I was playing 8/16 as the two 20/40 tables didn't look very good. This is strange for a Sat night. After about 30 mins I see Neal and put my name on the "Neal's game" list. After another 30 mins I'm up a rack in the 8/16 and get called for 20/40.

I'm even after an hour at the "kiddie" 20/40 table when I'm called for the "Neal's game" 20/40 table. Jerry has bought wine for the table (mostly to get Neal drunk) and is sitting on Neal's left. It is a classic great game, however 6 hours later I leave down $845 not hitting any hands in the moster pots. A couple of the regulars were down 5 racks each with one guy knocking over his chair and ripping/bending his cards before throwing them on the floor as he leaves. He had several sets (AA,QQ,TT) beat by rivered gutters and couldn't take the "you my bitch" and "I school trained you" comments.

The Fall Classic isn't really a good representation of what the game is like. But it wouldn't surprise me if either coast has better games at higher levels.

-HF

I've seen 1 out pf townr play in the game. Otherwise it was all regulars.

I've seen 1 out pf townr play in the game. Otherwise it was all regulars.

I took a seat in a 3-6 game at 1pm in order to make sure that I got a football pool ticket then I was called to the 20 game, bought reds and kept the $94 in whites using them to pay time and tips. In 4 hours they were gone so I bought another rack. 3 hours later $41 was left. We all know what it costs to play but I found it disconcerting to actually watch as it dribbles away.

I have now won 7 straight with Kings. At something like 3:1 I figure that I need 18 more in a row to make up for the horror show of the past 3 months.

When I count up my money at the end of the night I don't include anything less than the hundos. The rest just seems like change. Somebody tell me that they do this also so I don't feel so depraved.

Todays game was pretty good though.

I do this. Franklin goes into my bankroll and anything less goes into my pocket. Since I started keeping part of my bankroll in chips hundreds don't even seem "real" anymore. I still keep them separate though.

This settles it. Next Saturday I roll up at 3pm, no earlier, and I'm there 'til Neal leaves.

Hundos stay in the box. Anything less goes in the wallet. After a few days of this, though, I have to put 5 20s in my two rack buy in and irritate the chip runner, lest I accidentally be carrying around 400 dollars in 20s and 200 more in 10s and 5s in my wallet like I was two weeks ago.

anytime i have over 8 or so 20s in my wallet i'll change them for a 100 the next time i'm at the cashier

I look at the non-hundred portions of what I receive at the cashier as some sort of per diem. I can either spend it all at a time, or save it up for my moderate ($100-$500) sized purchases. The hundreds stay as my bankroll until I "withdraw" from my bankroll, which is usually for a semi-large amount to put directly into the bank.

I kind of think that's sort of standard operating procedure.

this makes me feel better. I was about 75% that this guy was a scumbag when he welched, but that other kid at the table was like, "maybe he really didn't understand what was going on..."

<--wishes he didn't need random increments of 20 to 80 dollars to give his winrate enough of a boost to not quit poker...

Is Jesse at Comm this week?

Hey, when I get a lot of bills smaller than Ben's I just spend them on like groceries and movies and .. well everything. It's a little know fact that almost all retail establishments still accept cash.

No, he's bluffing and/or giving me crap for having a family and not being able to split at a moments notice.

Me too. Hundreds stay in the BR, anything less goes right to the wallet or the wife for weekly spending money. Occasionally when I have a good night/week, I'll give my wife $500 or $1k, and tell her to buy something nice for herself.

Yes and no. My live bankroll is only in hundreds, and any change left I put in my wallet as a way of 'paying' myself for playing. Pays for gas, groceries, beer, etc. When I used to play more while in school, I went something like 8-10 months without withdrawing money from an ATM or using a debit/credit card on anything less than an $80 purchase. I count it in my spreadsheet, just doesn't help the bankroll. But if I have gone 3 times in a week, and have cashed out like $80ish in change each time, I will 'color' one of them up to a $100.

Edit
Just read everyone elses responses, and it looks like we all do pretty much the same. Guess my line of thought was fairly common, even though I did come up with it myself. I mean, when you are playing 20/40+, what need is it to have every last dollar in your bankroll.

No. I wimped out.

I actually adopted my first dog from the Berkeley Animal Shelter with a hundred dollar bill. The adoption fee was exactly that, and the guy looked at me kind of funny.

Also, the offices here at my apartment complex "don't accept cash". When pressed with "isn't that against the law" she just said "for security purposes" and I managed to not say "Oh, you mean so you and your co-workers won't steal it"

you had weeks of notice hank. weeks.

You do understand the concept of the cashiers check?

I count everything in increments of $5. $4 and under is a cage tip.

The reason to store up all those stray 10s and 20s and stuff in your wallet is the session where you lose $infinite and busto all the cash you have on you, you can then rebuy with like $326 from your wallet (only awesome if 40/80+) so you can lose that too and take the busto walk of shame. I've only done it like 3 times I think and never higher than 40/80 thank god.

-DeathDonkey

I avoid the busto walk of shame by heading the other way (at Commerce) to the bathroom behind the smoking room. I'm usually so bound up I can't pee much; but then I sneak out straight past the high stakes board, go back in the low stakes doors, and cut through the Asian games section. Sometimes I'll hit the ATM and play in the $400 no-limit game. I'll usually lose that with the same pocket kings that got me there in the first place, but one day I made back $2,900. Almost got even.