Stopped in at Shorty's on my home Friday, and go there about 5:45pm or so. They already had 2 tables going and a list, but I was first on the list as I usually call when I get to New Iberia or so. I buy in the game for $300.00 and was not jumping for joy at the table I had...JoeB in the 1 seat, solid playing Dave from Lafayette who came with Tim H., Tex in the 6 seat, Tim Hebert in the 7th, me in the 8 and Golf Tom in the 9 seat. Oh well, I couldn't stay all night anyways as my wife was coming home and I had to pick her up at the airport in the morning. I really enjoyed the table and chatting with everyone. Got some good stories from Tim about his Vegas trip. He is thinking of heading to LA for the Legends of Poker, but he is not sure just yet as he said he wanted to stay close to home for awhile.
I was happy with my play as I didn't make any mistakes that cost me big, and I would leave after several hours with a "Push"...cashed out with $310.00. They had 3 tables going when I left there, and it was probably going to get crazy as all the action hounds were showing up. I am in Baton Rouge for a couple of days, and will be heading to the Belle of Baton Rouge tonight to get in some action.
8/13/08
Went to the Belle of BR last night at about 5pm and was finally able to get in a NL game at...like 7pm. The new parking garage there is pretty cool...at least you don't have to cross the street...then the train tracks...walk 200 yards...climb the levee...walk another 100 yard to the Casino walkway...did I mention that it was still a 100yr walk down the plankway?? Kind of feels like your "walking the plank". So the new garage cuts out about 1/2 of that epic journey to play poker at the Belle of BR. I walk in and see that they only have 1 NL table and there is a list...DAMN. So...what do I decide to do? Yea...that's right...I decided to play "Lets just jab a sharpened pencil in my eye and love it" 4-8 limit HL. I always keep forgetting why I hate this game until I sit down and light a hundo on fire. One fo the regular NL guys there, Gary who is first on the NL list, is in the 8 seat so I take the 6 seat. The table commences to torture me with top pairs beat on the river...my 2 pair loses to bigger 2 pair caught on the river...My KK losing to 2 pair on the river...did I mention that I lost 90% of my hands on the river??? That's limit poker...draw baby...draw..and re-draw...never fold anything that you can go runner-runner on...nothing. Gutterballs?? They were standing in line to draw at them
...and to top it off...I get slow-rolled on my last hand, and unlike the idiot at Shorty's, this slow-rolling piece of crap felt the "Wrath of GeneD"...Monkey would be proud. I have about $15.00 dollars left of the hundo and decide I am going to play the next hand that I see worth anything strong and see what happens. I look down at 10-9s...my favorite hand. Everyone limps around and I pop it to $8.00. We see the flop 6 handed. Flop comes out 10-5-4 rainbow I fire $4.00 and loser in the army get-up with the tattoos calls and we see the turn 2 handed and I throw in the rest of my chips before the turn hits...dude calls as the turn comes out a Jack..."Oh well" I think...I guess I am dead...dealer snaps off the 3d on the river and I stand up and have my cards and ask, "You got something man?"...Dude replies,"Nah man I ain't got nothing"...and he keeps his cards and acts like he is going to muck...I ask "You got nothing?" and he shakes his no...I reluctantly show my 10-9 for second pair AND sit back down in my chair when this cock bite tables Q-Q. WTF...I lose it. "You are one slowrolling piece of shit, sir"...and I call Gary's attention to what just happened and we start laughing...I look at the guy and he is getting pissed and talking to the other people at the table and telling the floor what I said...I announce to everyone within ear distance what just went down, and then I walk back to the table because he had this dumbfounded face on and ask him, "Hey...Dumbf*^%#...You don't even know what you did there did you? your too stupid to even know what happened". After I get warned by floor I laugh it off and my seat finally comes open and I buy into the 2-5nl game for $250.00...cash out for $375.00 3 hours later.
I get fussed by Julie on my way home as she is quick to chew my ass out when I get out of line. I have quit berating people at the table when I lose hands to idiots, but being slowrolled just tee's me off. I explained to her, "Baby...it wasn't that i lost...it was only $15.00...its the way he played the hand...I was not being a sore loser"...trying to fight a battle I can't win...oh well. I guess I do need understand that there are people playing poker out there that don't even know what slow-roll is. My Bad...
What else...watched this shit going on in Russia...Holy Cow this shit is serious. Wasn't it Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon" that starts out with this same scenario? That is crazy. I watched the president of Georgia on TV this morning quoting incident in history that are examples of what Russia is doing now...Nazis invading Poland...Russia invading Afghanistan...etc. This guy was very articulate, calm and intelligent. For a guy that is getting his country invaded by Russian forces...I was pretty impressed. When asked by the reporter does he have forces on the roads prepared to stop the aggressors he commented that all of his country if poised to fight...every Georgian...we will not surrender...every man women and children will fight down to the last fork and steak knife if needed...WOW. Anyone who is a History buff and has read about these people fighting the Nazis can attest to their resilience. They would send men into battle with not enough guns and they were told to pick one up from someone who was shot.
Movie Rant...I know most people hate Mel Gibson as he is considered Anti-Semitic ...etc. I got to see "Apocalypto" this weekend...What a great movie that it turned out to be. There is no English and subtitles, but it is an amazing movie from a Historical point of view.
"This causes it! Information overload! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves. Technological fucking civilization. But we still have all this shit, because we can't live without it. Let me do my work" Henry Rollins as Spider in "Johnny Mnemonic"
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