My new fun hobby is to enter poker tournaments and train myself to become good in poker. To do this I need to find and enter tournaments. Here are the resources I used:
- Oceans 11 in Oceanside - this was the first casino I played a tournament in so I have to mention it. They have flyer's showing the daily tournaments they host (mostly at 10am). They are located really close to the freeway in an ok area (fyi - a lot of casinos seem to be in really dodgy areas).
- Poker player magazine - I picked this up at Oceans 11 and it told me the time and location for a load of tournaments in Southern California and also what type they are - this is an invaluable source of info.
- Cardplayer magazine - monthly magazine with adverts for tournaments and also lists similar to poker player magazine showing where and when tournaments are playing and the buy-in etc. Between this magazine and poker-player you have a pretty good list of tourneys to enter.
I like to enter the Weds tournament at Oceans 11 for $60 and have done since mid-September when I started playing more regularly. The Tues and Thurs tourneys at Oceans 11 are cheaper. There is a nice $20 re-buy tournament at Hawaiian Gardens on Mondays at 1pm. Hollywood Park is a nice casino close to LAX airport and they also do a $20 re-buy Monday thru Friday at 11am.
To anyone like me who is still in training I recommend keeping your entry costs down and entering the cheaper/smaller tournaments before throwing your money away in the big ones.
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