Thursday, I woke up at Majestic Star. I played a little 1/2 NL and 3/6 Limit before the 1pm tournament. Total was -$13.
The tourney was the same as the night before: $50 3k chips with a dealer option for $5 600 chips and 30 minute levels. The difference today was there was only 12 players. However, they still paid four places. Fouth got $48 and third got $72. I finished in sixth. I screwed up by making a bad hero call, and then lost a race.
So, I moved on to my next stop, Holiday Inn Express in New Buffalo, MI. I often stay at Holiday Inns during my journeys, and I've earned two free nights that I'm using this week.
After I checked in to my room, I went around the corner and down the street to Four Winds casino. It has the second largest gaming area in the country, behind Foxwoods. But the poker room is a little different. It has 16 of the PokerPro electronic tables. Those are the same tables that were in Excalibur in Vegas and Trump Plaza in AC. I really like these tables, but I hate the poker room. I think the tables have a lot of potential for games other than NL Hold'em. They would be great for PLO and HORSE. Even Sit-N-Go tournaments would be good because of the higher Hands Per Hour that you would get at an electronic table. But when I got to the Poker Room at 6:30, there was only one table of $1/$2 NLHE. There was a list for .50/1 PLO with one name on it, so I put my name on it. I found out later that the PLO game hadn't run since July.
At 7pm, they broke the $1/$2 table for the evening tournament. It was a $10 rebuy tournament with around 70 players. But the idiots that run this room screwed up this tournament with a horrible structure. We started with 2000 chips with rebuys for the first three levels of 50/100, 100/200/25, & 200/400/50. So in the third level you can rebuy for 5 Big Blinds. Most people quit rebuying at this point, including me. Our table had the most rebuys. There was one player whose screen didn't have a Fold button on it, and he hit everything. This 70 player tournament ended in 2.5 hours with that card rack taking it down. Oh, and I forgot to mention that 20% of the prize pool went to the house.
After busting out of the tourney, I waited for a cash table to open up. Once it did, I ended up playing $1/$2 for almost 6 hours until the table broke around 1:30am. I ended up losing $296 in another frustrating session.
On the way out, I used a Free Bet coupon for $75 that I received in the mail. Since it can only be used on an Even Money bet, I walked over to a Roulette table, and put it on Black. The little ball landed on Red 18.
Friday, I went to Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City, IN. It was around a different corner, and farther down the street from where I was staying. I played in the 11am tourney, $105 3500 chips, 20 minute levels. There were 23 players in this one, and five players got paid. I ended up heads-up in this one, and we eventually chopped for $580 after the dealer tip. The Final Table was crazy and it reminded me of the Main Event Final Table that was shown on Tuesday. There were plenty of suckouts and River cards, and I gave as well as received.
After the tourney, I bought into the 1/2 game. And, technically, it went better than my other sessions, +$15. It was another session of dodging bullets. JJ vs QQ on a low board, but I only lost $30 because the old geezer kept betting $10. Flopped straight vs Flopped straight (89 vs K9), but I only lost $60. KK vs JJ All-In preflop for $30 that hit the two outer.
But, around 9pm, I "hit the Wall". I just didn't want to play any more. And being Friday night, that is not a good thing. But since Poker is a mental game, I decided to leave before I donk off my chips. On the way back to the hotel, I ended grabbing a burger, and then headed back to Four Winds. I wanted to see if there was any chance of a .50/1 PLO game happening tonight. But, of course, there weren't any names on the list. So I went back to hotel room, and called it a night.
On Saturday, I had to head home, so I could run my Saturday night game. On the way, I stopped by a new casino, Firekeepers, near Battle Creek MI. The Poker Room has about 12 tables, but only a 1/2 table was open at 11am. I didn't have much time, so I didn't want to wait 30 minutes for another table to open. I walked over to a 3-Card Poker table. I bought in for $300, and an hour later, I walked away with $620 and a $1 chip for my collection.
Here are the final total: +$190 total
-$580 Cash games (1/2 & 3/6)
+$335 Tournaments
+$435 Pit games
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