Headed up to Pechanga Indian Casino yesterday to play in their $100 + 30, 20k guaranteed NLHE tournament. This tournament had a pretty good structure and great starting chips, so it was nice for once to play a REAL tournament. I have only played at Pechanga a few times, but they have a pretty nice (and large) poker room. I think I played just 1 daily tournament there and some low limit, limit poker (2/4) a LONG time ago, which I recall was a classic river showdown festival, as you might think.
Anyway...my buddy Mizzark619 and I headed up there in the pouring rain and I mean POURING RAIN! We had to slow down to as little as 15-20mph on the freeway because we literally could not see 5 feet in front of us. Well, as the saying goes, one must endure pain sometimes to achieve pleasure. I played well, ran well, didn't get unlucky and shipped an 18 way chop of $1627, -$50 to the chip leader, so $1578 net. Not bad for about 8.5 hours of work. I was extremely happy with the result since it was better than 6th place money.
Anyway...my buddy Mizzark619 and I headed up there in the pouring rain and I mean POURING RAIN! We had to slow down to as little as 15-20mph on the freeway because we literally could not see 5 feet in front of us. Well, as the saying goes, one must endure pain sometimes to achieve pleasure. I played well, ran well, didn't get unlucky and shipped an 18 way chop of $1627, -$50 to the chip leader, so $1578 net. Not bad for about 8.5 hours of work. I was extremely happy with the result since it was better than 6th place money.
You may notice that the image only shows 13 one hundred dollar bills, this is because I traded 15% with Mizzark619, so it ended up great for both of us. He got his buy-in back plus a hundo.
I spent most of the tournament studying my opponents closely and using my reads to make the best decision for each situation, which is why playing poker is clearly a game of skill.
