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No Limit Hold'em Poker Tournaments Near Me
del Lago Poker Room -- Tyre, NY (less than an hour drive, totally acceptable)
- 10 table poker room coming next February, they say
Tioga Downs Poker Room -- Nichols, NY (1 hour drive, acceptable)
- 12 table poker room opened December 2, 2016
Turning Stone Poker Room -- Verona, NY (1½ hour drive, semi-acceptable)
- Weekly Tournament Schedule (pdf)
- Weekdays: Noon & 7PM ... Buy-in $90-$105;
- Weekends 11AM & 4PM ... Buy-in $90-$155;
- Tue/Thu 8:30PM ... Buy-in $15 cheapie
- Saturday Night Tournament (pdf) 7PM $100 (prize pool) + $25 fees
- First Sunday Monthly Bounty Tournament (pdf) 11AM Buy-in $230 = $150 (prize pool) +$30 (fees) + $50 bounty
- Third Sunday Monthly Bounty Tournament (pdf) 11AM Buy-in $330 = $200 (prize pool) +$30 (fees) + $100 bounty
Mohegan Sun Pocono Poker Room -- Plains Township, PA (2¼ hour drive, borderline crazy)
Seneca Salamanca Poker Room -- Salamanca, NY (near Bradford, PA) (2½ hour drive, crazy)
- Daily Tournaments (can't make head or tail of that, honestly ... this helps)
Seneca Niagara Poker Room -- Niagara Falls, NY (3 hour drive, really crazy)
Parx Casino Poker Room -- Bensalem, PA (4 hour drive, totally crazy)
- Looks like they have only one no limit hold'em tournament daily (different stakes every day), that's it.
Poker Tournament Notes
I drove over to Turning Stone (our local casino) to play in a poker tournament today. The wife has banned me from playing the 8:30 PM game since I get home "too late" and she gets worried. Beautiful fall colors as I drove up (and down) 81, which helped soothe the fact that I didn't finish in the money.
Anyway, I keep a record of the hands dealt and some miscellaneous notes, so here they are. I think there were 38 buy-ins for the noon game I played. 10,000 starting chips plus 2,000 more if you registered 45 minutes early, which I did.
Noon start, 15 minute levels
Level 1, No ante, Small blind 25, Big blind 50 ... starting stack = 12,000
- UTG - Q7s
- BB - K6o
- SB - K9o - stack 11,925
- 63s
- 73o
- T5o
- K9s
Level 2 50/100 12:15
- B-5 (Button -5) AJo call K54 flops, fold to bet - stack 11,825
- 96o
- 95o
- BB - J9o fold to raise - stack 11,725
- SB - 95o
- J5o - stack 11,675
- 94o
Level 3 75/150 12:30
- A3o
- K7s
- T6s
- 96o
- A5o
- UTG - KJo (fold)
Level 4 25 ante, 100/200 12:45
- BB - Q8o
- SB - KK - raise, win 3,250 - stack 12,950?
- 72o
- B-2 99 call (limp) win 1,725
- 73o
- 64o - stack 13,700
- B-4 JTs call (limp), J flops, win 6,950?
Level 5 25 ante?, 150/300 my notes missed this change 13:00
- Q7o
- 86o
- BB - A3s fold to raise
- SB - 84o fold to raise
- Button - A5o fold to raise
- 83o
- Q9o fold to raise
Level 6 50 ante, 200/400 Clock: 13:15
- 97o
- Q4o
- A5o
- T7s
- BB - 72o fold to raise
- SB - AJo folded to raise, re-raise
- K9o
Level 7 75 ante, 300/600 13:30
- B-1 A9s call (limp) A flops win 6,075
- Q8o
- 73o - stack 17,450
- K3o
- 43o
- BB - T7s fold to raise
- SB - T4o
Break 13:45, 15 minutes, stack 16,325
Level 8 100 ante, 400/800 14:00
- J5o
- 83o
- B-2 AQo I raised?, BB called, flop AJ2, BB went all-in, I thought about it, folded, he said he had AK
- J7o - stack 13,600
- K8o
- T6o
- UTG K3s
Level 8 200 ante, 500/1000 14:15
- BB - T6s fold to 4K raise
- SB - T9s folded to 3,500 raise, T9 happened to flop, an 'argh' moment
- Button - 32s
- B-1 22 call (limp) J93 flop, fold to bet, - stack 10,800
- 43o
- 65s
Level 9 200 ante, 600/1200 14:30
- 97s
- 62s
- J6o
- BB - J6o fold
- SB - AJs folded to me, shove all-in final ~7,000 chips against BB, he calls with K9o, a 9 flops, I bust.
14:39 out ... wasn't paying attention to BB's stack, he was a new player who just sat down, I thought he was much shorter stacked, but it wouldn't have mattered, if I had simply called, he still would have won, and I was critically short-stacked already, so....
You can see that the number of hands dealt per 15 minute level is very low, only six or seven hands dealt before the blinds jump.
The tournament structure only pays out the top four places, which I think is terrible ... I've found that at friendly final tables, people will agree to a more equitable split of the winnings ... in my opinion, anyone who gets to the final table should win his entry fee back, at least.
WSOP 2014, Selected Hands
I got around to watching most of the 2014 World Series of Poker final tables ... I didn't watch too much of the three- and two-handed play at the end (though that can also be very interesting). Here are screenshots of a few of the hands that I enjoyed watching:
