My Monday found me going up to high limit the 2nd hour of my night. The 1st game I dealt ‘on top’, (high limit is in a raised section), was $400-$800 mixed games, heads up with Curtis Bibb and Jennifer Harman. The football game was in progress and coming down to the wire…screaming, yelling, cheering…”Oh my God, I had the game won, then they made a touchdown.” Then “Wait, they’re discussing it. Yippee, the touchdown was blocked, I did win!!” And so on and so on.
For all of you that always wondered who the player was that spiced up the games to $10,000-$20,000 – this page gives you a basic background/idea of the man that came into Bellagio and played high limit poker this year with the best of the best.
You’ve been playing $8-$16 limit holdem for about 3 weeks. Nothing works. You look at 9-3, 7-2, Q-6, 9-4, 6-2, then repeat, repeat, repeat. If you happen to pick up a playable hand once every 2 to 3 hours, everyone else does too and a chip war breaks out, but you never get any reinforcements for your chip stacks unless you buy them because you certainly can’t win a hand.
Please don’t get into the old ‘everyone goes through that’ routine. So what…it’s happening to you right now and you’re insanity with bad cards is starting to overload your sense of reality and you’re beginning to believe that this is normal. You’d babble but no one would listen. Continue reading Running Bad and Hating it!→
I walked into the poker room, checked out the games in the limit I wanted to play, and found the perfect home in a game with a Live One – here after known as L.O.
The dealer calls for player’s checks and I make myself comfortable while waiting for my chips and the blind. I survey the players and most of them are dead. They are barely aware that anyone is live at the table. Hell, maybe they aren’t even breathing. It looks like I’m in the perfect spot, sitting with the L.O. two seats on my right. At least when he gets the urge to raise, if I have anything, I can re-raise and get it down to him and me. Continue reading Poker 101→
You’ve been moving around the card rooms in Las Vegas for a few months…played at Bellagio, Excalibur, the Station Casinos, Sam’s Town, and every place else that you could get to and afford the action. You’re always hearing talk of “the old days”. No limit poker at it’s finest…the days when ranches were won and lost on the turn of a card…and you’re really yearning to see some of that action.
So what do you do? You pull out your handy time configuration unit…the one that’s strapped to your neck because you might want to escape where you are and what you’re doing in a heartbeat…and set it to the year 1954. You’ve set your geo-locater for Montana, the Northwest Section…Missoula to be exact. Continue reading Zeeduk makes a change→
For all of you that always wondered who the player was that spiced up the games to $10,000-$20,000 – this page gives you a basic background/idea of the man that came into Bellagio and played high limit poker this year with the best of the best.
I was off over the weekend. Report as of last night when I went in was that he was $1,000,000 ahead until Monday’s play and they busted him. Will try to follow up with more accurate information after tonight.
I was off over the weekend so missed any news that might have happened. When I went to work on Monday, news was the big game just broke up…that was 7 p.m.
Tuesday I dealt a heads-up, half 7 Card Stud/Chinese Poker game $500-$1,000 limit. I asked one of the players about Our Stranger. Apparently he’s gone. He was going to play on Monday…everyone showed up but him. 🙂
The limit hopped right up to $10,000-$20,000. I dealt the game about the 3rd hour into my night. It was fast and orderly, played with $5,000 chips and 9 players and a minimum buy-in of $200,000. Of course there was a waiting list…go figure.
