The room was a screamer. I drew Table 30 in the line-up. Thank you GOD! Almost every game was either $2-5NLH or $5-10NLH to Table 40. SWEET! One $4-8H game in the mix and towards the end of the line I ran into a heads-up $200-400 half pot limit Omaha game – yes, they could only bet half the pot. Then another player came in and they decided to go to $100-200 PLO, but most of my down was spent dealing heads-up. Thor Hansen stopped by to visit with one of the players and he visited with me a bit also. I’ve known Thor since the early days at the Mirage. Great guy! My last two games in that line-up were $30-60H and $100-200H. Then I was on a break and dealt two tournament downs in Fontana, there were three tables left of the $1,000 daily tournament. What a great shift. No noise, no headaches, no card zingers, just deal and I had such nice interaction with the players. Continue reading Hola! Eight hours? →

I felt the need to add this after having received more comments from ReDRulvl. He ripped me in the first one, but has come around to a more rational level of thinking about the Overview. Nice! I think I like this kid. Hopefully we will meet and iron out all of the kinks. *ok, it’s a three liner*

I had an incredibly wonderful, relaxing three day weekend. As much as I accomplished, it would not appear that it was relaxing, but it was. I managed to tie up a bunch of things that had been digging a bedding ground for ‘non-accomplishment rot’ for a long time. Continue reading Back to the Noise →

I can’t help it. I can’t help it if people read and take everything out of context and apply it to themselves and where they are. I can’t help it if people profess to be all knowing and understanding andreally know nothing and do not care to explore the over view. What I can do is keep doing what I do, and I will. In the meantime here’s one of the latest comments, approved – and at the bottom of the post it was meant for-but pasted here because it’s just too precious to have this little pearl lost at the bottom of a post.

Continue reading Another post on comments →

The $100 bills laid in a broken pattern. Their centers were twisted and mangled into a ball. The bills resembled bow ties as they filled the pot and came flying in to crash into the green felt from the 8s in a $100-200LH game. It didn’t start out this way, but everything has to start at some point or it wouldn’t be an incident or situation. Continue reading Twisted! →

PSHAW! I don’t know why I didn’t get into this on the last post, but it’s positively a must. Continue reading I forgot the most important part →

I’ve received a lot of fantastic, supportive comments from a lot of you. NICE! I want to follow through on a few without having to go back and leave a comment in a long thread of comments -and those are the ones that pertain to ‘what is the right amount to tip’ and on ‘tournament tipping’. Somewhere in the myriad of posts here on Tango, I have one that specifically outlines what happens with tournament tips and how they are disbursed – but even using the search capability here, I’ve not been able to find it. Maybe I will, in the event that I do, I will link it up. And I’m a little in ultrashock that there are so many comments. Continue reading More on Comments →

“Just move quietly into the office and no one will get hurt,” from one of the four security guards that surrounded me as I entered the poker room. I found out later they had my picture on file and watched me enter the casino from the employee’s entrance, tracked my progress through the crowds milling around “O”, and the sea of slot machines that surround the poker room. I was numb. What had I done? Continue reading Fired! →

“Is that that loud mouth guy?” came from someone behind me as I stood outside the ropes watching Tony G. play the 7 Card Stud event. “Yeah, that one over there!” Another voice agreed, “Yeah, that’s the loud mouth guy.” Continue reading More of this and that →

On comments: Even though I have stressed repeatedly that my posts are not about tipping, that’s the general thread in comments received. If Sam’s lady sweater hadn’t opted to try to remind the two of them to tip, I would have simply left it as, This was a working deadspread for me. If the majority of you don’t know what a working deadspread was before that post, you must know it now. Continue reading Comments and Tipping →