Checked into the hotel; my room has a mini-fridge and microwave, so I went down to the local grocery and bought some noodles, rice, vegies, and fruit. Yum! The room is now converted in a home-away-from-home with all the comforts thereof. Time to focus on poker.
The tournaments here are much faster than the WSOP. In the main event, you start with 20,000 chips and 100-200 blinds. Here, you start with 2,500 or 3,500 chips, depending on the buy-in, and the blinds start at 25-50.
Imagine you're playing in the main event and in the first hour, you lose 17,000 chips. Ouch! Well, that's where the tournament here starts! Of course, everyone has the same small amount of chips, but the blinds are a much higher percentage of the initial chip stack, which forces faster, looser play compared to the WSOP.
In fact, my strategy here is basically going to be my strategy for the WSOP once I get into the money... meaning there might be some risk involved. But then again, maybe not... I might just see if I can finish in the money in every tournament I play, even though the winnings would be small. Dunno. Doing so would convince me I could get into the money in the main event, although at the risk of not having enough money to enter. (Don't forget, I need to win here to play there.) The drawbacks of not working. Nah, I'm going to play to win! :)
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