Finally made it out for some live casino action at the Commerce Casino Friday night. Zengy IM’d me Friday afternoon and we agreed to meet up at Commerce around 9pm. Zengy beat me there and already had a table playing $4/$8 so I found myself a $2/$4 game and was pleased to see that it was going to be a soft game.
One of my more interesting hands was JJ on the button. UTG +1 is a loose player who has been in almost every hand since I’ve been sitting at the table. He’s the table chatterbox, giving commentary on every hand on how he would have won or he was only one card away from the nuts. Anyway, he raises and gets a few callers. I limp in. Flop comes 772 rainbow. Chatterbox bets out and gets 1 caller. I raise. He calls and the other caller folds. Chatterbox starts staring me down trying to figure out what just happened. Turn brings a blank small card. He checks and I bet out. After a long pause he mucks his hand announcing “From the button, you could be playing any hand.”
After about a half hour Zengy comes over and we decide to find a $3/$6 table together. I’ve never played $3/$6 but I think it might be good for the experience. I’m playing a little looser than I normally do but I’m only fluctuating between +/- 5BB or so, so I’m holding my own. I definitely would have been up pretty solidly on the $2/$4 table I just left though.
Zengy ends up bolting around 2:30am and I decide to stick around. That turned out not to be a wise move as it also signaled the start of a downhill slide. After Zengy left it seemed like tables were busting every ½ hour so either the table is getting a huge influx of new players or I’m being sent to play at a table full of players totally new to me. From 2:30 – 4:30 I go down a rack. I was chasing flushes and open ended straights that never came. I wanted to cry because the tables were so loose that the pot odds demanded that I stick with my draw hands. Even on the turn with odds of making the nut flush of 4.1:1 I was getting 10:1 pot odds in some hands.
Then the moment of truth came. I could stick around and try to bust these tables or I could call it a night and go home. I took an inventory of the situation and decided that I was dead tired which had already caused me to misplay a few hands and time was definitely not on my side in this battle. Despite the fact that the table was beatable, I grabbed my remaining chips and walked away. I think it would have been easy to go on tilt or play bleary-eyed here but hopefully it’s a sign that I’m getting more insightful about my own game that I was able to walk away even though it meant my first ever B&M loss. I guess only time will tell, huh? J
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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check out the Bike…off the 710. Look for the cherokee/french cocktail waitress…I so don’t care if she has a name. (Can’t tell you what I’d loose per hour to play when she serves) Kind of a Angie Harmon look alike (ok, have a beer or two first). One word, “cocktail”, from her and I loose focus. I mean if your going to play the B&M’s, you might as well enjoy the eye candy, cause that’s why it’s there.
Commerce rocks when the NLF is in season. Nothing hotter than a waitress (not even totally hot) wearing your team jersey. Of course, the only taem I like is the home dog with a chance
Well, we’re going to have to get a small gang together during football season and head up the the Bike one night then, right?