Palm Springs Poker Tournament

Posted by icemonkey9 on Jan 11, 2008 in General | 0 comments

Finally reporting back because I finally got to play some cards. This morning my wife and I headed to the Spa Resort and played in their $40 NLHE tournament where you start with 5k in chips and start at 100/200 blinds at 15 minute levels. A cool thing about the tournament is that there is a 1,500 guarantee and the top 10 make the money if there are only 20 players (we got 28).

3rd hand - AA, with a raise and a call before me, so I make it 2k to go. I get a called and a good flop of K 7 3 with 2 clubs comes. He checks, I go all in, he calls. He turns over KQ clubs, drawing to the flush. It doesn't hit and I have a nice double up early. Literally 16 minutes later we were down FOUR players! The players were near suicidal aggressive in this tournament, it was CRAZY. Anyways I got some hands, bullied a lot, and came into the final table with the 5th largest stack.

Unfortunately, my wife got nailed on the bubble with a horrible bad beat, her AJc died at the turn when she went all in at the flop to K10 with a flop of J 10 7. The K hit the turn, and she was done.

I fought and got my way to 4th, and with the blinds at 4/8k and my stack at 32k, i push all in from the button with K9h, the BB calls me with A2 off, the board blanks, and I win $90 for 2 hours of tournament play.

All in all, both the players (some seriously old geezers and young guns) played SO ridiculously agressive all I did was sit back and hit the big pots, and then with the stack bullied the bubble people around. Fun tournament.

Now, I finally hit up the cash game here at Morongo (we are staying here). The 1-3 NLHE has a 40-$100 buy in, so we'll see what happens.