Daily Venetian Tournament
Vegas, of course, remains the Big Daddy of all poker life. Tournaments run round the clock at all different levels of buy-ins and blind structures.
The Venetian hosts a daily $150 buy-in from Sunday through Friday starting at noon. It's a deeper stack than most with a starting stack of $7500 and thirty minute blinds.
I played there on Sunday, 11/4. There were 97 starting players and a prize pool of more than $11k, paying top 9 players. First place - $3900....
Starting at noon, my day played out like this:
Level 1 - 25/50 $7500 97 players
Level 2 - 50/100 $9200
Level 3 - 100/200 $12550
Level 4 - 100/200/25 ante $13450
Level 5 - 200/400/25 $23575
Level 6 - 300/600/50 $19375 67 players
Level 7 - 400/800/75 $40350 (knocked two players out when I had pocket Aces) 58 players
Level 8 - 600/1200/100 $44100 37 players
Level 9 - 800/1600/200 $61500 22 players
Level 10 - 1000/2000/300 $73800 15 players
Level 11 - 1500/3k/500 $36500 12 players Took a big hit when my trips were busted by a flush
Level 12 - 2k/4k/500 $39000 8 players Wheeee --- In the money!!
Level 13 - 3k/6k/1000 $116500 6 players
After struggling to rebuild my stack and stay alive, I get on a rush of cards and move from dead last to 2nd in chips.
Then--- I get my nemesis hand - pocket Qs!
I raised and chip leader re-raised pre-flop. Only two left in the hand are me (2nd in chips) and the chip leader. I call.
Flop comes 9 high. She checked. I pushed all in, she INSTANT called, turning over pocket Ks.
OUCH! I'm out in 6th place... $719 pay out.
Apparently, I never learn! Can't win with 'em, can't win against 'em!
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.
Jean Cocteau
French dramatist, director, & poet (1889 - 1963)
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