Well Fed

29 November 09 - Last Wednesday I played the weekly tourney at Harrah's and finished 9th of 75. It was an interesting sequence of events as the structure of the tourney completely fell apart when we made the final table.

With somewhere around 370,000 total chips in play, the blinds were 5/10,000 at 9-handed. With no stack bigger than 60k, and all the remaining stacks hovering around the average, we discussed a chop for 8x buyin but two players refused (first place was 20x buyin, second place 13x buyin, 3rd place 9x buyin). It seemed very reasonable to chop at this point, but to no avail. Alas, I went out 9th when AK whiffed vs TT. As for this specific tournament, my poker colleague Bill recommends a strategy that I found interesting and relevant. You can read about it here.

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On Thursday/Friday, I spent the better part of my waking hours eating and drinking. The food was unreal and I just can't imagine finding better food anywhere than what we make down in South Louisiana. Thursday's menu was littered with two fried turkeys, sausage dressing, oyster dressing, brabant potatoes, dirty rice, and an insane dessert spread that contained apple pie, pumpkin pie, toll house pie, cupcakes, chocolate chip cookies, fudge brownies, and lemon bars. Just reeeeeeediculous.

On Friday, it got better with a six-hour feeding fest of boudin, another fried turkey, fried oysters, chicken/andouille gumbo, french bread, and many beers. This meal, if that's what you want to call it, was one of the better days of eating I can ever recall. The oysters, fried in the remnants of the turkey oil, were absolutely sublime.

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So I decided to finish off the week with the Saturday tourney at the Beau. I was hoping for 3 consecutive final tables in a week and I got off to a great start. I quickly ran my stack from 6k in 12k in two levels when I made a flush with TT, and then turned a set/rivered a boat with JJ. Unfortunately, I soon lost ~25% of it when, with QJcc, I flopped KT5cc but missed all of my outs on the turn/riv. In the 4th level at 150/300 (25a), I got moved to a new table and things quickly went to shit. With my stack ~10k, I got it in for 4.5k effective with KK against QQ and lost (turned set). Then a bit later with my stack ~5.5k, I got almost all of it in with 88 vs 77 and lost again (rivered set). I finally busted soon thereafter when I was all in for my remaining 1.5bbs.

So that's that. Pretty good week all things considered. Looking forward to Monday night's showdown vs the Pats. I really hope our secondary can hold up.