Pokerparty Tournament

March 2, 2007

Slim usually comes to a pokerparty tournament for a day or two and then leaves, but this January he spent the better part of the tournament in Reno. In addition, many poker insiders see the market that NASCAR appeals to as the hotbed for poker as well.

If no big cards come by the river she can sometimes even raise for value on the river. Eventually, work got in the way of poker. Dewy had more chips than I did, so all things considered he had to call. This gave me a gutshot straight draw and a pair. Four Kings!! You pay your pokerparty gambling debts before you pay rent, food -- anything. So basically what you're telling me is, more money equals less pain.

I think that this was one of the stupidist rules I have ever seen. I was patient and had no major dips like I had last year. I took a stack that was as low as 125 at one point and built all the way up to a 5th place finish. No, I tell her. I was trying to calculate how big to make it, so I delayed in announcing the amount, finally settling on 8,000 more. today. He and Juanita get up and walk out. $250,000. Keeley's 'rage riot' reputation, plus Wendell and I swearing up and down it was true, made the whole thing believable.

Shaw gets up very slowly from the table and, all alone, followed by angry glares and rude whispers, walks away. Most novice tournament players get married to big cards and then have tremendous difficulty folding when faced with the actuality that their strong hand is no longer the best hand. His wad had shrunk and was nearly gone. That 9-5 doesn't lose $50 if you call cold against many opponents with random hands. There are freeroll tournaments available on a daily basis at the various online poker sites. I did, however, have one at the Horseshoe, which I kept all year long.