My crazy Mike story:
At the B at like 6am or 8am in the morning, we're playing 1/2NL. I go to the bathroom and when I come back, some guy is sitting in my seat. I get a bit alarmed because he has a rack of chips over my chips. I had around $800 on the table. He says he's just playing "over my chips" but I tell him I'm back and he stands up.
I heard the name "Crazy Mike" before several times playing with people at V and Aria. I never heard stories or seen him before so I didn't recognize him.
We play two hands and some other guy leaves the game allowing this guy (Crazy Mike) to sit down. He's got 5 racks full of white chips. He then explains to everyone that he will be going all in blind for 1 rack of whites at a time. People are confused so he says, "I'm Crazy Mike." A light goes off and I am now happy to put a face to the name. Cool.
He does as he says. He loses twice, then wins to double up, and then loses the $200 the next hand. One of these hands, I have AJ and am in late position but a rock goes all-in in front of me and I muck my AJ. Rock ended up having KK.
Then I pick up KK, Crazy Mike goes all in as usual, I reraise to 200 and we are heads up. He asks me to flip over my cards. I say that I am superstitious and never flip till after the river. Board comes random cards no flush possibilities. He asks me to flip again so I flip and show KK. He asks me which card of his (he still hasn't looked at them) to flip over first. I pick one. It's a T. There is a T on the board. I still got a higher pair. He then flips over the second card and it is a 7. Guess what, there was a 7 on the board. Two pair. He takes my $100.
He then lost the next 2 hands and left. I never got a shot at getting my money back. As of now, Crazy Mike 1 MrDucks 0. I thought he was a very fun guy at the table. He definitely changed the action and the game completely. I could see how people would be annoyed, but even though I lost $100 to him, I was ahead going in and what are you gonna do? I think he has every right to do that with his money and he's got a funny personality.
He also introduced me to strawberry juliuses at the Bellagio. He ordered one and downed it really quick. I asked him if it was good and thought I would try it. I have had tons of them since then. Thanks Crazy Mike/mrgatorade for introducing me to the strawberry julius.
Since then, I've seen him at the V but he hasn't sat at my table again. I look forward to the next time he comes over to my $1/2NL table or $2/5nl table.
Also, is it just me or does he look like the actor that played the older brother on "Boy Meets World"? Will Friedle?