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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Hard Rock Tulsa

Survived the foot of snow in Dallas late last week and was able to make it up to the Hard Rock in Tulsa. They are in the middle of their Oklahoma State Championship Series. Decided to leave early Friday evening due to the potential for bad roads Saturday Morning. Basically it was 4.5 hours driving in a freezing fog storm.

Played 1/2 for about 8 hours all night Friday until 830 Saturday morning. Play was wild and 1/2 was playing basically 1-2-7-25. Ended up plus 2 buy ins after being down to .4 of a buy in. Donked off some chips by calling an all in of AKQ board with AQ, obviously dude had J10. Not lot of memorable hands, just steadily raking 50-70 dollar pots. Should have won more but dropped some chips with my KK against 34 off. I had raised to $25 pre dude called out of the big, caught 2 pair and called my bets on every street. Not much I could have done about it.

Saturday, they had a $340 buy in 100K Gty, No Limit event, field had a ton of alternates and final count was 805. Structure was real good with 10K chips, 40 minute levels starting at 25/25. I had a ton of huge hands in the first three levels but couldn't get much play from the table and built up to 15K. Next three levels was card dead, tried to steal and or open strong with terrible cards and kept getting 4 bet. Busted at level 7 300/600/75, jamming A9 Diamonds, into AJ for my last 10BBS.

Hard Rock is my favorite Oklahoma Casino, it used to be called Cherokee, and they did a deal with Hard Rock last August. Tons of improvements to the place, trying to make it look like Hard Rock Vegas. Definitely not the same crowd, lots of cammo and overalls. They have a 30 table poker area (not much of a room) tons of action.

Trip was plus EV, due to cash games and a $350 slot win.