Long Weekend

Well this weekend sucked about as bad as I thought it would. The company I work for does their annual physical inventory at all the stores on the first two weekends in December each year. I work at the regional office and have to oversee several stores to make sure they are on track and don’t do any funny stuff. I had to work some Friday night and then from 8am to 10:30pm on Saturday. I was supposed to have Sunday off but I ended up having to do some more work yesterday. That bites and I am going to have to do it all over again this coming weekend too. Understandably I got almost zero table time in this past weekend. I couldn’t swallow taking the whole weekend off from playing so last night I signed on after the family went to bed to squeeze in a couple hours at least. I ended up playing over 5 hours and was up until 3:30!! Oops!! Oh well…I can always sleep when I am dead..I do this all the time anyway..LOL. I have started experimenting with 3-tabling my DON’s with not much success. I think my biggest problem is staggering them properly so I am not having to make several key decisions at the same time. I keep wanting to start them all at the same time and it’s causing me problems in the endgame. I am going to try it a few more times and stagger them about 10 minutes apart and see if that helps. I have no problem 2-tabling so I think that should solve my problem. I have no idea how some of these guys are 15-20 tabling SNG’s! I have come across 3 or 4 of them and they all seem to be running right around a 10% ROI on the $5.20 DON’s. Not a bad profit for dinky $5.20 SNG’s when you are running 3000 of them a month! Nope, not even going to attempt to go there.. I don’t see myself ever going past 4 tabling. Maybe I am just too old, but I like to get reads on the tables so I have a better idea in the endgame of how likely I will be getting called on my pushes. I also enjoy playing and multi-tabling that much would make it too much of a grind and no fun at all!
Well I ended up running 5 out of 7 on my DON’s last night..then I tossed in a Pot Limit Badugi Tourney while my final 2 DON’s were finishing. I wrapped it up by signing up for a Sunday 200K satellite. I had problems getting going on the Badugi and hovered around starting chip count for the 1st hour! I finally got some cards and got up to 10K in chips which was 3rd at the time. Then I lost ½ of them on one hand when my 9 high starting Badugi hand was called all the way to the final draw when I was Pot betting the pot each round. Idiot finally made his hand on the final draw and beat me with 7 high Badugi. Hello!! I guess he didn’t care that I was standing pat for each draw the whole time! LOL.. Then I lost most of my chips a few hands later when I got an 8 high starting Badugi and started Pot betting pre-draw. Guy made his Badugi after the 1st draw and raised me.. I just called him down and luckily he didn’t put me all in. He also had an 8 high Badugi but his kicker was better. I was down to 1,000 chips now with blinds at 250-500!! Luckily there are no antes in Badugi so you can just sit there and wait for a hand. Well I never managed to get much more than that and just squeezed into the money and went out in 13th out of 104 runners. The 200K satellite looked like a repeat of my Badugi tourney! There were 106 runners and 19 got tickets and 20th received $3.00. I was utterly card dead almost the entire tourney!! At the 1st break I was at 1,400 chips with 100-200 blinds and 25 antes!! LOL.. I just stayed tight as a snare drum and pushed a few times and my hands held up. Towards the end I checked my stats and I had only played 10% of my hands and most of those were in my big blind! 2 hours of play and I only played 11 hands and 7 were in the big blind! LOL… what a nit!! I am not usually that tight, but I wasn’t going to push with garbage. But I made it and got a ticket to the Sunday 200K. I was signed up for it for maybe 20 seconds before I unregistered and got my $11 bucks..LOL.. I play these things like a SNG except it has a flat 400%ROI payout. Well, that’s it for now…C-ya at the tables!
Dave
Starting BR: $200
Ending BR: $225