Canterbury Park Event #8, $550 NLHE
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I don't know how the hell this is but half a dozen of the best poker players that currently are in the midwest are awake today for the first time already. I woke up to an alarm clock for the first damn time in months. We are on our way to play in the Heartland Poker Tour's current event at Grand Casino Mille Lacs with a direct buy-in of $1700 and a pretty strong structure. Most people (everybody else) enter the tournament through "qualifiers" earlier in the weekend or the weekend before. These qualifiers are basically top 20% satellites. Yeah the field is that juicy that we would be willing to wake up at five effing am and drive two hours into the middle of "Yoo betcha" land.
Yesterday's event actually played like a real tournament. The levels were 50 minutes and we started with 3k in chips instead of the usual 2k. I am kinda glad that I didn't make it to the 400-800 level though because that would have screwed things up and unless I prospered in that level I would have gotten pissed. I made it ten minutes shy of that level and was just fine. It's kinda hard to get mad when you bust out of a tournament with ten-deuce offsuit. I had absolutely zero hands the entire 5 hours that I was in, and the only time I played a big pot before that hand I called an all-in with AQo in the blinds vs. K2s. I lost that one. I was pretty proud however of how I was proceeding, manufacturing chips in places that did not require cards that I did not have. I thought this was one of those spots where I pulled the ol' squeeze play from the BB trying to pick up some weak money, but the guy called 65% of his stack with ATo. Oh well.
Ok, I'm sure you'll get a report of tonight's occurances. Thanks for reading.
Peace and good luck,
Devo
posted by Devo @ 5:03 AM
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