Coffee at the Cash Table

The good stuff!

I played a little $1-$3 No Limit Hold'em after work the other day and met M. J. Partin who owns a small farm in Hawaii where he grows and roasts some of the world's best coffee.  Lucky for me (and the rest of us) he is much better at making great coffee than he is at playing Poker!  More about his brew at www.mauijo.blogspot.com.

Heartland in Southern Indiana

Belterra Casino is hosting another Heartland Poker Tour event this fall 10/25/2013 to 11/03/2013.

It sort of fits into the schedule with Cincinnati running in late September followed by Chicago 10/17 to 10/28.  Hmmm.  A little conflict with Belterra and Chicago.  Chicago usually fades a little at the end and HPT events don't usually start with a big bang.  There might be a little wiggle room on both parts. 

Or not.

We'll see how this works out.

Push comes to shove I might just have to be faithful to Charlie and Kurt.  They do the two annual events in Chicago (WSOP and the Chicago Poker Classic) plus both Cincinnati and Cleveland and they both work management jobs at the Series. I see Charlie almost every day in the Amazon Room directing tournaments as they enter the money bubble and payout the winners.


WSOP Circuit Schedule 2013-14

	TOURNAMENT LOCATION	TOURNAMENT DATES	MAIN EVENT DATES
1.	Foxwoods Resort Casino (Connecticut)	Aug 8-19, 2013	Aug 17-19, 2013
2.	IP Casino Resort & Spa (Biloxi, MS)	Sept 5-16, 2013	Sept 14-16, 2013
3.	Horseshoe Cincinnati (Ohio)	Sept 19-30, 2013	Sept 28-30, 2013
4.	Horseshoe Southern Indiana	Oct 3-14, 2013	Oct 12-14, 2013
5.	Horseshoe Hammond (Chicago)	Oct 17-28, 2013	Oct 26-28, 2013
6.	Harveys Lake Tahoe	Oct 24 - Nov 4, 2013	Nov 2-4, 2013
7.	River Rock (Vancouver, Canada)	Oct 28 - Nov 8, 2013	Nov 6-8, 2013
8.	Horseshoe Bossier City (Louisiana)	Nov 7-18, 2013	Nov 16-18, 2013
9.	Casino Montreal (Montreal, Canada)	Nov 13-24, 2013	Nov 22-24, 2013
10.	Harrah’s Atlantic City	Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2013	Dec 7-9, 2013
11.	Harrah’s Rincon (San Diego area)	Dec 5-16, 2013	Dec 14-16, 2013
12.	Choctaw Durant (Dallas/Oklahoma)	Jan 9-20, 2014	Jan 18-20, 2014
13.	Harrah’s Tunica (Mississippi)	Jan 23 - Feb 3, 2014	Feb 1-3, 2014
14.	Palm Beach Kennel Club (Florida)	Feb 6-17, 2014	Feb 15-17, 2014
15.	Caesars Palace (Las Vegas)	Feb 20 - Mar 3, 2014	Mar 1-3, 2014
16.	The Bicycle Casino (Los Angeles)	Mar 6-17, 2014	Mar 15-17, 2014
17.	Horseshoe Cleveland	Mar 20-31, 2014	Mar 29-31, 2014
18.	Harrah’s Cherokee (North Carolina)	Apr 3-14, 2014	Apr 12-14, 2014
19.	Horseshoe Council Bluffs (Iowa)	Apr 10-21, 2014	Apr 19-21, 2014
20.	Harrah’s Philadelphia	Apr 17-28, 2014	Apr 26-28, 2014
21.	The Lodge Casino at Black Hawk (Colorado)	Apr 24 - May 5, 2014	May 3-5, 2014
22.	Harrah’s New Orleans	May 8-19, 2014	May 17-19, 2014
	WSOP National Championship Caesars Atlantic City	May 2014	Dates TBD

Heard at the table...

"I've put a bunch of kids through college by playing poker. They just weren't my kids."

"I just can't beat the gamblers and the psychics. When they say'I know I'm behind but I got a good feeling about this hand' I'm done for. "

Senior Day

Today's tournament is the $1000 No Limit Hold'em tournament limited to those 50 years and older. Two players tied for youngest in the field as their birthdays were today and we have one 92 year old player. For anyone thinking that today's tournament style poker is a young person's game, as of one hour into this tournament we had 4278 entries, the largest starting field of any WSOP single day entry tournament outside of this year's "Millionaire Maker" that had a guaranteed one million dollar first prize. 

7 Card Stud Day

The start of my day was getting assigned a table in Day 2 of the $2500 7 Card Stud event. If the rotation holds, I should be dealing stud all day. We had about 15 tables to start the day and I started at the third highest numbered table in the rotation. 

I was a little worried when Ben, our Floor Supervisor announced we would be breaking the highest numbered tables first, but he only broke the two to my left before I got pushed out onto break. After break I will start at the lowest numbered table in the rotation and work my way up.   Unless something changes, I should be dealing Stud until the Swing shift arrives later. 

WSOP 2013

I'm back.  Miss me?

This is my sixth World Series of Poker. No longer a rookie, I suppose. Photo is a screen shot of the final table of the $1500 entry No Limit Hold'em final table and yes, that's my bald spot in the dealer chair. It was my first of two final tables this week both broadcast over the Internet via live streaming at WSOP.com. The second was the $5000 Pot Limit Hold 'em tournament.

The technology we are using is interesting. The cards have imbedded RFI chips. They are larger, much thicker and much stiffer than the cards we normally use in tournaments. That makes it even more difficult and pressure packed when you get into the dealer box and start working with the cards. First time you touch them you are on camera and streaming with a headset on and required to call out all bet and raise amounts so the ESPN team can hear them.

Gotta go to work now.  More later, probably tomorrow.