Our little LemLem is back. She had a baby boy a few months ago and she’s back to work dealing two days of the week right now. She’s a beauty. She’s the kind of person that you just have to smile when you see her…she’s neat.
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Jillian’s back for a short time, she’s playing poker, hopping and bopping, singing and jiving to the beat of her MP3 player…just like old times. I had to give her a little razzle dazzle tonight and tell her that I tried to have a ‘house rule’ made that she couldn’t sing or dance in her chair when she played poker.
She was in the 3s in an $8-$16 Holdem game and the 1 and 2s took off with her on one song…they couldn’t hear what she was listening to but they WENT WITH IT! It was funny.
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I hit the $600-$1200 Mixed game again tonight. Pretty much the same crowd, except for Ralph…David G. was his replacement.
As soon as Eli saw me, he took off with, “Shaun cashed out and then came back to the table looking to see if he dropped a $500 chip last night, he was $500 short. He gave Linda $400. I told him to go find Linda.”
He was smiling when he said it but it sort of felt like the square needle because I’d gotten an overly large tip from Shaun last night…believe me these are few and far between, somewhere in the neighborhood of every three to four years.
Eli continued with, “Well, she did push him over $45,000 in a few hands. If she deals me $45,000 winner, I’m going to give her $500 just to beat Shaun.”
Shaun never said a word or looked up.
Jennifer jumped in, “If she deals me $45,000 winner, I’m going to give her $500.”
Eli, “You have to beat what Shaun gave her and I’ve already offered $500.”
Jennifer, “Ok! I’ll give her $525.”
I just laughed.
It’s a raffle ticket…exactly a raffle ticket. I have no idea who is going to win any hand and I never let myself get emotionally involved so I really don’t care. Yes, if I could choose someone that tipped over someone that didn’t tip, I would choose the tipper. I never have a choice so I quit thinking about it years ago. More than once, one of them has won more than $45,000 during my down…don’t even think for one millisecond that they considered tipping me $500…it’s more like $1 to $2 or maybe $5 when I leave the game. Shaun is the exception to the high limit rule.
No one did anything spectacular, Jennifer left about half way through my down, Chau came in as a new player, I got pushed.
The rest of the night was gamble, gamble, gamble. An $8-$16 Holdem game on table 15 was hysterical but trying to describe it would destroy the beauty of the threads of the tapestry that held it together.
Another hot Vegas day looming ahead and the quiet, dark, peace of my bed awaits.