- The best phrase to describe my WSOP-C Tahoe trip is "Crash & Burn", as my bubbling the first event was the highlight of my trip.
I played in three Ring Events, an Omaha-8 tourney, and a nightly 7pm tourney. I airballed all five of them. The $1/$3NL game was just as fruitful. I only had one small winning session, and finished -$1167 in 16 hours.
But you need to remember that one trip does not make a career. Even though this year's Tahoe trip sucked, last year's was wonderful thanks to my 5th place finish. Between both years, I've played in eight tournaments, and I'm still up $805.
The WSOP-C raised the rake on all of their tournament for this season, like $345 to $365. Most of the players have been complaining about this. However, Tahoe had record fields for many of their events, so it looks like the higher juice tournaments are here to stay.
- I have one more trip for this year, and it starts on Wednesday. I'm driving down to Las Vegas, and coming back on Monday 12/10. I got a really cheap room at the Imperial Palace ($147 for 5 nights, which includes taxes & fees).
Early December is one of the slowest time for Sin City, which is one of the reasons I'm going. The only Poker event is the WPT at the Bellagio, which is way out of my bankroll range.
As you may have heard in the news, the Post Office is going through some hard times. As someone on the inside, thing are getting a little crazy, and there is a very small chance that I could lose my job (under 10%). Even though it's very unlikely, I have started to prepare for the worst.
Certainly, a Plan B for me is to move to Las Vegas and become a grinder. The only times I have been there over the last few years was during the WSOP, which is super busy for poker. I want to see what Sin City is like during the quiet times when only the other grinders are playing.
I will be doing the things that I would start with as a new grinder in Vegas. It will be many Daily Donkaments, a few of the daily $100+ tourneys, some $1/$2 & $1/$3 NL, and Omaha-8 or Mixed Games up to $10/$20.
Since I seem to be unable to sit down and type up some blog posts anymore, I will be documenting this trip via Twitter (GregDudePoker). There will probably be a steady stream of tweets, so hopefully it won't be too much. I did have my twitter feed on this blog, but I removed it because it wasn't working.
4 comments:
I hear ya - 0 for my last 10 casino tourneys across 3 states.
Check out the Wynn daily tourneys, esp. Sat/Sun - they are greatly improved.
Hope all goes o.k. on the job front.
Win some money in Vegas. The Wynn tournament looked pretty decent when I was out there last time. Any small tournaments were dead. Played a good tournament at Binion's on the weekend. It had around 117 players with 100.00 buy in, good blind structure. Game lasted about 8-10 hours.
The Wynn $200 tournament on Saturday & Sundays has a $10k guarantee. According to the @WynnPoker Twitter feed, they've had some overlays recently.
Also, the Golden Nugget has a $140 tournament on Sunday morning 9am, and it has a guarantee that doesn't always get there (from what I've heard).
I'm always looking for the overlays during the slow times.
Didn't see a good contact to submit this to so I will leave it here.
Thanks for the great room reviews. I am heading to Reno for a Poker trip late December and the reviews have helped me optimize my play and chip collecting time.
Thanks again!
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