Sunday, June 24, 2007

Caesars--How I missed you!

OK, long time no blog, well get over it, because you are now reading--so mission accomplished. I head down to Elizabeth Indiana with Nater Tater and decide to play some 1/2 NL. $300 cap buy in. So, I sit down with my buy in of $240, after losing $30 in the video slots, and being called for a seat and then sent back to the video slots after the poker room manager had already given my seat away. I was literally 20 feet from the guy. Let's get this in perspective though, I was not even upset, just ready to play some cards. And, since we had arrived around 12:00 PM I was in no real hurry.

So here is the table lay out: Weak player, Strong Player, Super Fat Guy, Strong Player, John from Nashville (horrible player but luckbox central), John from Nashville's buddy--average player but transparent, Australian dude--not great, 10-20 limit player--very tight but decent, and myself. We also had shuffling in throughout my session: Retardo player --actually scouted our table for 15 minutes and set down and burned through 600 in about an hour; Limit Lady--300 donation thank you, NEW Hold'em Dude--not good; and as I was leaving entered another Strong Player. There were a few more but nothing that is noteworthy. Hope that helps because that is the conclusion of this set up.

So I am playing rather tight, building my stack to $350, that is about $110 in an hour, not a bad hourly rate if you ask me. Then comes the confrontation with Super Fat Guy (and pimp daddy hat). SFG just gets blown off of JJ by Stong Player with air (4-7 off). SFG folds his JJ face up and then Strong Player obliges by flipping over the AIR! So, next hand yours truly gets QQ, he open raises to $25 in EP, John from Nashville calls and I smooth call. I don't like the QQ number one, and I figure if I flop a set, SFG is gonna pay me off because he is on steam and has money invested. Flop comes Q98 two clubs. SFG bets this for $25, so I don't want to mess around with the clubs even though I have just hit top set--so I pop it to $100, SFG then pushes all-in; I of course insta call hoping that I have just torn up AA or KK, but nope, he flips over the AK of clubs. Yes sir, a flush draw. Yes, for the fans at home, it is the nut flush draw, and he might have thought his two overs were good, but I hate this play at a cash table, for the simple reason that you might have less than half as many outs as you thought, and be a pretty big dog, which SFG obvisouly was. But, fate would have it that I was playing the role of "Mundo" or "Tough Man" and the turn was the 5 of clubs and no resuck for me. So, I go to rebuy--this time for $220. OK, for those keeping score at home, I got $500 in this game and I have been there for an hour--not a happy camper.

And, did I mention that the table I was at was really COLD. I mean freezing. I finally talked the floorman into moving our table to another part of the room. I didn't want to be cold and get cold decked at the same time. I ordered hot chocolate and drank 0 beers btw!

OK, I have now run my $220 rebuy up to $520, when I turn into a raise calling fold machine. I blow through $150 in no time. Then it happens, what you ask? I will tell ya then. STrong player opens for $8, SFG calls and three other callers. I find AA on the button and pop it up to $40. Why $40, well, I am not totally pissed if I win the pot right there, but I want it to look like a labored squeeze, feigning just a bit of weakness. Then Strong player takes a bit of time to fold (I would later learn he folded JJ), and SFG goes into the mini tank and then flat calls. And, I immediately see my future. SFG has KK and I am going to take a montser pot off of him--I can't wait!!!! Flop comes 224, and I honestly can't remember if SFG bet or not, but I push in $150--yes a pretty big over bet but, but there are two hearts out, and I want again to look weak by overbetting to SFG, and he takes the bait, and pushes all in (with chips that rightly should have been mine 3 hours ago). I insta call--and it happens, OMG, it really happened, SFG had KK, and hold on to your hats here folks--AA holds up and blammo, I have $820 sitting in front of me. I play a few more hands and then go eat. I come back and have about 10 mintues left in the dealer rotation and decide, to hell with it, I am gonna rack out with a $320 win, which aint bad for 6 hours.

Oh, almost forgot, the female dealer coming into our table. I tell the guys next to me that I am getting some chip racks and will be right back, and the dealer lady tells the guy to take money out of my stack for the $6 rake--and I see this happening from a distance. I finally make it back to the table and tell the dealer lady I am racking up give me my $6 back, which she does. The guy who had to get in my stack says, "I told her you were racking out but she told me to get it anyway", and my response--That's what happens when you listen to a woman! I don't think the female dealer and I are going to be friends.

Oh, and if anyone is wondering why there was no Tunica post, here is the reason: I didn't want to write about Tunica!