Memorial Day Delaware Poker tour

As part of my duties as the Mid-Atlantic Ambassador to Ante Up magazine, I set out Monday morning with my Mother to visit (and play in) a couple of the poker rooms in Dealaware.  Frist up was Delaware Park.

At first my mom and I were put off a little.  It seemed small.  This was our mistake.  We went in the wrong entrance.  It's a very nice casino and while the layout snakes around, it's all there!  Getting to the poker room was a little strange at first but I found it and all was good.  The website satated that the $10k tournament started at 11am.  This was a mistake and it started at noon.
The floor manager recognized this pretty quickly and noticed a lot of people milling around and asking about cash games.  He was quick on his feet and immediately opened 2-3 cash tables.  This was smart.  If people had to wait too long, they migh just leave the room and come back when the tournament started.
I did speak to the asistant room manager and he was very friendly and helpful.  He took my card and told me he would send me information on upcoming tournaments and specials.  He asked when my deadline was and will be sending me information about poker room happenings.  This seemed to go pretty good.

So about the tournament.  There were 155 entrants, which was a nice size toruney.
I started off with a string of hands that were just second best and fell behind.  I was down to my last 1500 (with 400-200 blinds) in chips and got king-nine of clubs.  Good as time as any to move in.  One caller and he had king-queen (yikes).  I ended up hitting a 9 and stayed alive.  A couple hands later I am UTG and get ace of spades, ace of clubs.  I push all in with 3300.  I got two callers.  On the flop one of them hit his set of 8's and I was done.  Time to collect my mother, have lunch, and head down to Dover.

We got to Dover a little early, but I thought it would give me time to play cash game, and talk to the room manager.  Well the room manager really wasn't ver forthcoming with information about upcoming tournaments.  He was just the assistant manager and he asked me to call the regular room manager.  I spoke to the regular room manager last week and he wasn't very helpful.  I was hoping a face-face meeting would break the ice a little, but no doing.
I did play in the 7pm tournament in Dover.  There ended up being only 8 entries.  This was bad.  They blamed it on being a monday, but it was Memorial Day!  Anyway, I did end up winning the tournament (technically splitting) for $252.  Beats loosing, but it would been nice to have had more people in the game.

Now I'm off to write my column!