I'm getting a bit nervous about playing on Friday, every tournament for me is a roller coaster, as I play so many pots, and I face with so many tough decisions. This is the biggest tournament of the year and I want to go back home feeling I have put in a good performance but I know that if I have 5h6h, and the flop comes 2 hearts, I'm not passing, so I could be out on my ear very early on. My head keeps saying, 2 hour levels, 10,000 chips, you can wait for hands, but my heart says play your own game, with so many people playing tight, there will so many easy chips ready for the taking.
Grump, Ariston, Chubbs, Womble, Shrew, Big Barry (from Notts) and me decided to play a single table satellite in my room last night. It was a $500 buy-in, 1st prize $2500, 2nd $1000. The Rocks prevailed, and Womble and Grumpy split the prize pool 1,750 each. My partner in crime, Nick The Shrew Whiten, decided to take it upon himself to try and knock me out at every opportunity, charming eh?
So far they have 5600 confirmed entries for the main event, people are so desperate to get in cheaply that they are playing $1000 Shootouts. This is when 10 people put in $1000 each, get dealt 2 cards face-up each, the flop, turn and river are dealt, and the winner takes the $10,000!
