WSOPC at Horseshoe Hammond

[SouthsideDon48]

Just wondering if anyone's playing any of the WSOPC events at Horseshoe Hammond this year.

 

I can't be the only poker player on Soxtalk...

 

BTW, I'm planning on playing event #10 on Sunday October 24th. This will be my first WSOPC and I can't wait.

[GoodAsGould]

No money this year but I want to enter an event next year, definitely share your experiance though.

[Brian]

I'd like to do something like this but the buy ins are too much for me right now.

[EvilMonkey]

if I had the cash, I would try it. I play in roving tournaments at Chicago Charitable Games all the time, and we have a game at my house every 6 weeks or so. Good luck.

[SouthsideDon48]

Thanks for the responses, guys. It would've been cool to bump into you at the WSOPC.

 

As I mentioned in my first post, I'm entering the $350 NLHE Event #10 on Sunday, October 24th. It falls on a perfect time on my schedule because this week is final exams at my school, which is on a trimester system, and the tournament runs on the 24th and 25th and my next class starts the next day on the 26th. So I'm kind of treating myself to some fun before I repeat the boredom of school.

 

Also, last August 29th I played one of Horseshoe Hammond's daily $200 tournaments and I ended up finishing in 4th place out of 83 for $1,400. So I'm taking $350 out of that to enter Event #10 at the WSOP-C. So it's kind of a freeroll for me.

 

I will let everyone know how I do.

[SouthsideDon48]

if I had the cash, I would try it. I play in roving tournaments at Chicago Charitable Games all the time, and we have a game at my house every 6 weeks or so. Good luck.

Hey, I sometimes play at the CCG as well. The locations I play at are: the Turner Lodge in Tinley Park, the VFW in Tinley Park, the Fieldhouse in Midlothian, and the VFW in Oak Lawn. What locations do you play at?

 

I wasn't able to play much the past 8 weeks cause I had a lot of homework for my 2 classes, but hopefully my schedule clears up after this week.

 

What do you usually play there? I usually play sit-n-goes or tournaments with buy-ins of $40 or more, preferably $100 or more. I avoid the early bird at all costs, lol.

[3E8]

Won't be playing, but I really like the poker room at the Horseshoe. Best of luck Don

[SouthsideDon48]

Won't be playing, but I really like the poker room at the Horseshoe. Best of luck Don

Thanks, man.

 

I like the poker room at Horseshoe Hammomd as well. I also like the poker room at Majestic Star because the entire third floor is all for the poker room and the deli, so it's nice that we have two nice poker rooms in the Chicago area.

 

I never go to the casinos in Joliet, they don't even have what I would call poker rooms. Luckily for me, I live smack dab in the middle between the casinos in Joliet and Indiana.

 

[SouthsideDon48]

Busto. I got eliminated in 371st place. :-/

 

I'm still disappointed, but that's poker. I look forward to trying again next year.

 

Here's a recap of some key moments:

 

* Started on table 30, seat 1, with 10k in chips.

* I noticed there were two people on my table that I played against in tournaments before. One's a hot girl in seat 6 and another's a guy that always seems to crack me up in seat 9.

* Ran my chips up to 11k in the first 30 minutes.

* Saw another poker player walking around that I played against in a sit-n-go that I chopped first place with a year ago.

* Had pocket queens busted on the turn in a big pot. My stack fell to 8k.

* A super-hot girl was moved to my table after someone else was knocked out. She sat in seat 5 next to the other hot girl. Niiiice.

* Had pocket kings, made a standard raise pre-flop, but everyone folded, drats.

* I saw Frank Kasella! He was on tv and is leading the player of the year rankings for the 2009/2010 wsop season. http://www.bluffmagazine.com/players/frank...yer-profile.asp

* limped in later with pocket 6's. Flopped a set on a board of Ah, 6d, 2s. Checked flop, everyone else checked, bet half the pot on turn, everyone else folded. drats.

* went card dead for 2 or 3 hours, and my chip stack ended up dwindling to 6.8k.

* My table was broken up, and I was moved to table 18, seat 1. The super hot girl was also moved to my table in seat 2.

* I noticed there was another guy at this table that I played against in a tournament before, a Chris Moneymaker look-a-like that was sitting in seat 7.

* I ended up going all-in with top-pair against the small blind who flopped two-pair. Still kicking myself.

* Eliminated in 371st place. *sigh*

* I went to a tournament director and got two food vouchers worth $8 each. A little consolation prize.

* Before leaving, I bumped into Nadya Magnus, who I saw on "the Big Game" on Fox. http://www.bluffmagazine.com/players/nadya...yer-profile.asp She was just eliminated from day 3 of a bigger tournament, and she was very depressed.

 

All in all, I regret getting knocked out the way I did, because even though my chip stack was at 6.8k, I really could've just waited for a better hand to shove with. I got a little too agressive and tried to represent a straight on the river with my river shove and I also thought the other guy was bluffing, but the other guy ended up calling. And I was out. Siiiiiiiiiiigh.

 

I wish I had a better story to tell you guys, but I'll just post one of the 6 pictures that the professional photographer took of me to make up for it...

 

Edited October 25, 2010 by SouthsideDon48

[Brian]

When you say "hot girl", do mean "hot girl" as thought of by by most men or "hot girl" as though of by you? lol

[3E8]

Better luck next time Don. It's hard to stay patient when you go card dead for hours. Are you thinking of becoming a pro?

[SouthsideDon48]

When you say "hot girl", do mean "hot girl" as thought of by by most men or "hot girl" as though of by you? lol

LMAO. Actually, yea this time it's "hot girl" as thought of by most men. lol. One was kind like a Kim Kardashian type with tight pants and a very "pretty girl" type of attitude. She was even checking her make-up at the table, LMAO.

[SouthsideDon48]

Better luck next time Don. It's hard to stay patient when you go card dead for hours. Are you thinking of becoming a pro?

Actually, no I'm not. I plan on trying to get a full-time job when I finish school that would be flexible enough to let me take multiple vacations throughout the year to play poker tournaments.

 

That way, poker won't be my sole source of income and be more of a hobby thing that will always be a fun escape for me.

 

I hope to be able to someday take a couple trips throughout the year to play WSOP-C events at places like St. Louis, Tunica, and Atlantic City, as well as Hammond. Plus some WSOP events in Vegas (really wanna play Razz, that's my 2nd-best poker game,... maybe I'm better at Razz than Hold'em). Plus, some other poker events I hope to play in sometime in my life are the ones held at the Borgata in Atlantic City and the Commerce and Bicycle casinos in California. As well as Vegas trips to the Venetian and Caesars.

 

I also want to try and accumulate $1 million in poker tournament winnings by the time I'm 70 years old, lol.

[EvilMonkey]

Hey, I sometimes play at the CCG as well. The locations I play at are: the Turner Lodge in Tinley Park, the VFW in Tinley Park, the Fieldhouse in Midlothian, and the VFW in Oak Lawn. What locations do you play at?

 

I wasn't able to play much the past 8 weeks cause I had a lot of homework for my 2 classes, but hopefully my schedule clears up after this week.

 

What do you usually play there? I usually play sit-n-goes or tournaments with buy-ins of $40 or more, preferably $100 or more. I avoid the early bird at all costs, lol.

I usually stick with the ones at the KOC Hall in Joliet. I never seem to have free time to get away for any of the others. Was set to go to the Tinley one a few tiems, and things just got in the way.

[SouthsideDon48]

I usually stick with the ones at the KOC Hall in Joliet. I never seem to have free time to get away for any of the others. Was set to go to the Tinley one a few tiems, and things just got in the way.

Hey, I was actually thinking of checking out the games at the KOC Hall in Joliet someday because I live right off route 6 in Orland Park and I used to always take route 6 to route 30 to get to places such as the Hobo Outlet and the Joliet Mall, etc. Where is the KOC Hall located at? Is it easily accessible from route 30 or route 6?

 

This would all depend on whether the date that they stop at the KOC Hall on a day when I can make it, such as one of my fridays off work and if I don't have any homework.

 

Funny thing is, I don't like going west of Bell road because I always seem to get lost. But Joliet is usually the exception since I'm familiar with route 6 and route 30 pretty well. But as for towns like Naperville, Romeoville, Lemont, or anything north of those towns... fuhgeddaboutit! lol

 

I'm too much of a south suburb rat.

[GoodAsGould]

Do they have any big events at the horseshoe during summer season or how does that all work?

[SouthsideDon48]

Do they have any big events at the horseshoe during summer season or how does that all work?

Hey Gould, the only big poker events that I know of that takes place at Horseshoe Hammond is the WSOP-C which usually takes place in the 2nd half of October each year, and the Chicago Poker Classic which usually takes place during the last week of February and the first week of March.

 

I'm not aware of any poker events during the winter or summer time, but I do know that the poker room has daily $200 buy-in tournaments on Sundays and Fridays at 12 noon. I also think they have daily tournaments at 12 noon on two other days of the week, with a $100 buy-in, but I'm not sure.

 

The poker room at the Horseshoe runs some really good poker tournaments, with 30 minute blinds and 6,000 in starting chips.

My ONLY complaint about the way the tournaments is run is how the tournament director always seems to kind of wander off and pay too much attention with what's going on at the cash games or socializing with other floor people. So because of that, he doesn't always balance the tables and usually only breaks tables when it gets down to a certain number of people, instead. There was one time when I was playing there and we were down to the final 4 tables, and 1 table had 7 people while the other two had 9, 9, and 10. The tournament director really should've balanced the tables immediately by moving someone from the 10-handed table to the 7-handed table to balance it at 8, 9, 9, 9. It's kind of a pet peeve of mine when tournament directors doesn't balance tables promptly.

 

However, I do love the tournaments at Horseshoe Hammond. I finished in 4th place out of 83 for $1,400 once.

[BigSqwert]

No offense but whenever people start telling me specific hands of poker games they played in I pay as much attention to them as if they were telling me how their fantasy football players did....or lately, what their baby's percentile is.

 

And I love poker.

Edited October 25, 2010 by BigSqwert

[EvilMonkey]

Hey, I was actually thinking of checking out the games at the KOC Hall in Joliet someday because I live right off route 6 in Orland Park and I used to always take route 6 to route 30 to get to places such as the Hobo Outlet and the Joliet Mall, etc. Where is the KOC Hall located at? Is it easily accessible from route 30 or route 6?

 

This would all depend on whether the date that they stop at the KOC Hall on a day when I can make it, such as one of my fridays off work and if I don't have any homework.

 

Funny thing is, I don't like going west of Bell road because I always seem to get lost. But Joliet is usually the exception since I'm familiar with route 6 and route 30 pretty well. But as for towns like Naperville, Romeoville, Lemont, or anything north of those towns... fuhgeddaboutit! lol

 

I'm too much of a south suburb rat.

It's right off of Rt. 52 (Jefferson) south of Larkin. if you came into town off of I-80, you get off at Larkin north, take a left at Rt. 52, and then a left again at Infantry. There is a Speedway on the corner, it is right behind that. They been having Thursday tournaments lately, usually not good for me, so havent been for a month or two. Won a $50 sit-n-go last time, finished middle of pack in the bounty tourney with 2 bountys.