Reno Trip: Pre-Face

Sunday through Wednesday

Total Playing Time: 20 Hrs
Total Profit: $180

This past Sunday I went up to Reno with my friend Todd. He was playing in a couple WPT smaller buy-in ($500) tournaments, and asked me if I wanted to go and up and play some live poker with him for the week. I usually pass at the opportunity to go to Reno, but saw it as a chance to get out of town for half a week for $30/night (split two ways...room was great btw) and decided what the hell. I figured the WPT events would attract some players and the action would be pretty good (I was pretty much wrong).

We got into town around 2pm Sunday and after getting turned down for early check-in, headed over to the Grand Sierra to get an idea of what the place had to offer. It was okay I guess, and had a 10/20 LHE games going. Things looked promising. Instead of jumping on the long waitlist, we decided to go back into town (the main strip) and check out the rest of the casinos. Unfortunately this would be the last time I'd see a LHE table spread higher than 3/6-Kill :(

The next stop in our journey takes us to a 1/2 NL table spread at the El Dorado. This is where I would spend the majority of my time playing cards throughout the trip. Not too shabby of a place, maybe 8-10 tables, a couple 3/6, a few 1/2NL, and the occasional 3/5 NL game.