Sunday Major's, BCS and early Oscar buzz

I played the Sunday’s yesterday, it is amazing the difference between just a few years ago and now and the difference between smaller fields like UB and Bodog and the bigger fields on Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker.  Like all tournaments getting out of the red zone is important (getting enough chips where you don’t go broke in case of a catastrophe), getting out of the red zone allows you to manage the tournament rather than rely on a minimal set of plays with just 2 options, double up or go home.  My first 2 tournaments were UB and Bodog and I didn’t get out of the red zone, in both tournaments I lost to monster hands when I had monster hands.  Usually my style is active enough where the hands that beat me tend to be more marginal.  With 5 minutes to go I was about to press unregister when my dad instant messaged me to ask if I was still in anywhere.  I told him FTP still had one and he convinced me to play.  No real stories actually, I came in around 200^th out of 4200 people, never really got lucky and got unlucky a few times.  I managed my table well and if one or 2 things had gone my way I would have been able to take over.  Those big fields are ridiculously good values, I would bet 75% of the people satellite in and they are easy to push around.

Tonight is the BCS Championship game featuring Ohio State and my favorite college team LSU.  You could make a case that neither team should be there, as it is LSU is the favorite which is not a good omen considering the last 3 favorites have lost.  Couple that with the fact that every time I watch ESPN has a non stop poll going that LSU should win overwhelmingly, nothing like a little motivation for OSU before the game.  My dad is calling my every minute rubbing it in that I am not there but I am actually happy to be home watching it in peace and quiet.

I did see Atonement with my wife the other day and I really didn’t get all the Oscar buzz, it was definitely an entertaining movie but I felt it missed.  If I were grading it I would give it a B.  I’ll probably check out a few other Oscar contending movies soon but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend Atonement. 

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