Thursday, March 8, 2007

My own personal ATM

I went to go play poker last night at Oceans-11. The kids went to bed early and my wife gave me her blessing. I arrive and I get a seat in a short handed 40-80 game. I look at the line-up and it's a tough game, not sure I really want to play. Then before I get dealt in a seat opens in the 20/40 game. I look at the lineup over there, and boy is it juicy. I jump on the seat immediately and leave the 40/80 before ever getting a hand.

In the 20/40 game here was the lineup:
Seat 1 - unknown to me
Seat 2 - Sye, calling station. His idea of mixing it up is raising under the gun with 4-8 suited and then when he missed the flop, check-call to the river.
Seat 3 - Abol, never saw an ace he didn't like. Thinks Ace-Ten is a 3-betting/cap it hand.
Seat 4 - unknown to me
Seat 5 - unknown to me
Seat 6 - Marty, plays any two suited, any two connecting, any two paint, any ace.
Seat 7 - Daryl, never saw any two cards he didn't like
Seat 8 - me
Seat 9 - Alan, don't bother trying to put him on a hand, because he plays any cards he feels like it. He's a multimillionaire so he can afford to do it and he's awesome.

Overall, I finished up +1000 after 4 hours. Had some nasty suckouts on the river by some of the other players, but with that lineup it was expected. I wish I could play that lineup every night I played.

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