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First Live poker play!
We go to M casino.
Found a heaven bank of STP, Quick Quads and Ultimate Bonus quads facing away from the buffet. Gorgeous flat wide screens and wide buttons. Went on a lucky streak, got 5 or 6 quads in ten minutes 600 credits for 2/3/4’s TDB.
Ready for new things.
I use my TITO to play Lion’s Dance and hit a ton of solid wilds on the VERY first hand for another $239.00+ pay out.
Cash out.
Play Survivor here- lose at first then break even when I get a bonus round.
I PLAY LIVE CARDS ALERT!
This is when I get up the nerve to break my live poker cherry.
Yes, I am walking into a poker room
TB is playing too but there’s one guy in-between us.
I do not announce I am a first timer and I am seated to the left of the dealer.
1/2 poker
The table is classic. 2 20-something punk wanna-be’s who’ve watched the WSOP on TV.
Young guns w/ baseball caps , hoodies and Ipods.
Elvis, a 70+ years sideburn wearing gold aviator glasses fat lumpy man who’ll raise w/ anything,
2 80+ tight Ma and Pa Kettles, Decent normal guy in golf shirt and me and Bum.
I know Bum only plays hands he knows he can win but cards are like children and I love all of mine.
I play every hand, I need to see flops.
Bum is tight.
I win w/ straights and flushes and the dealer helps me. They are fun and polite and keep the game moving. Some people come and new people go- or the other way around. A pretty woman comes by and the pit boss announces this is her first time.
She is pretty underneath but she has Mimi make-up on (from the Drew Cary show) It’s impossible to not stare at her drawn out cat’s eyes of thick turquoise.
Think Tammy Faye Bakker
It gets windy when she blinks.
She pulls a straight but I have a flush.
I think she tells me she had a straight like 3 times.
Yes, I see that.. how nice for you but I had the nut flush, dear.
I pull bottom pair- ( a deuce) and Elvis keeps betting 4 chips. I grumble/whine to the dealer:” Why does he have to raise it EVERY TIME..”
I started chanting in a sing song voice:” I don’t know what I’m dooo---ing” but no one believed me except Tennis_Bum.
So I show my cards- I have a low pair and Elvis shows a lone ace high.
Bum asks me how I had the guts to stay in w/ low pair.
Bum, Elvis just loves to bet the pot w/ nothing.
Bum keeps prompting me to tip the dealer so the dealer is thanking him. I’m not cheap, I just am new to etiquette.
It was all too funny.
Oh!, --I have to tell you about the straddle.
One of the young guns say: “Straddle” and suddenly, it’s 4 chips to me. I asked the dealer “How can I straddle/what is a straddle?” He tells me I can’t, that I’m not “Straddle-worthy”.
I assume he’s right. I do not know he’s messing with me. Bum is smiling/chuckling.
I catch on..
I tell dealer very quietly I can straddle better than most gals he’s met and so back and forth we go until the game stops.
The dealer is waiting for someone to bet but we’ve all bet and he’s forgot to drop the flop.
I am glowing victorious because I have flummoxed a Vegas dealer.
He has to be prompted by the table to deliver the flop and now, I have his head spinning.
I mention that I think a straddle bet is stupid and the Ma Kettle across the table agrees w/ me.
You’re betting twice as much w/o seeing your cards. Go sit at an 2/4 table if that’s what you want to bet. Harumph.
The coolest thing there that night was it was heads up between Bum and I.
I knew my second card was weak.
I knew we both had Kings- but I could not back down and if I lost 8, 16.00 or $24.00 bucks it was going towards gas money.
It was time to turn over cards- and to my delight the board paired on the river and we “chopped a pot.”
I assumed his hand was good but both the dealer and Bum saw the board, which I didn’t understand.
Bum did a lot of head shaking.
Apparently, I wasn’t suppose to win as much as I did. When the blinds came to us, we cashed out.
Played about 90 minutes/ it was thrilling.
Me; $55.00 ahead.
Whoo-Hoo!!
Success!!!!!
Right out of the Poker room I spot a STP SpinPoker and ask TB if I can just try my winning in this.
He says Sure!
That’s what I like about him, He likes to watch, Eve. (Flip’s LOL right now) It’s a line from Being There.
Moved around to Bonus, Deuces and DDB- got 2 or 3 to the Royal and pulled the Royal (in Clubs for $225.00
OMG, do I love the M or what?
A) Great report, sounds like you had a blast!
B) Just how many Red Bulls were you on when you wrote this?
Noahcat,
I know you from another board!!! Yours is a great poker report. Welcome to the world of 1/2 poker! We've all gotta start somewhere, and you have the perfect attitude.
When I started poker about 8 years ago, I had incredible luck. I thought, "How hard can this be?" Well, I found out pretty darn quick.
Now my poker library is larger than my vp library. Damn. I love this game. Nowadays I win (slightly) more than I lose, but I still have much to learn and I keep studying. Events like this little story keep me coming back:
On my last hand of my last trip a few weeks ago, I told everybody at the table that I had to catch a plane home and this would be my last hand. I was under the gun (first to bet under the big blind). I saw two 9s. I came in for $15 and everyone folded until it got to the small blind, who called. The flop came 2 - 7 - 9 rainbow (3 suites). BINGO! Small blind bets $25.00 and I call. Turn is a Jack. Small blind bets $75 and I go all in for just under $300. He calls. We roll the cards and he has a set of 7s. "How sick is that?" he moans. River is a meaningless card, and I beat it to the airport with $$ in my pocket and a lust to return.
Perhaps we can get into a game sometime.
And if you suck out on me, well, that's life.