Yesterday, I won a $1 rebuy + add-on ($1K guaranteed) "Dollar Frenzy" Turbo tournament on Aced (used to be Poker.Com/PDC)
for 385.51 profit. I told myself that I would only buy once and let
people "Billy" my stack up for me (Billy Winkle loves to push and rebuy). 3k initial stack for a dollar plus
30K add on for another dollar, after the rebuy rounds. Prize pool was
$1938 all told, but I spent $2.10. Several times I recalled lessons
from the Jonathan Little coaching that helped. Of course I still had to
get lucky a couple of times, but hit the final table about 5 to 2 chip
leader to my nearest stack. 3 hours 59 minutes to win it.
There were 554 players all told with late registrations, etc.; 959 rebuys; 425 addons.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
B'ham
Trip report: Stayed at Baytown Inn and Suites on Montgomery highway. Adequate room, free breakfast and Wi-Fi. About 17 minutes from Airport and absolutely no issue with traffic @ 0600 on a Sunday Morning. Rented from Enterprise, a Chevy Sonic. Adequate car, tight suspension (made I-65 feel like driving over a cheese grater. Found a Sam's Club within 3 miles of the Hotel and filled up Saturday night. Sam's is not 24/7 fuel. Wound up paying 3.33 a gallon, which 4 cents less than the "fill it up" rate from Enterprise.
Got copies of Mary J. Hudspeth's probate documents but will need to analyse further if there is any help within. They wre on Microfilm and the process was reasonably easy to get copies at a buck a page, but I recommend going at 0800 for the future if you want happy probate clerks (they were pretty slammed when I got there).
Also did Birmingham Library (very nice), Museum of Art (not the best but nice, with a great turkey sandwich in the cafe), Vulcan park and Museum, as well as the Southern Museum of Flight, which has some very good exhibits including some on the tuskegee airmen. They also have on loan from Wright Pat/AF historical a TF-102A side by side trainer.
Got copies of Mary J. Hudspeth's probate documents but will need to analyse further if there is any help within. They wre on Microfilm and the process was reasonably easy to get copies at a buck a page, but I recommend going at 0800 for the future if you want happy probate clerks (they were pretty slammed when I got there).
Also did Birmingham Library (very nice), Museum of Art (not the best but nice, with a great turkey sandwich in the cafe), Vulcan park and Museum, as well as the Southern Museum of Flight, which has some very good exhibits including some on the tuskegee airmen. They also have on loan from Wright Pat/AF historical a TF-102A side by side trainer.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Biloxi Day 3
No cash in today's games, but paid for them with Video poker winnings. Overall, 6 tourneys played, all paid for with action
from video Poker while waiting for them to start (plus some extras), won
2 out of six, was eliminated from the other ones ahead when I pushed 2
out of 4 times (there is no way the small blind should have AQ when I
have A9s on the button, or the Big blind should have TT when I have AQs,
lol). Every casino in Biloxi visited to "reactivate" my players club
status from Treasure Bay to Margaritaville. Hard Rock said I wasn't
going to have a view room for my comps, but I fooled them - the only
view I cared about was being able to see my Mitsu in the Parking Garage
when I got up! What a great trip!
Biloxi 2nd day report
It is after midnight, so this report will be dated the 7th, but for the 6th. Did the noon tourney @IP again, this time without an overlay. Made it to the final table, but after break time, had less than 10 BB, so I pushed on the dealer button with A9s (diamonds) and bot the blinds woke up with hands, SB was AQs (spades) and BB was a pair of Jacks. And George the dealer had even mentioned that he was a tournament killer - puts pair v. pair v. pair out there. Anyway, I hit the flop with a 9, but the turn was a q and the river a blank, and the SB had both of us covered. Almost any other time, A9s would be pretty strong vs the random Blind hands, but not this time
I then went to the Isle and did there Wednesday night tourney. I remembered it being a bounty tournament, but not a rebuy as well, although as we played it, it got more familiar. I bought for one entry, hit a couple of hands early, but got felted when I drove 44 a bit to far. Did a double re-buy up to 6Kt$, and then was moved to another table shortly after. I finally put an ugly bad beat on someone (not really - it was still in rebuy time, but only a few minutes left, so I wanted to double the stack or be able to top off) when my open ended straight draw hit the river and knocked out top pair. I did the add-on for another $25 = 6kt$ and we were off to the races when the real poker started. Real early, the same guy I sucked out on limped in on the button with AK suited and I had A7s in the BB and checked, the flop came an A, I checked and he did a strange min bet. I figured he might have felt he had kicker problems, but then again, I was the BB and should not have had an A if he had one, so I probably would have bet more. A 7 came on the river, I bet about 2/3 pot and he went all in. I had him covered (and thought he might be steaming anyway) so I called with aces up and a J on the river sent him packing. Way too emotional - he had ranted and raved (silently by pacing around the poker room) after the beat and I knew eventually I could get him to commit to a bad bet sequence. That was my first bounty, but not my last, I would up taking out 5 others. I was even pot committed in the BB with 87o and called for just over a another BB to knock out AQo from an UTG AI. Was the dominant chip lead when we got to 7, but I agreed to a chop, since I had quite a few bounties and I almost always will chop to kill the variance if everyone else agrees. I probably could have counter offered with a hold out for the 7th place player to cover a buy in and add on, since I had enough chips to weather the action until another player was knocked out, since I usually will suggest a hold out for the bubble when we get down to that point in other tournaments.
I then went to the Isle and did there Wednesday night tourney. I remembered it being a bounty tournament, but not a rebuy as well, although as we played it, it got more familiar. I bought for one entry, hit a couple of hands early, but got felted when I drove 44 a bit to far. Did a double re-buy up to 6Kt$, and then was moved to another table shortly after. I finally put an ugly bad beat on someone (not really - it was still in rebuy time, but only a few minutes left, so I wanted to double the stack or be able to top off) when my open ended straight draw hit the river and knocked out top pair. I did the add-on for another $25 = 6kt$ and we were off to the races when the real poker started. Real early, the same guy I sucked out on limped in on the button with AK suited and I had A7s in the BB and checked, the flop came an A, I checked and he did a strange min bet. I figured he might have felt he had kicker problems, but then again, I was the BB and should not have had an A if he had one, so I probably would have bet more. A 7 came on the river, I bet about 2/3 pot and he went all in. I had him covered (and thought he might be steaming anyway) so I called with aces up and a J on the river sent him packing. Way too emotional - he had ranted and raved (silently by pacing around the poker room) after the beat and I knew eventually I could get him to commit to a bad bet sequence. That was my first bounty, but not my last, I would up taking out 5 others. I was even pot committed in the BB with 87o and called for just over a another BB to knock out AQo from an UTG AI. Was the dominant chip lead when we got to 7, but I agreed to a chop, since I had quite a few bounties and I almost always will chop to kill the variance if everyone else agrees. I probably could have counter offered with a hold out for the 7th place player to cover a buy in and add on, since I had enough chips to weather the action until another player was knocked out, since I usually will suggest a hold out for the bubble when we get down to that point in other tournaments.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Rolled into Biloxi @ 1130, just in time for the noon tourney At IP. 14 people, $70 buy in with a $2000 overlay from the casino. Last one that they are going do without at least 30 entrants. At the end there were 27 entrants which meant that the overlay raised the pot from 1350 to 2000. 4th place was an even 200. When we got down to the final table, a vote was made to chop the pot 10 ways, so each of us would get 200 instead of only 4th and everyone agreed. I was one of the lower stacks, so of course I said yes, but I always chop with a fair offer anyway. We saved probably at least and hour more play for someone to get just to 4th place and make the same money and 6 people got to take home cash that they would not have, even if we have no idea who those 6 people would have been in the long run.
Finished 11th in the Beau 1800, ran AQs into TT in the BB who had me well covered and no help through the FTorR.
Finished 11th in the Beau 1800, ran AQs into TT in the BB who had me well covered and no help through the FTorR.
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