Quick Update.....

Alright so its about 7:30 in the morning here at Turning Stone and due to my dads ridiculously loud snoring I'm unable to sleep once again. I didn't really know what to expect when coming to turning stone because it was kind of a last second thing but its actually a pretty nice place. We got the poker rate for 80 a night which is a steal for how nice the rooms are. The bad things about turning stone are : 1. the hotel is out in the country in the middle of nowhere and 2. there is NO ALCOHOL in the hotel! Its the craziest thing I've ever heard. I can deal with being in the middle of nowhere but, when you are out in the middle of nowhere what else is there to but drink? The casino has a bunch of bars and clubs inside of it but they don't have a liquor license and aren't allowed to sell it haha. I guess you are supposed to sneak around with your own liquor which kind of gives it high school dance feel. All in all though i would say its a pretty nice place and definitely a good place for like a poker getaway.

Alright now onto how I've been doing in the tournaments. The tournaments have such a good structure its almost too good. Its a deep stack tournament which i feel gives me a huge advantage because it plays more like a cash game for like the first 4 levels instead of a pick a hand and pray online tourney. You start off with 10,000 chips with the blinds starting at 25/50 for 4o minute levels and this really gives you a ton of play before you have to start worrying about the blinds. The only problem with these tournaments are is that they start at 10a.m. and that's just way too early for me to be waking up. Ive felt like a zombie the past 3 days of play but have been playing pretty good but with some minimal results.

The first tournament was a 230 buy in which had around 360 players. I cant even remember what first prize was but it paid the top 35 and i ended up finishing like 28th or something. Which really sucked bad because i had been playing for like 13 hours only to end up making a whopping 90 dollar profit haha.

The second tournament was a 340 buy in which was a little better because there were less players. There was around 220 players with first prize being like 19k and the top 25 i think getting paid. Unfortunately i was pretty much card dead the whole time and when i did pick up hands i couldn't get any action so i busted out in like 42nd place or something.

Yesterday was really what i was looking forward to and it was the 6 handed tournament with a 500 buy in. The tournament had about 170 entrants with first prize being a nice 27k and the top 15 making the money. Ive had some pretty decent success in 6 handed tournaments which is pretty weird because i don't play 6 handed cash games. I drew a pretty tough table with all young/aggressive Internet players but i was finally rested and was just able to pick apart the table. It actually got to the point where the 2 players on my right kept saying i cant wait until the table breaks and we get to move. The table ended up breaking like after the 3rd level and i had already doubled up my stack to 20k which is pretty decent for what the blinds were at. After that i just kind of got stuck in a rut for like the next 5 hours where my stack didn't move much. I couldn't really get anything going in the later stages but got it all in with AK vs. guys 1010 and didn't improve so i busted in a disappointing 15th for like 970 or something. If i couldve just won that flip i couldve made some moves but i didn't and i end up with yet another deep/disappointing finish.

Well that's pretty much how things have been going up here. The 1k tourney starts in about an hour so hopefully i can get deep in that as well. Anyways room service is about to be here so check back in a few days to see how i did and I'm out.

-Nechita-