As I have watched my stats progress on officialpokerrankings.com, I have realized that I money between 40% and 50% of the time in every HORSE tournament I play. After a couple of months of observing this, it finally occured to me (genius that I am) that I ought to see if there are any larger HORSE tourneys available online (bigger buy-ins than the daily for $26...and hence, bigger pay outs.) I found that on Sundays Full Tilt runs a $200 buy-in HORSE. I have to admit...I was a little skittish. $26 to $200...that's a big jump. I decided to play two $10 satellites in the afternoon and see if I could win my way in. On the first one, I fell out rather early, but on the second I made it to 3rd place. The only problem? They only gave seats for the first 2 places. So I was stuck with a measley $24. I was so annoyed that I decided to enter the $200 event anyway.
Good thing I did. Even after my aces were cracked in Hold 'Em by A 4 off suit with two tables to go, I still ended up making the final table and finishing 6th. I was disappointed because by the time I made it that far I was obviously hoping to win and take home that beautiful prize that topped $10K, but all-in-all I really can't complain. My first "major" buy-in tourney online resulted in a final table cash. And I took home just under $1500 for my efforts. Not too shabby for a night spent on my couch in shorts and a t-shirt. (My lucky shirt actually. Which is not to say that it is lucky, only that it has a picture of the Lucky Charms lepruchan on it and it actually says "Lucky" on the front. So it is, by definition, my lucky shirt.)
It should also be mentioned that Fourth of July was fun. I met Chisum in Mesquite and we ripped up the 4-8 Omaha game. After we played for a few hours we went to eat at the steak house and catch the fireworks. As we were racking up (I tripled my buy-in and he doubled his), Chisum turned to me and said, "Look...no one can understand how the drunk donkeys are leaving with all the chips." I love playing drunk donkey! Especially in Omaha...so fun.
Until next time...may all your gambles pay off!
Sunday, July 6, 2008
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