off to a good start building up … Continue reading
Encore Club $13K NLHE This was the usual Friday night tournament at Encore, and it was busy, with 130 entries and a substantial prize pool. I got a little overaggressive in round six and called a 3K raise with [ks … Continue reading
Not a lot to report in the past week. The day before last week’s cash in the Friday Encore $11K, I’d chopped a $1K at Final Table, then I stopped into The Game for some 1/2 shootout action and picked … Continue reading
The morning was uneventful, just resting up from five days of playing poker, a little sightseeing, and a big steak dinner the night before. Made a few calls, caught up on the news a little bit (it hadn’t gotten any … Continue reading
As mentioned in this week’s Planner, I appeared on the Part Time Poker podcast with game designer and poker writer Alex Weldon and 2015 WSOP $10K HORSE champion Andrew Barber. The topic of discussion was originally about setting a betting … Continue reading