River Rock Casino Tournament

I managed to get away last night to enter the 100 dollar 7 PM tournament at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, B.C. This event is limited to 88 entrants which is a decent size. While the casino has about 18 tables the room is always busy. Anyways the tournament started with 8 tables of 11. Yep. I don't get that. Why not limit tables to 10. Well we all know that it comes down to the casino makes more money with less overhead as they need one less dealer. Anyways I started off well. I think third hand in I got dealt A7. 4 limpers and the flop comes 677. Liking this. Someone bet and I just called. Everyone else folded. Turn was a 2 of diamonds which also put 2 diamonds up. Hmm now I bet and got called again. River was a K clubs. No straight or flush possibilities so I bet again . Got called . Turns out he was chasing his diamond flush but got 2 pair on the river and my trips held up. Good pot.

It was a weird night. Twice I called all ins when I had pocket queens and pocket tens and both times they held up against AK. That got rid of a couple short stacks.
I lost a lot of chips when I overplayed AQd and got pushed off by someone who bet huge and I whiffed on the flop.

Getting short stacked as we were down to 30 players I got AA and pushed but everyone folded. I needed to double up and young guy who had pushed one hand earlier and got no callers pushed again and I figured he was just trying to steal so I called with KQd. He had pocket tens and they held up and I was out in 28th. Pretty disappointing as they only pay top 8. Top prize was 2700 dollars and I think 8th paid 395 dollars so not bad.

River Rock has a great designed poker room but in my opinion the room is poorly managed . Twice the time clock stopped at the level and no one did anything until one of the players reminded the floor. They didn't continually update the remaining players very often and it seemed like the tournaments are an after thought to the room. The dealers also were a bit inexperienced as one dealer twice didn't deal to someone who had left to go get a drink or something. In cash games you don't deal but in tournaments the hand is dealt and then folded. I noticed the first time but personally I wasn't going to say anything but someone else did the second time.

In fact I had planned to play 1-2 after getting knocked out but there was 23 people on the waiting list. That is terrible room management. You could open up 2 more tables and get players playing and make money for the room. Anyways still a fun night but certainly improvements could be made.

The River Rock is I believe the largest casino in B.C and of course is open 24 hours a day. It is also home to the B.C Poker Championships which last year Daniel Negraneau won.

One more night here but tomorrow is the wedding anniversary so its unlikely that anymore poker will be played. A nice dinner sounds in order.