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#492 – Lazy Sunday – or Money Never Sleeps
11:40 AM
Lazy Sunday Morning
It’s too early for poker, isn’t it? Usually, the only time a poker player is awake at 11:40 AM is when he’s STILL up from a game that started the day before (or the day before that). I signed up for the big tournaments today: Sunday Brawl, $750 K Guarantee, Sunday Mulligan, Sunday HORSE. I’ll decide on the $40k and $65k Guarantees and the $500 + $35 WSOP-E Qualifier on an as-needed basis.
Even though I took it easy for a couple days after winning the Sunday Mulligan and finishing 12th in the Monday $1k, I’m fully back in action, behaving like I have to get all that money back into the poker economy NOW. [By the time I finish writing this entry, 11:59 AM, I have busted from the Brawl and signed up for the the $40k G.] But it’s ridiculously early in the day and I’m feeling so sluggish I actually miss the beginning of the Sunday Brawl because I’m cooking eggs and pancakes for my family. (”That’s the last you get out of me until Tuesday, so you better like it!” I cackle, racing back to my office.)
I’ve missed only about five minutes, then I pick up the right combination of good cards and bad opponents and quickly chip up from 2,970 to 5,500. Now, I think, it’s a waiting game, letting the day catch up while I wait for good cards and/or good opportunities. Letting my mind wander, I look around Full Tilt and see what else is going on.
No sick PLO games, though Ben Roberts is 4-tabling. No crazy NLHE games, though David Benefield has at least 4 tables going. Just for sport, I look up some of the limit games – you know, to see what the dinosaurs are up to during Gambler’s Dawn.
Omaha Eight-or-Better. $3-$6, $8-$16, $15-$30 … and, hello, $2,000-$4,000. The table is called “Patrik” and has a permanently reserved seat for Antonius, but that is the only seat unfilled. So at 11:35 AM (and I assume at least some of these guys are, like me, in the Pacific Time Zone), here’s what’s happening in the morning wake-up $2,000-$4,000 OEOB game:
David Benyamine – $95K (though he had $160k a few minutes ago when I first opened the screen)
Gus Hansen – $50k
howisitfeellike – $50k
Phil Ivey – $100k
theASHMAN103 – $270k
Then I look at the HORSE. The third biggest game is $3-$6 and there are seats available. The second biggest is $1,000-$2,000, and the biggest is $2,000-$4,000. The Big Game is 3-handed with the usual suspects (Benyamine – $76k, Ivey – $67k, ASHMAN – $266k).
In the “smaller” game, there are a few different faces:
Eli Elezra – $62k
howisitfeellike – $20k
John D’Agostino – $3,800
ASHMAN – $85k
When I look a moment later to confirm the amounts, D’Ags has $43k and Phil Ivey has bought in for $100k.
Browsing the SnGs, I see Huckleberry Seed is sitting alone at a $1,050 + $50 Turbo NLHE table.
Gordon Gekko had it exactly right in Wall Street: “Money never sleeps.”
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