Kramer!!

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Quote of the day: "Sometimes life's gonna hit you in the head with a brick; don't lose faith" Steve Jobs


I was an hour short to qualify for the Orleans $100,000 tournament, so I went down there yesterday to finish up. I say the Orleans, but it’s actually 4 different casinos all poolng for the tournament and it looks like they’re expecting a pretty big turnout, they have a signup list and four different starting times, you can choose Monday afternoon or night or Tuesday afternoon or night and then the final day is on Wednesday. I figured if I go in the afternoon it will be a higher percentage of retired guys and bingo women, players who I find are generally easier to read and manipulate in the pot, so I chose Tuesday afternoon.

Actually, I had realized yesterday that it has been quite a while since I’ve played any MTTs. It always seems refreshing to switch types/styles of games, so I logged into Stars last night and signed up for 2 MTTs.

The first one I saw on the list was a $33 HORSE tourney with about 150 players signed up and said “accepting late registration” so I quickly signed up. I think HORSE is such a great game! Most of the players seemed to be inept at at least one or two of the games. Too many of them overplayed one-way hands in Omaha, didn’t understand Razz concepts, and made reraises with wired Queens in stud h/l. Most of them seemed to understand the holdem, but the other games usually only one or two players who seemed to grasp the games well, so a lot of dead money in there. I ran fairly well and when we got down to two tables left, one guy called my raise in Razz on two different hands with a Queen doorcard and beat me both times. Both times I had started 643 and A47 and made a nine low. I finally knocked him out at the final table when I reraised his KT in holdem with AJ and we got it all in on an 863 flop and he didn’t hit. With 4 players left I had the chip lead, but the blinds were so high that one hand would turn it and so it did. As the SB 4 handed, I had AQ and the button raised, I reraised, and the big blind cold-called and button called. Flop came 446 two hearts, I bet out, BB called and button folded. I didn’t feel too great here, but big blind didn’t raise the turn so he could have a weaker ace, and if he had a pair I figured my 6 outs were clean. I bet the turn putting him all-in and sure enough he had ATo, but hit running hearts to beat me. A little bit later in Omaha I raised this guy with A3TT and he called, flopped TQQ and he checkraised and we made it maximum bets on the flop putting us just about all-in. I was sure he had a Queen and I had to dodge some cards, and when we turned it over he held AQ35, giving him plenty of outs. The case Queen finished my run in fourth place.

I also tried a deep stack tourney on Stars and thought it was great, lots of play and room to maneuver. You start with 250 big blinds and 30 minute levels. I managed to run my 5000 stack up to 10,000. Unfortunately, after like 2 ½ hours only half the field was gone and I realized this thing was going to outlast my tired eyes. I tried a donk move to try to double through quickly or bust, and I went bust. Looks like a fun tourney to play if you have the time.

Found a funny video, the Lost Seinfeld episode, putting together some Seinfeld clips with the recent Michael Richards incident. Man, I miss that show…Kramer!!