Chelea wins, roQQ Rocked by Result/Walker Hill now Spreads NL Hold-em

In their FA Cup semi-final game, Chelsea came through and beat Blackburn 2-1 a couple of nights ago (Korea time). After I found the game on a scrambled station on which you generally couldn't see much of anything, about 1/2 way through the 1st half, I "watched" the rest of the game with my wife. The audio signal was quite clear, and the announcers spoke English, so this made up for the picture.

I checked my bodog account a few minutes ago and was incensed to discover that I had lost my bet on the Blues, because they had won it in extra time.

Ouch.

If this was the NFL the overtime points would have counted. I assumed they would here as well, since I didn't see any way to bet on a tie. I'm pretty sure I've seen this feature elsewhere, so it made sense to me that it's omission implied that a win was a win, especially since the goal occurred during play, as opposed to in a kick-off after extra-time had expired.

I'm looking at upcoming premiereship games and on these it appears you can bet on a draw. Maybe it was an option and I just didn't see it before.

Meanwhile I've been cranking along of late playing poker on the internet, and I've turned a profit playing live the last few weeks as well, as opposed to not playing live at all, which was the case for me since Fall 2003.

When I got to Korea I checked out the Walker Hill Sheraton Casino (in Seoul), but discovered that they didn't have poker, so I never went back. Last February I heard that they have it now, and its true. On weekends they tend to have a 1-2 NL table, and a 2-5 NL table. At peak hours I have seen 3 1-2 NL tables and a 2-5 NL table, and I have seen 5-10 NL played along side two 1-2 tables and a 2-5. On the other hand, I've been there on a Tuesday night when all they had was one 2-5 NL table. I have also seen 4-8 limit spread once.

At this point I would say that it is only worth going there on the weekends. Last weekend my table was squeaky tight most of the time I was there, but two weeks previously there was alot of loose action, and apparently the Sunday in between some tourist dropped about 3K at the 2-5 table. If the tables are too tough though I intend to retreat to one of the countless internet cafes and get on FullTilt instead. The max buy-in on the 1-2 tables there is 500, which is 2 1/2 times deeper than on most internet sites, so I want some positive expectation when I sit down there.

By the way, The limits I have mentioned are in increments of 1000 won. 1000 won is slightly more than $1. For all intents and purposes if you think of your chips there in terms of dollars you will be close enough.

Other than play poker I don't have much reason to tote around 1,000,000 won (other than to pay off my newborn son's medical bills, which I did yesterday. Little roQQ was born without a pulse and not breathing, but now is doing great! I will now refrain from making the tempting bad-beat/river suckout analogies, tempting as they may be--see Doyle Brunson's SUPER SYSTEM if you don't know what I am talking about). On the other hand, while I am generally limited to withdrawing $500/day from my account via ATMs, from what I can tell this cap can be circumvented by using the ATMs at the casino. Just what you degenerate gamblers need to hear!...

If I get around to it I will further review Walker Hill Casino in the near future.