Horseshoe in IN

Last weekend my friend and I headed to the Horseshoe late Saturday evening, we arrived at the poker room around 10pm or so. If anyone reading this hasn't ever been there, it's a must go. They have the best poker room anywhere near the Nashville area. Anyways, they had a ton of different games. I had never seen them have $3/$6 limit normally it's $4/$8. They had a ton of $1/$2 NL tables. We put our names on both list and quickly was told to get my chips as a limit table would be available soon.

The first hour was GREAT, I won my first 3 or 4 hands I played and was up about $100. My friend was at a different limit table and I told him he should move. Well he did and now I wish he hadn't. Chris plays great poker, he is a solid poker player that reads, eats, and sleeps poker. Tonight was not his night. I had never seen anyone as card dead as Chris was. He never was really in a hand, the hands he was in, never got past the flop. The poor guy never pulled a pot his way.

Over the course of the next 3-4 hours I didn't have anything exciting happen. At around 2am Chris was out and wanted to go back to the hotel, at this point I was up a huge $1... yep that's right one single dollar. At this point, with how bad the cards were I was happy to be up a single dollar.

We go back to the hotel, continue to talk for about another hour and finally went to sleep around 3:30 am. Of course I can't sleep with a poker room within a 10 minute drive. I wake up around 6am and head back. I played for another hour or so, this time down $50 so I left.

I wish I would have played the $1/$2 NL as I think that's my best game but for some reason I decided to stick to limit for the night. There was allot of money on those NL table and I really didn't feel like gambling to much per say so it was probably the best decision.

My next trips to a real poker room will be Scottsdale, AZ April 5-8 and then Las Vegas May 11-14. Until then I won't be back to any real poker rooms but will continue to play online at PokerStars.com and the home league.

PEACE.

Robin

Home League Update

Event #2 was on Wednesday night, everyone showed, had another great game. Not to much to report, I came in first and am currently leading in points but that's no big deal, we only have two games under our belts and 16 more to go, anyone has a chance of winning this thing. As mentioned before, my goal is just to come in the top three each game, so far I'm doing that.

Will probably play poker on Saturday, have been invited to two different games, one in the afternoon, one in the evening.

PEACE!

Casino Aztar

My friend Chris and I went to Evansville, IN yesterday to play some poker. Evansville is about 2 1/2 hours from Nashville, we left around 9am and were at the poker table around noon. When we first got there they didn't have a table going but they had 7 people on the waiting list. We only had to wait about 15 minutes before the game started.

In seat 1 was a young guy, came to the table with under $100. Seats 2, 3, 4 were all 50 plus year old men, they obviously knew each other, and always seen a flop no matter what. Seat 5 was another older gentlemen that acted like he didn't know how to play, wasn't sure the blind structure, etc. Seat 6 was my friend Chris. Random people came and went out of seat 7. Seat 8 was a 30 something guy who stated he normally plays $1/$2 NL but that table wasn't good right now so he was just going to play in this game. I was in seat 9 and in the beginning, seat 10 was an Asian middle aged lady that stated she didn't know how to play either. She thought the button went around the table to the right not the left.

Nothing really stands out about the players except it was a normal never fold'em hold'em game. After about an hour or so I was getting pretty frustrated with never hitting a flop and was down about $40 or so. I looked over at Chris and asked if he wanted to take a "smoke break" (neither of us were smoking). After talking over the table with Chris I decided to come back to the table and turn up the heat, play very aggressive, which is my normal style.

Within about 45 minutes things were turning around for me. I was hitting my rush of cards (even hit quad's on one had), playing aggressive, showing strong hands and was up about $65 within a short period of time.

My friend Chris was down to about $45 and just couldn't get the cards. Before to long, his rush started and it didn't end... not until I wanted to leave (sorry Chris). Chris had a great run of cards and was playing very well and next thing you know he was up about $200. He probably could have / wanted to stay longer but we had a 2 1/2 hour drive home.

At the end of the day, I was down $17 and he was up $197 and we had a great Sunday trip. We got to talk about and play poker for about 10 hours, I can't think of a better way to spent a weekend afternoon.

Playing live poker is something I truly enjoy and hope to be able to continue to do it on a somewhat regular basis.

PEACE!

Playing Poker Today...

In about two hours me and my friend Chris are going to head to Casion Aztar to play some $3/$6 limit poker. I haven't played live poker in a long time, not since around Thanksgiving. I'll update everyone when I get back.

PEACE!