Last Tuesday (2/21) I celebrated my 42nd birthday not with my family, but rather spent it at Overtyme in Waterford with the WTP gang for the season TOC championships. If you don't know how it works, you qualify by getting a top-3 finish in any tournament a bar designated as a TOC bar hosts during the season. The more top 3s you get, the more chips you get.
While I finished 2nd in the season points title (top 8 scores count for tavern ranking), I had the most TOCs for the season (8), so I started out with the big stack of 24K in chips (10K minimum, 2K for every additional top-3). Based on my table draw, I decided that I was going to a fairly loose game early and push my chip stack around. Played a solid first level, and built my stack up to 40K after the end of the level by only having to show down a couple of hands.
Got to the break (about 2 hours in) with 70+K in chips, and easily the chip leader at this point. Lost a few chips to get down into the low 60K range when the final table merge happened. Played a steady game, continuing to build my chip stack without getting involved in any big pots, and soon enough we were to the bubble at 4-handed.
Went for a couple of killshots against Jane, but the river was unkind both times, and my stack went from over 170K to about 130K. Audie finally took out Jane when his Q-Q held up against her small pair, and Audie, Mike Shafto, and me were the final 3 standing...and qualified for the National TOC tournament in Vegas this fall.
With only a TOC coin to play for, I managed to soon get to HU against Audie. Promptly got my ass handed to me in this matchup, but that's ok - I came to get no worse than 3rd, and mission accomplished.
Vegas, Baby! Vegas!
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