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Originally Posted by Lionelhuttz
Limon,
Can you tell us some stories from your rounder days, when you traveled for work but only to cities with no limit Holdem games?
I do the same for work, but I’m in an industry that is infinitely more gambly than poker, so being a live low stakes winner is beneficial but all my good stories are about drinking/drugs and liaisons with locals. Interested to see if you battled with staying at the table with people that think a straight beats a flush or if you left to party.
I was a credit auditor at the time and so i was in stores early not a lot of partying, at night i wanted to get poker in. That said, when other executives were on the road with me it was always a drunken debacle and i couldn't make it to the casino. the CEO of the company could literally drink 20 rum n cokes and still be the first guy in the office so he tried to destroy everyone at the bar/club when he traveled with us.
The locations where these casinos were generally didn't lend themselves to partying for me at least. shitty sawdust joints in hayward,ca. sandia, nm. lubbock, tx. the palomar and vegas casinos back when there wasn't any daily no limit games and
you had to play limit holdem with overs buttons!!!
this was so long ago $1-2-straddle nl was the biggest game going in these places. this tiny handful of casinos were basically the only DAILY NL on the entire west coast!! there wasn't a single NL game in all of los angeles of course 25 years ago uncapped 1-2 ($3 rake cap) was the equivalent of prob 5-5nl+ today. min wage was $5.15 an hour!!! another reason all the threads about playing 1-3 or whatever as a job are so sad, i was trying to get people to play bigger than $1-2, 25 years ago, the thought of playing those stakes today as a job is f'ing insane. that would have been like me playing .25-50 cent as a job in 1998. lolololol
Last edited by limon; 01-10-2024 at 10:56 PM.