Reading Material

Well, I looked for http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Poker-Essential-Playing-Living/dp/0976595788/ref=sr_1_1/104-9597456-2076758?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180547252&sr=1-1 but picked up http://www.amazon.com/Full-Tilt-Poker-Strategy-Guide/dp/0446698601/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-9597456-2076758?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180547151&sr=8-1 instead, because I couldn’t find the Mark Blade book at a B&M store and I don’t think Amazon would get me the book on time.

I got some info from a guy that plays regularly at the casino I hope to spend some time at while on vacation next week, and he says they have MTTs with buyins between 50-100 daily, and mostly 1/2 and 2/5 NL ring. My mom is more comfortable playing MTTs, we’ll probably play one, so hopefully this book won’t wreck my tourney game in the next week or so. I took a quick peek at the tourney structures, and they seem ridiculous – they might as well call them ‘live turbos’ because they blinds go up sick fast, so it will be a luckfest, but whatever, I think I have have a really solid shortstack game.

I’m going to be playing on the cheap, so I may have enough for a tourney buyin and a $100 ring buyin, and that will be about it. I haven’t played live in several months, so it should be fun, and with the slow pace of one table instead of 4, I’ll play more of a feel game. I’ll probably re-read http://www.amazon.com/Caros-Book-Poker-Tells-Mike/dp/1580420826/ref=sr_1_1/104-9597456-2076758?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180547704&sr=1-1 while I’m at it.

I’m really fired up for vacation, and not just to play poker. It’s going to be great to grill some good food, sit outside a quiet cottage, enjoy the sun, read a book, relax, and chill.