WSOPC NOLA $340 NLH

I feel like shit. Only got 4 hours of sleep. Apparently NOLA doesn't want me breathing like a normal human. Pretty sure I almost swallowed my tongue at some point last night.

I miss 15 minutes of the tourney but I don't lose any chips to the blinds. Harrahs does something very stupid here. The button always starts in seat 10 and the last seats they sell are the seat 10s. So there's a minimal advantage to buying in late.

It's not a huge deal but someone at Harrahs should realize this and change it. But they won't. Ignorance is bliss.

Table 58 seat 10

Table draw: (This might be the greatest tournament table evar!)

Seat 1: Random Black Guy or a RBG if you will.
Seat 2: a woman, not hot. Portly. Elderly. Big hair.
Seat 3: a guy that looks like the Colonel from KFC.
Seat 4: a woman. Not hot. Elderly.
Seat 5: Random Old White Guy or a ROWG
Seat 6: A woman. Not hot. Very portly. Probably loves deep fried twinkies. Every time she's in a pot I want to say, "Lay Jabba no bother."
Seat 7: ROWG
Seat 8: ROWG
Seat 9: ROWG
Seat 10: JDN

This table is playing like a 2/4 limit game. 5 limpers every hand, min raises with flush draws, it's awesome. Except I keep paying the RBG off when he hits his hand.

The ROWG in seat 7 asks me what I'm listening to on my head phones. Sigh... I don't feel like explaining to him who and what Bongzilla is so I just say "a little bit of everything."

Being from the west coast, all this southern hospitality is really throwing me off. When some random person is being nice and friendly to me I assume they're a pervert or the want some money from me.

When that guy from the other night invited me to his house for a grill I just figured he wanted me to fuck his wife or something nefarious.



7500 at first break.

Jabba busto. She said bring me Solo and the cookie as she left.



I can't steal from position so I opened up my range of hands to raise with under the gun. Seems to be working. When they can't limp they just fold.

I've had to limp in the blinds with a couple of premium hands because there's 6 limpers already.

I like bad players.

Absolutely no interesting hands happening. And no cocktails waitresses either. Like a 2/4 game.

In the 4th level, somehow I'm short and I look down at 22 under the gun. I raise it up a standard 3x raise and get called by the a guy in late position and the small blind. The flop falls 4s 3c 8c. Check, I check, gonna reraise if someone bets out, and of course the goofball in late position bets out 1K. Small blind folds and I reraise to 3500.

The goofball thinks about it for a few seconds, checks his cards again, and moves in. Looks like a flush draw to me. Don't think its a set or an over pair, probably something like a AT of clubs. So I gamble and call off all my chips.

I show my 22 and he flips over the Ac 4c. I was right. Just gotta fade a club and... waitaminute! Oh shit, he's got a pair of 4s. Crizzap! I blank out and walk out.

Now I gotta kill 2 hours before the mega satellite starts.

6pm Mega Satellite

I'm not gonna go into details about playing the super, but man what a horrible payout structure. Ok I'm going to go into some detail.

We end up getting 18 players for the satellite and by all accounts, that would be 1 seat to the main, and $3500 for 2nd place. Right? Right.

Wrong.

For some reason Harrahs NOLA pays out satellites like this, 1 seat, 2nd thru 7th get a $500 lamer and 8th gets $80. WTF? So poor. So Harrahs.

Needless to say you can pretty much fold to the money because people play so bad and I end up getting 6th and never getting above 5K.

I bust out at 9:15pm which allows me 15 minutes to buy in to the nightly 9pm.

Nightly 9pm Tourney

I'm card dead again and basically have to bluff my way up to 10K just before the break. Then I flopped 2 pair from the big blind and lost half my stack to a turned straight.

At break I lose $50 on the Texas Tea machine. On a roll here.

Two hands after break I run TT into AA. Aiyeah. In everyone of these tournaments I've doubled up in the first 3 levels only to bust out in the 4th or 5th level. Obv I'm doing something right, especially since I haven't had a hot run of cards. I need a good smack in the face. Knock some sense into me.



1K tomorrow. If I get up in time. PLO8 at 5pm.

JDN