Still no High Limit…as in the sky’s the limit type of limit. George, normally plays high pot limit Omaha, is playing $80-$160 and $60-$120 Holdem and has been for about two weeks. His attitude is still the same. He’s short stacked when you get there and after 20 minutes into your down, when he takes a beat, he mumble, grumbles, “Nothing ever changes, It does not change.”

You’d really like to agree with him, because where he’s concerned, it really will never change. But if you do, you just invited him into your head space and it only goes down from there. There’s no upside to his poker play. He’s miserable. He swears the only place he ever loses is at Bellagio. So…what the hell is he doing playing there?

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Archie K. was playing $30-$60 Holdem tonight. When he’s on the up rush, he’s playing pretty damn high and his attitude is much different. When he’s taking beats in high limit, he’s absolutely no fun to do deal to.

Tonight he was quiet and played more like a calling station than the Archie most of us know that has chips blazing from both hands when he’s on a roll. He went broke in one hand and bought in just a little short of the buy-in requirements. One short buy-in is allowed in all games over $10-$20 limit and it must be half of the minimum buy-in. He played a few hands and picked up the few chips he had left and walked away. Who is he? He’s the guy that ran $10,000 in to over $30,000,000 in ’94. Read about him in the People in Poker section.

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