The crew came to play cards Saturday night. We rammed and jammed through a million chips and miles of Big Deuce hands. Our group has grown. Maria and Mike (brother and sister) were welcomed in a few weeks ago. They both completed dealer’s school and came over for a little ‘in the box’ training. Of course we hooked them right into the Big Deuce game. We play double deck and it’s a bitch. Of course we added a few twists of our own for rules. And Wayne, Jim, and me are taking a deck of cards with us to Aruba…yes, we’re sick puppies.
Aruba is a heartbeat away. We leave Friday, early a.m., and don’t have to be anywhere until 8 p.m.ish on Saturday night. Then we may have to deal – live. Live? Yes, we are going to deal at the Radisson in live games – at least some of us are. We will deal mainly tournament but may be required to deal some live too.
I can hardly wait for this trip. There’s a two-mile section of beach (right out my back door at The Wyndham) that has my name on it every a.m. around 5. Then it’s a leisurely float/swim with the locals, possibly food, then sleep – so I can work my favorite shift, swing. Of course I’m going to opt for the E/O every night. It’s my life. That’s what I do when I’m on holidays.
I’ll be doing the ‘Aruba report’ here and taking pictures. I’m also going to try to keep up with articles and some pictures, focused on the Aruba trip, for the main pages of PokerWorks. And speaking of pictures, I love this one.
If this isn’t love, I don’t what is. This is my baby with his baby. Love those boys!
*****
Jim AKA The Monkey is in town. He’s working, but he’s also firing it up at the tables at Bellagio. We visit quite a bit about poker and the games. He puts a lot of humor into the fact that he’s struggling in the games. I give him an A+ for that. I find it hard to laugh when I’m getting trampled in the face by bad cards and my opponents can always find runner-runner to shove ‘bad beat-i-tis’ up my nose for days at a time.
I talked to him tonight when I went in to work. He was buried in a $30-60 H game.
An hour later I dealt a four handed $80-160 H game. The 5s was new to me and he mentioned to the 4s that the $30 games were really great at Bellagio.
My brain did auto pilot…’Ruh-roh, he’s been in a game with Jim.’
Sorry, Buddy. It was just an instant flash…then it disappeared…NOT!
The room was so quiet that when I’d dealt four games and was on break, my supervisor asked if I wanted to go home. I jumped on it. Kee-rist! I wish I was disciplined enough to say ‘no’ right now but it just ain’t gonna happen. I clocked out and stopped by to watch Jim carve a hole in A-A with A-8. He had chips, the game was short handed, and cross my fingers he has enough cash left to buy me a brew in Aruba. *laughing*
And while I’m talking poker, go to the main page, http://pokerworks.com and download the Titan Poker software, buy $20 worth of chips and register for a free roll. There’s money laying around everywhere. All you have to do is look for it…and playing good doesn’t hurt either.