Friday I arrive and rush over the the Hard Rock Poker Jingle Benefit
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Event Name: Poker Jingle At The Hard Rock
Date & Time: December 12, 2008 03:00 PM
Location: Hard Rock Hotel Poker Lounge
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Saturday, its the WPBT Blogger donkfest, er, I mean tournament at the Venetian at I think 3pm (contact Falstaff for details and reservations). I encourage all bloggers to donate to the “WAFFLES BULLSEYE (bounty) FUND“.
I’ll start it with $20. Knock out Waffles before the final table and take the entire pot!! (you must take all of waffles’ chips before the final table. void where prohibited (no where). If you touch waffles, see your doctor.)
One of these two nights (or both), I need to eat sausage and drink beer at Hoffbrau House.
It’s going to be a whirlwind weekend of poker!!!
I decided to practice small-ball on Sunday. How? I bought into a deep stack table and saw nearly 50% of the flops. Try it sometime and you really gain some work on your post flop play. After losing a decent pot with TP to AA, I gained it all back and then some. Towards the end, not a single PP panned out and I finished up 6.5%. Playing 48% of the hands. Yowza.
Last night was league night, a 21 player affair which is perfect for playing long-ball. Just one problem, I had 4 playable hands all night, and 3 of them I had to laydown pre-flop to two re-raises. (both times I had JJ and folded to KK and AA).
I only made one debatable fold. I have only 1800 in chips left and I post the BB of 600. I say to myself, “I guess I am committed” and the UTG raises to 1600. A tighter player at a full tables of 10. The buttons calls. I have 9To and should have called, but folded instead to what I expect was JJ,QQ,KK, or AA. (The flop, ironically, was T43).
I had not been this card dead in a while. The 4th hand I eluded to was AJs and after totally missing the flop, I c-bet AND fired a second bullet on the turn, which was called. I folded on the river.
Despite starting 7 handed, I could find no places to “make a move” due to the small blind structure where players would make calls with a wide range. I never hit better than bottom pair all night. I just folded my way to what I expect was about 16th. Like a tiger in a cage, all I could do was pace back in forth in front of the bars. Ugh.
