Discount!

So I roll into Oceans-11 late last night, get there about 10pm. I have Tuesday morning (today) off, since I need to pick my mother-in-law up from the airport, so I don't need to worry about getting up too early. As I am walking in the 20/40 is 4 or 5 handed, and two players are racking up to leave. The resident prop, who owns just about everyone heads up, but who I constantly own heads up is willing to play heads up with me. So I buy in my two racks, and away we go. Another guy that I am friendly with, is sweating the game, since he and the resident prop have a bet going on the Giants-Cubs game, where the resident prop layed 3:2 on the Giants, i.e. $150 to win a $100.

Before the game gets started, I negotiate with the floor man the drop, and get us $3 per person per half-hour, with the drop being collected at the end of the match. The resident prop and I agree that the winner of the match will pay the drop for the duration of the match.

As we are playing, the sweater blurts out, $150 of that doesn't play, referring to the resident prop's chip stack. The dealer busts out laughing, since the Giants and Cubs are tied, and the sweater is giving us running updates on the game that he is checking on from his cell phone. Eventually the sweater gets tired of waiting for the game to be resolved since they went to extra innings, and just ships the resident prop $100 and they agree to square up later if the Cubs end up winning, since he wants to leave since he has to be at work at 4:30 am this morning.

At 11:30 pm, I have procured all the chippies, including the extra $100 that was won from the baseball game, and the resident prop calls it quits on me. We call the floor over, and he indicates that I owe $15 for the drop. His math must be funny, since I figured I owed $18, but I'll take the $3 discount, anytime. So in 90 minutes of heads up play, I won $600 dollars or $400 an hour.

Since it was still early, I played 8/16 till about 2:00 am, and called it quits and came home. I won $40 playing 8/16 or $16 an hour, and I was extremely bored and playing marginally crazy since I was so bored. I probably should have just left at 11:30 pm, but at least I got to eat an ice cream.