Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:24:02 -0700
From: David Low
Subject: [BARGE] Barge 2008 Trip Report

To not bore you with the details of my life for the past week, I
thought I would share some stories from the week:

Where are you staying???
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Rewind a few months and I send out a mail to some friends that are
heading to Barge. Doug responds saying that he is staying at the
Plaza. I ask him why and he says its nicer than Binions. Doug wasn't
able to attend Barge 2005 at the Plaza, so I wasn't sure where he got
that impression but I accept his response.

I land Monday afternoon and I get an SMS message from Doug which says:
"Was the cafe that we go to every night at the Nugget or the Plaza?".
I respond Nugget. About 15 seconds later, I realize the error that he
has made. He had confused the two hotels.

I check into Binions and meet up with Doug who has now figured things
out. We walk over to the Nugget to see if he can get a room. For
whatever reason, they are fully booked on Monday night. We find him a
room on-line for Tuesday->Sunday and book it.

We then wander back to the Plaza to check him in for a single night.
We find out that his reservation isn't actually to start until
Tuesday. Fortunately they have a room for that evening and its cheaper
than his original booking so he will get $10 refunded when he checks
out the next morning.


7-2 game
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In an episode of High Stakes poker, they were playing the 7-2 game.

I managed to get this game going with a few players for $1 in both the
GN NL tourney and then the Saturday Barge NL tourney. This cost me
about 1/3rd of my stack at the GN, but the story gets better.

In the Saturday tournament, 4 of us play the game at our first table.
In a hand, the board comes down A K 7. Merlynn who is a pretty
conservative player is betting all the way to the end, to the point of
putting her opponent all in for T650 on the river. He decides to fold,
she flips over 7-2 and collects $3 from those of us playing. Well
played!


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-dave