Reno
Hilton World Poker Challenge - Day 12
Well
I almost played the $540 pot limit holdem
+ rebuys today, but backed out when I
found out that there was an add-on at
the end of the first two hours regardless
of how many chips you had. I was planning
on just playing like a rock until the
rebuys were over, but the add-on meant
I would be at a major disadvantage if
I didn't take it too. It turned out there
were 50 players who did 49 rebuys, prize
money was 19K for first, so knowing now
that there weren't that many rebuys I
wish I'd played. Instead I played like
a dufus in 3 satellites, lost them all.
Today's
final table of the Omaha hi/lo was quite
entertaining as Amarillo Slim was heads
up with Brian Saltus, Slim talking constantly
trying to pick up reads, Brian staying
silent most of the time. Where I was sitting
with a buddy we could see Brian's cards
a lot of times so it made it more interesting
for us as we knew what was happening.
Brian simply couldn't hit a flop and eventually
lost to Slim.
Someone
(sorry, forgot who) posted on rgp a week
or so ago about how to handle the grumpy
locals in ring games, well today, without
even knowing about that post, HUXLEYCAT
(an rgper) did exactly what was prescribed...
He sat down in a 10-20 game while waiting
for a bigger game, took the big blind
and got QQ. The betting got capped pre-flop,
and he slow played the Qxx flop which
was again capped. He then slow-played
the Q turn which was again capped, won
a huge pot, then the grumpy local with
KK started griping about the hand. So
HUXLEYCAT said "I came to enjoy myself,
I don't want to play in a grumpy game",
racked his chips, and off he went (he
was leaving anyway for his other game).
I wish I'd been at the table to hear what
happened after that :).
On
Friday they are starting the $225 buy-in
events (starting at 2pm), that should
bring in some more players, I'll be playing
those for sure. Otherwise it's going to
get awfully quiet when the 1K events start
up.
Paul
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