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Originally Posted by NJMike37
Were you there today? I was looking for you but I must have missed you. I was there till about 5PM today (2 hours OT on my Friday.. yuck.. lol) I spent most of my time dealing tourneys after about 1PM or so, so I probably never got to your table.
Yep, I was there from around noon until about 5:30 p.m., when I had to catch my bus back to Reading, PA. I looked for both you and Rod, but did not see either of you. I had a couple "Mike's" dealing at my table during my session, but neither of them matched your description.
When I arrived at noon, there was only one one $1-2 NL cash game running due to the 11 a.m. tourney. I had to wait about half an hour for a new $1-2 table to open, and I was fine with that. Most of my experience is $2-4 and $3-6 limit, so I am still not real comfortable playing NL.
I bought in for $140 and the second hand I picked up KK in the small blind. I raised to $12 and got four callers (I still don't don't bet enough to push people out at $1-2). The flop came K, 2, 3 with two spades. I bet $40 on the flop and had one caller. Another 2 came on the turn, giving me a boat. The caller in late position had $18 left, so I bet $18. He called and I showed my full house. Villain showed ace high (not even a flush or straight draw). Everyone at the table just looked at each other with a "WTF" expression.
After that, I began leaking chips and missing most of my flops. My worst hand came when I flopped a set of 8s. I bet my set the whole way (obviously not enough), but got sucked out on by a guy chasing an OESD and catching on the river. I bet $40 on the river and was raised to $100. I folded my set face up, and he showed me the straight.
About two hours into my session, we had a young kid that couldn't have been more than 21-22 come to our table and the table dynamic really changed. He began open raising 90 percent of the hands anywhere from $15-40. On some of the hands, he was raising $20+ without looking at his cards. There were hands in which he raised $20-25 pre-flop, then announced he was all-in before the flop.
There was a board with four hearts on the board and the kid bet $160 on the river. Opposing player in the hand folded the second nuts face up. Kid then showed the 6 high bluff. At least four times, I saw the kid bet $50-100 on the river, then muck as soon as he was called. We had an older lady at our table and she called the kid an idiot after one of his $24 raises without looking. He told her that he isn't an idiot; he just has a gambling problem. He then said that he either wins big or goes broke whenever he plays. He said that there isn't any fun in trying to grind out $100-200. The kid wasn't even drinking alcohol while he was playing; he kept ordering pineapple juice.
I called some of those big-pre-flop raises with pocket pairs to try and flop a set, but never really caught him for any kind of major pot.
Every time the kid would win a pot, he would tell the losing player that "Believe me, I need the money more than anyone here." After the kid was at our table for about 45 minutes, the guy next to me leaned over and said, "Did he just go through about $600 since he sat down?"
I decided to play my button before leaving to catch my bus back home and picked up QQ on the button. There were four limpers in front, so I raised to $15. Small blind called and the big blind came over the top for $83 more. Action folded back around to me and I thought about it for about a minute. The big blind had been at the table my entire session and I respected his raises because he had shown all day that he had the goods when he bet or raised.
I am usually not a good enough player to fold QQ, but I was pretty sure I was running into either aces or kings. I folded the queens and told him after the hand what I had. He told me it was a bad fold, but I still don't think it was.
Anyway, I cashed out $154, so I took my $14 profit and I was happy. Even it the last hand was a bad fold, I didn't want to put most of my stack at risk when I was pretty sure I was way behind.
One of things that I liked was that there was a hand that came J J 10. A player in early postion bet and another player thought about the call for a while before showing the bettor what he was folding. The dealer then told the folding player, "I don't what you just showed him, but you have to show everyone." The folding player then showed the table KQ. I have only ever seen a dealer call out a player on SOSA a handful of times in Atlantic City.
One of the things that was kind of weird was that when I arrived, there was a list for $10-20 LHE with one name on it. There wasn't even a list for $5-10 LHE, but someone thought $10-20 might go? I really do hope in the future that the Showboat can get a regular $5-10 LHE game going. I am much more comfortable playing LHE, but want to play a little bigger than $2-4 or $3-6.
Last edited by Bored5000; 08-05-2008 at 12:40 AM.