Event #13 Underway!

We started today's $215 with rebuys event with 2,234 entrants. Those entrants were responsible for 2,234 buy ins (obviously), 2,635 rebuys and 1,524 add ons for a total prize pool of $1,278,600.

Unfortunately I had to do one more rebuy than I wanted. About 30 minutes into the tournament I picked up QQ, raised and got two callers. The flop came 7 3 2 with two diamonds. I bet about the pot and got called. The turn was a bad card - the king of diamonds. I checked and my opponent made a fair sized bet. At this point there was about 1,000 in the pot and my opponent had about 1,500 left. I thought if I put him all in there were three good things that could happen: 1) he could fold and I'd win the pot right there, 2) he could call with a worse hand like 88, 99 or a bare ace of diamonds, 3) he could call with a better hand and I could hit a diamond or a Q and win the pot that way. Of course he could call with a better hand and win or a worse hand and hit to beat me, but I thought it was an easy decision to go for it especially since I could replace those lost chips for $200. Unfortunately he turned over 97 of diamonds, I missed and had to do one extra rebuy.

So the total cost on getting into this tournament was $815. But after about an hour and a half I'm in good shape with 10,700 chips which puts me about 2,000 above average and in 464th place out of 1,832 remaining players.

324th place is the edge of the money and pays $1,023, to net $1,000 I need to make it to 90th, to net about $2,000 I need to make it to 27th, 18th pays $5,114, 12th pays $10,228, 6th is $48,586 and 1st is $207,772! Big bucks baby!

If I do well in this one London Dave will be back from work by the time it's over! I've got 10,000+ chips and the blinds are only at 25/50! It's going to take 5 hours of play for them to get to 300/600 and will probably be 7 or 8 hours into the tournament before we make the money. This is definitely one to sit back and wait for good cards.

In other micro good news I won my initial $215 entry into this one in a $55 satellite. With everything on my schedule today it doesn't seem like much, but another $160 on the WCOOP pile isn't insignificant.

Stud starts in a half hour and I'll let you know how it's all going around 3 pm pacific.