Really?

You gotta love Oceans-11 sometimes.  They make some of the stupidest decisions I have ever seen.

Friday night 40 game going strong and with all appearances that it will go well into the early AM hours of Saturday, when the inexplicable happens.  The spot is kicked out of the casino!

For what?  Apparently shooting off his mouth to one of the floor men in the California Games part of the casino while taking a break from playing poker.  Now this guy is one of the biggest whales in the casino and in our 40 game.  He's super nice, gives great action, tips EVERYONE well, and is easily one of the biggest losers in the game.  He also likes to play the other table games, and I know he's a big whale in Las Vegas as well.  Even at Oceans-11, he's been known to play Ultimate Texas Holdem, and min-bet the ante and blind bet ($10) and max-bet the trips bet ($500).

Now all of this is hearsay, so I can't vouch for any of this personally.  So while on a break from our game around 2:00 am in the morning, he goes to the restroom and stops by the pit games and wants to play Ultimate Texas Holdem.  There is currently not a table open spreading that game.  He talks to the floor guy, and apparently he is reticent to opening a table for him to play.  Our gentleman says something to the effect, "get off your fat ass and get a dealer over here so I can play."

For this, the floor man has him kicked out for the night.  He is escorted back to our table around 2:15 am, security in tow, and is forced to rack up, cash out and leave.  The rest of the table is dumbfounded and is in awe of what a bad decision was rendered.  And of course, as soon as he is out of the building, the game insta breaks.  No duh, the entire reason for that game existing, walked right out the door, with like 5 or 6 racks, that would have inevitably ended up in the other players' stacks.  At least that's what happened last week.

Sometimes I just don't get it.  In Vegas, I have seen people get away with far more egregious behavior and get nothing more than a warning to the effect of please try and control yourself, and as expected, the bigger and more you bet, the larger the tolerance for obnoxious behavior, justified or not.  I'll leave it to you to decide for yourself what you think the appropriate policy on the part of the casino should be in this regard, although I tend to believe in the end, that money talks.

Overall, I did ok this week.  I was running really well, getting up 5 racks, but by the time the game had broken, I was only winning 2 racks, so that was a bit of a downer.  The game was off the charts good too, with the maniac who got kicked out, raising and capping most hands, and two others on his left, not knowing how to adjust properly 3-betting super light and doing all other sorts of stupid things.  We had more than one 8-way capped pre flop pots.  It was a sight to behold, if you could happen to win one of those behemoth pots, which I unfortunately, I didn't seem to win my fair share of those.  Oh well, as long as he shows up this Friday, it'll make for another good Friday game.