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 K♠ … 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
Just twenty-six events over this two-month period. 16 of those were online with Chainsaw Poker, whose members (not me!) had an impressive showing at this summer’s World Series of Poker in mixed events. One of the admins calculated that every … 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