Pendleton Poker Roundup

[Scott]

So I just got home from playing the last 3 events at the Pendleton Round Up in Oregon. I have been coming here for 5 years now and am enjoying it very much.

One of the things I have realized is that I really knew absolutely nothing about tournament play when I started going there, and through studying and making an active attempt to play better, I only know a little bit more… LOL Honestly though, once of the biggest differences today is that I know I still have a lot to learn today, whereas I used to think I was a great player.

I didn’t cash this weekend, and I am still cashless in approximately 14 or 15 events played there.

In the thursday tourney, I didn’t play all that great, made some poor choices and it ultimately cost me not one chip stack, but two.

Friday was a $330 buy in tourney. I felt like I played much better in this tournament. I grinded a 18-20BB stack for probably 4-5 hours. I had a great table draw and actually sat in the same seat at the same table for 9.5 hours. Eventually I made a poor decision and it cost me my tournament. Here’s a link to what happened there.

http://www.sharemypair.com/smpweb/smpviewdetails/feed_id/37958

Saturday was the $550 main event. I sat down about 5 minutes late (which I never do, I want to see as many hands as possible) and immediately got a very negative vibe from the table. There was one guy at the table that I am somewhat familiar with, and he is that guy that plays terribly and gets lucky and thus thinks he’s great (it’s very obnoxious to play with, but also very profitable if you play them well right? lol) and he had literally won every single hand. So I sit down to AJ and lose a little to him and his out of position play of 36cc. That’s ok, I really want to encourage that type of play from him. 6 hands later, the play has completed one orbit as we started 7 handed and I look down at KK on the button. I have about $6500 from my 10k starting stack. There are a couple of limpers so I raise to 2.75x (my standard range) plus another 2x for the limpers. BB re-raises to 1100 and I 4bet to 2700. BB shoves in the rest of his stack and I call and it’s the classic KK vs AA and I don’t improve. I don’t feel bad about losing this hand, that’s just poker. So back to the cage I go and re-enter. We came to play poker right? My 2nd bullet is WAY better. within a round and a half I’ve run it up to $30k, by the end of the next 2 rounds I am pushing $55.5k and table chip leader and run it into this hand….. The only thing I think I could have done differently would have been to call the 10k, but I have top boat and I’m in it to win it, so if he’s got quad’s, then so be it right?

http://www.sharemypair.com/smpweb/smpviewdetails/feed_id/37962

From that point forward I didn’t tilt, but the cards went stone cold dead and I eventually ran it down to about 8BB and go it in with 88 vs A10s and was busted with a 10 on the flop.

Ultimately I felt good about how I played on Friday and Saturday and I think I learned alot and I am hoping that it has made me a better player overall.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings…..

[Booker]

A couple of questions:
1) How big are the fields, like the $330 tournament that you played?
2) Did you stay at the casino? Expensive? Clean?

BTW, we all know “that” guy. 🙂

[Scott]

Hi Booker,

I wanna say the field size of the $330 was like 450ish. I always stay at the casino, but only stay in the tower, the courtyard rooms are shit. Tower rooms are very nice, and clean and at $100/night, very reasonably priced!

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