What a great Game!!

Poker is just on fire right now is Seattle. More and more new players to the game, new faces every week, card rooms are full, except in a few of the dives with good games like the Hideaway. Put in a 14 hour poker day. Just did not feel like working yesterday. Left the office at 10:30am and in the room playing by 11:00am. Went to Diamond lil's and played 6/12 which went to 8/16, which then went to 12/24 the highest we can play in the non-Indian casinos. Played solid game there as the players tend to be a little higher quality than the gamble up at Hideaway. Made an ok $335 in that game before I decided to play in the $65 buy-in limit tourn that started at 6:30pm. This is a crappy structure as they start you only with $1000 in chips and the blinds go up every 20 mins. It is just a crap shoot if you do not pick up any hands early. Managed to make it all the way to the final table, but without chips. With 14 players left an early position player raised with only enough for the raise plus $200. We were play 300-600 limit. I Made an isolation raise and three bet it with Pocket 10's. The BB called 3 cold with 99's. Flop A,A,9. Check to me and I bet. Call from the BB, I am done with it. Check check on the turn, he bets out on the river I muck. He turns over pocket 99's for a full house right on the flop and the all in had A,J for trips on the flop.. I went from 1st to 3rd right on the flop. Short stacked from there with only like $1000 left and busted out 10th, only paid 8 ouch. Turning point hand, had I won that I could have had some chips to play with. O Well.

Went to Hideaway where the gamble never seems to end. Betting(playing completely dark) dark, straddle(not live unfortunately), and 3 betting and capping pots with trash hands. Picked up another $267 late night and went home. It is amazing that there just seems to be an endless pit of money from these people, gotta love it. It was fun to compare the two games today. Much less volatility in the better players game, but tougher to beat. The swings in the Hideaway game can be huge. One bad run of cards with good hands and you are down a rack or two in 1 hr. Soooo much fun to play in if you can keep your head on straight when you lose to runner runner straight to someone with 3,6 offsuit to your AK when you hit K. You see good players all the time just quit the game because they cannot take the bad play. I must admit it gets to me somedays as well, when you just can't hang on to a hand that you hit on the flop and someone sucks your eyes out with shit. Book a win and go get some sleep. SJ