Home League Update

Event #4 was played tonight. We had some drama earlier in the day when one of our 9 players had to quit the league due to financial hardship. I completely understand, times are really hard and I feel privileged to be able to play in this league myself. Nonetheless, with just a few hours to spare we tired and sucecced in finding a replacement player, Kyle. I have played with Kyle before at Bob's Belligo a few weeks back. Nice young guy. Honestly though, from a perspective of game skill and my chances of winning this thing, I would have rather kept the other player, laugh. Kyle knows a little more about the game of poker then the other player. It's all good though, playing with good players only make you better so I'm all for that.

We decided to let Kyle come into the league taking over previous players points. Everyone agreed and I hope we can maintain this current group of players for the next 14 months.

We changed the structure tonight to reflect that of Event #7 of the WSOP. We had to make some changes as we found the tournament was ending rather faster and didn't allow much time for skillful poker playing. I think tonight's structure worked great. Game took about 3 1/2 hours to play with a 20 minutes break but it's way better then a 2 hour game with a 20 minute break. We added ante's into the structure and this works great also. Hopefully the rest of the group agrees that it works better.

First few hands of the night I had some good starting hands, AQ, AK, KQ and managed to call off about a 1/3 of my chips pre-flop. Somewhere in the 1st level I look down at two unknown random crap cards. I raise it pre-flop and get I believe one caller. J 2 blank come of the flop. I bet out, one caller. Turn is another 2, I bet out, one caller. River is another 2 - I three bet this out and I get the call I don't want. I don't even look at my cards as he turns over a J which is good. My chip stack went down to just over $1200 (starting stacks are $4000)

A few hands later, I get pocket K's and min raise it to $200 and get one caller, flop comes K 5 something and I check and other person bets out $600. At this point that's half my stack and is actually what I wanted to happen. I raise it up to "all in" for the remaining $600 of my chips. She insta calls and has pocket 5's for trips. My trips hold up over her trips and I double up. At this point, I feel pretty good as I have some chips to play with. The rest of the night I play pretty tightly and finish in 5th. Not the results I wanted but overall I'm 2nd in points. My goal is to stay in the top three in points all he way until the last event.

Next games in on May 20th, 5 days after I get back from Las Vegas. I will be posting daily blogs from Las Vegas so make sure you check back in May.

Until then, thanks to all the member of the home league, welcome Kyle and I look forward to next month.

PEACE!