A shortie. I may end up reformatting my hard drive sometime this weekend. #*)^+|)*&@!!! I made it two years with Windows XP, which is the longest I’ve ever made it with any operating system, without having to reformat. Little glitches here, little glitches there. Crap! Then a few ultra big glitches. I will have to see how I feel about it and how much time I have set aside to mess with it…and if the ‘glitches’ continue.

On to poker. I raced in and signed the E/O Play list and was out to play immediately. The game I got into was a little mass of insanity. Allegra was in the game…one of our dealers. She puts more action than God into a game, playing every hand, buying the minimum of $40 each time she goes BUST so she can go all-in every time she elects to play a hand to the River (please…I don’t want to get into an explanation of the all-in thing and how much money she’s costing herself if she does pick up a hand). She also makes horrible comments to the dealers. As I’ve stated in posts before, she’s a dealer/low limit player trapped in a high limit body. She changes seats every time a new seat opens, sometimes making it completely around the table and returning to seats she’s previously left. Once in a great while, she jumps on the table transfer list but that didn’t happen tonight.

At one point, Jenny Sue walked by our table, Allegra whispered behind her hand, “Do you like dealing to her?”

I replied, “No!” and I wanted to add that I didn’t like dealing to her either but I felt that we might have a war and it would look bad for two dealers that work at Bellagio to get into an argument at the table. However, if she ever asked me away from the table, how I felt about dealing to her, I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to give her the straight skinny on the whole thing.

As soon as I replied, Allegra gave me a 15-minute dissertation on Jenny Sue. Jenny Sue has been around for years, played at the Mirage, now one of our dealers is her beau and she plays almost every night. Some things never change…as in her attitude and table behavior. She’s mean and rude unless she wins.

Wayne arrived to play cards with me. I called Marie earlier and she couldn’t make it. She was at the Stardust playing to qualify for their free roll. Wayne was in the seat next to me within a few minutes and the game rocked on.

Being the hard-core player that I am, at one point I called a raise with 10-8 D, Wayne called behind me, with a few other players, and the Flop brought 5-6-7. The Raiser bet, I called, so did Wayne. The Turn was a beautiful 9. The raiser bet, I just called (this is my hard core part – I could have raised and let Wayne escape the hand…but damn it! Poker is poker), Wayne called. The River brought an Ace. The Raiser checked, I bet, Wayne called with, “I think I have you beat unless you have an 8.” and the Raiser called.

I stacked a nice pot. The Raiser had K-K and I still don’t understand how he could over call Wayne’s call – especially holding K-K with the board that was showing. Unfortunately, the Ace on the River gave Wayne Aces up.

Allegra changed seats at least five more times, stating that she was stuck $800 in the game…that was when she had to get up and go start a game. One of the players mused over her play and how much she was in the game and thought she must have a really rich husband…

Allegra was back within 15 minutes, slamming more chips at the pot and finally went on a mini rush, stock piling around $300 in front of her. At one point when she sent another dealer, that had been walking by, to the Cashier to bring her a soft break for a $100, she gave the dealer delivering her chips a tip with the statement, “I am tipping you because I’m not going to tip them.”

At one point when she was sitting by me, she made the statement to me that ‘when you push them a pot, they expect a $10 tip and if you give them $1 they just look at the ceiling and put it in their pocket without saying thank you’.

I queried, “Really? Who does that?” because I know we have dealers that are stupidly rude when they receive a toke but I was shocked that she would bring it up at the table like that.

She waited a few minutes before she got around to telling me who. I don’t want to share that info.

I was off the clock early, Wayne and me decided to hoof to Caesar’s Palace and check out their room. The casino was packed. The room was not even half full – that’s the main poker room that hosts 30 tables. The 30 tables in the back that is reserved for tournament, had one table going and they were not high limit players. The high limit section was bare. We decided not to play because I was in a tiz to play Keno machines…yup…I’m a sicko. Every now and then I like to sit at a machine and listen to the methodic ‘bonk-bonk-bonk’ and doze. Years ago I played the machines every day. Now it’s a once every three to four months or longer type of thing. And I’m WAY-WAY winner over Keno machines, having hit $5,000, $10,000, $7,000, $3,500 twice, and numerous smaller jackpots of $200, $400, $800, and lots of other wins. I always leave with the win. So…

Wayne is trying to kick a machine habit and I was the evil fairy sitting on his shoulder. He went with me. We played at The Gold Coast, opting to split out what we won. We did win a bit on the first bank of machines we played that put us close to even. We moved through the casino to another bank of machines and played for about three hours. The company was great, we gabbed it up, and slammed our 5c bets at the machine playing mostly a way ticket…I like 3-3’s. We decided food was necessary if we were going to have the energy to put more money into the machines. Off we went to coffee shop for steak and eggs. Good food. Great price. Back to the machines. We finally gave up about 5 AM with the machines keeping a lot of our nickels. I’ve semi and straight out sort of apologized to Wayne for putting a machine in his face. He says he’s a big boy and can say no if he wants to. Umnhhh! But now our wedding in our next life is off because he says he can’t have a wife that would lose that much in a nickel keno machine… *sob-blubber-sob*

These are pics from the new painting hanging in Bobby’s Room at Bellagio:

Here the picture is broken down into two segments for better viewing. And if you’re willing to take a guess at who’s who in the picture – post on the forum with your answers.