Played my first tournament in a long time at Sam's Town

[phantom]

Played the tournament at Sam's Town Tunica twice this weekend but didn't make it past the first round.

The first time I played I managed to get the $1500 up to $7385 but I came in 5th place. The winner had around $15,000. Two people had $13,000 +, one had $11,000 +, and the last one had $2800. They ran out of the $500 chips and we had to use the clear chip dividers as $500 chips. They said it was a record breaker and that they had never ran out of money before. That's about $63,000 total out of the tray with 6 player all starting out with only $1500 apiece.

I entered a second time but that round wasn't as exciting and I lost all my money with about 4 hands left.

I managed to win about $600 for the trip so I had a few hundred dollars profit after expenses.

 

[Springbac]

The hot table



Fortunately I won this table, but it was the only one so I did not make the finals.
This was one hot table. I received 3 BJs. Dealer got none. Dealer may have won 2 hands out of 15. This tourney paid BJ 2:1. Max $1500 bet. No double after split.
At countdown after 12th hand, I was in 2nd place with $7500, and went to $14,800 on 15th hand.
It was close enough on last hand that everyone doubled regardless of holding, or split 10"s.
I doubled a hard 13, drawing a duce. Dealer busted!
Fun game was over.
It was a fun, well run tournament, but not as much fun as the Fitzgerald format.

Springbac

 

[phantom]

Hey buddy, well it was fun helping to make a little history with you. I doubt if they will ever have another table like that. They were still talking about our table when I left Sunday.