There's a monthly free roll at my local casino every month for all players who qualify by playing for 30 hours or more in the month. Well the 1st week in January I already made 35 hours, and another 30+ every week following this month. One of my girlies got comped a free room there and I went and checked the time sheet to see who all qualifies for it because the tourney is a week from today.

The way the tourney works is the house adds $1000 for each table that is filled up a max of 8 tables. When I looked at the sheet I was disappointed to see 6 maybe 8 were qualified and I thought there would be so much more. The others who qualified have EXACTLY 30 hours, and the names I don't recognize, probably fish who play 2/6 Limit all the time and love to suck out.

Anyway I'm just a little bummed that it doesn't look like the full $8,000 prize pool will be available for the taking. Oh well, it's kind of a crap shoot anyway starting stack of like 2000 chips blinds starting @ 25/50 with 20 minute levels. I just want to take this one down, the 3 live MTT's I've played I took 2nd twice in a field of 36 and the most recent one I bubbled in 6th place with 36 players. Their prize structure is retarded. If there's a 10 handed SnG they pay 1st 70%, 2nd 20% and 3rd 10% pretty much seems like a waste of time, 3rd place generally gets their buy in back for a STT. And I never chop, probably why I took 2nd place both times in the MTTs.

Sorry for ranting. This tournament is the equivalent to a Full Tilt super turbo in relation to hands dealt per blind level. I need some good cards from start to finish because of the "quality" of skill these players posses. TPTK will never be folded which is a good thing for me in most cases. Little to no bluffing due to calling stations. So, you either have the cards or you don't here. These same players are the same one's who hold AA and KTo out of position to me with QJs on the button and call a re-raise that would put them all in on a flop a JJK. That was an awesome pot by the way busted both players out in a cash game and they bought in full stacks of $300 each. They looked so dumbfounded that I had QJ in my hand, the guy in SB with AA should have re-raised PF and I wouldn't have seen that flop, but obviously his brain doesn't work too well.

Nothing to update on the $600 to $40k goal today. Just going to make the deposit no later than Feb 14th and it's GAME ON!