The James Bond Game

FCPC Simon's latest game was a ten man single table $100 buyin super duper mega stacks. We began this slugfest with 1 million chips each and the blinds started out at a meager 100/200. Fuel and I arrived about 30 minutes late and they were just finishing up the first level.

Did I mention we started out with ONE MILLION chips each? Oh and the other requirement I forgot to mention was that you MUST show up wearing a shirt and tie. No exceptions. At first I thought Simon was joking, but he wouldn't budge as I tried to get out of it by threatening a no show. I finally caved and decided to break out the bow tie! One guy kept saying I looked like the kid from the movie "The Problem Child" or was it the Bow Tie Killer? Either way, it was funny to me because everyone else was just wearing the usual black/blue suit, pinstripes, suspenders, sunglasses etc.

The Vodka martini's were flowing and I was already 4 beers deep with a decent buzz. I did partake in this and that, the martini's were good, the poker suffered though. I felt a bit off as we approached the 3rd hour. My throat was drying up and really wasn't feeling that great. No excuses necessary though, I just wasn't playing that well and it eventually caught up with me.

Anyway, I had a blast... but played very poorly. Rust. Bubbled. I suck.

Fuel referenced the 5000 BB pot in his latest post. It was pretty fun to watch these two guys get it all in that early in the tournament. Here is a pic of the hand.

Check out my stack when I arrived:

5 bundles of 100K each. There were also some green chips worth 25K each either not in the shot, or I spewed them off before I took this shot. After the bubble we introduced the 500K plaques and shortly after that it was over. The tournaments always end at the same time, it's just a matter of how the blinds are structured... 25 minute levels and we were still done at 12:30am. The levels really started to climb (read: double) near the end, which kinda sucked since I was the short stack. I think my high water mark was never above 2 million. My reads were good, except I usually figured it out after I either folded or wasn't in the hand to begin with.

Good times, good guys. We even talked about getting an FCPC golf game going... which I should do a bit better at.

THE MASTERS STARTS TOMORROW!!!

I played my first round of the year yesterday... maybe I'll write more about that next time.

Later.