saturday night live

Alive in Tunica

Just landed. Checked in. Now I'm off to see what's happening on the casino floor. Enjoying a beer to take the edge off a little.

Turns out you can't satellite into the satellites. Oh well.

Preparation

Two weeks ago I had ideas of finishing my started poker books, playing in local live tournaments and many online deep stack tournaments. But due to scheduling issues very little of that has happened. Now it is less than 6 days away and I really can only read. But I have decided to not do any reading.

Reading this late in the game is only going to mess with my mind. The first time I read Super System, I did not have a winning session for two weeks. I am, though, listening to Phil Gordon’s “Little Green Book” on my iPod. It is pretty simple things so far. Nothing that is going to drastically change my game for the worse.

Other than that I have been doing a lot of second guessing about this trip. Not about my ability to play and win, but the cost, the time away from my family and work. Coming home with a good story and losing is just not going to cut it for me. But to make ANY money I need to get into late Tuesday night of the tournament I’m guessing. That’s a lot of time away.

If I am not too distracted I will post updates and photos here throughout my trip.

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WSOP Circuit Tunica, MS – I’m going!

Yeah, baby!  I’m going.

This upcoming WSOP tournament is perfectly suited for my schedule, bankroll and current winning streak.  It is at the end of this month so I have a lot of work to do between now and then.  

One would say that I need more time with deep stack play, but since I’m not buying into the main event I need to prepare for the satellites.  I’ll invest in both of them.  The first one is good at 75 minute levels, while the second one will more resemble online play with 30 minute levels.

So that means I need to jump into some decent sized tournaments rather than my usual single tables or cash games.  I also plan to finish Volumes II and III of Harrington’s trilogy.  As well as reading the forums and podcasts.

Wish me luck!

Photo from Hard Rock

I've been missing for awhile because my cards have not been treating me right. I'm still on a slump, but I'm working my way back. Last night I went out to the Hard Rock and cashed in one of two singlet tables. Still a losing session, though. Finally remembered to take a picture while I was there. You can see their Poker Pro (dealer-less) tables in the foreground.

Later this week, they're hosting a celebrity tournament (http://www.vincentlecavalier.com/poker/). Thought real hard about participating. But the structure makes a 180 player field finish in three with celebs get unlimited free rebuys for the first hour. With that and so little of the money going into the payout pool, I decided to pass. Though it would be cool to potentially play with someone like Daniel Negreanu.

That will have to wait for my first big tournament.