(Thursday) A Quick Start and A Quick Exit

Well I decided to wake up early and get off to a quick start for Tunica so I could make the Noon tournament. I left Norcross, GA at 5:00 am EST and arrived at Harrah's at 9:45 am CST. Made the trip in just under 6 hours. Impressive. I made my way upstairs to where the tournament was the year before, and was unpleasantly surprised to see that the area was closed off and under construction. For a second I thought, "Oh my God I came on the wrong weekend." LOL. Thankfully the area had just been moved, but it was a scary couple of seconds. I quickly signed up for the Thursday's tourney, and Saturday's. I had a feeling that Saturday's tourney would be huge, and I was right.

At this point I had two hours to kill. I decided to try the buffet which had been newly remodeled. Unfortunately, they hadn't remodeled the food as it was just as horrible as last year. After a couple of trips to the bathroom I was ready for a cash game. LOL. The poker room was newly remodeled and looked really nice. They had probably 20 or 30 tables in the new poker room and the walls were decorated with large framed photos of poker greats. I definitely picked up some ideas for decorating my poker room a little better. I decided to make the min buy in at a $1/$3 table, and would immediately regret the decision. I should have bought in for the max!!! After donking off a few chips early I decided to see a flop after a UTG raise followed by 4 callers with 66. The flop was a beauty J 6 2. The UTG raiser bet again, and after a couple of folds I re-raised him and he moved me in with only AJ. Unfortuntely I didn't have enough chips!!! The hand would have of course played out differently if I had 300 in stead of 100, but I think I could have picked up a pot bigger than $250. After winning that pot I only had about 15 minutes before the start of the tourney so I decided to make a quick exit. It was time to play LIVE TOURNAMENT POKER!!!!