Here is the latest....
Tonight I dealt cash and I think I am beginning to enjoy it as much as tournaments, as long as there is a balance of both. People are starting to tip better and getting to deal multiple games is a lot less boring than the same thing all day long.
For instance tonight I got to deal a Pot-Limit Omaha 8/B game with 6 cards. How crazy is that? I find dealing those new weird games dynamite. Like dealing Baducy... which is a split-pot game dealt with five cards, 3 draws, and you form your best badugi and 2-7 triple draw hand. Whoever comes up wth these weird alterations to games has to be a sick sick degenerate, but I love it.
I dealt a pot tonight that was 250 bb's deep and Queen high won. How sick is that... queen high! One player had an open-ended straight flush draw and one had the queen high flush draw. These people at the series are just sick gamblers, and all these pots play huge because of it.
Also, while dealing the 10-20 Omaha 8/B game all I thought about was jumping in... that has to one one of my worst games, but the play was so incredibly soft that I just wanted to ask for an early out just to play it. I actually went to go put my name on the list to play it after I got done, but the game had broken up.
On the other hand, my few days off this week were pretty eventful.
I started it off by playing at a deepstack tournament at the Venetian. I had a really soft table draw and was chipping up quickly. Unfortunately the soft spots at my table eventfully went broke and started being filled by decent players. I went into the final 5 tables ( out of 288 players ) with 39k and average just over 35... only problem is that the blinds were now 1.5k-3k. I showed my stack with 8's from EP and got called by 10's and was knocked down to 9k. Shipped the rest UTG with Kd-4d and got put into the pot heads up against A-10 and went packing.
Next day I played at the Mirage. Started by playing 5-10 with a full kill Omaha 8/B, was up a couple of bills for a while until I decided it was time to start playing bad, because that is what I do... so I cashed out even. Then I moved on to 4/8 Limit Hold-Em and played like donkey kong in that game and lost 15 big bets real quick, by trying to run over a 4-handed idiots who would never fold... but I unfortunately could never hit.
Next day, after work, I decided to go play the 1/2 PLO at the upstairs poker room at the Rio. I knew the game was going to play big already, so I bought in for 250 bb's, as there was no max. This actually was somewhat small in comparison to how large some people were playing behind, there was one guy that must have had a 5k stack.We had a 5 dollar button straddle being done by almost every player and an often re-raise of pot pre-flop that would get 3 callers on average.... so I was not joking when I am telling you the game was playing really big. I want to talk more about that game, and will on my next blog entry... as all the stories in regards to this game would make a already long blog just unbearably long. But I will say I made 3 bills, which is almost like a break even, since every pot was around 200 dollars or more.
Itching to play some more cards. I get two days off starting Tuesday and intend to play all day on both those days.
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