The Weekend

I played a bit more poker this weekend than I have in a while. Friday I played a bit of ring NL at Stars on behalf of The Quest. I made one big mistake. I knew better, but I did it anyway. Ended the session down a few dollars.

Saturday I played Dr. Pauly's PLO tourney at Stars. My cards ran hot and cold. Fairly early it looked like I was on my way out so I signed up for a $3 rebuy satellite to the Sunday Warm-up ($750k guaranteed). Then I ran AA into AA and rivered a small straight to take down what should have been a split pot. Another AA victory and instead of small stack I was in third.

This was good news and bad news. Good news because I was still alive, but bad news because the rebuy started right about the time we went to the break in PLO. I have enough problems counting outs in PLO. Trying to do it while also playing a rebuy hold'em tournament is really more than I can handle. It was made somewhat easier by my getting absolutely nothing playable in the rebuy, even considering it was a rebuy.

I ended up rebuying a couple times and doing the add-on at the break, but I went out tragically early in the satellite. In Dr. Pauly's tourney I went out in fifth, I think, when I ran QQ into AA and we both flopped a set. Oh well... At least Pauly's tournament is always fun.

I'm taking off work all next week and have been considering heading to the Hard Rock in Tampa to play some live poker. My casino cruise experience has me thinking I could probably do okay at the Hard Rock. Perhaps I'll try hitting The Quest a bit harder this week to practice up.