A bag of double ugly, covered in chopped up mean and nasty is in the 3s when you go in to deal $20-$40 Omaha 8 or Better with a 1/2 kill. He plays the first hand you deal, with four other players and loses it. Immediately the hate and doom, death and destruction, glare begins. He can barely grumble out the words, he’s so angry his voice is quivering. “Ah’ll tell you one thing, Ah’m sure saving a lot of blues.”

It’s such a sick repeat of years of poker dealing to none other than J. C. P., too bad he doesn’t get a new line to go with his never ending whine. He wins a few pots and appears to be more angry because he won than he did when he lost, except, of course he’s not mumbling now.

Once when he walked by a $30-$60 7 Card Stud game, a player in the game invited him to take the open seat. Norman R., another player, emphatically stated, “Don’t ask that bunch of negative karma to join us!”

The only thing that’s frightening about him and his behavior is what if he explodes and some of that negative ugly gets on you? Horrifically scary! Maybe there’s no cure.

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Something in poker that’s pretty hard to deal with at times is watching a person that you thought had it all together and had some class and then BOOM…

One incident is watching a high limit player dig in their nostril for a full minute and then when they find what they were mining for, they actually look at it before wiping it somewhere. Gag!

Another one is listening to a player that’s arrived at the table, with chocolate covered strawberries, tell everyone at the table that they eat at the buffet every night. When asked if they get a comp every night, their reply is, “No! I just walk in like I already had a seat and take whatever I want.” That’s stealing. No matter how you cut it, it’s demeaning and cheap.

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The room is slow but the games are still good. It’s funny to have 15 to 16 games running and think of it as being slow, but it is. Not much happening in high limit right now, the kids are either out enjoying their home life or are in L.A. for a tournament. The highest game on top last night was $80-$160 Holdem and it was full.

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Nothing new on Bruce and Paul returning. We are hoping they do. Suzie L. has been covering some of graveyard in their absence. The hour change and sleep schedule is tough on her, but she’s taking it like a trooper. We all love Suzie!

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This post is done by Chanzes – during the time period that I took a break from posting in the Diary.