Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:33:49 -0700
From: Bree Goldman
Subject: [BARGE] pre-BARGE trip report

My BARGE got started a little early, with a group dinner at Ping Pang Pong
on Sunday night (thanks for organizing, JP!). 9 of us met there for dinner,
then regrouped at the Orleans for their weekly 7pm HORSE tournament. We got
a $20 last longer going, and as I was collecting the money I was asked by no
less than 6 non-BARGErs if they could participate. We wound up with a 19-way
last longer, and certainly could have gotten more if we had wanted!

The tournament had a total of 73 runners. When we were down to 30, 13 of the
last-longers were still in (including 4 of the non-BARGErs). When we broke
to 2 tables there were 6 of us (5 and 1), and 3 of us made the final table
(my dad, me, and the 1 remaining non-BARGEr). We did a mini-save when we got
down to 9, everyone got their $20 back and we played for the remaining $200.

My dad and I both got off to a slow start, with each of us winning exactly
one hand in the first H round, and then nothing until the S round. After the
first break we both rallied and chipped up a lot in the H and O rounds.

I had two big hands of note. Just after moving to a new table, in the S
round, I got in 3 bets on 3rd with (KQ)K against two short stacks. I caught
a Q on 4th and got the rest of their chips in - the bigger stack had (AA)T,
neither of them improved and I busted both of them. Shortly thereafter I
busted another guy from my new table (pretty standard hand, I honestly can't
remember what I had or how it played out), only to realize that 5 of the 8
of us at that table were in the last longer, and I had just busted the 3 who
were not.

The other big hand was at two tables, just before the last break, where I
completed in the E round with (Ah8h)4h, and got played back at by a shortish
stack with a face card showing. I caught a low heart on 4th, and somehow
managed not to get it all in there, but after discussing the hand with my
dad I understand that I should have gotten a lot more aggressive at this
point. In any case, I caught my 5th heart on 7th, she didn't make a low, and
I busted her too.

I was chip leader at the last break, though by the time we redrew for the FT
my dad had built up a monster stack. He drew the seat directly to my left,
and we proceeded to crush the opposition. We did get it in against each
other once, in the last O round, where he flopped top 2 and a low, and I had
bottom set. Fortunately for me we chopped that one - at least it proved to
the rest of the table that there's no soft play in the Goldman family!

My dad and I wound up chopping heads up - he got a little more than me, as
he had me outchipped by something like 3:1... I definitely got the better
end of that deal! I took home ~$1100 plus $100 from the last longer, which
we also chopped. What a great way to kick off BARGE :)

...Bree