Both Thursday and Friday were screaming. If you like a little peace, serenity, and harmonious soul sensations, the poker room was definitely not the place to hang out. Bellagio’s Fridays at Five Tournament is back in full force. Nice turn out for the last two Fridays and David Levi took 1st place in both of them. He’s got quite a record with Bellagio Tournaments.

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One of my nights this week included a $400-$800 Mixed Game. Everyone was in high gear and the pace was rubber burning, engine blowing, steam, steam, STEAM. Tension couldn’t even compete for a place to hang out in that arena…it was too tough!

One hand ended up with Danny D. and Don Z. heads-up, Omaha 8 or Better. Don had the pot won until the River and ended up getting a quarter of it when the smoke cleared. He was livid, managed a nonstop string of curses, while I took half of the bet in front of him and pushed it to Danny. There were two $100 chips in the middle and Danny said, “Slide those two chips over here.”

As I pushed them to Danny, Don demanded, “Do you even know why you’re giving them to him or are you just doing it because he said so?”

I replied, “One chip for the high half of the pot and the other chip for the low half of the pot left of the button.” I wanted to say, “Duh!” It just wouldn’t go over well…

A few hands later and David B. went to war with the 2s and 8s. David was in the 4s and tossed out a $5,000 chip (flag) for his bet on the Turn, followed by raise, raise; and a bet and raise on the River had $4,000 in front of the 2 and 8 and the $5,000 chip in front of David. David had the high and the other two had the low.
I said, “Alright. Help me with this.”

They never want to change the big chips into small change and it’s definitely a nightmare trying to figure it out at times.

Jimmy W. was in the 1s. He said, “Give David back his chip and $4,000 out of the pot. They each take back their $4,000, then split the main pot accordingly.”

Someone started to say something and Jimmy said, “Don’t listen to anyone but me, Linda.”

I said, “Ok!” and did as he said. It was perfect.

Which brings to mind another time when I was dealing to him. He was playing heads-up with Jack G. They were talking about dealers that never paid attention to the game and didn’t know how to play the game so they were never aware of what was going on.

Jimmy said, “I think all dealers should have to sit in the player’s chair so they know what it’s like.”

Jack looked at me and said, “I think all players should have to sit in the dealer’s chair before they can play.” 🙂

Jimmy said, “On second thought, cancel my first thought!”