Thursday, April 03, 2008

CAPT Salzburg


There are many reasons to visit Salzburg. It was the setting for parts of The Sound of Music: what could be better than being surrounded by The Alps, closing your eyes and singing “High On the Hill Was a Lonely Goatherd…..”?

After sating your yodelling needs, you could then meander to the city’s Casino Salzburg, where, after sampling the restaurant’s ‘Dinner and Roulette Package’ (the price of the meal is determined by where the ball rests), you could them explore the canyon of love that is the house’s poker room.

This week is a particularly good time as the casino is hosting an event on the Casinos Austria Poker Tour. The main event is a €2000 buy in beginning on Saturday, but yesterday saw a ‘Super-Satellite’, with a milder €200 entrance fee and unlimited re-buys for the first hour.

There are those at Eyebrows who do not like re-buy tournaments because they are sceptical about life after death. These individuals maintain that poor players should have to cope with stack atrophy and hold that re-buy tournaments are akin to a belief in reincarnation. They have a point: the fish think they will return as poker pros.

However, belief systems can help people muddle through life: if your bag is charging into poker no man’s land holding K-9, secure in the knowledge that even if you are peppered with bullets, another life is only another chunk of change away, then re-buys are the way to go.

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