Rebuy Fun

Over on the private forum I am a member of, called the Plus One, back in January I ran a series of tournaments which proved quite successful.  The most entertaining of these was the $2 Rebuy, with 26 entrants we managed a prize pool somehwere in the region of $1500, total degeneracy!  Anyway given it worked so well I organised another which was played last week.

We only got ten starters this time which was a bit of a disappointment, however there was still a lot of rebuying I managed to take it down for $222, not bad considering I was in for only $15.  I had a set of nines cracked early but then had a few hands hold up to mean I didnt need to rebuy a lot.  Two big hands helped me on my way, once I had TT on a T88 flop where my opponent held an 8, and then when 3 way I made the nut flush with AdQd and my opponent made a smaller flush.  Heads up went for well over an hour considering how many chips were in play, thats the other difference with these rebuys … you end up with enormous chipstacks relative to the blinds if you actually go deep.  A lot of fun and that puts my limited tourney record for the year into the black.

In other news my “How to Read a Book” book arrived yesterday.  Having looked at the opening chapter I think it is going to be quite valuable.  Interestingly it was first written in 1940!  Subsquently revised in the seventies, it still looks good and relevant today.  Amazon says my Harrington books are going to be delayed, I assume due to the demand, so that should work out by giving me time to read the current tome and try and absorb the content.  How ironic … here I am hoping I can learn to read the book about learning to read effectively!