Last night was the first night of the Friday’s at Five, $540 buy-in Tournament’s debut into the Wednesday time slot. The Wednesday Tournament begins at 1:00 p.m. with Satellites running on Tuesday and starting at 8 a.m. on Wednesdays.

Friday’s at Five has been restructured to a $1060 buy-in. Satellites run through the day. The Satellite buy-in fee is $240 and will pay two places into the tournament. If I missed something, that update will follow.

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Ramsey and Justin are still in the room. Mentioned before in posts of old, they are young, energetic, and great for our room. They played the $200 buy-in NLH game exclusively at first…now they’ve reached the conclusion that they are in Vegas, they want to drink and have fun while they play…so off to $4-$8 Holdem where the consequences of playing a bad hand or making a bad call aren’t as severe. I love their insight and their candor about poker and where they are with life.

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I managed to get the ideal line-up for the night…NOT! I ended up on Table 1, it was heads up with O’Neil and Huck S., playing Deuce to 7 single draw, $100 ante, $200-$400 Blind, NL. Bob S. had chips on the table but he was walking. Lee S. was sweating Huck.

This game was pretty much shuffle your brains out, deal, start over…thankfully the Shuffle Master was there to take up some of the slack of shuffling but when a hand didn’t go past the blinds, I shuffled the next hand because the machine is too slow. From a dealer point of view, it was a drag, and my pocket was dry.

My next game was $1,000-$2,000 Mixed. Dave G. – 1S, Jennifer H. – 4s, Jason L. – 7s, and Hamid D. – 8s.

Hamid had apparently just lost a hand because he was standing up spewing curses. It’s not funny but in a bizarre sort of way, it’s hysterical. He barely stopped to suck air in between the ‘mother fuckers, fucking idiots, what the fuck’, type of thing.

He sat down when I did and continued to swear. I said, “That’s enough. Take a deep breath…”

Believe it or not, in a civil tone, he replied, “I can’t!” and went back to his own personal torment as he continued to curse. He pitched his hand and stood back up, moved around, sat back down for the next hand…a few dozen times…still swearing. I wonder how a person with his temperament can survive in the poker arena without having a massive stress attack or heart attack.

Jennifer had me laughing. Hamid pitched one of his cards over to the rail by her. She was trying to be helpful and snipped it in but it caught air and hit me in the arm.

I started laughing as she apologized. David made a comment about her throwing the card and I laughed and said, “Yeah, it wasn’t even her card.”

I misdealt once. The game was Holdem and I dealt Omaha. I apologized, shuffled and dealt. Jennifer said she thought that if a dealer dealt the wrong game, the players should just play it for that hand.

David did something like, “If your friend gives you a wink, you just keep on dealing?”

He was implying that Jennifer would give me the wink and I would misdeal to whatever she wanted. We both laughed over that one as she explained that she didn’t mean it like that.

This game was at least a little spicy…not like the one on Table 1.

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