Decided to try my luck for a couple of short sessions yesterday. Had a cigar event in the very general area, and planned to get a couple of hours in prior, then meet a buddy for the event and a night session.
Highlights:
-- Burgers at Emeril's. I've simply forgotten how good they are. Added bonus, my buddy pullled muscle in his jaw starting his and it was hilarious.
OK, it was a short highlight list
Seated fairly quickly after being 6th on the list, my guess is that they weren't filling seats, and perhaps the list had a few people in other limit games? Seated with the reg in front of me at the same table. Very loose passive table. I wasn't able to make much headway after getting trash cards for a few orbits. Made a few BBs getting out of line, only to give it back getting my hand caught in the cookie jar, and trying to buy my way out of it
Table went as low as 3 active players, but then other tables broke (4pm?) and we filled up.
Tried to give my new stack away, but ended up making back my losses. When it was time to leave, there were 3 of us from the table cashing out. Does that mean I was the fish?
Went back at night, had a couple of super aggressive players. Kept me out of trouble, but I wasn't able to capitalize before calling it a night down a few BBs. Long drive home.
Apparently my buddy was killing it today, so we might head back up next week, as our comps in AC have dried up for a couple weeks.
I was disappointed in the dealers. Not all of them, but definitely a few.
The one that bugged me the most was when the dealer let the player on my right(seat 10) buy the button at the wrong time. I was BB, then SB, no blind, then SB again. I protested. Player on my left agreed with me, as he was due to pay his 2nd BB in 3 hands. The dealer seemed to fall back on "but he bought the button" without much else. After less than a minute of discussion, player on my left paid his BB (again) and my SB to move the game along. I continued to protest that I was still subjected to the worst position, even though it was 'free' to me. I just let it go, got crap cards and folded.