Weekend Update

After having to work late on Friday night, I crawled out of bed in time to watch the Horns crush Colorado. Later in the day we had to go to my niece's birthday party where I spent most of my time watching the awesome ND/USC game. At first I was crushed that USC came back and won since that would have put UT at #1, but I think its probably best to have less pressure on a Mack Brown coached team.

Later that night I went over to friend's house for a poker tournament. The first tournament had 20 players. Things started off great as I flopped quads and got paid off twice each time I got AA.

How would you play it ?
Level 2 (200/400 blinds - 7 handed table)
I limp in with 88 UTG +1. 4 players see a flop of:

8 8 9

I check, button bets 800, SB and BB both fold. I call. Turn card is:

8 8 9 (T)

I check again, button best 1600. I call. River is:

8 8 9 T (3)

I check again, button checks. Quads hold up.

I should have bet the river or maybe check-raise the turn ?

I ended up making the final table, but as a shortstack. I ended pushing all-in with 99 in the SB against the BB who woke up QQ and that was that (finished 7th).

While we were waiting for the remaining four players to finish up so we could start the 2nd tournament, some us created a new side game to bet on. We made the rules up on the fly, the basics were this:

• You have to out of the tournament.
• $1 per hand/player
• Each player picks their two hole cards. You cannot pick a pocket pair and you cannot pick the same card (suit) as another player. (You could pick 9d8d and I can pick 9s8s)
• You then use the board of the final table (in this case, the four players left in the tournament)
• All five cards must be seen for there to be a winner. (So if you only get to the turn, then the hand is a push)
• You cannot win the hand with a high card, you must have at least a pair.

We played about 6 hands of this and it was very loud and exciting. I think the remaining 4 tournament players were a little ticked since we were yelling and screaming everytime their flop was dealt.

I ended up playing the second tournament (13 players) and came in 5th. No special hands to discuss here.

Vegas Trip Update

15 days till we go to Vegas. I think we have about 9 people total going together. It should be alot of fun. The only issue we may run into, is having all or a majority of us at the same cash tables. We are all staying at the dumpy Plaza (mainly because we plan to play alot of tournaments there). We also want to go to other casinos that we haven't been to so we can try out their poker room. (Wynn, MGM, etc.)