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They have a tournament there almost every evening.
Saturday there were about 60 entries at $100 + 10. This particular tournament had a $25 bounty for each knockout.
First place paid $1300, second place $700, third $400, fourth $200
I played my regular game and stayed fairly static for the first couple of hours. There was a very aggressive woman at our table who was the female counterpart of RJ. She played very much like him. Anyway she was up and down in chips but always entering with a raise and always calling if she had any investment in a pot. I finally doubled up through her with AA against her AK. I felt fortunate that I got the call because the evening was advertising me a playing very tight. The fact of the matter was that I wasn’t getting very good cards and couldn’t push back with the weak hands I had.
So I drifted along with not much excitement and made it to the final table with a middle stack.
I mucked QQ and KK when an Ace appeared on the flop and as it turned out my folds were good ones. I would have lost. But those hands depleted my stack a bit with the blinds fairly high and me entering the hands with a raise.
Then I got QQ again. Three people before me went all in. I called, fully expecting to get beat – but I had a thought that at least two of the all-ins only had one Ace with some reasonable kicker. I was right. The three hands outside of mine were AK, A10 and JJ. The flop was Q85 which gave me my set and then it was followed by 59 for the full house. I quadrupled up and collected two bounties. I didn’t have enough chips to cover the side pot so that player earned the third bounty.
That brought us down to 6 players with four of us having most of the chips and the two others very short stacked. My string of weak hands continued and I pushed with AT but my opponent had a pair that held up. So I won two bounties and the 4th place money.
I would recommend this poker room if you find yourself in Florida.
On a side note, when I landed in Tampa coming into town, we stopped by the Hard Rock Seminole Casino and took a look at that poker room. It is absolutely huge! They were running the Friday night $230 deep stack tournament. About 50 entries. But the really impressive thing was that the poker room had about 50 tables (maybe more) and there was a line of people waiting to play cash. Unbelievable.
They don’t have evening tournaments on the weekends so I didn’t get to play there but maybe next time.
I hope I can go back in March for a shot at a WPT satellite. For $230 you can win a $5000 entry into a WPT event. Top 4 get the entry.
Jean
Thank you Jean and congratulations! See - this is why you practice at Niks Poker Palace!
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CONGRATS!! the best statement was the RJ impersonation !! So true!
Derf (Fred)
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