Garden City

Ive been here for almost a week and I'm diggin it. Havent been too many places except around Mountain View but it's pretty sweet here. I ended up playing my first tournament yesterday at Garden City Casino. It started at 1040pm with a $180 buy in. 79 peeps entered with a $4.6k prizepool. I was pretty shocked at the turnout for such a late tournament but hopefully its a good sign as to how big the dailys are.  Garden runs dailys at 10am. Mon- Thurs is a $80 ($60 rebuy) for 6k and 6k chips, 20 min levels. The structure is pretty solid with some added blind levels that Rivers def doesnt have at theirs. Fri-Sun they run a $150 ($100 rebuy) for 10k and 10k chips same blind levels. The tourney dir said that usually draws $6-8k 1st place every week and it has some decent play. The 1st and 3rd of the month they run a $330 unlimited entry 1st 4 levels "deep stack" 10k chips 30 min levels. I imagine this gets over $10k+ for 1st.  They are also holding a Summer Slam Series with I think 10 or so events ranging from $100-$1k with a mix of games, should be pretty exciting. I havent checked out Bay 101 or Lucky Chances yet. I'll prob go to Lucky Chances sunday for their weekly tournament. It's a $225 unlimited re-entry with a $10k gtd 1st place. And I also saw on their site at the end of the month they are running a $330 version with a $20k gtd 1st place? wtf? The action out here is so redic. 

I'll be heading up to Reno on the 21st to play in the Summer Pot of Gold at the Grand Sierra Casino. It runs 10 days and has 2-3 events per day. I'm def going to be playing the first 3 events. Event 1 has a $50k gtd prizepool for $230. 2nd event I'll play is a $330 $100k gtd prizepool. They have a pretty good mix of games HORSE, PLO, PLOHL etc etc, so I imagine I'll dabble in some of them for the experience. 

That's pretty much it, the tournament went good. I wasnt 100% because I hadnt played in 2-3 weeks and it was pretty late tournament start. I havent yet played cash but the tables are pretty full at Garden. I waited 1.5 hours on the 6/12 list and ended up leaving. Note to self, call in and wait 30-40 mins before you go(its only 10-15 mins down the road).  I'm debating on what tournament to play tomorrow. Bay is running a $200 30 min level 10k starting and Garden is running the $250 20 min level 20k starting.  I think they come out to be the same but I havent compared the levels/blinds yet. I might call Bay and see what they usually get as far as turnout, I would much rather play for 6-7k 20 min levels than 3k 30 min levels.  Aight, thats all I got.

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