My first game was $1-$5 7 Card Stud…hard to believe that in a few hours I’d be dealing $20,000-$40,000 Holdem, right?

The game on Table 1 was $20-$20 Pot Limit Holdem. These boys had left the art of poker far behind and drifted into the art of conversation. I laughed during the down because of quirky comments that were made but the game was not what I’d term a rammer or a jammer. It needed a fuel injection and that just was not going to happen. I got pushed.

The game on Table 2 was $800-$1,600 Mixed. David G. – 1s, Gus H. – 2s. Chau G. – 3s, Ralph P. – 4s, Jennifer – 5s, Daniel N. – 6s, Shaun S. – 7s, Doyle B. – 8s. When I sat down, the conversation rampaged around cookies…yes, cookies. David and Doyle were interested in a particular kind of cookie carried in the gift shop…they had sent several people over to buy it for them and no one found it.

The action went on around the discussion of cookies. They were gambling. Or rather the person raising wasn’t gambling, they person calling them was…or was it the other way around?

After they got their cookies, Chau asked Doyle for some and Doyle threw the whole bag to Chau…it ‘splatted’ onto the table and a cookie crumb explosion occurred! Cookie crumbs everywhere in front of Chau. As Chau picked up the bag and munched, I called Carmen for a Brush…someone said we needed a vacuum instead of a brush. True!

My next game was heads-up $20,000-$40,000 Holdem. Easy as a slice of pie. Some of the biggest games in the world are the easiest to deal. It’s hard to make a mistake in those games and the people playing them are pretty relaxed…or appear to be. That’s why they’re playing at that level, eh? It would really be difficult to tell who won or lost, since they play for hours and I’m only there for a brief part of it.

Then on to a $30-$60 Holdem…and the rest of the night.

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I was part of this project. Sweet!
Howard Lederer’s ‘Secrets of No Limit Holdem’