Posts - May, 3, 2008

• Last Month's Tourneys

  May 03, 2008

  I know I previously posted about playing in the IP Classic in Biloxi. Well, I'm not sure if the annual event has gone semiannual but they had another last month. I went down to play in 2 of the preliminary events like I usually do.

  1st Event- Played pretty good. Around 280 players so payed the top 18. I bounced out in 23rd. I went card dead with 36 left and blinded my way down to oblivion.

  Left the table and went straight to a cash table. Still steaming from the tourney, I dropped $300 in about 10 minutes. Oh no gotta go. Went to the blackjack table to have a drink, relax and then go to bed. I like blackjack. There's not as much thinking as poker so it's good to have a drink and relax. And I was winning. I was sooooo tired but you can't walk away when you're hot. I cashed out up $750 so my poker losses were now forgotten.

  2nd Event- Went much like the 1st event. I played well but was determined not to blind down too low. So, I pushed with KQ suited and the BB called me with KK. Gone in 27th and tourney paid 18. Good thing was, I got the final 5 players in a side bet to agree to a chop for $440.

  So with $880 in tourney fees and $300 on cash table, I'd played 19 hours of poker for $1180 in losses-$440 chop=$740.

  What to do? I wasn't going to repeat the previous night's performance so I decided to go on to bed and hit the tables in the morning. Got up early, checked out of my room, and returned to the blackjack tables. Cashed out 4 hours later with a $700 profit. So that's $1550 on the blackjack tables.

  Overall, weekend was OK. Blackjack covered the poker and expenses. Now I have to get qualified for the WSOP.

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