Time Is Relative

I really could have done without Sunday!

Sunday was the first day I got put into the live games. First table I deal at... 50-100 Stud 8 or better with a time rake. I have never collected or seen a dealer collect a time rake before... granted I know how it works, but the way the players want to do it is not always the same.

To start off the "table captain" throws me 75 dollars when the time rake was 64. The tell me not to worry about making change now and deal, so I do as they ask. After the hand is over they start throwing chips around to each other and making their own change and prop bets and god knows what else. Finally I am asked to throw the 25 dollar chip to the player who won the last pot and he threw me 3 reds and then I again had to break change for one of the 5's. I know what they wanted to get accomplished was to take the money out of the first pot and to speed up the game... but to be honest I am not sure it was much faster that way.

Next table is 25-50 NLHE, man that game played so insanely big. I mean the game was as loose as one can imagine and everyone seemed to be at least 300 bb's deep. I kept dealing giant pot after giant pot, and it was kind of exciting to deal it.

From there I dealt another handful of mix games tables on my way to the lower stakes area, where I dealt strictly 2-5 NLHE. The tips are obviously a lot better at those tables, as the players are just having a good time... but I essentially lost 1/4 of the tips I got from those guys when I miscounted my well on one of my tables, and when it broke two hands into my push the floor told me I owed 15 dollars to complete it. After that you can believe I double checked it always and was less worried about the players thinking poorly of how much time it took me to count.

Overall it was not a horrible day, it was just mentally draining because it was relatively new to me and I managed to get only one break during my 7 1/2 hours there. If you count the 20 dollars I lost overall from my miscounted wells I made $113 in tips... which is not a great night but I was not unhappy either.

The next day, Monday, was a good change of pace. I got there and was told to deal live again, but thankfully this girl sought me out and told me she was scared to deal in the Pot-Limit Omaha tournament, I told her we could switch if she liked, and that is exactly what we did. I dealt that for most of the day, and it went off without a single mistake... which I am really proud off, since PLO is one of the harder games to deal. Towards the end of the day, I got pushed into the nightly tournament, and that went relatively well also.

That whole night I did not deal to one well-known pro, granted I saw plenty... most of them were playing the 10k Stud World Championship Event. Despite that I had a really great night, 13 tournament downs. My second paycheck should be pretty darn good, since I have logged in 29 tournament downs for the week thus far ( work week ends on Thursday ), and I was told that the tournament down average for this week is around 39 dollars per down.

I go back in tonight, after having the day off yesterday. Dino, John and I played a Multi at the Sahara last night... real cheap one, since I am still broke. The field was really soft, I thought... but the structure was pretty piss poor ( granted good for how cheap it was ). I got knocked out in the 1k-2k blind levels and the average was 14k... I called a 5k all-in and the big blind also called, who coincidentally had 5k, as well called. It was 10's, A-5 against my Ad-Qd.... A-5 hit a club flush with four of them out there and him having the only club. That left me with only 2k behind and I went in very next hand with A-8 versus only the big blind with J-6.... six on the flop and I didn't catch up after.

Hoping to make some good money tonight, so I can end this brokenness ( if that is even a word ) and maybe play some more down the line.