Sunday, August 06, 2006
Close But No Cigar at the Venetian
I played in the 8:00 pm tournament at the Venetian tonight. 108 players and it paid the final table of 9. I finished 14th. I ran into trouble when I tried to isolate a short stack and steal the blinds at the same time. My KQ suited behind the button ran into AA in the small blind. No help from the board. It was $175+$20 to get into the tournament for 2500 chips plus a $5 dealer bonus rebuy for another 1000 chips, with no other rebuys, but there was a fun twist. $10 of the $175 went toward bounty. Every time you eliminated a player, you received a $10 bounty. I collected $50 by eliminating 5 players. It was really fun, but in retrospect on that last hand, maybe I should have . . . . . .
