13 fine fellas and myself made for a fun night in my garage, playing a kooky No Limit Omaha/8 tournament. With my patented blind structure that is super slow for 90 minutes, then basically super fast/lottery/crapshoot/"WTF was that garbage" festival for the remainder, a good time was had by all.
We did play pot-limit before the flop, which helped us all see a lot more flops; but after the flop it was just easier to say to hell with the math and open the floodgates with no limit betting.
I played super tight all night long, and was doing fine with an average amount of chips until the blinds got enormous (I like my home tournaments to end before midnight, thank you very much) and I was wittled down to a couple of desperate all-ins that were called down by the chip leader, who had a prohibitive lead.
No colossally bad mistakes, no rememberable regrets.
Coincidentally (oh happy day) the chip leader also happens to be the leaderboard captain in my friendly online league. He was happier than a pig in shit last night, as his ultra-tight style reaped the rewards of such a card-centric game as O8. His gluttony of composite clay was helped along, fueled as they say; by my father-in-law who set a record for the number of rebuys at one of my games.
I love my wifes dad very much, but he views poker as equal to any other form of gambling, instead of the test of skill that it actually can be. Pai-gow, Let It Ride, slot-machines, video poker, the poker room - it's all the same doncha know.
Overall, I was happy enough to bust out in fifth place with no-rebuys and a single add-on ($20 total), where some guys had dropped $60+. I also received some small but very appreciated $ contributions for the snack fund (though curiously nothing from the guys who cashed, but that's okay) which always helps.
Last night in my mild dissapointment at having missed the money once more, I was thinking I could wait until next year to host poker again. This morning as I put away my table top and chips, I felt a twinge of desire to play again and play soon. I sent out an e-vite for a cash game in the middle of December.
I'm a sick man.
In the meantime I will set my sights on cashing in the three remaining tourney's in my online league. I'd also like to get out to Hollywood Park Casino one of these days and play in one of their super low buy in (moderately high payoff) tournaments.
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