Posted by Dr Fro 7:13 PM
I am back. Columbus was great and I have already written about it on Hornfans, so you can read my impressions there. The Astros stank it up, but I got to the Zebra in plenty of time to play about 5 hours of poker.
The Zebra is the classiest place I have ever played poker. I really liked it. The players are very much like those at my Dallas room. Only in Dallas it is 90% Koreans and in Houston it is 90% Vietnamese. Both places are full of action junkies with apparent disposable income. The players are equally horrible in at both.
I didn't really get many great hands and I certainly had my fair share of bad beats. However, my $500 buy in turned into $534 by night's end. It was that easy. With some good hands, I could have done quite well. Among the many errors in the play was the lack of continuation betting on every street. Player A raises preflop and bets the flop and turn, with his opponent calling him down. The flop brings no scare card, but Player A mysteriously stops betting. Now the opponent makes a huge move at the pot and A folds. I was "Opponent" not "A" often last night.
Riva is clearly the hottest girl I have ever seen in a poker room (Jane doesn't play or else Riva would get second place). She seems to defy gravity and has a propensity to smuggle raisins.
It was good to see everyone, including Glaze Dog, Javier, Patrick, etc.
Random thoughts from a lawyer, an accountant, a commodities trader, an ex-Marine and a WSOP Main Event money finisher that don't know as much as they wish they did...