The day has finally arrived and I am on my way to Pendleton, OR for the Wildhorse Poker Roundup. I will play one tournament, in this series, and I decided on the first one. With the Summer series there are only five days to play. I would have to choose the hottest day of the year for us at this point. Today is supposed to get to 110 and after the fact it did do that. I ended up driving through it with my air conditioner on but I was still sweating in the car coming home.
A little bit ahead of myself. I arrived early and went in to sign up for the first event. The cost of $100 + $10 + $10 for add on. We have 10,000 in chips and 30 minute rounds. I had a little bit of a wait so I sat out in the hallway and read a magazine. Thought about playing a satellite but I did that last time and went out pretty fast so thought better of it this time. I will just wait for the event.
The closer it got to the time I started noticing a lot of the players from the Tri-Cities area were showing up as well. We are going to be represented very well here and hopefully we have a good showing.
At my table I ended up having one other person from the tri-cities area so that wasn't bad. The table behind me had five from the area and I was glad I was not sitting at that table. My first goal was not to be taken out early. The second goal is to make it to the first break and then after that you hope you have enough chips to make it to the dinner break where they will have a nice buffet before getting on with the evening play.
I was in the number 5 seat and an older gentleman was on my right. Thank goodness since it seemed like he wanted to raise pots when he was playing. We had a chance to talk and he told me he had just come in from the WSOP and he doesn't play very many tournaments. He likes to travel around and play the cash games. That explained why he was raising pre-flop every time. He was not doing very well with that strategy. He told me at one point that " you people play differently up here than they do in Las Vegas." Yes, we do. We like to see the flop and then make decisions from there. He didn't last too much longer and he was back at the cash tables.
I succeeded to make it through the first break and had enough chips to keep this thing going. In the fifth level is where it fell apart for me. I would say I was getting impatient because I really needed the chips to make it to dinner and I played the BB with 86o. On the turn I made two pair with a straight and flush possibilities and decided to go all in and the woman in the 8 seat tanked. I was starting to think that she was going to fold. This was the first time I had played with her and she had been folding so I figured I could be good. She sat a little longer and then said the dreaded words. "OK, I will call." At that point I knew I was in trouble. She could have folded and saved us all. Well, she had the high end of the straight and I was looking for the short end with flush draw. Didn't happen and I was headed home in the hottest part of the day.
That day the Tri-Cities recorded a second place to Death Valley for temperature. We had the 110 and I don't know what DV did. It was hot. Lets not do that again. I enjoyed my time at Wildhorse and will look forward to the Fall event.
Have a fun day......
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