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July 12, 2004
Orleans Open Day 1
Well I got out here and went over to the Orleans in the evening. They had a $125 tournament with one $100 rebuy (they are fond of one rebuy tourneys) so I jumped in to see what it was all about. The structure wasn’t very good. The first 3 rounds were only 20 minutes and the blinds double every time basically. You get 1500 in chips after the rebuy, and the blinds when you come back from the first break are 50/100. This isn’t the worst structure ever but it isn’t good. It wouldn’t be so bad really if the blinds went up in smaller increments, but they just double straight to 100/200. That was the level I got knocked out in, when I lost a coin flip, missed two flush draws that didn’t cost me much, and then flopped a set of 3s only to lose on the river to 9 9 when he spiked his 9 on the river. It seems lately that every time I am a 96% favorite to win a pot I lose it. I can win some coin flips, can suck out on people, and win one 2-1 favorite or another but then after doing all that I get a hand where I am a huge favorite and lose all of my chips.
I did get a glimpse at the structures for the Orleans Open events and they actually seem pretty good. The rounds are ½ hours, which isn’t so great, but the blind structure is very gradual and they give good starting stacks for many of them. So I am looking forward to playing the next few.
I was looking at the list of tournaments and tomorrow is the $125 Stud event and I think I might play in it. After the nightly tournament I came back to the hotel and called the few people I knew who know anything about the game and asked for advice. Most of it was basic poker stuff (put the money in with the best hand, etc.) but my friend Marialena gave me a few good pointers that I think might help me stay out of trouble. I figure that general poker skill and general tournament knowledge should be enough to guide me through.
Other than those tournaments I plan to just sit here in the hotel room and vegetate. I want to try to find time to play my SNG tourneys on UB for the week. I only need to run 16 of them (I’ll try to stick to the $109s) to get the full bonus, which should only take a whopping 6 hours of time. I also will probably just play in the big Party tournaments throughout the week from my hotel room. Even these crummy dialup connections seem to work just fine for poker. Well I am off to read and get some rest before my first Stud tournament ever. I have sat at a live stud table once in my life, so this will be an adventure. Wish me luck.
Posted by themaroon at July 12, 2004 6:21 AM
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