Day 4 - Chapter 1 - An Angry Man, a Drunk, a Blonde, and a Cheater…

Chapter 1: An Angry Man, a Drunk, a Blonde, and a Cheater…

Day 4 – The Calm before the Storm:

On day 4 we went to Red Rock and had lunch with Carmon and Don. W had a really nice time and got to know them a little better. I had to be at the Luxor by 4PM to get in on the NL prizes, so we said our goodbyes and headed back to the Luxor at 3PM. I got $45 cash for my play. Not bad!!!

We were all hungry around 8PM and went to the RIO buffet. Can you say Sushi!?! Yum.

After that we (Me, Stacey, Scott, Henry and Mr. and Mrs. Mookie) went downtown to experience Binions, 4 Queens and the fabulous Plaza. We were going to play the Plaza midnight tourney, but the field was so small we would have made up half of it. We play each other enough at home, so we bailed back to the Luxor.

The Luxor has a $50 max buy-in game with $1, $1 and $2 blinds. If you have less then $50, you can buy another $50 in chips. So effectively, you can buy in for another $50 after the first blind is posted.

We all play this game. Problem is we don’t want to take each others dough. So when we have 4 players from our group at one table you play two games:

1) take the other guys money
2) get out of the way of your friend so you don’t take their money

If someone raises, we typically fold unless we have a monster, then we re-raise and the original raiser lets their hand go. This really sucks because it’s difficult to get paid off and you fold a lot of good drawing hands that connect. I personally hate playing with more than one of my peeps at the table.

So we divide up. Once we entered the game at about 12:15AM we were seated as follows. Table 1 – Henry, Stacey, Clara, Table 2 – none of us - it was full, Table 3 – Mookie (seat 8) and I (seat 6), and Scott (seat 3). The table was a fairly easy to play.

I remember some of the players at the initial table as follows: the kid with the hat (KWTH), the Steelers fan, the European guy (EU), and the Suit. There were some others, but they were inconsequential fish. KWTH was in seat 1, Steelers was in seat 2, EU seat 5, and Suit was in 7.

I re-bought after my first BB post so I had $98. Play was easy, a few steals here and there. Predictable raises, calls and such. You could see a lot of cheap flops in position. Mookie, Scott, and I did not tangle at all. After about 20 minutes I looked down at AA. I raised to 15 in middle position. Everyone else folded except one caller. The flop came 4,7,10 rainbow. I bet $25, he had position on me and went all-in for about $60 total. I immediately called. He had 22. He lost and left the table. I was up about $90 off the bat.

There was a lot of commotion at table 1 where Stacey, Henry, and Clara were playing. The floorman moved a guy to our table (the Drunk - Chad). He warned him if he caused any more commotion, he was out. I could see he was hammered. He was a very aggressive player (stupidly aggressive) and it was like a feeding frenzy to get at this guys stack (>$150). He immediately informed the table that he did nothing wrong at the other table and there were two people that were assholes to him and such. He also informed the Suit he was a good dresser and his suit “was a perfect sheen and had nice lines that accentuated his build) wtf? was the expression at the table. He also told one guy in seat four he was a good looker. I received no such comment, nor did Scott or Mookie. I am relieved I am not personifying a Johnny Cakes or Vito image at the table.

EU commented on why we got this guy from table 1 and not the hot blonde. There was a blonde girl, she was OK, but you could see a lot of guys eyeing her and seeing her as attractive. EU was a solid player, he took in some big pots. But it was Chad that got lucky on the river to knock Scott out. Scott didn’t rebuy, but went to find Henry instead.

Things really heat up in Chapter 2...