Mississippi

We got in late last night to the airport in New Orleans. It was a quick flight from Houston, where I met Kristopf, and the limo was pulled up right as we were getting our bags. It was kind of cool getting to see the area at night, it was like an hour ride to the casino so we got to see a lot of the coast line. I met up with Jon and we had a late dinner around 1:00 and then went to bed so we could get up for the event this morning at 11:00.

The event was a $200 NL tourney and everyone was pretty awful... they are the type of players who really think they are good because they have an intermediate understanding of the game, know all the terms, all the plays, but they don't know how to use them or use them properly at least. There's so many times at the table when someone will say something and I'll just silently think to myself "man, your an idiot", but when I look around the table everyone else is nodding in approval. It's kind of funny actually.

The structure of the tournament is very shallow, we started with 1,500 in chips and blinds of 25/50 with 30 min levels. You really have to accumulate early or else blind down. I won one pot pretty early when a young girl made an incredibly obvious lead-bluff on the river after missing her flush draw. A lot of intermediate players do this after their opponent has taken control of the hand the entire way. It's a wild bluff that never works but they continue to try it. A few minutes later I doubled up a guy with AQ vs. KK and found myself with only 800 chips. I then doubled with AK vs. A 10 and and was back up to about 2k. about 15 minutes after that 3 people limped for 150 and one guy (aforementioned type of novice) pushes for 1,300 trying to steal all the limps, I over push with AQ and he says "man, I was trying to steal"...... no kidding? He flips 57 off and nails me on a flop of 63A.... 9.....4 I then gave my remaining 800 away with 89 off suit. I wasn't unhappy with how I played, it just didn't go my way and a little luck is crucial in these shallow MTT's.

We got all sorts of comps so we are eating at this really nice Brazilian restaurant. I'm looking forward to it because I've never had Brazilian food and Jon says it's great. We also have a Tim Krank sighting, which is always a pleasure. He's another circuit traveler that we have met in Barcelona this spring.

Tonight is $200 LIMIT Omaha bay bay.... easy win