Wish You Were Here

Went and played the $90 Saturday tournament again at Tulalip. On the way up to the casino, the radio station played a few cuts from Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”, the title tracked followed by Welcome to the Machine. It put me in a great mood, so I was inspired to stop by the WalMart next to the casino and pick up a copy of the CD, even though I already own it a few times over. I just had to listen to more of it before the tournament started. It may soon become a pre-tournament ritual for me.

This is a qualifying tournament, where if you can finish fifth or better you can return on October 20th for a chance at a freeroll into one of two WPT events – the Bellagio Cup or the Bay 101 Shooting Star events. They have these qualifiers every Saturday.

Last week I busted out just way too quickly in the third round. Today I made it to the fifth round. One the way up there, I had told myself I was going to lay off the first few hands. Well, the first hand I was dealt was TT. I limped in, but the flop and next round of betting chased me out. The second hand was 33 and after betting 3 times the BB, I landed a set of 3’s with the flop. But I was sandwiched between better hands. The turn brought a second spade and large betting caused me to throw away my set. My suspicion was correct, two spade flushes were made with the river.

In this tournament, I fell behind with my chip stack and stayed that way. I went all-in three times and survived each one. Even tripled up on one occasion, but that only brought me back to my original chip amount – 4000. But my luck was soon to run out. With only $1100 in chips left I went all-in with KT. As it played out on the board. I made paired both the K and the T, but fell to a Ace-high straight on the river and was knocked out along with another player who is usually pretty agressive.

But hey, made it to the fifth round. Out of 149 original entries, and I figured I went out somewhere between 60-70th place. So I made it past halfway through the field and never had a decent chip stack.

I’ll likely play again tomorrow in the Sunday tournament. I did pretty darn well in that tournament last week. Fingers crossed.