Back to my Real World
September 25, 2007
Finally, I am unpacked and moved in with almost everything in it’s proper place so it is time to get back to business. I played Friday night at the Orleans - a great weekly tourney. They have changed it a bit and for the better. It is now $105, no rebuy, no add-on. The structure is 95% great (one jump that I don’t care for, but it’s OK), and the time rounds are very good. They start out with 20 rounds and after the first hour, they take it up to 30 minutes rounds. I hate to admit it but I went out on the bubble. I had about average chips and was in the small blind. No one entered the pot so I moved in with an A-9. At this point, picking up antes and blinds can make a big difference. As an after thought, so close to the money, I should have either raised or called. (It’s so easy to know exactly what to do after the fact.) I had picked up a little sigh tell from the fellow to my left who was the big blind. When I moved in, he thought for a minute, which surprised me, I fully expected a fold because a call would break him if he lost the hand. Low and behold, he said, I am tired and pushed all of his chips in with Q-2 off. I was thrilled until he hit a queen on the turn. That damaged me. A few hands later, I moved in with A-Q only to be beaten and sent home on that dreaded bubble by an A-9!
Last night I visited the TI for their new Monday night ladies tournament. We had only two tables but it is a good little tourney. $65 buy-in, no rebuy, no add-on and you get $3500 in chips. There are three doubles in the structure which I don’t like but you do get enough chips to play with. I split it 3-ways which was better than a stick in the eye. At 10 PM another tourney was starting and they had five tables. When I inquired; I found out that they spread daily $65 tourneys SIX times a day! It’s worth a visit. On Susie’s 10 scale, an 7 (not an 8 because they never go to antes), the Orleans, a 9.
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