By Adanthar on June 29th, 2008 (more posts by author)

Not much to report. I very uneventfully busted from the 2K (there was some hilarious stuff at the table, but not much of it involved me), then felt a little under the weather today and skipped the 1500 - not that it made any difference, because it was apparently sold out long before I would've gotten there. I'm also skipping online tomorrow (Sunday) to go meet a few people I've been planning to talk to for a while, although, if the stars align and I get out of there early, I might get to enter the 1500 HORSE event at 5 PM only an hour or two late.

In other, only tangentially related news, it turns out there are actually some HU razz SNG's going off on FTP at fairly high stakes. My record so far is a nice 14-6 and only about 3 people I played against haven't been terrible/I felt like I had a small edge vs. the #2 guy on the leaderboard for the year, so it seems like I'm gonna be doing a bunch of that along with a bunch of PLO. NL is dead to me :p Along with being much tougher than it used to be, almost every other poker game allows for more creativity. I may change my mind if I ever get into HU NL, but so far, midstakes PLO is a much more action-oriented game that leads to much tougher decisions if you like playing big pots than those at the equivalent NL stakes games.

Next week's schedule loosely looks like this:
-$1500 NL Monday (if no HORSE tomorrow/I don't make day 2)
-$1500 limit shootout Tuesday

Several days off (possibly playing that energy drink freeroll thing Wednesday...seems +EV?) There's also a Cardrunners party in the middle here, and I'll also be grinding some sats if I can make it to the Rio.

-Main event Sunday. For a few different reasons, the house has collectively decided on Sunday registration. In other words, I'm guaranteed not to bust out before roughly 3/4 of the field *and* save yet more money on online buyins :p

One thing about these summer poker boot camps that spring up around the WSOP - everybody goes home having learned a bunch of new things. Seeing as how I've chronically busted out too early to actually play any poker, I don't know if I'm better at tournaments than I was a month and a half ago...but I am definitely way better at three separate non-NL games and will make it a goal to learn more about all of the facets of HORSE when I make it back home.

(Except stud high. That's pretty much the devil.)