Busy day tomorrow .. but a very interesting one, 2 of my new aquired hobby's sinds ive come to Australia
Poker (Texas Hold'm) and Golf (As straight as possible :P)
After that its straight to the poker finals @ freeway hotel Artarmon
This years New South Wales winner for the NPL gets produced by a two day showdown, done the "World Poker Tour" way.
There are 8 venues, and they all play till the magic number of the day is reached. As these tourneys are like every other knockout based without rebuys, after hours of play there is a final, lets say 400 left from I think atleast 1200 finalists. Then they say.. STOP PLAYING, and they do a chip count. I believe every1 starts with 2000 in chips.. and you just have to survive the day with that to reach the final day.
Because there are more venues that play you have more top 5's of those venues that are participating. Last season it was around 800 finalist of NSW (600 turned up).
The blinds (compulsory bets, every one gets at his/her turn) will go up every half hour i guess.
My game is a bit unfortunate at the moment, so hopefully I'll find some more live cards tomorrow!
Im sure I'll have to fight the sleep, after a full round of golf, so I've got my W800i walkman phone armed with a 2GB memory stick, loaded with kewl traxx and some poker also to kill the time when not getting good cards to play :)
**** UPDATE ****
Hmm.. as excited as the day was, ended pretty non rewarding.. put another bad card in for golf, but hey.. better then NorthBridge, and towards the end I did play 5 pars in a row.
So the good thing about a bad card, is when they estimate my handicap, and I start playing a bit more how I think.. watch this, how I THINK :) i can play, prolly win the comp every week for a little while :)
But Im better of laying that to rest, cuz this aint really cards im proud of.. grr
After that I barely made the poker event, every1 was already started but they fit me in.
In my first two hands I took one guy out, he must be livid.. I mean here is this dude rockin up late then the first two hands I take him out.
After that I stayed alive not gaining and slightly loosing till the last 50 of the 180 were left.
They already announce they gonna do the stop at 43 players left, and they would go to the next day.
I lost one little hand, so I was back to 2500 in chips.. I figured, when I go to the other event I wanna go bigger then 2500 in chips, as its a 1.5 hour drive to that Sunday event... plus I can't play golf that morning, I wanted to make it a bit more worth while.
I pulled another guy in my "all inn" as the flop connected me with the 10 and there was already 7000 in the pot, so this was it... yes or no.
The river came (last card), another diamond (4 diamonds on the board).. giving every one with a diamond the flush, so despite being leader from flop till fourth turn, my jack of diamonds wasnt enough as my opponent had the queen.
Unlucky but thats poker.. and quite honestly, thats my game at the moment... making the most out of any situation I can think of, then getting booted on a situation like that.
My mate Nick, who came 2nd in Carlingford made the decision to stay in.. so did a couple of others of the venue I play in.. I wish them good luck.
The good thing is I guess they got my poker table ready as they asked for my address to ship it too :)
