Something New

After a very bad outing at Tulalip in the omaha game on Sunday and bad results Friday at the Caribbean decided to switch things up with a new casino.  I had heard that the Red Dragon in Mountlake Terrace was good so drove there.  Timewise a ccompromise between the 10 minutes to Kirkland and the 30 minutes to Marysville.  The morning tournament was a $45 buy in with 2 tables.  The structure was turbo of course 15 minute blinds, 10,000 starting chips, 100/200 initial blinds.  It was also a reentry which i got to observe several times on my table.  I was runnning very good, not losing any hands, chipping up to about double starting chips.  Made a couple of small errors letting people off the hook with monsters and large bets .  Example: called tight player raise with 6/6.  Flop was 2/3/6 multi-way. Original raiser bet pot, I re-raised all in.  Everyone folded.  My thinking, did not want either a 5 or 4 to call with gutshot and make overpairs pay dearly.

Making the final table my last hand was a limp with 6/6, my old friend, with only 1 and a half blinds.  I had no fold equity so wanted lots of callers or a raise to go heads up.  I got the raise from A/Q, heads up flop was about as good as it gets, 4/5/7, giving me a great pair plus draw.  Turn was a queen and river failed me.  Got it in with best hand but missed money by 3.

Will try again as the morning Omaha game had $50 high hand every half hour and looked soft.