BrownsBacker

I play a lot of MTTs & STTs, both live and online, and have found the following items to be somewhat useful in MTTs online.1) Play like a rock for the first hour or two. In online MTTs, over half the field will eliminate themselves in the first hour. For some reason, a lot of people feel like they have to make a ton of chips right away and they end up busting out. I usually play only prime hands (big pp for raises, small pp if I can limp in or maybe 3x call tops, and suited connectors). Beware of A/K early on, it can be a huge suck out hand. Try not to get into a position early on whe

Kattamuri is gone. Busted by Giang. 1. Chau Giang 2. Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi 3. Scotty NguyenOk, so I cheated a bit, and waited until play started. :-)

For my money, the best poker room in So. Cal. aside from the big boys in LA (Commerce, Bicycle, and Hustler) is Pechanga.They just opened it a few months ago, and it is unbelievable. I think they have about 50-60 tables, and almost an equal number of giant screen TVs suspended from the ceiling or hanging on the walls.They run two daily $20/$5 tournies (T-Th-Sa the AM game is NLHE, the evening game is LHE, reverse it on M-W-F) aside from the multitude of cash games they run 24/7. The daily tournies have a minimum guarantee of $2,000, but it usually exceeds that easily as I haven't played in a