Sunday, December 19, 2004

Craps at the Poker Table

All I can say is WOW! This table I played at last night...Bad! I went to something called the Rockford Charitable Games. I didn't expect a whole lot, but let me tell you about some of this. Me and my girlfriend sat down at the $1-3 table. Meaning, bets can be anywhere from 1 to 3 bucks each. Blinds are $1. I was playing pretty well at first... within about a half hour, I turned the $30 I sat down with, into almost $60...57 maybe. Then this asian woman sits to my left. 35-40yrs old maybe... well as soon as she gets dealt a hand she tosses in the money... I had folded, and the flop came out... and she shows me her cards, I don't even remember what they were, but they weren't good... she missed the flop I think, so she wanted to show me that she needed a 9 or something (by needed, I mean to get a pair at least). This was just the start... she played every single hand... didn't matter what she had, she was here to gamble. I've heard about this before, but seeing it with my own eyes was something else. She had to see every flop, then she would decide, even for $6 pre-flop she'd go right in there to see what came out. If she missed, she'd go ahead and chase her Ace to the end, might fold on the river, but usually it was worth the extra $3 she usually had to pay to see if she won anyway. Wait.. that's not all... half the time, she was yelling out to the dealer what she needed. Then when he put down a different card, she's day, "Oh shit, I missed it". I kid you not... I think she thought this was a craps table, where maybe yelling out what you need might bring you some luck... then she would get a hand, and be like..."I hate aces, I never win with one." Then go ahead and pay the blind. One time she was even fumbling in her purse and it was on her... she threw in $3 (opened the raising)... without even looking at her cards... she said, "Oh, I don't care what I have". It was insane. I would say great, she is just what I want... but not this time... she was so bad that she changed the whole dynamic of the table. I'm pretty sure her play made everyone else play extra loose, so people were winning on rivers all night... Hands went all the way down every time and most hit the river to win. I didn't get any cards after that really, and it didn't help I missed all 4 flush draws I tried for. It messed up the whole table and I lost my $30... Luckily my girlfriend only lost $5, so I ended up leaving just down $35 instead of $60... which I couldn't afford in the first place. But I will go back... the play was bad all around, which is good, but this got to be a bit extreme. I had a good time though... and next time I'm leaving with a profit.

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