Friday August 27 7:00 pm tournament at Dealers Choice in Auburn
I decided to get my feet wet tonight and play in my first card room tournament. Dealers choice is located just off I 80 in Auburn near the Forresthill exit on Bowman road. It's in the same building as Maria's Taco's if anyone is familiar with the area.
The Tournament starts at 7:00 pm on Fridays. It's a $20 buy in for $300 in chips. Unlimited rebuy's for the first 3 rounds with a twist. A rebuy is $10 for $300 first round $400 2nd round and $500 3rd. You can rebuy any time your stack goes below $200. They also allow a "Double" rebuy if you go to the felt, costs $20 and you get double the chip counts listed above. They also had, I may have this somewhat wrong" a $20 add on at rd. 3 for $1500 in chips. I may have that wrong, but it was something like that.
I met Robert from the BYOC group there after hooking up with him in the forum,and altho I didn't get much of a chance to talk with him, I enjoyed the little conversation we were able to have. They have 2 tables seating 9 players each and all the seats were taken by the time the game started. Cards were drawn and seats assigned to begin the game.
I'll add here that I was a little dissapointed with the original chip count of $300. Plus the $300 was handed out in 8 $25 chips and 1 $100. Blinds started at $25/$25.Seemed a little sparse and being my first time in a cardroom I was already plenty nervous. I planned to play duck butt tight.
On the first hand there were like 2 or 3 all in's, I folded. After the winner was declared, those that needed to did rebuy's, usually choosing the double. This was the norm for the 45+ mins I lasted in the game. I won a mid size pot early, with 2 pairs on the board, pulling my already blind dwindled stack all in. I had hi kicker and in fact said "shit" out loud thinking I'd lost. The other pot I won came from a $200 raise with the table folding to me. That was it. I went all in in desperation somewhere late in round 3 and lost. Best I remember I had a king and a pretty crappy kicker and lost to the bigger stacks that my $250 meant nothing to. I brough $40 bucks with me figuring on an initial buy in and 2 rebuys would give me a decent nights fun and maybe a shot. Not here, these guys rebuy like crazy and with the small starting chip count I was helpless to begin with.
I said my goodbyes not long after busting out as did 3 or so other players. Robert looked like he was holding his own, having played pretty solid early on, and was coloring up a decent stack as I left.
All in all I didn't really enjoy myself there at all. The small starting chip count plus the frequent rebuy's just isn't my style. I need a little bigger buffer than $300 in 9 chips. If I'd a wanted to enter a $100 tournament I would have done so.
Thay have a cash game after the tourney but I don't remember the particulars. There is also another tournament on sunday's at 3:00 but I noticed on the flyer it said unlimited rebuy's. I think I'll pass, practice a little self discipline playing online tonight and give er a go on the 4th with you guy's.
Jon
I decided to get my feet wet tonight and play in my first card room tournament. Dealers choice is located just off I 80 in Auburn near the Forresthill exit on Bowman road. It's in the same building as Maria's Taco's if anyone is familiar with the area.
The Tournament starts at 7:00 pm on Fridays. It's a $20 buy in for $300 in chips. Unlimited rebuy's for the first 3 rounds with a twist. A rebuy is $10 for $300 first round $400 2nd round and $500 3rd. You can rebuy any time your stack goes below $200. They also allow a "Double" rebuy if you go to the felt, costs $20 and you get double the chip counts listed above. They also had, I may have this somewhat wrong" a $20 add on at rd. 3 for $1500 in chips. I may have that wrong, but it was something like that.
I met Robert from the BYOC group there after hooking up with him in the forum,and altho I didn't get much of a chance to talk with him, I enjoyed the little conversation we were able to have. They have 2 tables seating 9 players each and all the seats were taken by the time the game started. Cards were drawn and seats assigned to begin the game.
I'll add here that I was a little dissapointed with the original chip count of $300. Plus the $300 was handed out in 8 $25 chips and 1 $100. Blinds started at $25/$25.Seemed a little sparse and being my first time in a cardroom I was already plenty nervous. I planned to play duck butt tight.
On the first hand there were like 2 or 3 all in's, I folded. After the winner was declared, those that needed to did rebuy's, usually choosing the double. This was the norm for the 45+ mins I lasted in the game. I won a mid size pot early, with 2 pairs on the board, pulling my already blind dwindled stack all in. I had hi kicker and in fact said "shit" out loud thinking I'd lost. The other pot I won came from a $200 raise with the table folding to me. That was it. I went all in in desperation somewhere late in round 3 and lost. Best I remember I had a king and a pretty crappy kicker and lost to the bigger stacks that my $250 meant nothing to. I brough $40 bucks with me figuring on an initial buy in and 2 rebuys would give me a decent nights fun and maybe a shot. Not here, these guys rebuy like crazy and with the small starting chip count I was helpless to begin with.
I said my goodbyes not long after busting out as did 3 or so other players. Robert looked like he was holding his own, having played pretty solid early on, and was coloring up a decent stack as I left.
All in all I didn't really enjoy myself there at all. The small starting chip count plus the frequent rebuy's just isn't my style. I need a little bigger buffer than $300 in 9 chips. If I'd a wanted to enter a $100 tournament I would have done so.
Thay have a cash game after the tourney but I don't remember the particulars. There is also another tournament on sunday's at 3:00 but I noticed on the flyer it said unlimited rebuy's. I think I'll pass, practice a little self discipline playing online tonight and give er a go on the 4th with you guy's.
Jon
