Weekend Update

Sorry no Dennis Miller or Opera Man here just Drizz trying to figure out why his cash game has gone in the toilet lately. My tournament results have been promising, I earned a $75 tournament token for a WSOP qualifier at Full Tilt and will probably take my shot at that this weekend. They have a WSOP freeroll contest going on at the moment, earn 10,000 Full Tilt points and get a free shot at a main event seat (not to mention the free Full Tilt gear and travel expenses). Oh, and should you outlast the 15 million other people playing the main event and take first? Full Tilt will shove $10 million your way if your part of their team. That might be enough to cover my gas bill this month.

While bonus whoring at Empire I managed to drop a couple of buy-ins with some mindless (a.k.a. 5-tabling) play. AA (unsuited) back-to-back, first time get four callers, take it with a pot size bet on the flop. Second time, I overbet the pot with two callers and one of them wakes up with a set of sixes. A month ago the same thing happened and I lost a sizable stake at that time as well. I think its time to head back to church to defeat satan on the virtual felt. I doubled up on another table only to hit trip queens on the turn with AQs... but it filled up someone else in the process, I don't know if I could have gotten away from that one.

Noble Poker took back some cash with some wild play its $2/$4 table. I threw down a hammer bluff in middle position one caller, rag flop, rag turn, rag river, no straights, no flushes possible and the calling station had 95s to win with nine high. Sigh. Assorted beats left me down $60, almost giving back what I earned at the tournament on Saturday.

I know tournaments are supposed to be glorified lottery tickets and take a lot of time to play, but for the past month they have been much more profitable for me then cash games. Instead of dropping a $50 or $100 buy-in via suck-out or getting trapped in a cash game, I could take a shot at a nice pay day in a higher stakes tournament. After clearing the bonuses at Empire, Noble, the Crypto sites, and whenever PartyPoker decides to give their bonus this month... then its tourney time for me.

Shout out to Benneh who earned himself T$215 at Stars during the nightly $3 re-buy-a-thon satellite by placing in the top 27. Nice job man! Saw some brutal suckouts by the bubble people KK vs 99, 9 on the flop. QT vs. 75... Q on the flop, runner-runner straight to go home with nothing but a bad beat story. Ouch.

And Al who outlasted a big field to finish in the money at a limit O8 tourney on Stars. Nice to see Al and his party hat walk away with some cash :)

Congrats to Tiger Woods who outlasted Chris "I Have Worst Luck Then Phil Helmuth" DiMarco to win the Masters for the fourth time. Tiger gave him every chance to win it, and Chris played him shot-for-shot but it was Tiger who prevailed in the end with a nice 15-20 birdie putt on the first playoff hole. That chip on 16 by Tiger will replayed on Sportscenter more times then you can say Steroids in Major League Baseball.

I don't know if I had mentioned this before but... if you happen to be in Minnesota and close to Maple Grove....we have our beer bust this coming Saturday, April 16th @ J.Cousineau's in Maple Grove from 2-4. It's $5.00 & you get all the beer you can drink and chili you can eat. Soco shots not included but they do have darts and Big Buck Hunter! Come on down and you might even get to meet Little Drizz as well!