Sycuan - Win a WSOP seat

Sycuan is holding qualifier tournaments for a Final Event where 1st place will be a $10k WSOP seat, $2500 in cash and .....Sycuan logo merchandise..Imagine that. A little advertising for them. I'm sure that I will give a few of them a shot. They are $33 buy-in tourneys tourneys. They will take out $1k from each one to build the prize pool for the Finals. Final will also pay 2nd-50th with a $15k guaranteed consolation pool, so I guess that 10k seat + 15k pool + 2.5k cash is a pretty large pool of $27.5k. Not too bad if you can get a piece of that pie for $33.

Poker Chips

Are you still using that 200pc kids poker kit from Rite-Aid? Yeah it's time to upgrade then. If you are in the market for some nice poker chips. I have a few suggestions. I, myself am still using a set that I bought from Costco a few years ago. They are very nice, but they are much better sets on the market. I seem to have found the ones that are the same as what are used in the top casinos in the world. If interested take a look at the brand new line of High-end Poker chips called Protégé from Sidepot Clay Poker Chips. According to the gentlemen I spoke to, they basically own the molds for the chips that are used in the top casinos in Las Vegas. No stickers on the chips here. These things are top of the line. Granted they are very expensive, but how often do you buy poker chips? If you buy one of these sets, I would think that you will probably never buy chips again. This model is brand spankin' new so I don't think that they are even in stock yet, but when they are I would highly recommend that you consider making an investment. I wish I could.

They have a very cool section to help you find the right chip at the right price and samples start at only $5

If not you can order some new stickers for your current set or a less expensive set and customize them to have you favorite Buck Rogers character on them like these fancy numbers...

Viejas Monday

Back out to Viejas this morning for the $20 tourney at 10am. No wins today, in fact not many opportunities really. I did manage to win a few pots and got up to about 4400 in chips from 3000, but it was downhill from there. On large pot that cost me a bit was when there were 2-3 short stacks in on the pot in front of me and I looked down to AKh. I shoved to close out (squeeze play) an early caller with about the same amount of chips as me. Unfortunately, for me, he called with 22. Strange call for all of his chips, but I guess that it turned out ok for him as one of the very short stacks won and another short stack also won, but he took most of my chips. Two of the short stacks held kings, so I had only the case king to hit, but there were no aces to my surprise. Of course the aces remained in there gopher holes and never surfaced for me so I lost quite a few chips that hand. Next time, maybe, I call and fold after the flop. There were 4 pots in this hand oddly enough.

WSOP Circuit event winner

Peter Feldman (known online as "Nordberg") was the winner of the WSOP Circuit Event at Harrah's Rincon. Peter is a 29-year-old professional poker from Harper Woods, Michigan. He is taking home a cool $280,859 (about $50,000 after taxes). Also, Mr. Feldman was awarded a $10,000 buy-in seat into the main event of the 2007 World Series of Poker, to be held in July at the Rio Las Vegas. Peter said "Each and every time I had the best hand in an all-in situation (over the three-day period), it won. And every time I had the worst hand, it lost…..it also helped that I flopped four sets at this final table."

There were 181 players that put up the $5,000 buy-in for a total prize pool of almost a million ($877,850). David Matthew took second place, collecting $147,364. One of my favorite players Gavin Smith went out 7th for $34,674. Peter and Gavin were at the final table in New Orleans as well, finishing 1-2 respectively. This makes two first place circuit events for Peter Feldman.

Viejas

Went down to one of the local indian casino's this morning for one of their routine daily tournaments. On Friday's the have a No Limit Hold-em morning tournament at 10:00am that is a $25 Buy-In with $5 Bounties
and has $2,500 Guaranteed. There are no re-buys. I have played this tournament several times and have made the final table at least twice. I won it one time for a cool cash of $675.

I played VERY tight in the early stages. In fact I folded every hand for the first 2 rounds. The best hand that I had was AQ off and the guy to my right moved in before I had any chance to bet. He had JJ and moves in regularly with that hand pre-flop. I may have called if I knew this just for gambling odds early to double up, but I thought that he may also have AK. Everything else played out pretty standard. I did double up from the chip leader at the table with AJ vs 22 to get some breathing room. I made it down to 3 tables and went out about 25-27th or so. I had KJ and I pushed UTG with 14000 on the blinds of 1500/3000 hoping to just take down the pot beacause the table was a bit short as 2 guys went out in the last 2 hands. Unfortunately the chip leader woke up with a hand and called with AJ (dominated). I didn't improve, but I took the chance to double up there and guarantee a spot in the money. Oh well. I'll keep trying.

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